The CHIPS and Science Act has catalyzed more than $500 billion in planned semiconductor investment, with its design and implementation spanning three presidential administrations. In this seminar, Mike Schmidt — founding Director of the CHIPS Program Office — shares lessons from inside the process: how industrial policy is…
M.S. Chadha Center for Global India's opening seminar features a panel discussion on US-India trade and tariff futures.Starting August 27, 2025, Indian exports (with some exceptions) have to pay a flat 50 percent tariff to enter the U.S. market. How did this situation come to be? What are the economic and geopolitical…
Best-selling author, prize-winning journalist and New York Times corresponding opinion writer Michael Grunwald will discuss how to feed the world without frying it and how to fill nearly 10 billion bellies by 2050 without tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. Telling the stories and lessons from his rollicking…
On June 3, 2025, the Gulf Research Center (GRC) and the Afghanistan Policy Lab at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs co-hosted a closed-door webinar titled “Rethinking Afghanistan-Gulf Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape.” The session brought together experts and policymakers to examine…
What does the current Trump administration (Trump 2.0) mean for India? Join us for an insightful panel discussion on the evolving dynamics between the United States and India under Trump 2.0. This panel will examine the potential implications of recently proposed U.S. tariffs on India’s economic growth, trade relations, and…
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Seventy-five years after Independence, India has much to be proud of and is both the world’s biggest democracy and the fastest-growing large economy. Yet, it also faces profound challenges that hinder both individual well-being and aggregate growth, including education and skills, health and nutrition, public safety, justice,…
Amir Lebdioui is the director of the Technology and Industrialisation for Development (TIDE) Centre at the University of Oxford. He is also an Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the Oxford Department of International Development. Before joining Oxford, Amir was based at SOAS, University of London,…
