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Facilitated by Kroc IPJ Executive Director Andrew Blum, the Q&A session following the lecture includes Cecilia Farfán Méndez, Head of Security Research Programs at UC San Diego’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies.
Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy, where he coleads the Development Economics Center and directs the Obama Foundation Scholars program. His work on violence, crime, and poverty has been widely covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, Slate, Vox, and NPR.
