Nicholas Herbert Stern
, author of a milestone to address the ecological issue, published on October 30, 2006 on commission from the then British Finance Minister Gordon Brown, will be awarded an honorary degree in Banking, Finance and Insurance from the Catholic University of Sacred Heart Friday 16 December.
The award ceremony for Lord Stern, professor of Economics and Government and director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will be held at 11 in the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of Sacred Heart
After the greeting of the rector of the University Franco Anelli, the principal Elena Beccalli will read the reasons with which the faculty, in the session of 1 July 2021, unanimously proposed to confer the academic title on the English economist.
«It is the recognition of his profound knowledge as a scholar as well as of the quality and relevance of his institutional activity and of his commitment to a cause of extremely high ethical value such as the containment of climate change and its dramatic consequences for all humanity and, in particular , for the populations of the poorest areas of the planet".
The Catholic University, by conferring an honorary degree in Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences on Professor Stern, «not only pays tribute to a personality of absolute scientific excellence and great ethical sensitivity, but strengthens the sharing of research projects and policies with an interlocutor of significant international cultural influence".
At the end of the conferment of the title, Lord Stern will pronounce the lectio cathedrae magistralis.
Nicholas Herbert Stern, since 2007 Baron Stern of Brentford, was born in Hammersmith (London) on 22 April 1946.
He is currently Professor of Economics and Government and Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
He is a member of the British Academy and of the Royal Society, of which he was president, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Lord Stern was Chief Economist and Advisor to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1994-99), Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank (2000-03) and Head of the Economic Service in His Majesty's Government.
In this capacity he coordinated, on behalf of the British government, the report on the economics of climate change (2005-2006), known as the "Stern Review".
Since 2016, he has been co-chair of the Stern-Stiglitz Commission on Carbon Pricing.
Lord Stern is the author of numerous scientific articles and books in the fields of development economics, cost-benefit analysis and the economics of climate change.
His more recent books include A Blueprint for a Safer Planet (2010);
Why Are We Waiting?
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change (2015);
Standing up for a Sustainable World (2020, with Claude Henry and Johan Rockström).