Pardee Center’s Post-doctoral Fellow, Dr. Julius Gatune Kariuki, has joined the Africa Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), a Pan-Africa think tank based in Accra, Ghana,as a Policy Advisor. In this position, Dr. Gatune will provide advice to Africa governments on how to transform their economies. He will also be involved in tracking Africa’s long-term trends […]
Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-range Future, presented at the United Nations during a side event held in the context of the first PrepComm for Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2012. The […]
Rachel Denae Thrasher and Kevin P. Gallagher, both fellows from the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published their research on 21st Century trade agreements in the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. The article builds upon and refines the arguments the authors had first made in […]
Dr. Miquel Munoz, Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, wrote a guest post at the TripleCrisis blog introducing the idea of instituting an international lottery to raise resources for combatting global climate change. Titled “International Climate Change Lottery: a financing mechanism that could […]
Prof. Adil Najam and Prof. Henrik Selin, both professors of International Relations at Boston University and researchers at the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published an op-ed titled “A New Deal for Development” in The Express Tribune (May 15, 2010) and in New Strait Times (May 19, 2010). The […]
Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, and David Runnalls, President and Chief Executive Office of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) were invited to brief the committee of Environment Ministers from the Commonwealth countries on the forthcoming Rio+20 negotiations at a […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and a contributor to the TripleCrisis blog wrote an op-ed post on the forthcoming negotiations in preparation for the ‘United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,’ or the so-called Rio+20 Earth Summit. The Rio +20 summit is […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership (SDKP) hosted a seminar at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on “Governance for Sustainable Development: Institutional Challenges for Rio+20” on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Nearly 60 people attended in a packed conference room […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations, Geography and Environment at Boston University, was one of the plenary keynote speakers at the Third International Conference on Sustainable Development on “The Art of Farming,” in Brussels, Belgium, on May 11, […]
Prof. Kevin P. Gallagher, Faculty Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Associate Professor of International Relations, wrote an Op-Ed for The Financial Times on the effects of US trade agreements on emerging markets. Titled “US trade agreements threaten emerging markets’ financial stability”, Prof. Gallagher […]