Emerging development policy issues and implications for development research
September 27, 2012 | 13:45 h - 17:30 h
You are cordially invited to a public panel discussion at ZEF on September 27, 2012 on the occasion of ZEF's International Advisory Board meeting.
"Emerging development policy issues and implications for development research" is the overall topic to be covered by three experts' panels.
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Venue: ZEF, Walter-Flex-Straße 3, Bonn (Ground floor conference room)
Program
14-15.00 h Panel 1. Future of development agendas and goals
Chair: Joachim von Braun, ZEF director
Panelists:
• Hans van Ginkel (Former Rector of the United Nations University Tokyo)
• Mohamed Hassan (Former Executive Director of the Academy of Sciences
for the Developing World, Trieste, Italy
• Matthias Kalkul (ZEF Senior Researcher)
• Margarita Quiros (ZEF Junior Researcher)
• Grace Villamor (ZEF Senior Researcher)
15-16.00 h Panel 2. Land and water use under climate change: from uncertainty to policy advice
Chair: Manfred Denich, ZEF director
Panelists:
• Lisa Sennerby Forsse (Rector of the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden)
• Carolina Vera (Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Ocean Research, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Holm Tiessen (Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil)
• Jakob Rhyner (Director of the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn)
• Christine Fürst (ZEF Senior Researcher)
16-16.20 h Coffee break
16.20– 17.20h Panel 3. Culture and development: coping with diversity and change
Chair: Conrad Schetter, ZEF director
Panelists:
• Bina Agarwal (Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, University of
Delhi, India)
• Maritta von Bieberstein Koch-Weser , (Founder and President of Earth 3000)
• Wolfram Laube (ZEF Senior Researcher)
• Marc Müller (ZEF Senior Researcher)
• Farah Purwaningrum (ZEF Junior Researcher)
17.30 h Closure
Contact and registration: presse.zefatuni-bonn.de
Deadline: Monday, September 24
