"Development and Conflict" by Helen Clark

Past Event

Date
11 February 2013, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location
T S Eliot Theatre
Merton College, Rose Lane, Oxford, OX1 4JD

Please note the change of start time for this seminar

This seminar is hosted by the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations in association with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, an Oxford Martin School Institute

Speaker: Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Biography: Helen Clark became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in April 2009, and is the first woman to lead the organisation. She is also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues.

Prior to her appointment with UNDP, Helen Clark served for nine years as Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving three successive terms from 1999 - 2008. Throughout her tenure as Prime Minister, Helen Clark engaged widely in policy development and advocacy across the international, economic, social and cultural spheres.

Chair: Dr David Rodin, Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

For further details please email zoe.davis-heaney@law.ox.ac.uk or elac@politics.ox.ac.uk