Brasília, 4 April 2021.
Dear colleagues,
This is the selection of free webinars for this week about political economy, public policy and business-government relations. This week, a special highlight to the Spring Meetings 2021 from the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund from 5 – 11 April.
Please, observe the time zones, and thanks for all the suggestions. There is also a print version below:
Best regards,
Arthur Wittenberg.
Monday, 5 April
8:30am – 9:30am (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Emerging markets recovery in 2021: A conversation with Mexico’s Finance Minister Herrera
10:30am – 11:30am (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Leaders of the Americas: A conversation with H.E. Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica
7:00pm – 8:45pm (EDT) – Columbia – Panel Discussion on Economic Impact of COVID-19 One Year Later
Tuesday, 6 April
9:00am – 9:45am (EDT) – PIIE – Discussion with Randal K. Quarles about the FSB
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – The First 100 Days: A Conversation with Joe Aldy on Climate and Environmental Policy in the Biden Administration
5:00pm – 6:00pm (EDT) – Columbia – 24th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum
5:00pm – 6:30pm (PDT) – Stanford – China and U.S. Collaboration on Climate Change
6:00pm – 7:30pm (BST) – King’s – Book Discussion – Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil by Matthew Taylor
Wednesday, 7 April
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – PIIE – A trade and environment negotiations agenda in the WTO: Part 2
11:00am – 12:00am (EDT) – Georgetown – Rebuilding Latin America From the Inside
12:00pm – 12:45pm (EDT) – Yale – Colloquium on Business and Society: A Transcultural Conversation with Claude Grunitzky
12:00pm – 1:15pm (PDT) – Stanford – Partner, Competitor, and Challenger: Thoughts on the Future of America’s China Strategy
12:00pm – 12:45pm (EDT) – Harvard – President Bill Clinton Delivers Inaugural Stephen W. Bosworth Memorial Lecture in Diplomacy
3:00pm – 4:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – Advocacy Communications Ethics and Communications Workshop with Peter Loge
4:30pm – 5:30pm (EDT) – Harvard – Lessons from Crisis Management, with Edwin Truman and Timothy Geithner
Thursday, 8 April
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – The Challenges Ahead in Covering Environmental and Climate Justice
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT) – Havard – The Biden Administration’s First 100 Days: Undoing the Undoing of Environmental Protection Law
1:00pm – 2:00pm (BST) – King’s – Conversations with Strategy featuring Kevin O’Brien on Digital Intelligence and Cyber Security
4:30pm – 5:30pm (EDT) – Harvard – The Macroeconomic Policy Response to the Pandemic: the What, the How, and the What Next?
6:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – Disinformation’s Consequences
Friday, 9 April
11:00am – 12:00pm (EST) – Harvard – Regulating Disinformation and Harmful Content Online: Recommendations to U.S. Policymakers
2:00pm – 3:45pm (EST) – Brookings – Wall Street Comes to Washington health care roundtable
4:00pm – 5:00pm (BST) – Oxford – Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how can it be fixed?
Arthur Wittenberg 