The Fletcher Forum Podcast

In this first episode, our host Sarthak Satapathy talks about contact tracing apps from the lens of privacy, equity, and efficacy with cybersecurity expert, Dr. Susan Landau.

Zubair Torwali is a community activist, linguist and educator based in Bahrain, Pakistan who has sought to preserve and promote Pakistan's Dardic cultures and languages. He has authored and supervised a number of books in and about Torwali. In this episode, he speaks with Elizabeth Dykstra-McCarthy about hydropower development in the Swat valley, its impact on the indigenous Torwali people and how the local community have responded to it.

Jonathan Regnier interviews Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church and Diana Chigas, the co-directors of Corruption Justice and Legitimacy Program (CJL) to discuss why anti-corruption programming needs to engage with social norms and what CJL is currently doing to shift social norms from the periphery to a central component of corruption analysis and anti-corruption strategy.

Dr. Courtney J. Fung is an assistant professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong, and holds a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School where she was awarded the Peter Ackerman Dissertation Prize for her doctoral thesis. In this podcast, we discuss her latest book, China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status, where she explains the effects of status on China's varied response to intervention and foreign-imposed regime change at the United Nations.

As a Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting, Paul Magill is an expert in growth strategy, marketing, and digital transformation. He recently came by Fletcher to discuss their latest research on organic growth and discuss the implications -- for companies, as well as for individuals planning their future careers. Listen to learn about these findings!

Following his talk at Fletcher, Sam Dagher spoke with Elizabeth Dykstra McCarthy to dive deeper into his book, "Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria." The discussion covers the makings of the Assad family as well as their intrigues and their inner workings. Dagher was a senior correspondent focused on Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and has worked in the Middle East for more than 12 years.

Want to know what Fletcher's new Dean thinks about the school's future? Well, listen to her in-depth and wide-ranging conversation with Shawn Ghuman exploring her vision for this important institution. In this podcast, you'll hear why she decided to make Fletcher a part of her career story and what changes she hopes to bring to the school in the coming years.

The Fletcher Forum's Shawn Ghuman sat down with Carla Martinez and Ellysse Dick to discuss the Edward R. Murrow Center's first annual conference on new media and democracy, "The Future of Democracy in the Age of Disinformation: Innovating Policy Solutions for a Networked World." The upcoming event will explore the shifting landscape of public diplomacy, cybersecurity and civic engagement in the digital age, from potential private sector solutions to disinformation to online threats overshadowing democracies around the world.

Shawn Ghuman sat down with Kaiser Kuo, Co-Founder of the Sinica Podcast, Editor-at-Large of SupChina, and was a founder of China's first heavy metal band, Tang Dynasty, during his time in town for a panel on "The Digital Silk Road: Spreading the Chinese Internet Control Model." In this podcast, we discuss with Kaiser how he went from being a rock musician to being a preeminent pundit on U.S.-China relations and his thoughts on key issues related to China as a hegemonic power in the 21stcentury.

Senior Web Editor for the Fletcher Forum Markian Kuzmowycz has a conversation with Meredith Sumpter, Research, Strategy, and Operations Head at Eurasia Group and Zoltan Feher, co-chair of the Fletcher Political Risk Group. Sumpter was the keynote speaker at the Fletcher Political Risk Conference in March 2019, discussing the changes in political power dynamics. Her experience of fifteen years has made her a leading strategic thinker in the fields of foreign policy and global business.