TIME: 3:00 – 5:30 PM, Friday, October 3, 2014 VENUE: Loeb House, Harvard University, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
MODERATOR:Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder, Chairman, Boston Global Forum
AGENDA
3:00 PM – OPENING REMARKS AND INITIAL FRAMING OF 2015 TOPIC by Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder, Chairman, Boston Global Forum
3:05 PM – Speech of Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga – Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; President of Club de Madrid; Former President of Latvia
3:15 PM – Speech of Anders Corr – Principal of Corr Analytics, Inc.
3:25 PM – Speech of Joshua W. Haines – Leader, Cyber Systems and Operations Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
3:35 PM – Speech of Robert K. Gardner – Founding member, New World Technology Partners
3:45 PM – Speech of Llewellyn King – Member, Boston Global Forum Editorial Board; Co-Host and Executive Producer of PBS White House Chronicle, a weekly news and public affairs program
3:55 PM – Speech of Professor Thomas E. Patterson – Co-Founder, Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
4:00 PM – Speech of Ryan Ellis – Postdoctoral Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
4:05 PM – General Discussion
4:20 PM – Announcement of Creation of BGF Global Media Awards (Its purpose, eligibility, criteria, selection process) by Professor Thomas Patterson – Co-Founder, Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
4:22 PM – Announcement of Creation of Boston Global Museum of Internet Time by Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder, Chairman, Boston Global Forum
4:25 PM – Announcement of Final Results of Cyber Art Competition by Dr. Elliot Salloway – Chief Operation Officer, Boston Global Forum
4:35 PM – Speech of Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga – Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; President of Club de Madrid; Former President of Latvia
4:40 PM – CLOSING REMARKS by Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder, Chairman, Boston Global Forum
(BGF) – The Boston Global Forum is pleased to have its Distinguished Lecture delivered by the former Latvia’s President, Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga, in the morning of October 3, 2014. The topic of the talk is the Forum’s focus throughout 2014, which is to build a Framework for peace and security in the Pacific. The issue has been attracting participation and supports of several policymakers, scholars, researchers and business leaders into discussion.
Photo Credit: Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the former Latvia’s President, and Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, the Boston Global Forum Editor-in-Chief.
The event is one of the Forum’s Leader Series activities which features talks with the most remarkable figures in their respective fields, and be anchored by Llewellyn King, member of the Forum Editorial Board, executive producer and host of PBS White House Chronicle
(BGF) – The Boston Global Forum is pleased to announce that the next installment of the BGF Leader Series will be taken place at 9:00 AM (EST) on Friday, October 3, 2014 and will be delivered by the former President of Latvia, Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga.
The lecture will be live-streamed at www.bostonglobalforum.org
Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia will deliver her speech on building a Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific, a focus of the Boston Global Forum in 2014 which has attracted attention and interest by several scholar, policymakers, business leaders.
Please attend at bostonglobalforum.org and send your questions to [email protected].
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: FRAMEWORK FOR PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC
Time: 9:00 AM (EST), Friday, October 3, 2014
Location: live-stream at bostonglobalforum.org
Anchor:
Llewellyn King – Member of Editorial Board, Boston Global Forum; executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle,” a PBS’s weekly news and public affairs program.
Featured Speaker:
Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga – Member of Boston Global Forum Board of Thinkers; President of the Club of Madrid and former President of Latvia (1999-2007)
Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga is President of the Club of Madrid and former President of Latvia (1999-2007). She was instrumental in achieving membership in the European Union and NATO for her country, and was Special Envoy on UN reform among her international activities. Since 2007, she is an oft invited speaker on social issues, moral values, and democracy. She was Vice-chair of the Reflection group on the long term future of Europe, and chaired the High-level group on freedom and pluralism of media in the EU.
Having left Latvia as a child refugee to Germany in 1945, then French Morocco and Canada, she earned a Ph.D. in psychology (1965) at McGill University. After a distinguished career as Professor at the University of Montreal, she returned to her native country in 1998 to head the Latvian Institute.A year later she was elected President by the Latvian Parliament and re-elected in 2003.
She is member of four Academies, and Board member or patron of 30 international organizations, including the Board of Thinkers of the Boston Global Forum. She has received many highest Orders of Merit, as well as medals and awards, for distinguished work in the humanities and social sciences. She has published 14 books and authored over 200 articles, book chapters, reports, and audiovisual materials.
Co-Founder; Chairman of The Board of Directors and Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum. Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988. Distinguished Professor J.D., Harvard University
Michael Stanley Dukakis was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Greek immigrant parents. He attended Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School and served in the United States Army from 1955-1957, sixteen months of which was with the support group to the U.S. delegation to the Military Armistice Commission in Korea.
He served eight years as a member of the Massachusetts legislature and was elected governor of Massachusetts three times. He was the Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1988.
Since 1991 he has been a distinguished professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, and since 1996 visiting professor of public policy during the winter quarter at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is chairman of Boston Global Forum.
He is married to the former Kitty Dickson. They have three children—John, Andrea and Kara—and eight grandchildren.
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press of Harvard Kennedy School. His book, The Vanishing Voter, looks at the causes and consequences of electoral participation. His earlier book on the media’s political role, Out of Order, received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. His first book, The Unseeing Eye, was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the 50 most influential books on public opinion in the past half century.
He also is author of Mass Media Election and two general American government texts: The American Democracy and We the People. His articles have appeared in Political Communication, Journal of Communication, and other academic journals, as well as in the popular press. His research has been funded by the Ford, Markle, Smith-Richardson, Pew, Knight, Carnegie, and National Science foundation.
Patterson received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1971.
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press of Harvard Kennedy School. His book, The Vanishing Voter, looks at the causes and consequences of electoral participation. His earlier book on the media’s political role, Out of Order, received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. His first book, The Unseeing Eye, was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the 50 most influential books on public opinion in the past half century.