ESCAP Distinguished Persons Lecture Series

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ESCAP Distinguished Persons Lecture Series

Date	Speaker	Topic

24 Oct 2012	Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs Director of the Earth Institute and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University, New York and Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millenium Development Goals	“Sustainable Development Solutions for Asia”

7 Dec 2011	Professor Robert Mundell Nobel Laureate in Economics	"Global Currency: Dollar, Euro, Renminbi"

11 Nov 2010	Mr. Haruhiko Kuroda President of the Asian Development Bank	"Regional Economic Cooperation and Connectivity in Asia-Pacific"

20 Jul 2010	Professor Amartya Sen Nobel Laureate	"Peace, Violence and Development in Modern Societies"

24 Nov 2009	Sir Richard Jolly and Dr. Louis Emmerij co-directors of the United Nations Intellectual History Project.	"UN Ideas that Changed the World"

21 Aug 2009	Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz Nobel Laureate	United Nations System and the Economic Crisis: Towards a New Global Financial and Economic Architecture