BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Growth Lab - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Growth Lab REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T131500 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170107T020500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14955-1490961600-1490966100@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Parag Khanna\, Geo-Strategist\, best selling author & Senior Research Fellow\, National University of Singapore. \nParag Khanna will present his book\, “Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization”. In this book Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity more than borders. His journeys take us from Ukraine to Iran\, Mongolia to North Korea\, Panama City to Dubai\, and the Arctic Circle to the South China Sea—all to show how 21st century conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines and Internet cables\, advanced technologies and market access. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-connectography-mapping-the-future-of-global-civilization/ LOCATION:Allison Dining Room\, Taubman Building\, Harvard Kennedy School END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T130000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170307T204400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175419Z UID:14948-1490356800-1490360400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Made in Mexico: The Path Ahead for Trade and Migration Issues DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gerardo Esquivel\, Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico\, and Executive Coordinator of Research at the Instituto Belisario Domínguez of the Mexican Senate About the session: The session will discuss the future of trade (NAFTA) and migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. in the context of the Trump administration.  What are the scenarios? Is NAFTA over? What can be expected in migration policy?  About the Speaker: Gerardo Esquivel received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1997. He also holds a B.A. in economics from the National University Autonomous of Mexico (UNAM\, 1989) and an M.A. in economics from El Colegio de Mexico (1991). He is currently a Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico\, where he has been since 1998\, and is the Executive Coordinator of Research at the Instituto Belisario Domínguez of the Mexican Senate. Previously\, he worked as a Senior Macroeconomics Researcher at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Mr. Esquivel has also been a consultant for the International Monetary Fund\, the Inter-American Development Bank\, the World Bank\, the United Nations Development Program and the Central Bank in Mexico. In 2011\, Mr. Esquivel was Tinker Visiting Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy in the University of Chicago. Dr. Esquivel has written extensively on several economic issues and has received numerous distinctions for his research. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-made-in-mexico-the-path-ahead-for-trade-and-migration-issues/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170310T175000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170310T190000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170301T024600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175419Z UID:14828-1489168200-1489172400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: A conversation with His Excellency Paul Kagame DESCRIPTION:Speaker: His Excellency Paul Kagame\, President of The Republic of Rwanda THIS EVENT IS FULL HARVARD ID ONLY: You will be required to present your Harvard ID at the entrance.  About the Speaker: Paul Kagame was born in October 1957 in Rwanda’s Southern Province. His family fled pre-independence ethnic persecution and violence in 1960\, crossing into Uganda where Kagame spent thirty years as a refugee. Determined to resist oppressive regimes\, as a young man\, Paul Kagame joined current Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his group of guerrilla fighters to launch a war to free Uganda from dictatorship. Under the new government\, he served as a senior military officer. In 1990\, Paul Kagame returned to Rwanda to lead the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) four-year struggle to liberate the country from the autocratic and divisive order established since independence. Led by Kagame\, the Rwanda Patriotic Army defeated the genocidal government in July 1994 and the RPF subsequently set Rwanda on its current course towards reconciliation\, nation building and socioeconomic development. Paul Kagame was appointed Vice-President and Minister for Defence in the Government of National Unity on 19 July 1994\, and four years later was elected Chairman of the RPF\, a partner in the Government of National Unity. On 22 April 2000 Paul Kagame took the Oath of Office as President of the Republic of Rwanda after being elected by the Transitional National Assembly. President Paul Kagame won the first ever democratic elections held in Rwanda in August 2003 and was re-elected to a second seven-year mandate in August 2010. President Kagame has received recognition for his leadership in peace building and reconciliation\, development\, good governance\, promotion of human rights and women’s empowerment\, and advancement of education and ICT\, and is widely sought after to address regional and international audiences on a range of issues including African development\, leadership\, and the potential of ICT as a dynamic industry as well as an enabler for Africa’s socioeconomic transformation. President Kagame served as chair of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on MDGs from 2010 to 2015 and is the current co-chair of the ITU’s Broadband Commission alongside Carlos Slim. Paul Kagame is married to Jeannette Nyiramongi and they have four children. He is a keen tennis player and football fan. The Session will be moderated by Lant Pritchett\, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School Please contact Camila_Lobo@hks.harvard.edu if you have any questions about this event. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-a-conversation-with-his-excellency-paul-kagame/ LOCATION:NYE\, A\,B\,C – Taubman Building END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170303T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170121T005400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14949-1488546000-1488549600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Start-up Culture for Security and Development DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Steven Koltai\, Managing Director of Koltai & Company\, and Brookings Guest Scholar\, Governance Studies Steven Koltai is an expert on international entrepreneurship ecosystem development.  He is currently Managing Director of Koltai & Company\, an entrepreneurship program development consultancy.  At Brookings\, Koltai is pursuing a project and book provisionally titled: “World Peace through Entrepreneurship.” Most recently\, he was Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship at the US Department of State where he created and managed the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP)\, focused primarily in job creation via entrepreneurship in Muslim majority countries.  Previously\, Steven has 30 years of business experience as an investment banker (Salomon Brothers)\, management consultant (McKinsey & Company)\, media industry (Warner Bros and Lifetime Television)\, and as a multiple company successful entrepreneur and angel investor.  He is a long time member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he was an International Affairs Fellow.  Koltai serves on numerous for profit and not-for-profit Boards\, including the Tisch College of Active Citizenship at Tufts University (his alma mater)\, Babson Global at Babson College\, the Library of Congress’ David Rubenstein Literacy Awards Committee\, the Museum of Hungarian-speaking Jewry in Safed\, Israel\, and Advancing Girls Education (AGE) Africa in Malawi. Koltai was born in Budapest\, Hungary\, fleeing to the U.S. as a small child with his family following the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.  He was raised in Los Angeles\, California and Kansas City\, Missouri.  He has two sons and lives in Maine and Washington\, D.C. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-peace-through-entrepreneurship-investing-in-a-start-up-culture-for-security-and-development/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170123T194400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14954-1487941200-1487944800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Benefiting from Return Migration: Effects of Return Migration on Non-migrants' Wages and Employment DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ljubica Nedelkoska is a Growth Lab research fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University About the talk: When CID started its engagement in Albania\, a small developing economy bordering Greece\, our team was particularly worried about the negative spillovers that the unfolding debt crisis in Greece could bring about. In addition to the adverse effects on trade and investments\, the livelihoods of some 600\,000 Albanians living in Greece (over 20% of Albania’s population) and their remittance-receiving families were put at risk. Albanian migrants in Greece were particularly affected by the Greek crisis\, which spurred a wave of return migration that increased Albania’s labor force by 5% between 2011 and 2014 alone. We studied how this return migration affected the employment chances and earnings of Albanians who never migrated. Initially to our surprise\, we found positive effects on the wages of low-skilled non-migrants and overall positive effects on employment. The gains partially offset the sharp drop in remittances in the observed period and are probably triggered by return of know-how and financial capital. The employment gains are concentrated in the agricultural sector\, where most return migrants engage in self-employment and entrepreneurship. Businesses run by return migrants seem to pull Albanians from non-participation\, self-employment and subsistence agriculture into commercial agriculture. About the speaker: Ljubica’s research focuses on human capital\, migration\, lifelong learning\, capital-labor relations and structural transformation. She works at the intersection of research and policy\, and has contributed to several such projects in Albania\, Sri Lanka\, the Netherlands\, Sweden\, and Germany. She holds a PhD in Economics of Innovation from the Friedrich Schiller University\, Germany and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Appalachian State University\, North Carolina. Before joining CID\, Ljubica worked as a post-doctoral researcher and a coordinator of the Research Group “Economics of Innovation” at the Friedrich Schiller University and as a research fellow at the Zeppelin University in Germany. Link to research paper: http://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/publications/welcome-home-crisis-effects-return-migration-non-migrants-wages-and URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-benefiting-from-return-migration-effects-of-return-migration-on-non-migrants-wages-and-employment/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170121T002200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14959-1487336400-1487340000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Practical Economics - Economic Transformation and Government Reform in Georgia 2004-2012: A conversation with Nika Gilauri\, Georgia Prime Minister (2009-2012) DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nika Gilauri\, former Prime Minister of Georgia Nika Gilauri will present his book\, Practical Economics\, in which he provides a detailed analysis of the reforms made in Georgia. The book starts by discussing why the Georgian case is exemplary for other countries and proceeds to describe the fight against corruption\, the rightsizing of government\, the creation of a business-friendly environment\, tax and customs reform\, the privatization of state-owned enterprises\, energy sector reforms\, and smart spending approaches applied to welfare\, healthcare\, education\, and procurement. In some cases\, the description draws on the experiences of other countries\, either because they served as an inspiration for Georgia’s reforms or because approaches pioneered in Georgia were successfully applied there. In a nutshell\, this book is an attempt to answer one question: how do you manage a transformation to bring about fast and sustainable growth? In what follows\, Mr. Gilauri approaches this question from two angles: What is the right size for a government\, both in terms of its regulatory footprint and in terms of its budget in relation to the size of the economy? How do you ensure a government’s efficiency in terms of its decision making\, its interaction with the private sector\, its financial flows\, and the services it provides? The book concludes with a discussion of leadership\, in recognition of the fact that even the best approaches would not apply themselves. It takes determined leadership to make them work – the courage to fix what is broken\, to try innovative approaches\, and to learn from one’s mistakes.  So is this a book for leaders only\, for heads of state and government? Far from it. There is something here for everyone who takes an interest in public affairs – politicians\, civil servants\, consultants\, and all active citizens who may be interested in how governments function and how they can be transformed. This book also shows that none of the major economic theories stands the test of practical application. Some people believe that the state should redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. Others believe that the freedom of enterprise is more important. Many believe that a monetarist approach is the best solution to the world’s economic problems\, while others favor Keynesian economics. In author’s experience\, none of these theories is universally applicable. Every given economic problem requires its own solution. This is why he advocates what he calls Practical Economics. Practical Economics is about finding the right mix of economic policies for a given country at a given moment. This book is about the mix of economic policies that transformed the Georgian economy between 2004 and 2012. While some of these policies may not be applicable to any other country\, the book makes the case that many of them are relevant for many countries\, developing as well as developed\, today. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-practical-economics-economic-transformation-and-government-reform-in-georgia-2004-2012-a-conversation-with-nika-gilauri-georgia-prime-minister-2009-2012/ LOCATION:NEW LOCATION: Malkin Penthouse\, 4th Floor Littauer\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T184500 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170113T011900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004326Z UID:15051-1487266200-1487270700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Security and Development Seminar: Inequality\, Crime\, and Development in Latin America DESCRIPTION:The third session in CID’s new Security and Development Seminar Series. Inequality as both Cause and Effect of Crime\, Violence in Latin America. This session will explore the causal relationships between inequality\, crime\, and violence\, understanding the former as a both cause and effect of the latter. The relative importance of proximate vs. root causes of crime and violence will also be debated. Speakers: Rodrigo R. Soares\, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs Filipe R. Campante\, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School João M P De Mello\, Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Emily Owens\, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law and Society at the University of California\, Irvine There will be a live stream of the event on CID’s Facebook page. Seating capacity is 40. RSVP to cid@hks.harvard.edu to confirm a seat. This event is co-sponsored with: The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard Kennedy School’s LATINX Caucus Harvard Kennedy School’s Brazilian Caucus URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/security-and-development-seminar-inequality-crime-and-development-in-latin-america/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170213T173000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170125T022800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175419Z UID:14809-1487001600-1487007000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Building State Capability - Evidence\, Analysis\, Action" DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Matt Andrews\, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Lant Pritchett\, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School \n \n Authors Matt and Lant will present the recently launched book: “Building State Capability – Evidence\, Analysis\, Action”. \n The book uses data to identify failures in efforts to build state capability in development\, employs theory to explain why these failures are common and likely to persist-keeping countries in capability traps–and builds on applied experience to offer a new approach to build state capability more effectively. \n ‘Building State Capability provides anyone interested in promoting development with practical advice on how to proceed—not by copying imported theoretical models\, but through an iterative learning process that takes into account the messy reality of the society in question. The authors draw on their collective years of realworld experience as well as abundant data and get to what is truly the essence of the development problem.’  Francis Fukuyama\, Stanford University; author of State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century \n About the Speakers: \n Matt Andrews is Associate Professor of Public Policy. His research focuses on public sector reform\, particularly budgeting and finan \n\ncial management reform\, and participatory governance in developing and transitional governments. Recent articles focus on forging a theoretical understanding of the nontechnical factors influencing success in reform processes. Specific emphasis lies on the informal institutional context of reform\, as well as leadership structures within government-wide networks. This research developed out of his work in the provincial government of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa and more recently from his tenure as a Public Sector Specialist working in the Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank. He brings this experience to courses on public management and development. He holds a BCom (Hons) degree from the University of Natal\, Durban (South Africa)\, an MSc from the University of London\, and a PhD in Public Administration from the Maxwell School\, Syracuse University. \n Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University \n\n(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. \n 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. \n Lant has been part of the team producing many World Bank reports\, including and 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. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/book-launch-building-state-capability-evidence-analysis-action/ LOCATION:Allison Dining Room – Taubman 5th Floor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170131T211600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175419Z UID:14940-1486731600-1486735200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Building an award winning NGO: an insight on the challenges and reality behind the dream to make a difference DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Filipe Alfaiate and Ariana Almeida\, Co-Founders of the Timor-Leste based NGO\, Empreza Diak About the session: Filipe and Ariana will be talking about how their dream to make a difference became an award winning NGO empowering poor women and their families in Timor-Leste\, the newest and most impoverished country in Asia. They will focus on what can be learned from the challenges\, mistakes and successes they faced in the past six years while launching the timorese NGO Empreza Diak (which means Good Business) and developing a sustainable team of staff\, volunteers and donors. All passionate about changing lives by creating opportunities that build better lives\, not charity. They will share unexpected outcomes\, challenges\, successes and what they would have done differently. And how they found that passion\, hard work and innovation can make a difference even in the most challenging of places. They will also talk about why and how they used the over 2 million USD fundraised between 2011 and 2015 to focus on women economic empowerment\, social business and inclusive markets\, in programs now reaching over 5\,000 vulnerable people.  About the speakers: Filipe Alfaiate is a Mason Fellow and MC/MPA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. An innovator\, critical and strategic thinker\, he has a passion for new ideas and unique expertise at intersection of Law\, social issues and development. Filipe has launched and led social projects in Portugal\, Brazil and Timor-Leste focusing on social change\, economic development and social inclusion. He has 16 years’ experience as adviser and consultant to governments\, private sector firms and non-governmental organizations\, in Law\, Innovation\, Economic Empowerment and Policy and worked in more than 20 countries.  A qualified lawyer in Portugal\, Timor-Leste and England\, Filipe was senior associate in the international law firm Clifford Chance. Later\, he was the senior adviser of Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister providing advice on investment\, Law and the drafting of the country’s National Strategic Plan. In 2010 Filipe co-Founded and directed the timorese NGO Empreza Diak\, focusing his work on business development and innovation.  Ariana Almeida is a social entrepreneur\, gender equality and economic empowerment expert and program manager. Her passion for fighting social injustices and for working with those with fewer opportunities in life to build better futures inspired her to work in development.  After working with Save the Children (UK\, Brazil\, Hong Kong\, Timor-Leste) and Plan International (Timor-Leste) she co-founded the social enterprise Empreza Diak\, which received the prestigious Sergio Vieira de Mello Human Rights Award\, 2014 by Timor-Leste’s President. She led the organization’s women economic empowerment program and advocated for gender equality. Ariana holds a Law Degree and brings her law and development expertise to her management\, advocacy and program and policy design.                URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-building-an-award-winning-ngo-an-insight-on-the-challenges-and-reality-behind-the-dream-to-make-a-difference/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T183000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170120T033800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004453Z UID:15058-1486574100-1486578600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Stories and Statistics: Why we need mixed methods to understand international development (Co-Sponsored with the Ash Center) DESCRIPTION:Quantitative or qualitative: which evaluation method is more useful?  This has long been a contentious debate in the field of international development.  Yet while individual methods like randomized control trials\, ethnography\, structured observations\, and interviews are each well-placed to reveal parts of the picture\, each can also miss important parts of the whole.  Thus the question is: how can researchers become more deliberate and holistic in using mixed methods to understand the full picture?  The Transparency for Development Project is seeking to answer that question in its pursuit of understanding of whether\, where\, and how citizen-led transparency and accountability interventions can improve health.  Join us as T4D Principal Investigators Archon Fung\, Dan Levy\, and Stephen Kosack reflect on the T4D project’s mixed method approach and draw on early insights from the evaluation that demonstrate the importance of integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in evaluating development programs.   Speakers: Dan Levy\, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy\, HKS; Faculty Chair\, SLATE Stephen Kosack\, Associate Professor\, University of Washington; Senior Research Fellow\, Ash Center   Moderator: Archon Fung\, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship; Academic Dean\, HKS   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/stories-and-statistics-why-we-need-mixed-methods-to-understand-international-development-co-sponsored-with-the-ash-center/ LOCATION:Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Suite 200N\, 124 Mt Auburn Street\, Cambridge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170203T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20170119T192100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14956-1486126800-1486130400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: How Some Rustbelt Cities are Becoming the Smartest Places on Earth and Why it Matters DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Antoine van Agtmael\, senior adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics and principal founder\, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC. Mr. van Agtmael is senior adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics\, a public policy advisory firm in Washington DC and was the principal founder\, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC (and later chairman of AshmoreEMM)\, a leading investment management firm for emerging market equities.  He was also a founding director of the Strategic Investment GroupSM.  Before founding EMM in 1987\, Mr. van Agtmael was Deputy Director of the Capital Markets department of the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”)\, the private sector-oriented affiliate of the World Bank. While at IFC\, he coined the term “emerging markets” and founded the IFC Emerging Markets Database. He was also a Division Chief in the World Bank’s borrowing operations\, Managing Director of Thailand’s leading merchant bank TISCO and Vice President at Bankers Trust Company.  Mr. van Agtmael is co-author of The Smartest Places on Earth (Public Affairs\, March 2016)\, author of The Emerging Markets Century (Free Press\, 2007)\, Emerging Securities Markets (Euromoney\, 1984)\, and co-editor of The World’s Emerging Stock Markets (Probus Publishing\, 1992). He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and taught at the Harvard Institute of Politics and Thammasat University\, Bangkok. He has lectured widely at universities and other professional audiences around the world. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School\, an M.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He is a Board member of The Brookings Institution (and Co-Chair of its International Advisory Council)\, the NPR Foundation (and until 2013 its Chair and NPR board member)\, the Smithsonian’s Freer Sackler Gallery\, and Magnum Photos. He is also a member of the Yale President’s Council on International Activities and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married and has two children and a grandchild.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-how-some-rustbelt-cities-are-becoming-the-smartest-places-on-earth-and-why-it-matters/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161207T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161128T232500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14947-1481119200-1481122800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - How Change Happens: How Political and Social Change Takes Place and the Role of Individuals and Organization in Influencing that Change DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Duncan Green\, Oxfam Strategic Adviser\, LSE Professor of International Development Duncan Green will introduce his new book and provide a chance for the audience to challenge\, engage and add their own perspectives. How Change Happens explores how political and social change takes place\, and the role of individuals and organizations in influencing that change. He will discuss the challenges that ‘systems thinking’ creates for traditional activism and aid\, and how a ‘power and systems approach’ requires activists\, whether in campaigns\, companies or governments\, to fundamentally rethink the way they understand the world and try to influence it.   *Lunch is served   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-how-change-happens-how-political-and-social-change-takes-place-and-the-role-of-individuals-and-organization-in-influencing-that-change/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161121T202400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14951-1480682700-1480687200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Productive Transformation in Latin America and Strategic Participation in Global Value Chains: An OECD Perspective DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Roberto Martinez Yllescas\, Head of OECD Mexico Centre \nAs head of the OECD Mexico Centre\, Roberto Martínez Yllescas (MPP ’95) works to increase the OECD’s relevance and impact in Mexico and Latin America. Roberto was previously Chief of Staff to Commissioner Labardini as one of the founders of Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute. Previously\, he was a Senior Advisor in the Secretariat of Communications and Transport in Mexico. He has over fifteen years of experience working in governmental\, multilateral organisations and private sector companies as Government Affairs manager in Mexico at Intel Corp\, as well as Central-Southern Regional Chief for the National Telecommunications\, Electronics and IT Industry Association of Mexico. He has also been a senior consultant to the United Nations Development Programme\, USAID and Mexico’s Centre for Intellectual Capital and Competitiveness. Mr. Martínez Yllescas\, a Mexican national\, holds a BA in International Relations from El Colegio de México\, a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government *Lunch is served   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-productive-transformation-in-latin-america-and-strategic-participation-in-global-value-chains-an-oecd-perspective/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161201T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161201T183000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161121T193600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004333Z UID:15052-1480611600-1480617000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Security and Development Seminar: Transnational Crime: Gangs\, Guns\, Drugs\, and Development in Latin America DESCRIPTION:The second session in CID’s new Security and Development Seminar Series. This session will explore how trafficking in illicit drugs\, weapons\, and persons by transnational criminal organizations impedes development in many Latin American countries. Speakers: Thomas Abt\, Innovation in Citizen Security Project\, CID Daniel Mejia\, Secretary of Security of Bogota\, Colombia Steven Dudley\, Co-director\, InSight Crime\, Wilson Center João M P De Mello\, Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies There will be a live stream of the event on CID’s Facebook page. Seating capacity is 40. RSVP to cid@hks.harvard.edu to confirm a seat. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/security-and-development-seminar-transnational-crime-gangs-guns-drugs-and-development-in-latin-america/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T203000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161121T195400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14963-1480359600-1480365000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Nurturing Economic Growth: What Should LATAM Countries do under the New Normal? DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carlos Fernández Valdovinos\, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann\, Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University \nCarlos Fernández Valdovinos\, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay since October 2013. He has a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Chicago\, 1999)\, Master in Economic Policy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, 1994) and graduated in economics (Federal University of Parana\, Brazil\, 1990). Previously\, he served as the Managing Director of the Economic Research Division at the CBP (2001-2004)\, senior economist covering Argentina at the World Bank in Washington\, DC (2004-2006)\, senior economist at the African\, European and Western Hemisphere Departments\, and Representative for Brazil and Bolivia at the International Monetary Fund (2006 – 2013). Fernández Valdovinos is part of the Board of Directors of the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) and Governor of Paraguay before the International Monetary Fund. Both in 2015 and 2016\, he was a recipient of the “Best Central Banker Award” by Global Finance Magazine. Co-sponsors: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; HKS Spanish Caucus; the Latinx Caucus; and the Latin American Caucus Photo: CC BY-SA 4.0  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/nurturing-economic-growth-what-should-latam-countries-do-under-the-new-normal/ LOCATION:Starr Auditorium\, 2nd Floor Belfer\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T181000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161119T015200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003102Z UID:14976-1480353000-1480356600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Political Prisoners and Torture in Venezuela: The Experience of an HKS Alumnus and Venezuelan Political Prisoner DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Francisco Marquez\, MPP’12 and political prisoner; Tarek Masoud\, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Francisco Marquez Lara is a Venezuelan lawyer and polítical activist with the Voluntad Popular party. He was held as a political prisoner in Venezuela for four months. Throughout this time he was detained in four facilities under three organizations. This is the story of what he lived through and witnessed.  Before his imprisonment\, Marquez was Chief of Staff for the Mayor of El Hatillo in Caracas. He obtained his law degree at Catholic University Andres Bello and his Master in Public Policy degree at Harvard Kennedy School. Related – El Pais: Strife-torn Venezuela frees two political prisoners URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/political-prisoners-and-torture-in-venezuela-the-experience-of-an-hks-alumnus-and-venezuelan-political-prisoner/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse\, 4th Floor Littauer\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161128T195400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T230017Z UID:14813-1480350600-1480356000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Business History Seminar - HBS DESCRIPTION:Business history InitiativeWe seek to enable scholars\, educators\, and practitioners to learn from the past by providing rich and nuanced evidence on the key issues faced by the world today. Since the work of Joseph Schumpeter and the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History in the 1940s\, Harvard has taken an interdisciplinary and global approach to understanding business history. Presenter: Arne Westad\, Harvard University “World’s Apart: The Cold War in the 20th Century” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/business-history-seminar-hbs/ LOCATION:Baker B82 – HBS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161117T205900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14952-1479473100-1479477600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Too Small to Fail: Why Small Countries are Outperforming Larger Ones and What Lessons can be Learned DESCRIPTION:Speaker: R. James Breiding\, Author \n‘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 Made – The Untold Story behind Switzerland’s Success. Published in 10 languages and offered by 50 Swiss ambassadors as a diplomatic gift\, ‘Swiss Made’ has become the most authoritative work on Swiss socio-economic history. Mr. Breiding is a graduate of IMD Lausanne and the Harvard Kennedy School. He has been selected as a fellow by Harvard University’s Center for International Development in connection with his research on Swiss Made. His work has been widely published in publications like the Economist\, the Financial Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, and the New York Times\, etc. He worked as a chartered accountant and senior manager at Price Waterhouse Coopers; a director at NM Rothschild + Sons; and managing director at Templeton Investment. He founded\, with the assistance of Sir John Templeton and other prominent investors\, Naissance Capital\, a Swiss ‘boutique’ Investment firm. He is a Swiss citizen.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-too-small-to-fail-why-small-countries-are-outperforming-larger-ones-and-what-lessons-can-be-learned/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T183000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161105T012000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14900-1479315600-1479321000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Education for People and Planet: Creating Sustainable Futures for All DESCRIPTION: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 – 2030). The Report presents a comprehensive vision of the ways in which education is linked to the other 16 sustainable development goals\, and details the implications for monitoring the education goal (SDG 4). The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion. \nPriyadarshani Joshi is from Nepal and is a researcher with the Global Education Monitoring Report\, housed in UNESCO. She joined the team in 2014\, and her chief emphasis has been on articulating education’s role in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. 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 system wide quality and equity in the education sector in developing countries. Prior to her doctoral work\, her 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. Priya holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Chemistry from Amherst College\, and a Master’s in Public Administration (Economic Policy) from Princeton University. \nMichèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She will serve as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017. A cultural sociologist\, Lamont is the coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States\, Brazil\, and Israel(Princeton University Press\, 2016). She is also the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and has published close to one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality\, race\, racism and stigma\, social change and social resilience\, academia and knowledge\, and qualitative social science research. She is currently working on a monograph titled Being Worthy and is completing a co-edited Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine on “Mutuality\, Health Promotion and Collective Cultural Change.” She serves as the Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Co-Director of the Successful Societies program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. \nConnie K. Chung is the Associate Director for the Global Education Innovation Initiative and a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, teaching a research practicum about education quality. She conducts research about civic\, global citizenship\, and 21st century education. She is especially interested in how to build the capacities of organizations and people to work collaboratively toward providing a relevant\, rigorous\, meaningful education for all children that not only supports their individual growth but also the growth of their communities. She is the co-editor of the book\, Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century: Educational Goals\, Policies\, and Curricula from Six Nations (Harvard Education Press\, 2016)\, a co-author of the K-12 curriculum resource\, Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform\, 2016)\, and a contributor to a book about US education improvement efforts\, A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (Oxford University Press\, 2011). A former high school English literature teacher\, she was nominated by her students for teaching awards. Connie received her BA\, EdM\, and EdD from Harvard University and her dissertation analyzed the individual and organizational factors that facilitated people from diverse ethnic\, religious\, and socio-economic class backgrounds to work together to improve their community. This event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/education-for-people-and-planet-creating-sustainable-futures-for-all/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS CATEGORIES:Speaker Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161110T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161110T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161103T235000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002343Z UID:14943-1478781900-1478786400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Designing Technology for the "Other" 5 Billion DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Umar Saif\, Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board With 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 in the province of Punjab in Pakistan. These systems have been used for targeting 13 million Dengue containment activities\, monitoring 53\,000 schools in Punjab\, tracking 3\,700 vaccinators and collecting feedback from 11 million citizens. Each system highlights a unique set of challenges and opportunities for designing systems for the developing-world. Prof. Saif will conclude by explaining the challenge of measuring socio-economic impact of projects in the developing-world and present a new smartphone-based platform aimed at democratizing data collection\, surveys and randomized controlled trails at a large scale. Buffet lunch served. No RSVP required. Space available on a first-come\, first-served basis. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-designing-technology-for-the-other-5-billion/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161104T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161104T130000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161031T163600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002503Z UID:14953-1478259900-1478264400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Venezuela: How an Oil Rich Country Went Bust and the Roadmap to Get It Back on Track DESCRIPTION: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 staples and medicines are rampant. In order to promote a better understanding of the causes\, magnitudes\, and possible remedies of the crisis\, the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University launched a research initiative on Venezuela at the end of 2015. To learn more about this work and some preliminary findings\, visit our project page. Members of our research team will share their experiences and preview their findings at this seminar. *Originally scheduled in the Perkins Room\, please note the location of this seminar is now in the Malkin Penthouse. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-venezuela-how-an-oil-rich-country-went-bust-and-the-roadmap-to-get-it-back-on-track/ LOCATION:*Malkin Penthouse\, 4th Floor Littauer\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161031T162000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T235656Z UID:14815-1478188800-1478192400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Case Study Seminar - Global Leadership and Management at a Time of Rapid Change: Translating Macro-trends to the Individual Organization DESCRIPTION: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 $1 billion for children in 120 countries\, and is former chair of the board of InterAction.  Dr. MacCormack will discuss how organizations and associations of organizations respond to unpredictable change at the organizational level. He will highlight the case of Save the Children.RSVP required. Email cid@hks.harvard.edu. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/case-study-seminar-global-leadership-and-management-at-a-time-of-rapid-change-translating-macro-trends-to-the-individual-organization/ LOCATION:Perkins Room\, 4th floor Rubensteing bldg\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T130000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161019T174500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002439Z UID:14950-1477655100-1477659600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Start-up Culture for Security and Development — CANCELLED DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled. To be rescheduled in the spring. Details TBD.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-peace-through-entrepreneurship-investing-in-a-start-up-culture-for-security-and-development-cancelled/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161003T173500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T225948Z UID:15050-1477573200-1477580400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Security and Development Seminar: Corruption\, Impunity\, and Development in Latin America DESCRIPTION: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 stream of the event on CID’s Facebook page. Seating capacity is 40. RSVP to cid@hks.harvard.edu to confirm a seat. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/security-and-development-seminar-corruption-impunity-and-development-in-latin-america/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, Rubenstein Building\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T130000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161011T193000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14942-1477050300-1477054800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - City SMARTup: New Tools to Fire Up Your Smart City Project DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Renato De Castro\, International Advisor\, World e-Governments Organization   \nRenato 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 also a member of the global advisory board of Leading Cities\, located in Boston\, and international advisor for The World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments\, in Seoul. Renato responds as mentor and advisor specialized in globalization strategies for startups around the world. He is a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at Maastricht School of Management\, MSM\, Netherlands\, researching about Smart Cities. He is also a writer\, columnist and video blogger for Smart City\, ICT and Urbanization Strategies topics. Note: This talk will be held in Nye A in the Taubman building. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-city-smartup-new-tools-to-fire-up-your-smart-city-project/ LOCATION:Nye A\, 5th Floor Taubman\, HKS CATEGORIES:Speaker Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T173000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161018T013500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:15049-1476806400-1476811800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Saving a Nation: Restoring the Rule of Law In Guatemala DESCRIPTION: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 the 1990s. The CICIG  represents an innovative initiative by the United Nations together with a Member State to strengthen the rule of law in a post-conflict country. Before his post with CICIG\, Commissioner Gómez was a prosecutor in Colombia\, where he investigated the ties and relations of former President Uribe to paramilitary groups. Co-sponsored by the Center for International Development\, the Carr Center for Human Rights\, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Tickets to this event are free\, with priority given to Harvard students\, but you MUST register HERE    URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/saving-a-nation-restoring-the-rule-of-law-in-guatemala/ LOCATION:Adams House LCR END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T130000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20161006T173700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14945-1476445500-1476450000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Empowering Human Capital and Institutions through Higher Education DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Angelica Natera\, Executive Director LASPAU \nAngélica 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 has worked on the design and management of educational programs for public and private universities\, governmental agencies\, private companies and non-profit organizations in Latin America\, Spain and the United States. In working with different regions in the world\, Angélica has developed extensive expertise and a deep understanding of global trends and innovation in higher education. Angélica has developed programs to improve teaching in public and private universities in Latin America and the Caribbean\, programs on effective learning and teaching in engineering and science\, programs to improve entrepreneurship education\, and initiatives to promote the development of clusters of innovation and competitiveness through the integration of universities\, government and industry. She has led educational programs for a broad range of organizations and entities\, including the United States Department of State\, Goldman Sachs Foundation’s 10\,000 Women Initiative\, the Kellogg Foundation\, the Ministry of Education in Chile\, the Ministry of Higher Education\, Science and Technology in the Dominican Republic\, and the Council of Science and Technology in Colombia among others. These programs and initiatives have involved experts from Harvard University\, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, Olin College\, Brown University\, and the University of California. Angélica has advised governments and university leaders on innovation in learning and teaching. In 2007 she founded the Initiative for the Development of Academic Innovation\, which has contributed to the professional development of thousands of university teachers and academic leaders in Latin America. She has been invited to share her ideas and experience across the US\, Latin America\, Caribbean\, Africa\, Asia and the Middle East. Because of her work and leadership\, Angélica has been invited to present at the National Hispana Leadership Institute\, a program for successful Latinas leaders in the US. Angélica is Venezuelan and holds a graduate certificate in administration and management from Harvard University\, a graduate degree in psychology from the Universidad Simón Bolivar in Venezuela\, and a bachelor of administrative and management sciences from the Universidad Tecnológica del Centro in Venezuela. In 2010 Angélica was awarded the Harvard University Administrative Fellowship\, a program of the office of the assistant to the President\, which selects talented individuals in the university. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-empowering-human-capital-and-institutions-through-higher-education/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T130000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20160927T002200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14941-1475840700-1475845200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Can Government Promote Evidence-based Innovation in Development? DESCRIPTION:  Speaker: Anne Healy (MPA/ID ’12)\, Managing Director of Development Innovation Ventures (DIV)\, USAID Anne 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 500 companies\, federal and state government entities\, multilateral organizations\, and philanthropies on strategy\, organizational change\, and operations\, with a focus on economic development and crisis response and recovery. Anne was part of the senior leadership team that established the Innovations for Poverty Action operation in Kenya\, where she also oversaw randomized controlled trials in the water and sanitation sector with leading development economists from Harvard and Berkeley. Most recently\, as Senior Advisor at the State Department\, Anne advised Deputy Secretary Heather Higginbottom on global health security and innovation in Department operations and management. DIV recruits graduate student summer interns\, so this would be a useful opportunity for students starting to consider internship options to hear about an exciting opportunity in the public sector. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-can-government-promote-evidence-based-innovation-in-development/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS CATEGORIES:Speaker Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T130000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20160913T212900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002407Z UID:14946-1475235900-1475240400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Evaluating a Green Finance Investment: Scaling-Up Renewable Geothermal Energy in Indonesia DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Migara Yawardena\, Senior Energy Specialist in the Energy and Extractives Global Practice\, The World Bank Migara 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 challenges related to climate change.  In his current position\, he works mainly on business development\, policy advice\, and investment lending challenges in the Latin America and Caribbean region.  Previously\, Mr. Jayawardena worked in the East Asia region of the World Bank where he led work on climate change and support to a globally unprecedented geothermal renewable energy development program; institutional reform of utilities; power transmission and distributional system strengthening; hydropower development; rural energy access; and oil and gas sector issues. Mr. Jayawardena has also worked in Europe and Central Asia and Africa regions of the World Bank\, in addition to holding the position of Special Assistant to the Vice President of Human Resources. Prior to joining the World Bank\, Mr. Jayawardena was the Assistant Program Director and a Faculty Member for the Program on Investment Appraisal and Management\, at Harvard University’s Institute for International Development (HIID).  He also helped establish Cambridge Resources International (CRI)\, an investment and risk advisory consultancy. Migara received his B.Sc. in Economics from Towson State University and his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-evaluating-a-green-finance-investment-scaling-up-renewable-geothermal-energy-in-indonesia/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS CATEGORIES:Speaker Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T130000 DTSTAMP:20260422T051948 CREATED:20160913T211900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175416Z UID:14958-1474631100-1474635600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Making a Mark and Achieving Your Highest Potential in the Development Sector DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Soulaima Gourani\, CEO Capital Aid & Owner\, Tradeconductor.com \nSoulaima Gourani is a Danish CEO\, motivational speaker\, author\, and philanthropist whose vision is to make the world a more tolerant place through international trade and business relations. She is currently CEO of CapitalAid\, a Denmark-based company helping small businesses to accelerate growth through strategic growth loans\, and as CEO of Tradeconductor.com\, a service working to implement trade relations and connecting manufacturers with distributors. Gourani has also worked as an advisor to several major companies (e.g. Samsung\, Microsoft\, Dell\, Ernst & Young\, Deloitte\, Danske Bank\, etc.) on customer loyalty\, strategic networking\, employee motivation\, and designing sustainable products. Alongside her work with business growth and trade\, Gourani serves as the chair of numerous other organizations including Global Dignity\, a nonprofit working to engage youth in conversations about dignity\, and the Mara Mentor Initiative\, an online platform seeking to empower young African entrepreneurs in their business ventures URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-making-a-mark-and-achieving-your-highest-potential-in-the-development-sector/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS CATEGORIES:Speaker Series END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR