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SUMMARY:The Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture 2021
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DESCRIPTION:On 15th April 2021\, the School of Social Sciences welcomes o
 ne of the most senior UNHCR officials in the Mediterranean\, an area tha
 t has been the epicentre of refugee flows into Europe for over a decade.
  Jason Hepps\, the UNHCR’s Deputy Representative in Greece\, will presen
 t the 2021 Arthur Lewis Lecture\, the School’s flagship social responsib
 ility lecture\, entitled “Refugees & the Mediterranean: can one be both 
 pragmatic and principled?” \n\nJason has been working for UNHCR since 20
 04 in various positions throughout the world\, including country and fie
 ld offices in Djibouti (2004-2005)\, Liberia (2006-2010) and Montenegro 
 (2011). In Headquarters\, he served as Senior Executive Assistant to the
  Assistant High Commissioner for Operations (2012-2015)\, and most recen
 tly as Senior Regional Protection Coordinator for the Syria situation in
  UNHCR’s Middle East and North Africa Bureau based in Jordan (2016-2019)
 . He participated in extended emergency field missions with UNHCR\, incl
 uding in Syria (2014/15) and Peru (2016). From 1998-2000\, he was a Peac
 e Corps volunteer in northwest Togo\, focusing on community health and d
 evelopment. \n\nJason holds graduate degrees in Public Policy (Princeton
  University\, 2011) and International Law (University of California – Ha
 stings College of the Law\, 2004)\, a Bachelor’s Degree in American Stud
 ies (University of Michigan\, 1997)\, and is a member of the California 
 Bar Association.? \n\nWe are delighted to welcome Jason to present this 
 prestigious lecture to honour Sir William Arthur Lewis\, economist\, Nob
 el Prize winner and Britain’s first Black professor. After the lecture t
 here will be an extended Q&A session\, chaired by Professor Dimitris Pap
 adimitriou\, where attendees will be able to address questions to the sp
 eaker. \n\nOur series of annual Arthur Lewis Lectures started in 2015 to
  mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the economist Arthur Lewis\,
  who became Britain's first black professor when he was appointed to a C
 hair at Manchester in 1948.
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LOCATION:online
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