Live Event: The World After CoVid

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Tent - Live Events! Humanities and Policy Week Part of the
Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the
future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The World
After COVID: In conversation with Professor Peter Frankopan
(Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for
Byzantine Research) and Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean of Blavatnik
School of Government). Biographies: Professor Peter Frankopan Peter
Frankopan is Professor of Global History, Stavros Niarchos
Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research,
and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. Peter works on the
history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia,
Central and Southern Asia, and on relations between Christianity
and Islam. He is particularly interested in exchanges and
connections between regions and peoples. Peter specialises in the
history of the Byzantine Empire in the 11th Century, and in the
history of Asia Minor, Russia and the Balkans. Peter works on
medieval Greek literature and rhetoric, and on diplomatic and
cultrual exchange between Constantinople and the islamic world,
western Europe and the principalities of southern Russia. Professor
Ngaire Woods Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the
Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic
Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to
enhance the governance of organizations, the challenges of
globalization, global development, and the role of international
institutions and global economic governance. She founded the Global
Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University, and co-founded
(with Robert O. Keohane) the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders
Fellowship programme. She led the creation of the Blavatnik School
of Government. Ngaire Woods serves as a member of the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank’s International Advisory Panel, and
on the Boards of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Stephen A.
Schwarzman Education Foundation. She is an Independent
Non-Executive Director at Rio Tinto (effective September 2020). She
sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Global Development,
the African Leadership Institute, the School of Management and
Public Policy at Tsinghua University, and the Nelson Mandela School
of Public Policy at Cape Town University. She is Chair of the
Harvard University Visiting Committee on International Engagement
and sits on the Harvard Kennedy School Visiting Committee. She is a
member of the UK Government National Leadership Centre's Expert
Advisory Panel, and of the Department for International Trade’s
Trade and Economy Panel. She is an honorary governor of the
Ditchley Foundation. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive
Director on the Arup Global Group Board and on the Board of the
Center for International Governance Innovation. From 2016-2018, she
was Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on
Values, Technology and Governance.She has also served as a member
of the IMF European Regional Advisory Group, and as an Advisor to
the IMF Board, to the Government of Oman’s Vision 2040, to the
African Development Bank, to the UNDP’s Human Development Report,
and to the Commonwealth Heads of Government. Ngaire Woods has
published extensively on international institutions, the global
economy, globalization, and governance, including the following
books: The Politics of Global Regulation (with Walter Mattli,
Oxford University Press, 2009), Networks of Influence? Developing
Countries in a Networked Global Order (with Leonardo Martinez-Diaz,
Oxford University Press, 2009), The Globalizers: the IMF, the World
Bank and their Borrowers (Cornell University Press, 2006),
Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s
Aid Program (with Jennifer Welsh, Laurier University Press, 2007),
and Making Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries (with
Dana Brown, Oxford University Press, 2007). She has previously
published The Political Economy of Globalization (Macmillan, 2000),
Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (with Andrew Hurrell:
Oxford University Press, 1999), Explaining International Relations
since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 1986). She has published
numerous articles on international institutions, globalization, and
governance. She has also presented numerous documentaries for BBC
Radio 4 and BBC TV2. She was educated at Auckland University (BA in
economics, LLB Hons in law). She studied at Balliol College, Oxford
as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, completing an MPhil (with
Distinction) and then DPhil (in 1992) in International Relations.
She won a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford
(1990-1992) and subsequently taught at Harvard University
(Government Department) before taking up her Fellowship at
University College, Oxford and academic roles at Oxford University.
Ngaire Woods was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of
the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year's Honours for
services to Higher Education and Public Policy. She is a Fellow of
the Academy of Social Sciences and an International Honorary Member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.