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MICHAEL DUKAKIS LEADERSHIP FELLOW PROGRAM

Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program (MDLP) is initiated and fully funded by the Boston Global Forum. It is named after its Chairman and Co-Founder, the former Massachusetts Governor, Professor Michael Dukakis, who has devoted his life to the promotion of peace and democracy over the world.

The Fellowship program is established in an effort to recognize rising stars and future world leaders in different professional fields, and to engage them into promoting global peace and security. It also aims to enhance their leadership competency and integrity through motivating their solutions to global problems, providing opportunity for their self-development, and facilitating dialogues among these young leaders and high-profile figures as well as world-leading policymakers.

After one year of demonstrating leadership under the MDLF fellowship action plan, those bold and innovative fellows whose objectives are achieved will officially be approved as Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows. These fellows must contribute to promote the values of MDLF program and to create a significant impact in the areas of their expertise under the MDLF Action Plans.

MICHAEL DUKAKIS LEADERSHIP FELLOW PROGRAM TO SEEK FOR CANDIDATES

Photo: Governor Michael Dukakis (in the middle) in a Boston Global Forum’s conference discussing about solutions to conflicts in the Pacific in 2014.

(March 4, 2015) – Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program is now officially calling for candidates who are leaders or specialists from around the world and at or younger than 40 years old. We are specially interested in those who have shown aptitude, interest, and pursuit of promoting global peace and security. Applications are accepted until May 30, 2015 and only 4 successful candidates will be announced.

The Fellowship program is established as an effort of the Boston Global Forum to engage the youth leaders to further the Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific, which has recently been released in February 2015 after a series of international online conferences.

The Program provides ten months and related professional experiences in the areas of international relations and cyber security. For the 2015-2016 Program, Fellows will implement their proposed action-oriented plan, work with leaders of Boston Global Forum and high-profile figures of Harvard and MIT, as well as leaders in media, politics, and international relations. Fellows will participate in various events and activities associated with the Young Leader Network to monitor peace and generate solutions to conflicts in the Pacific. They will also work with Boston Global Forum to anticipate cyber terrorism issues, which is the focus issue of the Forum in 2015-2016.

The Program aims to enrich the fellows’ leadership competency and integrity in initiating solutions to global problems; engage youth in promotion of peace and security of the world; provide opportunities for self development; and facilitate a dialogue among youth leaders with high-profile figures and policymakers from many nations.

To be eligible, applicants must be 40 or younger, have extraordinary leadership achievement, be currently active in their professional field and produce a one year action plan to contribute to a peaceful and secure world.

Applications are encouraged to send a CV detailing their achievements and an action plan promoting peace and security, and should be submitted to [email protected]

About the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program

The Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program is initiated and fully funded by the Boston Global Forum, and is named after its Chairman and Co-Founder, the former Massachusetts Governor, Professor Michael Dukakis.Governor Dukakis has devoted his life to the promotion of peace and democracy around the world. Governor Dukakis and his fellows Professor Thomas Patterson, Professor John Quelch, and Nguyen Anh Tuan founded Boston Global Forum in 2012 with the aim of identifying the most impactful issues facing the world and providing practical and meaningful solutions to these problems. Governor Dukakis and Harvard Professor Joseph Nye, a member of the Boston Global Forum Board of Thinkers, led several international conferences to build a Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific in 2014. The Fellowship program is established as an effort to engage youth leaders to further the Framework and to enrich their leadership capability and integrity in order to improve global peace and security.

BOSTON GLOBAL FORUM NAMES FOUR TO THE MICHAEL DUKAKIS LEADERSHIP FELLOW PROGRAM

(July 1, 2015) – The Boston Global Forum selection committee has named four successful candidates to the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program. The Fellows will engage in a year-long program, starting in September, to promote Global Peace and Security.

The Fellows will focus on real-life solutions to conflict in the Pacific, cyber warfare and terrorism, and other modern-day threats to global peace.

The new Fellows are:

Bill Ottman, founder and CEO of Minds.com – a free, open-source and encrypted social networking platform and mobile app, which has opened up a new wave of social media;

Roya Mahboob, CEO of the Afghan Citadel Software Company, a full-service software development company in Afghanistan, and TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In The World for 2013;

Shubhranshu Choudhary, a Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Leading Thinkers of 2014, and founder of CGNet Swara – an Indian mobile phone service that allows citizens to upload and listen to local reports in their own dialect without a smartphone or an internet connection; and,

Nguyen Thi Chau Giang, a celebrated pianist and artist, and cultural activist who leads the humanitarian mission of her organization, International Friends for Vietnam in America, whose goal is to develop musical talents in her homeland.

The Fellowship program, named for former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and chairman of Boston Global Forum, was established to engage young leaders in the promotion of global peace and security.

During the 2015-2016 Program, Fellows will develop and advance an action-oriented plan for peace and security by working with leaders of Boston Global Forum, high-profile scholars with Harvard and MIT, and other media, government, and international relations leaders.

The Fellows will participate in events and symposia associated with Boston Global Forum’s Young Leader Network for Peace and Security. As part of their role, the Fellows will promote adoption of a universal Ethics Code of Conduct for Cyber Peace and Security.

The Fellowship Program aims to enrich the Fellows’ leadership capability by initiating solutions to global problems; engaging youth in the promotion of peace and security in the world; providing opportunities for self-development, and facilitating a dialogue among high-profile young leaders and policymakers from several nations.

About the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program

The Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program was initiated and is fully funded by the Boston Global Forum. Governor Dukakis, who has devoted his life to the promotion of world peace and democracy, founded Boston Global Forum in 2012 with Harvard Professors Thomas Patterson and John Quelch, and Nguyen Anh Tuan, founder of VietNamNet, and online global newspaper.

The Forum identifies the most impactful issues facing the world and provides practical and meaningful solutions to these problems. Governor Dukakis and Harvard Professor Joseph Nye, a member of the Boston Global Forum Board of Thinkers, have led several initiatives to build a Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific in 2014. Earlier, the Forum played a role in improving worker conditions in Asia’s factories.

The Fellowship program was established in an effort to engage youth leaders in the furtherance of the Framework, and to enrich their leadership capability in the interest of greater global peace and security.

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MDLP’s Fellows make remarks during the visit in Vietnam to further the U.S-Vietnam relations

(July 17, Hanoi) – The Boston Global Forum Leaders met with Vietnamese leaders, economists, and scientists during their visit to Khanh Hoa and Hanoi, Vietnam in July to discuss important issues about economic and research development in Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa. Human brain research in Vietnam was also discussed.

On July 11, Khanh Hoa Provincial Government in collaboration with Boston Global Forum (BGF) hosted the “Peace and Innovation” conference in Nha Trang to celebrate the 20 years of diplomacy and friendship between the United States and Vietnam. The event was a featured activity in the framework of Nha Trang Sea Festival 2015.

Attending as key speakers were BGF leaders including Harvard’s Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press and BGF’s Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Professor Thomas Patterson; Harvard’s Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and BGF’s Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Professor John Quelch; BGF’s CEO and Editor-in-chief Nguyen Anh Tuan; MIT’s Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience and BGF’s Member of Board of Thinkers, Professor Robert Desimone; and 4 Fellows of Michael Dukakis Leadership Program.

The discussion was centered on the development of the economy of Khanh Hoa and identifying strategies to make it become an innovative centre of technology and culture in East Asia. This is an ambition that was shared by Khanh Hoa’s Governor Nguyen Chien Thang in his speech at the Boston Global Forum conference at Harvard Faculty Club on June 10, 2015.

Photo: Ms. Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, Member of BGF’s Young Leaders Network and Fellow of MDLP presents her gift to Boston Global Forum’s Museum.

New fresh ideas made by Professor Thomas Patterson and John Quelch suggested concrete changes by Khanh Hoa’s administration as well as a call for freedom of thought and communications and creation of a community of scholars in Nha Trang. This generated ebullient discussions by several Vietnamese leaders, economists, and scientists who are enthusiastic in finding solutions to make Nha Trang prosper as well as to build a long-term strategy for maintaining peace and security in the South China Sea where Vietnam is a claimant.

BGF’s Chairman, Governor Michael Dukakis, and its member of Board of Thinkers, Professor Joseph Nye, who could not attend due to their tight schedules, also sent theirs congratulatory videos to that added to the event. This was highly appreciated by Khanh Hoa’s leaders and attending delegates. Governor Dukakis believed that Nha Trang has an opportunity to become an innovative zone in East Asia and hoped the U.S will be extremely helpful in this project. Professor Nye expressed his appreciation of Governor Nguyen Chien Thang’s valuable idea of creating a tightened relationship between Nha Trang and Boston and his idea of building Nha Trang into an innovative centre of technology and culture in East Asia. He also believed in a more comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and the United States.

Photo: Mr. Shubhranshu Choudhary, Founder & CEO, CGnet Swara; Foreign Policy’s 2014 “Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers”; Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow, Member of BGF’s Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security delivered a speech in the conference on July 11.

BGF leaders were important elements of the conference and made special remarks in tightening the Vietnam- U.S relation as well as bringing resolutions for building Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa into an innovative and creative center of East Asia as well as maintaining peace and security in the South East Asia.

They were also invited as distinguished guests by Khanh Hoa’s Governor, Dr. Nguyen Chien Thang, to the Nha Trang Sea Festival’s opening ceremony which was held on the evening of July 11 in Nha Trang City.

On July 16, BGF’s CEO and Editor-in-Chef Nguyen Anh Tuan and Member of the BGF Board of Thinkers, Professor Robert Desimone (the Director of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research) met with Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and Minister of Technology and Science Nguyen Quan to discuss how to develop neuroscience research in Vietnam.

Scientific research is still a matter of concern in Vietnam due to its insufficient government funding as well as lack of capable scientists in conducting relevant and high quality research. In the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam expressed his ambition in developing technologies advances and bio-science in Vietnam as well as in neuroscience. Because America is the leader in these areas, he hoped for a closer collaboration between Vietnam and the U.S in these fields.

Governor Dukakis’s speech in Peace and Innovation Conference

(July 12) – Boston Global Forum (BGF) hosted the “Peace and Innovation” conference, in collaboration with Khanh Hoa Provincial Government, on July 11 in Nha Trang to celebrate the 20 years of diplomacy and friendship between the United States and Vietnam. The event was also a featured activity in the framework of Nha Trang Sea Festival 2015.

The conference’s discussion was centered on the development of the economy of Khanh Hoa and identifying strategies to make it become an innovative centre of technology and culture in East Asia. This is an ambition that was shared by Khanh Hoa’s Governor Nguyen Chien Thang in his speech at the Boston Global Forum conference at Harvard Faculty Club on June 10, 2015.

BGF’s Chairman, Governor Michael Dukakis, who could not attend due to his tight schedules in university, also sent a congratulatory video to that added to the event. He gave a compliment on Governor Thang’s plan of building Nha Trang to be an IT and innovative zone would bring a great opportunity not only to strengthen economy of Vietnam, but also attract investors and intelligence to Nha Trang. He also hoped United States would be a extremely helpful. Adding to the normalization between United States and Vietnam, Governor Dukakis thought that the relationship will be developing with high expectation on the “willingness of Vietnamese people to move on beyond the war”.

Watch Governor Dukakis’s video here:

Jeremy Samide named as Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow

(Boston, MA) – Jeremy Samide, the fifth fellow of Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program was named by the Boston Global Forum selection committee. The decision was made based on Samide’s excellent expertise in cyber security and threat assessment as well as his commitment and performance in fostering global peace and security.

Photo: Jeremy Samide, the Co-Founder of Stealheath LLC, and is an expert in cyber security

About Jeremy Samide

Jeremy Samide is an industry-recognized and highly-sought after cyber security expert with over 15 years of leading edge sector and government security consulting and research and development work. He has recently spoken on next generation security threats for insurance companies, banks and family offices in Canada, Germany, Italy, Morocco,Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and across the United States. Samide was the CEO of E-merging Technologies Group, Inc., a professional services firm specializing in security, technical, cyber, intelligence, and policy support for the US Government, allied foreign governments, private sector markets and the UHNWF. In conjunction with Federal law enforcement, most recently Samide has consulted to both large and small businesses on the cyber security risks associated with organizations conducting business within the People’s Republic of China. Samide is currently lead consultant for Stealthcare Labs on cyber security and threat intelligence initiatives.

About the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program

Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows to start their action plan

(Boston, September 26, 2015) – Five fellows of Michael Dukakis Leadership Program has started their work by participating in various meetings and activities led by Boston Global Forum’s CEO, Nguyen Anh Tuan, who is also director of program during their week in Boston.

Photo: Five fellows of Michael Dukakis Leadership Program during a meeting: Jeremy Samide, Bill Ottman, Roya Mahboob, Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, and Shubhranshu Choudhary (from left to right)

Five fellows, coming from different fields of profession, are selected based on their excellent performance on contributing to betterment of society. They are Bill Ottman, Founder and CEO of Minds.com; Roya Mahboob, Founder and CEO of Afghan Citadel Software Company; Jeremy Samide, Cyber expert and Lead Consultant to Stealthcare Labs; Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, cultural activist, pianist and painter; and Shubhranshu Choudhary, Founder of CGNet Swara.

Photo: Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows’s visit to Professor Ezra Vogel on September 22.

During the first Boston week, Fellows met with high-profile professors of Boston to learn and be trained on management and information technology, such as Harvard Professors Ezra Vogel, Joseph Nye, Thomas Patterson; Professor of Boston University, Thomas Fielder, Dean of College of Communication; and Professor of MIT – Robert Desimone, Director of McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and Daniel Weitzner, Director of the CSAIL Decentralized Information Group.

Photo: Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows attend Governor Michael Dukakis’s lecture on September 23.

Fellows also attended the leadership lecture delivered by Governor Michael Dukakis, chairman of Boston Global Forum at his house. The Boston training week ended by presentation of fellows about action plan on promoting Cyber Peace and Security at Boston Global Forum conference which was held at September 25.

VIDEO: Jeremy Samide proposed the Cyber Threat Index to help build the ethical code of conduct

(Cambridge, Sep. 26) – Jeremy Samide, the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow, proposed his action plan during the Boston Global Forum’s conference, The Ethics Code of Conduct for Cyber Peace and Security September 25, to promote a more healthier cyber world. This is a part of activities to be taken during his week in Boston to implement the fellowship program.

Mr. Samide is also the member of Boston Global Forum’s Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security (YLNP) and a cyber expert. He currently serves as the Leading Consultant to Stealthcare Labs.

The Cyber threat Index is proposed as a key to bridge the gap between technology and legislation and policy-makers. The Threat Index will provide a compile of data and suggest policy for the development of ethical code of conduct which can be taken to legislator around the world, as he said.

Watch more of his proposal here:

Choudhary: Communication is the key to eliminate wars

(Cambridge, Sep. 26, 2015) – Mr. Shubhranshu Choudhary, the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow, believed that right communication among people is essential to help promote awareness of cyber security and prevent the cyber damage.

The view is shared in the Boston Global Forum’s conference on building The Ethics Code of Conduct for Peace and Security which was held at Harvard Faculty Club on September 25, 2015. This is also a part of his work during the week in Boston to implement the Michael Dukakis Leadership program to promote cyber peace and security.

Mr. Choudhary is also a member of Boston Global Forum’s Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security (YLNP), and was named in the Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Leading Thinkers of 2014. He currently serves as the founder of CGNet Swara in India.

Watch his speech here: