Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán: “Trying to safe lost art: UNESCO’s special operations to save cultural heritage in the Middle East”

Zorba with Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán, UNESCO´s Assistant Director-General for Culture Paris.- What can be done to protect cultural heritage from destruction and pillage in Middle Eastern countries currently in conflict? UNESCO is playing a critical role bringing the international community around this issue, as we could learn from Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán, currently Assistant... Leer más →

Octavio Medina: «24-M: Empieza el Baile»

Debate moderado por Octavio Medina, Editor de Politikon y especialista en educación en el Banco Mundial Washington, D.C. - El pasado 2 de junio contamos con la presencia de Octavio Medina, especialista en educación del Banco Mundial y editor del colectivo Politikon. Octavio dio un repaso a los resultados electorales del 24 de mayo en España, mencionando... Leer más →

Vera Chiodi: “Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) in international development: methodological insights”

Zorba with Vera Chiodi, Associate Professor at Sorbonne University Paris Paris.- How good is our knowledge about the effectiveness of international development programs? How can we improve it? Vera Chiodi, Associate Professor at the Sorbonne University of Paris, guided us last Tuesday through the key current issues on impact evaluation and the methodologies that have... Leer más →

Margot Badran: the History of feminism in contemporary Egypt

Zorba with Margot Badran, one of the most renowned scholars on the topic of feminism in the Muslim countries Cairo.-Margot Badran did a very interesting presentation about the history of feminism in Egypt. To start with she defined feminism as the awareness that women are restrained for the reason of their gender and attempts to dismantle... Leer más →

Christine Lins: “Global Energy Transition”

Zorba with Christine Lins, Executive Secretary of REN21, Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century Paris.- What will it take for the world to shift to a sustainable economy? Christine Lins, Executive Secretary of REN21, was the right person to shed some light on the issue. Especially since she was just back from a... Leer más →

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