German Conference at Harvard 2010

Adressing Global Challenges: Directions for a new Decade / February 19-20, 2010

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We would like to thank all partners and guests for a tremendous German Conference at Harvard 2010!
Over the two days, 500 guests enjoyed our program. For those that missed some events or want to see them again, we will soon provide the videos of all events here on our website. Stay tuned - and see you next year!

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Missed the conference? Download and watch full-length videos of our conference panels and keynotes:

Opening Keynote by Daniel Schrag (1:15 h / 113 MB)
Friday Panel "Scaling Renewable Energy" (1:21 h / 138 MB)
Friday Panel "Peaceful Revolutions" (1:04 h / 95 MB)
Portraits of Nobel Laureates by Peter Badge (0:47 h / 65 MB)
Keynote by Jürgen Kluge (1:06 h / 116 MB)
Saturday Keynote by Klaus Scharioth (1:03 h / 106 MB)
Saturday Panel "Afghanistan - and no End?" (1:21 h / 151 MB)
Saturday Panel "Where is the next Harvard?" (1:33 h / 157 MB)
Saturday Panel "Redesigning Health Care from Scratch" (1:19 h / 152 MB)
Saturday Panel "Innovate or Bust" (1:20 h / 149 MB)
The Artist and the State - Conversation Nagano/Partenheimer (1:20 h / 139 MB)
Berlin Party (0:06 h / 49 MB)

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Keynote Speakers

Claus Kleber

Anchorman of Germany's leading daily TV news program
"heute journal" on channel ZDF
"Lost in Translation -
The Troubles of Reporting Across the Pond"

Jürgen Kluge

CEO of Haniel, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Celesio, and former Head of McKinsey Germany
"Addressing Global Challenges -
Directions for a New Decade"

Daniel Schrag

Director of the Harvard Center for the Environment and member of the President's Advisory Council on Science and Technology
"A Path Forward on Climate Change?"

Klaus Scharioth

German Ambassador to the United States

"The Transatlantic Agenda"

Conversation

"The Artist and the State -
How Societies Cultivate or Obstruct Creativity"

A conversation between conductor Kent Nagano and artist Jürgen Partenheimer

This conversation is brought to you by the German Conference at Harvard and the Harvard European Design Circle

We will feature six Panel Discussions on the following global challenges:

Panel Speakers

Matthias
Matussek
German journalist at
Der Spiegel

Vera
Lengsfeld
German politician, human rights activist, author

Charles
Maier
Professor of History, Harvard University

Kelly Golnoush
Niknejad
Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Tehran Bureau

Stefanie
Friedhoff
Moderator
Special projects manager at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Matthias
Kleiner
President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Philip G.
Altbach
Director of the Center for International Higher Education

Ursula
Gather
President TU Dortmund University

Mathias
Risse
Moderator
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy

Ijad
Madisch
CEO and Co-Founder of Researchgate

F.M.
Scherer
Harvard Kennedy School Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management

Imdat
Solak
Consultant in the new media area

Holm
Keller
Executive Vice President for Strategic Development and Administration

Wolfgang
Daum
President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Heart Lab

Gregor
Schmitz
Moderator
Correspondent in the Washington office of DER SPIEGEL

Philip
Giudice
Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources

Michael
Kruklinski
Chief Strategy Officer at Siemens Corporation
USA

Eicke
Weber
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems

William
Hogan
Moderator
Professor of Global Energy Policy

William
Hsiao
Professor at Harvard School of Public Health

Annette
Widmann-Mauz
Parliamentary State Secretary

Annette
Grüters-Kieslich
Professor for Paediatrics, Dean of the Charité Berlin

Katharina
Janus
Moderator
PhD, MBA, assistant professor at Columbia University

Samina
Ahmed
South Asia Project Director at the International Crisis Group

Gerard
Russel
British diplomat, formerly UN mission to Afghanistan

Mohammad Akbar Quraishi
Former Director of Assessments at the Afghan National Security Council

Ronja
Kempin
German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

Annette
Heuser
Moderator
Executive Director Bertelsmann Foundation, Washington, DC

And

Photographer Peter Badge presents:

Portraits of Nobel Laureates

Peter Badge's project is an ongoing mission which has taken him all over the world in order to capture an image of every living Nobel Laureate.

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