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CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert. Jamil talks about the role of the private sector in advancing tertiary education about the global regions that have made most progress in terms of improving access to education and how the regions that are lagging behind can move forward. Jamil also talks about why he remains optimistic and thinks we are about to witness a revolution in the way we learn. // www.cid.harvard.edu // Interview Recorded on February 9th, 2018. About Jamil Salmi: Dr. Salmi is a global tertiary education expert providing policy advice and consulting services to governments, universities, professional associations, multilateral development banks and bilateral cooperation agencies. Until January 2012, he was the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator. He wrote the first World Bank policy paper on higher education reform in 1994 and was the principal author of the Bank’s 2002 Tertiary Education Strategy entitled “Constructing Knowledge S

CID research fellow Ljubica Nedelkoska interviews Minister Pandeli Majko, Minister of Diaspora at the Republic of Albania. The Minister talks about the recently created Diaspora ministry, about the recent efforts Albania has done to engage with its community leaving abroad and the upcoming strategy to strengthen this community’s relationship with the homeland. // www.cid.harvard.edu // About Minister Majko: Pandeli Majko was born in Tirana on November 15, 1967. He graduated from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (1986-1992). He also completed his studies at the Faculty of Law at the same university (1994-2000). Mr. Majko has an extensive political career. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Majko served as President of the Euro-Socialist Youth Forum of Albania (FRESSH). He served two terms as Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of Albania and as Head of its Parliamentary Group. He also held twice the post of Minister of Defense when the Socialist Party was in power. His political career c

Alexandra Gonzalez, estudiante embajadora del CID, entrevista a Miguel Angel Santos, Profesor Adjunto de Políticas Públicas en la escuela de política de Harvard e investigador senior en el Centro para el Desarrollo Internacional de la Universidad. Miguel habla sobre el proyecto de investigación del Centro que tiene como objetivo entender las oportunidades de diversificación de exportación de Panama e identificar las restricciones vinculantes que el país puede encontrar en el proceso de logar un desarrollo económico sustentable. Mas información disponible en: www.cid.harvard.edu https://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/panama

CID Student Ambassador Alexandra Gonzalez interviews Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct Professor in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard University. Miguel Angel talks about CID's research initiative aimed at exploring export diversification opportunities and understanding the potential binding constraints that Panama can run into in the process of shifting gears towards a sustainable economic growth. More info available on: --> www.cid.harvard.edu --> www,growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/panama About Miguel Angel Santos: Miguel Angel Santos is an Adjunct Professor in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. At CID, he has been involved in various research projects aimed at helping governments to rethink their development strategies, both at the national and sub-national levels. Since he joined CID in August 2014, he has been inv

CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Todd Moss, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Todd talks about the future of US Development Policy under the Trump administration, about the government’s new priorities and how they can impact global development programs. Interview recorded on December 1st, 2017 Visit www.cid.harvard.edu for more information about CID's research and events. About Todd Moss: Todd Moss is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development where his research focuses on US-Africa relations, energy policy, and private investment. Moss is also a nonresident scholar at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown. He served as COO/VP at the Center from 2009-2016. Moss is currently working on electrification in Africa, cash transfers in new oil economies, and ideas for upgrading US development finance tools. In the past he led CGD’s work o

CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Niharika Singh, Ph.D. Student Affiiate, and Zainab Qureshi, Senior Program Manager, both at Harvard University's Evidence for Policy Design Program. Niha and Zainab talk about a decade-long research project lead by the Evidence for Policy Design Program that aims at understanding Pakistan’s education landscape and examine how to catalyze innovation in the country’s education ecosystem. www.cid.harvard.edu / Interview recorded on November 3rd, 2017. About the interviewees: Niharika Singh is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at Harvard University and co-principal investigator on a LEAPS study examining the effects of providing unconditional cash grants to rural low cost private schools in Pakistan. Her research interests span a range of topics in development and labor economics. She received her BA in Economics from McGill University and worked as a research assistant in India and the U.S. prior to graduate school. Zainab Qureshi is the LEAPS Senior Program Man

CID Student Ambassador Patrick Hannahan interviews Victoria White, Managing Director of Global Advisory Solutions at Accion. Victoria talks about how Accion and its partners are harnessing key digital trends to make quality financial service more accessible and cost effective in developing countries. Interview recorded on October 27, 2017. // cid.harvard.edu // About the interviewee: Victoria White has worked with Accion since 2000. She serves as a member of the senior management team and holds responsibility for overseeing Accion’s advisory support to its partners as Managing Director, Global Advisory Solutions. She also serves as a board director for a number of these institutions. Previously, Ms. White was Accion’s Regional Head for Asia and supported Accion’s partners in Africa in such areas as strategic planning, bank downscaling, institutional transformation planning, and financial management. Ms. White is co-author of Transforming Microfinance Institutions: Providing Full Financial Services to the Po

CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Andrew Mitchell, British MP and Former Secretary of State for International Development. Mr. Mitchell talks about his extensive experience in International Development and discusses the challenges and opportunities of a global approach to pressing development issues. www.cid.harvard.edu / Interview recorded on October 20th, 2017. About the speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He was the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012. Mitchell was elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. Before university, he served for several months as a United Nations military peacekeeper in Cyprus. He has extensive pre-government experience of the developing world, and is the founder of Project Umubano, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leon

Alexandra Gonzalez, CID student ambassador, interviews Douglas Barrios and Ricardo Villasmil research fellows at CID. Douglas and Ricardo shed some light on Venezuela's ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis and present an agenda for democratic governance and socioeconomic recovery. Interview recorded on October 13th, 2017. More about CID's project on Venezuela: https://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/venezuela About the speakers: Douglas Barrios a Growth Lab Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Before joining CID he worked in McKinsey’s Bogotá office as a Public Sector Specialist where he served public and social sector organizations throughout Latin America in a broad set of topics ranging from ICT promotion strategies to education policy design. Other previous experience include serving as an external policy adviser for local governments as well as political campaigns in Venezuela. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Universidad Metropolitana (Venezuela)

Alexandra Gonzalez, estudiante embajadora del Centro para Desarrollo Internacional de Harvard entrevista a Douglas Barrios y Ricardo Villasmil, investigadores en el Centro. Douglas y Ricardo hablan sobre la crisis socioeconómica en Venezuela, el reto de buscar datos para llevar a cabo el proyecto de investigación en el país y presentan propuestas para la recuperación económica de Venezuela. Entrevista grabada el 13 de octubre del 2017. https://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/venezuela Sobre los entrevistados: Douglas Barrios es investigador en el Centro para el Desarrollo Internacional de la Universidad de Harvard. Antes de unirse a CID, trabajó en McKinsey Colombia como especialista del sector público, donde prestó servicios a organizaciones de sectores público y social de toda América Latina en una amplia gama de temas, desde estrategias de promoción de TIC hasta diseño de políticas educativas. Otra experiencia previa incluye servir como asesor de política externa para gobiernos locales y campañas políticas en V

CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Dr. Yasuyuki Sawada, Chief Economist and Chief Spokesperson on economic & development trends at the Asian Development Bank on the latest Economic Prospects published by the bank. www.cid.harvard.edu About the Interviewee: About the Speaker: Yasuyuki Sawada is the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic and development trends, and leads the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, which publishes ADB’s flagship knowledge products. Dr. Sawada previously served as a Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He also performed research at a variety of institutions, such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute; the World Bank; Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East Asia; Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies; Pakistan Institute of Development Economics; International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines; International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka; Research Institute of Economy,

Alexandra Gonzalez, CID Student Ambassador, interviews María Latorre, member of the European Commission's group of experts in International Trade and Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid on her recent study regarding the economic impact of Brexit for the UK and the EU. //www.cid.harvard.edu// About the Speaker: María C. Latorre is currently a member of the group of experts in international trade of the European Commission. She has also conducted other consulting projects for the World Bank and the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness. Maria has been a Research Scholar at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University. She has held research visiting positions in the US International Trade Commission, the CEPII and the University of Nottingham. Her papers have been published in academic journals such as World Development, Journal of Policy Modeling, Economic Modelling and China Economic Review among others. In

CID Student Ambassador Patrick Hannahan interviews Kusi Hornberger, Senior Project Manager at Dalberg Global Development Advisors on the potential regions and sectors for impact investing, about striking a balance between social and capital returns and on how to break into the impact investment market. www.cid.harvard.edu About the speaker: Kusi Hornberger is a Senior Project Manager in the Washington, DC office of Dalberg Global Development Advisors. Kusi has 10+ years of project management, investment and strategy experience working with a range of public, private, and non-profit clients, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, ECOM Agroindustrial Corp., World Bank Group, Starbucks, Experian and USAID. Prior to joining Dalberg, Kusi was Vice President of Investment Research & Strategy at Global Partnerships where he oversaw the investment strategy and portfolio including analysis of investment opportunities in agriculture cooperatives, artisan retailers, cookstove and solar lamp manufacturers an

CID Research Fellow Ermal Frasheri interviews Dr. Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations at the European Commission on the scope of EU’s Neighbourhood policies and about the challenges and opportunities surrounding European integration. For more information please go to: cid.harvard.edu About the Speaker: Johannes Hahn has been serving as the Member of the European Commission in charge of Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations since November 2014. He is responsible for the Union's relations with the six Western Balkans countries and Turkey, as well as relations with Europe's Eastern and Southern neighbours, from Ukraine to the South Caucasus and from Syria to the Maghreb. From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Hahn was the Member of the European Commission in charge of Regional Policy. Before joining the Commission, he served as Austria's Federal Minister for Science and Research from 2007-2010, as a Member of the Vienna State Government from 2003 to 2007 and a Member

CID Research Fellow Tim O'Brien interviews Carolina Zambrano-Barragán, Climate change and urban sustainability expert from Quito, Ecuador. // https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid // In this interview, Carolina explains why climate change is seen as a "super wicked problem", describes the difference between climate change mitigation and adaptation and shares key insights from her personal experience working on climate change on both national and local levels in Ecuador. More about the speaker: http://bit.ly/2x8YcOm Recorded on September 8th, 2017.

CID Communications Manager, Chuck McKenney interview CID Research Fellow Tim Cheston and Sebastian Bustos on the Center's recently published 2025 Global Growth Projections, based on the latest 2015 global trade data. According to the research, the economic pole of global growth has taken a marked shift over the past few years from China to neighboring India, where it is likely to stay over the coming decade. Tim and Sebastian discuss this and other insights that rise from the 2025 Projections and explain the methodology behind the data. For more information go to: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/rankings/growth-predictions/ Interview recorded on June 22nd, 2017

CID Research Fellow Tim McNaught interviews Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School on the often overlooked gains of migration to both rich and middle income countries. Interview recorded on April 28th, 2017. About the Speaker: About the Speaker: Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (as of July 1, 2007). In addition he is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development. He was co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics and worked as a consultant to Google.org. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics and in 1988 from MIT with a PhD in Economics. After finishing at MIT Lant joined the World Bank, where he held a number of positions in the Bank's research complex between 1988 and 1998, including as an adviser to Lawrence Summers when he was Vice President from 1991-1993. From 1998 to 2000 he worked in Indonesia. F

CID Student Ambassador Yuxiang Luo interviews Parag Khanna, Geo-Strategist, best selling author & Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore on his book "Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization". In this book Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity more than borders. Interview recorded on March 31, 2017. For more information about our research and events, please go to: www.cid.harvard.edu

This is the full audio from our fourth Security and Development Seminar Series. This session explores the causes, correlates, and consequences of interpersonal violence in Latin America, with an emphasis on the Northern Triangle region, which includes El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Audio recorded on April 27th, 2017. For more information go to: http://bit.ly/2q7so8K Speakers: •Nathalie Alvarado-Renner, Citizen Security Lead Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), •Daniel Ortega, Director of impact evaluation and policy learning, CAF •Thomas Abt, Innovation in Citizen Security Project, Center for International Development at Harvard University •Marcela Escobari, visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution and former Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean

CID has launched its new Security and Development Seminar Series and over the 2016-2017 academic year, it will host four high-level discussions exploring the intersections between security, growth, and development in Latin America. CID Research Assistant interviews the speakers from the 4th session, which explored the causes, correlates, and consequences of violence in Latin America. Speakers: • Nathalie Alvarado-Renner, Citizen Security Lead Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) • Daniel Ortega, Director of impact evaluation and policy learning at CAF • Marcela Escobari, visiting Fellow at Brookings' Global Economy and Development program and former Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. The session was moderated by Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy with CID. The interview took place on April 27th, 2017. More information about the event and the speakers can be