Public roundtable and launch of CROP/Zed book series

The process around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is coming to an end and the work around the Sustainable Development Goals has started to pick up. CROP has invited two experienced editors and a communications specialist to discuss challenges facing the publishing industry and universities wishing to produce and disseminate high quality critical research on poverty and development.

Zed Books is an independent academic publisher with a reputation for cutting-edge international publishing. Over the next two years, the CROP-Zed International Studies in Poverty Series will publish ten books containing Southern and Northern perspectives aiming to provide a better understanding of poverty as well as the conditions for its eradication and prevention.

At this event, CROP, together with ZED Books, will launch this new book series and announce a call for manuscripts for the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014.

This event is open to all. Coffee and croissants will be served.

Speakers:

Kim Walker is Commissioning Editor at Zed Books, London. She is responsible for publications within the fields of Development Studies, Gender Studies, Middle East Studies, Asian Studies and Environmental Studies.

Jakob Horstmann is a publishing consultant based in London. He has many years of experience as a managing editor and is a former commissioning editor with Zed Books, London.

Moderator: Alberto Cimadamore, Director of CROP