Dartmouth Events

Mary and Peter R. Dallman 1951 Great Issues Lecture

Online Political Disinformation: The Global Threat and What the Tech Giants Need to Do

Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) of the United States (2009 – 2013).

Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights, Stern School of Business, NYU

Wednesday, April 10, 2019  | 4:30pm | 041 Haldeman, Dartmouth College, free and open to all

Michael H. Posner is the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance and a Professor of Business and Society at NYU's Stern School of Business, where he is working to launch the first-ever center on business and human rights at a business school. Prior to joining NYU Stern, Posner served from 2009 to 2013 in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the State Department. From 1978 to 2009, he led Human Rights First, a New York-based human rights advocacy organization. Michael Posner is the Chair of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Human Rights.

Sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Vermont Law School. Made possible by a gift from Mary and Peter R. Dallman 1951.