Anant hosted Dr Pushkar, Director and Chief Executive, The International Centre Goa (ICG), for a session on ‘SDGs Through the Prism of IR Theories’ on 10 October 2024.
During the session, Dr Pushkar highlighted the opportunities and challenges in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He emphasised the importance of understanding how the complex set of policies necessary to achieve the SDGs can be implemented through the lens of International Relations (IR) theories, particularly realism.
Dr Pushkar is known for his writings on higher education and was listed as one of India’s 24 thinkers “who best explain a rapidly-changing India to the world (and the world to India).” An accomplished academic, he has taught Politics, International Relations and Development Studies at Goa University, Concordia University, McGill University and BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus.