From July 26-30, GAD faculty Dr. Edoardo Monaco Associate Professor and GAD Programme Director, Ms Helen He Assistant Instructor and student intern Holly, Ms Linda Wang, vice secretary-general, and Ms Syying, international coordinator joined the “Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions' (BRS) Conferences of the Parties (COPs) 2021" as official observers.These three conventions promote a coo...

On June 15 and 16, a delegation of 10 GAD students and two Assistant Instructors (Ms. Helen He Xi and Ms. Cinnamon sun Yuan), headed by Dr. Edoardo Monaco, Director of the GAD Programme, attended the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) “Leaders’ Summit 2021”.The UNGC platform – the largest of its kind, involving currently more than 12,000 firms worldwide – gathers businesses (from small a...

The Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme has recently partnered with the Beijing-based “China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation” (CBCGDF) - a leading organisation active, across China and beyond, in a wide range of initiatives spanning from poverty alleviation to circular economy, from natural resource management to global environmental governance, from UNSDG...

The GAD Programme is delighted to announce the imminent launch of the book entitled “COVID-19 Pandemic, Crisis Responses and the Changing World”, edited by Prof. Simon Zhao, GAD Professor and Associate Dean for Research of DHSS, and by Dr. Edoardo Monaco, Associate Professor and Director of GAD, together with three more DHSS colleagues. Notably, two of the programme’s own students - Mr. Zhan...

From April 2 to April 7, 2021, students enrolled in the courses “Global Routes of Trade and Investment” and “Rural Economic Development and Transformation in Globalising China” participated in a six-day field trip to Northern Guangdong Province. Organized by Prof. Simon Zhao, GAD Professor and Associate Dean for Research of DHSS, with the support of GAD Assistant Instructors Ms. Helen He Xi...

On April 22, 2021, the Globalisation andDevelopment (GAD) Programme invited Dr. Zhi Liu (PhD, Harvard University), SeniorResearch Fellow and China Program Director at the Lincoln Institute of LandPolicy, and Director of Peking University-Lincoln Institute for UrbanDevelopment and Land Policy (PLC), to share with students and staff keyreflections on China’s housing market trends.Lincoln In...

Dr Zhou Jinfeng, the Secretary-General of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), a leading China-based organisation at the forefront of biodiversity conservation, environmental protection and sustainable development, visited UIC and offered a lecture as a Guest Speaker at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) High Table Dinner on 30 March....

   On March 9, the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme invited Dr. Wang Zhihe (王治河博士), Director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, in Claremont, USA, to share with students and staff his insights on Constructive Postmodernism, often referred to as “Ecological Postmodernism”, and Daoist-oriented development in China and across the world.Dr. Wang is a prominent...