UNPD: Urbanization and Socio Economic Development: What We Know, and What We are Learning

<p><strong>Panelist:</strong></p> <p><img class="size-full wp-image-7361 alignleft" src="https://greeninstitute.gy/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-2022-11-28-at-17.56.17.png" alt="" width="284" height="294" /></p> <p><em><strong>Prof. Luís M. A. Bettencourt</strong></em></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #339966">Luís M. A. Bettencourt is the Inaugural Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and a Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, as well as an External Professor of Complex Systems at the <a style="color: #339966" href="https://www.santafe.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5">Santa Fe Institute</a>. </span></strong></p> <p>He was trained as a theoretical physicist and obtained his undergraduate degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) in 1992, and his PhD from Imperial College (University of London, UK) in 1996 for research in statistical and high-energy physics models of the early Universe.</p> <p><strong>Moderator:</strong></p> <p><img class="size-medium wp-image-6070 alignleft" src="https://greeninstitute.gy/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Prof-Jose-Lobo-240x300.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="300" /></p> <p> </p> <p><em><strong>Prof. Jose Lobe</strong></em></p> <p><b>School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures Arizona State University & Santa Fe Institute</b></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>For any enquiries, please email us at <a href="mailto:greeninstitute@uog.edu.gy">greeninstitute@uog.edu.gy</a></strong></p>