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Jun
12
2023
11:30—1:30 PM EDT | 4.30 - 6.30 PM BST
June 05, 2023
Sir Masood Ahmed, CGD’s President, will be joined by Laura Frigenti, Global Partnership for Education (GPE) CEO, for a conversation on “Schooling for All: Feasible Strategies to Achieve Universal Education”. After 30 years in multilateral organizations, government and non-profits, covering senior po...
Jul
17
2020
9:00—10:30 AM EDT
June 29, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on almost every school system in the world. As schools start to reopen, education policy makers are faced with the dual challenge of getting children back into school and planning for the long-term consequences of the pandemic on the sector.
During th...
May
5
2020
10:00—10:00 AM ET
April 28, 2020
Former British Prime Minister and United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, joins CGD President Masood Ahmed to discuss international cooperation in the response to COVID-19. They will discuss his call for the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks to aggressively exp...
Blog Post
February 07, 2018
Like the mythical Roman god Janus, there are two faces to most of the economies of the MENA region. We can call them the young and the old. And that the choice for MENA governments to make is not which face of Janus to support, but rather how to ensure that both can co-exist and prosper. ...
Blog Post
December 05, 2017
I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion, titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Labor” at the 10th edition of World Policy Conference. Preparing for this panel provided me with an opportunity to think more deeply about the ways in which artificial intelligence (A...