Brasília, 14 March 2021.
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, 15 March
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – Harvard – Navalny and Next: Possibilities, Prognosis, and Perceptions in Russia
4:00pm – 5:30pm (GMT) – LSE – Understanding Violence and Political Markets in Africa and the Middle East: conclusions from the Conflict Research Programme
5:00pm – 6:00pm (GMT) – QMUL – Understanding And Combatting Corruption: The Role of the IMF
Tuesday, 16 March
2:00pm – 5:45pm (GMT) – Canning House – LatAm Outlook
6:00pm – 7:00pm (GMT) – LSE – Embedding Health Policy into Broader Economic Thinking
Wednesday, 17 March
9:00am – 10:00am (EDT) – PIIE – What trade and environment negotiations agenda for the WTO?
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – Privatizing Public Health: A Panel Discussion
12:00pm – 1:00pm (GMT) – Edinburgh – COP26: The stepping stones to success for Government and Business?
12:00pm – 1:30pm (GMT) – LSE – How Much is Your Health Worth? The Human and Economic Value of Health in the Era of COVID-19, with Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Dr Clare Wenham
1:30pm – 2:30pm (EDT) – Yale – Global Health Speaker Series | Professor Clarence C. Gravlee
2:10pm – 3:40pm (EDT) – Columbia – COVID-19, Trade, and the WTO – Resilience or Failure?
Thursday, 18 March
10:00am – 11:00am (GMT) – LSE – Getting Developing Asia Back on Track, with Masatsugu Asakawa, president of the Asian Development Bank
12:00pm – 1:15pm (EDT) – Yale – Yale Cyber Leadership Forum: Election Interference
2:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT) – King’s – The climate emergency: Do we need a whole new political economy?
2:00pm – 7:00pm (GMT) – King’s – Populism in Latin America and Beyond, Day 1
5:00pm – 6:00pm (EDT) – Cornell – The Future of Democracy: A Conversation With President Bill Clinton
8:00pm – 9:30pm (EDT) – Columbia – The Future of Compliance and Risk Management in Banking
Friday, 19 March
9:00am – 10:00am (EDT) – PIIE – European Union’s new trade agenda
2:00pm – 7:00pm (GMT) – King’s – Populism in Latin America and Beyond, Day 2
Arthur Wittenberg 