The Energy & Environment program welcomes Dr. Tim Fitzgerald of Texas Tech University for a Distinguished Lecture. Fitzgerald served on the Council of Economic Advisors for the White House from 2017-2018. He will give an overview of US trade policy in the Trump Administration and likely outcomes, with special attention to implications for energy markets.

This event will take place on Tuesday, October 1 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.  

Join the Energy & Environment program and the Department of Economics in welcoming Dr. Paul Ferraro of Johns Hopkins University. Ferraro will discuss the relationship between poverty alleviation and ecosystem change. He will present results from a study on Indonesia's national anti-poverty program, which transfers cash to hundreds of thousands of poor households, reducing deforestation as a side benefit.

This event will take place on Thursday, October 10 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.  

The Leadership and Governance program will welcome Ambassador William Brownfield for a lecture on "Venezuela: Beginning of the End, or End of the Beginning?" He will discuss elections, international politics, and the emerging crisis in Venezuela. 

Brownfield served as U.S. ambassador beginning in Chile from 2002 - 2004, Venezuela from 2004 - 2007, and Colombia from 2007-2010. In 2012, Brownfield was promoted to Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the foreign service. 

This event will take place on Monday, October 14 from 5:00 to 6:00 pm in the Toyota Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.  

The Leadership and Governance program will welcome Deputy Assistand Secretary Andrew Peek for a lecture on the relationship between Iraq and Iran. 

This event will take place on Thursday, October 24 from 5:00 to 6:00 pm in the Toyota Auditorium The event is free and open to the public.  

Dr. Matt Buehler and Dr. Joon Han have published reasearch in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Review of Middle East Studies. The papers, "Divergent Opposition to sub-Saharan Africa and Arab migrants in Morocco's Casablanca Region prejudice from the pocketbook?" and "Who endorses amnesty? An original survey from Morocco's Casablanca region assessing citizen support for regularizing clandestine migrants," explore North African politics with funding from the Baker Center as well as Harvard's Middle East Initiative. 

Dr. Brandon Prins and Dr. Anup Phayal of Univeristy of North Carolina, Wilmington collaborated on a paper titled "Deploying to Protect: The Effect of Military Peacekeeping Deployments on Violence against Civilians," which was recently published in International Peacekeeping. Their research focuses on whether or not peacekeeping forces protect or harm civilians in post-war environments. 

Read the full article here. 

Baker Center fellow Dr. Lisa Reyes Mason has recently co-authored an article in the Journal of Community Practice in an interdisciplinary effort to understand adoption of “backyard” green infrastructure – such as rain garden programs – in socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods. 

Read the full article here. 

Baker Center fellow Dr. Marianne Wanamaker serves on the The White House American Workforce Policy Advisory Board (AWPAB) and visited Washington, DC in late Semtember for a meeting with Ivanka Trump and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. Alongside her was Wesley Smith who works with Wanamaker as a Baker Center research assistant. 

The AWPAB is a part of the Pledge to America's Workers, intent on identifying solutions to the growing skills gap and threat of automation. 

The Department of Political Science at the University of Genoa has invited Dr. Brandon Prins to present three lectures this October.

On October 7-9, he will present three lectures: "The Uneven Burden of Peacekeeping"; "Pirate Lands: Governance and Maritime Policy;" and "Demarcating the Lines of Democratic Peace."