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emailFriday, November 2, 2012
CID Speaker Series: Featuring Jamshed Kazi and Richa Mishra, UNDP
Join us this week as we welcome back to campus, two HKS alumni
to discuss their most recent work at UNDP. Jamshed Kazi is the Practice Manager of the
United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Democratic Governance
Group based in New York and coordinates advisory support to UNDP’s
field offices globally across over 170 countries. He is also
responsible for the development of UNDP’s first ever Youth
Engagement Strategy as part of the UN Secretary-General’s priority
areas over the next five years. Jamshed has over 14 years of
development experience spanning Asia-Pacific, Europe/CIS, and
Africa in the UN system, NGO sector and international treaty
bodies. His field assignments have included serving as Assistant
Resident Representative of UNDP / Head of Governance in Ethiopia as
well as in Lao PDR from 2003-2007. Jamshed holds an MPA degree from
the Harvard Kennedy School where he was a Mason Fellow and also
possesses a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of
Economics and Political Science.
Richa Mishra is a development practitioner with
substantive international experience, including with the UN system,
World Bank and research institutions. She is the UNDP Project
Manager for the upcoming Global Report on Democratic Governance
(2013) and specializes in democratic governance, gender,
micro-finance, institutional analysis, post conflict rehabilitation
and post disaster reconstruction. Richa has wide-ranging experience
in social analysis as well as mediating and negotiating with
diverse stakeholders such as governments, NGOs, other civil society
institutions and communities. Richa earned her mid-career MPA from
the Harvard Kennedy School and was a Mason Fellow, Galbraith
Scholar and Ash Institute Fellow.
- Location:Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein Building
- Date:Friday, November 2, 2012
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Time:11:45 AM
