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April 30, 2020

Samantha Power

Former United States Ambassador to the UN and author of "The Education of an Idealist," Samantha Power, joined us on April 30 for a Munk Dialogue on the fate and future of international institutions after COVID19. Click the "play" button to the left to watch the conversation.

The World After COVID19 - the Future of International Institutions

You can view Samantha Power's Munk Dialogue on the fate and future of international institutions after COVID19 by clicking the "play" button above. To sign-up to receive a weekly email updating you on upcoming dialogue speakers and topics click here. Thanks to our partners the Globe and Mail, Facebook Canada, and WNED PBS. These events are being made possible thanks to the generosity of the Munk Foundation.

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Samantha Power

"Unless the United States exerts leadership to prevent COVID-19 from raging out of control abroad, the crisis will not end at home."

Samantha Power

"Unless the United States exerts leadership to prevent COVID-19 from raging out of control abroad, the crisis will not end at home."

Ambassador Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School.

From 2013 to 2017 Power served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as well as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. In this role, Power became the public face of U.S. opposition to Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria, negotiated the toughest sanctions in a generation against North Korea, and supported President Obama’s pathbreaking actions to end the Ebola crisis. President Obama has called her “one of our foremost thinkers on foreign policy,” saying that “she showed us that the international community has a moral responsibility and a profound interest in resolving conflicts and defending human dignity.”

From 2009 to 2013, Power served on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights.

Forbes called her “a powerful crusader for U.S foreign policy as well as human rights and democracy” when it named her one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.” She has been named as one of Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers” and has twice been selected as one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People.”

Her book “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003. Her most recent book, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (2019), was a New York TimesWall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.

Power began her career as a journalist, reporting from places such as Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. Before joining the U.S. government, Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School, a columnist for TIME, and a National Magazine Award-winning contributor to the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books.