Symposium Welcome, Introduction, and Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Presentation to Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith
Friday, March 1
6:30pm

Presentation to Professor John Kenneth Galbraith

The Keynote Address on "Inequality in the Age of Globalization" will be delivered by his son, Professor James K. Galbraith.

John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to India; among his major works: The Affluent Society (1958), The New Industrial State (1967), Economics & The Public Purpose (1973) and The Good Society (1996). His work in progress is The Economics of Innocent Fraud. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1946 and then again in 2000.

James K. Galbraith, Professor, Public Affairs and Government; Director, University of Texas Inequality Project; author, Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View

Discussants: Kristin Forbes, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Quantitative Policy Analysis, Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Treasury Department; Mitsubishi Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; co-author, International Financial Contagion

Lisa Lynch, Academic Dean and Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; former Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor

William A. Niskanen, Chairman, The CATO Institute; former Chairman, President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers