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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:20180324T080000
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SUMMARY:24th Annual Global Development Conference
DESCRIPTION: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 innovation\, values and partnerships. \n	For over 20 years\, the Global Development Conference has offered a world-class forum for the exploration of new trends in the international development world. The conference is a thriving platform for decision-makers\, practitioners\, experts\, academics and emerging young leaders to engage with one another and make new connections. Each year\, the conference attracts over 500 participants\, inspiring ideasharing and innovation around the best ways to address the most pressing problems of our time. \n	http://globaldevelopmentconference.com/ \n	Confirmed speakers include: Achim Steiner\, UNDP Adminstrator and Vice- Chair of the UN Development Group\, and Kanni Waignaraja\, Director of UN Development Operations Coordination.  \n	Content: \n	Track I: Technological Revolution How are technological advancements improving development initiatives? This track will explore the opportunities and challenges of using new technologies in the pursuit of development. \n	Track II: Innovative Financing New forms of financing development projects are emerging across the world. They bear hope of a more targeted and sustainable model that looks beyond international aid. This track will explore all of the latest trends\, from impact investment to the rise of Chinese aid. \n	Track III: Human Development We need to move away from using GDP as a measure of development and instead assess the welfare and capacity of human beings. This track will explore specific contemporary issues and consider policies\, programs and models to tackle them. Join your fellow colleagues\, leaders\, innovators\, entrepreneurs\, donors\, and others in thought-provoking discussions that will define our collective actions to make our world a better place for generations to come. \n	Tickets: Limited early bird tickets are now available for students and professionals: 200 tickets are going for $25 for students and are available on a first come first serve basis. \n	REGISTER HERE\n	For more information\, please contact edom_tsegaye@hks18.harvard.edu / +1 617 417 7626 \n	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/24th-annual-global-development-conference/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School – 79\, JFK Street
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180323T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180323T130000
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SUMMARY:CID SPEAKER SERIES: Democratizing PDIA knowledge one development practitioner at a time: experience from the online course
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout the Speaker: Salimah Samji is the Director of the Building State Capability (BSC) Program. She has over fifteen years of experience working in international development\, on issues of public service delivery\, transparency and accountability\, strategic planning\, and monitoring and evaluation. She joined CID in 2012 to help create the BSC program and is responsible for strategic planning and oversight. Salimah also leads the PDIA online courses. 	Prior to joining CID\, she was an independent consultant working for the World Bank on issues of governance\, and the Hewlett Foundation on strategic planning for one of their grantees. She has worked as a senior program manager at Google.org\, leading a transparency and accountability initiative focused on empowering citizens and decision makers\, by making information on service delivery outcomes\, publicly available. Salimah has also worked at the World Bank as a social/rural development and monitoring and evaluation specialist in South Asia. 	She has a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and a Masters in Public Administration in International Development (MPAID) from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a qualified Casualty Actuary who decided to change careers after her 18-month experience working in Afghan refugee camps with a Canadian NGO (FOCUS Humanitarian Assistance) based in Pakistan. Salimah has worked and lived in Kenya\, India\, Pakistan\, Tajikistan\, Canada and the USA. 	  	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-democratizing-pdia-knowledge-one-development-practitioner-at-a-time-experience-from-the-online-course/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – R-429 4th floor\, Rubenstein Building. Harvard Kennedy School
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180312T180000
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture with Susi Pudjiastuti: The State of Fisheries in Indonesia and Beyond
DESCRIPTION: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\, and answer all your curiosities about her leadership approach.  	This event is co-sponsored by the Center for International Development’s Evidence for Policy Design Program. 	Seat is limited! Please RSVP to guarantee a spot. 	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/public-lecture-with-susi-pudjiastuti-the-state-of-fisheries-in-indonesia-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Malkin Pentouse – Littauer Building 4th floor (Harvard Kennedy School)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T183000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Modern Populism... How to End it?
DESCRIPTION: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 there are many other countries that suffer from the same phenomenon. In this presentation I make a brief description about the tricks used by modern populism\, and gave some ideas to fight it. 	About Felipe Kast: Felipe Kast is a Senator\, and during 2017 he was Presidential candidate in Chile. Felipe was trained as economist in Chile\, studied Marxism at the University of Havana\, and he obtained his PhD at Harvard University. After graduation he worked at the Poverty Action Lab\, opening the office for Latin America. Later he was appointed Minister of Social Development\, and Presidential Delegate for Reconstruction after the Earthquake on February 27\, 2010. In 2012 he founded “Evópoli”\, a new political party that seeks to put children\, and the childhood agenda\, as the first national priority. 	Space is limited. Please come in early to secure a seat.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-modern-populism-how-to-end-it/
LOCATION:Bell Hall – 5th Floor Belfer Building. Harvard Kennedy School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T140000
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SUMMARY:Leadership in Global Environmental Conflicts: A Conversation with Yolanda Kakabadse
DESCRIPTION: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. Ms. Kakabadse will join CPL Louis Bacon Senior Fellow in Environmental Leadership Rand Wentworth in conversation about her expansive cross-sector career in environmental policy and conservation. Ms. Kakabadse will also discuss her experience leading in conflict\, particularly in Latin America\, where she served as Ecuador’s Minister of the Environment from 1998-2000. This lunch discussion will be an excellent opportunity to hear about Ms. Kakabadse’s experiences as an environmental entrepreneur\, policy maker\, and non-profit leader on the global stage. 	PLEASE RSVP HERE 	  This event is part of CPL’s Environmental Speaker Series and is co-sponsored by the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Lunch will be served.	  About the Speaker: Yolanda Kakabadse is an Ecuadorian conservationist who most recently served as President of WWF International (2010-2017). Ms. Kakabadse also founded Foundacion Futuro Latinoamercano in 1993\, serving as Executive President until 2007\, and now acting as Senior Adviser. Ms. Kakabadse was Minister of Environment for Ecuador from 1998 – 2000 and served as NGO Liaison Officer for the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (the Rio Earth Summit) in 1992. Additionally\, Ms. Kakabadse served as President of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) from 1996 – 2004 and Executive Director of Fundacion Natura in Quito from 1979 to 1990. Ms. Kakabadse now Chairs the Independent Science and Technology Advisory Panel to the Renova Foundation in Brazil. She is a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Group of AXA\, and a Board Member of Sistema B (Latin America)\, Grupo Faro (Ecuador)\, and the Ford Foundation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/leadership-in-global-environmental-conflicts-a-conversation-with-yolanda-kakabadse/
LOCATION:ALLISON DINING ROOM (T-520)\, HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T130000
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SUMMARY:Growth Diagnostics in Real Life: CID’s Project in Sri Lanka
DESCRIPTION: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 who was widely credited with ending the civil war. The new government promised institutional reform to deliver good governance and achieve reconciliation\, but they also soon discovered that Sri Lanka’s economic growth was built on a fundamentally unsustainable foundation. 	At the invitation of the Government of Sri Lanka\, CID began economic research in the country in late 2015\, with a focus of understanding how growth could be made more sustainable and more inclusive. Tim O’Brien will talk about CID’s ongoing work in Sri Lanka\, focusing on how CID applied the growth diagnostic framework in practice\, several of the main findings\, how project activities were informed by the findings\, and some of the results that can be partially attributed to CID’s work so far. 	About the Speaker: Tim O’Brien joined the Center for International Development in 2015\, working on both Growth Lab and Building State Capability projects. He has led growth diagnostic research in Albania and Sri Lanka. Tim holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) degree from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University. Tim served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi from 2008-2010 and has experience working with the World Bank and in environmental engineering. Tim’s research interests center on the challenges of economic transformation and adapting to climate change in developing countries and vulnerable communities.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/growth-diagnostics-in-real-life-cids-project-in-sri-lanka/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th floor R-429. Harvard Kennedy School (79\, JFK Street)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20180118T013500Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Accountability in Education: Meeting our Commitments – the 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring Report
DESCRIPTION: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 Monitoring Report is developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO. It has the official mandate of monitoring progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4: ensuring inclusive\, equitable and good-quality education and lifelong learning for all. 	The 2017/18 Report’s theme\, Accountability in Education: Meeting Our Commitments\, evaluates the role of accountability in global education systems. The report examines different accountability mechanisms that are used to hold governments\, schools\, teachers\, parents\, the international community\, and the private sector accountable for inclusive\, equitable and quality education. These include regulations\, testing\, monitoring\, audits\, media scrutiny and grass root movements. Through the analysis\, the Report develops recommendations on accountability mechanisms to help build stronger education systems. About the speaker: Priyadarshani Joshi is a Research Officer at the Global Education Monitoring Report team. Some of her core areas of interest and contribution in the team include education’s role in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and urban development\, gender\, and the role of the private sector. 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 systemwide equity in lower income countries\, building on her doctoral research in her home country of Nepal. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration (Economic Policy) from Princeton University\, and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Chemistry from Amherst College. Her previous 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.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-accountability-in-education-meeting-our-commitments-the-2017-18-global-education-monitoring-report/
LOCATION:Littauer L-P-9 – Malkin Penthouse
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T140000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: The road less travelled: lessons learned by shifting from finance to development
DESCRIPTION: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 MENA Field Investment Officer (FIO) based out of Cairo. Christopher was a Senior Trader at Traditum Group\, LLC\, a proprietary investment/trading fund in Chicago focusing on energy commodities and the U.S. Treasury yield curve. Chris worked with Element Markets\, LLC\, a renewable energy investment firm in Houston\, where he focused on the investment and financing components of renewable energy projects. Chris served in the Peace Corps in Russia and Latvia from 2000 to 2002 after completing his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Notre Dame and his MPA in International Energy Management and Policy from Columbia University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-the-road-less-travelled-lessons-learned-by-shifting-from-finance-to-development/
LOCATION:Rubenstein 4th floor – R414 (Democracy Lab) – Harvard Kennedy School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T140000
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CREATED:20180109T010100Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series - Tertiary Education and the Sustainable Development Goals
DESCRIPTION: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 the successful implementation of the Education for All agenda. The launch of the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations in September 2015 has given renewed consideration to the importance of education for development and the urgency of putting in place viable financing strategies. 	Against this background the presentation will explore the crucial role played by tertiary education towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It will underline that tertiary education finds itself at a crossroad today\, as national systems are pulled in several directions by a combination of factors—crisis factors\, rupture factors\, and stimulation factors—bringing about both opportunities and challenges. How these forces in the tertiary education ecosystem play out in each country will determine the new “perils” and “promises” that are likely to shape the contribution of tertiary education to economic and social development in the years to come. 	About the speaker:  	Jamil Salmi is a global tertiary education expert providing policy advice and consulting services to governments\, universities\, professional associations\, multilateral development banks and bilateral cooperation agencies. Until January 2012\, he was the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator.  He wrote the first World Bank policy paper on higher education reform in 1994 and was the principal author of the Bank’s 2002 Tertiary Education Strategy entitled “Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education”. In the past twenty-three years\, Dr. Salmi has provided advice on tertiary education development\, financing reforms and strategic planning to governments and university leaders in about 95 countries all over the world. 	  	Dr. Salmi is a member of the international advisory board of several universities in Europe\, Asia\, Latin America and North America. He is also a member of the CHEA International Quality Group Advisory Council. Dr. Salmi is Emeritus Professor of higher education policy at Diego Portales University in Chile and Research Fellow at Boston College’s Center for Higher Education. 	  	Dr. Salmi’s 2009 book addresses the “Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities”. His 2011 book\, co-edited with Professor Phil Altbach\, was entitled “The Road to Academic Excellence: the Making of World-Class Research Universities”. His latest book\, “Tertiary Education and the Sustainable Development Goals”\, was published in August 2017. 	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-tertiary-education-and-the-sustainable-development-goals/
LOCATION:WEX 434 AB – Wexner Building 4th floor\, Harvard Kennedy School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20180129T232500Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Government Strategies for Diaspora Engagement: A Conversation with Pandeli Majko\, Minister of Diaspora of Albania
DESCRIPTION: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:  \nPandeli 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 at the same university (1994-2000). 	Mr. Majko has an extensive political career. From 1992 to 1995\, Mr. Majko served as President of the Euro-Socialist Youth Forum of Albania (FRESSH). He served two terms as Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of Albania and as Head of its Parliamentary Group. He also held twice the post of Minister of Defense when the Socialist Party was in power. His political career culminated in 1998-1999 when he became Prime Minister of Albania. In 2002\, he became once again Prime Minister for eight months. Additionally\, he was member of the Parliamentary Committee for drafting of the Albanian Constitution (1997-1998). 	Mr. Majko served as a Member of Parliament of Albania for six consecutive terms. He has also served as Chairman of the Albanian delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly as well as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs\, Public Administration and Human Rights. Mr. Majko is fluent in English and Italian. \nRicardo Hausmann is Director of Harvard’s Center for International Development and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government. He also teaches a capstone course on the MPAID program. Previously\, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (1994-2000)\, where he created the Research Department. He has served as Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993) and as a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. He was Professor of Economics at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA) (1985-1991) in Caracas\, where he founded the Center for Public Policy. His research interests include issues of growth\, macroeconomic stability\, international finance\, and the social dimensions of development. He holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-government-strategies-for-diaspora-engagement-a-conversation-with-pandeli-majko-minister-of-diaspora-of-albania/
LOCATION:WEX 434 AB – Wexner Building 4th floor\, Harvard Kennedy School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20180122T204200Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Shifting gears in Panama: Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
DESCRIPTION: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 are warning signs that indicate to a significant income deceleration and an increase in inequality. Miguel Angel Santos will talk about CID’s research initiative aimed at exploring export diversification opportunities and understanding the potential binding constraints that Panama can run into in the process of shifting gears towards a sustainable economic growth.  \nAbout the Speaker: Miguel Angel Santos is an Adjunct Professor in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. 	At CID\, he has been involved in various research projects aimed at helping governments to rethink their development strategies\, both at the national and sub-national levels. Since he joined CID in August 2014\, he has been involved in projects at the national level in Mexico\, Panama\, and Venezuela\, and at the sub-national level in Mexico in the states of Chiapas\, Baja California\, Tabasco and Campeche; and the city of Hermosillo at Sonora state. He has also performed as project manager in the projects leading to the build-up of the Mexican Atlas of Economic Complexity\, and the Peruvian Atlas of Economic Complexity. 	Before joining the field of international development\, Miguel worked for ten years in corporate finance and business development in Latin America\, performing as Director of Finance for the Cisneros Group of Companies (1997-2003)\, Head of Corporate Finance for Mercantil Servicios Financieros (2005-2007)\, and Business Vice-President for Sony Pictures and Entertainment Latin America (2008-2009). At that point\, he decided to switch tracks and get involved in development economics. 	He holds two Master of Science degrees in International Finance and Trade (2011) and Economics (2012) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (2014)\, and a Ph.D. in Economics at Universidad de Barcelona (2016). He was the head of the Macroeconomic Policy Team for presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski in the Venezuelan elections of 2012. 	DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-shifting-gears-in-panama-policy-recommendations-for-sustainable-and-inclusive-growth/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – R-429 Rubenstein 4th floor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171208T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171208T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Bank Regulation meets Human Rights – Can bank regulators make the world a better place? How?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel M. Schydlowsky\, Ph.D.\, Superintendent of Banking\, Insurance and Private Retirement Funds\, Republic of Peru\, 2011-2015. 	About the Talk: Businesses listen to their bankers\, the bankers listen to the Bank Regulators: this generates leverage. It also provides opportunity to further respect for Human Rights in a variety of ways\, while lowering risk for the banking community. 	  	About the Speaker: Dr. Daniel Schydlowsky served as Superintendent of Banking\, Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators of Peru (SBS)\, August\, 2011- November\, 2015. He concurrently served as President of the Association of Bank Supervisors of the Americas (ASBA) and as Chairman of Governing Council of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI). 	In October\, 2015\, he was awarded the inaugural Edward W. Claugus Award for Excellence in Regulation of Micro Finance. From 2001 to 2006\, Dr. Schydlowsky served in the administration of President Alejandro Toledo as Presidential Counselor for Economic and Financial Affairs (2001-2002)\, as President of Peru´s Development Finance Corporation\, COFIDE\, (2002-2006)\, as member of the board of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (2002-2006)\, as well as of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF)\, (2002-2006). He has also served as member of the Advisory Council and as Vice President of The Latin American Association of Development Finance Institutions\, ALIDE. Dr. Schydlowsky has had a long and distinguished academic career. 	During 2010\, he was Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and concurrently Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government of the Harvard Kennedy School. He was previously Professor of Economics at Boston University (1972-1990) and at The American University in Washington D.C. (1990-2001) and also a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since leaving government\, he has served as consultant to the Alliance for Financial Inclusion\, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Inter-American Development Bank on matters of financial inclusion and digital finance. In earlier years\, he has been a consultant to different international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)\, the World Bank\, UNDP and USAID. 	He has worked in most Latin American countries as well as in Bangladesh\, Indonesia\, Romania and South Africa. He has published eight books and ninety-three professional articles on economic issues in numerous professional journals. Professor Schydlowsky holds a BA and MA in Economics and an LLB from San Marcos University\, Peru\, and an MA and PhD in Economics from Harvard. He was awarded a Doctorate honoris causa by San Marcos University\, Peru\, in November\, 2015.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-bank-regulation-meets-human-rights-can-bank-regulators-make-the-world-a-better-place-how/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – R-429 Rubenstein 4th floor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20171012T184500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175422Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Does US development policy have a future under Trump?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Todd Moss\, Senior Fellow\, Center for Global Development and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. 	 	About the talk: Development policy has become increasingly intertwined with US national security\, diplomacy\, and economic policy. Yet the new administration has proposed severe budget cuts to USAID\, State\, and other relevant accounts. Where does development policy fit in the new administration? What will be different? Are there potential new opportunities? 	About the speaker: 	Todd Moss is senior fellow at the Center for Global Development where his research focuses on US-Africa relations\, energy policy\, and private investment. Moss is also a nonresident scholar at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown. 	He served as COO/VP at the Center from 2009-2016. Moss is currently working on electrification in Africa\, cash transfers in new oil economies\, and ideas for upgrading US development finance tools. In the past he led CGD’s work on Nigerian debt\, reconstruction in Zimbabwe\, the future of the World Bank’s soft loan IDA\, and the African Development Bank. Moss served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State 2007-2008 while on leave from CGD. 	Previously\, he has been a Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) and worked at the World Bank\, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Overseas Development Council. Moss is the author of numerous articles and books\, including African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors (2011) and Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse with Cash Transfers (2015). 	Moss also writes an international thriller series for Penguin’s Putnam Books about a State Department crisis manager including The Golden Hour (2014)\, Minute Zero (2015)\, Ghosts of Havana (2016)\, and The Shadow List (forthcoming 2017).
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-does-us-development-policy-have-a-future-under-trump/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – R429\, Rubenstein 4th floor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20171106T224200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004759Z
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SUMMARY:What I Learned as a Political Prisoner in Venezuela with Francisco Lara Marquez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Francisco Lara Marquez MPP 2012\, a Venezuelan lawyer and political activist. Marquez was a political prisoner in Venezuela and later forced into exile in the United States. Tarek Masoud\, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations will moderate. This discussion is part of the Ash Center’s Democracy in Hard Places Initiative.  	Event organized by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, co-sponsored by the Center for International Development. 	About the SpeakerBefore his imprisonment in June 2016\, Marquez was Chief of Staff of the Mayor of El Hatillo in Caracas starting in 2014. Previously he worked with the Lt. Governor of the State of Miranda. He obtained his Law degree in the Catholic University Andres Bello (2009) and his Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (2012). He is currently focusing on torture and human rights issues and researching on the erosion of democracy in Venezuela.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/what-i-learned-as-a-political-prisoner-in-venezuela-with-francisco-lara-marquez/
LOCATION:Ash Center Foyer\, 124 Mt. Auburn Street\, Suite 200 North
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20171019T184100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175422Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Education in Pakistan: What works to improve learning outcomes?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Niharika Singh\, Ph.D. Student Affiiate\, & Zainab Qureshi\, Senior Program Manager\, Evidence for Policy Design Program 	About the Talk: Despite significant progress in enrollment and educational access\, learning outcomes in Pakistan remain vastly substandard. At the same time\, the country’s education landscape has changed dramatically with the mushrooming growth of low cost private schools\, estimated to cater to 42% of school going children today. Evidence for Policy Design’s Learning and Education Achievement in Pakistan Schools (LEAPS) program is leading transformational research to understand the impacts of these changes\, and examining how to catalyze innovation in the education ecosystem of Pakistan. This talk will outline the LEAPS team’s research on how to alleviate system-level constraints to improve education quality and student learning outcomes. Lead researchers on LEAPS are Tahir Andrabi (Pomona)\, Jishnu Das (World Bank) and Asim Khwaja (Harvard Kennedy School). 	See the presentation: Education in Pakistan: What Works to Improve Learning Outcomes? 	About the Speakers:  \nNiharika Singh is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at Harvard University and co-principal investigator on a LEAPS study examining the effects of providing unconditional cash grants to rural low cost private schools in Pakistan. Her research interests span a range of topics in development and labor economics. She received her BA in Economics from McGill University and worked as a research assistant in India and the U.S. prior to graduate school. \nZainab Qureshi is the LEAPS Senior Program Manager at EPoD\, overseeing implementation of Education and policy research in Pakistan. She has previously worked at various organizations across the Education sector in Pakistan\, implementing low cost Education delivery programs and developing an alternate model of education for low income schools. She holds a Master’s in Education (Ed.M.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in Economics and International Development from McGill University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-education-in-pakistan-what-works-to-improve-learning-outcomes/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor – R-429
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171031T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171031T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20171023T173600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175422Z
UID:14830-1509467400-1509471000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: A Steep Price: The Economics of Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Laura Jaitman\, Research Economist\, Inter-American Development Bank 	About the talk: Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region on earth\, with a homicide rate that is 4 times the global average. In this talk\, first recent estimates of the economic cost of crime will be presented\, and LAC high crime rates will be discussed within the Becker crime economics framework. Second\, an innovative theoretical extension to this framework will be presented concerning the relationship between the production of durable goods and crime. Finally\, specific policy implications for LAC countries will be explored. \nDr. Laura Jaitman is an Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). She joined the IDB in 2014\, where she previously coordinated the research agenda for the Citizen Security and Justice sector. Her principal area of research is the economics of crime\, development economics\, and the evaluation of crime prevention and crime control strategies. Before joining the IDB\, she worked as a consultant at the World Bank\, the IDB\, and J-PAL in different developed and developing countries. Overall\, Jaitman has more than a decade of working experience in the field of public policy. Jaitman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London\, UK. Her work has been published in international peer reviewed journals\, such as the Economic Journal\, and featured in international media.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-a-steep-price-the-economics-of-crime-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor R-429
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20171018T174500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175422Z
UID:14842-1509105600-1509109200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution:  Key Trends Emerging in the New Digital World
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victoria White\, Managing Director\, Global Advisory Solutions\, Accion 	About the talk: Around the world\, nearly 3 billion people have little to no access to the formal financial sector. They worry about how to pay school fees for their children\, whether there will be enough to eat in the coming weeks\, or whether they will be able to afford the medical care needed for a sick relative. For them\, lacking access to financial services makes each of these basic transactions extremely challenging. For the past 55 years\, Accion has been working with local financial institutions and now more recently with innovative fintech disruptors to change that. The digital revolution is changing nearly every aspect of how we live our lives\, including how we bank\, borrow and save. Join us for a discussion of how Accion and its partners are harnessing key digital trends to make quality financial services more accessible and cost effective to those who have been excluded. 	About the Speaker: Victoria White has worked with Accion since 2000. She serves as a member of the senior management team and holds responsibility for overseeing Accion’s advisory support to its partners as Managing Director\, Global Advisory Solutions. She also serves as a board director for a number of these institutions. Previously\, Ms. White was Accion’s Regional Head for Asia. In this capacity\, she was responsible for Accion’s management and technical services relationships with partner microfinance institutions\, as well as for providing oversight of Accion’s investments in Asia. Prior to this\, she supported Accion’s partners in Africa in such areas as strategic planning\, bank downscaling\, institutional transformation planning\, and financial management. 	Ms. White is co-author of Transforming Microfinance Institutions: Providing Full Financial Services to the Poor and Institutional Metamorphosis: Transformation of Microfinance NGOs into Regulated Financial Institutions\, a contributing author to Commercialization of Microfinance: Balancing Business and Development\, and author of A Case Study in Transformation: The Creation of Uganda Microfinance Limited. 	Before working with Accion\, Ms. White was a senior advisor for Calmeadow’s international operations\, performing financial evaluations and transformation planning for MFIs throughout Africa. She has also worked as a program analyst for USAID’s Office of Microenterprise Development\, both in Washington and in the South Africa mission. Prior to entering the microfinance field\, Ms. White was a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ms. White holds an M.A. in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in political science and French from Wellesley College.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-financial-inclusion-and-the-fintech-revolution-key-trends-emerging-in-the-new-digital-world/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor – R-429
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20171012T003600Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: The Drivers of International Development
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell\, British MP and Former Secretary of State for International Development 	About the talk: In the Globalisation era there are no longer far off places about which we know little. Our generations have the ability to do something about the colossal discrepancies of opportunity and wealth which disfigure our world. How should we grasp this opportunity? What will have the most effect? How do we reform the Rules based international system? Does international justice matter? Why we should all be optimists? 	About the Speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He was the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012. 	Mitchell was elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. Before university\, he served for several months as a United Nations military peacekeeper in Cyprus. He has extensive pre-government experience of the developing world\, and is the founder of Project Umubano\, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone in central and west Africa\, launched in 2007. 	Mitchell was returned as MP for Sutton Coldfield at the 2017 general election\, with a reduced majority.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-the-drivers-of-international-development/
LOCATION:Bell Hall – 5th Floor Belfer Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171013T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20171006T171500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175422Z
UID:14846-1507896000-1507899600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: How did Venezuela Degenerate Into a Failed State and How Can it Recover?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Douglas Barrios\, Research Fellow at CID; Ricardo Villasmil\, Research Fellow at CID. 	  	About the talk: In this event\, we try to shed some light on Venezuela’s ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis through two complementary perspectives: the economic and the institutional. We will trace the origins of the crisis to policies taken during the oil price boom\, discuss the self-destructing nature of current policies and present an agenda for democratic governance and socioeconomic recovery. About the Speakers:	  \nDouglas Barrios a Growth Lab Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Before joining CID he worked in McKinsey’s Bogotá office as a Public Sector Specialist where he served public and social sector organizations throughout Latin America in a broad set of topics ranging from ICT promotion strategies to education policy design. Other previous experience include serving as an external policy adviser for local governments as well as political campaigns in Venezuela. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidad Metropolitana (Venezuela) and a Masters in Public Administration and International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (MPA-ID 2012). His research interests are focused on urban dynamics\, natural resource extraction and rent management\, behavioral economics and the political economics behind policy design. 	  \nRicardo Villasmil is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Before joining CID\, he worked in private consulting in Venezuela managing projects on a wide range of strategic and organizational issues for over a decade. His interests in development economics led him to the Andrés Bello Catholic University and to the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA)\, where he has been teaching courses in development and macroeconomics for the past fifteen years. Ricardo’s involvement in public policy dates back to 1998\, when he joined Venezuela’s Congressional Budget Office and the Ministry of Finance two years later. His interests in the practice of development prompted him to take advisory roles for Teodoro Petkoff in the 2006 runoff presidential election\, for the democratic coalition between 2006 and 2012 and for presidential candidate Henrique Capriles as Head of his Public Policy Team in 2012. Ricardo holds a Master in Public Policy from IESA\, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University and a PhD in Economics from Texas A&M University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-how-did-venezuela-degenerate-into-a-failed-state-and-how-can-it-recover/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – R-429 Rubenstein 4th floor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171011T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170919T012400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175422Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series Seminar: Asian Development Bank’s 2017 Economic Forecast for Asia and the Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yasuyuki Sawada\, Chief Economist and Chief Spokesperson on economic and development trends\, Asian Development Bank 	About the talk: The Asian Development Bank’s flagship economic publication Asian Development Outlook (ADO) provides a comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic issues in developing Asia. The ADO Update examines the prospects for developing Asia by sub-region: Central Asia\, East Asia\, South Asia\, Southeast Asia\, and the Pacific. This year’s ADO Update theme chapter\, Sustaining Development Through Public-Private Partnerships\, explores how Asia can use public-private partnerships (PPPs) to bolster infrastructure investment. The presentation will address: 	• Economic prospects for developing Asia and the Pacific• Key risks to the region’s outlook• Implications of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet normalization for Asia• What is behind the recent uptick in trade and whether it can be sustained• Measures governments can take to promote PPPs and ensure their success About the Speaker: Yasuyuki Sawada is the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic and development trends\, and leads the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department\, which publishes ADB’s flagship knowledge products. Dr. Sawada previously served as a Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He also performed research at a variety of institutions\, such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute; the World Bank; Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East Asia; Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies; Pakistan Institute of Development Economics; International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines; International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka; Research Institute of Economy\, Trade\, and Industry in Japan; and Japan Society of Promotion of Science\, where he led a number of large-scale development policy evaluation projects in Asia and other developing countries. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research articles on diversified topics pertaining to Asia and other developing countries ranging from macro development issues\, such as long-term economic growth and structural change\, sovereign debt sustainability\, foreign aid\, trade\, ageing and social security\, and natural and man-made disasters to micro issues of poverty\, education\, infrastructure\, microenterprises\, microfinance\, health\, and disabilities. 	This event is co-sponsored with: \n	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-seminar-asian-development-banks-2017-economic-forecast-for-asia-and-the-pacific/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room – Taubman Building 5th floor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170830T203300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175421Z
UID:14850-1507291200-1507294800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Paying for Success: Innovative Designs for Social Impact
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Max Bode\, Junior Partner at Instiglio 	About the talk: In the last decade\, Results-Based Financing (RBF) has gained tremendous momentum in the international development space. Now\, about $30 billion in funding have been disbursed through RBF mechanisms in 78 low and middle-income countries. The promise of RBF is simple: by tying the funding of social services to results\, RBF drives results. It does so through aligning incentives\, introducing accountability\, encouraging prioritization\, and allowing for learning and flexible adaptation in implementation. Anchored in Instiglio’s experience in designing impact bonds\, outcomes markets\, and national-to-local government transfers\, Instiglio’s Junior Partner and HKS alumni Max Bode will discuss RBF’s track-record and potential to deliver on its promise of making social services more impactful. The talk will draw on a systematic review of trends in RBF\, and case studies of education\, workforce development\, and poverty alleviation projects in India\, Colombia\, Morocco\, and Kenya. \nAbout the speaker: Max heads the Washington DC office’s client engagement\, fundraising\, talent recruitment effort\, and provides strategic and technical guidance on Instiglio’s Africa portfolio. Prior to joining\, Max was a civil servant and ODI Fellow in Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health\, worked with Rwanda’s Ministry of Finance\, and investigated the effectiveness of social interventions as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development. Max holds an MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School\, a Masters from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics\, and a Bachelors from Maastricht University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-paying-for-success-innovative-designs-for-social-impact/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor R-429
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170824T222300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175420Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Impact Investing in Emerging Markets: Reaching its full potential
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kusi Hornberger\, Senior Project Manager\, Dalberg Global Development Advisors	  	About the talk: The most recent GIIN Annual Impact Investor Survey reports that total assets under management (AUM) for impact investing reached US$114 billion\, being roughly $36 billion dedicated exclusively to emerging markets. This represents massive growth over just two years when\, in 2015\, the market estimate was $60 billion. This growth\, coupled with numerous reports and surveys showing millennials’ strong interest in aligning values with investments\, suggests money and talent are pouring into the nascent field. Despite this rapid growth\, key improvements are needed before this promising field can reach its full potential. In his talk\, Kusi Hornberger will present his thoughts on eight of the most pressing issues and recommendations for improvement along the impact investment cycle for emerging markets – from goal setting to reporting results. \nAbout the Speaker: Kusi Hornberger is a Senior Project Manager in the Washington\, DC office of Dalberg Global Development Advisors. Kusi has 10+ years of project management\, investment and strategy experience working with a range of public\, private\, and non-profit clients\, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\, ECOM Agroindustrial Corp.\, World Bank Group\, Starbucks\, Experian and USAID. 	Prior to joining Dalberg\, Kusi was Vice President of Investment Research & Strategy at Global Partnerships where he oversaw the investment strategy and portfolio including analysis of investment opportunities in agriculture cooperatives\, artisan retailers\, cookstove and solar lamp manufacturers and distributors\, private health clinics as well as integrated microfinance institutions across Central/South America and East Africa. He was also the in-house expert on agriculture finance\, leading the investment appraisal and relationships for portfolio of investments in >40 rural and agriculture focused social enterprises across range of commodity value chains including coffee\, cocoa\, fresh vegetables and nuts. Further he was responsible for managing GP’s relationship with the Council for Smallholder Agriculture Finance (CSAF)\, served as an advisor to the Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) and Agros International and presented at numerous conferences (Cracking the Nut\, FLII\, SCAA\, SOCAP\, etc.) about GP’s approach to investing in agriculture value chains. 	Kusi also has experience working as a management consultant\, spending three years at Bain & Company based out of its Sao Paulo\, Brazil office and serving a wide range of public\, private and non-profit clients across South America including several leading agribusiness multinationals and foundations during his time there he authored a Bain Brief titled  “The State of Impact Investing in Latin America”  As well as working as an Investment Officer for six years with the International Finance Corporation where he spent three years based out of the Bogota\, Colombia office and held lead the formation of the investment promotion agency Invest in Bogota as well as shift the strategy of Brazil’s investment and export promotion agency APEX-Brasil to a sector led approach. He also published numerous articles on private sector development and competitiveness including “Attracting FDI – How Much Does Investment Climate Matter?”. Finally\, he started his career working with TechnoServe Inc. in East Africa where he was one of the early members of the coffee team working with Peets Coffee & Tea that helped transform the coffee sector in Rwanda and Tanzania. Kusi holds a Masters of Business Administration from INSEAD Business School in Singapore\, a Master of Public Administration in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelors of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. He is fluent in Portuguese\, Spanish and conversant in Swahili. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-impact-investing-in-emerging-markets-reaching-its-full-potential/
LOCATION:Rubenstein-429\, Perkins Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170907T001800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175421Z
UID:14826-1506356100-1506360600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series Seminar: Taking back control or losing it? An analysis of the possible economic impact of Brexit
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: María C. Latorre\, member of the European Commission’s group of experts in International Trade; Professor\, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 	About the talk: According to the majority of economic studies and to the European Commission’s estimations\, Brexit will be far more damaging for the UK than for the European Union (EU). From the economic point of view\, it seems less harmful for both to be able to negotiate a soft Brexit with rather small barriers. However\, for political reasons the EU may want to deter other nations from following the UK’s path and may want to negotiate a self-damaging hard Brexit. 	Brexit implies a shrinking of the EU market and\, in that sense\, is not good news for UK neither for EU. Firms lose profit opportunities. However\, given the much larger size of EU\, the process is much more harmful for UK. In fact\, the EU is able to recover a sizeable part of its lost trade with the UK through the rise of intra-EU free trade. The UK has forsaken this privileged preferential access to EU\, thus\, negatively affecting half of its aggregate exports and imports. Overall\, although Brexit may offer good prospects for some manufacturing firms coming from outside the Brexit block\, at a more aggregate level benefits for outsiders seem scarce. Brexit’s scope seems confined to the EU landscape. 	The negative impact of trade and foreign direct investment seems to be more important than UK’s contributions to the EU budget (with a maximum net fiscal saving of -0.53% of UK’s GDP)\, or reductions in the flows of migrants. However\, very restrictive migration policies in the UK\, such as a reduction in “all EU migrants”\, “net EU migrants” or the “5-year policy” the government is talking about could be even more damaging than trade and FDI related effects of Brexit. 	 About the Speaker: María C. Latorre is currently a member of the group of experts in international trade of the European Commission. She has also conducted other consulting projects for the World Bank and the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness. Maria has been a Research Scholar at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University. She has held research visiting positions in the US International Trade Commission\, the CEPII and the University of Nottingham. Her papers have been published in academic journals such as World Development\, Journal of Policy Modeling\, Economic Modelling and China Economic Review among others. 	This event is co-sponsored by:
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-seminar-taking-back-control-or-losing-it-an-analysis-of-the-possible-economic-impact-of-brexit/
LOCATION:WAPPP Conference Room (Taubman 102)\, Harvard Kennedy School – 79\, JFK Street
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170919T191600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001537Z
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SUMMARY:DRCLAS Event: The Maritime Dispute Before the International Court of Justice: The Bolivian Arguments
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carlos Diego Mesa\, Former President of Bolivia (2003-2005)	About the talk: For more than a century the diplomatic relationships between Bolivia and Chile have been conditioned by the Pacific war (1879-1884)\, where Bolivia and Peru confronted Chile. As a product of the war Bolivia lost access to the Pacific Ocean. This country has not renounced to the right of regaining sovereign access to the Ocean. In 2014\, Bolivia presented a demand before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague\, Netherlands. In 2015 the ICJ declared itself legally qualified judge on the case\, and the countries are now waiting for the final verdict of the Court. The former President of Bolivia\, and current international spokesman of the Bolivian maritime cause in The Hague\, Mr. Carlos Mesa\, will expose the arguments behind the demand of his country\, and the potential implications of the ICJ´s verdicts to the audience in Harvard University.  	Mr. Mesa is a former constitutional President (2003- 2005) and Vice-president (2002-2003) of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Since 2014 he is the international spokesman of the Bolivian Maritime Demand before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Mr. Mesa is also an intellectual figure in his country. Author of more than twenty books and dozens of documentaries\, many of them regarded as fundamental to understand the contemporary history of Bolivia\, he won the Journalism prize “Rey de España” (1994) and National Journalism Prize of Bolivia (2012). Mr. Mesa is a regular contributor of open editorials in local and international media.  	Moderator: Steven Levitsky\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University  	This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School Latin American Caucus. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/drclas-event-the-maritime-dispute-before-the-international-court-of-justice-the-bolivian-arguments/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, S020\, 1730 Cambridge Street
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170921T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170829T002600Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series Seminar: The power of attraction: the European Union's gravitational pull for development and stabilization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Johannes Hahn\, Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations\, European Commission  	About the Talk: Through its enlargement and neighborhood policies\, the European Union aims at exporting stability to the Western Balkans\, Eastern Europe and the Southern Mediterranean regions. With a broad policy toolbox\, the EU fosters political stabilization and socioeconomic transformation\, thus helping to lay the basis for the development of its partners. Commissioner Hahn\, who spearheads this policy for the EU\, will report on the latest successes and challenges\, including the migration crisis in the Mediterranean. About the Speaker: Johannes Hahn (born in 1957 in Vienna/Austria) has been serving as the Member of the European Commission in charge of Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations since November 2014. He is responsible for the Union’s relations with the six Western Balkans countries and Turkey\, as well as relations with Europe’s Eastern and Southern neighbours\, from Ukraine to the South Caucasus and from Syria to the Maghreb. From 2010 to 2014\, Dr. Hahn was the Member of the European Commission in charge of Regional Policy. Before joining the Commission\, he served as Austria’s Federal Minister for Science and Research from 2007-2010\, as a Member of the Vienna State Government from 2003 to 2007 and a Member of the Vienna State Parliament from 1996 to 2003. Since the mid-1980ies\, he held various senior management functions in different sectors of the Austrian economy\, including as board member and CEO of Novomatic AG from 1996-2003. Johannes Hahn holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna. 	  	This event is co-sponsored by:
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-seminar-the-power-of-attraction-the-european-unions-gravitational-pull-for-development-and-stabilization/
LOCATION:Bell Hall\, Belfer Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170911T172900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175421Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series Seminar: Leadership in the Sustainable Development Era
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sarmad Khan\, Team Leader & Policy Advisor for Leadership Development\, UN;Ifoda Abdurazakova\, Policy Specialist on Leadership Development\, UN 	About the talk: The global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all Member States of the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The SDGs constitute 17 ambitious goals from ending poverty\, to protecting livelihoods of people\, to the climate and the environment. To meet the pace of a constantly changing world\, we must equally change and adapt skillsets and leadership capabilities necessary to perform in the new era of ‘development’ type work? The event will provide an opportunity to explore leadership capabilities to respond to the complex challenges of sustainable development\, and discuss how this transformation is taking shape at the United Nations. 	About the Speakers:  \nSarmad Khan is Team Leader and Policy Advisor for Leadership Development at the United Nations Development Operations Coordination Office in New York. At UN Headquarters\, his work involves supporting the UN Development Group (UNDG) in articulating its direction to address complex\, multidimensional leadership challenges of Agenda 2030 and the ‘leave no one behind’ imperative. His focus is on UN leadership policy and diversity\, analyzing and building senior leadership capabilities\, and designing learning strategies targeting UN field leaders and next generation leadership. He is one of the lead authors of the UNDG-endorsed UN leadership model promoting transformative and collaborative leadership\, and is a member of the UN interagency steering committee charged with proposing a UN system-wide leadership framework. He previously worked with the UN System Staff College as Coordinator of its flagship programme on UN Leadership\, and where he also advised global UN Country Teams on their multi-stakeholder consultations with governments and national partners on national development priorities. Prior to this\, Sarmad spent over seven years working with senior leadership of UN operations in Iraq and Yemen focusing on UN development and transition strategies\, and with UN Development Programme’s Crisis Prevention and Recovery Bureau in Geneva. \nIfoda Abdurazakova is a Policy Specialist on Leadership Development at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Previously she focused on strengthening voices and leadership skills of youth activists in Uzbekistan through large-scale campaigns and establishing a young network. Ifoda led global projects on crowdsourcing\, innovation and women’s economic empowerment and throughout her career\, she worked with UN Women\, UNDP\, UN Secretariat\, UN Peacekeeping Operations and non-profit organizations. She is an author of a publication promoting civic engagement and youth leadership. Ifoda is a Harvard Kennedy School alumn. 	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-seminar-leadership-in-the-sustainable-development-era/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor R-429
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170912T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170912T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170831T193400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175421Z
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SUMMARY:CID 2017 Open House
DESCRIPTION:Interested in the cutting edge research in International Development? Here’s your chance to meet CID faculty\, research fellows and staff and learn about student programs and opportunities at CID’s Annual Open House.	Speakers: Matt Andrews\, Faculty Associate at BSC; Andrea Carranza\, CID Acting Executive Director; Asim Khwaja\, Co-Director for EPoD Faculty; Ricardo Hausmann\, CID Director
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-2017-open-house/
LOCATION:Bell Hall\, Belfer Building (B-500)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170908T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170908T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170823T181600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175420Z
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series Seminar: Learning by Doing\, Learning by Erring: Climate Resilience in the Latin American City
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carolina Zambrano-Barragán\, Climate change and urban sustainability expert from Quito\, Ecuador. 	About the talk: Latin America needs new approaches to face the impacts of climate change and rapid urbanization\, particularly in a context of poverty and rising inequality. Cities in the region have emerged as a central actor for social and political innovation\, and urban areas offer a unique scenario to pilot transformational change. In this event\, Carolina Zambrano will discuss the main opportunities and challenges for climate action in Latin American cities\, with a focus on urban resilience and adaptation. She will share key insights from her personal experience in Quito\, Ecuador\, and discuss the importance of dynamic socio-institutional frameworks and policies for climate change management. \nAbout the speaker: Carolina Zambrano-Barragán\, MC/MPA 2018\, is a climate change and urban sustainability expert from Quito\, Ecuador. Before coming to HKS\, she worked at Avina Foundation as Latin American Director of Sustainable Cities and as a professor at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar’s Master’s Program on Climate Change. Formerly\, Carolina was Director of Environmental Policy for the city of Quito and Undersecretary of Climate Change at Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment. She has carried out several consulting and research initiatives around the world\, integrating climate action with social inclusion\, urban policy\, and biodiversity conservation. Carolina is a Biologist and holds a Master’s on Environmental Management from Yale University. 	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-seminar-learning-by-doing-learning-by-erring-climate-resilience-in-the-latin-american-city/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor R-429
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170428T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T234544
CREATED:20170425T222800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175419Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Human mobility: potential and resistance
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lant Pritchett\, Professor of the Practice of International Development\, Harvard Kennedy School 	About the Session: Professor Lant Pritchett will present the four “risks and costs of migration” to host countries (Economic\, Cultural Assimilation\, Political and Security) and discuss the often overlooked gains of migration to both rich and middle income countries. He will give examples of how different “types” of countries can address the above mentioned costs and benefits from worker mobility.  \nAbout the Speaker: Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (as of July 1\, 2007). In addition he is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development. He was co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics and worked as a consultant to Google.org. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics and in 1988 from MIT with a PhD in Economics. After finishing at MIT Lant joined the World Bank\, where he held a number of positions in the Bank’s research complex between 1988 and 1998\, including as an adviser to Lawrence Summers when he was Vice President from 1991-1993. From 1998 to 2000 he worked in Indonesia. 	From 2000 to 2004 Lant was on leave from the World Bank as a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2004 he returned to the World Bank and moved to India where he worked until May 2007. Lant has been part of the team producing many World Bank reports\, including: World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for Development\, Assessing Aid: What Works\, What Doesn’t and Why (1998)\, Better Health Systems for Indias Poor: Findings\, Analysis\, and Options (2003)\,World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for the Poor\, Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reforms (2005). 	In addition he has authored (alone or with one of his 22 co-authors) over 50 papers published in refereed journals\, chapters in books\, or as articles\, at least some of which are sometimes cited. In addition to economics journals his work has appeared in specialized journals in demography\, education\, and health. In 2006 he published his first solo authored book\, Let Their People Come\, and in 2013 his second\, The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain’t Learning. 	Lant\, an American national\, was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise\, Idaho. Perhaps because of this\, he has worked in\, or traveled to\, over fifty countries and has lived in three other countries: Argentina (1978-80)\, Indonesia (1998-2000)\, and India (2004-2007\, & 2011-2012). Lant has been married since 1981 to Diane Tueller Pritchett and together they have three children.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-human-mobility-potential-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
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