Events
The Economic Crisis and the U.S. Policy Response: Just Right, Too Little or Too Much?
June 02, 2011 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Ron Blackwell, Chief Economist, AFL-CIO; Uri Dadush, Director, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Prakash Loungani, Advisor, International Monetary Fund; Michael Lind, Director Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation; Thomas Palley, New Rules and New America Foundation
P & G: Innovation in a Global Environment
May 11, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
On Wednesday, May 11 Bruce Brown, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the global consumer products behemoth Procter & Gamble, spoke at a forum at the Wilson Center hosted by the Program on America and the Global Economy (PAGE).
P & G: Innovation in a Global Environment
May 06, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Bruce Brown, Chief Technology Officer, Procter & Gamble; Moderator; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
Perspectives on the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement
April 19, 2011 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
Jose W. Fernandez, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs; Moderated by: Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center; Discussant: William Krist, Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
The Free-Market Path to Electric Cars
April 14, 2011 // 2:00pm — 3:30pm
Peter Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Max Parness, Energy Fellow and Switzer Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy
IMF Performance in the Run-Up to the Current Financial and Economic Crisis
March 28, 2011 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic Policy and Research; Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance; Ruben Lamdany, Deputy Director Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund; John W. Sewell, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Damon Silver, Director, Policy Department, American Federation of Labor-Council of Industrial Organizations
THE NEW COOL: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts
March 02, 2011 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
Neal Bascomb, Author, THE NEW COOL: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts; Mark Hannum, Educator, Thomas Jefferson School For Science and Technology; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy
Partnering With Business: The Changing Role of Business in Education
March 02, 2011 // 8:00am — 10:00am
Brenda Gardunia, High School Math, Idaho; Arundhati Jayarao, High School Chemistry and Physics, Virginia; John Moore, High School Environmental Science, New Jersey; Sue Whitsett, High School Biology, Wisconsin; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy
Scalability: How to Take Local Successes in Education to a State and National Level
February 02, 2011 // 8:00am — 10:00am
Lindsay Knippenberg, High School Biology and Environmental Science, Michigan; Terrie Rust, Middle School Technology, Arizona; Steve Schreiner, Middle School Integrated Science and Technology, Washington; Mike Town, High School Environmental Science, Washington; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
Book Discussion: Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World
February 01, 2011 // 1:00pm — 2:30pm
Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Director, Transformation, Integration, and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER); Moderator John Milewski, Managing Editor and Host, Dialogue, Woodrow Wilson Center