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Valerie Jarrett is the CEO of The Obama Foundation & was the Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama from 2009-2017. Jarrett is Board Chairman of Civic Nation. She serves on the boards of Walgreens Boot Alliance, Inc., Ralph Lauren Corporation, Sweetgreen, Inc., Ariel Investments, The University of Chicago, & the Sesame Street Workshop. Jarrett also serves on the Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women Advisory Board, the Bank of America Enterprise Executive Development Council, and the Microsoft Advisory Council.

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Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services

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Window on Williams

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Lectures & Forums

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. Duflo and 2 colleagues received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for developing a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty. It involves dividing this issue into smaller, more manageable, questions.

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Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services

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Window on Williams

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Lectures & Forums