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Today's Newsletter
  1. Upcoming webinar: Crisis Management During Covid-19
  2. In the News
  3. Multilateralism and Covid-19
  4. World Immunization Week 2020
  5. Previous webinars
Upcoming Webinars
This week, we are hosting our first Young Leader-led webinar in partnership with our sister organization, the French-American Foundation - France. You do not need a Zoom account to join!




Crisis Management During COVID-19
with
President & CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute International and American Young Leader ’19
Chief Risk Officer at AXA and French Young Leader ’13

Moderated by Philippine de T’Serclaes , Global Vice-President for Digital Energy Management & Partnerships at Schneider Electric & Young Leader '17

  • Topic: Crisis management during COVID-19
  • Date & Time: Thursday, April 30 at 12:30 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.

We have a series of webinars to come:
  • Barkha Gvalani (2019 American Young Leader) and Guillaume Liegey (2017 French Young Leader) on data and COVID-19 - May 7 at 12:30pm ET
  • Gregory Daco, Chief US Economist at Oxford Economics, on what to expect from the economy moving forward - May 12 at 1:00pm ET
  • Melissa Clark, NYTimes bestselling food writer and author, leading a virtual cooking class for everyone in their kitchens! - May 14 at 6:00pm ET
News
  • "At least a dozen states forged ahead with strategies to ease restrictions. After complaints, House Democratic leaders delayed members’ return to Washington. (...)"

  • "At 4:18 a.m. on February 1, 1997, a fire broke out in the Aisin Seiki company’s Factory No. 1, in Kariya, a hundred and sixty miles southwest of Tokyo. Soon, flames had engulfed the plant and incinerated the production line that made a part called a P-valve—a device used in vehicles to modulate brake pressure and prevent skidding. The valve was small and cheap—about the size of a fist, and roughly ten dollars apiece—but indispensable. (...)"

  • "An analysis of federal data for the first time estimates excess deaths -- the number beyond what would normally be expected -- during that period. (...)"

  • "Vingt événements de premier plan vont participer à un programme virtuel qui offrira gratuitement des films sur YouTube du 29 mai au 7 juin. (...)"
Multilateralism and Covid-19
Will the Coronavirus Endanger Foreign Aid?, Council on Foreign Relations
  • "As the coronavirus pandemic increases the need for aid around the world, donors are facing tough choices over whether to continue helping vulnerable populations abroad or focus their attention at home.(...)"

  • "In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, national responses are vital, but in the medium term, international cooperation will be our best weapon. And reforming and reinforcing the institutions and mechanisms that underpin such cooperation will be our best defense against future global threats.(...)"

  • "La pandémie de Covid-19, qui bouleverse le monde, révèle le déficit de concertation entre les Etats, même pour faire face à une telle menace, et oppose deux approches rivales du droit international.(...)"
World Immunization Week 2020
World Immunization Week is celebrated in the last week of April and aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives every year and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful and cost-effective health interventions. Yet, there are still nearly 20 million children in the world today who are not getting the vaccines they need. More information here.
Previous Webinars
Check out the full recordings of our webinars. The links below will take you to a 15-minute preview on Dropbox. You'll have the option to download the full file on the side of the page.


  1. How Coronavirus Will Change Geopolitics
  2. Coronavirus: The Infodemic?
  3. Book Reading: A Hundred Suns
  4. Book Talk: The Cactus League
  5. Book Talk: Creative Insights
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