1. “A New Low-Carbon Resilient Growth Model”

Please join us on Thursday, November 9, at 14:30h, as we welcome Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher (The Fletcher School, Tufts University) for a presentation on “A New Low-Carbon Resilient Growth Model”.

Date and location

Thursday, 09 November 2023

14:30h - 15:45h: HfP - (Richard-Wagner-Str.1, 80333 Munich), Room: H.414

Snacks will be provided

The Munich School of Politics and Public Policy and the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology welcome the awardee of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize of Politics and Technology 2022. Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher received the award for her extraordinary contributions to linking politics and technology. With this award, Professor Gallagher joins a select group of distinguished individuals who have made remarkable contributions to the field of politics and technology. Her recognition not only underscores her exemplary achievements but also serves as an inspiration to researchers, policymakers, and individuals committed to addressing the pressing challenges of our time.

Speaker

Kelly Sims Gallagher is Dean ad interim and Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She directs the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher. The Climate Policy Lab is dedicated to identifying which climate policies work, which don’t, and why in countries around the world, with particular emphasis on major emerging economies including China, India, Ethiopia, South Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. Gallagher served in the second term of Obama Administration as a Senior Policy Advisor in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as Senior China Advisor in the Special Envoy for Climate Change office at the U.S. State Department. Gallagher is a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a member of the board of the BelferCenter for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University where she is also faculty affiliate in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program. She serves on National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Deep Decarbonization. She also serves on the board of Energy Foundation China. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Broadly, she focuses on climate policy, energy innovation, and low-carbon, resilient models for achieving sustainable prosperity.  She is the author of Titans of the Climate (The MIT Press 2018), The Global Diffusion of Clean Energy Technologies: Lessons from China (MIT Press 2014), China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development (The MIT Press 2006), and dozens of other articles and book chapters.

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Cookie Hour Event "TUM meets The Fletcher School"

November 9, 2023

16:15h

Room: H.414

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