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    • Lunch Seminar: What if Doctors Could Prescribe Seeds? Integrating Nutrition and Agriculture to Address Malnutrition in Rwanda

    Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
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    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 […]

    Lunch Seminar – A New Era for Development Assistance: How well are NGOs and their Partners Adapting?

    Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
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    Speaker: Charles MacCormack, President Emeritus, Save the Children Charles 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 […]

    Lunch Seminar: Making a Mark and Achieving Your Highest Potential in the Development Sector

    Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
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    Speaker: Soulaima Gourani, CEO Capital Aid & Owner, Tradeconductor.com Soulaima 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 […]

    Lunch Seminar – Evaluating a Green Finance Investment: Scaling-Up Renewable Geothermal Energy in Indonesia

    Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
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    Speaker: Migara Yawardena, Senior Energy Specialist in the Energy and Extractives Global Practice, The World BankMigara 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 […]

    • Lunch Seminar – Can Government Promote Evidence-based Innovation in Development?

    Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
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     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 […]

    Lunch Seminar – Empowering Human Capital and Institutions through Higher Education

    Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS

    Speaker: Angelica Natera, Executive Director LASPAU Angélica Natera is the Executive Director of Laspau: an organization affiliated with Harvard University that has contributed to the educational development of thousands of individuals in Latin America through scholarship programs and knowledge exchange opportunities. With more than 25 years of professional experience, including 14 years at Harvard, she […]

    Saving a Nation: Restoring the Rule of Law In Guatemala

    Adams House LCR

    Join Iván Velásquez Gómez, Commissioner for the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), as he describes his battles against illegal security groups and clandestine security organizations in Guatemala – criminal groups believed to have infiltrated state institutions, fostering impunity and undermining democratic gains in Guatemala since the end of the country’s armed conflict in […]

    Lunch Seminar – City SMARTup: New Tools to Fire Up Your Smart City Project

    Nye A, 5th Floor Taubman, HKS
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    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 […]

    Security and Development Seminar: Corruption, Impunity, and Development in Latin America

    Perkins Room (R-415), Rubenstein Building, HKS

    The first session in CID's new Security and Development Seminar Series. This session will explore how corruption and impunity obstruct development in Latin America, with a focus on Mexico.Speakers include:Ricardo Hausmann, Faculty Director, CIDThomas Abt, Innovation in Citizen Security Project, CIDLourdes Morales, Associate Professor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE)There will be a live […]

    • Case Study Seminar – Global Leadership and Management at a Time of Rapid Change: Translating Macro-trends to the Individual Organization

    Perkins Room, 4th floor Rubensteing bldg, HKS

    Speaker: Charles MacCormack, President Emeritus, Save the Children Charlie MacCormack is the former President and CEO of Save the Children US, an independent nonprofit organization with programs in the United States and more than 50 countries. He also serves on the board of directors of the International Save the Children Alliance, which implements programs totaling […]

    Lunch Seminar – Venezuela: How an Oil Rich Country Went Bust and the Roadmap to Get It Back on Track

    *Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor Littauer, HKS

    Speakers: CID Venezuela Project Team Venezuela is currently undergoing the worst economic crisis in its history. By the end of 2016, more than 30% of the gross domestic product (GDP) it had three years ago will be lost. Poverty has soared to record levels. Monthly inflation rates are gradually approaching hyperinflation. Shortages of basic food […]

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