Brasília, 11 April 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, 12 April
8:00am – 9:30am (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Comparing the US and EU response to the COVID-19 economic crisis
12:00pm – 2:00pm (EDT) – Columbia – The Russian Private Sector Today: Challenges and Prospects
1:00pm – 2:30pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – Environmental Leadership: Latin American Perspectives on the Climate Crisis
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – King’s – Professor Martin Ellison: The Economic Impact of Recession Announcements
3:30pm – 5:00pm (BST) – UCL – Four scenarios for digital transformation: a neo-Schumpeterian perspective
4:40pm – 5:30pm (EDT) – Harvard – Service, not Subsidies: How Government can help create jobs
Tuesday, 13 April
9:00am – 11:00am (BST) – Financial Times – The First 100 Days: Biden’s early policies and their impact on Asia
9:30am – 11:00pm (EDT) – Atlantic Council – The modern government services company: Innovating solutions to public challenges
4:30pm – 5:30pm (EDT) – Harvard – The Day after the Pandemic: Public Debt and Economic Recovery in Emerging Market and Low Income Countries
Wednesday, 14 April
11:30am – 1:00pm (BST) – Chatham House – Paths for multi-stakeholder engagement in the fight against cybercrime
2:00pm – 3:30pm (BST) – Oxford – Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship session, Skoll World Forum 2021
Thursday, 15 April
2:00pm – 3:00pm (EDT) – Brookings – Rebuilding American infrastructure for the 21st century
5:00pm – 6:00pm (BST) – UCL – Beyond Decision 2020: In Conversation with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton
Friday, 16 April
12:00pm – 1:30pm (EDT) – Georgetown – Anti-Asian Racism: How Do We Move Forward?
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EST) – Harvard – The Political Economy of Climate Action: Does Democratic Maturity Explain the Environmental Policy Differences within the EU?
2:00pm – 3:30pm (EDT) – Harvard – Where are they now? Securing roles in Tech & Society
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – Oxford – Migration, Money Transfers and Mobile Money: Evidence from Niger
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – Oxford – Capitalism: What Has Gone Wrong, What Needs to Change, and How Can It Be Fixed, Anat Admati and Raghuram Rajan
Arthur Wittenberg 