This session "How to Break Down Barriers to Policy Implementation?" from the 2016 Global Leadership Forum evolved around the barriers that make it difficult to change the behavior of individuals and firms in developing countries, and how institutions and development practitioners can improve strategies to address those barriers.
Bio
Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Director of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His latest book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the French Revolution to the Present, was published in October 2014. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. From 1996-2000, he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He has a B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and at the Center for Global Development. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School, the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Volcker Alliance.