Osinbajo to deliver special lecture at University of Pennsylvania

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has been invited to deliver a special lecture on climate change at University of Pennsylvania, UPenn in Philadelphia, one of the Ivy League institutions in the United States.

Osinbajo will depart Nigeria for the United States of America to deliver the Special Lecture at UPenn which is one of the eight private universities known as the Ivy League in the United States, Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Office of the Vice President said in a statement.

Osinbajo’s lecture on Monday will be themed around Climate Change and a Just Transition, and is hosted by the University’s Center for Africana Studies.

The statement also indicated that side the the lecture, Osinbajo will also participate in an interactive session with students and faculty coordinated by Prof. Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Osinbajo, a leading voice and strong advocate for a Just Energy Transition for Africa and the developing world, is currently spearheading efforts aimed at creating the African Carbon Market as one of the pathways of a just and sustainable transition.

The University was initially established in 1740 as a charity school and later transformed into an academy in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin, a future founding father of the United States, who also served as the first president of the Board of Trustees of the University.

It was founded through the merger of the Afro-American Studies Programme and the Centre for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.

The Centre is hosting the Vice President’s Special Lecture in partnership with other faculties of the University such as PennCarey Law, Perry World House, Wharton Business School, Coalition for Equity and Opportunity and Perelman School of Medicine.

Prof. Osinbajo is expected back in Abuja right after his engagements in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.

22nd April, 2023