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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

Speaker: Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann, Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University Carlos 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, […]

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, […]

Speaker: Roberto Martinez Yllescas, Head of OECD Mexico Centre As 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 […]

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 […]

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), […]