JHU SAIS to Host Conference on Demographic Trends and the BRICs
MEDIA ADVISORY
April 12, 2011
Contact: Felisa Neuringer Klubes
202.663.5626
[email protected]
JHU SAIS to Host Conference on Demographic Trends and the BRICs
The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will hold a daylong conference, “Demographic Trends and the BRICs” on Tuesday, April 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
With dynamic economies, a quarter of the world’s land and 40 percent of the human population, Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRICs) have the potential to dominate the global economy by the middle of this century. Each one of the BRICs faces a different population dynamic. Taken together, their demographics are instrumental to the growth of the international economy.
As part of the “Year of Demography” at SAIS, this conference will bring together regional policy experts, demographers and leading market analysts to confront each other’s assumptions and predictions to reveal novel problems and opportunities in these four pivotal countries. Nick Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, will give the conference’s luncheon keynote address at 12:30 p.m.
9 a.m. Welcome Remarks by Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere Studies at SAIS and Jessica P. Einhorn, dean of SAIS
9:15 a.m. Session 1: “Brazil”
10:15 a.m. Session 2: “Russia”
11:30 a.m. Session 3: “India”
12:30 p.m. Luncheon keynote address by Nick Eberstadt
1:30 p.m. Session 4: “China”
2:30 p.m. Closing address by Riordan Roett
SAIS will also host a live webcast of the conference available at www.sais-jhu.edu.
The conference, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school’s Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to [email protected].
Media who want to cover the event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].