Raben Lecture will examine corporate governance
Bengt Holmstrom, the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will give the John R. Raben Lecture on Monday, Feb. 19.
"Corporate Governance in Context" is the topic of his talk, which will be held 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The talk, which is open to members of the Yale community, is sponsored by the Law School's Dean's Office and the Center for the Study of Corporate Law.
Holmstrom holds a joint appointment with the Sloan School of Management, teaches both economics and management, and serves as the chair of the Department of Economics.
Before joining the faculty at MIT, Holmstrom was the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Management Studies at Yale (1985-1994).
Holmstrom has held visiting professorships at the University of Chicago, Helsinki School of Economics and the Stockholm School of Economics, among others.
In 2005, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering and gave the Frank Hahn Lecture at the Royal Society of Economics in Nottingham, England.
He has published numerous journal articles in such publications as Econometrica, American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
On Thursday, Feb. 22, Richard L. Sandor, chair and chief executive officer of Chicago Climate Exchange Inc., will give a talk as part of the Yale Leaders Forum.
Sandor's lecture will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room at the Yale School of Management, 55 Hillhouse Ave. Co-sponsored by the School of Management and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the talk is free and open to the public.
Chicago Climate Exchange Inc. is a self-regulatory exchange that administers a voluntary greenhouse gas reduction and trading program for North America. Sandor is widely recognized as a founder of the interest rate derivatives markets now traded worldwide, as well as catastrophe insurance derivatives.
Most recently, he has designed revolutionary market mechanisms for market-based environmental protection programs.
Thomas E. Lovejoy, president of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, will be the keynote speaker for the 23rd annual Forestry and Environmental Studies Doctoral Student Research Conference on Friday, Feb. 23.
The conference will take place in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. It is an all-day event where doctoral students in all stages of their studies will give presentations on their research. The event is free and open to the public. Contact conference organizers Laura Robb (laura.robb@yale.edu) or Brent Frey (brent.frey@yale.edu) to register. For more information on the conference, visit the website at http://environment.yale.edu/doc/3265/yale_doctoral_conference.
Lovejoy, who received both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Yale, has been president of The Heinz Center since 2002. Before coming to The Heinz Center, he was the World Bank's chief biodiversity adviser and lead specialist for environment for Latin America and the Caribbean and senior adviser to the president of the United Nations Foundation.
Lovejoy has been assistant secretary and counselor to the secretary at the Smithsonian Institution, science adviser to the secretary of the interior, and executive vice president of the United States' World Wildlife Fund.
He conceived the idea for the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project (a joint project between the Smithsonian and Brazil's INPA), originated the concept of debt-for-nature swaps, and is the founder of the public television series Nature.
In 2001, Lovejoy was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. He has served on science and environmental councils and committees under the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations.
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