{"id":27374,"date":"2017-03-01T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=27374"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:51:22","slug":"gallagher-holds-twitter-ama-on-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/03\/01\/gallagher-holds-twitter-ama-on-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher Holds Twitter AMA on Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/GallagherAMA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/GallagherAMA-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"GallagherAMA\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/GallagherAMA-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/GallagherAMA-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/03\/GallagherAMA.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/kevin-p-gallagher\/\">Kevin Gallagher,<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Professor of Global Development Policy at the <\/span><span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, participated in a Twitter &#8220;Ask Me Anything,&#8221; or AMA, on February 27, 2017 with questions focusing on Latin America and the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/pardeepride\/calendar\/?eid=194439\">Boston University Latin America Alumni Summit<\/a>. The AMA was hosted by the\u00a0by the\u00a0Boston University Alumni Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Latin American Summit, presented in partnership with the Pardee School, will feature world-class faculty and accomplished alumni of Boston University, who will discuss such issues as global and Latin American health, smart cities, economics and investment and media. Both Gallagher and Dean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a> will speak at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Questions\u00a0posed to Gallagher during the AMA included what initially sparked his interest in Latin America, how slower growth in Latin America will affect the United States economy and what his favorite food from the region is:<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/BUalumni\/twitter-ama-with-prof-kevin-gallagher\/embed?header=false&amp;template=slideshow\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/BUalumni\/twitter-ama-with-prof-kevin-gallagher.js?header=false&#038;template=slideshow\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"storify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"storify\">You can also view\u00a0a full account of the AMA <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/BUalumni\/twitter-ama-with-prof-kevin-gallagher\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"storify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"storify\"><span>Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University (BU), where he co-directs the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI).\u00a0 GEGI\u2019s mission is to advance policy relevant research on governance for financial stability, human development, and the environment on a global scale.\u00a0Learn more about him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/kevin-p-gallagher\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Kevin Gallagher answered questions from Twitter on a range of topics related to Latin America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8811,8414],"tags":[9860,10067,10066,1362,1810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27374"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47724,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27374\/revisions\/47724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}