Russia and the Medvedev Presidency - One Year On
Speaking shortly after his election as President of the Russian Federation in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev highlighted his priorities in office: to maintain economic stability, to strengthen freedoms, to promote social programs, and to ensure that Russia sustains its position in the world. A year later, Medvedev's record in delivering on these promises is coming under intense scrutiny. What does Russian resurgence actually mean? How well has Russia ridden out the global financial storm? Is authoritaria
Coping with Climate Change: Is Development in India and the World Sustainable?
2007 K R Narayanan Oration
Recent high rates of economic growth in India and other parts of the
developing world, while reducing poverty and raising global economic
growth, have put considerable stress on the environment even as it is
already saddled with high emissions from the developed world. The 2007 K R Narayanan Oration by
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri questions whether such growth patterns can be
sustained into the future and what options are available for ensuring
that the adv
Must Climate Change End The Platinum Age
In the inaugural S.T. Lee Lecture on Asia and the Pacific Professor
Garnaut asks: How the risks of climate change will interact with the
'Platinum Age' of global economic growth? What are the limits for
global emissions within which the world will need to live if the risk
of dangerous climate change is to be kept within acceptable bounds?
What principles could be reasonably applied to the allocation of a
global emissions budget amongst countries? What global emissions budget
would make sense for
Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom
In this lecture Dr Guy Pearse will spoke about the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources - coal especially, asking how has this distorted our national politics and our response to climate change and what happens now that our coal-fired resources boom has gone bust? He also discussed the future of the coal industry and argued with the current economic orthodoxy. He looks at the shadowy world of greenhouse lobbyists; how they thin
India and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty
How does a nuclear power & non-signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty engage in international debate on the issue? Following the US-led campaign for global nuclear disarmament and a nuclear weapons free world, the international community eagerly await the review conference of the parties to the treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), to be held in New York between 3-28 May 2010. But what of India? Or Pakistan, Israel and North Korea? Four states with nuclear weapons
Building on Kyoto: Towards a Realistic Global Climate Agreement and What Australia Should Do
As a mechanism for controlling climate change, the Kyoto Protocol has not been a success. Over the decade from it’s signing in 1997 to the beginning of its first commitment period in 2008, greenhouse gas emissions in industrial countries subject to targets under the protocol did not fall as the protocol intended. Instead, emissions in many countries rose rapidly. Moreover, emissions have increased substantially in countries such as China, which were not bound by the protocol but which will
How to Become a Millionaire without Losing your Soul
One of the few attractive ways of escaping the current economic depression is to create new companies and new industries. Scientific research provides perhaps the best starting point. Just how this can be achieved is illustrated by successful examples from Oxford University. From the Chemistry Department alone six members of staff have become millionaires without giving up their university posts or being given dispensation from duties.
Professor W. Graham Richards graduated in Chemistry from Bra
It Ain’t Necessarily So … Bro
Dr Karl explodes our most common ‘mythconceptions’, including whether
the daddy long legs is really the most venomous spider in the world and
whether a frog will really sit in a pot of gently warming water, and
unknowingly boil itself to death.
Are virgin births possible? Would cockroaches survive a nuclear holocaust? Will a black hole suck you in? Is the most radioactive device in our homes the microwave? Dr Karl will discuss the answers to these and other fascinating science questi
What is Europe?
The European Union (EU), formed out of the ashes of the Second World War, continues to expand in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite the EU's growing size and significance the question 'What is Europe?' still resonates through the continent. This unit looks at a range of different views on the question, contrasting different conceptions of Europeanness and outlining competing visions for the future of the EU.
How to Write a World Class Paper
Professor Peter J LaPlaca, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, USA, presents 'How to Write a World Class Paper', 20 July, 2009. There are over 8000 academic journals in the world yet most of the leading journals in all fields routinely have rejection rates of eighty, ninety, ninety-five percent or higher. To combat this problem, more than 40 editors from Elsevier's broad array of journals have come together to develop a seminar on 'How to Write a World-Class Paper'. Using their co
How to Write a World Class Paper
Professor Peter J LaPlaca, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, USA, presents 'How to Write a World Class Paper', 20 July, 2009. There are over 8000 academic journals in the world yet most of the leading journals in all fields routinely have rejection rates of eighty, ninety, ninety-five percent or higher. To combat this problem, more than 40 editors from Elsevier's broad array of journals have come together to develop a seminar on 'How to Write a World-Class Paper'. Using their co
Dimensions of the Global Food Crisis: Session 4
Professor Geoff Lawrence, Head of School of Social Science, University of Queensland presents "Emerging Pressures on First World Food Exporters: From Climate Change to Supermarkets". 44th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Friday 26 June to Sunday 28 June 2009.
Dimensions of the Global Food Crisis: Session 4
Professor Geoff Lawrence, Head of School of Social Science, University of Queensland presents "Emerging Pressures on First World Food Exporters: From Climate Change to Supermarkets". 44th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 26 June to Sunday 28 June 2009.
Dimensions of the Global Food Crisis: Session 5
Professor Caroline Saunders, Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, Lincoln University presents "Feed the world: the role of New Zealand's food exports". 44th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 26 June to Sunday 28 June 2009.
Dimensions of the Global Food Crisis: Session 5
Professor Caroline Saunders, Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, Lincoln University presents "Feed the world: the role of New Zealand's food exports". 44th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 26 June to Sunday 28 June 2009.
Dimensions of the Global Food Crisis: Session 10
Professor Jules Pretty, Department of Environmental Studies, Essex University presents "Sustainability and the State of the World Food System". 44th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 26 June to Sunday 28 June 2009.
China's Ascent: New Superpower or New Global System? Session 9
Professor Peter Robertson, Business School, University of Western Australia presents "China's Economic Transformation and Implications for World Political Economy". 45th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 25 June to Sunday 25 June 2010.
Innovations in social finance
The emerging field of social finance is a hotbed of innovation in which new business models and practices are raising the game and extending reach to new markets around the world. What innovations in social finance are helping to catalyze this growth and development of the field? This session will explore ways to increase accountability through social metrics and standards, extend financial services to new populations, and adapt investment models and approaches in new geographies such as China.
Studying at Oxford
Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and lays claim to nine centuries of continuous existence. Throughout its history, Oxford has produced gifted men and women who have gone on to lead in every sphere of human endeavour. Among these are six kings, 47 Nobel prize-winners, 25 UK prime ministers, six current holders of the Order of Merit, plus three saints, 86 archbishops, 18 cardinals and one pope.
Henry Gonzalez, Said Business School, MBA graduate 2005, Costa Rica
Henry Gonzalez worked for the Costa Rican Government as Chief of Staff to the Minister of Agriculture before completing a Masters in Public Administration at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as a Fulbright Scholar. He then worked for the World Bank and the United Nations before starting his MBA as a Skoll Scholar in 2004. He now works for Morgan Stanley where he has pioneered microfinance initiatives and is Vice President of the Microfinance Institutions Group.
