Videoconference on “The Role of Academia in the Implementation of the SDGs through the COVID-19 Crisis”

At 6pm on Wednesday, June 3^rd 2020, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization will hold a videoconference on “The Role of Academia in the Implementation of the SDGs through the COVID-19 Crisis”, organized in partnership with the Nizami Ganjavi International Centre.

The event will feature interventions from Emil Constantinescu, President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization; Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of Mauritius 2015-2018; Garry Jacobs, CEO and Chair of the World Academy of Art and Science; Winston P. Nagan, a member of the World Academy’s Board of Trustees; Bujan Nishani, President of Albania 2012-2017; Rosalia Artega Serrano, President of Ecuador 1997; Nikolaos Theodossiou, Chairman of the Black Sea Chapter of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network; and László Borbély, Government Advisor and coordinator of the Department for Sustainable Development at the Romanian Government.

The debates will be moderated by Professor Phoebe Koundouri of the University of Athens, Chairman of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, co-chair of the Greek branch of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (EIT Climate-KIC).