Climate Justice with Dr. Gael Giraud and Belynda Petrie

The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice. 

We finish this series with our fifth of five conversations with today’s focus on Climate Justice, as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. Previous topics focused on Inclusive Development, Empowerment, Democratic Values and an Introduction to Development Ethics.

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Guest Biographies 

Dr. Gael Giraud is the founding director of Georgetown University’s Environmental Justice Program. He received his PhD in applied mathematics at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France. He also holds a PhD in theology and has been appointed as research professor at Georgetown University. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Chief economist and executive director of the French Development Agency (AFD). In 2009, he was nominated best young French economist  (by Le Monde).  And in 2013 he was ordained as a priest.

Belynda Petrie is an environmentalist from Cape Town, South Africa and founder and director of ONE World Sustainable Investments, which is an African-based sustainable development consulting organization focused on adaptive development within the context of changing climate and resource constraints. Belynda was a contributing author to the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (the IPCC), specifically on the Governance chapter. She was also a PhD Candidate at the University of Cape Town with a focus on  Cooperative Governance for Water Security in Africa.