Charles Stanish,
Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
Moderator:
Glenn Yago, Executive Director, Financial Research, Milken Institute
Involving local communities and making them real economic stakeholders is the key to successfully protecting antiquities, says Larry Coben of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative.
Could it be that the best way to find the next emerging asset class is to look beneath the ground? In communities from Peru to Italy to Israel, the potential financial return from assigning a real value to archaeological heritage is vast — and yet thus far untapped. From tourism to infrastructure to education, investing in preservation represents a unique opportunity to promote local community development, generate job creation and rescue fragile cultural assets that bridge thousands of years of human history.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
