friday forum

Speakers:

• Sean McFate, Program Director for the National Security Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center
• Col. Dan Pike, Office of the Secretary of Defense, African Affairs
• Peter Spiegel, Pentagon Correspondent, The Los Angeles Times

Speakers

• Gerald F. Hyman, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of the recent paper “Assessing Secretary of State Rice's Reform of U.S. Foreign Assistance”
• Lydia Hall, Office of the Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance, Department of State
• Estrellita Fitzhugh, Program Manager Government Relations InterAction

Antony Blinken is the Majority Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and serves as senior foreign policy adviser to the Committee's chairman, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE). He served on the National Security Council staff at the White House from 1994 to 2001. From 1994-1998 he was Clinton's chief foreign policy speechwriter and from 1999 to 2001 he was principal adviser to President Clinton on U.S. relations with Europe. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Blinken was a lawyer in New York and Paris. He has been a reporter for The New Republic magazine and has written about foreign policy for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and other publications.

Edward P. Joseph is a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

H. Robert Kramer
Director of Program Development
International Medical Corps

Marc Cohen
Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute

Azita Ranjbar
Peace Operations Policy Program
George Mason University

Kyi May Kaung Writer, Visual Artist, and Private Consultant on Burma Issues Steven Hansch Professor, American University Mike Haack Volunteer, US Campaign for Burma Plus a short film and possibly more!!! 

The International Development Program Student Association (IDPSA) Presents: Perspectives from the Field: Images and Stories of Practicing Development Abroad

Join ten current ID students in an open and frank discussion of the development profession based upon their presentation of photographs and stories gathered from around the world.

Tanzania, Bosnia, Fiji, Sudan, Georgia, Lebanon, Zanzibar, Nigeria, Vietnam, and Guatemala.

The International Development Program Student Association (IDPSA) Presents:

Women in the Global Economy - An examination of the challenges and opportunities for women in the developing world.

Caren Grown
Economist-in-Residence
American University

Rakhee Goyal
Executive Director
Women’s Learning Partnership

Lindsey Freeman
Global Trade Associate
Women’s Edge Coalition

The International Development Program Students Association (IDPSA) Presents: Chinese Aid and Investment n Africa

A discussion about China’s growing presence in Africa and its implications for the continent‘s development agenda

Deborah Brautigam
Associate Professor, International Development Program, School of International Service, AU. Author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution

&

Adam Gaye
Journalist Visiting Scholar, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Author of China-Africa: The Dragon and the Ostrich

The World Bank and IMF are holding their annual spring meetings on the weekend of April 14-15, 2007. NGOs from all over the world will be in Washington DC for events surrounding these meetings. This forum will offer a chance to hear from some of these civil society representatives directly on how the policies of the World Bank/IMF impact their work in developing countries.

Amy Gray
International Financial Institution Liaison, Action Aid
(Action Aid fights poverty worldwide with projects in 42 countries and headquarters in South Africa)

Marc Olivier-Herman
Advocacy Director, Broederlijk Delen
(Broederlijk Delen is a major Belgian NGO with projects in 20 developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia)

Josep Xercavins
Secretariat Coordinator, UBUNTU
(UBUNTU is an Afr

A panel discussion on informal citizen groups, militias and
“uncivil” society in international development

Speakers include:

Carolyn Gallaher
Associate Professor, American University, School of International Service

Preeti Shroff-Mehta
Director for Civil Society and Social Change Programs, World Learning

Maryanne Yerkes
Democracy and Governance Office, USAID

co-sponsored by the International Development Program Student Association and the International Communication Student Forum