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Monday, June 17:
Insights on China, the
U.S., and the World
A chat with Director of Harvard's Belfer Center
Graham Allison, Ph.D.
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In a question-and-answer format with the
founding father of modern Singapore, co-authors
Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill of Harvard's
Kennedy School convey Lee Kuan Yew's strategic
advice on India, China, Islamic terrorism, the
welfare state, the free market, education, and
democracy. This book belongs on the reading list
of every world leader and all those who seek to
understand the United States' greatest foreign
policy challenges in Asia and around the globe.
Graham Allison is
Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The
"Founding Dean" of the modern Kennedy School, Dr. Allison
also served as Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense
under President Reagan and as Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Policy and Plans under President Clinton, where he
coordinated DOD strategy and policy towards Russia, Ukraine,
and the other states of the former Soviet Union. He has the
sole distinction of having twice been awarded the Department
of Defense's highest civilian award, the Distinguished
Public Service Medal.
Where:
Downtown Harvard Club
1 Federal St., 38 Fl., Boston 02110
Date:
Monda y,
June 17
Time:
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Cost:
$15
Member rate
Cost:
$25 General admission
Price includes program,
non-alcoholic beverages, and
a trio of
delicious chowders.
RSVP required:
Register
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May 28:
The Ownership
Revolution
~
A chat with
Tellus Institute Fellow
Marjorie Kelly
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Owning Our Future: The Emerging
Ownership Revolution
(winner
of the
2013 Nautilus Silver
Book Award in the Business/Leadership category)
explores many experiments with new "generative
ownership", aimed at creating the conditions for
life for many generations to come. To understand
these emerging alternatives, Kelly reports from
all over the world, and finds the five essential
patterns of ownership design that make these
models work. And she explores how they may hold
the key to the deep transformation that our
civilization needs.
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April 23:
The Business
of Travel
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A chat with
award-winning correspondent
Elizabeth Becker
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In the last two decades, tourism has grown from
one of life's great pleasures into the largest
global business. The travel and tourism industry
now employs one in twelve people in the world,
produces $6.5 trillion of the world's economy,
and is the main source of income for many
countries. In
OVERBOOKED: The Exploding
Business of Travel and Tourism,
award-winning correspondent Elizabeth Becker
explores the vast dimensions of this industry
and its effect on the world economy, the
environment, and our culture.
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March 18:
3.11:
Disaster and Change in Japan
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A chat with MIT's
Ford International Professor
Richard Samuels
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In 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan,
MIT's Richard Samuels offers the first broad
scholarly assessment of the impact of the 2011
earthquake on Japan’s government and society.
Assessing reformers’ successes and failures as
they used the catastrophe to push their
particular agendas, Samuels outlines Japan’s
rhetoric of crisis and shows how it has come to
define post-3.11 politics and public policy.
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Feb. 27:
The U.S.
Foreign Service and 21st Century Diplomacy
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A chat with
journalist
Nicholas Kralev
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America’s Other Army puts
a human face on a mysterious profession that has
undergone a dramatic transformation since
September 11, 2001. Through the stories of
American diplomats, the book explains how their
work affects millions of people in the United
States and around the world every day, and how
it underpins the United States' security and
prosperity. Having visited more than 50
embassies and interviewed some 600 American
diplomats, the author reveals a Foreign Service
whose diversity and professional versatility
have shattered old perceptions and redefined
modern diplomacy.
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Jan. 29:
Power, Inc:
The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Gov't
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A chat with
David Rothkopf
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David Rothkopf,
CEO & Editor-at-Large of Foreign Policy
Magazine,
provides a fresh, timely look at how we have
reached a point where thousands of companies
have greater power than all but a handful of
states.
Power, Inc.
traces the jockeying for influence right up to
today's financial crises, growing inequality,
and battles over the proper roles of government
and markets. An important look at the
struggle that is defining our times, Rothkopf's
analysis also offers critical insights into how
to navigate the tumultuous years ahead.
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Dec. 10:
On the Edge of the Cold War
~
A chat with Honorary Consul
of the Czech Republic
Igor Lukes
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In 1945, the U.S. State
Department and U.S. Intelligence saw
Czechoslovakia as the key to the balance of
power in postwar Europe. The political scene in
Prague was considered the bellwether of
America's ability to coexist with Joseph
Stalin's Soviet Union. Drawn from a wealth of
personal memoirs and archival sources,
On the Edge of the Cold War won
the CIA's 2012 Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Intelligence Literature!
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Nov. 20:
Confronting the
Nuclear Threat: Second-Term Strategies for the
President ~ A chat with
nuclear security expert
Joseph Cirincione
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In the wake of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban
Missile Crisis, nuclear expert and author
Cirincione analyzed the nuclear programs in
North Korea and Iran, and discussed President
Obama's strategies for countering these threats
during his second term.
Joseph Cirincione
is President of Ploughshares Fund, a global security
foundation. He is the author of Bomb
Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
and Deadly
Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats,
and serves as a member of
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's International Security
Advisory Board.
WorldBoston's
Confronting the Nuclear Threat
program was undertaken in partnership
with the World Affairs Councils of
America, with generous support from
the Carnegie Corporation of New
York.
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Oct. 23: The
Dictator's Learning Curve ~
A chat with Slate
Magazine Political and Foreign Affairs Editor
William Dobson
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While modern dictators are becoming skilled at
covering repression with talk of human rights
and free elections, an unlikely army of
democracy advocates—students, bloggers, lawyers,
activists, and millionaires—are growing
increasingly savvy themselves. In
The Dictator's Learning Curve,
Slate Magazine's William Dobson takes us behind
the scenes in both camps, and reveals how each
side is honing its strategies for the war that
will define our age.
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Sept. 4: Assessing the War on Terror
Little America: The War within the War
for Afghanistan by
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Leaving without Losing
by Mark N. Katz
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Our fall series kicked off with two prominent
assessments of the War on Terror: In
Little America: The War within the
War for Afghanistan, Rajiv
Chandrasekaran (pictured left), Senior
Correspondent and Associate Editor at the
Washington Post and former Baghdad Bureau Chief,
reveals the lost opportunities of the eleven
year old conflict. George Mason University
Professor Mark N. Katz (right) takes a strategic look in
Leaving without Losing: The War on
Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan,
in which he establishes
how the U.S. can counter transnational terrorism
post-2014. The authors packed the house
at September's Chat!
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July 10:
Why Nations Fail
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A chat with MIT Professor
Daron
Acemoglu
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Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for
centuries: Why are some nations rich and others
poor? Based on fifteen years of original
research, authors Acemoglu and Robinson marshal
extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman
Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice,
the Soviet Union, Latin America, England,
Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a
new theory of political economy with great
relevance for the big questions of today.
Why Nations Fail will change the
way you look at—and understand—the world.
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June 11:
The Coming
Prosperity
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A chat with GMU Professor
Philip
Auerswald
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Overcoming the outdated narratives of fear that
dominate public discourse, The
Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are
Transforming the Global Economy
boldly presents how humanity can grasp the
powerful momentum of progress. Acknowledging the
gravity of today's greatest global
challenges—like climate change, water scarcity,
and rapid urbanization—Auerswald
contends that the choices of creative
individuals today will determine the extent and
reach of the coming prosperity.
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May 14:
Longshot
~
A chat with biodefense and vaccine
innovation expert
Kendall Hoyt
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Hoyt’s timely investigation
discovers that many
late-twentieth-century developments that have
been celebrated as a boon for innovation have
undercut the research practices and
collaborative government-industry networks that
drove successful biodefense projects in the
past. The book
teaches important
lessons for our efforts to rebuild
twenty-first-century capabilities, especially
when the financial payback for a particular
vaccine is low, but the social returns are high.
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April 3:
The Arab
Uprising: The Protests and the Struggle for a New
Middle East
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A chat with Middle East expert
Marc Lynch
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America must now come to
grips with a Middle East where public opinion actually
matters, perhaps for the first time in the region's history.
Informed by inside access to the Obama administration and a
wealth of knowledge about youth activists and Islamists
alike, Marc Lynch
provides an essential guide to a
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March 14:
American
Gridlock
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A chat with economist and strategist
H. Woody Brock
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Pessimism is
ubiquitous as the pressing issues of massive
debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic
growth divide the populace into warring
political camps. Ideologues talk past each
other, with neither side admitting the other has
any good ideas. In American Gridlock,
Brock bridges the Left/Right divide,
illuminating a clear path out of our economic
quagmire.
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Feb. 15:
No One's
World
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A chat with national security and European
affairs expert
Charles Kupchan
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Georgetown Prof. Kupchan
contends the Western order will not be displaced
by a new great power or dominant political
model. The 21st century will not belong to
America, China, Asia, or anyone else. It will be
no one's world. For the first time in history,
the world will be interdependent--but without a
center of gravity or global guardian.
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Jan. 24:
The
Future of Value
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A chat with sustainability strategist
Eric Lowitt
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Nominated for 2011
Finance/Economics Business Book of the Year by 800-CEO-READ,
Eric Lowitt's
The Future of Value reveals how
the boundaries of competition have been altered by
sustainability’s emergence as the newest dimension of
competitive strategy.
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Dec. 8:
Islam Without Extremes ~
A chat with Turkish commentator
Mustafa Akyol
In Islam Without Extremes, Turkish
political commentator and author Mustafa Akyol offers a
compelling intellectual basis for reconciling Western
liberalism and Islamic theology. Join us for the final
program in our year-long Spotlight on Turkey series.
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Nov.
21: Being There ~ A chat with editor and cultural anthropologist
Sarah H. Davis
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Inn
Being
Theree:
Learning to Live Cross-Culturally,
Sarah H. Davis, Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology
at Emory University,,presentss
travellers’ tales and
anthropologists’ essays that entertain and illuminate.
Her edited volume shows how the moral and intellectual
challenges of living cross-culturally revealed
to the authors the limits of their perception and
understanding.
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Oct. 4:
Post-Imperium - A chat
with the Carnegie
Endowment's Moscow Director
Dmitri Trenin
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In
Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story,
Dmitri
Trenin
contends that Moscow's bid to consolidate its "zone of
privileged interests" over former Soviet republics has
raised questions about the nature of Russia’s relations with
its neighbors and prospects for regional stability. Trenin,
who served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces from 1972
to 1993, argues that Moscow needs to drop the notion of
creating an exclusive power center in the post-Soviet space.
Like other former European empires, Russia has no choice but
to reinvent itself as a global player and member of a wider
community.
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Sept. 14: Deng Xiaoping
and the Transformation of China - A chat
with
Harvard Professor Emeritus
Ezra F.
Vogel
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Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of
cotton," Deng Xiaoping was the pragmatic,
disciplined force behind China's radical evolution in the
late twentieth century. In Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Harvard Professor Emeritus
Ezra Vogel tells how the man confronted the
damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's
cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social
policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with
modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West,
which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of
poverty. Yet he answered to his authoritarian roots, most
notably when he ordered the crackdown in June 1989 at
Tiananmen Square.
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August 25: The Other
Barack - A chat
with
award-winning Globe reporter
Sally H. Jacobs
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The Other Barack:
The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father....Author
and
award-winning Boston Globe reporter
Sally Jacobs tells the full story of
Barack Obama--father of the American
President--through
exclusive interviews, prodigious research, and determined
investigation.
The book profiles a man who arrived in the U.S.
from Kenya to become a brilliant, Harvard-educated
economist. It reveals the life of
a
polygamist, an alcoholic, and an ardent African nationalist
unafraid to speak truth to power at a time when that could
get you killed. Father of eight, nurturer of
none, he was nonetheless--like his famous son--a man moved
by the dream of a better world.
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July 20: Juggernaut -
A chat with former
WorldBank lead economist
William Shaw
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In their
new book
Juggernaut William Shaw, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace,
and co-author Uri Dadush assess how emerging
markets are re-shaping the main avenues of globalization -- trade,
finance, migration, and the global commons. Projecting the
global economy will triple in 40 years, they identify
key policy options for managing this
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June 14: The
Whistleblower - A chat
with human rights investigator
Kathryn
Bolkovac
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Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One
Woman's Fight for Justice...Soon to be a major motion picture starring
Rachel Weisz, this is the riveting account of
Kathryn Bolkovac, a former Nebraska police
officer who served as a human rights
investigator in Bosnia.
At great personal risk, she exposed human rights
abuses committed against young girls, who'd been
forced into prostitution and used as sex slaves,
by U.S. military contractors such as DynCorp and
other UN-related police and international
organizations.
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May 12: Conversations
with Power -
A chat with author
Brian Michael
Till
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Brian Michael Till
is a research fellow with the DC-based New America
Foundation, where he primarily works with Middle
East and Latin American policy. He blogs for the
Atlantic. In CONVERSATIONS WITH POWER: What
Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us About
Leadership, Till sits down with luminaries such
as Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ehud Barak, Mikhail
Gorbachev, and Vaclav Havel, asking the hard questions
and gleaning their advice for coming generations.
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April 20: The Future of
Power -
A chat with power expert
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
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Joseph S.
Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor and
former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School. He has served
as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and
Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance,
Science and Technology.
In 2004,
he published Soft Power: The Means to Success in
World Politics; Understanding International
Conflict
(5th edition); and The Power Game: A Washington
Novel.
In 2008, he published The Powers to Lead.
Nye's latest book just came out: The Future
of Power .
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March
16:
Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise
Doesn't Threaten the West
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Edward
S. Steinfeld,
Professor of political economy at MIT, directs the
MIT-China Program (MISTI) and co-directs the MIT
Industrial Performance Center's China Energy Group. In
Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West,
he challenges the notion that political change in China has
lagged economic trans-formation. The book argues instead
that the Chinese growth story is fundamentally about China's
internalization of the rules and practices
of advanced industrial nations.
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February
15:
Osama bin Laden -
A chat with CIA bin
Laden unit chief
Michael Scheuer
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We launched our CHAT & CHOWDA Author
Series with Michael Scheuer, former head of
the CIA's bin Laden unit. His
biography,
Osama bin Laden, offers a no-nonsense
biographical look at this "pious, brave,
intelligent, charismatic" enemy of the West. A
lively Q&A delved into what makes bin Laden such
a formidable strategist and threat to the West,
and how al-Qaeda might take advantage of current
turmoil in the Middle East.
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Read the Financial
Times
book review
Hear CBS Boston's Dan Rea
interview Scheuer |
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Friday, May 17:
An Evening of
Korean Cuisine and Culture
with
Consul General Kangho Park
Republic of Korea
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The Republic
of Korea's chief diplomatic representative to Boston and New
England took attendees on a tour of Korea's people,
cuisine, and culture. The evening's reception and remarks culminated with an extensive assortment of
delicious and traditional Korean fare, including:
Butternut Squash Porridge with chestnuts and red beans
Boston Lettuce Salad with shredded carrot daikon and alfalfa
sprouts
Shrimp and Noodle Salad
Chinese Cabbage Kimchi
Grilled Short Ribs (Galbi), Ssamjang Sauce, and Grilled
Salmon with soy and honey glaze
Grilled Breast of Chicken with dried shitake mushrooms
Steamed rice and vegetable medley
Mini pastries and fruit salad
Where:
Algonquin Club
217 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston 02116
Date:
Friday ,
May 17
Time:
6:00 -
8:30 pm
Cost:
$60 WorldBoston Members
$75 General
Admission
Price includes
program & buffet dinner.
RSVP required
Ambassador Schulte will discuss why space, as part of the global commons, is increasingly
important to our national security and economic prosperity.
The space environment is changing: it is also increasingly congested, contested, and
competitive – congested with debris, contested by countries
developing anti-satellite capabilities, and competitive with
an increasing number of countries and companies operating in
space.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte was
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Wednesday, June 5:
Business Forum and Reception: Winning in India
with Microsoft's Ravi Venkatesan
Attention future global leaders! WorldBoston is pleased to
announce the launch of
WB2030, a network for young professionals and students
seeking to make valuable international connections and to
access global expertise for career development.
Who will be at the forefront of international business,
public policy, and cultural affairs in 2030? How are leaders
in their 20s and 30s using global knowledge to excel in
their fields today?
Through WB2030, WorldBoston will connect you -- the young
professionals and students of Greater Boston -- to the
resources that will prepare you for the challenges of the
next twenty years.
Join WB2030 for exclusive access to expert speakers and
State Department-sponsored
international delegations in exciting networking
opportunities.
WB2030 will convene on Wednesday,
June 5, to present:
Conquering the Chaos:
Win in India, Win
Everywhere
A reception and discussion with
Ravi Venkatesan
Former Chairman, Microsoft India
Author of "Conquering the Chaos:
Win in India, Win Everywhere"
Join WB2030
Members for a meeting with Ravi Venkatesan, one of India's
most respected chief executives, to learn India's unique challenges and
how to navigate this seemingly chaotic business landscape.
In
Conquering the Chaos, Ravi shows what it
takes to win here, and how the country is an archetype for
emerging markets everywhere--many of which present similar
challenges but not the same potential.
Where:
GEM Restaurant & Lounge
42 Province St., Boston 02108
Date:
Wednesday,
June 5
Time:
5:30 -
7:00 pm
Cost:
Free for WB2030 Members!
Cost:
$10 General admission
Space is limited.
Reserve your spot
today!
$20
to
join as a WB2030 Student Member--event admission
included!
$30
to
join as a Young Professional Member--event admission
included!
About WB2030 Membership
WB2030 is open to all university students, recent
graduates, and young professionals from ages 20 - 39.
Membership benefits include:
Free or discounted admission to
all WB2030 Young Professionals Programs
Networking with
prominent
international delegations
Full member
discounts at all ticketed
WorldBoston programs
Access to
Members-only receptions at WorldBoston
Membership
status in the
World Affairs Councils of
America national network
Graduate students and undergrads are encouraged to join!
Membership rates:
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Current
students: $20 per year
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Young
professionals: $30 per year
WB2030
is presented by the WorldBoston team: Minh Nguyen,
James Nadel,
Jessica Menasce, Mallory McCoy, Eli Harrington, and Lillee
Tissot.
Contact
info:
wb2030@worldboston.org
or 617.542.8995
Previously
at WB2030...
March 14:
Citizen Diplomacy: How
Can YOU Shape America’s Foreign Affairs & the Future of Our
World?
An Interactive Presentation Featuring:
Jennifer Clinton,
Ph.D.
President, National Council for
International Visitors
(NCIV)
Eli
Harrington
Manager of Programs & Operations, WorldBoston
How can “average” Americans make a
real impact on foreign relations without leaving the U.S.?
What is “Citizen Diplomacy” and how does it relate to
public diplomacy efforts undertaken by the U.S. Department
of State? How
can YOU get involved as a “citizen diplomat” in the Boston
area and make a positive impact on the world’s understanding
of Boston and the United States while also meeting dynamic
future leaders from around the world?
WB2030 held an interactive workshop
on how and why these programs have such a real
impact and how you can get involved, right here in Boston!
Thank you to our sponsors!
February 21:
American Competitiveness and National Security
A Special Panel
Featuring:
Brigadier General Stephen Cheney
CEO, American
Security Project
Strategy Unit
Chair, Harvard Business School
At a time when the United States' national debt
dominates public discourse, what other long-term
issues are determining America's international
competitiveness? When other countries' strengths in
education outpace the U.S., at what point is
national security affected? Our expert panel
discussed these questions and more with over 60
young professionals from across the Greater Boston
Area.
The WB2030 Young Professionals Network proudly
partnered with
Boston International to
present this exciting event for emerging leaders. The
evening's networking included refreshments and a
complimentary liquor tasting by GrandTen!
Thank you to the event's sponsors:
January 24:
International Trivia Night
to Benefit Global Education
We had an exciting evening, complete with appetizers,
drinks, networking, and a raffle, and crowned
Boston's International Trivia Champions!
We are grateful to the following
organizations for making International Trivia Night possible:
Premier Food Sponsor,
Uno Dué Go
Boston:
Our event sponsors:
 
And our venue host:
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Ambassador Schulte will discuss why space, as part of the global commons, is increasingly
important to our national security and economic prosperity.
The space environment is changing: it is also increasingly congested, contested, and
competitive – congested with debris, contested by countries
developing anti-satellite capabilities, and competitive with
an increasing number of countries and companies operating in
space.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte was
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