Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business RAGHURAM RA J AN Harvard University Center for the Environment Harvard University Graduate School of Design South Asia Initiative at Harvard FAULT LINES How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy WEDNESDAY December 2, 2009 5:00-7:00 pm Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall 48 Quincy Street Harvard University WITH PANELISTS Suzanne Berger Political Science, MIT Frank Dobbin Sociology, Harvard University Niall Ferguson History, Harvard University, and Harvard Business School MODERATED BY Sheila Jasanoff Harvard Kennedy School SCIENCE & DEMOCRACY LECTURE SERIES 2009 http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts CO-SPONSORED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY Program on HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL Science, Technology & Society HARVARD UNIVERSITY Program on HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL Science, Technology & Society
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Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessRaghuRam Ra jan
Harvard University Center for the Environment
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
South Asia Initiative at Harvard
Fault LinesHow Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World economy
WEDNESDAY December 2, 20095:00-7:00 pmPiper Auditorium, Gund Hall48 Quincy StreetHarvard University
WITH PANELISTSSuzanne BergerPolitical Science, mIT
Frank Dobbin Sociology, harvard university
niall Fergusonhistory, harvard university, and harvard Business School
MODERATED BYSheila jasanoffharvard Kennedy School
SCIENCE & DEMOCRACYLECTURE SERIES 2009
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts
CO-SPONSORED BY
HARvARD UNIvERSITY
Program on
HARvARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
Science, Technology & Society
HARvARD UNIvERSITY
Program on
HARvARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
Science, Technology & Society
Program on Science, Technology & SocietyHarvard Kennedy School79 JFK StreetCambridge, Massachusetts, 02138USA
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts
Harvard University Center for the Environment
HARvARD UNIvERSITY
Program on
HARvARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
Science, Technology & Society
For more information on the Science & Democracy Lecture Series, please visit the hKS STS website at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/
SCIENCE & DEMOCRACYLECTURE SERIES 2009
Raghuram G. Rajan is Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He served as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund between 2003 and 2006. He has worked as a consultant for the Indian Finance Ministry, World Bank, Federal Reserve Board, Swedish Parliamentary Commission, and various financial institutions. Rajan is the author, along with fellow Chicago Booth faculty member Luigi Zingales, of the book saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. In 2003, he received the inaugural Fischer Black Prize, which is awarded by the American Finance
Association for the person under 40 who has contributed the most to the theory and practice of finance. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi in 1985, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in 1987. Rajan received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991.
