CNN Producer Nimi Princewell Discusses the Conflict in the DRC
This transcript comes from a written interview conducted in February 2025 with Nimi Princewill. Nimi Princewill is a news producer with CNN based in Abuja, Nige...
Category: Interviews
Oxfam International Country Director and Human Rights Advocate Fausto Belo Ximenes Discusses Peace Building and International Development
In December, the YRIS Interviews and Events Team sat down for an interview with Fausto Belo Ximenes, a member of the 2024 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Pro...
Affinity Africa Founder and CEO Tarek Mouganie Discusses the Important Impact of Banking on Socioeconomic Development in Africa
As part of a series of conversations with the 2024 Class of the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program, Abla Abdulkadir, Sarah Jeddy, and Owen Haywood of th...
“Follow events. Write. Get your voices to be known.” 2024 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow Babra Bhebe on How to Make an Impact on the Future of Democracy.
Last month, the YRIS Interview and Events Team sat down with Babra Ontibile Bhebe, a member of the 2024 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program. A native Zim...
‘Today’s world will not be a repeat of the Cold War:’ Professor Odd Arne Westad on the Evolution of Geopolitics
Odd Arne Westad is a Norwegian scholar of modern international and global history, with a specialization in the history of Eastern Asia since the 18th century. ...
‘Massive shared territory:’ Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn on Chinese and Appalachian folk music
Abigail Washburn is a GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter and clawhammer banjo player. Chinese musical prodigy Wu Fei is master of the guzheng, the ancient...
‘By not speaking out, you become complicit:’ Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter on energy and corruption in South Africa
André Marinus de Ruyter is a South African businessman who in December 2019 was appointed CEO of Eskom, South Africa’s largest state-owned electricity com...
‘Two things can be true at once:’ Leora Eisenberg on the importance of exploring Central Asian dance and music
Leora Eisenberg entered Harvard University’s Ph.D. program in fall 2021 and is studying Central Asian Soviet history. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa ...
‘Some elected officials are more afraid of Trump’s anger than they are of Putin:’ Governor Howard Dean on global democratic backsliding and state-building
Howard Brush Dean III is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 t...
YIRA World Fellows Panel 2023: TRANSCRIPT
Each year, the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs selects a group of 16 extraordinary leaders from across the world to spend four months in residence at Yale...