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April 29, 2021 The final Dean’s Discussion of the academic year asked HKS faculty experts to identify paths to a more peaceful world. The conversation was part of a series that allows faculty members to discuss timely topical issues, and the panelists were Ash Carter, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs; Tarek Masoud, professor of public policy and the Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations; Meghan O’Sullivan, the Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Af...

COVID-19 triggers huge rise in donations for research The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of 2020 sparked a huge rise in private philanthropic giving by billionaires and big private company charitable foundations in China with a substantial amount going towards research and development of vaccines, antiviral drugs and other treatments being developed by teams of scientists throughout China but particularly at elite universities and research centres. A research report on Pandemic Philanthropy in China by Bridge Consulting’s Beijing Office calculated that some CNY1.8 billion (US$279 mill...