Davis tyler-dudley

Davis is a rising senior at Harvard University from Birmingham, Alabama. He majors in Social Studies, an interdisciplinary combination of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and minors in Mind, Brain, Behavior, a combination of applied psychology and neuroscience. 

From his first semester at college, Davis has been very involved with the Harvard International Relations Council, an organization that operates a variety of international affairs-centered programs and hosts conferences all over the world (including HNMUN-LA!). He will serve as the President of the HIRC in the coming year and has previously been involved with conferences in the United States and India. Although Davis didn’t even know how Model UN worked in high school (back then he did Mock Trial instead), he now enjoys competing on the US circuit and just finished a year-long tenure as a Head Delegate leading Harvard’s competitive team. He specializes in defense and security focused topics and has mostly worked with related committees such as NATO and the UNSC.  

Outside of the HIRC, Davis works as a research assistant and translator with the Weatherhead Center for Foreign Affairs. He is very interested in geopolitics and foreign languages, and his knowledge of both has enabled him to work with people from around the world on a variety of interesting projects. In the past, he has worked for the Ministry of Finance in Santiago de Chile and on a UNESCO award-winning social innovation project in Paris, France. When he’s not working or traveling, Davis enjoys playing piano and singing with his a cappella group, the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones. 

Latin America is a region of the world that Davis finds intriguing. He wants to continue learning about its multifaceted past, present, and future. 

HNMUN-LA seems like a fantastic opportunity to do just that!

Topic: THIRD PARTY ACTORS

The Third Party Actors of HNMUN-LA 2021 will introduce a diverse set of perspectives to every committee room at conference. This year, TPA delegates will represent Latin American newspapers as part of a Press Corps and impact the course of debate through articles, social media posts and other creative projects. Unlike other delegates at conference, TPA delegates will interact with multiple committees. By observing committee proceedings and conducting interviews with delegates, the TPA will document the most pressing issues for all of HNMUN-LA to see. This year, the news agencies will be similar in their geographic scope but different in their perspectives and political leanings. Delegates will be expected to research their news agencies and integrate their agency’s bias and political leaning into their pieces.

TPA delegates operate with minimal supervision. With this independence, however, comes additional responsibility. TPA delegates will research all committee topics they would like to cover, actively seek out delegates to interview, and produce media as they see fit. While the United Nations has typically been dominated by national governments, media is playing an increasingly important role in the arbitration of international disputes, in humanitarian relief experts, and in exposing conflicts and abuses of power. Accordingly, the TPA committee will add an invaluable level of realism to delegate experiences at HNMUN-LA 2021. In exchange, TPA delegates will gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between press and diplomacy.