Gates Distinguished Lecture Series: Recent Episodes
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Listen to the top thinkers from around the world talking about everything from cloning to the future of broadcasting, Recorded as part of the Gates Distinguished Lecture series.
Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, gives a public lecture on the future of broadcasting.
Data-journalist and infographics designer David McCandless delivers a Gates Distinguished Lecture on how visualising data can help us to find interesting patterns and connections.
UN disasters expert gives Gates Distinguished Lecture.
The UN's Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction talked about how to limit the impact of natural disasters in a lecture on Wednesday, 16th February at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Margareta Wahlstrom will gave the first Gates Distinguished Lecture of 2011 on UN efforts to reduce the impact of natural disaster through both improving disaster preparedness and the global response to disasters.
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, adopted by the UN Member States in 2000 and headed by Wahlström, includes the Hyogo Framework for Action devised in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Its aim is to “...strengthen disaster response preparedness at all levels, and ensure that disaster risk reduction is a national and a local priority, rooted within the key government institutions”.
Wahlström says climate change is now the principal source of risk for natural disasters.
The man responsible for overseeing the preparations for the 2012 London Olympics gives his views on what makes for a good Games.
Leading film critic Anthony Lane will speaks about the representation of violence in film.
Niklas Zennström, the Founder of Skype and Kazaa, gives a Gates Distinguished Lecture on the secrets of being a successful entrepreneur.
Admiral Stavridis spoke on ''NATO in the 21st Century: Partnerships for Peace and Security'
In this lecture, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of nature
Ian Wilmut, the famed Scottish biologist who created Dolly the cloned sheep, speaks as part of the Gates Distinguished Lecture Series.
Professor Joshua Silver gives his Gates Scholars Distinguished Lecture entitled 'How we do we really bring vision corrective to those that need it in the developing world?'. The lecture was held at the Cambridge Union Society on 3 February 2010.
Film director and writer, Rupert Isaacson, speaks about his experience filming The Horse Boy at a Gates Scholars' Distinguished Lecture held on 14 January 2010 .
Barack Obama’s New Media Director discusses the lessons learned from the US presidential campaign at a distinguished lecture in Cambridge.