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Jimena Almendares is the VP of Global Expansion at Intuit, makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mint. She also serves as the CEO and President of Intuit Payments Inc, a subsidiary that owns the money transmission licenses for money movement across Mint and QuickBooks, and the Executive Sponsor of Intuit’s Latinos Connect employee group. Before joining Intuit, she was the Chief Product Officer at OkCupid and one of two C-level executives heading the company through its IPO as part of the Match Group. Jimena has worked in 16 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, at companies including Meetup, Zynga, Facebook, and Eventbrite. Jimena graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris with a BA and MA in International Business and later received an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A three-time national ice-skating champion, Jimena has lived in eight countries, traveled to 44 and speaks five languages.
This week we are talking about support from space. Satellite support for a disaster response was always thought of as something from the movies. Today it is a reality. We have Stéphane Ourevitch on with us to discuss how emergency managers can access satellites and use the information in response and planning. Guest BioStéphane Ourevitch is the key point of contact for Earth Observation and Security activities. Prior to SpaceTec he has held top management positions at Dassault Electronique and Becker Flugfunkwerke. He mastered the consulting trade at Arsenale Novissimo and International Development Partners, where he led various communication and consulting assignments in the space, aviation, and energy domain. Stéphane has an impressive academic background, holding a Masters in Political Sciences and International Affairs from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and a Masters in Law. Later in his career, he obtained an MBA from INSEAD. Apart from his professional expertise, Stéphane loves to share his vast knowledge of wine.Links LinkedIn: https: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephane-ourevitch-274638/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stiopa59Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourevitch_stp?lang=enWebsite: https://www.spacetec.partners/https://emergency.copernicus.eu/Advertisershttps://www.titanhst.com/
Sydkorea har blivit en stor musik exportör. Dels vinner sydkoreanska instrumentalister den ena internationella tävlingen efter den andra. Dels är k-popen numera en världsomspännande succé. De senaste decennierna har Sydkorea, Kina och Japan varit en tillväxtmarknad för klassiska instrumentalister. Särskilt de senaste åren har sydkoreanska musiker vunnit tävling efter tävling. Men även på publiksidan är öst asiater stora fan av klassisk musik och ibland talas det om att det är asiater som håller intresset för klassisk musik vid liv när publiken i västvärlden blir äldre. I Radiokorrespondenterna medverkar bland andra Lee Hyun Bin som är femton år och spelar klarinett. Artonåriga Jung Yae Jin hoppas också på att få spela i en orkester utomlands, även hon är klarinettist. Professor Kim Nak Gu som undervisar i klarinett på Seokyunguniversitetet i Seoul pratar om föräldrarnas inflytande på barnens musikaliska utbildning. På Seoul Arts High School visar biträdande rektorn Choi Beom Cheol runt och berättar om skolans verksamhet. Stefan Forsberg konserthuschef på Stockholms konserthus ger sin syn på asiaternas betydelse för den klassiska musiken av idag. Det är inte bara inom den klassiska musiken som sydkoreanerna excellerar. Den koreanska popen har blivit mycket populär de senaste åren och världens största band just nu är koreanska BTS. Angelina Foss som är kreativ chef på Zanybros som bland annat producerar musikvideor berättar om k-popens ställning internationellt. Jimmyn Parc är forskningsassistent vid Seouluniversitetet och föreläsare vid Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Han menar att Sydkoreas inställning till globalisering och digitalisering är orsaken till att k-popen blivit så populär och de facto gått om sin företrädare: den japanska popen. Slutligen Gyu Tag Lee som undervisar i antropologi och musik på George Mason universitetet i Seoul förklarar varför musikbranschen attraherar unga sydkoreaner.
Noémie Bouhana is Senior Lecturer in Security and Crime Science at UCL, where she leads the Counter-Terrorism Research Group and convenes the MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism. She holds a BA in Political Studies from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Lyon, an MA in Political Science from Université Jean Moulin Lyon III, and an MPhil and PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Most recently, Noémie led the €2.9M EU FP7 PRIME project, an international, multidisciplinary study on lone actor radicalisation and attack behaviour. At present, she is Principal Investigator of the $1M comparative study "The Social Ecology of Radicalisation", funded by the US DoD Minerva Initiative. She is also a co-Investigator on large grants funded by EU H2020 and CREST. Previous research was funded by DSTL, Home Office OSCT, MOD Counter-Terrorism Science and Technology Centre, EPSRC and NIJ. On the fundamental side, Noémie's work is concerned with the social ecological processes involved in the emergence and maintenance of radicalising settings (the "where" of radicalisation, as opposed to the "why"), the role that these settings play, through mechanisms of selection and exposure, in the development of an individual propensity for terrorism, as well as the mechanisms which underpin individual vulnerability to moral change. On the applied side, she is interested in the development of risk analysis instruments, which go beyond reliance on unstable risk factors and indicators. Her approach to the study of terrorism is informed chiefly by criminological, epidemiological and systemic thinking, which is reflected in the research that most influenced her to date. Research that has influenced Noémie's career Per-Olof H. Wikstrom and Robert J. Sampson (ed.) (2006). The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms and Development. J.M. Mc Gloin, C.J. Sullivan and L.W. Kennedy (eds.) (2011). When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence. Sandro Galea, Matthew Riddle and George A Kaplan (2010). Causal thinking and complex system approaches in epidemiology. Some of Noémie's key research Al-Qaeda-Influenced Radicalisation. With Per-Olof H. Wikstrom (2011) PRIME: A Lone Actor Extremism Risk Analysis Framework. With Amy Thornton, Emily Corner, Stefan Malthaner, Lasse Lindekilde, Bart Schuurman and Gali Perry (2017) Preventing Radicalization in the UK: Expanding the Knowledge-Base on the Channel Programme. With Amy Thornton (2017)
In a bizarre celebration of International Women's Day, hosts Winslow Robertson and Dr. Nkemjika Kalu explore what it means to be an Asian women in an African country. This week, we had three guests share their experiences as Asian women scholars who do on-the-ground research in Africa: Prof. Yoon Jung Park, convener/coordinator of the (world-famous) Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network, who is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University with affiliations as Senior Research Associate of the Sociology Department at Rhodes University; Solange Guo Chatelard, a PhD candidate at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and an associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany, whose work studying Chinese communities in Zambia got her a job a production assistant in the film "When China Met Africa"; and Vivian Lu, a PhD student at Stanford University's Department of Anthropology looking at economic networks linking African merchants to production and trade sites of everyday goods in Asia and Africa. Lucky us!
Podcasts from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
A book talk with author JOHN AGNEW, UCLA Geography, and discussant MARC LAZAR, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris