The Future of Transatlantic Relations

A welcome coffee will be offered to participants.

• Arancha González, Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po
• Sergei Guriev, Provost, Sciences Po
• Joel Hellman, Dean, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
• Francis Vella, Professor and Edmond V. Villani Chair in Economics, Special Advisor to the Georgetown University President for International Engagement

• Enrico Letta, President of the Jacques Delors Institute, former Dean of PSIA, former Prime Minister of Italy

A networking coffee break will be offered to participants.

Leading experts and academics will discuss the future of green transition in the context of  transatlantic relations. This will include an examination of  innovative strategies and possible policy frameworks aimed at achieving sustainable development goals while mitigating climate change. How can transatlantic cooperation drive a greener and more resilient future?

Panel moderated by Natacha Valla, Dean, School of Management and Impact, Sciences Po

• Vishal Agrawal, Henry J. Blommer Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business and Professor of Operations Management at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
• Anne Epaulard, Director, Economy & Environment Department, OFCE, Sciences Po
• Philip Kearns, Ex-Chief Investment Officer, D.E. Shaw Investment Management
• Marc Ringel, Chairholder at the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, Sciences Po

A networking lunch will be offered to participants.

Panelists will delve into the evolving landscape of digital regulation across the Atlantic. From data privacy and cybersecurity to platform accountability and emerging technologies, this session will explore the challenges and opportunities inherent in regulating the digital sphere. How can policy foster innovation while ensuring a fair and competitive digital economy in the transatlantic context?

Panel moderated by Michelle De Mooy, Program Director, Tech and Public Policy Program, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University

• Beatriz Botero Arcila, Assistant professor of law at Sciences Po and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University
• James "Jeb" Bell, Head, Research and Insights at Project Liberty Foundation
• Alissa Cooper, Inaugural Executive Director, Knight–Georgetown Institute
• Constance de Leusse, Executive Director, Tech and Global Affairs Innovation Hub, Paris School of International Affairs
• Paul Nemitz, Principal Adviser on the Digital Transition in DG Justice and Consumers, EU Commission

A networking coffee break will be offered to participants.

Join a thought-provoking panel discussion on defence and security cooperation in the transatlantic realm. As geopolitical dynamics shift and global threats evolve, this panel will explore the importance of robust alliances, strategic partnerships, and shared defence capabilities in safeguarding peace and stability in an increasingly complex security environment.

Panel moderated by Antonio Missiroli, former NATO Assistant Secretary-General, responsible for Emerging Security Challenges, PSIA faculty member

• Keir A Lieber, Professor in the School of Foreign Service and Department of Government at Georgetown University
• Bryan Rich, Global AI Lead for Accenture Defense and Public Service
• Chiara Ruffa, Professor of Political Science at the Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po

A networking coffee break will be offered to participants.

This session will consider the critical role of transatlantic cooperation in driving sustainable development and economic prosperity. From foreign aid and humanitarian assistance to trade policies and investment strategies, examine the synergies and challenges inherent in promoting development goals on both sides of the Atlantic. The panel will discuss innovative approaches to poverty reduction, social inclusion, and equitable growth.

Panel moderated by Sergei Guriev, Provost and Professor of Economics, Sciences Po

• Joel Hellman, Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service 
• Karen Macours, Chaired Professor at the Paris School of Economics, senior researcher at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture

• Arancha González, Dean, Paris School of International Affairs
• Joel Hellman, Dean, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

A networking cocktail break will be offered to participants.

Vishal Agrawal is Henry J. Blommer Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business and Professor of Operations Management at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. His main research focus is sustainable operations, focusing on managerial challenges at the interface of business and the environment. His research interests and expertise extends across a variety of topics related to the role of businesses in addressing sustainability challenges such as circular economy, business model innovation, renewable energy, product development, supply chain sustainability and consumer behavior. He teaches courses related to these topics at all levels including executive and custom programs. He frequently consults and collaborates with several companies and startups on different issues related to sustainable business.

Beatriz Botero Arcila is an assistant professor of law at Sciences Po and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. She holds an SJD and an LLM from Harvard Law School and is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia. Her research and expertise focus on data governance in urban environments. privacy law, data governance policy, municipal law, platform governance, and legal theory. Recent work has explored modes of data governance in smart city projects, the sharing economy, and Covid contact tracing apps. Her current research explores how surveillance technologies are adopted to provide public security both in Europe and the US and how they interact with other public interests (i.e. civil liberties) and institutional frameworks and incentives.

Alissa Cooper is a recognized leader in the development of global Internet standards, policy, and governance. Alissa has served in a variety of roles in the tech industry, including Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the world’s premier Internet standards organisation. She previously served as the chair of the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group, which delivered the technical plan that allowed the U.S. Department of Commerce to transfer oversight of Internet governance to the global multistakeholder community. Prior to joining KGI, Alissa spent a decade at Cisco Systems in senior engineering and executive roles, including Vice President of Technology Standards and Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Technology Policy. Prior to joining Cisco, Alissa served as the Chief Computer Scientist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, where she was a leading public interest advocate and technologist focused on privacy and net neutrality. Alissa holds a D.Phil from the Oxford Internet Institute and M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science from Stanford University. She currently serves on the board of The Tor Project.

Constance de Leusse is the Executive Director of the Tech and Global Affairs Innovation Hub at the Paris School of International Affairs

Michelle De Mooy is Program Director, Tech and Public Policy Program, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University. She is a leader in technology policy, strategic communications and multi-stakeholder project management. Her career has been dedicated to advancing social justice through the development and deployment of responsible and innovative technology and public policy that balances rights and revenue. She has published numerous articles and reports, most recently on how the U.S. should incorporate human rights into federal privacy legislation and a report measuring the impact of bias in the algorithms that power health apps.

Anne Epaulard is Professor of Economics at Dauphine University - PSL and scientific counsellor at France Stratégie. Previously she was Deputy Assistant Director at the French Minister of Finance, and senior economist at the IMF.

Arancha González is the third Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po and the first woman to lead the world's third school for Politics and International Studies. 

Prior to joining PSIA, Ms González served as Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (2020-2021). She previously was Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (2013-2020). Between 2005 and 2013 she served as Chief of Staff to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy. Before that she held senior positions at the European Commission in the areas of international trade and development. Ms González started her career as a lawyer in the private sector. 

Sergei Guriev was appointed as Provost by the President of Sciences Po in July 2022. He joined the Department in 2013. From 2019 to 2022 he was the Scientific Director of Sciences Po's Master's and PhD programmes in economics. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association. In 2016-19, he served as the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Joel Hellman became Dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in July 2015 after 25 years working on some of the most complex issues of governance, conflict and the political economy of development. He served at the World Bank in many senior roles including Chief Institutional Economist, Director of the Center for Conflict, Security and Development in Nairobi, Kenya where he led the Bank’s engagement with fragile and conflict-affected states around the world, and Coordinator of the Bank’s response in Indonesia to the devastating Asian Tsunami. He was the
Senior Political Counsellor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. As a scholar, Dr. Hellman was a political science professor at Harvard University and Columbia University focusing on the politics of economic reform.

Philip recently retired as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of D.E. Shaw Investment Management. Prior to his CIO role, Philip held a number of senior positions in D.E. Shaw, including head of Fixed Income and senior roles in quant portfolio management. Philip started his career at Goldman Sachs, and also worked at Morgan Stanley.

Enrico Letta is the President of the Jacques Delors Institut. He is the former Dean of the School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris (PSIA) and former Italian Prime Minister. He was the General Secretary of the Italian Democratic Party (PD) from 2021 to 2023. Enrico Letta has also been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies between 2006 and 2015. Letta was Minister of European Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister of Industry from 1999 to 2001, and served as Secretary to the Council of Ministers from 2006 to 2008. He is a founding member of the Democratic Party.

Professor Lieber’s research and teaching interests include nuclear weapons, deterrence, and strategy; technology and the causes of war; U.S. national security policy; and international relations theory. He is co-author, with Daryl Press of Dartmouth College, of The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age (Cornell University Press, 2020); author of War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (Cornell University Press, 2005); and editor of War, Peace, and International Political Realism (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). His articles have appeared in leading scholarly and foreign policy publications, including International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, and the Atlantic Monthly. He has been awarded major fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Council on Foreign Relations, and Smith Richardson Foundation.

Karen Macours is a chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics and senior researcher at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). Her research focuses on agricultural productivity and rural poverty reduction in developing countries, impact assessment related to agricultural R&D, the evaluation of programs addressing households’ productive and human capital investments (early childhood, health, nutrition, education) and related measurement and methodological questions. She is co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics, and associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and co-organizer of the Virtual Development Economics Seminar.

Dr Antonio Missiroli was NATO Assistant Secretary-General, responsible for Emerging Security Challenges, from December 2017 to October 2020. Prior to joining NATO, Dr. Antonio Missiroli was the Director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris (2012-17) and chaired the Executive Academic Board of the European Security and Defence College (2015-17). Previously, he was Adviser at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission (2010-2012), in charge of institutional outreach; Director of Studies at the European Policy Centre in Brussels (2005-2010); and Senior Research Fellow at the W/EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris (1998-2005).

Paul F. Nemitz is Principal Advisor in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. Before, he was the Director responsible for Fundamental rights and Union citizenship, the lead Director for the reform of the EU data protection legislation, the "Snowden" follow up, the negotiations of the EU - US Privacy Shield and the EU Code of Conduct against Hatespeech on the internet. Before joining DG Justice, he held posts in the Legal Service of the Commission, the Cabinet of Commissioner Nielson, and in the Directorates General for Trade, Transport and Maritime Affairs. He has a broad experience as agent of the Commission in litigation before the European Courts and he has published extensively on EU law.

Dr. Marc Ringel is the Chairholder at the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition at Sciences Po, Paris. Dr. Ringel contributes to conducting research and teaching courses at Sciences Po.Dr. Ringel is the director of the Institut franco-allemand (dfi) and full professor at Nuertingen Geislingen University, Stuttgart, Germany. Furthermore he is senior associate researcher with the University of Brussels, Belgium (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and affiliated lecturer with Université d’Aix en Provence/Marseille, France. He leads multidisciplinary research on green transitions in the energy and climate field, focussing on the role of public governance.

Chiara Ruffa is a Professor in political science at the Centre for International Studies at Sciences Po. Before moving to Paris, she was an associate professor at the Swedish Defence University and an academy fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Her research is about multilateralism on the ground, peacekeeping operations, norms, cultures and civil-military relations. In particular, her research agenda revolves around multilateral governance and management of peace and security across different regions. Her two main areas of expertise are (1) multilateralism on the ground, multinational governance and management of peace and security and (2) civil – military relations and the transformation of the state.

Bryan Rich leads Accenture’s Global AI Practice for Defence and Public Sector and Sovereign AI and is the executive director of Accenture’s newly established European AI Studio located in Brussels. He is leading efforts to test and evaluate AI solutions for the Public Sector with a focus on operational prototyping Generative AI solutions in support of a wide range of public sector and defence applications. Bryan has over 25 years of experience in national security and geospatial intelligence having developed and deployed a wide range of AI powered solutions in support of national security and public sector. Previously, Bryan served as the Applied Intelligence Lead for Accenture Federal Services, where he established the Applied Intelligence Lab and led delivery for advanced AI solutions for DARPA and IARPA, and other government research labs. Prior to Accenture he was founder of an early leader in open-source intelligence and pattern-based intelligence that he sold to Carlyle Group in 2015. Bryan previously had a career as a TV and Radio producer, with experience in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

Francis Vella is the Edmond V. Villani Professor at Georgetown University and a research associate of Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), and Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics.