Next Pardee House Seminar: Global Development Beyond the Financial Crisis

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on‘Future Challenges: Global Development Beyond the Financial Crisis’ on Friday, October 9, 2009, featuring Prof. William W. Grimes, Prof. Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Prof. Michael Walton.

Prof. William Grimes is Associate Professor of International Relations and founding director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University. He has published articles, book chapters, monographs, and commentary on East Asian Financial regionalism, the impacts of financial globalization in Japan, Japanese monetary policy making, US-Japan relations, and related topics. His current research focuses on competition among financial market centers in East Asia. He is an active lecturer in Japan and the United STates in both academic and policy venues and has been recognized for his teaching and advising at Boston University.

Prof. Shahrukh Rafi Khan is currently a visiting professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College. He has formerly been executive director of SDPI, and taught at the University of Utah and Vassar College. He has engaged in academic consulting for various international agencies and published extensively in refereed journals and edited, co-edited, and written several books. His most recent co-authored books are Initiating Devolution for Service Delivery in Pakistan: Forgetting the Power Structure (Oxford: 2007), Export Success and Industrial Transition: The Case of Garment Production in South Asia (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009) and he is co-editor of a forthcoming book Market as Means or Master: Towards New Developmentalism (Routledge).

Prof. Michael Walton is Lecturer in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi and V.K.R.V. Rao Chair Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore for 2008 and 2009. He has experience working at the World Bank, including extended periods on Indonesia and Zimbabwe. He was also previously adviser to two Chief Economists for East Asia and the Pacific, part of the management group for World Development Report 2000/2001, and played a central role in the design of the poverty reduction strategy process for low income countries. His major publications include the World Development Report in 1990(poverty), 1995(labor) and 2005/6(equity and development), Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Breaking with History (World Bank, 2004) and No Growth without Equity? Inequality, Interests and Competition in Mexico (Palgrave MAcmillan and the World Bank, 2009).

The Seminar will be held at Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston) on Friday, October 9, 2009.

The Pardee Seminar Series focuses on a variety of issues and invites experts from different disciplines to discuss the long-range challenges and trends in that particular issue.

Lunch will be available from 11.30am, and the seminar itself will start at noon. Please RSVP to pardee@bu.edu by Wednesday, October 7, 2009. Seating is limited to 30 participants.