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Panel Discussion: "What does the future hold for cities, climate change and migration?"
28 Oct 21 in Videos
55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will rise to 70% - almost 2.5 billion people. Nearly one billion of these people live in informal settlements.
Cities will also be key in responding to climate change and transformation to sustainable consumption and production. Cities consume close to 2/3 of the world’s energy and account for more...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/what-does-the-future-hold-for-cities-climate-change-and-migration
Prof Alison Wolf, Ian Stuart and Sir Chris Husbands in conversation: 'Britain's long-running 'skills crisis': why can't we fix it? and what would it take to do so?'
12 Nov 21 in Videos
This country has been worrying about vocational skills since the late 19th century.
Since then we have had one government initiative after another, yet employers' complaints about skill shortages have steadily increased. At the same time, the country has continued to grow economically: so sceptics might wonder if there is really a crisis at all. This conversation brings three expert academic...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/skills-crisis
"The political economy of Nigeria: challenges and opportunities for reform" with Prof Kingsley Moghalu
25 Nov 21 in Videos
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and the continent’s largest economy, is populated by dynamic and talented citizens, but has faced steep challenges in development, leadership and governance.
Poverty is widespread. The country is currently embattled by terrorism, general insecurity, a depressed economy, and by challenges from separatist agitations to the existential legitimacy of the Nigerian state.
How can Nigeria achieve transformation economically...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/the-political-economy-of-nigeria
Dr Jessica Omukuti
Research Fellow on Inclusive Net Zero
Jessica Omukuti is a Research Fellow on Inclusive Net Zero for the Oxford Net Zero Initiative and is based at the Institute of Science Innovation and Technology (InSIS). Her work involves engaging with actors in the Global South to outline what Net Zero means and Inclusivity can be embedded into Net Zero policies and practices in the Global South.
Jessica is...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-jessica-omukuti
Professor Daniel Grimley
Head of the Humanities Division
Professor Daniel M. Grimley is the Head of Humanities at the University of Oxford and Douglas Algar tutorial fellow at Merton College, having taught previously at the University of Surrey and Nottingham.
His research concerns music, landscape, and cultural geography, especially in Scandinavia (Grieg, Sibelius, Carl Nielsen) and England (Elgar, Delius, and Vaughan Williams). He is interested in the ways...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-daniel-grimley
Florencia Zapata
Consultant
Florencia Zapata is an anthropologist and naturalist, specializing in sustainable management of mountain ecosystems, participatory action-research methodologies and social memory.
She has worked at the Instituto de Montaña in Peru for over 20 years, collaborating on environmental conservation, climate change adaptation and cultural affirmation projects in the Andes. Her recent work topics include: nature-based solutions with an emphasis on ecosystem-based...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/florencia-zapata
