The 2021
Pearson
Global
Forum

Welcome Remarks

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

Keynote | Own Your Data: Taking Control of Our Digital Future

Brittany Kaiser
Co-Founder, Own Your Data Foundation; Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower

Panel | Manipulating Knowledge

Melissa Fleming
Under-Secretary General for Global Communications, United Nations

Nina Jankowicz
Disinformation Fellow, Wilson Center

Brendan Nyhan
Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

Richard Ovenden
Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford; Author

Moderator: Marianna Spring
Journalist, BBC

Break

Flash Talk

Kate Klonick
Professor, St. John’s University; Affiliate Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale University 

Panel | Social Media & Global Instability

Michelle Ciulla Lipkin
Executive Director, National Association for Media Literacy Education

Shelby Grossman
Research Scholar, Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University

Shoshana Zuboff
Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita, Harvard Business School

Moderator: Sarah Frier
Technology Reporter, Bloomberg News

Flash Talk | Facebook Causes Protests

Leopoldo Fergusson
Associate Professor, University of the Andes; Faculty Affiliate, The Pearson Institute

Welcome Remarks

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

Keynote | The Future of Yemen

Tawakkol Karman
Nobel Peace Laureate; Journalist

Case Study | Yemen in Neglect

Shadi Abusneida
Aid Worker, UNHCR Yemen

Farea Al-Muslimi
Co-Founder and Chairman, Sana’a Center; Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Stacey Philbrick-Yadav
Chair, Department of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Juan R. I. Cole
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Moderator: Afrah Nasser
Yemen Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch

Flash Talk | Gang Rule 

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

Break

Case Study | Iran

Pouya Alimagham
Lecturer and Historian of the Modern Middle East, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vali Nasr
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East Studies and International Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Mahsa Rouhi
Associate Fellow, Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Policy International Institute for Strategic Studies

Ali Vaez
Senior Advisor to the President & Iran Project Director, International Crisis Group

Moderator: Negar Mortazavi
Diplomatic Correspondent, The Independent; Host, The Iran Podcast

Flash Talk

Candace Rondeaux
Professor of Politics and Global Studies, and Senior Fellow at the Center on the Future of War, Arizona State University

Case Study | Saudi Arabia

F. Gregory Gause
Department Head and Professor, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University

Karen House
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard University

Pascal Menoret
Renée and Lester Crown Professor of Modern Middle East Studies, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University

Moderator: TBA

Flash Talk | Comparative Constitutionalism: Islam in Perspective

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

Welcome Remarks

Ka Yee C. Lee
Provost and David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the College, University of Chicago

Keynote

Speaker TBA

Panel | Artificial Intelligence & International Security

Gregory C. Allen
Chief of Strategy and Communications, U.S. Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

Ulrike Franke
Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Kara Frederick
Research Fellow, Technology Policy, The Heritage Foundation

Herbert Lin
Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Moderator: Nancy Scola
Senior Technology Reporter, POLITICO

AI and the EU

Bruno Le Maire
Minister of the Economy, Finance, and the Recovery of France

Break 

Flash Talk

Speaker TBA

Panel | Cyber Abuse, Security, & Defense

Deborah Housen-Couriel
Fellow and Adjunct Professor, ICT, IDC Herzliya; Chief Legal Officer and VP Regulation, Konfidas Ltd.; Advisory Board, Federmann Cyber Security Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Christopher Painter
President, The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation; Former Senior Director for Cyber Policy and Acting Cyber Coordinator, U.S. National Security Council

Philip Stupak
Executive Director, Cyber Policy Initiative, Harris School of Public Policy, and Lecturer, Graham School, University of Chicago

Mariarosaria Taddeo
Senior Researcher Fellow, and Deputy Director, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; Fellow, Alan Turing Institute

Moderator: Ellen Nakashima
National Security Reporter, The Washington Post

Flash Talk

David Awschalom
Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and Deputy Dean for Space, Infrastructure, and Facilities, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Closing Remarks

James A. 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