Event time:
Monday, April 22, 2019 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall
Yale Art Gallery
New Haven, CT
06520
Event description:
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization presents a two day colloquium:
“International Cooperation in the National Interest: In Defense of the Multilateral System.”
Session One: Threats to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, specifically the Paris Agreement, 1:30 to 3:30
- Mary Robinson (by video): President, Mary Robinson Foundation: Climate Justice; First Female President of Ireland, 1990-1997; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1997-2002; Chair, The Elders
- Todd Stern: Chief US Climate Negotiator for the Paris Agreement; Special Envoy for Climate Change, US State Department; Senior Fellow on Climate Change, Brookings Institution
- Kevin Rudd: President, Asia Society Policy Institute; Prime Minister of Australia, 2007-2010, 2013; Foreign Minister of Australia, 2010-2012
Moderator: Matthew Kotchen, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, of Management, and of Economics
Session Two: Threats to the Multilateral Trading System, 3:45 to 5:00
- Carla Hills: US Trade Representative, 1989-1993; Primary US negotiator of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1975-1977
- Ernesto Zedillo: Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; President of Mexico 1994-2000; Implemented NAFTA in Mexico
- Bernard Hoekman: Director of Global Economics, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Milan; Former Director, International Trade Department, The World Bank
Moderator: Samuel Kortum, James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics and Professor of Management, Yale University
Admission:
Free
Open to:
General Public