A nation must think before it acts.
FPRI is proud to co-sponsor the University of Delaware's 2021 John R. Mather Lecture, hosted by the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences. This year's lecture will be presented by Professor Anthony (Tony) Bebbington, the International Program Director for Natural Resources and Climate Change at the Ford Foundation.
The lecture will take place both in-person and virtually. For more information click the registration link.
Anthony (Tony) Bebbington, Ph.D. is the International Program Director for Natural Resources and Climate Change at the Ford Foundation. Before joining the foundation in 2021, Tony was Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, and an Australia Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. In addition to holding academic positions, he has worked for non-profit think tanks in the United Kingdom, as a social scientist at the World Bank, and as a research associate with NGOs in Peru and Chile. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and sits on the board of Oxfam America. Tony holds a PhD in geography from Clark University, and a bachelor's degree in geography and land economy from Cambridge University in the UK.
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FPRI is happy to provide this series free of charge thanks to the generous support of our members, partners, and event attendees. If you are not currently a member, the suggested donation is $25.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our events coordinator, Kayla Wendt at kwendt@fpri.org.