World Bank Workshop on the Overall Strategy of the Bank in MENA- May 23- 9.30 am to 12 am and Belfer Center Director's Lunch with Nawaf Obaid, Visiting Fellow

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Dear Members,

Thank you for those who completed the poll-

As follow up to your feedback, we will be organizing the second World Bank workshop  on May 23.

Date: May 23
Time: 9.30 am to 12
Venue: Malkin Penthouse- HKS- Litauer- 3rd Floor

Topic: Overall strategy of the Bank in the MENA region.
Speaker: Mr.shanta Devarajan

We will share with you the  agenda by end of this week. 

Please RSVP by Friday May 16 as seats are limited- 
This event is limited to Arabs. 
Students whose parents will be in town can invite them to attend the workshop-  but would need to RSVP

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Event:  "Belfer Center Director's Lunch: A New Emerging Saudi Defense Doctrine"
Speaker: Nawaf Obaid- Visiting Fellow- Belfer Center
Date: Tuesday May 27, 2014
Time: 12:15 to 1: 45 pm
Venue: Belfer Center Library (L369)- 3rd Floor-Litauer- 


About the Speaker: 

Nawaf Obaid is a Visiting Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is also a Senior Fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Currently, he is a Special Counselor to Prince Turki Al Faisal, who served as the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States and was the longtime Director of Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency. 


From 2004 to 2007, he was Special Advisor for National Security Affairs to Prince Turki Al Faisal, while Prince Turki was the Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland, and then the United States. He has been a Research Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) and the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).

He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and has a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He began his doctoral coursework at MIT's Political Science Department and completed an MPhil & DPhil at the Department of War Studies at London University, King’s College


Good luck with your papers and exams!
See you next week

Best
HKS Arab Caucus






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