Advisory Board Member President, The Topol Family Fund
Sidney Topol is President of The Topol Family Fund. Topol was general manager of Selenia Telecommunications, a Raytheon joint...Read more about Sidney Topol
Sooyeon is a PhD candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and a research fellow at the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International... Read more about Sooyeon Kang
Addressing current human rights concerns at local, state, and international levels
The Carr Center’s work includes a range of special initiatives focused on critical and compelling human rights concerns, including migration, trafficking, torture, transitional justice, humanitarian crises, LGBTQ rights, corruption, and shrinking civil society space. These initiatives are responsive to current events and are reflected in the work of our fellows, student experiential learning and funding, conferences and seminars, and the...
Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs Faculty Chair, International Security Program, Belfer Center
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago,... Read more about Stephen M. Walt
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
Stephen P. Marks is the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he directs the Program on... Read more about Stephen P. Marks
Advisory Board Member Chief Operating Officer, Global Fixed Income Division, Morgan Stanley
Steve D’Antonio served as global chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley’s Fixed Income Division, and was a member of the firm-wide 40-person management... Read more about Steve D'Antonio
Mark Latonero – Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow, and research lead at Data & Society – discusses surveillance humanitarianism for The New York Times.
A standoff between the United Nations World Food Program and Houthi rebels in control of the capital region is threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Yemen.
Alarmed by reports that food is being diverted to support the rebels, the aid program is demanding that Houthi officials allow them to deploy biometric technologies like iris scans and digital fingerprints to monitor suspected fraud during food distribution.
The Houthis have reportedly blocked food delivery, painting the biometric effort as an intelligence operation, and have demanded access to the personal data on beneficiaries of the aid. The impasse led the aid organization to the decision last month to suspend food aid to parts of the starving population — once thought of as a last resort — unless the Houthis allow biometrics.
Ash Center conference room, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N
Students are invited to a breakfast with National Democratic Institute (NDI) President and former U.S. Ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell. Ambassador Mitchell will lead an informal discussion with students about the role democracy can and should be playing in U.S. foreign policy around the world, particularly vis-a-vis China's growing influence. He will draw on his experience working with Burma at the State Department as well as during his tenure as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian and Pacific Security Affairs (APSA), in the Office of the Secretary of...
