Day 1: Forging the Pacific Century – A GPS 30th Anniversary Event

The event is sold out. We will be live streaming the event at 8:30 a.m. on Friday (link).

The founders of the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) took a calculated risk and created a school where the intellectual rigor of the faculty and students would be directed towards understanding the political and economic rise of Asia and Latin America. Deliberately interdisciplinary, regionally focused and data driven, GPS has been at the forefront of advancing the Pacific Century.

Join us for a series of 30th Anniversary celebratory events.

Friday, April 26, 2019
Day 1: Forging the Pacific Century

Location: Institute of the Americas Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium (parking and directions)

Agenda

8:30 a.m.: Welcome Remarks by Dean Peter Cowhey

8:45 a.m.: Keynote Address

• Jeff Immelt, Venture Partner, NEA and former chairman and CEO of GE

9:15 a.m.: Policy Uncertainty and Business

• Laura Alfaro, Professor, Harvard Business School and former Costa Rica Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy
• Arindam Bhattacharya, Senior Partner and Director, BCG Henderson Institute, The Boston Consulting Group, India
• Preston McAfee, Former Chief Economist, Microsoft
• Scott Park, President & CEO, Doosan Bobcat
• Moderator: Renee Bowen, Professor, GPS UC San Diego
  

11:00 a.m.: The Evolving Global Order in the Next 25 Years

• Jennifer Harris, Senior Fellow in Special Projects, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.
• Arati Prabhakar, Former Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20
• Moderator: James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic

12:30 p.m.: Lunch

1:30 p.m.: The Fate of Democracy

• James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic
• Francisco Guerrero, Secretary for Strengthening Democracy, Organization of American States
• Enrico Letta, Dean, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po and former Prime Minister of Italy
• Moderator: Stephan Haggard, Professor, GPS UC San Diego

3:30 p.m.: Mobilizing Technology for Policy

• Todd Coleman, Professor, UC San Diego
• Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
• Jaana Remes, MGI Partner, McKinsey & Company
• Stefan Savage, Professor, UC San Diego
• Moderator: Margaret Leinen, Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

7-9 p.m.: UC San Diego Helen Edison Lecture Series and GPS Present Steven Pinker | Sold Out

Register for Day 2: Saturday, April 27, 2019

Join us as GPS faculty provide TED-style talks on four key challenges to continued progress in the 21st Century.

• The Challenge of Equality
• The Challenge of Prosperity
• The Challenge of Sustainability
• The Challenge of Conflict

Additional events include digital poster sessions featuring GPS faculty, students and alumni, and a reception with cultural arts presentations.