Professor W. John Morgan visited the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-La Sorbonne this week, at the personal invitation of Professor Georges Haddad, the University’s President, to discuss his Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship research on ‘UNESCO and the Cultural Cold War: International Intellectual Co-operation or Soft Power?’
Professor Haddad was formerly Director of the Division of Higher Education at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), where he established a research group on the future of higher education; while Professor Morgan was Chair of the United Kingdom’s National Commission for UNESCO between 2010 and 2013. He was also Co-Chair (with Mrs Amina Mohammed, Nigeria), of the UNESCO Director General’s Senior Experts’ Group (2013-2015) on: Re-thinking Education: Towards a global common good? UNESCO Publishing, Paris, 2015.