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Joint Alumni Club Speaker Luncheon

Tue, 08 Jul

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The Hong Kong Club, 1/F Harcourt Suite

The Future of Global Development and Prosperity: A Discussion with Harvard Center for International Development Leadership

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Time & Location

08 Jul 2025, 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm

The Hong Kong Club, 1/F Harcourt Suite, 1 Jackson Rd, Central, Hong Kong

About the event

Jointly Organized by the Hong Kong Alumni Clubs of Yale, Harvard Business School, MIT, Harvard, Cornell and Princeton.


Fee (includes lunch): Member HK$550/pax, Guest HK$650/pax


Registration: https://forms.gle/5uq2sWiYk8dBz9hMA

Dress Code: Business Casual (no: blue denim, t-shirts, track suits, shorts, shoes for sports activities, and flip-flops)


Join Professors Asim I. Khwaja, Director of the Harvard Center for International Development (CID), and Fatema Z. Sumar, CID Executive Director, for an engaging conversation on how to close the global "potential gap"—the space between where people are and where they could be if given the right tools and opportunities. They’ll share CID’s vision for building a thriving world for all by translating rigorous research into practical solutions that work for communities, governments, and global systems. From collaborating with policymakers to leveraging talent and data, CID is pioneering a new model of development rooted in human potential, not just poverty metrics.


What if development wasn’t just…


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