Deciding to declare 2021 the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, the United Nations recognized the economic and cultural values of the creative economy. Please join us as we hear from Helle Porsdam ’85 MA, ’87 PhD, Professor of History and Cultural Rights at the University Copenhagen and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights who will explore the background for this declaration and the importance of the creative economy which generates 2,250 billion USD annually and provides more jobs to workers aged 18-25 than any other fields of employment. As a UNESCO Chair, Porsdam works with UNESCO on cultural human rights, a part of the human rights spectrum that is actively involved in the creative economy.
