Good evening. How is everybody doing . This is my kind of crowd. When you talk through the video, that gives me a good feeling. Everybody is excited to be here and talk with each other. Im the director of him for him and Innovation Lab at the Commonwealth Club. Welcome to tonights conversation with leila janah, founder and author of the excellent book gives work reversing poverty one job at a time. Tonights conversation is moderated by laura tyson, phd, graduate of the school of business at uc berkeley. I think you already did this, but heres a challenge. Turn to somebody you dont know and introduce your self before we get started. [inaudible conversations] okay. That is the perfect 82nd friendship. [laughter] lets come back. This is my kind of audience. I hope that you are like this and it comes time to the audience questions. You are at the second event to take place in this auditorium. [applause] that is worth a round of applause. We are in our brandnew home where 114yearsold weve b
[applause] good evening. How is everybody doing . This is my kind of crowd. When you talk through the video, that gives me a good feeling. Everybody is excited to be here and talk with each other. Im the director of him for him and Innovation Lab at the Commonwealth Club. Welcome to tonights conversation with leila janah, founder and author of the excellent book gives work reversing poverty one job at a time. Tonights conversation is moderated by laura tyson, phd, graduate of the school of business at uc berkeley. I think you already did this, but heres a challenge. Turn to somebody you dont know and introduce your self before we get started. [inaudible conversations] okay. That is the perfect 82nd friendship. [laughter] lets come back. This is my kind of audience. I hope that you are like this and it comes time to the audience questions. You are at the second event to take place in this auditorium. [applause] that is worth a round of applause. We are in our brandnew home where 114year
Quite an amazing brief im going to talk about ground rules and turn it over o peter so many of you know peter quite well. He is the john hay professor of International Studies here at brown hes a professor also of International Public affairs, and Political Science. He joined the institute . In 2001 and previously he had worked at reid college, had been in Academy Scholar at the Harvard University Research Fellow at brookings, and also Ssrc Macarthur Foundation fellow of International Peace in security he got his ma and ph. D. In government in cornell and b. A. In Political Science at swathmother. Peter is just one of the truly unique and wonderful combinations of serious scholars, innovative, gifted teachers and really just a wonderful colleague. I was very fortunate to gets to know peter in 2013 and associate director of the qat son institute and translated brown and we were partners in crime for a couple of years trying to reimagine the Watson Institute which i think, has done extre