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International Relations

FSI researchers strive to understand how countries relate to one another, and what policies are needed to achieve global stability and prosperity. International relations experts focus on the challenging U.S.-Russian relationship, the alliance between the U.S. and Japan and the limitations of America’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

Foreign aid is also examined by scholars trying to understand whether money earmarked for health improvements reaches those who need it most. And FSI’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center has published on the need for strong South Korean leadership in dealing with its northern neighbor.

FSI researchers also look at the citizens who drive international relations, studying the effects of migration and how borders shape people’s lives. Meanwhile FSI students are very much involved in this area, working with the United Nations in Ethiopia to rethink refugee communities.

Trade is also a key component of international relations, with FSI approaching the topic from a slew of angles and states. The economy of trade is rife for study, with an APARC event on the implications of more open trade policies in Japan, and FSI researchers making sense of who would benefit from a free trade zone between the European Union and the United States.

The Strategy of Nonproliferation: How Ideas, Politics, and Diplomacy Shaped the NPT

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Jonathan Hunt Predoctoral Fellow Speaker CISAC

David Holloway

CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, E214
Stanford, CA 94305-6165

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Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies
Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History
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David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, a professor of political science, and an FSI senior fellow. He was co-director of CISAC from 1991 to 1997, and director of FSI from 1998 to 2003. His research focuses on the international history of nuclear weapons, on science and technology in the Soviet Union, and on the relationship between international history and international relations theory. His book Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Yale University Press, 1994) was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 11 best books of 1994, and it won the Vucinich and Shulman prizes of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. It has been translated into seven languages, most recently into Chinese. The Chinese translation is due to be published later in 2018. Holloway also wrote The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (1983) and co-authored The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: Technical, Political and Arms Control Assessment (1984). He has contributed to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs, and other scholarly journals.

Since joining the Stanford faculty in 1986 -- first as a professor of political science and later (in 1996) as a professor of history as well -- Holloway has served as chair and co-chair of the International Relations Program (1989-1991), and as associate dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences (1997-1998). Before coming to Stanford, he taught at the University of Lancaster (1967-1970) and the University of Edinburgh (1970-1986). Born in Dublin, Ireland, he received his undergraduate degree in modern languages and literature, and his PhD in social and political sciences, both from Cambridge University.

Faculty member at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
Affiliated faculty at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Affiliated faculty at The Europe Center
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Information, Ethnic Voting and Accountability: Evidence from Sierra Leone

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Katherine Casey Assistant Professor of Political Economy Speaker Stanford Graduate School of Business

Brenna Powell

Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

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Visiting Scholar, 2011-12
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Brenna Marea Powell received her PhD in Government and Social Policy from Harvard in 2011. She is interested in comparative racial and ethnic politics, conflict and inequality. Her research includes security and policing in divided societies, as well as racial politics in Brazil and the United States. She has been a graduate fellow at Harvard's Wiener Center for Inequality and Social Policy, and Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Prior to her graduate study, she spent five years working with the Stanford
Center on International Conflict and Negotiation on grassroots dialogue and community-based mediation programs in Northern Ireland. Brenna speaks Portuguese and received her BA from Stanford in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

At CDDRL, Brenna is working with the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security supported by the Kofi Annan Foundation and International IDEA. She is also working on a book project about post-conflict policing in Northern Ireland.

Brenna Powell Associate Director Commentator Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation
Seminars

Connecting the Dots 2013: The Energy, Food, Water, and Climate Nexus

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Stanford experts from a range of disciplines will discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity’s need for and use of energy, food, water, and environmental resources. Drawing on their own research, each speaker will illustrate and evaluate some of the ways in which decisions in one resource area can lead to trade-offs or co-benefits in other areas. Stanford students and faculty will lead interactive breakout sessions to explore a range of challenges associated with energy transitioning to a sustainable system.

Featured videos:

Energy and Food Nexus: David Lobell, Assistant Professor of Environmental Earth System Science

Plenary Discussion: The Way Forward
  • Moderated by Margot Gerritsen, Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering; Director, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering 
  • Donald Kennedy, President, Emeritus, Stanford University; Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Emeritus
  • Rosamond Naylor, Professor of Environmental Earth System Science; Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment
  • Adam Brandt, Assistant Professor of Energy Resources Engineering


 

Video link to additional Stanford faculty talks

Introduction: Energy System Overview by Roland Horne, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering

Overview of Natural Gas Issues: Mark Zoback, Professor of Geophysics

Energy and Environment Nexus: Stefan Reichelstein, Professor in the Graduate School of Business

Energy and Water Nexus: Richard Luthy, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director of ReNUWIt

Energy and Climate Change Nexus: Michael Wara, Associate Professor of Law

Breakout Sessions

Led by postdoc/graduate students, breakout sessions will actively engage the participant on provocative and real world energy topics such as: 

  • Boon or Bust? Fracking’s Socioeconomic Costs and Benefits
  • Keystone XL: Band Guy or Fall Guy?
  • Wind Energy and Wildlife Conservation: Green vs. Green?
  • Are you Aware of Your Habits? Tweaking Our Routines to Conserve
  • Is America Neglecting America?  The Forgotten Frontier of the Alaskan Arctic
  • Is Water scarcity a Threat to the World’s Energy Future?
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Donald Kennedy

CESP
Stanford University
Encina Hall E401
Stanford, CA 94305

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1931 - 2020
President Emeritus of Stanford University
Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Emeritus
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Donald Kennedy is the editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a CESP senior fellow by courtesy. His present research program entails policy on such trans-boundary environmental problems as: major land-use changes; economically-driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies.

Kennedy has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present. From 1980 to 1992 he served as President of Stanford University. He was Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration from 1977-79. Previously at Stanford, he was as director of the Program in Human Biology from 1973-1977 and chair of the Department of Biology from 1964-1972.

Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, and as a founding director of the Health Effects Institute. He currently serves as a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as co-chair of the National Academies' Project on Science, Technology and Law. Kennedy received AB and PhD degrees in biology from Harvard University.

FSI Senior Fellow by courtesy
Donald Kennedy Speaker

David Lobell

Energy and Environment Building
473 Via Ortega
Stanford CA 94305

(650) 721-6207
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Professor, Earth System Science
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Affiliate, Precourt Institute of Energy
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David Lobell is the Benjamin M. Page Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Earth System Science and the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment. He is also the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy and Research (SIEPR).

Lobell's research focuses on agriculture and food security, specifically on generating and using unique datasets to study rural areas throughout the world. His early research focused on climate change risks and adaptations in cropping systems, and he served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report as lead author for the food chapter and core writing team member for the Summary for Policymakers. More recent work has developed new techniques to measure progress on sustainable development goals and study the impacts of climate-smart practices in agriculture. His work has been recognized with various awards, including the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (2010), a Macarthur Fellowship (2013), the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences (2022) and election to the National Academy of Sciences (2023).

Prior to his Stanford appointment, Lobell was a Lawrence Post-doctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University and a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University.

Lobell Lab

A project to advance the science that guides investment in food security and crop productivity, and to effectively communicate this science to a broad audience.
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G-FEED: Global Food, Environment and Economic Dynamics

An interdisciplinary group working cooperatively to understand the relationship between society and the environment by examining regional and global scale phenomena using statistical analyses of real world data.
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Rosamond L. Naylor

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Senior Fellow, Emerita, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,
William Wrigely Professor, Emerita, Department of Environmental Social Sciences
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Rosamond (Roz) Naylor is the William Wrigley Professor, Emerita, of Global Environmental Policy in the Doerr School of Sustainability; and founding Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on policies and practices to improve global food security and protect the environment on land and at sea. She has been involved in numerous field-level research projects around the world with her students and has published widely on issues related to global food systems, food policy, and aquaculture. She is the co-chair of The Blue Food Assessment, an international initiative aimed at providing a comprehensive scientific evaluation of the sustainability, nutrition, equity, and justice dimensions of aquatic foods cultured and captured in freshwater and marine environments within the global food system. She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), a Pew Marine Fellow, and a Leopold Leadership Fellow. She is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Aspen Global Change Institute and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Oceana. At Stanford, she teaches courses on The World Food Economy, Human Society and Environmental Change, and Food and Security.
 

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Conferences

“Migrant Tastes and Formation of Popular Culture: The Case of Turkey”

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In societies with continuous in-and-out migration in relatively short periods the formation of dominant culture comes into shape as "popular". Continental theories for defining people's culture mostly assume some permanent structures (cultural preferences of elites or classes) in modern societies, yet not so successful for explaining the rise of popular cultures in societies like the USA. Turkey, as a country of migratory waves from its birth, is a pristine example of such a process and unique for its elites' interventions into the cultural sphere. The talk is broadly concerns with three dynamics on the formation of Turkish popular culture - demographic transition, elitist cultural policies, and partly oppositional character of people's taste.

Orhan Tekelioğlu is Chair of Department of New Media at Bahçeşehir University (Istanbul, Turkey) and Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennyslvania’s Annenberg School of Communication.  He is a scholar of cultural sociology including such research fields as media consumption, the history of Turkish popular music, the sociological features of Turkish literature, and the cultural politics of the Republican period. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Middle Eastern Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) and his Magisterartium degree in Sociology from the University of Oslo. He taughted in Departments of Political Science and Turkish Literature at the Bilkent University in Ankara, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University, and acted as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Communication at the Izmir University of Economics. Dr. Tekelioğlu conducts field studies on popular television dramas and reality shows, and history of jazz and popular music in Istanbul. He has published articles in Turkish and in English and submitted papers to numerous national and international congresses. Among his publications are Pop Ekran [Pop Screen, 2013], Pop Yazılar, [Pop Essays, 2006], Foucault Sosyolojisi [Sociology of Foucault, 2003], Şerif Mardin’e Armağan, [A Festschrift for Şerif Mardin, 2005), "Modernizing reforms and Turkish music in the 1930s"  (Turkish Studies, 2001), and “Two Incompatible Positions in the Challenge Against the Individual Subject of Modernity” (Theory& Psychology, 1997).

Co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Forum, Program on Urban Studies, the Europe Center, and Turkish Students Association

Encina Hall West
2nd floor, Room 208

Orhan Tekelioğlu Professor and Chair of the Department of New Media at Bahçeşehir University (Istanbul, Turkey) and Visiting Scholar Speaker the University of Pennyslvania’s Annenberg School of Communication.
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Testing the Logic of Counterinsurgency Doctrine

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About the topic: When in late 2009, President Obama ordered the surge of an additional 30,000 troops into Afghanistan to reverse Taliban momentum, major tenets of the U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine shaped the resulting campaign plan.  Adages such as "protect the population" and "clear, hold, and build" served to guide civil-military actions.  With the hindsight of four years, however, it seems clear that some of the important assumptions upon which the plan was premised were significantly flawed.  Karl Eikenberry, who served in both senior diplomatic and military posts in Afghanistan, will examine the logic of counterinsurgency doctrine as it was applied during the surge and discuss its strengths and shortcomings.

About the speaker: Karl Eikenberry served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 2009 until July 2011, where he led the civilian surge directed by President Obama to reverse insurgent momentum and set the conditions for transition to full Afghan sovereignty. Before appointment as Chief of Mission in Kabul, Ambassador Eikenberry had a thirty-five year career in the United States Army, retiring in April 2009 with the rank of Lieutenant General.  He has served in various policy and political-military positions, including Deputy Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium; Director for Strategic Planning and Policy for U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii; U.S. Security Coordinator and Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation in Kabul, Afghanistan; Assistant Army and later Defense Attaché at the United States Embassy in Beijing, China; Senior Country Director for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; and Deputy Director for Strategy, Plans, and Policy on the Army Staff. 

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Karl Eikenberry William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at CISAC; CDDRL, TEC, and Shorenstein APARC Distinguished Fellow; Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Retired U.S. Army Lt. General Speaker
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China 2.0 Forum

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China 2.0 Overview | Past Events

China 2.0 Beijing 2013 Forum at The Stanford Center at Peking University

Keynote Speakers
Ambassador Gary F. Locke



Gary F. Locke
U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
Joseph Chen, Chairman and CEO of Renren, Inc.



Joseph Chen
Chairman and CEO of Renren, Inc.
Past China 2.0 Speakers
Past China 2.0 Speakers

The Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) of the Stanford Graduate School of Business will host a China 2.0 Forum in Beijing on Friday, April 12, 2013 at the Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU).

While ample capital was raised in recent years, China's VC and PE markets are now facing a flight to quality. Exits are constrained both in China and abroad. At the same time, rapid changes in social, mobile, analytics, and cloud are changing the landscape for business models and strategy. Which ideas and entrepreneurs in China will break out and why? Will the shift to mobile platforms challenge incumbent players and unlock a new generation of digital economy powerhouses? How are developments in China connected with the global digital economy?

This invitation-only half-day event will bring together current and rising leaders from China’s tech, entrepreneur, and investor communities to discuss topics including:

  • Big Data: A New Frontier
  • Mobile Apps: The Next $100+ Billion Market?
  • Fueling Firm Growth: VC and Entrepreneur Dialogue
  • China and the Global Digital Economy

The Forum will feature keynote speakers, panels, and interactive sessions followed by a networking reception. Attendees will also be briefed on a recent Stanford study on alumni entrepreneurship and have the opportunity to participate in new research led by SPRIE on entrepreneurship patterns in China.


Agenda

1:30 – 2:00 pm Registration
2:00 – 2:10 pm Opening Remarks and Video
Marguerite Gong Hancock & Duncan Clark, China 2.0 Forum Co-Chairs
2:10 – 2:40 pm Keynote: “China and the Global Digital Economy”
Gary Locke, U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
2:40 – 3:25 pm Panel Discussion: “Mobile Apps: The Next $100+ Billion Market?”
Amy Gu, General Manager, China – Evernote Corporation
David Liu, Founder and CEO – RedAtoms
Junde YU, Vice President at APAC, App Annie
Moderator: Richard Lim, Managing Director & Co-Founder, GSR Ventures
3:25 – 3:40 pm Briefing: Stanford Entrepreneurship Research Results and New China 2.0 Research
Marguerite Gong Hancock and Duncan Clark
3:40 – 4:05 pm Tea Break sponsored by Tencent
4:05 – 4:40 pm Panel Discussion: “Big Data: A New Frontier”
Alex Cheng, Vice President at Baidu
ZENG Ming, Chief Strategy Officer – Alibaba Group
4:40 – 5:25 pm

Panel Discussion: “Fueling Firm Growth: VC & Entrepreneur Dialogue”
Ming LEI, Co-Founder – Kuwo, Inc.
Annabelle Yu Long, Member of Bertelsmann Group Management Committee; Chief Executive – Bertelsmann China Corporate Centre; Managing Director – Bertelsmann Asia Investments
LU Dong, Founder and CEO – La Miu China
Hans Tung, Managing Partner – Qiming Ventures
5:25 – 5:55 pm Keynote: “Simple Math for Multiplying Impact:  How to do better in work and philanthropy”
Joseph Chen, Founder, Chairman and CEO of RenRen, Inc.
5:55 – 6:00 pm Closing Remarks
Marguerite Hancock & Duncan Clark, China 2.0 Forum Co-Chairs
6:00 – 7:00 pm Networking Reception sponsored by GSR Ventures

Speakers

  • Alex Cheng, Vice President at Baidu
  • Duncan Clark, Chairman, BDA China & Senior Advisor to China 2.0, SPRIE, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • DONG Lu (MBA ’04), Founder & CEO, La Miu
  • Amy Gu (MBA '09), General Manager, China, Evernote
  • Marguerite Gong Hancock, Associate Director, SPRIE, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Ming LEI (MBA ‘05), Co-Founder, Kuwo
  • Richard Lim (MBA ‘88), Managing Director & Co-Founder, GSR Ventures
  • Annabelle Yu Long (MBA ’05), Member of Bertelsmann Group Management Committee; Chief Executive, Bertelsmann China Corporate Centre; Managing Director, Bertelsmann Asia Investments
  • David Liu (MS ‘98, PhD ‘03), Founder and CEO, RedAtoms
  • Hans Tung (BS ‘93), Managing Partner, Qiming Ventures
  • Junde YU, Vice President, APAC, App Annie
  • ZENG Ming, Chief Strategy Officer, Alibaba Group

SCPKU at night

Venue

The Stanford Center at Peking University is located on the site of a former imperial palace on the northeast area of the Peking University campus. Opened in March 2012, SCPKU uniquely combines a traditional Chinese wood courtyard building with a modern, state-of-the-art facility. For map and directions, please click here.

 

Map of Route from Peking University's Southeast Gate to SCPKU


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Platinum Sponsor
Networking Reception
 
GSR Ventures
GSR Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm building world-class technology companies in China. The firm invests primarily in the Internet, wireless, green technology and semiconductors sectors. Founded in 2004, GSR has more than 50 companies in its portfolio and more than $1 billion under management.


Gold Sponsor
Tea Break
 
Tencent
Founded in November, 1998, Tencent has grown into one of China's largest provider of comprehensive Internet services. It went public on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June 2004. Tencent aims to enrich the interactive online experience of Internet users by providing a comprehensive range of Internet and wireless value-added services. Through its various online platforms, including Instant Messaging QQ, web portal QQ.com, the QQ Game Platform under Tencent Games, multi-media social networking service Qzone and wireless portal, Tencent services the largest online community in China and fulfills the user’s needs for communication, information, entertainment and e-Commerce on the Internet.


Silver Sponsors
 
 
Alibaba Group is a family of Internet-based businesses which makes it easy for anyone to buy or sell online anywhere in the world. Since its inception, it has developed leading businesses in consumer e-commerce, online payment, business-to-business marketplaces and cloud computing, reaching Internet users in more than 240 countries and regions. Alibaba Group consists of 25 business units and is focused on fostering the development of an open, collaborative and prosperous e-commerce ecosystem.
 
App Annie is the industry leader in app store analytics and market intelligence for the global app economy. More than 80 percent of the Top 100 iOS publishers use its services, and more than 200,000 apps from over 24,000 unique app publishers rely on App Annie Analytics to track their downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews. App Annie is a privately held global company with offices in Beijing, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and London.
 
Baidu is the largest Chinese-language search engine. Since its founding in 2000, Baidu's mission has been to provide the best and most equitable way for people to find whatever they're looking for online. Powered by world-class technology and a deep understanding of Chinese language and culture, Baidu now provides intelligent and relevant search results to over five hundred million users. In addition, Baidu has become the largest media platform in China for businesses to effectively reach potential customers online. Baidu continues to innovate to fulfill the needs of users, leveraging it unrivaled cloud infrastructure to deliver the best experience on any device as the shift toward mobile Internet continues in China.
 
CIB Productions
CIB Productions is a Beijing-based television and video production services company staffed with international talent experienced in producing to broadcast standards. Our services include high-end corporate video production, production services for broadcasters and visiting production companies and filming of live events.
 
Qiming Venture Partners
Qiming Venture Partners invests in young, fast-growing companies across China in the media and internet, IT, consumer and retail, healthcare, and clean technology sectors. It is an early to growth stage venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. Founded in 2006, Qiming currently manages five funds with over $1.1 billion in assets.
 
RedAtoms is a mobile social game company committed to producing well-crafted games that connect people. Headquartered in China and with locations in Hong Kong, Tokyo and San Francisco, RedAtoms has produced top ranking card battle and music games, where millions of players interact with each other on a daily basis.

 

About the China 2.0 Initiative

China 2.0 is a research and education initiative led by SPRIE at the Stanford Graduate School of Business focusing on the drivers and dynamics of the rise of China’s internet industry and its global implications. China 2.0 is a bridge between Stanford/Silicon Valley and China, academia and industry, and current and next generation entrepreneurs on both sides of the Pacific.

Participants at a past China 2.0 event

Past China 2.0 Events

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The Stanford Center at Peking University
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Workshops

The Economic Consequences of Drug Trafficking Violence in Mexico

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The levels of violence in Mexico have dramatically increased in the last few years due to structural changes in the drug trafficking business. The increase in the number of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) fighting over the control of territory and trafficking routes has resulted in a substantial increase in the rates of homicides and other crimes. This study evaluates the economic costs of drug-related violence. We propose electricity consumption as an indicator of the level of municipal economic activity and use two different empirical strategies to test this. To estimate the marginal effect of violence in the rate of homicides (per 100,000 inhabitants) we use an instrumental variable regression created by Mejía, Castillo and Restrepo (2012). For the average municipality, the marginal negative effect of the increase in homicides rates is substantive for earned income and the proportion of business owners, but not for energy consumption. Although negative and statistically significant, the effects are mild for labor participation. We also employ the methodology of synthetic controls to evaluate the effect that inter-narco wars have on local economies. The analysis indicates that the drug wars in those municipalities that saw dramatic increases in violence between 2006 and 2010 significantly reduced their energy consumption in the years after the change occurred, which is interpreted as a significant reduction in GDP per capita for these municipalities.

Speaker Bio:

Gabriela Calderon holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. Her research interests include policies that affect gender differences in developing countries, policy evaluation, violence in Latin America and the effect of institutions and governance on the provision of public goods and health/education outcomes. She did her master's degree in economic theory and bachelor's degree in economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Currently, in the Program on Poverty and Governance, her research analyzes the way institutions and democracy affect the provision of public goods, and the impact they have on health outcomes like infant mortality trends. She is also studying the effects of government interventions that combat drug-trafficking organizations over violence in Mexico.

Her research has focused on the topics of development, public finance, and the evaluation of public policy programs in Mexico. For example, during the summers of 2009/2010, she conducted a field experiment in Zacatecas, Mexico with Giacomo de Giorgi, an assistant professor from Stanford University, and Jesse Cuhna, a former Stanford student. The main task was to evaluate the impact of financial literacy classes on underprivileged women entrepreneurs in the region. To successfully complete an evaluation in an untreated region, they proposed collaborating with the Mexican NGO CREA on a joint project. They contacted local interviewers, trained them, and identified all women entrepreneurs in the 17 communities, in which we conducted the experiment. Preliminary results suggest that the female entrepreneurs who were randomly assigned to treatment earned higher profits, had larger revenues, and served a greater number of clients. They also found that they were more likely to implement formal accounting techniques.

She has also studied programs that are not randomly assigned as an experiment. For example, she has analyzed the effects of a national policy in Mexico of child care services, called Estancias Infantiles para apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI), using administrative, census and household data. Her empirical research strategy identifies the effects of the program on both the men and women who were eligible for the program. She used time, location and eligibility variation, and considered a major threat to identification of the actual effects: for example, a manufacturer who moves into a municipality at approximately the same time as the EI program and who happens to disproportionately demand the skills of women who were eligible to the program happened to have. To ensure that such scenarios do not affect her results, she chose not triple difference strategy, in which all ineligible people are treated as “controls” for the EI-eligible families. Instead, she employs Synthetic Control Methods, using the same methodology as Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) and Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller (2010) to ensure that her control group has the same mix of skills and preferences as the EI-eligible group. She adapted the Synthetic Control Method to analyze repeated cross-sectional household data, which are data that are typically available in developing countries

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Gabriela Calderón

Encina Hall
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Stanford, CA 94305-6055

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CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-13
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Gabriela Calderon holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. Her research interests include policies that affect gender differences in developing countries, policy evaluation, violence in Latin America and the effect of institutions and governance on the provision of public goods and health/education outcomes. She did her master's degree in economic theory and bachelor's degree in economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Currently, in the Program on Poverty and Governance, her research analyzes the way institutions and democracy affect the provision of public goods, and the impact they have on health outcomes like infant mortality trends. She is also studying the effects of government interventions that combat  drug-trafficking organizations over violence in Mexico. 

Her research has focused on the topics of development, public finance, and the evaluation of public policy programs in Mexico. For example, during the summers of 2009/2010, she conducted a field experiment in Zacatecas, Mexico with Giacomo de Giorgi, an assistant professor from Stanford University, and Jesse Cuhna, a former Stanford student. The main task was to evaluate the impact of financial literacy classes on underprivileged women entrepreneurs in the region. To successfully complete an evaluation in an untreated region, they proposed collaborating with the Mexican NGO CREA on a joint project. They contacted local interviewers, trained them, and identified all women entrepreneurs in the 17 communities, in which we conducted the experiment.  Preliminary results suggest that the female entrepreneurs who were randomly assigned to treatment earned higher profits, had larger revenues, and served a greater number of clients. They also found that they were more likely to implement formal accounting techniques.

She has also studied  programs that are not randomly assigned as an experiment. For example, she has analyzed the effects of a national policy in Mexico of child care services, called Estancias Infantiles para apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI), using administrative, census and household data.  Her empirical research strategy identifies the effects of the program on both the men and women who were eligible for the program. She used time, location and eligibility variation, and considered a major threat to identification of the actual effects: for example, a manufacturer who moves into a municipality at approximately the same time as the EI program and who happens to disproportionately demand the skills of women who were eligible to the program happened to have. To ensure that such scenarios do not affect her results, she chose not triple difference strategy, in which all ineligible people are treated as “controls” for the EI-eligible families. Instead, she employs Synthetic Control Methods, using the same methodology as Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) and Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller (2010) to ensure that her control group has the same mix of skills and preferences as the EI-eligible group. She adapted the Synthetic Control Method to analyze repeated cross-sectional household data, which are data that are typically available in developing countries

Gabriela Calderón CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-13 Speaker
Seminars

The Emigrant as a Symptom, or the Representation of Emigration in Basque Literature

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This lecture is part of the "Iberian Studies Program Lecture Series"

Co-sponsored by the Iberian Studies Program and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

Bolivar House
583 Alvarado Row

Mari Jose Olaziregi Associate Professor of Basque literature at the University of the Basque Country-Spain and Director of the Language and Universities Department Speaker Etxepare Basque Institute
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Incentives, Fear of Arrest, and HIV/AIDS: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment Amongst Lawbreakers

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Abstract:

How can we encourage illegal actors to seek assistance from the state? Lawbreakers are generally hesitant to engage with the state, out of fear of incurring sanctions for having violated the law. They hesitate to seek law enforcement help if they are victims of crimes. They also shy away from other state institutions that could provide them with assistance such as social and health services, or education. The paper addresses this question by evaluating whether an incentive can increase HIV/AIDS testing amongst lawbreakers, who responds, and why. It presents a randomized field experiment in which sex workers in Beijing, China were assigned an incentive for getting an HIV test.

Speaker Bio:

Margaret Boittin is a fellow at CDDRL. She is completing her PhD in Political Science at UC Berkeley, and her JD at Stanford. Her dissertation examines regulation in China, focused on state intervention in prostitution from the perspectives of health, policing, and business. Her work combines ethnographic methods, as well as field and survey experiments.

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Margaret Boittin

Encina Hall
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

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The Governance Project Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-15
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Margaret Boittin has a JD from Stanford, and is completing her PhD in Political Science at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation is on the regulation of prostitution in China. She is also conducting research on criminal law policy and local enforcement in the United States, and human trafficking in Nepal.

The Governance Project Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-15
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Margaret Boittin Pre-doctoral Fellow 2012-13 Speaker CDDRL
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Dong-Wook Lee

Shorenstein APARC
Encina Hall C333
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Stanford, CA 94305-6055

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2013 Visiting Scholar
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Dong-Wook Lee is a visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC).

Lee has worked for many different divisions at the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy, in various fields such as automobiles and shipbuilding, overseas resources development, inter-Korean economic cooperation, industrial complex development, and emerging industries policies, to name a few. At the ministry, he has played a central role in developing industry related policies, enhancing the competitiveness of Korea's industries, strengthening cooperation between North and South Korea, and promoting industrial convergence.

Before Lee came to Shorenstein APARC, he was a director general in charge of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA)’s Foreign Investor Support Office to attract foreign direct investment. He has served as a public official for more than 20 years since passing the Examination for Higher Civil Service (finance and economy) in 1991.

Lee acquired a BA in business management from Yonsei University and an MA in public administration from Seoul National University. He earned a PhD in economics from KonKuk University in February 2012.

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