Afrika Seminar med Professor Paul Collier: Den udplyndrede planet?

TIME: Tuesday, 15 May, 14 – 16

VENUE: Bageriet, Kastellet, 2100 Copenhagen Ø

Paul Collier is an award winning author and academic and his book, the Bottom Billion, was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize.

TIME: Tuesday, 15 May, 14 – 16

VENUE: Bageriet, Kastellet, 2100 Copenhagen Ø

Paul Collier is an award winning author and academic and his book, the Bottom Billion, was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize.

The Economist wrote that it was “set to become a classic,” the Financial Times praised it as “rich in both analysis and recommendations,” while Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times called it the “best nonfiction book so far this year.”

In his latest book, The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of nature.

Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the rich world could further impoverish them.

The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues.

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University. He took a five year Public Service leave, 1998-2003, during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank.

He is also a Professeur invité at CERDI, Université d’Auverge, and at Paris 1. In 2008 Paul was awarded a CBE ‘for services to scholarship and development’.

The seminar is organised as a cooperation between the Centre of African Studies and the Royal Danish Defence College’s Africa and Future Conflicts Program.

Registration by email to [email protected] or [email protected] 14 May at 12 the latest.