The IPED program welcomes Michael Gordon as a guest speaker for its 2023–2024 lecture series. The 30-minute lecture will be followed by about 20 minutes of Q&A. Refreshments will be provided. Michael Gordon is deputy national intelligence officer for the Economics on the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in Washington, D.C. The NIC is part of

Susan Hayward is the associate director for the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative (RLPI), which advances an ambitious agenda of curricular and programmatic activity to advance religious literacy across a wide range of professional fields of public engagement. Working across Harvard graduate schools and in partnership with Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and other Harvard

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference Call with Lauren Kahn, a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where her work focuses on defense innovation and the impact of emerging technologies on international security, with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Prior to joining CFR, Kahn worked as a

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference Call with Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Ph.D., a fellow for international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work focuses on international political economy, global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds, supply chains of critical minerals, development finance, emerging markets, energy and climate change policy,

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference Call with Mary Elise Sarotte, an expert in the history of international relations. Sarotte is the inaugural holder of the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professorship of Historical Studies. She is also a research associate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. Sarotte earned

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference Call with Yascha Mounk, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, a contributing editor at the Atlantic, and the founder of Persuasion. Known for his work on the rise of populism

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference Call with Adil Najam, Ph.D. (عادل نجم), the inaugural dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, which was founded in 2014 with a generous gift from BU alumnus Frederick S. Pardee. He is also a professor of international relations

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference Call with Ebenezer Obadare, a Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Before joining CFR, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is also a senior fellow at the New York University School

Join us for a Council of Foreign Relations academic conference call with Anne C. Richard, former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration under President Barack Obama. Previously, she was vice president of government relations and advocacy for the International Rescue Committee. In addition to the State Department, she served at Peace Corps

Join us for a Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) academic conference call with Manjari Chatterjee Miller, senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the CFR. She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies program at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford.

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference Call with Jody Freeman, the Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a leading scholar of administrative law and environmental law. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call with Rose Gottemoeller, the Steven C. Házy lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation. Before joining Stanford, Gottemoeller was the deputy secretary-general of NATO, where she helped to drive NATO’s adaptation to new

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call with Roger W. Ferguson Jr., the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ferguson is the immediate past president and CEO of TIAA. Prior to joining TIAA, Ferguson was head of financial services for Swiss Re and

Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call with Patrick Duddy, the director of Duke University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He teaches at both Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and the Sanford School of Public Policy. From 2007 to 2010, Duddy served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Bolivarian