The UCCD presents the 2009/2010 Ambassador John Price and Marcia Price World Affairs Lecture Series in partnership with Westminster College and the American Express Weldon J. Taylor Executive Lecture Series. This Lecture Series is designed to inform our citizens about key foreign policy issues and to create a globally savvy community. Speakers come from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds and are nationally recognized authors, academics and foreign affairs experts.

In a world of accelerating technological and social change, we face unprecedented complexity regarding the global economy and the environmental challenges it poses. To what extent do we really understand the science of climate change? Can we address climate change through modest lifestyle changes or are the trade-offs between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions simply too severe? Can technology save us? With over three decades of experience in the energy business as a government official, oil industry executive, teacher and commentator on energy policy, Dr. Everett will interpret the relationship between economic growth and climate change.

Born and bred in the Boston area, and still a die-hard Red Sox fan, Dr.
Bruce McKenzie Everett graduated from Princeton University in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from The Fletcher School at Tufts University in 1980. Anxious to see the world outside the Beltway, he joined ExxonMobil Corporation in 1980, traveled the world and worked across the spectrum of the energy industry, including oil, coal, natural gas, electricity. He retired in 2002. Dr. Everett currently teaches oil market economics as Adjunct Professor of International Business at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and Adjunct Associate Professor of International Business at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.