Podcast Episodes

Girls, Interrupted

What’s bad for kids is worse for girls because in too many countries, especially in low- and middle-income countries, girls don’t have anywhere near adequate access to schools, health care, or even f…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Leadership Special: Nithya Ramanathan,Engineer working to improve human health with sensory intelligence

Listen, as she is interviewed by Cecilia Weckstrom, Sr Director, Diversity, Inclusion & People Innovation at Lego in the UK

Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, p…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

The Chinese Puzzle

What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Communist Party— want from the rest of the world?

What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Com…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

The kids are not alright!

Early in 2020, when the global pandemic was still gathering force, UNICEF published a prophetic, deeply disturbing document "All children of all ages and in all countries are being effected in partic…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Leadership Special: Leadership Special: a profile in brief with Jared Genser, international human rights lawyer

In this special episode you will meet Jared Genser, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners.

Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, pea…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

The best of times, and the worst of times

This week’s guests are trying to make the world the kind of place it could and should be.

Even as the pandemic, like some giant glacier, slowly and unevenly recedes, the world seems frozen in place a…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

If it’s illiberal, is it democracy?

Europe is increasingly divided: between the frugal North and the Club Med South; between the illiberal East and the progressive West. In many ways, the latter is more profound at a time when democrac…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Leadership Special: Sylvia Earle, world-class oceanographer and educator

In this special episode, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 prize winners. Listen, as she is interviewed by Ashok Mirpuri, Singapore's ambassador to the U.S and a member of the 2020 pr…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Casas Muertas

Venezuela has been in a death spiral for years. The country have been devastated by political repression and economic depression; its people suffer from huger, malnutrition, shortages of food, medici…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

When is too much freedom too much?

Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, is widely considered one of America's leading legal scholars on freedom of speech and has written extensively about the evolution of that fundamental …

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago