Robert Blackwell

NEW YORK (Global Action on Aging), March 22, 2008:

Global Action on Aging today hosted Professor Robin Blackburn, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York City. UN Secretariat staff came to hear his ideas as well as local GAA members.

Educated at Oxford and the London School of Economics, Blackburn has critiqued the "financialization" of pensions in his recent book, Age Shock.

He shared his ideas about a global pension system to provide income to older persons worldwide and to help meet the UN's Millennium Development Goals to reduce world poverty.

You can read Blackburn's global pension proposal here.

Source: GAA Newsletter