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*ADDITIONAL PANELIST* Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
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| | Curious about the buzz surrounding |
| | climate change talk? Just can?t get away |
| | from it, can you? Wondering what all the |
| | talk on climate change impact, |
| | mitigation, and adaptation means? |
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| | If you have pondered over these issues |
| | then you are invited to come hear |
| | Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale |
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| | on climate change impacts and adaptation. |
| | He is a leading authority on the |
| | economics of climate change and policy. |
| | Over the last decade, he has developed |
| | insightful techniques for measuring the |
| | impacts from climate change that capture |
| | adaptation. Results of his research have |
| | been used to calibrate global impact |
| | models that predict the consequences of |
| | various climate scenarios. This research |
| | finds that climate change will hit low |
| | latitude countries especially hard but |
| | the net harmful effects of climate change |
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
3:00 - 4:45 pm
Due to high demand, please arrive 10 minutes early. The event will
start promptly at 3:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
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PRESENTED BY
Robert Mendelsohn
Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies, Yale University
Mr. Mendelsohn holds dual appointments at the Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and the Yale School of
Management. His area of interest is resource economics, with special
emphasis in valuing the environment. Over the last decade, he has
been involved in measuring the impacts from climate change. Mr.
Mendelsohn has also worked on valuing natural ecosystems, from
valuing nontimber forest products and ecotourism in tropical
rainforests, to coral reefs in the Caribbean and Australia, to
measuring recreation in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
DISCUSSED BY
Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development
Ms. Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global
Development. Prior to launching the center, Ms. Birdsall served for
three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform
Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work
at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as
well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.
From 1993 to 1998, Ms. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the
Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional
development banks. Before joining the IDB, Ms. Birdsall spent 14
years in research, policy, and management positions at the World
Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department.
Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s South Asia
Region, and also maintains a popular web blog open to public
opinion: "http://endpovertyinsouthasia.worldbank.org/". Since
joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist
and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development
Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of the Human
Development Network. He was the Director of the World Development
Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he
was on the faculty of Harvard University?s John F. Kennedy School of
Government. Shantayanan Devarajan's research covers public
economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and
general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.
Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings
Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for
Development at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He is a
member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and
Development, chaired by Michael Spence. Previously, Mr. Kharas
served as Chief Economist for the World Bank?s East Asia and Pacific
region, and as Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for
the Bank?s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal
issues, debt, trade, governance and financial markets. In 1990-91,
he was a Senior Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising
governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition.
His research interests are now focused on global trends, East Asian
growth and development, and international aid for the poorest
countries.
MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development
Department of the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics
ranging from infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and
agricultural economics. He has also worked in private sector
consulting, for the Thailand Development Research Institute, a
non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and
Yale University. His research has focused on the economic impact of
global warming in Brazil and India.
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