08:15 AM — 08:45 AM

Registration and Breakfast

08:45 AM — 09:00 AM

Welcome

Iqbal Quadir, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Reshmaan Hussam, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

09:00 AM — 09:30 AM

The Bangladesh Economy: The View from Outside

Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University; Former Chief Economist, World Bank
Moderators: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, Mittal Institute

09:30 AM — 10:30 AM

Resurgence and Foreign Direct Investment

Abdur Rouf Talukder, Secretary of Finance, Government of Bangladesh
Paban Chowdhury, Executive Chairman, Bangladesh Economic Zone Authority (BEZA)
Abu Bakar Chowdhury, Asma Capita Partners, Managing Partner, Bahrain
Khalid Quadir, Managing Partner, Brummer & Partners
Moderator: Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM — 11:15 AM

The Legacy of the 1971 War

Gary Bass, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Moderator: Mahfuz Sadique, Research Associate, Center for Global Media, SOAS University of London and ex-Bangladesh Correspondent, BBC News

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Strategies for Sustainable Development

Shamsul Alam, Senior Secretary, General Economics Division, Bangladesh Planning Commission
Gary Bass, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Muhammad Musa, Executive Director, BRAC International
Moderator: Stuart Hart, Research Professor and Steven Grossman Distinguished Fellow, University of Vermont

12:15 PM — 01:15 PM

Lunch

01:15 PM – 01:45 PM

Leaving No One Behind: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

Abul Kalam Azad, Principal SDG Coordinator, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; Former Principal Secretary, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Moderator: Stuart Hart, Research Professor and Steven Grossman Distinguished Fellow, University of Vermont

01:45 PM — 02:00 PM

Coffee Break

02:00 PM — 03:00 PM

Preserving the Heritage: New and Old Art Forms

Farhan Karim, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Kansas University
Maung Nyeu, Research Scientist, New York University
Moderator: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

03:00 PM – 03:15 PM

Coffee Break

03:15 PM — 04:15 PM

Rising Entrepreneurs: Opportunities for the Bangladeshi Start-up Ecosystem

Prithwiraj Choudhury, Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Zareen Mahmud Hosein, Co-Founder and Partner, Snehasish Mahmud & Co.
Rubana Huq, President, BGMEA
Aminur Rashid, Entrepreneur, Pickaboo
Moderator: Andy Wu, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

04:15 PM — 05:15 PM

Public Health and Migration: Successes and Challenges

Ruhul Abid, Associate Professor, Brown University Alpert Medical School
Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Reshmaan Hussam, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Moderator: Linda Harrar, Senior Program Manager, WGBH, Boston

05:15 PM — 05:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Ira Jackson, Visiting Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University