Speaker: Anne Healy (MPA/ID '12), Managing Director of Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), USAIDAnne 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 […]

Speaker: Renato De Castro, International Advisor, World e-Governments Organization   Renato 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 […]

On November 16th CID will be hosting a presentation by Dr. Priyadarshani Joshi of the recently published 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, an editorially independent report published by UNESCO. This report has been mandated by the international education community to monitor the progress of the global goal of education in the new UN agenda (2016 […]

Speaker: Jamey Butcher - Executive Vice President, Chemonics About the talk: In January 2016, Chemonics International was awarded the Global Health Supply Chain - Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) program. GHSC-PSM is the largest project ever awarded by USAID, and is tasked with procuring and delivering the HIV AIDS, malaria, reproductive health, maternal and child health and […]

Speaker: Susan Scribner, Director, Preparedness and Response project, DAI About the Talk: In this session, Susan will lead an interactive exercise where participants will identify risks that might contribute to a pandemic, recommend interventions to mitigate the risks, and discuss how different government and non-government actors can contribute to pandemic preparedness and response.  About the Speaker:  Susan […]

Speakers: Roberto Patino, Founder and CEO, Caracas Mi Convive & Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard University About the talk: Caracas Mi Convive works in the poorest communities of Caracas, Venezuela to prevent violence by building trusting relationships between and among community members. Founder, CEO, and HKS alum Roberto Patino will engage with Thomas […]

Speaker: Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University About the talk: The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap has shrunk while […]

Speaker: María C. Latorre, member of the European Commission's group of experts in International Trade; Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid About the talk: With less than nine months before the UK is scheduled to depart from the EU, much uncertainty surrounds the future EU and UK relationship. It is clear, however, that Brexit will increase barriers between […]

Speaker: José Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director of Americas division, Human Rights Watch About the talk: The current exodus of Venezuelans has generated the largest migration crisis of its kind in recent Latin American history, as Human Rights Watch has pointed out in its most recent report. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have left their country since 2014, […]

Speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell, British MP and Former Secretary of State for International Development About the Speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He was the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. He served in the Cabinet as […]