Jackson Institute for Global Affairs: “Career Conversation with Clair Lockhart”

Event time: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Horchow Hall, Room 106 See map
55 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs presents:

Clare Lockhart, Co-Founder and Director of ISE: “Career Conversation with Clair Lockhart.”

Clare Lockhart is co-founder and director of ISE, which focuses on development across the institutions of state, market and civil society. She also directs the Market Building Initiative, which works to identify approaches to creating jobs, revenue and economic growth. These programs are currently working with governments and leaders across a range of countries including Afghanistan, Kosovo, Nepal, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Southern Sudan, and studying successful transformations across a number of cases including Singapore, EU Accession countries, Malaysia, Indonesia and Gulf countries.

She is a barrister (member of the Bar of England and Wales) and has degrees from Oxford University (a double first in Modern History) and Harvard University (MPA, Kennedy School, Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholar). Ms Lockhart was named as among the 100 most influential global thinkers of 2009 and 2010 for her work on fragile states. Ms. Lockhart was selected for the 2011 Forum of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum and was selected as Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Fragile States for 2011-2012. She has been appointed to the Board of the Asia Foundation and the Women’s Regional Network.

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
Yale Community Only