Brasília, 13 December 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, 14 December
8:00am – 9:15am (EST) – PIIE – Monetary Policy and Inequality: COVID-19 and Beyond
9:00am – 11:30am (EST) – Columbia – Cyber Risk to Financial Stability 2020 State of the Field Conference
3:00pm – 4:00pm (GMT) – Geneva Trade and Development Workshop – Exports, Imports, and Earnings Inequality: Micro-Data and Macro-Lessons From Ecuador, with Dave Donaldson from the MIT
3:00pm – 4:00pm (BRT) – FGV – O Pacto Global e a política de ESG
3:00pm – 4:30pm (GMT) – Chatham House – Moving Food up the Political Agenda
5:00pm – 6:30pm (EST) – Harvard – China, the United States, and the Future World Order
Tuesday, 15 December
9:00am – 11:30am (EST) – Columbia – Cyber Risk to Financial Stability 2020 State of the Field Conference
12:30pm – 1:30pm (GMT) – UCL – Mission-oriented innovation in a time of COVID-19, with Professor Mariana Mazzucato and friends
1:00pm – 2:15pm (EST) – Columbia – Can the EU Lead the Fight against Climate Change?
2:00pm – 3:00pm (GMT) – The Economist – ESG investing: a spotlight on the ‘S’
2:20pm – 3:30pm (GMT) – Cambridge – Building Back Better: Natural Capital Accounting for a Green Recovery
3:00pm – 4:00pm (GMT) – Oxford – Cyril Foster Lecture 2020: Reflecting on the advances of International Relations
4:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – Chatham House – Expanding UK-Latin American Trade: Opportunities and Bottlenecks
7:00pm – 8:00pm (EST) – Cornell – The 2020 Election & The Future of Polling
Wednesday, 16 December
8:30am – 9:30am (EST) – PIIE – Rebuilding the Global Economy: Role of international finance and central banks
10:00am – 4:00pm (BRT) – Chevening Alumni Brazil – Diálogos Sobre Transformação Digital
11:00am – 12:00am (EST) – Columbia – Pandemic and Re-Shaping The Urban Landscape: Hyper Localization and 15-Minute Cities
5:00pm – 6:00pm (EST) – Atlantic Council – Latin America-China relations in 2021: Opportunities, risks, and recommendations
Thursday, 17 December
10:00am – 4:00pm (BRT) – Chevening Alumni Brazil – Diálogos Sobre Transformação Digital
12:00pm – 1:00pm (GMT) – UCL – Alternative ways to evaluate public value: Measuring missions and capturing market-shaping effects
12:15pm – 2:00pm (EST) – Harvard – Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform: Grand Strategy and Britain’s Liberal Empire, 1846–1914
2:00pm – 3:00pm (GMT) – Chatham House – What’s Next for Brazil’s Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES)?
4:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – Oxford – People Management: Building the Bridge Between the Public and Private Sector – A Conversation with Beto Sucupira
Friday, 18 December
9:30am – 10:30am (EST) – PIIE – Rebuilding the Global Economy: Role of international development and the multilateral development banks
10:00am – 11:00am (EST) – Georgetown – COVID-19 Policy Responses and Implications for Our Economic Future: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz
Arthur Wittenberg 