Elizabeth Economy, CV Starr Senior Fellow and director for Asian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and an award-winning author of "The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future (2004)," will speak on Monday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The title of her talk is "Environmental Challenges to China's Future." This lecture is part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series titled "Inequality and Equity" and is free and open to the public.
Economy serves on the board of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development and the advisory board for Issues and Studies, an international journal on China, Taiwan and East Asian affairs. She consults for agencies of the U.S. government and has lectured at several American universities, including Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington. In 1990, Economy was honored with an SSRC-MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship in International Peace and Security Studies.
Future speakers in the series include Douglas McAdam, professor of sociology at Stanford University and director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, on Nov. 2. William Easterly, professor of economics at New York University, will lecture on Feb. 13.
