The 2019
Pearson
Global
Forum

Arrival & Lunch

Welcome Remarks

Katherine Baicker
Dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

James Robinson
Institute Director, The Pearson Institute; Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago 

Keynote: Looking Back at 1989 

Markus Meckel
Co-Founder of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR; First Foreign Minister after the first free democratic elections in the GDR in 1990

Dealing with Identity: Transitions in Germany

Thomas Bagger
Director-General for Foreign Affairs, Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany

Thorsten Benner
Co-Founder and Director, Global Public Policy Institute; Faculty, The Hertie School of Governance ​​​​​​

Philip Faigle
Special Projects Editor, Zeit Online

Naika Foroutan
Director, Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research 

Moderator: Judith C. Enders
Researcher, University of Applied Sciences; Founder, Perspektive Hoch 3; Member, Committee Around the Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Flash Talk: Women or War?

Oeindrila Dube
Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago 

Closing Remarks

Arrival & Breakfast

Welcome Remarks

Daniel Diermeier
Provost, University of Chicago

Flash Talk: The Narrow Corridor

James Robinson
Institute Director, The Pearson Institute; Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

The Iraq Project

Feisal al-Istrabadi
Former Deputy Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations; Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East and Professor of Practice, Indiana University 

Emma Sky
Director, Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program and Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University 

Moderator: Nussaibah Younis
Senior Advisor, European Institute of Peace; Associate, The Pearson Institute  

Humanizing Conflict: Palestinian Reality

Yousef Bashir
Peace Activist; Author

Fireside Chat: Barriers to Peace

Husam Zomlot
Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom; Strategic Affairs Advisor to the Palestinian President

Muriel Asseburg
Senior Fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Flash Talk: State-Building Lessons from the British Empire

Roger Myerson
David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the Harris School of Public Policy, the Griffin Department of Economics, and The College, University of Chicago; Nobel Laureate (2007) 

Lunch

Flash Talk: Religion, State, Regime

Kristin Fabbe
Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow, Harvard Business School

Keynote: Facing the Past to Face the Future

Roland Jahn
Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records

Humanizing Conflict: Uyghur Reality

Jewher Ilham
Author

New Holocaust? Uyghur Reality

Nicole Morgret
Project Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project​​​​​​

Dilnur Reyhan
Instructor, French National Institute for Oriental Studies; President, European Uyghur Institute, Director, Regarde sur les Ouïghour-e-s

Sophie Richardson
China Director, Human Rights Watch

Rian Thum
Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Moderator: Ursula Gauthier
Senior Reporter, L'OBS

Flash Talk: Why We Fight

Chris Blattman
Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Closing Remarks & Cocktail Reception