Kevin Watkins, Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute, will give the next ODID Distinguished Visitor Lecture on 'Challenges to Universal Education ahead of the Millennium Development Goals'.

The lecture will take place on Thursday 6 March 2014 at 5:00 pm in Seminar Room 2.

Kevin Watkins was appointed executive director of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in June 2013. His research focuses on education, globalization and human development.

Previously, he was the director and lead author of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report after serving for three years as the director of the UNDP Human Development Report, where he led the research on reports covering the Millennium Development Goals, water and climate change.

Prior to working with the United Nations, he worked for thirteen years with Oxfam, including as Head of Research, where he authored major reports on African debt, international trade and Oxfam’s Education Report.

He has written extensively on a wide range of development issues for the international media.