The Week That Will Be

Event Announcements

Monday , March 7, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.: The Africa Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution will host a webcast on the future of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Panelists will discuss the perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest and local feuds over power and identity in Congo, and why the peace deal of 2003 has failed to stop the violence. Panelists include: Michael E. O’Hanlon, Brookings senior fellow; Danielle Resnik, Brookings fellow; Jason K. Stearns, founder and chair of the advisory board, Congo Research Group; and Francesca Bomboko, director of the Bureau d’Études pour les Recherches et Consulting International. 

Monday, March 7, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.: The Brookings Institution will host a conversation with Joseph E. Stiglitz on AI, innovation and welfare. Stiglitz will sit down with Anton Korinnk, Brookings fellow, to discuss how to ensure innovation creates value and increases social welfare. They will examine types of innovation to avoid, how to steer technological advancement in a desirable direction for society and how to design a regulatory framework that pursues these objectives.

Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.: The Atlantic Council will host an online event on mainstreaming gender in security for International Women’s Day 2022. The event will feature a public conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, H.E. Ann Linde. Minister Linde will discuss how to mainstream a gender perspective across all areas of foreign and security policy. 

Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security will hold a hearing on reimagininng public safety in the coronavirus era. The committee will hear testimony from Nicholas W. Brown, U.S. attorney for the western district of Washington; New York City Mayor Eric Adams; Edgardo Garcia, chief of police at the Dallas Police Department; Thomas Abt, senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice; Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Satana Deberry, district attorney of Durham County, North Carolina; Jerika L. Richardson, senior vice president of equitable justice and strategic initiatives at the National Urban League; Madeline Brame, chairwoman of the NYS Victims Rights Reform Council; and Charles Fain Lehman, fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. 

Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on combating the rise in hate crimes. The committee will hear testimony from Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general at the Justice Department; Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of the  congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville Texas; Walter M. Kimbrough, president of Dillard University; Orlando Martinez, detective and hate crimes coordinator at the Los Angeles Police Department; Elan S. Carr, former special envoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism; and Maya Berry, co-chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Hate Crimes Task Force. 

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 8:30 a.m.: The Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution will host an event to examine Taiwan’s role in global supply chains. After welcoming remarks by Brookings Vice President Suzanne Maloney, Taiwan Minister without Portfolio John Deng will hold a keynote conversation with Brookings Senior Fellow Ryan Hass. Following their conversation, the event will feature a panel discussion on Taiwan’s role in global supply chains and opportunities for the United States. Panelists include: Brookings Senior Fellow Miryea Solís; Jason Hsu, senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Peter Cleveland, vice president of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.  

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.: The Center for Strategic and International Studies will host an event on cybersecurity considerations for data localization regulation. The event will will feature a panel discussion inclduding, Peter Swire, senior counsel at Alston & Bird, LLP; DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, research faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business; Victoria Baines, visiting fellow at Bournemouth University; and Andreas Mitrakas, head of market certification and standardization unit at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. 

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.: Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute will host an event on shadow banking and state finances in China. The event will feature remarks from Carl Walker, visiting scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. 

Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.: The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold an open hearing to examine worldwide threats. The committee has not yet released a witness list.

Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 3:30 p.m.: The Atlantic Council will host a conversation with U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. Secretary Truss will speak with Atlantic Council President and CEO Fredrick Kempe about the British and Western response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.: The Brookings Africa Growth Initiative will host a discussion on the leadership of African women and girls. After opening remarks from Brookings President John R. Allen, the panel discussion will reflect on the contributions of African women to the region’s development and explore the role of women in cabinets, parliaments, municipal governments, industry, academia and the health sector, as well as strategies for pursuing gender equality in political leadership, among other topics. Panelists include: Jamie Cooper, chair and president of Big Win Philanthropy; Winne Kiiza, former leader of opposition in the Ugandan parliament; Fiona Tregenna, professor of economics at the University of Johannesburg; Michelle Williams, dean of the faculty and professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School; and Brookings fellows Jeni Klugman and Aloysius Uche Ordu. 

Employment Announcements (More details on the Job Board)

Managing Editor, Lawfare

Associate Editor, Lawfare

Fellow, Finance, Insurance and Trade Policy, R Street Institute

Deputy Director, Security & Surveillance Project, Center for Democracy and Technology

Research Program Coordinator, Strauss Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Senior Associate, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law

Chief Counsel for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Program Coordinator, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund 

Policy Counsel/Analyst, Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy & Technology

External Affairs Officer, Digital Innovation Democracy Initiative, The German Marshall Fund

Request for Resumes, Department of Defense Office of the General Counsel