What Next? Surviving the 21st Century

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor David Held, Lord Patten

The list of challenges facing the world is proliferating rapidly from climate change to nuclear proliferation and nobody seems to have much of a grip on what is going on. In this public dialogue hosted by Global Policy, a new innovative and interdisciplinary journal, Chris Patten and Professor David Held will discuss what we know in each of these areas and how progress can be made.

David Held is the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at LSE and
Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. He was born in 1951 in Britain where he spent most of his childhood. He was educated in Britain, France, Germany and the United States. He has held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Australia, Canada and Spain, among other places. In the last five years he has lectured regularly on questions of democracy, international justice and globalization to audiences in many countries. Two decades ago David Held co-founded Polity, which is now a major presence in social science and humanities publishing.

Chris Patten is currently co-Chair of the International Crisis Group and of the Anglo-Indian Round Table, and is Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities, and author of the updated paperback edition of What Next? Surviving the 21st Century|. A former MP, he is best known for being the last Governor of Hong Kong and, at one time, Chairman of the Conservative Party and former European Commissioner for External Relations. His previous publications include East and West (1998) and Not Quite the Diplomat (2005).

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