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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]