She's a fellow at the Center for the
Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University.
And in 2011, she was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences here in the UK.
So, thank you so much, Fiona, for being with us today.
My pleasure to be here, thank you.
>> Let me start, Fiona, and ask you a question
that maybe students in the course would have about the MOOC.
You know, they're probably thinking that this would be
a course on water and sanitation policy in developing countries.
This should be offered at a school of public health or a school of engineering.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Why offer it at the Manchester Business School?
Business School.
Well, I'd, I'd like to make two points here.
First of all, I think business school and all business schools should
be thinking about global challenges that we will confront in the 21st century.
So, Manchester Business School, and bs as we refer to
it in the shorthand, is interested in those global challenges.
And that's why we're proud to be involved in
this MOOC around water and sanitation policy in developing societies.
Secondly, I'd also like to emphasize in,
in educating business leaders to think about some
of those challenges, where bringing people together that
work across the public and private sector divide.
Because people have got to talk to each other,
collaborate with each other into thinking about those global challenges.
Thinking about how we confront issues and come up with the solutions to them.
So, we need business people to talk to people
in the public sector world who lead big institutions.
Or policymakers understand the world
they're operating in, their preoccupations.
And then we need people in the public
sector world to be understanding the world of business,
the issues that they confront, so that people are
coming together and finding solutions to those global challenges.
>> Thank you.
We have students from all over the world on this MOOC.
Is there anything else you'd like to tell them about the Manchester Business School?
Business School.
They may not know much about.
Yes, yeah.
>> Us here.
>> Yeah.
Well, Manchester Business School is a famous
business school in the UK and also globally.
In fact, next year, we'll be celebrating our 50th anniversary.
We were set up in 1965.
We're one of the oldest business schools in the UK.
And have educated a generation of scholars who have now gone out to the rest of
the UK and the rest of the world as, as, as educators in, in business education.