On February 4th, ISET hosted politician and development expert Ad Melkert, who gave a presentation titled "Global Economic Governance: Past or Future?". At the beginning of the presentation he talked about the post WWI and WWII periods and the establishment of international organizations like the ILO, UN, IMF, WB, ECB, OECD etc. He called these periods the “Promising Past”. He pointed out the aforementioned organizations’ global achievements in the areas of poverty reduction, connectivity, health, food security, climate, etc.
Afterwards he talked about Economic Convergence supported by different events (meetings, conferences etc.) all over the world in order to exchange information, share standards, experience on market economy and so on.
ISET continued its Distinguished Professors Lecture Series, which it runs in cooperation with Tbilisi State University, on Thursday, January 29th. In this installment of the series, ISET hosted Professor Ramaz Kurdadze, Head of the Institute of the Georgian Language at Faculty of Humanities and Member of the Academic Board of Tbilisi State University. Prof. Kurdadze delivered a lecture and presentation titled, “The Kartvelian Languages and the Georgian Literary Language through the Centuries”.
Although a slightly unusual subject for a school of economics, ISET’s faculty and students, as well as the event’s other participants thoroughly enjoyed Prof. Kurdadze’s lecture.