- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Program in Jordan Builds on Kennedy School-Middle East Relations

| Summer 2010

King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein welcomed Belfer Center and other Harvard Kennedy School faculty to Jordan in January to launch a pioneering Kennedy School executive program titled "Leading for the Future: The Middle East in a Changing World." The event, at a site overlooking the Dead Sea, was organized by the Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative and Executive Education department, in association with the King Abdallah II Fund for Development.

Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams professor of international trade and investment, Henry Lee, director of the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, and Nicholas Burns, professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics- all members of the Center's board of directors-took part in the five-day event along with the Kennedy School's Herman"Dutch" Leonard and Andy Zelleke. Lawrence is faculty chair of the Leading for the Future program.

More than 50 public and private sector professionals and officials, hailing from 11 countries in the region, participated in discussions and reflections led by the Kennedy School group on topics such as innovation, competing in the global economy, leading in difficult times, and economic challenges facing the Arab world.

"Thanks to the leadership of the King Abdullah II Foundation, the event was the first time that the Kennedy school has been able to gather senior representatives from most all of the Arab countries, including the Palestinian Territories and the Gulf states," Lee said. "The conference was a harbinger of a new relationship between the school and this important region."

For more information on this publication: Belfer Communications Office
For Academic Citation: Wilke, Sharon, ed. “Program in Jordan Builds on Kennedy School-Middle East Relations.” Edited by Wilke, Sharon, ed.. Belfer Center Newsletter (Summer 2010).

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