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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Start-up Culture for Security and Development
DESCRIPTION: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 recently\, he was Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship at the US Department of State where he created and managed the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP)\, focused primarily in job creation via entrepreneurship in Muslim majority countries.  Previously\, Steven has 30 years of business experience as an investment banker (Salomon Brothers)\, management consultant (McKinsey & Company)\, media industry (Warner Bros and Lifetime Television)\, and as a multiple company successful entrepreneur and angel investor.  He is a long time member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he was an International Affairs Fellow.  Koltai serves on numerous for profit and not-for-profit Boards\, including the Tisch College of Active Citizenship at Tufts University (his alma mater)\, Babson Global at Babson College\, the Library of Congress’ David Rubenstein Literacy Awards Committee\, the Museum of Hungarian-speaking Jewry in Safed\, Israel\, and Advancing Girls Education (AGE) Africa in Malawi. 	Koltai was born in Budapest\, Hungary\, fleeing to the U.S. as a small child with his family following the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.  He was raised in Los Angeles\, California and Kansas City\, Missouri.  He has two sons and lives in Maine and Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-peace-through-entrepreneurship-investing-in-a-start-up-culture-for-security-and-development/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: A conversation with His Excellency Paul Kagame
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: His Excellency Paul Kagame\, President of The Republic of Rwanda THIS 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 Uganda where Kagame spent thirty years as a refugee. Determined to resist oppressive regimes\, as a young man\, Paul Kagame joined current Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his group of guerrilla fighters to launch a war to free Uganda from dictatorship. Under the new government\, he served as a senior military officer. In 1990\, Paul Kagame returned to Rwanda to lead the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) four-year struggle to liberate the country from the autocratic and divisive order established since independence. Led by Kagame\, the Rwanda Patriotic Army defeated the genocidal government in July 1994 and the RPF subsequently set Rwanda on its current course towards reconciliation\, nation building and socioeconomic development. Paul Kagame was appointed Vice-President and Minister for Defence in the Government of National Unity on 19 July 1994\, and four years later was elected Chairman of the RPF\, a partner in the Government of National Unity. On 22 April 2000 Paul Kagame took the Oath of Office as President of the Republic of Rwanda after being elected by the Transitional National Assembly. President Paul Kagame won the first ever democratic elections held in Rwanda in August 2003 and was re-elected to a second seven-year mandate in August 2010. President Kagame has received recognition for his leadership in peace building and reconciliation\, development\, good governance\, promotion of human rights and women’s empowerment\, and advancement of education and ICT\, and is widely sought after to address regional and international audiences on a range of issues including African development\, leadership\, and the potential of ICT as a dynamic industry as well as an enabler for Africa’s socioeconomic transformation. President Kagame served as chair of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on MDGs from 2010 to 2015 and is the current co-chair of the ITU’s Broadband Commission alongside Carlos Slim. Paul Kagame is married to Jeannette Nyiramongi and they have four children. He is a keen tennis player and football fan. The Session will be moderated by Lant Pritchett\, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School Please contact Camila_Lobo@hks.harvard.edu if you have any questions about this event.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-a-conversation-with-his-excellency-paul-kagame/
LOCATION:NYE\, A\,B\,C – Taubman Building
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Made in Mexico: The Path Ahead for Trade and Migration Issues
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gerardo Esquivel\, Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico\, and Executive Coordinator of Research at the Instituto Belisario Domínguez of the Mexican Senate 	About the session: The session will discuss the future of trade (NAFTA) and migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. in the context of the Trump administration.  What are the scenarios? Is NAFTA over? What can be expected in migration policy?  	About the Speaker: Gerardo Esquivel received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1997. He also holds a B.A. in economics from the National University Autonomous of Mexico (UNAM\, 1989) and an M.A. in economics from El Colegio de Mexico (1991). He is currently a Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico\, where he has been since 1998\, and is the Executive Coordinator of Research at the Instituto Belisario Domínguez of the Mexican Senate. Previously\, he worked as a Senior Macroeconomics Researcher at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Mr. Esquivel has also been a consultant for the International Monetary Fund\, the Inter-American Development Bank\, the World Bank\, the United Nations Development Program and the Central Bank in Mexico. In 2011\, Mr. Esquivel was Tinker Visiting Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy in the University of Chicago. Dr. Esquivel has written extensively on several economic issues and has received numerous distinctions for his research.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-made-in-mexico-the-path-ahead-for-trade-and-migration-issues/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Parag Khanna\, Geo-Strategist\, best selling author & Senior Research Fellow\, National University of Singapore. \nParag Khanna will present his book\, “Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization”. In this book Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity more than borders. His journeys take us from Ukraine to Iran\, Mongolia to North Korea\, Panama City to Dubai\, and the Arctic Circle to the South China Sea—all to show how 21st century conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines and Internet cables\, advanced technologies and market access.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-connectography-mapping-the-future-of-global-civilization/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room\, Taubman Building\, Harvard Kennedy School
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