2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Christopher Conz was recently awarded a Fulbright Student Grant through the Institute of International Education, sponsored by the U.S. State Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The grant will fund his dissertation research in Lesotho in Africa between September 2014 and June 2015. He will spend five months […]
Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) Co-Directors, Prof. Kevin Gallagher and Prof. Cornel Ban, contributed articles to a special issue of Governance. GEGI is a research program of the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and the Center for International Relations. The special issue […]
An article authored by Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher was published on August 4 in Foreign Policy online. In the article, titled “Your Dollar, Our Problem,“ Prof. Gallagher discusses how the United States Federal Reserve’s recent decision to terminate quantitative easing will impact emerging market and developing countries. According to Prof. Gallagher, if certain forces align, […]
Becca Fink recently joined the staff at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a Communications Specialist. Becca has five years of experience in communications and marketing. She joins the Center with writing, marketing, and reporting experience as well as skills in design, website maintenance, and social media. As […]
The 2014 Graduate Summer Fellows say goodbye today after ten weeks of research, writing, and interdisciplinary discussion at the Pardee Center. The seven Boston University doctoral and master’s students – Cantay Caliskan, Lilly Havstad, Sarah Hill, Xiaoman Huang, Abhishek Sharma, Xiaojing Tang, and Laurie Wissler – stem from diverse research and personal backgrounds, and each […]
Former Pardee Graduate Research Fellow Rachel Denae Thrasher is the author of the latest GEGI policy brief titled “Leaked TISA Financial Services Text: A glimpse into the future of services liberalization”, which discusses how recently exposed financial documents on the Trade in Services Agreement could threaten to destabilize the global economy. The brief is the […]
Kevin Gallagher and Nathan Phillips, two Faculty Fellows with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, were quoted last week in national media outlets. Prof. Gallagher, who heads Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, was quoted in a July 18th article in the Washington Post titled “China, Russia leaders seek […]
The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows met with Thomas Menino, former Boston mayor and current co-director of the Initiative on Cities (IoC), over lunch in the IoC conference room on July 16. The former mayor heard from each of the Summer Fellows about their research and talked about the collaborative programs with various stakeholders that he […]
An article authored by Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher was distributed this week via the Globalist and appeared in the Japan Times, China Daily, South Africa Business Report, Philippine Daily Inquirer and a number of other news outlets in emerging nations. In the article, titled “BRICS: Towards a Rio Consensus”, Prof. Gallagher argues that […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Les Kaufman was quoted in the Boston Globe on July 13th in an article titled “In a briny preserve, fish and controversy thrive”. The article highlights the current controversy over commercial fishing in the Gulf of Maine, a once thriving habitat that has experienced significant declines in fish populations in recent years. […]