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Northwestern Buffett Panel on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

On Monday, February 28th, Northwestern Buffett hosted a virtual panel discussion on the unfolding Russian invasion of Ukraine. We heard perspectives from faculty experts including Tymofii Brik (Head of Sociological Research, Kyiv School of Economics), Jennifer Chan (Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg), Ian Hurd (Professor of Political Science and Director of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies), Olga Kamenchuk (Associate Professor in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the School of Communication), Ian Kelly (Ambassador in Residence at Northwestern, former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Jordan Gans-Morse (Associate Professor of Political Science in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences), Tymofiy Mylovanov (President of the Kyiv School of Economics and Advisor to Ukraine's presidential administration), Michael Rogers (Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute), Peter Slevin (Medill School of Journalism Professor), Juliet Sorensen (Clinical Professor of Law and director and founder of the Northwestern Access to Health Project), and V.S. Subrahmanian (Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow). The discussion was moderated by Northwestern Buffett Executive Director Annelise Riles.  View a recording of the panel below: