BRI Economic Benefits and Risks, with Kevin Gallagher (Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative lecture series) (Feb. 5, 2021)

The next lecture in the series Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative will present

ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS: “BRI Economic Benefits and Risks”

Speaker: Kevin Gallagher; Discussant: William Grimes
Host: Global Development Policy Center

Friday, February 5, 2021, 9-10 a.m. EST

Economic Implications recommended reading, BU GDP Center links to BRI

About the speaker: 

Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs the Global Development Policy Center.

Kevin P. Gallagher is the author or co-author of six books: The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus, Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance; The Clash of Globalizations:  Essays on Trade and Development Policy; The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization (with Roberto Porzecanski); The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley (with Lyuba Zarsky); and Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond.

Gallagher serves on the United Nations’ Committee for Development Policy and co-chairs the T-20 Task Force on International Financial Architecture at the G-20. He previously served on the investment sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy at the US Department of State and on the National Advisory Committee at the Environmental Protection Agency.   Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.

Gallagher’s specializations include Economic Development, Trade and Investment Policy, International Environmental Policy, and Latin America.

This presentation is part of the virtual conference series  “Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative,” hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and its affiliated regional centers,  which examines the economic, social, political, and security impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

For the full series poster with live links to speaker biographies and suggested readings, and to register for each event, click here BRI Spring 2021 Presentation Series poster 1.19.21a