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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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Undergraduates are an important part of Northwestern Buffett's community working to examine and contribute to addressing shared global challenges.
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This fall, the Northwestern Buffett Institute is launching two new Global Social Innovation Hubs with the University of Toronto and The University of Tokyo.
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François Hollande, the 24th President of France, visited Chicago and Evanston where he engaged the Northwestern University community in discussion and delivered a public Northwestern Buffett Lecture in Global Affairs.
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A delegation of Northwestern faculty and graduate students supported by Northwestern Buffett will attend the world’s largest annual international treaty negotiations and climate summit, COP28, to observe negotiations, share their thought leadership in panel discussions and research presentations and attend events hosted by climate leaders across the world.
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