Democracy for a Sustainable World: James Bacchus in conversation with Gillian Tett
Democracy and sustainable development are unavoidably linked. The success of one depends on the success of the other. This is so locally. This is so globally. This is so in every dimension of cooperative human endeavor. Drawing from his new book from Cambridge University Press, Democracy for a Sustainable World: The Path from the Pnyx, James Bacchus will explain why global democracy and global sustainable development must be achieved, why they can only be achieved together, and how they can be achieved together through a much more participatory democracy at every level of governance based on a combination of the individual wisdom of right representation and the collective wisdom of a modernization of the ancient Athenian practice of the random selection of sortition.
Speaker Profiles:
Jim Bacchus is an academic, lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida. He was also a founding member and twice chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He is Fellow of the University of Cambridge climaTRACES Lab.
Gillian Tett is the Provost of King’s College and was a Chair of the Editorial Board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues and co-founded Moral Money, the FT sustainability newsletter.
When: Tuesday 3rd of June
17.15-17.45 Networking and drinks in the ground floor of the Simon Sainsbury Building
17.45-19.00 Talk, fireside chat and Q&A in Chen-Tsao Lecture Theatre
Where: Cambridge Judge Business School.
This event is in collaboration with Cambridge Executive MBA Programmes at the Judge Business School and the University of Cambridge climaTRACES Lab.