Virtual Q&A with Helen Clarke

Helen Clark is a respected global leader on sustainable development, gender equality and international co-operation. She served three successive terms as Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1999 and 2008. While in government, she led policy debate on a wide range of economic, social, environmental and cultural issues, including sustainability and climate change. In 2009, she became the first woman appointed to lead the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), serving for two terms to 2017. Recently, she served as co-chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, established in 2020 to review the lessons the international community, and the World Health Organisation in particular, should draw from the experience of the covid-19 pandemic. In 2021, she was elected President of Chatham House, the Royal Institute for International Affairs.

This event is part of the University of South Wales' Tomorrow Matters event series.