Helen Clark
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy (2011-2012)
The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy is one of the leading voices in the field of international relations and development at the University of Cambridge. Ambitious in its scope, the initiative holds Visiting Professorships that bring individuals of unrivalled international eminence and experience to give students, scholars, and members of the general public unique insight into the issues facing the world today.
The Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy has been made possible by the generous support of Angelika Diekmann and is hosted by Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Helen Clark is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and is a former Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Helen Clark’s two lectures, ‘Putting Resilience at the Heart of the Development Agenda’ and ‘Development in the 21st Century’, both focus on the issues of resilience and development in the lead-up to the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. Clark raises a series of questions related to the UNDP’s work on enhancing resilience in communities, regions and systems across the world.