Laura Chapman Rubbo, director of Global Public Policy for the Walt Disney Company, will receive the 2020 McLane Leadership in Business Award on Sept. 15. The award will be presented by the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Presented annually, the award […]
Tag: Mosbacher Events
Education Policy Workshop Highlights Research on Targeted Education Supports
On March 3, 2020, Dr. Thomas Dee, Professor of Education at Stanford University, presented an Education Policy Workshop titled “My Brother’s Keeper? The Effects of Targeted Education Supports” at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library. In his talk, Dr. Dee argued that targeted educational programs can have an impact on the educational achievement of […]
Bush School Speaker Urges New Approach to Development
On February 19, 2020, Dr. Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group, gave a talk titled “Now for the Hard Part: Alternative Paths to Building State Capability for Policy Implementation.” The event was hosted by the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government […]
[POSTPONED EVENT] – Former Congressional Budget Office Director to Give an Economic Outlook
NOTE: Following Texas A&M University and Bush School of Government and Public Service guidelines for social distancing we are canceling all of our spring Mosbacher Institute events and working on rescheduling. Our March 26 event on “Boom or Bust” with Douglas Holtz-Eakin has been postponed until Wednesday, November 18, 2020. More information on this event […]
UK Minister of State for International Trade Spoke to Bush School Students
On February 6, 2020, the Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy hosted a talk by Right Honorable Conor Burns MP, the current Minister of State for International Trade of the United Kingdom. He spoke to the Bush School about the importance of US-UK trade, […]
Reimagining Globalization Event at the Bush School
International economist Dani Rodrik of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will speak at the Bush School of Government and Public Service about reconciling today’s negative globalization trends. Rodrik objects to public commentary that fixates on advancing or reversing globalization and maintains that our task is to redesign globalization so that it better […]
Head of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Visits the Bush School
On October 30, 2019, David Bohigian, Head of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and Robert Mosbacher, former Head of OPIC, discussed the role of the United States in supporting development and foreign policy goals through economic investment as a part of the Mosbacher Institute’s Conversations in Public Policy series. Mosbacher and Bohigian started by […]
Head of Overseas Private Investment Corporation to Speak at Texas A&M
David Bohigian of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) will speak at the Bush School of Government and Public Service about his efforts to launch a new government agency, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), that modernizes OPIC. The new agency will help increase private sector investment in the developing world and enable the […]
World Bank Economist Speaks to Bush School About Need for Middle East Reforms
On Thursday, September 19, Dr. Daniel Lederman, Deputy Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the World Bank, gave a lecture titled “Why Reforms are Unavoidable in the Middle East and North Africa.” The lunch talk was hosted by Dr. Raymond Robertson and the Mosbacher Institute for Trade Economics and […]
Rep. Will Hurd To Discuss Immigration Policy At Texas A&M
United States Congressman Will Hurd will discuss “Immigration Policy Challenges Facing Congress” Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. The event is an installment of the Conversations in Public Policy series hosted by the Bush School of Government & Public Service’s Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at Texas A&M […]
