Debate on Sustainability Leadership in HE

11th Feb 2021 13:00 – 14:00

As Green Gown Sustainability Institution of the Year the University of Worcester is hosting an International Panel debate on Sustainability Leadership in Higher Education as one of it’s activities in Go Green Week.

Chaired by the Vice Chancellor Professor David Green the panel welcomes the President of the Students’ Union Meg Price and Meg Baker Director of Education at Students Organising for Sustainability UK, to put forward the students perspective. 

We are delighted to welcome Lord Victor Adebowale a cross bench peer who received a CBE for his services to  the unemployed and homeless.  He is Chair of Social Enterprise UK and the NHS Confederation. Victor has recently stepped down as the CEO of Turning Point, a social enterprise providing health and social care interventions. Victor is a visiting Professor and Chancellor at the University of Lincoln; an honorary member of the Institute of Psychiatry; President of The International Association of Philosophy and Psychiatry and a Governor at The London School of Economics. Victor has an MA in Advanced Organisational Consulting from Tavistock Institute and City University.

To add an international perspective we are joined by Dr Antonius Raghubansie Director of Learning Services British Council As an education leader and business director, Antonius’s takes a commercial perspective on sustainability. He has been an advocate and leader for sustainability education for many years in the UK. He spent a decade in South America and the Caribbean in senior roles with brands such as Pepsi. Then a similar time in UK HE leadership before joining as Director Learning Services at the British Council, the UK's cultural relations organisation, he has been posted to Sri Lanka and now India. He has seen multiple challenges to sustainability for Universities, for learners, for governments, educators and funders.  He adds ‘It would be great to join the discussion and bring a more international perspective to the debate around HE and Sustainability Leadership. The scale of the education system and the enormity of the sustainability challenge in Asia is existential’.

To sign up and post a question to the panel, please register here. 

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