Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Wade Channell, Senior Economic Growth Advisor, Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, USAID About the Talk: The IDEV PIC invites you for a conversation on empowering women in international development with Wade Channell, gender equality expert at USAID. We will debate the most pressing challenges facing women and girls globally, discuss the role of […]
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) […]
About the Conference: The 2019 Latin American Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School will be the 6th edition of this student-organized conference. This conference aims at generating a space to analyze the region's main challenges through a debate featuring political actors, social leaders, policy experts and practitioners with a leadership position in Latin America. This […]
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 shift in the stakeholders involved in influencing international development policy and practice. During this talk, Nageeb Sumar will review trends in philanthropy- both with private […]
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 go to bed hungry every night, how can we make a real difference in tackling poverty & social injustices? During this talk, Fatema will draw […]
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 who depend on them live in rural villages in developing countries, growing crops at close to subsistence levels to feed their families. Smallholders typically harvest […]
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 Kennedy School. She leads research-policy engagements with a variety of entities in India to ensure that research is attuned to the problems facing policymakers and […]
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 social and ecological needs of societies, which is exacerbated by natural hazards and extreme climate events, and often intensify existing vulnerabilities. Marginalized groups in cities, […]
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 system of bondage that targeted Native Americans, a system that was every bit as terrible, degrading, and vast as African slavery. Anywhere between 2.5 and […]
Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafiki Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy; Director, Growth LabAnnie White, Senior Product Manager, Growth LabTim Cheston, Senior Manager, Applied Research, Growth Lab About the Event: Join us for the launch of an exciting new tool to our Atlas of Economic Complexity: Country Profiles. The Country Profiles are a new, interactive journey through a country's […]
Moderator: Nikita Taniparti, Research Fellow, Growth LabPanel Speakers: Jason Keene; Apratim Gautam; Vishal Potluri About the Event: Join the 2019 Growth Lab Interns to learn about their summer experiences in Ethiopia. This panel discussion will feature stories from the field, examples of engagements with government stakeholders, as well as policy analysis and highlights from their analytical work. This […]
Moderator: Miguel Santos, Director, Applied Research, Growth Lab; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKSFeaturing MPA/ID Students: Mustafa Serbest, Chatra Kamseng, Abdulhamid Haidar About the Event: Join the 2019 Growth Lab Interns to learn about their summer experiences in Jordan. This panel discussion will feature stories from the field, examples of engagements with government stakeholders, as well as […]