WHERE’S THE WATER: MEKONG DRY SEASON 2025? 12/16, 9:00-10:30pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Stimson. Speakers: Alan Basist, President, Eyes on Earth; Brian Eyler, Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program, Stimson Center; Nguyen Y Nhu, Head of Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, Vietnam National University of Science; Courtney Weatherby, Southeast Asia Deputy Director, Stimson Center (Moderator).
MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY IN AN AGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. 12/16, 2:00-3:00pm (EST). VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Hutchins Center, Brookings. Speakers: Marshall Reinsdorf, Economic consultant; Louise Sheiner, Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Policy Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Brookings; Nicholas Muller, Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; David Byrne, Principal Economist, Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Erica Groshen, Senior Economics Advisor, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Research Fellow, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, former Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
DOLLARS AND DOMINION: U.S. BANKERS AND THE MAKING OF SUPER POWER. 12/16, 4:00-5:30pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: author Mary Bridges, Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Harold James, Clause and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University; Marc Levinson, Economist, Historian, and Journalist. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/4eXPWRM