All About UNGA79 | Richard Gowan and Anjali Dayal
Today's episode is a crossover with our sister podcast To Save Us From Hell, a weekly chat show about the UN. I'm joined by co-host Anjali Dayal, who is an international relations professor at Fordham...
25 Sep 202431min
These Stories Will Drive the Agenda at the United Nations | UNGA79 Preview
UNGA week is here! Hundreds of world leaders are gathering in New York for the opening of the 79th United Nations General Assembly. This is always one of the most important moments in international di...
22 Sep 202426min
The Geopolitics of Global Trade | Pascal Lamy
I caught up with my guest today, Pascal Lamy, on the sidelines of the World Trade Organization's Public Forum. Pascal Lamy is a former Director-General of the WTO and the current Vice Chair of the Par...
19 Sep 202428min
Why Decoupling Between the US and China is a Global Problem (With a Global Solution) | Live from the World Trade Organization
Today's episode was recorded live at the World Trade Organization's headquarters in Geneva. The live taping coincided with the WTO's "Public Forum," a week-long gathering of civil society at the WTO's...
16 Sep 202434min
How the UN in Geneva Shapes Our World | US Ambassador Bathsheba Crocker
While in Geneva, I paid a visit to the U.S. Permanent Mission to interview Ambassador Bathsheba Crocker. She is the top U.S. official in Geneva, representing the United States at the many United Natio...
12 Sep 202421min
How to Get Expensive Gene Therapy to the Places Where It's Needed Most
Gene therapy is effective against many diseases and even has the potential to address enduring global health challenges like HIV. However, gene therapy as it currently exists is astronomically expensi...
9 Sep 202418min
How the International Federation of the Red Cross is Using Innovative Financing to Fund Disaster Response and Preparedness
If you are a regular listener to the podcast and reader of our associated Global Dispatches newsletter, you know that I believe one of the most important issues in the world today is the growing gap b...
5 Sep 202426min
What Happened at the Recent Sudan Peace Talks
In mid-August, the United States and Switzerland hosted peace talks for Sudan's warring parties. The talks took place outside Geneva at a time when the conflict was exacting a massive toll on the civi...
2 Sep 202428min
