Location: Kocimski Auditorium, 0101 College of Design

Description: Padraig Carmody
“The Geopolitics and Economics of BRICS Resource and Market Access in Southern Africa: the Zambian Case”

Carmody holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science in geography, both from Trinity College Dublin, and a PhD in geography from the University of Minnesota. He previously taught at the University of Vermont, Dublin City University and St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Ireland. He was a policy and research analyst for the Combat Poverty Agency in Ireland in 2002-2003. Carmody’s research centers on the political economy of globalization in Africa.

Part of the Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture series, his free talk is co-sponsored by the College of Design, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Department of Economics and program in African and African American studies.