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The Albright Institute’s annual Public Dialogue with Secretary Albright will focus on understanding the demands of advancing beyond resettlement into rebuilding society.

Martha Goldberg Aronson '89, Corporate Director; former Executive Vice President and President of Global Healthcare at Ecolab encouraged Fellows to consider some examples of businesses that have missions beyond increasing shareholder value and how to build a professional career in line with your personal values.

Victoria White '91, Senior Vice President and Head, Global Advisory Solutions, Accion, discussed the potential for digital solutions to bring access to financial management tools to poor, rural and disenfranchised populations.

Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College discussed how narratives about microfinance help to reinforce existing social hierarchies and inequities.

Panelists George Papaconstantinou, Ph.D., Chairman, GSP Advisory; Greek Finance Minister (2009-2011), Ioana Petrescu '03, Ph.D., International Consultant, Romanian Finance Minister (2014) and Akila Weerapana, Associate Professor of Economics, Wellesley College shared their insights into the past, present and future of the euro currency.

Joseph Joyce, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Wellesley College, discussed how the unequal distribution of benefits from globalization have impacted politics, particularly in the U.S., and started a conversation with Fellows about how inequalities can be reduced through government policy.

Keynote Speaker Dame Amelia Fawcett ‘78, Deputy Chairman, Investment AB Kinnevik Stockholm/Chairman Hedge Fund Standards Board, London shares her thoughts on Brexit, the U.S. presidential election and the role and responsibility of journalism in the current environment.

by Martha Goldberg Aronson ’89, EVP and President of Global Healthcare, Ecolab

by Rear Admiral Margaret Kibben, Chief of Navy Chaplains, United States Navy

by Professor Joseph Joyce, Faculty Director, Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs

by Professor Helena DeBres, Wellesley College

by Martha Goldberg Aronson ’89, President, Global Healthcare, Ecolab

by Patricia Sulser '79, Chief Counsel, International Finance Corporation; Bernard Sheahan, Director for Infrastructure and Natural Resources, International Finance Corporation

by Kitty Di Martino, Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group