Democracy for a Sustainable World: James Bacchus in conversation with Gillian Tett
3 Jun 2025
17:15 -19:00
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Cambridge Judge Business School
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Speakers: James Bacchus and Gillian Tett
About this event
Democracy and sustainable development are unavoidably linked. The success of one depends on the success of the other. This is so locally. This is so globally. This is so in every dimension of cooperative human endeavour. Drawing from his new book from Cambridge University Press, Democracy for a Sustainable World: The Path from the Pnyx, James Bacchus will explain why global democracy and global sustainable development must be achieved, why they can only be achieved together and how they can be achieved together through a much more participatory democracy at every level of governance based on a combination of the individual wisdom of right representation and the collective wisdom of a modernization of the ancient Athenian practice of the random selection of sortition.
Speaker bios
James Bacchus
Fellow of the University of Cambridge climaTRACES Lab
Jim is an academic, lawyer, businessman and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Florida. He was also a founding member and twice Chair of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He is Fellow of the University of Cambridge climaTRACES Lab.
Gillian Tett
Provost of King’s College, Cambridge
Gillian is the Provost of King’s College and was a Chair of the Editorial Board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues and co-founded Moral Money, the Financial Times sustainability newsletter.
Agenda
17:15-17:45
Networking and drinks on the ground floor of the Simon Sainsbury Building
17:45-19:00
Talk, fireside chat and Q&A in the Chen-Tsao Lecture Theatre
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