He is the author of numerous books on improving the world and his latest, “The Plague Cycle”, explores humankind’s struggles with infectious disease. His current work focuses on gender and development, the role of technology in development, governance, and anticorruption. But despite the massive challenges ahead, is humanity overall still on the up-and-up?Ĭharles Kenny, Director of Technology and Development and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, joins Altamar to explain why the doom-mongers are wrong. From the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic to racial violence and political polarization, it seems like the world is taking a global gut-punch. Guest: Charles Kenny, Director of Technology and Development and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global DevelopmentĢ020 was rough – but it’s not all doom and gloom.
