| Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2008
5:30 p.m. OPENING RECEPTION
The Honorable Bill Purcell, Director, Institute of Politics;
Mayor, Nashville, TN (1999-2007)
David Ellwood, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government
The Honorable Michael Capuano, Member, United States House of
Representatives (D-08, MA)
Drew Faust, President, Harvard University
6:30p.m. NEW ENGLAND CLAMBAKE
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. THE STATUS OF INTELLIGENCE REFORM AND THE
IMPORTANT ROLE OF CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT
The Honorable Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence
Moderated by: Mary Margaret Graham, Fellow, Institute of Politics Fall 2008, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. THE POLITICS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET
Linda Bilmes, Lecturer in Public Finance, Harvard Kennedy School
Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget;
Director, Fiscal Policy Program, New America Foundation
The Honorable David Walker, President and CEO,
Peter G. Peterson Foundation
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. FUTURE OF AMERICAN POWER
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service and
Professor Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations,
John F. Kennedy School of Government
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. LUNCH
RADICAL CHANGES IN AMERICAN FAMILIES:
CHALLENGES FOR BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT
David Ellwood, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. BREAK
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
The Honorable Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and
International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
Meghan O'Sullivan, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy
School
6:00 p.m. FORUM EVENT
7:30 p.m. RECEPTION AND DINNER WITH HARVARD FACULTY
EDUCATION: A SMART INVESTMENT
William Gates Sr., Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Thursday, December 4, 2008
8:00 a.m. BREAKFAST
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and
Investment, Harvard Kennedy School
Jeffery Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy,
Harvard Kennedy School
Gregory Mankiw, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
David Ellwood (moderator), Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. BREAK
10:45 a.m. - 12 noon TRANSITIONING TO A CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY
Van Jones, Founding President, Green for All;
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Cathy Zoi, CEO, Alliance for Climate Protection
Maralee Schwartz (moderator), Visiting Murrow Lecturer in the Practice of
Press and Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m. MAKING AN IMPACT AS A NEW MEMBER OF CONGRESS
The Honorable Diana DeGette, Member, United States House of
Representatives (D-01, CO)
Elizabeth Sears Smith, Chief of Staff, Congressman Rahm Emanuel
David King (moderator), Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ENERGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
John Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public
Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy and
Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
The Honorable Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future;
Member, Institute of Politics Senior Advisory Committee;
Member, United States House of Representatives (IN-2, D, 1975-1995)
Graham Allison (moderator), Director, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. PUBLIC EDUCATION: WHAT CAN CONGRESS DO?
Susan Moore Johnson, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching and
Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Thomas Kane, Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate
School of Education; Faculty Director, Center for Education Policy
Research, Harvard University
Bridget Terry Long, Associate Professor of Education and Economics,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Robert B. Schwartz, Academic Dean and William Henry Bloomberg
Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Honorable Bill Purcell (moderator), Director, Institute of Politics;
Mayor, Nashville, TN (1999-2007)
6:00 p.m. DEPART FOR THE LIBRARY
8:00 p.m. DINNER
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ELECTION OF
BARACK OBAMA ON AMERICAN RACE RELATIONS
Lawrence Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences,
Harvard University
Henry Louis Gates, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American,
Harvard University
Claudine Gay, Professor of Government and of Africa and
African American Studies, Harvard University
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor,
Harvard University
10:00 p.m. ARRIVE BACK AT HOTEL
Friday, December 5, 2006
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST WITH KENNEDY SCHOOL STUDENTS
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. HEALTHCARE POLICY
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Stuart Butler, Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies
Conference Center Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Tim Westmorland, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School
Gail Wilensky, Senior Fellow, Project Hope
Sheila Burke (moderator), Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and F
Faculty Research Fellow, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy,
Harvard Kennedy School
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. STANDING ON THE EDGE OF A NEW FRONTIER:
THE WORLD IN 2033
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director,
Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Elaine Kamarck (moderator), Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government
12:15 p.m. LUNCH
That's it!
Jared Polis |
