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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
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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
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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
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