UNEP at 50 Dialogue with Inger Andersen

Towards the Next 50: A Conversation with Inger Andersen

When: 7 May, 2021 | 10-11 AM EDT

Where: Online, register here.

Anniversaries offer opportunities to reflect on the past and imagine the future. In 2022, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) turns fifty and has a chance to reimagine itself. Created to catalyze environmental work within the United Nations and beyond, how has UNEP done? What are the new challenges and what should it do differently? Who can cause that change, and how can they do so?

To explore the questions over the year that commemorates UNEP’s 50th anniversary, the Center for Governance and Sustainability at UMass Boston convenes a series of conversations with leaders around the world who have shaped UNEP’s history. Guests will engage with the new book by Center Director Prof. Maria Ivanova, The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty.

The Center for Governance and Sustainability is honored to launch the inaugural conversation for the UNEP at 50 Dialogue Series with Inger Andersen, the Executive Director of UNEP.

Andersen took the helm of the anchor institution for the global environment in 2019 having served as Director-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Ms. Andersen has more than 30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental sustainability, strategy, and operations.