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Wintersession 2018
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Business As A Force of Good
Martha Goldberg Aronson '89, Corporate Director and President of North Arm Partners, Rudina Seseri '00, Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, and Jenny Brandemuehl '85, Chief People Officer of Chegg, Inc., provide their unique insights into how business can be a powerful force for good.
Wintersession 2017
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
CULTURE
EDUCATION
From Exodus to Action: Claiming our Common Humanity in the Refugee Crisis
The Albright Institute’s annual Public Dialogue with Secretary Albright will focus on understanding the demands of advancing beyond resettlement into rebuilding society.
Wintersession 2017
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Business: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
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.
Wintersession 2017
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
INEQUALITY
Financial Inclusion and the FinTech Revolution: Key Trends Emerging from a New Digital World
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.
Wintersession 2017
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
INEQUALITY
Tracing (Micro)Financial Chains: From the “Bottom of the Pyramid” to the Top
Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College discussed how narratives about microfinance help to reinforce existing social hierarchies and inequities.
Wintersession 2017
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
EURO: To be or not to be (in) - Panel
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.
Wintersession 2017
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
The Electoral Consequences of Globalization
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.
Wintersession 2017
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
LEADERSHIP
The World Atilt on its Axis: Implications for Leadership
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.
Wintersession 2016
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Business: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
by Martha Goldberg Aronson ’89, EVP and President of Global Healthcare, Ecolab
Wintersession 2016
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
GOVERNANCE & CIVIL SOCIETY
Marketing Development: A View from the Global Microfinance Industry
by Professor Smitha Radhakrishnan, Wellesley College
Wintersession 2016
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Thinking Critically, Leading Ethically, and Living Morally
by Rear Admiral Margaret Kibben, Chief of Navy Chaplains, United States Navy
Wintersession 2015
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Global Inequality and Piketty's Capital
by Professor Joseph Joyce, Faculty Director, Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs
Wintersession 2015
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
INEQUALITY
Why Care About Global Poverty?
by Professor Helena DeBres, Wellesley College
Wintersession 2014
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Big Business: Being Part of the Solution
by Martha Goldberg Aronson ’89, President, Global Healthcare, Ecolab
Wintersession 2014
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
The Role of the Private Sector in the Delivery of Scarce Infrastructure in Developing Countries
by Patricia Sulser '79, Chief Counsel, International Finance Corporation; Bernard Sheahan, Director for Infrastructure and Natural Resources, International Finance Corporation
Wintersession 2014
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
GOVERNANCE & CIVIL SOCIETY
Rethinking Infrastructure
by Kitty Di Martino, Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group
Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Brooke Harrington
Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Susan Nazzaro
’01
Senior Program Officer, Product Introduction and Access, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Françoise Carré
’79
Research Director, Center for Social Policy, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
INEQUALITY
Olga Shurchkov
’01
Associate Professor of Economics and Director, Knapp Social Science Center, Wellesley College
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
INEQUALITY
Sari Pekkala Kerr
Senior Research Scientist, Wellesley Centers for Women
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
INEQUALITY
Ann Velenchik
Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
INEQUALITY
Pinar Keskin
Assistant Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Patricia Sulser
’79
Lawyer and Independent Consultant
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
LEADERSHIP
Kristina Nilsson
’05
Executive Director, Technology Investment Banking J.P. Morgan
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Kweilin Ellingrud
Senior Partner, Minneapolis, McKinsey & Company
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
INEQUALITY
Christine Keung
’14
MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Samaa Ahmed
’13
Design Thinking Strategist, General Motors
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Manos Matsaganis
Professor of Public Finance, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Rudina Seseri
’00
Founder and Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jenny Brandemuehl
’85
Chief People Officer, Chegg Inc.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Bruce Stokes
Director of Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Dan Sichel
Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Richard Parker
Senior Fellow and Lecturer, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
EDUCATION
Sarah Vellozzi
Senior Vice-President and Partner, Fleishman-Hillard, NY
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS