Please join us for this substantive forum that will explore ethical questions and potential conflicts of interest generated by the recent agreements between the Saudi monarchy and the MIT Administration.
The assassination of journalist Jamal Kashoggi and the military role of the Saudi Monarchy in Yemen call for a thorough examination of this relationship. The forum will include an authority on the Saudi monarchy, Helen Whiston of Human Rights Watch, and MIT faculty and graduate student panelists addressing questions of whether such relationships conform to MIT's mission and principles. A representative from the Administration has been invited to report on the Administration's examination of the relationships.
Read a recent guest editorial/open letter to President Reif in THE TECH by MIT Graduate Students.
Read the response by President Reif.
Read Associate Provost Richard Lester's letter to the MIT faculty.
This program is co-sponsored with the MIT Faculty Newsletter.
Read this recent article from the Guardian.