Events
Book Discussion: Opportunities and Obligations: New perspective on Global and U.S. Trade Policy
December 11, 2009 // 8:00am — 10:00am
Mark Drajem, Trade Reporter, Bloomberg News; Jason Kearns, Trade Counsel, House of Representatives Subcommittee on Trade; Terence P. Stewart, Editor, Opportunities and Obligations, and Managing Partner, Stewart and Stewart; Bruce Stokes, International Economics Columnist, National Journal; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy
Book Discussion: After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington
December 10, 2009 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
Nicole Gelinas, Author and Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; Moderator Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy
Book Discussion: The Great Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
October 15, 2009 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Book Discussion: In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
September 16, 2009 // 4:00pm — 6:00pm
Author David Wessel, Economics Editor, The Wall Street Journal and Former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Biofuels and Economic Development
July 24, 2009 // 8:30am — 4:30pm
with Luiz Guilherme de Oliveira, Universidade de Brasilia-UnB; Robbin Johnson, University of Minnesota; Ford Runge, University of Minnesota; Harry de Gorter, Cornell University; Maura O'Neill, Senior Advisor for Energy and Climate, USDA; and Kent Hughes, Director, Global Energy Initiative.
The European Edge in Education: What the United States Can Learn
July 16, 2009 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division, OECD Directorate for Education, which manages the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA); William Schmidt, Professor, Michigan State University, and Principal Researcher, The Preparation Gap: Teacher Education for Middle School Mathematics in Six Countries; Iris C. Rotberg, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University, and Editor, Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform
Conference on the Formulation of Energy and Climate Policy: Toward an Open and Transparent Process
June 18, 2009 // 9:00am — 6:00pm
The conference explores how best to assist policymakers in understanding the implications of various energy and climate policy options.
Book Launch: Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
April 27, 2009 // 9:30am — 11:00am
With co-authors Charles Weiss, Distinguished Professor of Science, Technology, and International Affairs, Georgetown University, and William B. Bonvillian, Director, MIT Washington Office
The Obama Administration: A Report Card on the First 100 Days
April 16, 2009 // 10:00am — 11:30am
Tom Fiedler, Dean, College of Communication, Boston University; Michael Fletcher, White House reporter, The Washington Post; Michael Kazin, Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University; Gerald Seib, Assistant Managing Editor and Executive Washington Editor, The Wall Street Journal; Linda Killian, Director, Washington Center, Boston University and Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center (moderator)
Seeing American Schools through the Prism of International Benchmarks
March 25, 2009 // 8:00am — 9:30am
With Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division of the OECD Directorate for Education