Events

Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change and Weather Shocks

Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI; Rachel Kyte, Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, The World Bank; John McDermott, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health; Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist, Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University. Moderated by Dan Glickman.

Nigeria: Strife and Growth in the Giant of Africa

John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations ; Dayo Olopade, Author, Journalist, and Yale World Fellow; Alexander Thurston, Visiting Assistant Professor, African Studies Program, Georgetown University. Moderated by Richard Joseph.

Lunch with the US Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania

The Honorable Deborah McCarthy, Ambassador of the United States to Lithuania

Meet the Frackers

Raghuram Rajan on India and the Global Economy

Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Update from Israel and Gaza

Shai Feldman, Judy and Sidney Swartz Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Made for Trade: Manufacturing Global Connections

Richard C. Longworth, Distinguished Fellow, Global Cities; Phil Levy, Former Senior Fellow, Global Economy

Nobel Laureate Scholes: Benchmarks, Tracking-Error, and Investment Decisions

Myron Scholes, Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. Moderated by Leo Melamed.

US-China Relations in the 21st Century

James Steinberg, Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; former Deputy Secretary of State, US Department of State

Global Cities and Big Data: Chicago Rising

Lincoln Ellis , Managing Director and Senior Strategist, Green Square Capital, LLC; John Livingston , Director, McKinsey & Company; Caralynn Nowinski , MD, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, UI LABS; Nirav Shah, MD, Associate, Sidley Austin LLP; Ted Souder, Head of Industry-Retail, Google, Inc. Introduced by Molly O'Donnell .