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UNU-MERIT and MGSOG Joint
Seminar Series
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UNU-MERIT - a joint research and training centre of United Nations University and Maastricht University, and the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSOG), have launched a joint monthly Seminar Series. The seminars will disseminate the latest research findings and encourage broad-based discussions on key global issues on development, innovation, international policy and governance with a focus on developing countries context.
The Seminar Series aims to bridge the sometimes artificial divide made between academic research, and policy formulation and implementation. The complex processes of globalization being experienced by all countries today necessitate a proactive and knowledge-based approach to policymaking that is supported by evidence-based research. The seminar speakers are renowned international specialists and seasoned policy practitioners with first hand experience in integrating multiple perspectives into day to day decision-making.
Upcoming seminars:
Thursday 14
February
16.00,
Kapoenstraat 2,
room: 0.009
Richard Nelsen
Technical
Change and
Innovation |
Thursday 6 March
2008
12.30,
Kapoenstraat 2,
room: 0.009
Adam Szirmai
Title to be
announced
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Tuesday 29 April
16.00,
Kapoenstraat 2,
room: 0.009
Erick Reinart
Title to
be announced
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Thursday 8 May
16.00,
Kapoenstraat 2,
room: 0.009
Branko
Millanovic
The World
Bank
Global Income
Inequality |
Past seminars:
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Erik Swyngedouw
School of
Environment and Development,
University of
Manchester
Climate
Change Policy as
Post-Political
Populism
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Erik
Swyngedouw is Professor of
Geography at the University
of Manchester in its School
of Environment and
Development. Born in Belgium
and fluent in Flemish,
English, French, and
Spanish, he studied at
Leuven, then completed a PhD
entitled "The production of
new spaces of production"
under the supervision of the
renowned Marxist geographer
David Harvey at Johns
Hopkins University (1991).
Swyngedouw is committed to
political enconomic analysis
of contemporary capitalism,
producing several major
works on economic
globalisation, regional
development, finance, and
urbanisation. Latterly his
interests have turned to the
political-ecological themes
and the transformation of
nature, notably water
issues, in Ecuador, Spain,
the UK, and elsewhere in
Europe. From the late 1980s
until 2006 he taught at the
University of Oxford,
latterly as Professor of
Geography, and was a Fellow
of St. Peter's College.
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Jose Antonio Ocampo
Under-Secretary General, United Nations
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José Antonio Ocampo has a BA degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), he became the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs in 2003. As such, he heads the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and chairs the UN Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs. Prior to assuming his present position, he held a number of posts in the Government of Colombia. As an academic, he has been Director of the Foundation for Higher Education and Development (FEDESARROLLO), Professor at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Yale and Oxford Universities. He is the author or editor of a number of books and monographs, and has written several scholarly articles on subjects such as macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial and monetary issues, economic development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. Click here for more info >>
A word from the Directors
Prof. Dr. Chris de Neubourg, Academic Director, MGSoG
We believe that scientific exploration and explanation are adventurous endeavours requiring discipline and creativity. The objective is to enhance ingenuity in technical and in political matters. The School provides an academic forum to discuss, to discover and to learn in an open-minded atmosphere. Scholarly research is matched by socially embedded curiosity and by the desire to contribute to the analytical mapping of problems and solutions. The relevance of the topics, the scholarly quality of the contributions and the international scope of the organizing institutes, turn these joint seminars into sessions in an intellectual powerhouse.
About MGSoG
The Maastricht Graduate
School of Governance seeks
to train experts who become
a pivotal element in
national social governance
focused on making national
social protection systems
economically, financially
and socially more
sustainable. The main
objective of the School is
to create a critical mass of
researchers, specialized in
social protection and public
policy, that are able to
provide necessary practical
advice based on sound
research. The School
believes that the
combination of knowledge and
skills is essential for
communicating research
results and is therefore
integrated in its Master’s,
PhD and training programmes.
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Prof. Dr. Luc Soete, Director, UNU-MERITThe facilitation of regular policy discussions is an important aspect of our research mission. As a part of the international and local university community, UNU-MERIT hopes to contribute to insights on global issues that global and local policymakers are concerned about. The joint seminars will help to expose our research community to the practical realities of the national and international governance of science, technology and innovation. This ensures that our research and policy analysis remains relevant, and will hopefully, even if it is only indirectly, contribute to the poverty reduction and sustainable development goals that are at the heart of the mission of the UNU.
About UNU-MERIT
UNU-MERIT is a joint
research and training centre
of United Nations University
(UNU) and Maastricht
University in the
Netherlands. UNU-MERIT
provides insights into the
social, political and
economic factors that drive
technological change and
innovation. The Centre's
research and training
programmes address a broad
range of policy questions
relating to the national and
international governance of
science, technology and
innovation, with a
particular focus on the
creation, diffusion and
access to knowledge. |
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