Past Events

2019 Oct 03

Learning Policy in Practice: Insights from Growth Lab Interns in Ethiopia

5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
WEX-G02
Moderator: Nikita Taniparti, Research Fellow, Growth Lab
Panel Speakers: Jason Keene;...
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2019 Sep 18

Atlas of Economic Complexity: Country Profiles Launch & Livestream

Registration Closed 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Location:
Wexner 436, Fourth Floor, HKS
Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafiki Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy; Director, Growth Lab
Annie White, Senior Product Manager, Growth Lab
Tim Cheston, ...
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2019 Apr 26

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Democracy Lab (R414 AB), Rubenstein Building 4th floor, HKS
Speaker: Andrés Reséndez, Professor, Department of History at University of California Davis; Author, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.

About the talk: The Other...
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2019 Apr 19

Empowering Women in South Asia’s Slums: The Challenges of Environmental Degradation

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Democracy Lab (R414 AB), Rubenstein Building 4th floor, HKS
Speakers: Amit Patel, Assistant Professor, McCormack Graduate School for Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
Ammar Malik, Director, EPoD Research

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2019 Apr 12

Hard Data: Adventures in Evidence Collection

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Bell Hall (B500), Belfer Building 5th floor, HKS
Speakers: Charity Moore, India Research Director
Sonya Suter, Senior Program Manager

About the Speakers:
Charity Moore: Charity Troyer Moore is the India Research Director for...
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2019 Apr 05

Improving Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihoods through Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Advice

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Perkins Room (R429), Rubenstein Building 4th floor, HKS
Speaker: Jonathan Lehe MPA/ID '17, Director of New Programs, Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD)

About the talk: The majority of the world’s 450 million...
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2019 Mar 29

Tackling Poverty Through Diplomacy and Development

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Bell Hall (B500), Belfer Building 5th floor, HKS
Speaker: Fatema Z. Sumar, Vice President of Global Programs, OXFAM America

About the talk: At a time when 65 million people are displaced from their homes and more than 800 million people go to bed hungry...
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2019 Mar 08

The Promises and Pitfalls of Philanthropy in International Development

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Democracy Lab (R414 AB), Rubenstein Building 4th floor, HKS
Speaker: Nageeb Sumar, Vice President, Philanthropic Strategies & Relationship Management Private Donor Group, Fidelity Charitable

About the talk: Private global philanthropy is on the rise, which has resulted in a shift in the stakeholders involved...
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2019 Mar 02

2019 Latin American Conference

8:00am to 6:30pm
Location:
Littauer Building, 1st Floor, HKS
About the Conference: The 2019 Latin American Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School will be the 6th edition of this student-organized conference. This conference aims at generating a space to analyze the region's main challenges through a debate featuring political actors, social leaders, policy experts and practitioners with a leadership position in Latin America. This is a platform to foster discussion and learning by encouraging the participation of students and faculty of Harvard and other institutions.

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2019 Mar 01

PDIA in Action: Challenges & Experiences

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Democracy Lab (R414AB), Rubenstein Building 4th Floor, HKS
Speaker: Salimah Samji, Director of the Building State Capability program at CID

About the talk: Building State Capability (BSC) program uses the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to help organizations develop the...
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