An evening with Garry Kasparov and Ken Rogoff - SOLD OUT
Power and Principles from Moscow to Silicon Valley: An evening with Garry Kasparov and Ken Rogoff
The Harvard Club of the UK has been given a very limited number of tickets to hear Garry Kasparov in conversation with Ken Rogoff
Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30
The Howard Hall, JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET
Tickets are priced at £25. All proceeds will go directly to the Harvard Club of the UK's Outreach Activities.
HCUK Members only
Power and Principles from Moscow to Silicon Valley: An evening with Garry Kasparov and Ken Rogoff
Garry Kasparov is a world chess champion, an acclaimed speaker and author on decision-making and technology and a passionate advocate for human rights, especially in his native Russia. He will be interviewed by Harvard’s Ken Rogoff, former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and himself a chess Grandmaster. Did chess prepare them for their later vocations?
Their conversation will follow Kasparov’s fascinating trajectory from a Soviet-bred chess champion to an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and an important thinker on human-machine collaboration and the principles of individual liberty.
Kasparov and Rogoff will delve into the true nature of Putin’s Russia and what it means for the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. Does the free world have a moral or pragmatic obligation to stand up to the Russian strongman? What does the answer to this question mean for the European Union?
Many of Kasparov’s recent writings and lectures have centered on what he calls a value shift away from risk and exploration in the world’s richest nations in recent decades, especially the U.S. He and Rogoff discuss what it means for the world when leading institutions are too big to fail and China becomes the world’s largest economy.