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18.06.2018

Launching the UNSW Grand Challenge on Inequality

Aerial photograph of Mexico City. Photo credit: Oscar Ruiz

Inequality grows worse not better in many nations and that poses a fundamental threat to humanity.

Ian Jacobs

UNSW Sydney's President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs, officially launches the Grand Challenge on Inequality. 

Professor Jacobs illustrates the vital importance of initiatives like the Grand Challenges program and reminds the audience that equality is still an aspiration for the future that we have far from realised around the world.

Photo credit: Oscar Ruiz.

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