Brasília, 29 November 2020.
Dear colleagues,
This is the selection of free webinars for this week about political economy, public policy and business-government relations.
Please, observe the time zones, and thanks for all the suggestions.
Best regards,
Arthur Wittenberg.
Monday, 30 November
1:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – King’s – History and Policy Making Conference with Bank of England
2:00pm – 3:30pm (GMT) – King’s – Narcoviolence during a pandemic: the case of Mexico
4:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – LSE – Theory and Practice: designing anti-poverty programs when power matters
4:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – UCL – Understanding innovation in the African informal economy
Tuesday, 1 December
9:30am – 10:30am (EST) – PIIE – Rebuilding the Global Economy: Role of the US Department of State
11:00am – 12:00pm (EST) – Georgetown – Human Rights & Women’s Leadership during COVID-19 with Michelle Bachelet
11:00am – 12:00pm (PST) – Stanford – Russia’s challenge to the West: A British perspective
11:00am – 12:00pm (EST) – Brookings – The future of tech antitrust in the Biden administration
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EST) – Atlantic Council – Leadership through crisis: A keynote conversation with Christine Lagarde
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EST) – Harvard – The First 100 Days: A Conversation with Jacqui Patterson on Climate and Environmental Policy in the Biden Administration
1:00pm – 2:00pm (GMT) – Institute for Government – Where next for special advisers?
5:00pm – 6:00pm (EST) – Harvard – A Conversation with the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Wednesday, 2 December
8:30am – 9:30am (EST) – PIIE – What trade policy strategy for India?
10:00am – 11:00 (EST) – PIIE – Rebuilding the Global Economy: Role of the International Monetary Fund
11:00am – 12:00pm (EST) – Brookings – A conversation with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EST) – Yale – Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, with Fareed Zakaria
4:00pm – 5:30pm (GMT) – Canning House – Latin American Trade Alliances, with Andrés Velasco, Vera Thorstensen, Pablo Sanguinetti and Vanessa Rubio
4:00pm – 5:00pm (EST) – Brookings – US-Russia relations: A conversation with Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov
Thursday, 3 December
11:00am – 12:00pm (BRT) – Valor – Live do Valor: Waldery Rodrigues, secretário especial da Fazenda do Ministério da Economia
3:00pm – 4:15pm (CET) – BIS – Central banks and the macroeconomy
4:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – Cambridge – Political Polarisation 2.0: Insights from Psychology & Computational Social
4:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – Oxford – Reimagining Public Service in the Wake of Covid-19
6:30pm – 8:00pm (GMT) – LSE – Trust, Resilience and the Effectiveness of Government: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis
Friday, 4 December
9:00am – 10:30am (BRT) – FGV – A implementação do Open Banking no Brasil
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