Starting on World Science Day for Peace and Development and building on the momentum of the 30-year anniversary of the Human Development Report, our series of dialogues invites everyone on a journey to explore the future of human development thinking.
Watch the recordings of the past dialogues and register your interest for the upcoming webinars planned throughout 2021 below.
If your organization would like to be part of the continued dialogue by organizing a webinar around Rethinking Human development in today’s world, please fill in the online form at the bottom of this page.
You can also share with us any aspects that you think we have missed in the discussion about Rethinking Human Development by completing this online form.
Explore a new publication, Conversations on Rethinking Human Development, and its accompanying multi-media website.
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Achim Steiner
UNDP Administrator
Peter Gluckman
President-elect of ISC
Asuncion Lera St. Clair
Senior Advisor, Barcelona SuperComputing Center
Rattan Lal
Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center
Past President, International Union of Soil Sciences
Binyam Sisay Mendisu
Program Officer, UNESCO-IICBA
Elisa Reis
Vice President of the ISC
Pedro Conceição
Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP
Tolu Olubunmi
Entrepreneur, advocate
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The main event is complemented through a series of dialogues as part of the Global Relay on Rethinking Human Development 📍.
You are invited to participate in the dialogues by registering below, or to organize a dialogue for your community by filling in the online form.
🌏 Asia-Pacific (English) – 10 November, 2020
Watch the recording here.
Mazlan Othman
ISC, Moderator
Aditi Mukherji
International Water Management Institute
Mandy Yap
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Eunice Yu
Yawuru Jarndu Aboriginal Corporation
Yanfen Wang
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
🌍 Sub-Saharan Africa (English) – 10 November, 2020
From the Ground to the Galaxy – Rethinking Human Development for the Today’s World
Connie Nshemereirwe
Independent Science and Policy Facilitator, Immediate Past Co-Chair of the Global Young Academy
Carolina Odman
Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy, University of the Western Cape
Kevin Govender
Office of Astronomy for Development
Richard Glover
(Closing remarks)
Programme Specialist, International Science Council regional office for Africa
Daniel Nyanganyura
(Opening remarks)
Director, International Science Council regional office for Africa
Alison Meston
(Moderator)
Communications Director, International Science Council
🌍 Brazil (Portuguese) – 10 November, 2020
The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Academia Brasileira de Ciências) joined the Global Relay to discuss the challenges facing human development.
Francisco Ferreira
Economist, Professor | London School of Economics | Formerly at World Bank
Eduardo Faerstein
Doctor | Department of Epidemiology of the Institute of Social Medicine of UERJ
Ricardo Ventura Santos
Anthropologist | National School of Public Health
Luiz Davidovich
President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Elisa Reis
ISC Vice-President
🌍 Global Young Academy – 7 December, 2020
As a global voice for young and early career scientists, the GYA and its network of young academies around the world wish to explore the findings of the report – particularly the aspect of the role of scientific knowledge – and contribute to the ongoing dialogue around Rethinking Human Development for today’s world.
Peter Gluckman
Chair, ISC Committee for Science Planning; INGSA Chair
Asuncion Lera St. Clair
Senior Advisor, Barcelona SuperComputing Center
Binyam Sisay Mendisu
Program Officer, UNESCO-IICBA; Associate Professor of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University; Member, Global Young Academy
