【Close】TICAD7 Partner Event：Globalization and Achieving the SDGs in Africa, Discussion with Professor Joseph Stiglitz

Day：2019.08.27

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  • DayAugust 27, 2019, 14:00 - 16:00
  • PlaceAcademy Hall, Academy Common 3F, Surugadai Campus, Meiji University,
    1-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
    *The venue has been changed.
    ■3 minutes on foot from JR Chuo/Sobu Line and Subway Marunouchi Line, Ochanomizu Station
    ■5 minutes on foot from Subway Chiyoda Line, Shin-Ochanomizu Station
    ■5 minutes on foot from Subway Mita, Shinjuku, and Hanzomon Lines, Jimbocho Station
  • OrganizerMeiji University, IPD, JICA
  • LanguageEnglish/Japanese (Translation provided)
  • FeeFree
  • Capacity500 persons
  • AttentionThis seminar will be video-recorded and may be broadcasted on JICA’s website. If you choose to participate in a discussion, you are presumed to consent to the use of your comments in these recordings.
    We will also take photographs that may be used on websites of JICA and Meiji University. Thank you for your understanding.

Concept

The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University and Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI) establish a joint research framework. As in the past to presence, JICA and IPD have been conducting a joint research project in order to produce evidence-based policy implications on African development. Professor Joseph Stiglitz, co-president of IPD, who has been leading the joint research project between IPD and JICA-RI will visit to Japan to attend upcoming TICAD7. Taking this opportunity, the public seminar is hosted jointly organized by IPD, Meiji University and JICA-RI.
In this seminar, Professor Stiglitz will set the basis of the discussion in his keynote speech. Thereafter, we open the discussion to the floor.

Program

–Keynote Speech by –
Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate

–Opening Remarks by –
Prof. Keiichiro Tsuchiya, President, Meiji University
Mr. Yasuo Fujita, Deputy Director, (JICA-RI)

–Panel Discussion by –
Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate
Dr. Hafez Ghanem, Vice President, Africa, World Bank
UNDP (TBD)
Prof. Akbar Noman, Columbia University
Assoc. Prof. Go Shimada, Meiji University (Visiting Scholar, JICA-RI and Columbia University)

–Closing Remarks by –
Prof. Takehiko Daikoku, Meiji University

Inquiry

JICA Research Institute (Ms. Morizane)
E-mail：ditas-rsunit@jica.go.jp

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