WorldAfterCorona—Adil Najam’s Crash Course on the Future | Technology Times

By the third week of June, he was up to 63 experts, from BU and around the world, a mix of global policymakers and big thinkers, writers, prominent academics, and rising stars. The lineup includes Francis Fukuyama on democracy, Thomas Picketty on inequality, Ibram X. Kendi (a scholar of racism and newly appointed director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research) on racism, Enrico Letta on the future of the European Union, Kishore Mahbubani on world order, Danielle Citron (a BU School of Law professor of law) on civil rights in cyberspace, David Miliband on refugees, Sandro Galea (BU School of Public Health Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean) on mental health, Rachel Nolan (a Pardee assistant professor of international relations) on immigration, Elizabeth Economy on US-China relations, and Ann Marie Lipinski on journalism. Peter Singer discusses the future of meat. Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton analyzes economic despair. Graham Allison discusses ancient Greek historian Thucydides.

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