Speaker: Salimah Samji, Director of the Building State Capability program at CID About the talk: Building State Capability (BSC) program uses the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to help organizations develop the capability to solve complex problems and to implement public policies. PDIA is a process of facilitated emergence which focuses on problems (not solutions) […]

Speaker: Nageeb Sumar, Vice President, Philanthropic Strategies & Relationship Management Private Donor Group, Fidelity Charitable About the talk: Private global philanthropy is on the rise, which has resulted in a […]

Speaker: Fatema Z. Sumar, Vice President of Global Programs, OXFAM America About the talk: At a time when 65 million people are displaced from their homes and more than 800 million people […]

Speaker: Jonathan Lehe MPA/ID '17, Director of New Programs, Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) About the talk: The majority of the world’s 450 million smallholder farmers and the 2 billion people […]

Speakers: Charity Moore, India Research DirectorSonya Suter, Senior Program Manager About the Speakers:Charity Moore: Charity Troyer Moore is the India Research Director for Evidence for Policy Design at the Harvard […]

Speakers: Amit Patel, Assistant Professor, McCormack Graduate School for Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts BostonAmmar Malik, Director, EPoD Research About the Talk: Environmental degradation reduces the environmental capacity to meet […]

Speaker: Andrés Reséndez, Professor, Department of History at University of California Davis; Author, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. About the talk: The Other Slavery examines the […]

Speaker: Semiray Kasoolu, Research Fellow, Growth Lab About the Talk: Women in Jordan are excluded from labor market opportunities at among the highest rates in the world. Previous efforts to explain […]