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Global Development Distinguished Speaker Series

Confronting the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

The Global Development Distinguished Speaker Series aims to bring leading minds to campus to explore topics across the Department of Global Development’s signature strengths of wellbeing and inclusion; environmental sustainability; and food and nutritional security.

Past Distinguished Speakers

Food Systems and Landscapes that Sustain the Planet, Drive Prosperity, and Nourish People

Re-Earthing Sapelo: Abolition Ecology and the Struggle to Save the Land

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Land Justice: Engaging Indigenous Knowledge For Land Care

Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

Transforming Food Systems: Aquatic Foods for Nourishing People and Planet

Johan Swinnen

Transforming Global Food Systems After COVID-19

Speaker Series Committee

Ed Mabaya

Research Professor

Global Development Section

Director, Humphrey Fellowship Program

Global Development Section

Director, Graduate Field of Global Development

Global Development Section

(607) 280-0264
em37 [at] cornell.edu

Applied Economics and Policy

Food and Agricultural Economics

International and Development Economics and Policy

Margaret Smith

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Professor

Global Development Section

(607) 254-8764
mes25 [at] cornell.edu

Maize breeding and genomics

Abiotic stress tolerance

Insect and disease resistance