Brasília, 16 May 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, 17 May
9:45am – 5:30pm (BST) – King’s – Annual Conference: Challenges facing Central Banks in the 2020s – Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance
2:15pm – 3:15pm (EDT) – Brookings – A national strategy for AI innovation
4:30pm – 5:45pm (BST) – QMUL – Mobility: the Social, Global and Policy Imperative
5:00pm – 6:00pm (BST) – QMUL – London Financial Regulation Seminar: Organisational culture and bank risk
7:00pm – 9:00pm (BRT) – IDP – Reforma Administrativa – Quais são as prioridades para a melhoria da gestão pública brasileira?
Tuesday, 18 May
9:30am – 5:00pm (BST) – King’s – The 2nd King’s Policy & Regulation Workshop
9:45am – 6:00pm (BST) – King’s – Annual Conference: Challenges facing Central Banks in the 2020s – Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance
4:00pm – 5:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – Police Violence, Memory, and Mobilization in Brazil
4:00pm – 6:00pm (BST) – King’s – ‘Law Beyond the State’: Book Launch
5:00pm – 6:30pm (PDT) – Stanford – Social Media’s Role in Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities
6:30pm – 7:30pm (BST) – Oxford – Operação Lava-Jato (Operation Car-Wash) and its political implications
Wednesday, 19 May
1:00pm – 2:00pm (BST) – LSE – A Decade of Behavioural Science at LSE – Part 2
2:00pm – 3:30pm (BRT) – FGV – Aspectos legais e regulatórios do Novo Marco do Saneamento
3:00pm – 4:00pm (BST) – Oxford Analytica – Emerging markets take on tech
5:00pm – 6:30pm (BST) – LSE – London and Whitehall: levelling up or down?
5:30pm – 6:30pm (BST) – Cambridge – Rethinking how we regulate Big Tech
Thursday, 20 May
9:00am – 10:00am (EDT) – PIIE – Poor countries need trade to recover from the pandemic. How can global cooperation help?
10:00am – 11:30am (BRT) – FGV – As políticas públicas frente à pandemia
12:00pm – 1:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – Mistrust: How to revitalize civics at a moment of low public trust in institutions
12:00pm – 3:30pm (CEST) – OECD – Lobbying in the 21st Century: Transparency, Integrity and Access
12:30am – 13:45am (BST) – King’s – Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next
2:00pm – 6:00pm (BST) – Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies and Centre For Economic Policy Research – Workshop in Development Economics 2021
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – Oxford – AI and the Biased Society: Is Europe Ready for an Algorithmic World?
7:15pm – 8:15pm (BST) – LSE – Doom: the politics of catastrophe, with Professor Niall Ferguson
Friday, 21 May
2:00pm – 6:00pm (BST) – Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies and Centre For Economic Policy Research – Workshop in Development Economics 2021
6:00pm – 7:00pm (BST) – Oxford – Corporate Boards and the Post-Covid Recovery
Arthur Wittenberg 