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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Can Government Promote Evidence-based Innovation in Development?
DESCRIPTION:  Speaker: Anne Healy (MPA/ID ’12)\, Managing Director of Development Innovation Ventures (DIV)\, USAID  Anne leads Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) at USAID\, the Agency’s evidence-based social innovation fund. She has worked across the private\, public\, and social sectors on evidence and innovation in government and international development.  As a consultant at McKinsey & Co.\, she advised Fortune 500 companies\, federal and state government entities\, multilateral organizations\, and philanthropies on strategy\, organizational change\, and operations\, with a focus on economic development and crisis response and recovery. Anne was part of the senior leadership team that established the Innovations for Poverty Action operation in Kenya\, where she also oversaw randomized controlled trials in the water and sanitation sector with leading development economists from Harvard and Berkeley. Most recently\, as Senior Advisor at the State Department\, Anne advised Deputy Secretary Heather Higginbottom on global health security and innovation in Department operations and management. DIV recruits graduate student summer interns\, so this would be a useful opportunity for students starting to consider internship options to hear about an exciting opportunity in the public sector.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-can-government-promote-evidence-based-innovation-in-development/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - City SMARTup: New Tools to Fire Up Your Smart City Project
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Renato De Castro\, International Advisor\, World e-Governments Organization 	  \nRenato de Castro is a Smart City senior consultant with more than 20 years’ experience and specialized in investment attraction and management for smart cities projects. He is senior vice president for Smart Cities at CreF\, Inc\, an American investment bank from Pittsburgh. He is also a member of the global advisory board of Leading Cities\, located in Boston\, and international advisor for The World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments\, in Seoul. Renato responds as mentor and advisor specialized in globalization strategies for startups around the world. He is a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at Maastricht School of Management\, MSM\, Netherlands\, researching about Smart Cities. He is also a writer\, columnist and video blogger for Smart City\, ICT and Urbanization Strategies topics. 	Note: This talk will be held in Nye A in the Taubman building.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-city-smartup-new-tools-to-fire-up-your-smart-city-project/
LOCATION:Nye A\, 5th Floor Taubman\, HKS
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