Financial Crisis Discussion Series: Barry Herman & Arjun Sengupta "Implications for Reform of the Global Financial Architecture"

Begins
31 Oct 2008 - 4:00pm
Ends
31 Oct 2008 - 6:00pm
Location
66 West 12th Street. Room 602
GPIA Financial Crisis Discussion Series
 
Implications for Reform of the Global Financial Architecture

a conversation with Barry Herman and Arjun Sengupta

Friday, October 31st
4 - 6 p.m.
66 W 12th St., Room 602

Many in the GPIA community want to understand the recent crisis in the financial markets and their implications. A series of informal discussions will be led by faculty and will address different aspects of the issue.
 
Biography of Arjun Sengupta:
Professor Arjun Sengupta has held numerous positions of high office in the Government of India.  In the 1980s he was Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India.  Subsequently, he was an Executive Director of the IMF in Washington DC.  Thereafter he was an Indian Ambassador to the European Union.  He has also held various prestigious academic positions.  Currently, he is Adjunct Professor at Harvard University and also Chair of the Centre for Development and Human Rights in New Dehli.

Professor Sengupta served as the UN Independent Expert on the Right to Development for six years.  Since 2004 he has served as the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.  As such, his UN reports and other publications have shaped the contemporary debate about one of the most controversial human rights topics.

Part of the Financial Crisis Discussion Series.