Building on more than 30 years of experience as general counsel for leading global financial institutions and as a regulator in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Ari Gabinet is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute and a legal expert in residence at Brown University. Watson recently spoke with Gabinet about his career and his experience teaching Brown students.

Nitsan Chorev is the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International & Public Affairs and is currently the director of the Graduate Program in Development. Chorev is the author of three books, the most recent of which, Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa, was published by Princeton University Press in early 2020. 

Catherine Lutz, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of International Studies and Brown University Professor of Anthropology, co-edited War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the War in Iraq and Afghanistan, which was published by New York University Press in November 2019, with Andrea Mazzarino, who co-founded Brown University’s Costs of War Project with Lutz and Dr. Neta Crawford of Boston University.

Tyler Jost focuses his research on international security and Chinese foreign policy. After earning his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University, he held post-doctoral fellowships with the Belfer Center International Security Program and Harvard-Columbia China and the World Program. Jost previously served as an officer in the U.S. Army. 

Hosted by James N. Green, the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History and director of Brown’s Brazil Initiative at the Watson Institute, a new podcast, Brazil Unfiltered, goes beyond Brazil’s headlines to deconstruct the impact of President Jair Bolsonaro, whose radically conservative policies are dramatically impacting Brazil.