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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Shifting gears in Panama: Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
DESCRIPTION: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 are warning signs that indicate to a significant income deceleration and an increase in inequality. Miguel Angel Santos will talk about CID’s research initiative aimed at exploring export diversification opportunities and understanding the potential binding constraints that Panama can run into in the process of shifting gears towards a sustainable economic growth.  \nAbout the Speaker: Miguel Angel Santos is an Adjunct Professor in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. 	At CID\, he has been involved in various research projects aimed at helping governments to rethink their development strategies\, both at the national and sub-national levels. Since he joined CID in August 2014\, he has been involved in projects at the national level in Mexico\, Panama\, and Venezuela\, and at the sub-national level in Mexico in the states of Chiapas\, Baja California\, Tabasco and Campeche; and the city of Hermosillo at Sonora state. He has also performed as project manager in the projects leading to the build-up of the Mexican Atlas of Economic Complexity\, and the Peruvian Atlas of Economic Complexity. 	Before joining the field of international development\, Miguel worked for ten years in corporate finance and business development in Latin America\, performing as Director of Finance for the Cisneros Group of Companies (1997-2003)\, Head of Corporate Finance for Mercantil Servicios Financieros (2005-2007)\, and Business Vice-President for Sony Pictures and Entertainment Latin America (2008-2009). At that point\, he decided to switch tracks and get involved in development economics. 	He holds two Master of Science degrees in International Finance and Trade (2011) and Economics (2012) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (2014)\, and a Ph.D. in Economics at Universidad de Barcelona (2016). He was the head of the Macroeconomic Policy Team for presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski in the Venezuelan elections of 2012. 	DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-shifting-gears-in-panama-policy-recommendations-for-sustainable-and-inclusive-growth/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – R-429 Rubenstein 4th floor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T130000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Government Strategies for Diaspora Engagement: A Conversation with Pandeli Majko\, Minister of Diaspora of Albania
DESCRIPTION: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:  \nPandeli 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 at the same university (1994-2000). 	Mr. Majko has an extensive political career. From 1992 to 1995\, Mr. Majko served as President of the Euro-Socialist Youth Forum of Albania (FRESSH). He served two terms as Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of Albania and as Head of its Parliamentary Group. He also held twice the post of Minister of Defense when the Socialist Party was in power. His political career culminated in 1998-1999 when he became Prime Minister of Albania. In 2002\, he became once again Prime Minister for eight months. Additionally\, he was member of the Parliamentary Committee for drafting of the Albanian Constitution (1997-1998). 	Mr. Majko served as a Member of Parliament of Albania for six consecutive terms. He has also served as Chairman of the Albanian delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly as well as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs\, Public Administration and Human Rights. Mr. Majko is fluent in English and Italian. \nRicardo Hausmann is Director of Harvard’s Center for International Development and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government. He also teaches a capstone course on the MPAID program. Previously\, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (1994-2000)\, where he created the Research Department. He has served as Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993) and as a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. He was Professor of Economics at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA) (1985-1991) in Caracas\, where he founded the Center for Public Policy. His research interests include issues of growth\, macroeconomic stability\, international finance\, and the social dimensions of development. He holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-government-strategies-for-diaspora-engagement-a-conversation-with-pandeli-majko-minister-of-diaspora-of-albania/
LOCATION:WEX 434 AB – Wexner Building 4th floor\, Harvard Kennedy School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T130000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series - Tertiary Education and the Sustainable Development Goals
DESCRIPTION: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 the successful implementation of the Education for All agenda. The launch of the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations in September 2015 has given renewed consideration to the importance of education for development and the urgency of putting in place viable financing strategies. 	Against this background the presentation will explore the crucial role played by tertiary education towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It will underline that tertiary education finds itself at a crossroad today\, as national systems are pulled in several directions by a combination of factors—crisis factors\, rupture factors\, and stimulation factors—bringing about both opportunities and challenges. How these forces in the tertiary education ecosystem play out in each country will determine the new “perils” and “promises” that are likely to shape the contribution of tertiary education to economic and social development in the years to come. 	About the speaker:  	Jamil Salmi is a global tertiary education expert providing policy advice and consulting services to governments\, universities\, professional associations\, multilateral development banks and bilateral cooperation agencies. Until January 2012\, he was the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator.  He wrote the first World Bank policy paper on higher education reform in 1994 and was the principal author of the Bank’s 2002 Tertiary Education Strategy entitled “Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education”. In the past twenty-three years\, Dr. Salmi has provided advice on tertiary education development\, financing reforms and strategic planning to governments and university leaders in about 95 countries all over the world. 	  	Dr. Salmi is a member of the international advisory board of several universities in Europe\, Asia\, Latin America and North America. He is also a member of the CHEA International Quality Group Advisory Council. Dr. Salmi is Emeritus Professor of higher education policy at Diego Portales University in Chile and Research Fellow at Boston College’s Center for Higher Education. 	  	Dr. Salmi’s 2009 book addresses the “Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities”. His 2011 book\, co-edited with Professor Phil Altbach\, was entitled “The Road to Academic Excellence: the Making of World-Class Research Universities”. His latest book\, “Tertiary Education and the Sustainable Development Goals”\, was published in August 2017. 	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-tertiary-education-and-the-sustainable-development-goals/
LOCATION:WEX 434 AB – Wexner Building 4th floor\, Harvard Kennedy School
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: The road less travelled: lessons learned by shifting from finance to development
DESCRIPTION: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 MENA Field Investment Officer (FIO) based out of Cairo. Christopher was a Senior Trader at Traditum Group\, LLC\, a proprietary investment/trading fund in Chicago focusing on energy commodities and the U.S. Treasury yield curve. Chris worked with Element Markets\, LLC\, a renewable energy investment firm in Houston\, where he focused on the investment and financing components of renewable energy projects. Chris served in the Peace Corps in Russia and Latvia from 2000 to 2002 after completing his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Notre Dame and his MPA in International Energy Management and Policy from Columbia University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-the-road-less-travelled-lessons-learned-by-shifting-from-finance-to-development/
LOCATION:Rubenstein 4th floor – R414 (Democracy Lab) – Harvard Kennedy School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T130000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Accountability in Education: Meeting our Commitments – the 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring Report
DESCRIPTION: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 Monitoring Report is developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO. It has the official mandate of monitoring progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4: ensuring inclusive\, equitable and good-quality education and lifelong learning for all. 	The 2017/18 Report’s theme\, Accountability in Education: Meeting Our Commitments\, evaluates the role of accountability in global education systems. The report examines different accountability mechanisms that are used to hold governments\, schools\, teachers\, parents\, the international community\, and the private sector accountable for inclusive\, equitable and quality education. These include regulations\, testing\, monitoring\, audits\, media scrutiny and grass root movements. Through the analysis\, the Report develops recommendations on accountability mechanisms to help build stronger education systems. About the speaker: Priyadarshani Joshi is a Research Officer at the Global Education Monitoring Report team. Some of her core areas of interest and contribution in the team include education’s role in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and urban development\, gender\, and the role of the private sector. She has a PhD in Education Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Her personal research agenda focuses on the consequences of private sector growth for the public sector\, parental choice\, and systemwide equity in lower income countries\, building on her doctoral research in her home country of Nepal. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration (Economic Policy) from Princeton University\, and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Chemistry from Amherst College. Her previous professional backgrounds included research positions at the IMF and consultancies at UNICEF and the World Bank. Priya also initiated\, co-designed and was part of the board of an innovative mobile library project in Nepal\, one of the World Bank Development Marketplace 2003 Education Sector Project winners.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-accountability-in-education-meeting-our-commitments-the-2017-18-global-education-monitoring-report/
LOCATION:Littauer L-P-9 – Malkin Penthouse
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