Join us at 6 p.m. CT on Wednesday, May 18, for a conversation with Rawi Abdelal, Professor at Harvard Business School and the Director of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and JR DeShazo, Dean of The University of Texas LBJ School, to understand the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on U.S. and global markets and the broader implications of political instability domestically and abroad.

Rawi Abdelal is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School, the Faculty Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, and the Director of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Professor Abdelal's primary expertise is international political economy, and his research focuses on the politics of globalization and the political economy of Eurasia. In 1999 Abdelal earned a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, where he had received an M.A. in 1997. At Cornell Abdelal's dissertation won the Kahin Prize in International Relations and the Esman Prize.

JR DeShazo is the 12th dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He previously served as the founding director of the Luskin Center for Innovation at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), one of the nation's leading environmental policy research centers. DeShazo earned a doctorate in Urban Planning from Harvard University, a master's in Development Economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor's degree from the College of William & Mary.