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No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Forces Breaking All the Trends
26 November 2015 – Hosted in Oxford by Oxford Policy Management A presentation by Tera Allas, a Visiting Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute. Tera was formerly the Director General for Strategy, Analysis and Better Regulation at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Deputy Head of the Government Economic Service. Tera holds a number …
Agricultural Seminar – 15 September 2015
Are long-term or short-term inputs to agricultural development in East Africa the best solution? 15 September 2015, at DFID Headquarters, Whitehall, London. Exploration of the different approaches to agricultural development in East Africa by drawing on Hilary Sunman’s book ‘A Very Different Land: Memories of Empire from the Farmlands of Kenya’. Click Here to download the background papers. Speakers: …
Institutional Strategies for Sustainable Development – 18 June 2015
1818 Society British Chapter & DfID Department for International Development, Whitehall, London Linda Likar and Robert Clement-Jones have over 50 years of experience in international development between them. Ms Likar was Lead Economist for the 2003 World Development Report, “Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World”, which lead to the development of a training program which …
Seminar on Anti-Corruption – 24 March 2015
Department for International Development, Whitehall, London The seminar explored a realistic assessment of what DFID can do about corruption and the political need to show both “zero tolerance of corruption” and to “stamp out corruption affecting the poor”. It drew out lessons of past and present DFID efforts to tackle corruption and explored scope for …
Security Sector Support in Sierra Leone: The Key Success Factors and Wider Implications
16 October 2014 – Department for International Development, Whitehall, London Speakers: General the Lord Richards (Chief of Defence Staff, 2000-2013), Keith Biddle (retired) (Inspector General of Sierra Leone Police 1999-2003), Brigadier (retired) Sir Patrick Davidson Houston (Military Adviser to the Government of Sierra Leone 2002-2003, Dr. Brian Jones (Head of ISAT in Sierra Leone, on …
Reflections on Today’s Development Challenges – 24 March 2014
Department for International Development, Whitehall, LondonClare Short, Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003. A prominent member of the Labour Party, she resigned over the Prevention of Terrorism Act in 1988, and again over the Gulf War in 1990, serving the last four years of her time in Parliament as an Independent. …
Fighting Poverty and Corruption – 3 December 2013
Oxford Policy Management, OxfordA presentation by serial entrepreneur Nicholas Colloff, a member of the senior management team at Oxfam GB and a Trustee of Transparency International. Previously, Nicholas was Oxfam GB’s Country Director in Russia, where the programme focused domestically on urban livelihood and access to basic services, and internationally, on Russia’s resumed global role …
Resource Revolution: Can the World Cope? – 20 September 2012
McKinsey Global Institute LondonA presentation by Dr. Fraser Thompson, a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey. Dr. Thompson leads research on sustainable development and natural resource economics globally, as well as productivity and growth issues in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
AFRICA: What’s happening? – 22 November 2011
World Bank London Office, Millbank TowerA lunch time talk to hear former Director of the World Bank Institute (WBI) Darius Mans talk about his new role as President of Africare, a private charitable organization with more than 200 programmes reaching families and communities in every region of Sub-Saharan Africa.
