Panel Discussion
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Euro Mess, the US Policy Paralysis and the Rest:
A global crisis again? Where is the G20 on the eve of yet another summit?

Carmen Reinhart, Stephen Roach, Benn Steil, Ernesto Zedillo

The G20 France 2011 Summit, scheduled for November 3 and 4, will take place in the context of what has turned into a severe crisis in the eurozone. Given the rather poor performance of the G20 until now, and taking into account how the European Monetary Union seems to be unraveling, the YCSG has organized this panel discussion to review the situation right before the summit and imagine what outcomes should be expected. Are we on the brink of a new global crisis? Center Director Ernesto Zedillo will be joined by Carmen Reinhart of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Co-author of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly; Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; and Benn Steil, Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Luce Hall Auditorium – 4:30 pm
34 Hillhouse Avenue
Free and open to the public
For more information call 432-1904

Public Lecture
Monday, October 24, 2011
That Used to Be Us: How America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back

Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist

Internationally renowned author, reporter, columnist and recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes, Thomas Friedman, will give an open lecture at Yale to present the ideas in his new book, That Used to Be Us. America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges: globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption, and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.

Whitney Humanities Center – 4:30 p.m.
53 Wall Street
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored with the Whitney Humanities Center
For more information call 432-1904

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Public Lecture
Tuesday, April 12, 2011


Martti Ahtisaari
Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2008

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Martti Ahtisaari, will present a public lecture at Yale on Tuesday, April 12 at the invitation of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Mr. Ahtisaari, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008, was also the President of Finland from 1994 to 2000. He will address the community at 4:30 in room 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall at the corner of Grove and Prospect Streets in New Haven. Mr. Ahitsaari will speak about the issue of youth and unemployment as these relate to the recent events that have taken place in the Middle East/North Africa region. The lecture is free and open to the public.

SSS 114 - 4:30 p.m.
Corner of Grove and Prospect Street
Free and open to the public
For more information call 432-1904

A Conversation With Martti Ahtisaari

Public Lecture
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A Conversation on Global Challenges in the 21st Century

Robert Zoellick
President of The World Bank

The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization is proud to host Mr. Robert Zoellick, the President of The World Bank, in a conversation with Center Director, Ernesto Zedillo, on Global Challenges in the 21st Century. With a long career of public service, Mr. Zoellick became the 11th President of the World Bank in 2007. Previously he served as the U.S. Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005, Deputy Secretary of State from 2005 to 2006, and was instrumental in launching the Doha Development Agenda of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Luce Hall Auditorium - 4:15 p.m.
34 Hillhouse Avenue
Free and open to the public
For more information call 432-1904

A Conversation on Global Challenges in the 21st Century
Repowering the World Bank for the 21st Century

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