Marking the passage of 20 years since the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom, MEI Faculty Director Professor Tarek Masoud will moderate this panel featuring: Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, HKS; Kanan Makiya, Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University and author, Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 1989); and Emma Sky, OBE, founding Director of Yale’s International Leadership Center and former political advisor to the Commanding General of U.S. Forces in Iraq.

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Join us for the first Energy Policy Seminar of Fall 2022. James Stock, Harvard's Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will provide an overview of the new Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. Meghan O'Sullivan, the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and the Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), will then discuss "The New Geopolitics of Energy."

HKS Professor Joe Aldy will moderate the seminar and Q&A. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Attendance: In-person attendance is limited to Harvard ID holders. Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. For those who cannot attend live, the seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Registration: Please RSVP at the link below. For those attending virtually, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. Registration will remain open until the event begins.

Speaker: Meghan O'Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Director, Geopolitics of Energy Project

Professor O'Sullivan will discuss the dual impacts on global oil markets of price competition — and the demand shock associated with the COVID-19 crisis — in the inaugural session of Conversations.

Registration is required. Please click here to register in advance for this webinar.

A panel discussion featuring HKS Faculty Marshall Ganz Senior Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School Jane Mansbridge Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School Khalil Gibran Muhammad Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Meghan O'Sullivan Jean Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Dani Rodrik Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School Kathryn Sikkink Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, HKS; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute Nicco Mele (Moderator) Lecturer in Public Policy and Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School    

Please join us for a breakfast conversation between Lord Browne, Executive Chairman of L1 Energy and former CEO of BP, and Meghan O'Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project. Lord Browne will discuss the consequences of the new energy environment for society, as well as his new book, Connect.

Panelists:

Joseph Bahout
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Sciences Po Paris

Fred Hof
Senior Fellow, The Alantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East

Mona Yacoubian
Senior Advisor on the Middle East
Project  Director, Pathways to Progress: Peace, Prosperity and Change in the Middle East

A conversation with senior Iraqi and American Policymakers

"Foreign Policy and the U.S. Presidential Election" 

The Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School is excited to announce the second annual Energy Policy Case Competition. The case competition will be facilitated by Professor Meghan O'Sullivan, Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School.