Speaker: Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct Professor in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard University  About the talk: In the past decade, Panama has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world, having managed to double its income per capita. However, within this spectacular economic performance, there […]

Speakers: Minister Pandeli Majko, Minister of Diaspora, Republic of Albania and Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Harvard University About the Speakers: Pandeli Majko was born in Tirana on November 15, 1967. He graduated from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (1986-1992). He also completed his studies at the Faculty of Law […]

Speaker: Jamil Salmi, Global tertiary education expert About the talk: The world of tertiary education has changed significantly in the past fifteen years. Developing countries have seen tremendous enrollment growth, especially in the private sector. Many nations are facing an exponentially rising demand as more young people graduate from high school as a result of […]

Speaker: Christopher Powers, Field Investment Officer, USAID Southern Africa About the Speaker: Christopher Powers leads USAID’s Africa Private Capital Group (APCG) out of USAID’s Southern Africa Mission in Pretoria. APCG focuses on unlocking commercially driven investment capital to development related transactions in sub-Sharan Africa. Prior to his role in South Africa he served as the […]

Speaker: Priyadarshani Joshi, Research Officer at the Global Education Monitoring Report team, UNESCO About the talk: This presentation will discuss the contents of the 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring Report - Accountability in Education: Meeting our Commitments. It will discuss progress in achieving SDG 4 on education, and key findings from the Report’s accountability analysis. The Global Education […]

Speaker: Tim O'Brien, Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University About the Talk: In 2009, Sri Lanka emerged from a nearly 30-year conflict and entered a short period of accelerated economic growth. In January 2015, in a surprise result, the Sri Lankan people voted out of office an increasingly autocratic President […]

Speaker: Yolanda Kakabadse, Minister of the Environment, Ecuador (1998-2000), President, WWF (2010-2017) and President, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (1996-2004) Moderator: Rand Wentworth, Louis Bacon Senior Fellow in Environmental Leadership, Center for Public Leadership About the session: Please join us for a discussion with Ecuadorian conservationist and former President of WWF, Yolanda Kakabadse. […]

Speaker: Felipe Kast, Senator of Chile for the period 2018-2026. Former Minister of Social Development and 2017 Presidential Candidate. About the Talk: One of the puzzles of modern democracy is populism. Why, despite its multiple failures, again and again populism reincarnates, with huge costs for citizenship. Today Venezuela suffers from populism in its worst expression, but […]

Speaker: Susi Pudjiastuti, Indonesia Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. About the talk: Indonesia Club at Harvard is proud to facilitate a public lecture and Q&A session with multiple award-winning Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia, Susi Pudjiastuti. In this event, she will share about the state of fisheries in Indoenesia and beyond, […]

Speaker: Salimah Samji, Director, Building State Capability Program - Harvard University. About the talk: Salimah will share the learnings from teaching the PDIA (Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation) Methodology to hundreds of practitioners worldwide through the Program's online course. She will describe the "real world" challenges of applying this methodology and share success stories of practitioners worldwide. […]

About the Conference: Our world is rapidly changing. The rise of populism, the migration crisis and the threat of climate change are driving development initiatives to evolve and adapt to these new dynamics. The 24th student organized edition of the annual Global Development Conference will debate the future, and envision a future shaped through shared […]