The 19th Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture

The 19th Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture will be delivered on 28th August 2020, 11 am (IST) onwards. His Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations will deliver the Memorial Lecture, and Dr S Jaishankar, Union Minister for External Affairs, will preside and deliver the Presidential Address. To join, RSVP at subhak@teri.res.in

The topics of the Presidential and the Memorial Lectures will be:

• Dr S Jaishankar: "Towards Reformed Multilateralism"
• H.E Antonio Guterres: "The Rise of Renewables: Shining a Light on A Sustainable Future"

The annual lecture series was initiated by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in 2002 in the memory of the institute's visionary founder and noted technocrat-industrialist, Darbari Seth. Under his guidance, TERI saw a meteoric rise and emerged as one of the leading knowledge institutions in the field of sustainability and climate change.

Many eminent luminaries and stalwarts from India and abroad, including N R Narayana Murthy, Sam Pitroda, Anand G Mahindra, Mukesh D Ambani, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Arvind Subramanian, and Fatih Birol, have delivered the lecture since its inception.