To celebrate the 90th birthday (November 3, 1933) of Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum, Enrico Letta, Former Prime Minister of Italy wrote: Enrico Letta, Former Prime Minister of Italy: “Governor Mike Dukakis has been and...
Eyes on Israel and Gaza: Special Roundup on the Four Pillars
Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
Get out the tape!
Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop camera and microphone with tape. You probably should too. To read The Guardian's story on this, please hit this link.
Turkey misses deadline for E.U. travel deal
Amidst fears about Islamist mass-murderers getting into the European Union via Turkey, that nation has missed a E.U. deadline that if Turkey had met it would have allowed its citizens visa-free travel through most of Europe. E.U. leaders had conditionally...
Brazilian firms get low marks for cybersecurity
This report from security-ratings firm BitSight says that Brazilian companies do worse on cybersecurity metrics, such as machine compromise rates, e-mail security and file-sharing practices, than do companies in other major economies. It made particular...
Podcast: Investment CEO warns about ‘Brexit’ perils
In this podcast, Saker Nusseibeh, chief executive of Hermes Investment Management, said any benefits from a British exit from the European Union (“Brexit’’) would be limited while market anxiety from it could escalate into a wider economic contagion. He also...
BGF-G7 Summit Initiative Conference presents final proposals
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) held its BGF-G7 Summit Initiative Conference on Monday, May 9, at the Harvard University Faculty Club, in Cambridge, Mass., with prominent experts, and leaders from around the world, in person and online, discussing topics to be taken up...
Three ways to improve cybersecurity
One of The Boston Global Forum’s cybersecurity experts, Prof. Derek S. Reveron of the U.S. Naval War College and Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will be one of the speakers at the BGF’s May 9 conference titled “Building Ethics Norms for...