“The Devil Is in the Details”: Hal Brands on Reforming American Grand Strategy
The Trump Administration’s policies have had global ramifications for America’s place in preserving stability and peace. For many, these policies are destructiv...
Category: Interviews
“China is Learning Super Fast:” Economist Zhiguo He on U.S.–China Financial Ties, Tariffs, and the Future of Global Markets
Zhiguo He is a Chinese economist and James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before joining the Stanford faculty, h...
“We are in Uncharted History:” Liqian Ren on China’s Economy, DeepSeek, and US-China Relations
This transcript is from an interview conducted on March 9, 2025, in partnership with the Brown China Summit (BCS). Founded in 2014, the Brown China Summit is Br...
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...
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...