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The Technology and Public Purpose Project invites you to a hybrid book talk with Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role On Any Team co-authors, Nick Sinai and Marina Nitze.  

Come learn over 50 tactics, each with real-world examples, for making lasting change in bureaucracies from PTAs and HOAs all the way up to the White House and Fortune 500 companies. Nick and Marina will be joined in conversation with Associate Director of the Belfer Center's Technology and Public Purpose Project, Amritha Jayanti, who will serve as moderator.  

Speakers and Presenters

Nick Sinai is a HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center's Technology and Public Purpose Project (TAPP); along with serving as an advisor to the Harvard Open Data Project, Harvard Computer Society's Tech For Social Good, and Upsolve.  He serves on the board of the non-profit Coding It Forward. 

Marina Nitze is currently focused on improving America’s child welfare system. She was previously the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (2013-2017), helped found the United States Digital Service, and served as a Senior Advisor on technology in the White House under the Obama Administration.

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Erika Mouynes, Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow at Harvard and former Foreign Minister of Panama; Ambassador P. Michael McKinley, former U.S. Ambassador to Peru, Brazil, Afghanistan, and Colombia; Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, on the role of Latin America in today's shifting international order. While most countries in Latin America voted in favor of UN General Assembly resolutions condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and others refuse to join sanctions against Russia or give aid to Ukraine. What does the future of the Western Hemisphere look like in a time of increasing global competition and great power conflict? Negah Angha, Institute of Politics Fellow and former Director for Multilateral Initiatives at the National Security Council, will moderate.

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Daniel Weitzner, 3Com Founders Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Founding Director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative. In a talk entitled "Black Hat, White Hat, Green Eyeshades: Improving Cybersecurity through Risk Pricing Models," Weitzner will discuss the benefits of (currently unattainable) cyber risk pricing metrics and a new approach for achieving them.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

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.

In 2021, the UK put forth its ‘Indo-Pacific Tilt,’ underlining the strategic importance that it places on the region. Recent political administrations in Britain have increasingly underscored the need to drive prosperity and growth with countries and institutions like ASEAN, Australia, India, and New Zealand, with trade, technology, and security to likely feature as cornerstones. What does the UK’s geopolitical and economic strategy in the Asia-Pacific look like today? How can the ‘Indo-Pacific Tilt’ continue to move forward beyond its written significance? 

 Please join the Southeast Asia Caucus, British & Irish Caucus, and Future of Diplomacy Project for a special conversation with Natalie Black (HKS MPP ’11), His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for the Asia-Pacific. This event will be moderated by Abhinav Seetharaman (MPP ’23).

 Advance registration is required, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students, staff, faculty, fellows). This event will be off the record.

Please join the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project for a two-part seminar on the reconstruction and recovery of Ukraine. Ukraine’s economy has been devastated due to Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion since February 2022. The World Bank estimated back in September 2022 that the current cost of Ukraine’s reconstruction is $350 billion, while some economists estimate the costs to be much higher. The reconstruction efforts will take decades and will require strong collaboration among Ukraine’s international partners as well as the private sector. Furthermore, it will require committed legal action to hold Russia accountable for its actions.

In this inaugural seminar, the panel will be discussing proposals for the seizure of Russian state assets to provide support for Ukraine. We will be joined by former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Lawrence H. Summers; the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia, Dr. Philip D. Zelikow; and former Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, Stephen Rademaker. The conversation will be moderated by Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs.

Join the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in a workshop series in Spring 2023, Africa in Focus: African Agency in International Climate Policy and Energy Geopolitics. This series centers African voices in discussing the causes, consequences, and policy solutions for global climate change. 

This event will examine the challenges and opportunities for African states, and the continent at large, in transitioning to cleaner energy sources and the role that the U.S can play in supporting a just energy transition. 

Registration

This event is hybrid and RSVP is required. In-person participation is open to Harvard ID holders only. Members of the public are welcome to join online. 

Speakers

Rashid Ali Abdallah, Executive Director, African Energy Commission

Katie Auth, Policy Director, Energy for Growth Hub

Moderator

Henry Lee, Director of Environmental and Natural Resource Program & HKS Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

Note New Date

Speaker: Katrina Ponti, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program

As the United States emerged as an independent state after the Revolution, it faced the world with a State Department staffed by five clerks and initially led by an absentee Thomas Jefferson. How did the nation secure its place in global affairs with such a small bureaucracy? What was the diplomacy of a democracy supposed to look like?

Everyone is welcome to join us online via Zoom! Please register in advance for this seminar:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErdeyrqzsuHd0PyAHYv3lQQoGGLh7Lm4P-

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.

THIS EVENT IS FOR HUID HOLDERS ONLY

DAO Harvard is a three-day conference that will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and academics to engage in conversation regarding the research, legal, and policy considerations of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations). 

The conference is co-hosted by Harvard Belfer Center's Technology and Public Purpose Project and Harvard University's Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics.

For any inquiries please reach out to Sarah Hubbard at sarah_hubbard@hks.harvard.edu  

Please join the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project and the Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association for a seminar on the prosecution of Russian war crimes in Ukraine with Counselor for War Crimes Accountability at the Department of Justice (DOJ), Mr. Eli M. Rosenbaum. Mr. Rosenbaum will discuss how DOJ is committed to holding the perpetrators of such grave crimes fully accountable. This conversation will be moderated by Ambassador Paula J.  Dobriansky, Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project.