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

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

    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
    • Speaker Series

     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
    • Speaker Series

    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 […]

    Lunch Seminar – Designing Technology for the “Other” 5 Billion

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

    Speaker: Prof. Umar Saif, Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology BoardWith the advent of $50 smartphones, we can finally design software applications to fight poverty, disease and illiteracy for the "other" 5 billion people in the developing-world. In this talk, Prof. Umar Saif will share a series of systems designed for the 120 million citizens […]

    Education for People and Planet: Creating Sustainable Futures for All

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

    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 […]

    Lunch Seminar – Too Small to Fail: Why Small Countries are Outperforming Larger Ones and What Lessons can be Learned

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

    Speaker: R. James Breiding, Author ‘Too Small to Fail’ analyzes a number of successful countries that have created virtues out of their physical limitations. It attempts to understand what they do differently and why they seem to do it better. Why are they better-educated, more egalitarian, and wealthier?  R.James Breiding is the author of Swiss […]

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