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SUMMARY:CID SPEAKER SERIES: Preventing Violence in Caracas: A Community-Based\, Evidence-Informed Approach
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Roberto Patino\, Founder and CEO\, Caracas Mi Convive & Thomas Abt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Center for International Development at Harvard University \nAbout 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 Abt\, CID’s Senior Fellow for Security and Development for a dialogue on the role of community-based organizations in preventing violence in Latin America\, and on how scientific evidence can help to guide the process. 	About the speakers: Roberto Patiño is 29 years old\, he is from Caracas\, Production Engineer from Simón Bolívar University\, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University and a member of Primero Justicia. During his college studies\, he actively participated in the student movement\, being co-founder and coordinator of initiatives such as Votojoven and the Jota Movement. He was president of the Federation of USB Centers and coordinated La Fuerza Joven\, youth movement of the presidential campaign of Henrique Capriles Radonsky in 2012. During his studies abroad he specialized in citizen security and undertook a research and consulting project coordinated by professors from Harvard University on successful initiatives to reduce violence in other cities around the world. 	He is currently coordinating the Caracas Mi Convive movement\, a movement he founded in 2011 together with Leandro Buzón\, with the aim of working to prevent violence in the city of Caracas through coexistence and close work with community leaders and vulnerable populations. He is also the creator and coordinator of the Alimenta la Solidaridad (Feed Solidarity) program\, which offers lunches to 1030 children at risk of malnutrition in popular sectors of Caracas in collaboration with more than 700 volunteers. \nThomas Abt is a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for International Development\, where he leads CID’s Security and Development Seminar Series. 	Both in the United States and globally\, he teaches\, studies\, and writes on the use of evidence-informed approaches to reducing gun\, gang\, and youth violence\, among other topics. Abt is a member of the Campbell Collaboration Criminal Justice Steering Committee and the Advisory Board of the Police Executive Programme at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as a Senior Fellow to the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School and the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. 	Before joining Harvard\, Abt served as Deputy Secretary for Public Safety to Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York\, where he oversaw all criminal justice and homeland security agencies\, including the Divisions of Corrections and Community Supervision\, Criminal Justice Services\, Homeland Security and Emergency Services\, and the State Police. During his tenure\, Abt led the development of New York’s GIVE (Gun-Involved Violence Elimination) Initiative\, which employs evidence-informed\, data-driven approaches to reduce violence. He also established the Research Roundtable on Criminal Justice\, a statewide criminal justice community connecting research with policy. 	Before his work in New York\, Abt served as Chief of Staff to the Office of Justice Programs at the US Department of Justice\, where he worked with the nation’s principal criminal justice grant-making and research agencies to integrate evidence\, policy\, and practice. He played a lead role in establishing the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention\, a network of federal agencies and local communities working together to reduce youth and gang violence. Abt was also founding member of the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative\, a place-based development effort that was recognized by HKS as one of the Top 25 Innovations in Government for 2013. 	Abt received a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan and a law degree with honors from the Georgetown University Law Center. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-preventing-violence-in-caracas-a-community-based-evidence-informed-approach/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse (4th Floor Littauer Building) – Harvard Kennedy School
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180420T130000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Preparing for the next pandemic: Whose responsibility is it?
DESCRIPTION: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 Scribner leads the Preparedness and Response project (P&R). P&R works in 16 countries in East Africa\, West Africa\, and Southeast Asia to support multisectoral collaboration through National One Health Platforms. These platforms strengthen countries’ abilities to prevent\, detect and respond to pandemic threats. P&R facilitates countries in developing and maintaining National Preparedness and Response Plans to respond to public health events at the regional\, national\, and subnational levels. 	Prior to joining DAI\, Susan worked for 17 years for Abt Associates. From 2007 to 2009\, she was Chief of Party for a project in Vietnam and Laos that built capacity to prevent\, detect\, and respond to Avian Influenza. She also led a health systems strengthening project in Uganda from 2004 to 2005. Susan has supported a wide range of projects from the home office and provided technical support and leadership in health policy\, financing and governance\, infectious diseases\, and private sector health. 	Susan is also helping to grow DAI Global Health’s work in health system solutions. She has extensive experience in strategy and business development and led the integration of Abt Associates’ Australian subsidiary\, Abt JTA. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-preparing-for-the-next-pandemic-whose-responsibility-is-it/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room – Taubman Building 5th floor (T-520)\, Harvard Kennedy School
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180330T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180330T130000
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SUMMARY:CID SPEAKER SERIES: Delivering life saving medical commodities in the developing world: How new technologies and approaches are making supply chains work in low resource settings.
DESCRIPTION: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 other critical medical commodities provided to more than 60 developing countries on behalf of the US Government. Mr. Butcher has led this program since June of 2017 and will discuss the challenges associated with procuring and delivering public health products to medical facilities throughout the developing world and the new technologies and approaches that are making supply chains work in low resource settings. \nAbout the speaker:Since joining Chemonics International Inc. in 1998\, Executive Vice President Jamey Butcher has served in a variety of roles and regions. Mr. Butcher currently oversees the Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement and Supply Management IDIQ. Previously he served as senior vice president for the Strategic Solutions and Communications Division; East Africa region; and Europe and Eurasia region.  He has also led a number of business development initiatives diversifying the company’s portfolio. While providing strategic management and operational oversight of Chemonics\, Mr. Butcher draws from experience as a private sector development specialist with more than 20 years of experience in Eurasia\, Latin America\, and Asia. Mr. Butcher has conducted technical assignments on supply chain management\, international trade\, competitiveness\, and enterprise development. He also served as chief of party of the Armenia Micro Enterprise Development Initiative (MEDI). Mr. Butcher received an M.A. from American University in international political economy and a B.A. in political science from Colorado State University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-delivering-life-saving-medical-commodities-in-the-developing-world-how-new-technologies-and-approaches-are-making-supply-chains-work-in-low-resource-settings/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School (79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA) – Wexner Building 436 (4th floor)
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T183000
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SUMMARY:Education for People and Planet: Creating Sustainable Futures for All
DESCRIPTION: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 – 2030). The Report presents a comprehensive vision of the ways in which education is linked to the other 16 sustainable development goals\, and details the implications for monitoring the education goal (SDG 4). The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion. \nPriyadarshani Joshi is from Nepal and is a researcher with the Global Education Monitoring Report\, housed in UNESCO. She joined the team in 2014\, and her chief emphasis has been on articulating education’s role in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. She has a PhD in Education Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Her personal research agenda focuses on the consequences of private sector growth for the public sector\, parental choice\, and system wide quality and equity in the education sector in developing countries. Prior to her doctoral work\, her professional backgrounds included research positions at the IMF and consultancies at UNICEF and the World Bank. Priya also initiated\, co-designed and was part of the board of an innovative mobile library project in Nepal\, one of the World Bank Development Marketplace 2003 Education Sector Project winners. Priya holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Chemistry from Amherst College\, and a Master’s in Public Administration (Economic Policy) from Princeton University. \nMichèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She will serve as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017. A cultural sociologist\, Lamont is the coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States\, Brazil\, and Israel(Princeton University Press\, 2016). She is also the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and has published close to one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality\, race\, racism and stigma\, social change and social resilience\, academia and knowledge\, and qualitative social science research. She is currently working on a monograph titled Being Worthy and is completing a co-edited Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine on “Mutuality\, Health Promotion and Collective Cultural Change.” She serves as the Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Co-Director of the Successful Societies program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. \nConnie K. Chung is the Associate Director for the Global Education Innovation Initiative and a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, teaching a research practicum about education quality. She conducts research about civic\, global citizenship\, and 21st century education. She is especially interested in how to build the capacities of organizations and people to work collaboratively toward providing a relevant\, rigorous\, meaningful education for all children that not only supports their individual growth but also the growth of their communities. She is the co-editor of the book\, Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century: Educational Goals\, Policies\, and Curricula from Six Nations (Harvard Education Press\, 2016)\, a co-author of the K-12 curriculum resource\, Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform\, 2016)\, and a contributor to a book about US education improvement efforts\, A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (Oxford University Press\, 2011). A former high school English literature teacher\, she was nominated by her students for teaching awards. Connie received her BA\, EdM\, and EdD from Harvard University and her dissertation analyzed the individual and organizational factors that facilitated people from diverse ethnic\, religious\, and socio-economic class backgrounds to work together to improve their community. 	This event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/education-for-people-and-planet-creating-sustainable-futures-for-all/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T130000
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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
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T130000
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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
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T130000
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CREATED:20160913T212900Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Evaluating a Green Finance Investment: Scaling-Up Renewable Geothermal Energy in Indonesia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Migara Yawardena\, Senior Energy Specialist in the Energy and Extractives Global Practice\, The World Bank Migara Jayawardena has worked throughout the world on issues related to infrastructure reform and development finance. Mr. Jayawardena’s work in the energy sector has focused mostly on power sector and utility reform\, renewable energy\, rural electrification\, public-private partnerships\, and development challenges related to climate change.  In his current position\, he works mainly on business development\, policy advice\, and investment lending challenges in the Latin America and Caribbean region.  Previously\, Mr. Jayawardena worked in the East Asia region of the World Bank where he led work on climate change and support to a globally unprecedented geothermal renewable energy development program; institutional reform of utilities; power transmission and distributional system strengthening; hydropower development; rural energy access; and oil and gas sector issues. Mr. Jayawardena has also worked in Europe and Central Asia and Africa regions of the World Bank\, in addition to holding the position of Special Assistant to the Vice President of Human Resources. Prior to joining the World Bank\, Mr. Jayawardena was the Assistant Program Director and a Faculty Member for the Program on Investment Appraisal and Management\, at Harvard University’s Institute for International Development (HIID).  He also helped establish Cambridge Resources International (CRI)\, an investment and risk advisory consultancy. Migara received his B.Sc. in Economics from Towson State University and his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-evaluating-a-green-finance-investment-scaling-up-renewable-geothermal-energy-in-indonesia/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Making a Mark and Achieving Your Highest Potential in the Development Sector
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Soulaima Gourani\, CEO Capital Aid & Owner\, Tradeconductor.com \nSoulaima Gourani is a Danish CEO\, motivational speaker\, author\, and philanthropist whose vision is to make the world a more tolerant place through international trade and business relations. She is currently CEO of CapitalAid\, a Denmark-based company helping small businesses to accelerate growth through strategic growth loans\, and as CEO of Tradeconductor.com\, a service working to implement trade relations and connecting manufacturers with distributors. Gourani has also worked as an advisor to several major companies (e.g. Samsung\, Microsoft\, Dell\, Ernst & Young\, Deloitte\, Danske Bank\, etc.) on customer loyalty\, strategic networking\, employee motivation\, and designing sustainable products. Alongside her work with business growth and trade\, Gourani serves as the chair of numerous other organizations including Global Dignity\, a nonprofit working to engage youth in conversations about dignity\, and the Mara Mentor Initiative\, an online platform seeking to empower young African entrepreneurs in their business ventures
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-making-a-mark-and-achieving-your-highest-potential-in-the-development-sector/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - A New Era for Development Assistance: How well are NGOs and their Partners Adapting?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charles MacCormack\, President Emeritus\, Save the Children \nCharles MacCormack is President Emeritus of Save the Children U.S. and currently an advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University\, where he is working on issues involving the role of private philanthropy in global health and development. Most recently\, Dr. MacCormack has served as Executive Chair of the Millennium Development Goal Health Alliance; Executive in Residence at Middlebury College; and Senior Fellow at Interaction. He was previously CEO of Save the Children from 1993 to 2012 and CEO of World Learning/School for International Training from 1997 until 1993. 	He is a graduate of Middlebury College and holds his Masters and Ph.D degrees from Columbia University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-a-new-era-for-development-assistance-how-well-are-ngos-and-their-partners-adapting/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160909T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160909T130000
DTSTAMP:20260425T115941
CREATED:20160901T011500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002731Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: What if Doctors Could Prescribe Seeds? Integrating Nutrition and Agriculture to Address Malnutrition in Rwanda
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jessie Cronan\, Executive Director\, Gardens for Health International 	Gardens for Health International (GHI) is an NGO that works in partnership with local health centers in Rwanda to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition. 	Jessie joined the Gardens for Health team in June 2012. She came to the organization with a broad range of experiences in international development and in Africa specifically. As a Princeton-in-Africa fellow with the Tanzanian Children’s Fund in 2007 – 2008\, Jessie spent 18 months living and working in rural Tanzania to improve educational outcomes of primary school students. Jessie’s work in Tanzania inspired her to pursue a career focused on working at the community level to spark sustainable change in the developing world. 	While pursuing her Master’s degree in Public Policy\, Jessie worked as a consultant with the Aceh Women’s League – an Indonesian NGO dedicated to promoting women’s political empowerment – and with the Network of Women Leaders – a group of public and private sector leaders in the Horn of Africa.Most recently\, Jessie served as a Strategy and New Business Development Coordinator with TechnoServe\, an NGO dedicated to identifying business solutions to poverty in Swaziland. 	Jessie holds a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-what-if-doctors-could-prescribe-seeds-integrating-nutrition-and-agriculture-to-address-malnutrition-in-rwanda/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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