Event: The Plundered Planet
On: Monday 7th of June, 2010
From: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Contact: James Martin 21st Century School
Contact email: events@REMOVE.21school.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk
Venue:
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street,
Oxford,
OX1 3AZ (map)
Details:
Key speaker: Professor P aul Collier, Co-Director of OxIGED, part of the James Martin 21st Century School and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies
Panellists
• Mr Charles Badenoch, Vice President, Advocacy & Justice for Children, World Vision International
• Mr Jamie Drummond, Executive Director of ONE
• Mr Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Editor of the Financial Times
Summary: In this special event, Paul Collier, Oxford Professor and author of The Bottom Billion, will launch
a discussion based on his latest publication, The Plundered Planet: Why we must - and how we can - manage
the world’s natural resources to ensure global prosperity. Building on his work in developing countries and the
poorest populations, Collier will argue for proper stewardship of natural assets as a matter of planetary urgency.
His arguments will attempt to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to these dauntingly complex issues.
The ensuing discussion will be opened to the audience for an exciting and dynamic debate on what’s needed
to reconcile prosperity with nature.
