Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
GDP, Imperial, Julia Unwin, energy, development, Thames Estuary, food, becta, Khan Academy, chronic diseases, grey gap year, Flooding, HIV/AIDS, G20, connected Africa, britain, Poverty in Britain, economy, John Bird, United Nations
Introduction by Professor Sir Gordon Conway
- Posted: 1st October, 2007
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Professor Sir Gordon Conway, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Sir Gordon was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for International Development at the beginning of 2005. He also holds the title of Professor of International Development at Imperial College, London.
Prior to that he was President of The Rockefeller Foundation from 1998-2004 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chair of the Institute for Development Studies from 1992-1998.
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