Aiken Series: Human Face of Globalization

Jagdish Bhagwati was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General, GATT (1991-93) and also served as Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization and External Adviser to the Director General, WTO. The recipient of three festschrifts in honor, he has also received several prizes and honorary degrees. MIT press has published five volumes of his scientific writings and two of his public policy essays. Professor Bhagwati has published more than three hundred articles and fifty volumes and also writes frequently for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times , as well as reviews for The New Republic and The Times Literary Supplement.

A native of India, Professor Bhagwati graduated from Cambridge University in 1956 with a first in Economics Tripos, with additional studies at MIT and Oxford. Dr. Bhagwati has taught at the Indian Statistical Institute, the Delhi School of Economics, MIT and now Columbia, in economics and international trade.

September 29, 2005
6:00 PM
Ira Allen Chapel, University of Vermont

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Part of the George D. Aiken 2005-2006 Lecture Series
Featuring Dr. Jagdish Bhagwati
Monday, October 17, 2005

Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's High-level Advisory Group of the NEPAD process in Africa.

Time and Location
All 2005-2006 Lectures will be held 6:00 PM in the Ira Allen Chapel on the University of Vermont’s Burlington campus.

Vermont Public Radio is recording the lectures for broadcast at 6 PM on Thursdays following the live lecture. Then at 7 PM, Switchboard, VPR’s local call-in program, explores the regional impact of the issue presented. Both broadcasts will be archived online at vpr.net and available to download.

VPR can be heard at 107.9 FM in Burlington, 89.5 FM in Windsor, 88.7 FM in Rutland, 88.5 FM in St. Johnsbury, 94.3 FM in Bennington, 94.5 FM in Brattleboro, and online at vpr.net.