MITMUNC XVII

Tech Diplomacy

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The 17th session of MITMUNC will be held February 7-9th, 2025, in-person.

More information about the conference is found at: Conference Info

Welcome to MITMUNC XVII!

Letter from the Secretary-General

Letter from the Secretary General

Dear Delegates,

I am very excited to welcome you to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 17th annual Model United Nations Conference - MITMUNC XVII! After months of planning, training, and organizing, we hope this conference will be a new, challenging, and enriching experience for you.

With all the difficulties the world has experienced last year and is currently still experiencing, we still look forward to a brighter future. Building a sustainable future requires a lot of collaboration and effort, and we are all hopeful to see that from you, the leaders of tomorrow.

This year, we decided to focus on technology and its impact on our societies and the whole world to test the pros and cons of technological advancement. Tech diplomacy is an important theme that defines MITMUNC XVII, especially with the prevalence of Artificial Intelligence. Technological advancements have paved the way for great and helpful solutions, yet they also opened up space for tech-abuse, which really makes us think, where are we heading? What’s next?

Dialogue, international relations, and collaborations create the backbone of tech diplomacy, and we are all looking forward to seeing your creativity spark during the conference to help implement tech diplomacy around the world and fight technology-abuse that harms the international community.

Having experienced MITMUNC as a chair, then as a Secretary General, I am humbled and thrilled to guide MITMUNC into its best conference yet. Do not hesitate in contacting me or the secretariat team should you encounter any doubts along the way. I wish you the best of luck!

Sincerely,

Your Secretary General: Jad Abou Ali
For further inquiries, do not hesitate to contact us at sg-mitmunc@mit.edu.

MITMUNC XVII 2025

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Jad Abou Ali
Secretary-General, MITMUNC XVII

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MITMUNC XVII Speaker: Fadel Adib

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Fadel Adib, a Lebanese-American professor at MIT and Founder-CEO of Cartesian Systems, has made significant contributions to technology and research. As Founding Director of the MIT Signal Kinetics Lab, he has pioneered advances in sensing technology that have revolutionized the ability to understand the world, in ocean monitoring, medicine, human-computer interaction and robotics. His research has led to the creation of multiple start-ups, including Cartesian Systems, which focuses on mapping the physical world on an unprecedented scale. Adib has over 100 peer-reviewed papers and patents to his name. He was named one of the world's top innovators aged under 35 by Technology Review in 2014, recognized as an ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar in 2023, and named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2024. He is also the recipient of the 2024 Great Arab Minds Award (referred to as the “Nobel Prize of the Arab World”) from HH Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. His research has been featured worldwide and he has presented his work to notable figures such as President Barack Obama at the White House.

Previous Speakers

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Dr. Christopher Capozzola
Distinguished Professor of Political and Legal history at MIT
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Erik Lin-Greenberg
Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT
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Sara Ellison
Professor of Economics at MIT
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Mark Esposito
Chief Learning Officer (CLO) at Nexus FrontierTech
MITMUNC XIII
1
Nazli Choucri
Professor of Political Science at MIT
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1
Karen Dynan
Professor of the Practice at Harvard University, Department of Economics
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1
Esther Duflo
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT
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Contact us: secretariat-mitmunc@mit.edu, (601) 564-8MUN