Don’t miss this SPPGA Policy in Practice talk by Ramesh Thakur, an international figure on matters of global governance, including nuclear weapons. Professor Brian Job will be providing the welcome remarks. Refreshments will be offered.
Professor Ramesh Thakur will address the crisis of global governance, focusing upon the need to address the dangers posed by the arms race, ongoing wars, and the Trump effect on global order.
Bio: Professor Ramesh Thakur is Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the Crawford School, The Australian National University and co-Convenor of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. He was Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations) from 1998–2007.
Educated in India and Canada, he was a Professor of International Relations at the University of Otago in New Zealand and Professor and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University, during which time he was also a consultant to the Australian and New Zealand governments on arms control, disarmament and international security issues.
The author or editor of 50 books and 400 articles and book chapters, Prof. Thakur also writes regularly for several newspapers around the world and serves on the international advisory boards of institutes in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Global Governance (2013-18).
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