In order to remember and to honour the “Hans Singer Memorial Lecture on Global Development“ was established in 2009. The annual Memorial Lecture alternates between Bonn and Sussex. 

Speaker:

• Jomo Kwame Sundaram, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), New York

Background:
Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer (born 29 November 1910 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld; deceased 26 February 2006 in Brighton), a renowned international economist and development practitioner has studied in Bonn, among others with Joseph Schumpeter, and graduated from the Economics Department of Bonn University in 1931. Being Jewish, he fled the Nazi terror in 1933. After World War II, he became an influential development scholar with the United Nations before joining the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University Sussex.

In commemoration and in honour of Sir Hans Singer the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex) have established the “Hans Singer Memorial Lecture on Global Development”. The Lecture alternates between Bonn and Brighton on an annual basis. The first Memorial Lecture was given 2009 in Bonn by Paul Collier, CBE, University of Oxford on “Hans Singer's Legacy: The Problem of Commodity Exporters Revisited”. The third Memorial Lecture was given 2011 in Bonn by Professor Stephen Chan OBE, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London on "Mercy and the Structures of the World".