Inaugural Session CES – Lisbon
Lecture
The New World Geography Policy
Carlos Lopes, Executive-Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
September 11th, 2009, 17h, Picoas Plaza, CIUL, Lisbon
Presentation
The
lecture opens the activities of the CES delegation in Lisbon that will
be based at the Picoas Plaza ‐ Rua do Viriato, 13. CES-Lisbon’s mission
is to offer advanced training to middle and senior cadres of the public
sector, entrepreneurial sector and the civil society sector regarding
the four Great thematic fields developed by CES: Institutions,
Regulation and Citizenship; New Local, Inter-state and Transnational
Solidarities; Sciences, Technologies and Humanities; Social Cultures
and Dynamics. In each of these fields training will focus on strategic
thought and the systematic articulation between contemporary issues and
medium and long term perspectives.
Biographic Note
Carlos
Lopes is, presently, assistant secretary-general of the UN, holding the
direction of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research
(UNITAR) and the UN Staff College, in Turin. He founded and managed
INEP – National Institute for Studies and Researches of Guinea-Bissau
before taking office at the UN –United Nations, in 1988. Since then, he
has held several leading positions, mainly within the extent of
UNDP – United Nations Development Programme, having been part of the
executive board. In 2003, he took office as representative of the UN
and UNDP in Brazil. Between 2005 and 2007, he was appointed UN
Executive Office Political Affairs Director.
Carlos
Lopes attained his doctoral degree in History at the University of
Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is active member of the scientific
committee of 12 academic institutions and has over 20 books and 170
scientific articles published.