Collaborative Public Events

Sports Webinars

SPORTS DIPLOMACY

A U.S. Embassy webinar on “Sports

Diplomacy: Exploring the Role of Sports in Developing International Relations,”

was moderated by one of the 2020-2021 CIRS interns, Khansa Maria (SFS’21). The webinar featured guest lecturers:

• Danyel Reiche, GU-Q • Craig LaMay, NU-Q • Amal Mohammed Saleh, Qatar National

Basketball Team • Kathleen Bates, Qatar Foundation

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Annual Report 2020-2021 •

Georgetown University in Qatar

FROM QATAR 2022 TO THE AMERICAS 2026

A webinar titled “From Qatar 2022 to the

Americas 2026: Creating Connections and Opportunities between FIFA World Cup

Tournaments” was held in collaboration with the U.S.-Qatar Business Council.

The research we are doing on Qatar’s role as host will be beneficial for future work on the intersection of global sporting events and society.

—Danyel Reiche

The talk featured GU-Q’s Danyel Reiche and Simon Chadwick, the Director of Eurasian Sport at Emlyon Business School.

WATCH THE LECTURE Webinars on Development

COLLABORATIVE EVENTS WITH EDUCATION ABOVE ALL (EAA)

Jason Foley, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for the Middle East at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), shared his experience and insight with GU-Q students and Education Above All (EAA) Foundation staff on “Development and

Diplomacy in the International Arena.”

The partnership between GU-Q as a provider of foreign service education and Education Above All, as a leading global development foundation focusing on education, has productively illustrated how synergies across multiple sectors can positively result in desirable tangible outcomes.

— Fahad Al Sulaiti, CEO, Education Above All

GU-Q and EAA also collaborated with Joe Cerrell, the Managing Director of Global Policy and Advocacy for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to discuss

“Working Together During COVID-19: A Global Approach to Development.”

The webinar highlighted the challenges to human development initiatives posed by climate change, conflict, and a global pandemic.

U.S. Election Panel Discussions

OUTCOMES AND IMPLICATIONS IN AN ERA OF UNCERTAINTY

A panel discussion on “U.S. Election

2020: Outcomes and Implications in an

Era of Uncertainty” featured government and policy experts and GU-Q professors including Clyde Wilcox, Trish Kahle, Amanda Garett, and Anatol Lieven giving a critical examination of key election issues impacting America and the world, and offering possible outcomes and their implications.

THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

After the inauguration in January, a second panel discussion on “The U.S. Presidential

Election and the Future of American

Democracy” was hosted and featured further insights from the same faculty members who spoke at the pre-election event.