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(Embargoed until 2 October 2003)
The David Hume Institute
Presidential Address 2003
Sponsored by
Cairn Energy
Speaker
Professor Sir Alan Peacock DSC, FBA, FRSE
(Honorary President, David Hume Institute)
"The Political Economy of Sustainable Development"
to be held at The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh
6.00pm 2 October 2003
Professor Brian Main, Director of The David Hume Institute said: "The Institute is delighted that Professor Sir Alan Peacock, President of The David Hume Institute, will be giving the Presidential Address on 2 October. This lecture will provide a platform for discussion concerning the tensions between continuing to promote economic growth and the prospect of the long run depletion of natural resources. The argument will be extended to consider the property rights of future generations in the context of sustainable development.
The lecture will consider the validity of these claims on future resources and the extent to which they require a substantial change in the economic policies of developed countries, policies which would be bound to have a major effect on business practice."
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Mr Bill Gammell, Chief Executive, Cairn Energy said: "Professor Sir Alan Peacock's Presidential Address will be of interest to many people - not only those involved directly in sustainable development. Cairn Energy is pleased to be sponsoring this important event in the Institute's calendar."
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Sir Alan Peacock, DSC, FBA, FRSE
1942-1945 Royal Navy. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross (1945)
1947 graduated from St. Andrews University
1948-1956 member of the economics staff at the London School of Economics before being appointed to the Chair of Economic Science at Edinburgh.
1962 invited to accept the first professorial appointment at the new University of York becoming head of what has become one of the most successful Economics Departments in the UK.
1978 joined the then University College at Buckingham as Professor of Economics and became its first Vice Chancellor when it was awarded university status.
1973-76 Chief Economic Adviser to the DTI
1985-86 Chairman of the Committee on the Financing of the BBC
1986-92 Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council
1979- Fellow of the British Academy
1989- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh [Royal Medallist (2002)]
1996- Fellow of the Italian Academy
Like many academic economists Sir Alan has written reports for international agencies, such as the UN, OECD, and IMF, and served on government enquiries, notably the Kilbrandon Commission on the Constitution but as a dissenting member.
He has held an Honorary Professorship in Public Finance at Heriot-Watt University since 1984 and has been awarded 11 honorary doctorates and an honorary fellowship of the London School of Economics. He was knighted for public service in 1987.
Notes to Editors:
The views that will be expressed by the speaker are his own and do not commit the Trustees or Officers of the Institute in any way.
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