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Research & Updates
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May 2015
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Edward Timmons, Assistant Professor of Economics, Saint Francis University
Date
May 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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May 2015
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Barak Richman, Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Professor of Business Administration, Duke University School of Law
Date
May 22, 2015
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Other Areas
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May 2015
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History of Philanthropy Case Study: Pew and Drug Safety Legislation
Date
May 15, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2015
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Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of Fed Up, and Co-Director of Local Progress, the Center for Popular Democracy
Date
May 14, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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May 2015
May 2015
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Peter Morin, Professor, Deparment of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
Date
May 05, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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April 2015
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Mark Wilson, CEO; David Tovey, Editor in Chief; Kathelene Weiss, Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser
Date
April 30, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2015
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Morris Kleiner, Professor of Labor Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Date
March 23, 2015
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Other Areas
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March 2015
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Dick M. Carpenter II, Director of Strategic Research, Institute for Justice
Date
March 20, 2015
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Other Areas
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February 2015
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Thoughts on the Sandler Foundation
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February 24, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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February 2015
February 2015
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Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affair
Date
February 13, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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February 2015
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Marc Rosenblum, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration Policy Program
Date
February 02, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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January 2015
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Josh Morrison, Executive Director, Waitlist Zero and Thomas Kelly, President, Waitlist Zero
Date
January 28, 2015
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Other Areas
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January 2015
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Beau Kilmer, Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center and Professor, Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
Date
January 27, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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January 2015
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Eric Drexler, Academic Visitor, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Date
January 23, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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January 2015
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
January 21, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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January 2015
Title
Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
January 14, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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January 2015
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December 2014 Update on IOM Haiti Grant
Date
January 01, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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December 2014
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Jeffrey Selbin, Clinical Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law; Faculty Director, East Bay Community Law Center; Co-Faculty Director, Henderson Center
Date
December 16, 2014
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Other Areas
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December 2014
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Rebecca Sandefur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Faculty Fellow, American Bar Association
Date
December 15, 2014
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Other Areas
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December 2014
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D. James Greiner, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Date
December 12, 2014
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Other Areas
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December 2014
Title
Joan Rohlfing, President and Chief Operating Officer, the Nuclear Threat Initiative
Date
December 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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November 2014
Title
A Conversation with Staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
November 14, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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November 2014
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Robert Einhorn, Senior Fellow, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution
Date
November 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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November 2014
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Bruce Lowry, Director of Policy and Communications, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Date
November 05, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2014
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Brian Steensland, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Date
October 24, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2014
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David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
Date
October 17, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2014
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Philip Yun, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Ploughshares Fund
Date
October 16, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2014
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Brian Ketternring, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
October 16, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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October 2014
Title
Joe Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Date
October 15, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2014
Title
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
October 15, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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October 2014
Title
Carl Robichaud, Program Officer, International Peace and Security Program, the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
October 14, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2014
Title
Eric Drexler, Academic Visitor, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Date
October 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2014
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Lane Kenworthy, Professor of Sociology and Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought, University of California at San Diego
Date
October 08, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2014
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Scott Sumner, Professor of Economics, Bentley University
Date
October 03, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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September 2014
Title
Richard Jones, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield
Date
September 30, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2014
Title
Erika Gregory, Founding Director, N Square: The Crossroads for Nuclear Security Innovation
Date
September 22, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2014
Title
Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Date
September 16, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2014
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Gary Samore, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Date
September 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2014
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Centers for Disease Control’s Excessive Alcohol Use Prevention Team (Alcohol Program)
Date
September 05, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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September 2014
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Philip Moriarty, Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham
Date
September 03, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2014
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David Roodman’s Draft Writeup on Immigration and Current Residents’ Wages
Date
September 03, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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August 2014
Title
Adam Marblestone, Director of Scientific Architecting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synthetic Neurobiology Group (scientific advisor to GiveWell)
Date
August 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 2014
Title
Chris Phoenix, Co-Founder and Director of Research, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Date
August 20, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
August 2014
August 2014
Title
David Jernigan, Director, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) and Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Date
August 06, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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August 2014
Title
David Kamin, Assistant Professor of Law, New York University
Date
August 01, 2014
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Other Areas
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July 2014
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Phil Cook, ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Sociology, Duke University
Date
July 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2014
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Jacob Hacker, Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Stanley B. Resor Professor Political Science, Yale University
Date
July 25, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2014
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Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
July 24, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2014
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David Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2014
Title
Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Tracy Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor, Yale Law School
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2014
Title
Peter Wagner, Executive Director, Prison Policy Initiative
Date
July 14, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Michael Wishnie, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Deputy Dean for Experiential Education, Yale Law School
Date
July 13, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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May 2014
May 2014
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Macroeconomic Policy
Date
May 12, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
May 2014
May 2014
Title
Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
May 12, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
May 2014
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Our Writeup on Criminal Justice Reform
Date
May 06, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Tom Hart, U.S. Executive Director, The ONE Campaign
Date
April 24, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Dr. Martin Ruhs, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Senior Researcher, Oxford University
Date
April 23, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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April 2014
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2014
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
April 21, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Laurence Ball, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Date
April 17, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Bryant Walker Smith, Fellow, the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS); Fellow, the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School; Lecturer, Stanford Law School
Date
April 11, 2014
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Other Areas
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April 2014
Title
Robert Bloomfield, Professor of Management and Accounting, Cornell University
Date
April 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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April 2014
Title
Robert Greenstein, President, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
April 03, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Kathleen Newland, Co-Founder, Migration Policy Institute
Date
April 02, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Bill Gale, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Co-Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Date
March 28, 2014
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Other Areas
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March 2014
Title
Bentley Allan, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Date
March 26, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Date
March 25, 2014
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Other Areas
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March 2014
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Richard England, Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Professor of Economics and Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
Date
March 22, 2014
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Other Areas
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March 2014
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Patrick Lucey, Policy Program Associate, and Danielle Kehl, Policy Analyst, New America Foundation
Date
March 19, 2014
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Other Areas
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March 2014
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Daniel Fagnant, Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Engineering, UT Austin; Assistant Professor at University of Utah (Anticipated August 2014)
Date
March 18, 2014
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Other Areas
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February 2014
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Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
February 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2014
Title
Josh Bivens, Research and Policy Director, Economic Policy Institute
Date
February 26, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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February 2014
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Philip Tetlock, Professor of Psychology and Management, University of Pennsylvania; Co-leader of the Good Judgment Project
Date
February 12, 2014
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Other Areas
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February 2014
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Joseph Gagnon, Senior Fellow; former Associate Director at the Division of International Finance and Senior Economist, US Federal Reserve Board
Date
February 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
January 2014
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Mike Konczal, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
January 23, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Grant Tennille, Executive Director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe
Date
January 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Jay Neal, Executive Director of Georgia’s Office of Transition, Support and Re-entry; former Representative in Georgia State House of Representatives
Date
January 15, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Date
January 15, 2014
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Other Areas
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January 2014
Title
Rob Reich, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Board member, GiveWell
Date
January 09, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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December 2013
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Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne
Date
December 16, 2013
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Other Areas
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December 2013
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Larry Kramer, President and Daniel Stid, Senior Fellow
Date
December 06, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Steve Riskin, Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
Date
November 26, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Andy Ko, Campaign Manager, Campaign for a New Drug Policy
Date
November 20, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Pew Charitable Trusts’ Government Performance Project
Date
November 14, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Attendance of Selective Colleges amongst High-Performing, Low-Income Students
Date
November 14, 2013
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Other Areas
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November 2013
November 2013
Title
Nancy Birdsall, President, and Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs
Date
November 12, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
November 2013
Title
The Track Record of Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
November 06, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Content Type
October 2013
Title
Gara LaMarche, President, Democracy Alliance; former President and CEO, Atlantic Philanthropies
Date
October 31, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
October 2013
Title
Aaron Goldzimer, Student, Yale Law School
Date
October 19, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
October 2013
Title
Julie Samuels, Senior Staff Attorney, Peter Eckersley, Technology Projects Director, Daniel Nazer, Staff Attorney, and Adi Kamdar, Activist
Date
October 15, 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
October 2013