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    • CID Speaker Series: Preparing for the next pandemic: Whose responsibility is it?

    Allison Dining Room - Taubman Building 5th floor (T-520), Harvard Kennedy School
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    Speaker: Susan Scribner, Director, Preparedness and Response project, DAI About the Talk: In this session, Susan will lead an interactive exercise where participants will identify risks that might contribute to a pandemic, recommend interventions to mitigate the risks, and discuss how different government and non-government actors can contribute to pandemic preparedness and response.  About the Speaker:  Susan […]

    CID SPEAKER SERIES: Challenges of Latin America under the New Normal

    Starr Auditorium - Belfer Building 2nd Floor

    Speaker: Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay About the Talk: Latin America experienced an average growth of 4.4% between 2004 and 2011, much higher than that observed in the nineties (3%). In large part, this improved performance was the result of a very favorable external situation, reflected in historically high commodity prices […]

    CID SPEAKER SERIES: Preventing Violence in Caracas: A Community-Based, Evidence-Informed Approach

    Malkin Penthouse (4th Floor Littauer Building) - Harvard Kennedy School
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    Speakers: Roberto Patino, Founder and CEO, Caracas Mi Convive & Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard University About the talk: Caracas Mi Convive works in the poorest communities of Caracas, Venezuela to prevent violence by building trusting relationships between and among community members. Founder, CEO, and HKS alum Roberto Patino will engage with Thomas […]

    • CID Growth Lab Seminar: Why Can’t *Sri Lanka* Be First (In Software)?

    WEX 102 - Wexner Building, 1st Floor
    • Growth Lab

    Speaker: Sanjiva Weerawarana, Founder, Chairman and Chief Architect of WSO2 About the talk: This talk is Sanjiva Weerawarana's story of returning to Sri Lanka in 2001, starting an open source foundation, starting a business, joining the army and building software of all kinds. Sanjiva lived in the US for 16 years before that (his entire adult life) […]

    Bangladesh Rising: Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School

    Harvard Loeb House - 17, Quincy Street, Cambridge

    ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: The Economist reported last September that it is "a good moment to celebrate Bangladesh’s economic progress. Its annual growth has averaged more than 6% over the past ten years and has run above 7% over the past two.” More than celebrating, Bangladesh Rising conference will discuss how Bangladesh can maintain its momentum, […]

    • CID 2018 Open House

    Democracy Lab AB (R414 AB) - Rubenstein 4th Floor

    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 Building State Capability (BSC) Program; Andrea Carranza, CID Acting Executive Director; Rohini Pande, Co-Director for Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) […]

    CID Speaker Series: Understanding Income Gaps within Mexico: Place-Specific vs. Individual Factors

    Democracy Lab A (R-414 A) - Rubenstein Building 4th Floor
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    Speaker: Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University About the talk: The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap has shrunk while […]

    CID Speaker Series: Can Brexit be Overturned with Other Trade and FDI Agreements?

    Perkins Room (R429) - Rubenstein 4th Floor
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    Speaker: María C. Latorre, member of the European Commission's group of experts in International Trade; Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid About the talk: With less than nine months before the UK is scheduled to depart from the EU, much uncertainty surrounds the future EU and UK relationship. It is clear, however, that Brexit will increase barriers between […]

    CID Speaker Series: The Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela – A Conversation with José Miguel Vivanco

    Allison Dining Room (ADR) - Taubman, 5th Floor
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: José Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director of Americas division, Human Rights Watch About the talk: The current exodus of Venezuelans has generated the largest migration crisis of its kind in recent Latin American history, as Human Rights Watch has pointed out in its most recent report. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have left their country since 2014, […]

    • CID Speaker Series: The International Rules-Based System is Broken: What is to be Done? 

    Bell Hall (B500) - Belfer 5th Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell, British MP and Former Secretary of State for International Development 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 […]

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