Abstract:

The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

Allen Lane (Penguin Group), 2022

The food system generates around a third of human-made greenhouse gas emissions.

With about half of these attributable to animal production; and yet food was markedly absent from official discussions at COP26. This, for many analysts, represented not only a major climate-relevant omission but also a missed opportunity for reshaping the food system in ways that could achieve broader set of social, environmental and economic benefits.

Migration and Employment Opportunities During Adverse Climate Events
Valerie Mueller

Sir Geoffrey has also served as Director General (Political) at the FCO, Director for Middle East and North Africa, British Ambassador to Iran, Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Consul General in Jerusalem, European Secretariat at the Cabinet Office, First Secretary and Head of Political Section in Pretoria/Cape Town, Private Secretary to the FCO Permanent Under-Secretary, Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris, and Third later Second Secretary (Political) in Jedda.

Biography:

I received my PhD in Anthropology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. Since then I have studied and taught various topics related to bureaucracy and gender in the contexts of immigration, education, welfare, the Holocaust and the sex trade. My current research focuses on gender and ageism in gyms and during COVID-19.