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Listen to the final panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on the future of work and featured: Suhani Jalota, founder of Myna Mahila and founder and leader of the Future of Work for Women Initiative at Stanford University's Hoover Institution Olubayo Adekanmbi, CEO of Data Science Nigeria and co-founder of EqualyzAI Moderator: Dean Karlan, Frederi...

Listen to the fourth panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on planetary futures and featured: ⁠Vanessa Nakate⁠ , climate activist, founder of the ⁠Rise Up climate movement⁠ , and author of ⁠ A Bigger Picture ⁠ ⁠David Wallace-Wells⁠ , writer for ⁠ New York Times Opinion ⁠ , columnist for ⁠ New York Times Magazine ⁠ , and author of ⁠ The Uninhabitable...

Listen to the third panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on the arts of social change and featured: Bing Liu , filmmaker and director of the Emmy- and Oscar-nominated feature documentary  Minding the Gap  and the newly released feature film  Preparation for the Next Life Omar Offendum , spoken word poet, rapper, and storyteller Moderator:  Ellen Har...

Listen to the second panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on new media and featured: Allison Yang , founder and CEO of  Reality Reload Shuwei Fang , Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's  Shorenstein Center on Media, Politic, & Public Policy Moderator:  Jeremy Gilbert , Knight Professor in Digital Media Strategy at Northwestern University's...

Listen to the first panel of our spring 2026 Buffett Symposium, Brave New Futures. The discussion focused on human relationships and featured: ⁠Qing Wang⁠ , co-founder of  ⁠ The Weirdo Podcast ⁠ ⁠Nataliya Kos’myna⁠ , research scientist at MIT Media Lab’s  ⁠Fluid Interfaces⁠  group Moderator:  ⁠Nour Kteily⁠ , Kellogg Chair in Enlightened Disagreement, Professor of Management & Organizations, an...

Our winter 2026 Buffett Symposium on disinformation convened global experts and practitioners from industry, public policy, academia, and civil society to address four urgent priorities: sustaining trust and credibility in information flows; strengthening accountability for platforms, governments, and users alike; advancing innovative tools and strategies to counter disinformation; and forging mul...

Our winter 2026 Buffett Symposium on disinformation convened global experts and practitioners from industry, public policy, academia, and civil society to address four urgent priorities: sustaining trust and credibility in information flows; strengthening accountability for platforms, governments, and users alike; advancing innovative tools and strategies to counter disinformation; and forging mul...

Our winter 2026 Buffett Symposium on disinformation convened global experts and practitioners from industry, public policy, academia, and civil society to address four urgent priorities: sustaining trust and credibility in information flows; strengthening accountability for platforms, governments, and users alike; advancing innovative tools and strategies to counter disinformation; and forging mul...

Our winter 2026 Buffett Symposium on disinformation convened global experts and practitioners from industry, public policy, academia, and civil society to address four urgent priorities: sustaining trust and credibility in information flows; strengthening accountability for platforms, governments, and users alike; advancing innovative tools and strategies to counter disinformation; and forging mul...

Our fall 2025 Buffett Symposium on youth-led peacebuilding brought together activists, politicians, NGO leaders, and negotiators from across the world to explore how youth are transforming the future of conflict resolution and justice. This conversation brought together Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Northwestern University political science professor Wendy Pearlman for a wide-r...

Our fall 2025 Buffett Symposium on youth-led peacebuilding brought together activists, politicians, NGO leaders, and negotiators from across the world to explore how youth are transforming the future of conflict resolution and justice. This panel brought together three young peacebuilders whose work spans Belarus, Colombia, and Uganda to explore how the next generation is transforming the theory a...

Our fall 2025 Buffett Symposium on youth-led peacebuilding brought together activists, politicians, NGO leaders, and negotiators from across the world to explore how youth are transforming the future of conflict resolution and justice. This panel discussion featured a conversation with Claire Hajaj, a specialist in conflict and post-conflict dynamics with experience working on the United Nations S...

The Roberta Buffett Institute's 2024–25 international diplomacy series culminated in our spring quarter symposium, ⁠⁠⁠Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned⁠⁠⁠ , organized with Fundación Acordemos. This two-day event brought together diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades. Our aim was to draw lessons for future nego...

The Roberta Buffett Institute's 2024–25 international diplomacy series culminated in our spring quarter symposium, ⁠⁠Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned⁠⁠ , organized with Fundación Acordemos. This two-day event brought together diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades. Our aim was to draw lessons for future negoti...

The Roberta Buffett Institute's 2024–25 international diplomacy series culminated in our spring quarter symposium, ⁠Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned⁠ , organized with Fundación Acordemos. This two-day event brought together diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades. Our aim was to draw lessons for future negotiat...

The Roberta Buffett Institute's 2024–25 international diplomacy series culminated in our spring quarter symposium, Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned , organized with Fundación Acordemos. This two-day event brought together diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades. Our aim was to draw lessons for future negotiatio...

The Roberta Buffett Institute's 2024–25  international diplomacy series  culminated in our spring quarter symposium, Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned , organized with  Fundación Acordemos . This two-day event brought together diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades. Our aim was to draw lessons for future negoti...

Our 2025 spring Buffett Symposium on Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned , organized with  Fundación Acordemos , brought together diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades and draw lessons for future negotiations in a world confronting a crisis of multilateralism. This brief preview of the discussions is pulled from our...

Our 2025 winter Buffett Symposium on AI and Geopolitics convened leading strategists, researchers, and policymakers to discuss the transformative opportunities and profound challenges that AI poses in geopolitics. The event was co-organized by the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs,  ⁠Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL)⁠ , and  ⁠Insight Centre at University College Cork⁠ . The daylong pro...

Our 2025 winter Buffett Symposium on AI and Geopolitics convened leading strategists, researchers, and policymakers to discuss the transformative opportunities and profound challenges that AI poses in geopolitics. The event was co-organized by the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs,  ⁠Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL)⁠ , and  ⁠Insight Centre at University College Cork⁠ . The daylong pro...

Our 2025 winter Buffett Symposium on AI and Geopolitics convened leading strategists, researchers, and policymakers to discuss the transformative opportunities and profound challenges that AI poses in geopolitics. The event was co-organized by the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs,  ⁠Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL)⁠ , and  ⁠Insight Centre at University College Cork⁠ . The daylong pro...

Our 2025 winter Buffett Symposium on AI and Geopolitics convened leading strategists, researchers, and policymakers to discuss the transformative opportunities and profound challenges that AI poses in geopolitics. The event was co-organized by the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs,  Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL),  and  Insight Centre at University College Cork . The daylong program...

AI has become a key driver of geopolitical competition, with countries vying for technological supremacy and economic dominance. The potential of AI technologies to revolutionize industries, enhance military capabilities, and shape societal norms has far-reaching implications for the disruption of traditional geopolitical balances. As AI development accelerates, it poses unique and mounting challe...

Our 2024 fall Buffett Symposium, Abortion Access Today: Global Insights and Comparisons , convened leading strategists, researchers, medical practitioners, and human rights advocates from Colombia, Ireland, Kenya, Poland, and the U.S. to discuss abortion access around the world.  The third and final panel of this daylong program focused on global trajectories of abortion access. Panelists discusse...

Our 2024 fall Buffett Symposium, Abortion Access Today: Global Insights and Comparisons , convened leading strategists, researchers, medical practitioners, and human rights advocates from Colombia, Ireland, Kenya, Poland, and the U.S. to discuss abortion access around the world.  The second panel of this daylong program focused on global expansions in abortion access. Five dozen countries have lib...