Dr. Paul Sheard will join Professor Bruce Aronson for a discussion about Japan’s economic growth strategy and corporate governance, with a particular focus on the Takaichi Cabinet’s growth agenda, sometimes called “Sanaenomics,” and how it compares with “Abenomics.” They will also discuss how Japan’s broader strategic priorities are evolving in response to shifting domestic and global economic conditions.

Please note that the location of this event has changed to Furman Hall 212

North Korea is one of the world’s poorest countries, but also one of the most challenging places to deliver humanitarian aid. For years at a time, its government has barred foreign aid workers, suspicious of their intentions. Swiss aid worker Kathi Zellweger, one of the very few Westerners to have lived in North Korea, and who visited the country seventy-five times over three decades, will share her experiences working with local medical experts, negotiating with suspicious government officials, and finding ways to help thousands of people, most of them children. She is joined by Mike Chinoy, a former CNN correspondent and repeat visitor to North Korea, with whom she wrote the book, Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea. 

As the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) launched in 2016, many wondered how this new China-led multilateral development bank (MDB) would fare.  Natalie Lichtenstein, AIIB’s founding lawyer takes a look at AIIB in context, surveying 100 years of MDB legal genealogy.  What does AIIB’s first decade tell us about the combination of heritage and innovation in AIIB’s 21st century charter?