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), […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 Authors Matt and Lant will present the recently launched book: "Building State Capability - Evidence, Analysis, Action". The book uses data to identify failures in efforts to build state […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Speaker: His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of The Republic of RwandaTHIS 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 […]