April 26, 2021
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The John Brademas Center and NYU Washington, DC hosted a DC Dialogues, “Prioritizing Biodiversity and Green Energy: A Conversation with President of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado” on April 26, 2021 at 12 pm ET (10 am in Costa Rica). Claudia S. de Windt, environmental expert and CEO of Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability (IIJS) joined the discussion as a special guest speaker. Geovanny Vicente-Romero, Writer, Founder, Dominican Republic Center of Public Policy, Leadership and Development (CPDL-RD), and Columnist for CNN moderated the event. Christina Bowllan, NYU Shanghai undergraduate, provided the opening remarks and introduced the panel.
President Alvarado shared his country’s journey and global vision for multilateral approaches to environmental policy. Named “Champion of the Earth for Policy Leadership” by the United Nations, Costa Rica offers the world an example on how to balance development and the environment. Given the focus of U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on sustainability and climate change, this important conversation educated our dynamic community about Costa Rica’s best practices.
Carlos Alvarado took office as the President of Costa Rica on May 8, 2018. At 38, he is Latin America’s youngest president. Previously, President Alvarado served as Minister of Labor and Social Security and faces an urgent need for economic reform to address the country’s fiscal imbalance, an ambitious environmental agenda, challenging trends in security, and an increasingly complex regional and international context. His cabinet of ministers includes well-respected figures from diverse political parties with public sector experience. Costa Rica’s current cabinet is also the first to have a female majority. As another important first, Costa Rican Vice President Epsy Campbell is the first black woman to hold this position in the Americas.
Join us in traveling to an important part of the world for a wide-ranging talk with President Alvarado.
Follow this event on Twitter using the hashtag #DCDialogues and @NYUWashingtonDC / @BrademasCenter
Opening Remarks
Christina Bowllan
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Christina Bowllan is a junior from NYU Shanghai majoring in Political Science with a minor in Chinese language. She is from New York City, New York.
Christina Bowllan is a junior from NYU Shanghai majoring in Political Science with a minor in Chinese language. This spring semester, Christina is based at NYU’s Washington, DC site as a participant in the Global Leadership Program, where she serves on the Executive Board of DC Dialogues, a student-engaged initiative created to introduce the NYU DC community to key discussions on politics, culture, business, environment, education, and more. Christina’s studies in China and travels across Asia sparked her interest in U.S.-China relations, diplomatic initiatives, and journalism. She currently interns in the office of the Director of Culture as Diplomacy at the Asia Society. Her in-depth research on governmental, public and cultural diplomacy led to her creation of a virtual cooking competition, “Breaking Bread,” that promotes a new form of virtual diplomacy allowing diverse collaborators to come together around a universal interest: food. For the same project, she moderated a conversation through DC Dialogues on the topic of diplomacy within the virtual realm.
Christina aspires to pursue a career in journalism and will intern with the CNN New York News Bureau in the summer of 2021. When Christina is not busy moderating events or learning how to edit videos, she is running a self-started online Chinese tutoring business, which teaches children ages 3-15 about Chinese culture, language and geography.
Este es el mejor blog del mundo. Muchas gracias Dr. Geovanny Vicente-Romero por sus contribuciones a la democracia de nuestra America Latina.
Muchas gracias por tu comentario estimado Luis. La verdad es que ha sido un placer tener esta charla con el Presidente Carlos Alvarado Quesada y la experta Claudia S. de Windt.
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