Policy seminar speakers for the 2017-18 academic year include:
Policy Seminar Speaker Bios
Laura Alfaro
Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; former Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy, Costa Rica
James Clapper
Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence; Distinguished Senior Fellow for Intelligence and National Security, Center for a New American Security
Shanta Devarajan
Acting World Bank Group Chief Economist and Senior Director for Development Economics (DEC)
Natalie A. Jaresko
Executive Director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
President Horst Koehler
Former President of Germany; former Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Denis McDonough
Executive Fellow, Keough School Global Policy Initiative; former White House Chief of Staff
Juan Méndez
Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence, American University – Washington College of Law
Bernard Nahlen
Director, Eck Institute for Global Health; former Deputy Coordinator, U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative
Gérard Prunier
Consultant on Eastern and Central African affairs; former Director, French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa
Ambassador David M. Robinson
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations; Coordinator, Reconstruction and Stabilization
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, Center for Sustainable Development; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Francis Taylor
Executive Fellow, Keough School Global Policy Initiative; former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
