Michael Gritzbach is an MPA student at Harvard and an elected member of the Kennedy School Student Government. In this interview, he explains why the student government at Harvard is so important right now, what the current situation is for international students there and what he thinks of the current US government's accusation that Harvard's university management has not taken sufficient action against anti-semitic protests on campus.
Dr Angelo Vito Panaro is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is involved in the “Academic Freedom Index” (AFI) research project which measures and compares academic freedom worldwide once a year. In this interview, he explains how the negative trend in Germany’s AFI values is to be understood, why there are so much more countries with declining than increasing AFI values and what can be learned from the developments in Argentina, Poland and the United States.
Anuja Desai is a Senior Soft Power Analyst at the British Council. She oversees the British Council’s commissioned research on soft power in relation to development, peace, and security. In this interview, we talk to her about the concerns, needs and hopes of young people…
