Policy Tea with Saskia Sassen

Policy Tea Time

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Professor Saskia Sassen,

Columbia University

February 4, 2008

4:00-5:15pm

Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

(Graham Memorial Rm 011)

Please come take advantage of this opportunity to ask her about her work on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. She is also giving a public talk at the Global Education Center from 8:00-9:00pm that evening. Her biography is below:

Saskia Sassen is at Columbia University, The Committee on Global Thought, after a decade at the University of Chicago. She is also a Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her latest book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006). She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. Other recent books are the 3rd. fully updated Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2006), A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007), and the co-edited Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books are translated into sixteen languages. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and Chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). Her comments have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,Vanguardia, Clarin, the Financial Times, among others.

Sir Mark Malloch Brown

Hey Policy Majors!

The next Student Policy Tea and Discussion is scheduled for Monday, October 1st, from 4:00-5:15pm in the Graham Memorial Lounge. Our guest, Sir Mark Malloch Brown, is a very influential global policy figure. The Roosevelt Institution is co-sponsoring this with PPMU.

He will also be speaking at 7:30pm in Memorial Hall the same evening, and he will present the 2007 Frank Porter Graham Lecture in Memorial Hall on the subject "Making Private Capital Work for the Poor."

Sir Mark Malloch Brown was until recently Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, and previously Director General of the United Nations Development Programme. In both positions he was a leading advocate for the Millennium Development Goals, whose twelve point agenda seeks to radically reduce world poverty by 2015. In June 2007 he joined British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet as Minister for Africa, Asia, and the United Nations, where he will focus on the role of private capital in alleviating the suffering of those living in poverty around the globe. He also advises the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on human rights and other global issues.

For additional information including background materials on Malloch Brown and his initiatives, see http://www.johnstoncenter.unc.edu/events/fpg_0708.htm .