Professor Lord Stern – The best of centuries or the worst of centuries? Leadership, governance and cohesion in an interdependent world
The seventh Fulbright Legacy Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be delivered by Professor Lord Stern.
Event details
Date: Wednesday 6 June 2018, 5pm – 6.30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JY
About the lecturer
Nicholas Stern, CH, Kt, FBA, FRS
Lord Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
He is a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Financial Systems and is President of the Royal Economic Society (2018-2019).
He was President of the British Academy (July 2013 – July 2017) and elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2014).
He was Chief Economist at both the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1994-1999) and was Head of the UK Government Economic Service (2003-2007).
He produced the landmark Stern Review in 2006 on the economics of climate change.
His most recent book is Why are We Waiting? (MIT Press, 2015).
He was knighted in 2004, made a cross-bench life peer in 2007 and appointed Companion of Honour in 2017 for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change.
Lecture abstract
The world has changed dramatically in the last three decades.
We have seen the rise of China and emerging market economies redraw the international division of labour and the balance of economic power, and the global commons have come under intense pressure.
The international economic order, which William Fulbright helped to build after the Second World War, served fairly well for much of the second half of the last century.
It must be re-cast for our increasingly interdependent world if we are to avoid the grave risks we face, including climate change, pandemics and conflict.
If we do, and this will require both leadership and collaboration, we could create a very attractive future: the best of centuries.
If not, the destruction which could follow could take us to the worst of centuries.
Lecture video
Video transcript
Full transcript of 2018 Fulbright Lecture (PDF)
This event is generously supported by the US-UK Fulbright Commissions and the Lois Roth Endowment.
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Professor Lord Stern – The best of centuries or the worst of centuries? Leadership, governance and cohesion in an interdependent world
Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JY