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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: Pandeli 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]