The Ash Center is inaugurating a new seminar series on Economic Development in East Asia. For our first installment of this new seminar series, we are pleased to host Professor Fukunari Kimura, the Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, the Chief Economist of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), and the President of the Japanese Society of International Economics for a discussion entitled: "A New Development Strategy for Southeast Asia based on the Expansion of Production Networks and Preferential Trade Agreements."

This...

Ash Center Student Speaker Series

Speakers:

Glendean Hamilton, MPP '17
Maurits Waardenburg, MPP '16

About the Series

The Ash Center Student Speaker Series highlights and explores the implications and lessons learned from the research projects or applied learning experiences of Harvard University students supported by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Each week, we invite two students to offer brief remarks on their work, or a response to one...

Ash Center Student Speaker Series

Hear from two Ash Center Summer Fellows in Innovation on their experience working on participatory democratic innovations: the Citizen's Initiative Review in Massachusetts, and Participatory Budgeting in New York City. Each of these innovations aim to make democracy work better for everyone, but are advocated for and marketed by independent...

Ash Center Student Speaker Series

Join Sean Alaback and George Simpson for a discussion on the importance of data to city governments. Both George and Sean were 2016 Ash Center Summer Fellows in Innovation, and worked on civic data projects at two very different scales. George, who worked in the Mayor’s office in Los Angeles, CA, worked between the Chief Data Officer and the Communications department, helping to craft and disseminate the City’s messaging around their data initiatives. Sean, as part of the Innovation Field Lab, developed a data tool called...

Ash Center Student Speaker Series

In the first Student Speaker Series event of the year, Glynis Startz and Cecily Tyler will discuss the role civic engagement has played in their work. Through two very different mediums—Glynis as an Ash Center Summer Fellow working on in-person and online engagement and outreach as part of a smart cities project in Chicago, and Cecily as a filmmaker using crowdsourced documentary film as a tool to empower communities to tell their own stories—both women have explored new and innovative ways to inspire people to take ownership over...

Join the Harvard University Asia Center and the Ash Center for the 6th Thailand@Harvard Lecture with Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer, Khao Sod English

Sponsored by the Thai Studies Program at the Harvard University Asia Center and the Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School

The Ash Center is cosponsoring a discussion hosted by the Program on US-Japan Relations at  the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs entitled China’s Rise in the Asia-Pacific Region and Japanese Foreign Policy.

Makoto Iokibe, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto, and Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Discussant: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School.

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer...

The Ash Center cordially welcomes you to a talk by Michael Enright, Director, Enright, Scott & Associates and Professor, School of Business, University of Hong Kong entitled Developing China: The Remarkable Impact of Foreign Direct Investment. This discussion will be moderated by William Overholt, President, Fung Global Institute and Asia Center Fellow, Harvard University

Cosponsored by:

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 Class Description: 

This class is not for credit and open to all Harvard students, staff members and the general public of the Greater Boston Area. The lessons will be conducted by Ms. Aria Citra Kusuma (Aria_Kusuma@hks.harvard.edu), a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA). All levels of skill – beginner, intermediate, and advanced – are welcome. The class will focus on the culture of Indonesia, as well as day to day...

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