37th Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Lecture on Green Growth, Smart Growth – A New Approach to Economics, the Environment & Innovation

by Mr. Ralf Fücks President, Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Berlin

at 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at H. T. Parekh Convention Centre, AMA Complex, ATIRA Campus, Ahmedabad 380 015

Vikram A. Sarabhai-AMA Memorial Trust Dr. Vikram Sarabhai

Torrent-AMA Management Centre • Core-AMA Management House ATIRA Campus, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Marg, Ahmedabad 380 015 DR. VIKRAM A. SARABHAI DEDICATION August 12, 1919 – December 30, 1971 Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai demonstrated in his own life his Vikram A. Sarabhai, after his early education in Ahmedabad, went to conviction that the ultimate end of all scientific endeavour was peace, Cambridge in 1939 to do his Tripos in Natural Science. At the Indian prosperity and the full release of human creative potentials. His vision Institute of Science, Bangalore, he initiated work in cosmic rays under of human society of the future was both wide and deep, and Dr. C.V. Raman. Later, he returned to Cambridge to continue his work complemented his concept of a holistic science. He had learned the use on cosmic rays and photofission and received the doctorate at the of tools in physical sciences but spoke the language of social sciences. University of Cambridge in 1947. He combined these to gain insight into the systemic nature of all The standing monuments to Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai as an institution knowledge from the environment. The power of that insight was revealed builder are the Physical Research Laboratory, the Ahmedabad Textile in his precociousness and in the diverse nature of his commitments. Industries Research Association, the Indian Institute of Management, Every activity he chose to initiate and every institution he created was Ahmedabad, the Community Science Centre and the Ahmedabad of profound significance for a developing society, and, into every one Management Association. of these endeavours, he breathed the rigour of a dedicated scientist and The embodiments of Dr. Sarabhai’s contribution to space science and the sensitivity of a humanist. That his laboratory was extended to the technology are the International Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching entire country and its community was amply demonstrated in his Station; the Experimental Satellite Communication Earth Station, pioneering the management movement and applied industrial research. Ahmedabad; Space Science and Technology Centre, and the Sriharikota In his lifetime, he was honoured on many platforms in many parts of Rocket Launching Range. the country and the world. He provided inspired leadership to As Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Sarabhai took special Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) as President for the first care to ensure that the atomic energy programmes were geared to benefit four years. AMA in its gratitude, elected him as the first Honorary Member the common man. As a member of the continuing committee of the of the Association. Pugwash Movement and Founder of the Indian Pugwash Society, To bring into the lives of Indian men and women the light of his Dr. Sarabhai showed his deep interest in world peace, arms control, and spirit and to promote a fuller understanding of the nature of human disarmament. His untiring involvement in various activities within the existence among them, the Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Lecture is dedicated short span of his life demonstrated Dr. Sarabhai’s diverse interests. to his memory. Dr. Sarabhai received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Memorial Award for Physics in 1962 and in 1966. In recognition of his services to the nation he was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan on the Republic Day, 1972. Protection. He held that position until 1995 when the green-liberal-social democrat coalition collapsed due to fundamental different positions with the Liberal Party on urban development.

Ralf Fücks has been a member of the Executive Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since 1996. Together with his colleagues, he rebuilt the foundation completely, moving its headquarters to Berlin. In November 2011, he was re-elected for a fourth term. The primary focus of his work is on sustainable development, reshaping the welfare state, migration, the future of European integration, and on foreign policy. He is responsible for the divisions of domestic political education, Europe and North America, German-Israeli-Relations as well as for the foundation’s Scholarship Program. Mr. Ralf Fücks President, Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Berlin As a member of the Green Party’s Program Commission he co-authored the new party program which was adopted in spring 2002. In 2000 the Ralf Fücks was born in 1951 in Edenkoben (Palatinate). While at University, Minister for the Interior, Otto Schily, appointed him member of the Non- studying social sciences, economics, and political science, he was active Partisan Commission on Migration which presented its final report in in the student movements in Heidelberg and Bremen. July 2001.

Ralf Fücks joined the Green Party in 1982. In 1985 he was elected to the In 1991, he was editor of the book “Sind die Grünen noch zu retten?” Bremen State Parliament. He served as Co-President for the national (‘Is There a Future for the Green Party?’). He is a regular contributor to Green Party in 1989/90. During this period he strongly advocated numerous newspapers and political periodicals and co-author to transforming the Greens into a reform party which, jointly with the social numerous books. He is the author of the book “Intelligent Wachsen – democrats, should be striving for new political majorities and coalitions. Die grüne Revolution (Intelligent Growth – The Green Revolution)”, which He returned to regional politics in Bremen in 1991, serving as Deputy was released on February 25, 2013. Mayor and as Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Contd. 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