We believe that relationships – among individuals and institutions, globally and locally – can fuel knowledge and develop solutions to global challenges.
Northwestern University’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs brings together the brightest minds from across Northwestern University and around the world to address critical global challenges that cannot be solved from a singular disciplinary or geographic perspective. Our mission is to foster meaningful engagement across borders of all kinds. We create opportunities for dialogue across academic disciplines—the humanities, social sciences, business, law, medicine, the arts and more—and catalyze connections between researchers and experts from government, industry, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations worldwide.
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Northwestern Buffett’s Idea Incubation process offers Northwestern faculty unique opportunities to explore global problems and workshop their solutions alongside practitioners, community partners, and scholars from across disciplines.
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Northwestern Buffett’s working groups are interdisciplinary research teams dedicated to generating and disseminating new knowledge on the critical global challenges of our time.
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Our Global Impacts Graduate Fellowship Program provides Northwestern graduate students with dissertation research support, mentoring, and opportunities to explore career paths in international affairs, policy, and development.
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Northwestern Buffett supports faculty members who wish to host visiting scholars.
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Northwestern Buffett’s Race, Caste and Colorism Global Working Group recently partnered with the SpaceShift Collective to launch Starlight, a new community arts space and artist workshop open until October 29, 2022.
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Northwestern Buffett, in partnership with the McCormick School of Engineering, will host a conference on AI & National Security on October 20 to mark the launch of the new Northwestern Security & AI Lab led by Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow V.S. Subrahmanian.
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Northwestern Buffett provided Virtual Visitorship grants to 29 displaced Ukrainian scholars during the Spring 2022 quarter. These grants offered the Northwestern community opportunities to interact with and learn from Ukrainian scholars, while supporting scholars from Ukraine in continuing their work from the conflict zone.
October 12, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1800 Sherman Avenue
Please join the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a fireside chat with former U.S. ambassador Steven...
October 20, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
1800 Sherman Avenue
The Conference on AI & National Security will mark the launch of the new Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) led by N...
