2:00 – 3:30 pm: Natural perspectives
Speaker: Professor Emeritus Gordon McBean PhD has been at Western University since 2000, in the Department of Geography and as Director for Policy, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.

3:40 – 4:40 pm: Social perspectives

Panelists:

Radoslav Dimitrov - Associate Professor & European Union Delegate to the UN Climate Change Negotiations. Radoslav is * Co-Chair of the European Union Task Force on Climate Communication (2018) * EU negotiation and political communication strategist (climate negotiations, 2018 *European Union delegate to the United Nations negotiations on climate change (2009-2018) *United Nations rapporteur (2000-2008) Professor Dimitrov specializes in global environmental politics, international climate change negotiations, and UN diplomacy.

Theresa McClenaghan - Executive Director and Counsel at CELA, LL.B. University of Western Ontario (1984), LL.M. (Constitutional Law) Osgoode Law School (York University, 1999) and a diploma in Environmental Health McMaster University (1999). Past senior water policy advisor to the Ontario Minister of the Environment.

4:40 – 5:00 pm – Wrap up by Francisco Olea-Popelka

Francisco Olea-Popelka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Schulich School of medicine & Dentistry and the Beryl Ivey Endowed Chair in One Health.

5:00 – 6:00 pm – Networking with light refreshments

Host:

International Week

Contact:

Melanie Katsivo
mkatsivo@uwo.ca

Event Type:

International, Lecture / Seminar

Audience:

Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff, Undergraduate Students, Postdocs, General Public

Department:

Western International