Speaker: Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University About the talk: The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap has shrunk while […]

Speaker: María C. Latorre, member of the European Commission's group of experts in International Trade; Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid About the talk: With less than nine months before the UK is scheduled to depart from the EU, much uncertainty surrounds the future EU and UK relationship. It is clear, however, that Brexit will increase barriers between […]

Speaker: José Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director of Americas division, Human Rights Watch About the talk: The current exodus of Venezuelans has generated the largest migration crisis of its kind in recent Latin American history, as Human Rights Watch has pointed out in its most recent report. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have left their country since 2014, […]