Stanford King Center on Global Development

??? Join us for the Future of Work for Women Summit! We’re excited to invite you to the Future of Work for Women Summit, focused on women in the #DigitalEconomy in #SouthAsia. ?? ? With a stellar lineup of presenters, we'll hear from keynote speakers Smriti Irani and Rohini Pande. This event will bring together business leaders, researchers, policymakers, philanthropists, and nonprofit pioneers to shape the future of women’s work across sectors. ?? Date: Friday, April 18, 2025 ? Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PT ?? Location: Stanford University Hosted by Stanford King Center on Global Development, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Myna Mahila Foundation, we will explore solutions to expand women's participation in the digital workforce. This summit is part of the Future of Work for Women Initiative, which aims to support 100 million more women in joining the workforce in low- and middle-income countries.♀? ? ?? Apply to attend to be part of this important conversation! Spots are limited: https://bit.ly/4iAJ7rP ? Future of Work for Women Summit is proud to highlight:, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Susan Athey, Zubaida Bai, Nick Bloom, Valentina Brailovskaya, Lakshmanan Chidambaram, Steve Davis, Tanvi Divate, Hannah Erickson, Shalini Govil-Pai, Pooja Sharma Goyal, Perry Hewitt, Lisa Ho, Smriti Irani, Suhani Jalota, Dr.Shraddha Kale Kapile, Prajna Khanna, Temina Madon, Ritu Narayan, Rohini Pande, Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Kirthiga Reddy, Miriam Rivera, Amrita Sarna, Radhika Shah, Sakshi Shah, LCSW, Anshul Tewari, Alessandra Voena We look forward to seeing you there! #FutureOfWork #WomenInDigitalEconomy #Leadership #Stanford #GenderEquity #EconomicEmpowerment

?? Millions of people around the world rely on ocean sand for stable coastlines, livelihoods, and cultural heritage. Yet, scientists have found that nearly half of all dredge operators extract sand from protected areas, putting fragile ecosystems and coastal communities at risk. How can we better manage this essential resource? “Left unchecked, sand extraction poses a significant threat to conservation,” said Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, a Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and affiliated researcher at the King Center. #Sustainability #OceanConservation #CoastalResilience Read the latest research by Jouffray and colleagues: ??

Stanford Grad Students - Don’t Miss This! Join us for Research Roadmap: Things They Don't Teach You in Grad School featuring Kristen Averyt, Stanford PhD alum & Nobel Prize-winning team member! Averyt, a leader in climate & policy, now shaping the scientific agenda at the American Geophysical Union, will share career lessons on: ?? Communication & leadership ?? Managing failure & resilience ?? The power of kindness in research & beyond ?? Wednesday, April 2, 2025 ?? 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ?? Register now: https://lnkd.in/gV-XaaRz (You can attend virtually too - but you'll miss lunch ??) Don’t miss this chance to gain career insights from a trailblazing alum & Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s 2024 Early- to Mid-Career Alumni Award recipient! ?? #StanfordGrad?#ResearchRoadmap?#CareerLessons?#Leadership?#ClimatePolicy?#PhDLife?#StanfordSustainability

?? Calling all Stanford students! ?? Share your multidisciplinary research and scholarship at the 2025 Global Development Research Symposium! From undergraduates to postdocs, we want to see your work on pressing global issues. ??? ?? Topics include: Climate Adaptation Gender Equality Urbanization Trends Food Security Youth Employment Global Health Migration Policies Education Access And so much more! ?? Application deadline: Wednesday, March 26 ? Apply now: https://lnkd.in/gsqb-v2G (Templates are available to help design your poster!) ?? Review the guidelines: https://bit.ly/4iiHNKa Symposium date: Friday, April 25, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT The Global Development Research Symposium is a celebration of student creativity, achievement, and research from all disciplines across Stanford. ?? This event will showcase work from undergraduates, grad students, and postdocs, including those supported by the King Center. Plus, don't miss the keynote by Manu Prakash, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and faculty lead of the Prakash Lab. A huge thanks to Stanford VPUE and Stanford VPGE for their support! ?? ?? Apply now and be part of something amazing! #GlobalDevelopment #ResearchSymposium #StanfordResearch #Innovation #Sustainability #StudentResearch #Stanford

? The center’s full-time summer fellowship program matches undergrads with Stanford faculty to explore everything from Indonesian seaweed farming to machine learning. The fellowship helps young scholars learn about new fields and opportunities. ?? Kaylee Shen, a King Center summer research fellow says, “(the experience) opened me up to the whole world of global development” and also to the world of academic research. ?? Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gPxjbzx5

?? Two outstanding fellowship opportunities for undergrads! Deadlines approaching fast - spread the word! ? Summer Full-Time Undergraduate Research Fellow Program: Spend up to 12 weeks in a low- or middle-income country conducting full-time research for a King Center Faculty Affiliate. Each research fellow receives a stipend that covers most associated costs including travel, lodging, financial aid and incidental expenses. Applications close Sun, Mar. 9, 2025 ? Academic Year Part-Time Undergraduate Research Fellow Program: Engage in world-class research with King Center faculty affiliates and affiliated researchers, and have real-world impact. Undergraduate student research fellows are paid $19/hour for 8-10 hours per week. Applications close Sun, Mar. 16, 2025 ?? Learn what our fellows have to say about their experiences last summer: https://lnkd.in/gT7Q2utE ? Apply now: https://lnkd.in/gM2rY8ig

?? A sustainable solution to period poverty using the untapped potential of Agave sisalana (sisal)? Join us for our Food for Thought: Agave Fibers from Plant to Pad on Tuesday, February 25, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM. Kenyan entrepreneur and innovator, Alex Odundo, will share his plant fiber research in collaboration with the Prakash Lab (Stanford University, BioEngineering) - a sustainable solution to period poverty by harnessing the untapped potential of Agave, a drought-resistant plant native to Kenya. Their partnership focuses on developing innovative tools and methods to transform sisal fibers into absorbent, biodegradable fluff for use in sanitary pads. RSVP now: https://lnkd.in/d2qn3z2T #globaldevelopment #periodpoverty #sustainable #agave #kenya

The King Center’s academic visitors program hosts faculty and researchers from institutions around the world, facilitating collaboration on global development projects with Stanford scholars and students. During their stay, visitors participate in seminar series and workshops across campus, as well as disseminate their work through the King Center’s Working Paper Series. They are also invited to engage with the policy and business communities during events held at the King Center. Visitors are provided with office space and have many opportunities for intellectual exchange with King Center faculty affiliates and the broader Stanford research community. A visitor's time spent at the King Center is intended to expand his or her network of collaborators and mentors and to generate innovative research that can lead to real-world impact on global poverty. Learn more and apply ?? https://lnkd.in/gDZviQbW

Stanford researchers recently co-launched first global database on refugee policies. The Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies (DWRAP) offers unprecedented insights into dynamics around forced displacement. Foundational research on asylum policy was led by Immigration Policy Lab researchers Christopher Blair Princeton University, Guy Grossman University of Pennsylvania, and Jeremy Weinstein Harvard University (formerly IPL faculty director at Stanford University). The King Center on Global Development invested in project management and staffing at Migration and Development Initiative, which served as a driving force in documenting asylum and refugee policies for this project. A team of over 100 undergraduate students, including over 35 at Stanford, helped with policy coding for the dataset. The Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement helped expand the dataset to global coverage and developed the final product into an interactive web tool. Both the dataset and the web tool are now hosted by the The World Bank. DWRAP codifies policies across 14 dimensions, enabling users to explore topics such as border control, legal access, healthcare, employment rights, and political participation. The database nearly doubles existing policy data, and covers all countries in the world, including low- and middle-income countries, which host 75 percent of the world’s refugees and other people in need of international protection. It provides the most comprehensive global data resource on refugee and asylum policies. Check out the database: https://lnkd.in/gUvkF38W

Paying landowners to conserve their forested land is a leading approach to prevent deforestation. Former King Center visitors Seema Jayachandran and Santiago Saavedra Pineda bring us evidence from #Mexico showing that smarter contract design can more than quadruple cost-effectiveness, helping the world achieve more conservation even without increased funding.