Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmdorf said Tuesday that former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who led her country through a devastating mass shooting, will temporarily attend Harvard University later this year.
Ardern, a global icon of the Left and an inspiration to women around the world, has been appointed to a Dual Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School. She will serve as a 2023 Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow and Hauser Leader in the school’s Center for Public Leadership beginning this fall.
“Jacinda Ardern showed the world strong and empowered political leadership,” Elmdorf said in the statement.
Ardernwho was just 37 when she became prime minister in 2017, shocked New Zealanders when she announced in January that she was stepping down from the role after more than 5 years because she had “tanks” to do justice to. I wasn’t enough”. The house was facing mounting political pressures, including its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which was initially widely praised but later criticized by those opposed to the mandate and the rules.
She said she sees the opportunity at Harvard as an opportunity not only to share her experience with others, but also to learn.
“As leaders, there is often little time for reflection, but reflection is vital if we are to properly support the next generation of leaders.”
Ardern’s time at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university will also include a stint as the first Tech Governance Leadership Fellow at the school’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
has been an important partner as the center new zealand Ardern said she worked to combat violent extremism online after a white supremacist gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch in 2019. The gunman livestreamed the massacre for 17 minutes on Facebook before deleting the video.
Two months after the shooting, Ardern initiated the Christchurch call with French President Emmanuel Macron. The initiative aims to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.
More than 50 countries have joined the initiative, including the United States, Britain, Germany and South Korea, as well as technology companies such as Facebook parent company Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Zoom and Twitter.
“The Center has been an incredibly important partner as we developed the Christchurch Call to Action to address violent extremism online,” Ardern said. To work on the challenges surrounding the development of Generative AI tools.
Berkman Klein Center co-founder Jonathan Zittrain said it is rare for a head of state to be able to delve deeply into a complex and fast-moving digital policy issue.
“Jacinda Ardern’s hard-earned expertise – including her ability to bring diverse people and institutions together – will be invaluable as we all seek practical solutions to some of the most profound online problems,” he said in a statement.
Ardern said she plans to return to New Zealand after the fellowship.
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