Wednesday, February 20th
- 11:00am | Cabot 702 |Microfinance and the Challenge of Eradicating Poverty
- Vikram Akula
CEO and Founder, SKS Microfinance, India; Named to TIME Magazine’s Top 100 List of Most Influential People; Recipient, Echoing Green Public Service Entrepreneur Fellowship; Former Management Consultant, McKinsey and Company; Fulbright Scholar in India; Former Community Organizer, Deccan Development Society in India
- Introduction and Presentation of Alumni Award
Allison Schuster, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Thursday, February 21st
- 7:00pm | Cohen Auditorium | Your Future in an "Everyone a Changemaker" World
- Bill Drayton
CEO and Founder, Ashoka; Former Management Consultant, McKinsey and Company; Former Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Founder, Save EPA; Founder, Environmental Safety; Board Chair, Get America Working!; Board Chair, Youth Venture; MacArthur Fellow; Selected one of America's Best Leaders, US News & World Report
- Discussant
David O. Dapice
Associate Professor of Economics, Tufts University
- Introduction and Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Rachel Brown, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 8:00pm | Cohen Auditorium | Megacities: Global Slums and the Urbanization of Poverty
- Jessica Bidgood and Sarah Freeman
EPIIC 2007-08 EPIIC Colloquium and Cofounder of Engineers without Borders, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Folarin Gbadebo-Smith
Chairman, Ikoyi/Obalende Local Government Council, Lagos, Nigeria; Mason Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Honorary Consul, Royal Kingdom of Thailand in Nigeria
- Piyali Kundu and Aly Pittman
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Robert Neuwirth
Author, Shadow Cities, A Billion Squatters: A New Urban World; Journalist, The Nation, The Village Voice, Newsday, The New York Times, Metropolis and City Limits; Former Community Organizer
- Janice Perlman
Founder and President, Mega-Cities Project; Author, Marginality from Myth to Reality: Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2005 and the Myth of Marginality: Urban Politics and Poverty in Rio de Janeiro; Coordinator, President Carter's Neighborhood Task Force on National Urban Policy; Former Executive Director, Strategic Planning, New York City Partnership
- Cynthia Smith
Exhibit Curator, “Design for the Other 90%”; Manager, Travel Exhibitions, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: Juror, UNESCO Shelter Me Competition
- Introduction of Cynthia Smith and Design for the Other 90%
Tim Fitzsimons, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Moderator
Elizabeth Gross, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Friday, February 22nd
- 12:00pm | Cabot Auditorium | Scarcity and Sustainability: Climate Change and the World's Poor
- Frank Ackerman
Director, Research and Policy Program, Global Development and the Environment Institute, Tufts University; co-founder and editor of Dollars & Sense; Coeditor, The Political Economy of Inequality
- Adil Najam
Director, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, Boston University; Author, Southern Visions on Trade and Sustainable Development and Global Environmental Governance; coordinating lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Gwyn Prins
Director, Mackinder Centre for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics; Former Senior Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London; Senior Fellow, Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of NATO; Consultant on Security, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research of the British Meteorological Office
- Andrew C. Revkin
Environmental Reporter, The New York Times; Former Senior Editor, Discover
- Introduction and Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Jessica Bidgood, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Moderator
Daniel Enking, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 2:00pm | Cabot Auditorium | The Resource Trap: Conflict, Corruption and Failing States
- Jack Blum
Counsel, Baker Hostetler; Former Special Counsel, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (including the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI))
- David Dapice
Associate Professor of Economics, Tufts University; Economist, Vietnam Program, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Sanjoy Hazarika
Managing Trustee, Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, India; Member, India's National Security Advisory Board and the National Council of the Indian Council of Social Science Research; Author, Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India's North East
- Francisco Rodriguez
Former Chief Economist, Venezuelan National Assembly; Assistant Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University; Coauthor, "Anarchy, State, and Dystopia: Venezuelan Economic Institutions before the Advent of Oil" and "Growth Collapses
- Moderators
Gabriel Frumkin and Austin Siadak, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 6:30pm | Cabot Auditorium | Welcome and Introduction
- Vincent Manno
Associate Vice Provost, Tufts University
Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Julia Silberman, EPIIC 2007-08 EPIIC Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership
- 6:45pm | Cabot Auditorium | Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Presentations
- Action Against HungerAward being accepted by Nan Dale, Executive Director, Action Against Hunger-USA
- Introduction and Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Helaina Stein, EPIIC 2007-08 EPIIC Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership
- ACCION International
Award being accepted by Alavaro Rodriguez Arregui, Chairman, ACCION International
- Introduction and Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Jeff Goldberg, EPIIC 2007-08 EPIIC Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership
- Introduction of EMPOWER
Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership
- 7:00pm | Cabot Auditorium | Announcement of the Nelson Mandela/Mac Maharaj Scholarship
- Sekai Jo J Maharaj
MALD Candidate, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
- 7:10pm | Cabot Auditorium | Visual Introduction to Poverty and Inequality
- Excerpt of "A Ripple in the Water: Healing Through Art," a documentary of the work of EPIIC Alumna Kim Berman in South Africa
- Introduction
Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership
- Images from the Field IV, photographs from the EXPOSURE exhibition in the Slater Concourse Gallery of Aidekman Arts Center
- Introduction
Tim Fitzsimons, EPIIC 2007-08 EPIIC Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership
- Segments from Trendalyzer Software, developed by Hans Rolsling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Director of the Gapminder Foundation
- Introduction
Sonia Tan, EPIIC 2007-08 EPIIC Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership
- 7:30pm | Cabot Auditorium | Alleviating Poverty: Is Aid the Answer?
- J. Brian Atwood
Dean, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; Former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Introduction and Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Presentation
Shana Hurley, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Steve Berkman
Former Lead Investigator, Anti-Corruption and Fraud Investigation Unit, World Bank; Author, The World Bank and the Gods of Lending (forthcoming)
- John Hammock
Alexander N. McFarlane Associate Professor of Public Policy, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; Associate Professor of International Humanitarian Aid, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Founder, Feinstein International Famine Center; North American Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative; Former Director, OXFAM America and OXFAM International
- Courtney Morrissey
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Gwyn Prins
Director, Mackinder Centre for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics; Former Senior Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London; Visiting Senior Fellow, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom; Author, The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the 21st Century
- Ernest Rwamucyo
Policy Advisor on Governance in UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy; Former Director-General, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda
- Moderators
JJ Emru and Danny Negless, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Saturday, February 23rd
- 9:30am | Cabot Auditorium | Bottom-Up Development: Microfinance and Entrepreneurship
- Geoff Chalmers
Economic Growth and Environment Team Leader, USAID/Mexico
- David Dapice
Associate Professor of Economics, Tufts University; Economist, Vietnam Program, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Jon Peters
Social Entrepreneur; Founder, Elevator Foundation
- Iqbal Quadir
Founder, GrameenPhone, Bangladesh; Founder and Executive Director, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Anushka Ratnayake
Fellows Program Manager, Kiva
- Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui
Chairman, ACCIÓN International; Founder and CEO, Ignia, Mexico; Cofounder, Banco Azteca
- Moderator
Adam White, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 11:30am | Cabot Auditorium | Investing in Human Potential: Health, Education and the Millennium Development Goals
- Hana Agha, Jessica Herrmann and Laura Kaplan
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
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Sabina Carlson, Patricia Eloizin, and Helaina Stein
RESPE Members, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Anne Goldfeld
Associate Professor, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Investigator, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research; Cofounder, Cambodian Health Committee
- Hongxia Liu
Representative and Director, Asia Pacific, International Development Law Organization (IDLO); Founder and Former Director, ABA/UNDP International Legal Resource Center
- Richard Mollica
Director, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- José Vicente Tavares dos Santos
Professor of Sociology, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Author, Globalization and Critical Sociology of Latin America
- Moderator
Elizabeth Herman, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 2:30pm | Cabot Auditorium |The Environment in an Unequal World
- Sunita Narain
Director, Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi, India; Director, Society for Environmental Communications; Publisher, Down To Earth; Coauthor, Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism and Towards a Green World: Should Environmental Management Be Built on Legal Conventions or Human Rights?; Coeditor, Green Politics: Global Environmental Negotiations and Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Water Harvesting Systems
- Introduction and Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Hena Kapadia, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 3:15pm | Cabot Auditorium | America's Poor: Is there a Domestic Poverty Trap?
- J. Lawrence Aber
Member, Commission for Economic Opportunity, New York City; Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy and Board Chair, Institute for Human Development and Social Change, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University; Former Director, National Center for Children in Poverty; Board Director, Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Chair, Board of Directors, Forum for Youth Investment
- David Cartagena
Senior Streetworker, Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence; Former Member, Almighty Latin Kings
- Samuel du Pont and Adam Levy
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium and EPIIC 2006-07 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Teny Oded Gross
Executive Director, Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence; Former Program Coordinator, Youth Focused Community Initiative, Ella J. Baker House; Former Participant, National Ten-Point Coalition; Former Senior Streetworker, City of Boston
- Samuel Lom
Member, Hanover Boyz; Participant, Year-up Program, Providence
- Lawrence Mead
Professor of Politics, New York University; Author, Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship, The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America, and Government Matters
- Donald Wertlieb
Director, Tufts University Center for Children and Professor and Former Chairman, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University
- Moderator
Erin Baldassari, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 5:15pm | Olin 101, 102, 103, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 116 | Breakout Sessions (please check the board on the mezzanine for brief descriptions and room assignments)
- Election 2008: Is there a Poverty Platform?
- International Laws and Organizations
- Overnight Development: China and India's Paths of Growth
- Labor Migration in the Middle East
- Education for Leadership and Civic Engagement
- 21st Century Social Movements and Poverty
- Does Capitalism Cause Inequality?
- AFRICOM: Why did Bono meet with Secretary Gates?
- South Korea: Emergence from the Depths of Extreme Poverty, Oppression, and Inequality
- Establishing the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda
- 8:00pm | Cabot Auditorium | Illicit Trade and the Informal Economy: Abuse of the Poor
- Raymond Baker
Author, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How To Renew the Free-Market System and “How Dirty Money Binds the Poor”; Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy; Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution
- James S. Henry
Author, Blood Bankers and The Pirate Economy (forthcoming); Founder, SubmergingMarkets; Former Chief Economist, McKinsey & Company
- Sasha Lezhnev
Policy Adviser, Global Witness; Author, Crafting Peace: Strategies To Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States
- Discussant
Hanibal Goitom
Foreign Law Specialist, Sub Saharan Africa, Law Library of Congress
- Moderator
Tenley Ghan, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 9:30 pm | Cabot Auditorium | ALLIES for Humanity: Civil-Military Relations for the 21st Century
- Gregg Nakano
INSPIRE Fellow and Adviser to ALLIES, Institute for Global Leadership; Former USAID Military Liaison Officer, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance; Former Head, USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), Banda Aceh; Former Marine Platoon Infantry Commander, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield
- Maj. John Williams
Associate Chair, Political Science Department, U.S. Naval Academy; Former Foreign Area Officer, with a focus on the Balkans; numerous operational deployments including Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the 2006 evacuation of American citizens from S. Lebanon, Iraq
Sunday, February 24th
- 1:00pm | Cabot Auditorium | Corporate Social Responsibility: Principles, Priorities, and Profits
- Jeffrey Ballinger
Director, Press for Change
- Hannah Flamm
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Robert Massie
Former Executive Director, Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES); Author, Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years
- Introduction and Presentation of Inaugural Boryana Damyanova Award for Corporate Social Responsibility
Lisa Senecal, EPIIC 2003-04 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University; and Rachel Wenger, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- Marcy Murninghan
IGL INSPIRE Fellow; Founder and President, The Lighthouse Investment Group; Former President, Social Investment Services Division, Mitchell Investment Management Company, Inc.; Author, Power & Principles: Leaders in Media and Finance Reflect on the Ethical Framework of Their Work
- J. Peter Neilans
Chief Operating Officer, Pacific Rim Mining Corp.; Former Mine Manager, Porgera, New Guinea and Big Bell, Australia
- Andrew Savitz
Author, The Triple Bottom Line: How the Best Run Companies are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too; Senior Consultant, Sustainable Business Strategies
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Moderator
Lauren Citrome, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- 3:00pm | Cabot Auditorium | Governance, Wealth, Power and Accountability
- José Maria Argueta Former National Security Adviser, Guatemala
- Raymond Baker
Author, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How To Renew the Free-Market System
- Jack Blum
Counsel, Baker Hostetler; Former Special Counsel, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (including the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI))
- Rachel Brown, David Mok, Julia Silberman, Kelsi Stine
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
- John Christensen
International Director, Tax Justice Network
- Moderator
Hannah Flamm, EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
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