Prof M. S. Swaminathan ![Professor M S Swaminathan]()
Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Member of Rajya Sabha (Upper House), Parliament of India
Business has a vital role to play in ensuring food security around the world. Business is not charity, however it can make a difference to the poorest in our society.
Professor Swaminathan is recognized as the father of the Green Revolution in India. In this address he will provide an outline of the key factors to ensuring food security across Asia, with an emphasis on the potential for business to work collaboratively in this pursuit.
Professor Swaminathan has been acclaimed by TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century - and one of only three from India, the other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. He has been described by the United Nations Environment Programme as "the Father of Economic Ecology" and by Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations, as "a living legend who will go into the annals of history as a world scientist of rare distinction".
Date: Thursday, 3rd June 2010
Time: 12.00pm for 12.30pm start
Venue: Sofitel Melbourne - 25 Collins Street, Melbourne
Cost: Corporate Table of 10 (limited to 5 Corporate tables in total) Amount: $2,200 incl. GST
Benefits Include:
Members $140 incl. GST
Non Members $160 incl. GST
RSVP: By Monday 24th May 2010
Email: Clio Zheng c.zheng@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
Fax: +61 3 9347 1768
Enquiries:
Clio Zheng, Events Officer - Phone: +61 3 9035 5693
Email: c.zheng@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Member of Rajya Sabha (Upper House), Parliament of India
Business has a vital role to play in ensuring food security around the world. Business is not charity, however it can make a difference to the poorest in our society.
Professor Swaminathan is recognized as the father of the Green Revolution in India. In this address he will provide an outline of the key factors to ensuring food security across Asia, with an emphasis on the potential for business to work collaboratively in this pursuit.
Professor Swaminathan has been acclaimed by TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century - and one of only three from India, the other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. He has been described by the United Nations Environment Programme as "the Father of Economic Ecology" and by Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations, as "a living legend who will go into the annals of history as a world scientist of rare distinction".
Date: Thursday, 3rd June 2010
Time: 12.00pm for 12.30pm start
Venue: Sofitel Melbourne - 25 Collins Street, Melbourne
Cost: Corporate Table of 10 (limited to 5 Corporate tables in total) Amount: $2,200 incl. GST
Benefits Include:
- 1 table of 10 positioned adjacent to head table
- 1 seat on head table
- Company signage on table
Members $140 incl. GST
Non Members $160 incl. GST
RSVP: By Monday 24th May 2010
Email: Clio Zheng c.zheng@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
Fax: +61 3 9347 1768
Enquiries:
Clio Zheng, Events Officer - Phone: +61 3 9035 5693
Email: c.zheng@asialink.unimelb.edu.au