Lord Nicholas Stern Kt - A Motivational Speaker

His most recent works include The Stern ReviewDevelopment. He moved to become Senior Vice
a review of the economics of global warmingPresident at the World Bank in 2000.
commissioned by the British Government andStern was enlisted into the government in 2003
published in 2006. Widely acclaimed by many ofby Chancellor Gordon Brown. He was appointed
his colleagues, it generated a sense of shock andsecond permanent secretary at the Treasury
horror in those less familiar with the subject as hewith a remit for Public Finances and as head of
likened the potential economic damage as greaterthe Government Economic Service. In 2005 he
than the combined effects of World War I, Worldwas asked to conduct a review into the economic
War II and the Great Depression of 1929. In 2009impact of climate change and his report published
Stern published Blueprint for a Safer Planet: Howthe following year (the Stern Review Report on
to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Erathe Economics of Climate Change) argued that
of Progress and Prosperity, a must read for allfuture carbon emissions can be reduced at
seriously concerned about climate change.manageable economic cost and espoused the use
With an insight into current political strategy onof green taxes, carbon trading and regulation as
climate change, he provides a relevant and criticalthe principle methods by which to drive change.
input for business in deciding how to tackle theHe was also heavily involved in the planning for
future challenge of reducing carbon emissions bythe Copenhagen meeting on Climate Change in
up to 80% by 2050. Although he helped formulate2009.
Labour government policy, he is currently inStern is a Fellow of the British Academy (where
discussion with Conservative Party leaders on thehe was elected in 1993) and an Honorary Fellow
formation of the Green Investment Bank initiative.of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Nicholas Stern was born in 1946 and is anIn the Birthday Honours List of 2004 he was
economist and academic. He graduated inmade Knight Bachelor for services to economics.
Mathematics from Peterhouse, Cambridge andCurrently, he is IG Patel Professor of Economics
gained his doctorate in economics at Nuffieldand Government and Chair of the Grantham
College, Oxford. He lectured in Oxford from 1970Institute for Climate Change and the Environment
- 77 and served as Professor of Economics atat the LSE and 2010 Professor at the College de
Warwick University from 1978 -87. He thenFrance, a research institute based in Paris.
moved on to the London School of EconomicsHe has also written books on Kenya and the
(LSE) and in 1994 became the Chief EconomistGreen Revolution in India where the government
and Special Counsellor to the President at theintroduced many agricultural reforms to boost self
European Bank for reconstruction andsufficiency in rice production.