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| Keynote Speakers |  | Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for
Global Development. Prior to this, Birdsall served as
senior associate and director of the Economic Reform
Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she focused on issues of globalization and inequality, and the reform of the international financial institutions. She was executive vice-president of the Inter-American Development Bank where she oversaw a $30 billion public and private loan portfolio and spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank. She has authored, co-authored and edited more than a dozen books and monographs and has written more than 75 articles for books and scholarly journals. |  | Arturo Sarukhan is a career Ambassador in the Mexican Foreign Service. He was promoted to ambassadorial rank in November of 2006. Ambassador Sarukhan served as Coordinator for International Affairs for the President elect’s Transition team and prior to that was the Campaign Coordinator for International Affairs and International spokesperson to Felipe Calderón. A career diplomat since 1994, he was on a leave of absence form the Foreign Service from February to November of 2006. He obtained a BA in International Relations (1988) from El Colegio de México and read History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Recipient of the Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow Scholarships (1989), Mr. Sarukhan received an MA in U.S. Foreign Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. (1991). |  | Michael Van Dusen is the deputy director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a position he's held since 1999. Prior to this, Van Dusen served for nearly 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a staff consultant and staff director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East and as the democratic chief of staff for the Committee of Internaitonal Relations. His numerous writings have been published in Foreign Affairs, The Middle East Journal, The Journal of the Middle East and The New York Times. | | | | | | | | | | Faculty Coordinator |  | Roger Leeds, Ph.D. is a Research Professor of International Finance and Director of the SAIS Center for International Business and Public Policy. His areas of expertise include Latin America, Brazil, corporate governance and financial markets, corruption and transnational crime, economics, foreign aid and global poverty, and privatization and private-sector development. Leeds spent 25 years as a practitioner in international finance. He was a partner at KPMG in charge of its global privatization practice and a managing director of a major private equity firm in New York. He has been a guest commentator on CBS, CNBC News, CNN and NPR, and is also the author of Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned From Experience (2003) as well as more than 25 articles and book chapters on international financial and economic issues in developing countries. Professor leeds will also be teaching a class during Alumni College. | | | | Faculty Presenters |  | Francis Fukuyama, Ph.D. is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program. His areas of expertise include governance and political institutions in development, democratic theory and practice, and international regulation of science and technology. Fukuyama served as SAIS dean of faculty from 2002 to 2004 and twice served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State. His publications include America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006) and State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (2004). | | |  | Mary R. Habeck, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Strategic Studies. Her areas of expertise include American defense policy; Islamic religion, culture and law; military history; military power and strategy and terrorism. She has served as associate professor of history at Yale University and coordinated the Yale Russian Archive Project to facilitate access to documents in the former Soviet archives. Habeck’s recent publications include Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror (2006) and Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939 (2003). |  | Pravin Krishna, Ph.D. holds a joint academic appointment with the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. His areas of expertise include economic development, economics, globalization and international trade theory and policy. He is a former research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, consultant to the World Bank and International Mondetary Fund and taught at Brown University, Columbia University and INSEAD. His recent publications include Trade Blocs: Economcs and Politics (2005) and Trade Blocs: Alternate Analyses of Preferential Trade Agreements (co-editor) (1999). |  | David M. Lampton, Ph.D. is the Dean of Faculty, George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies and Director of the China Studies Program. His areas of expertise include East Asia, China and Taiwan. He served as former president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is past director of China Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and, subsequently, at The Nixon Center in Washington, D.C. His publications include (forthcoming) and (2001). | | |  | Michael Mandelbaum, Ph.D. is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy and Director of the American Foreign Policy Program. His areas of expertise include Western Europe, American-foreign policy, NATO, and U.S. Congress and foreign policy. Mandelbaum has been a former faculty member at Harvard University, Columbia University and the U.S. Naval Academy. Recent publications include Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government (2007) and The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century (2006). | | |  | John McLaughlin, M.A. is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Studies. His areas of expertise include American defense policy, counterterrorism, intelligence, nuclear policy and proliferation, strategic and security issues and weapons of mass destruction. McLaughlin most recently served as acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency from July to September 2004 and previously was the agency’s deputy director from October 2000. Prior to that, he was deputy director for Intelligence, vice chairman for Estimates and acting chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and founder of the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis. | | Faculty Panel |  | Riordan Roett, Ph.D. is the Sarita and Don Johnston Professor and Director of Western Hemisphere Studies and the Latin American Studies Program. His areas of expertise include developing nations, international political economy, NAFTA and political risk analysis. He is a member of the board of directors of a number of closed-end mutual funds managed by Western Asset Management/Legg Mason LLC in New York and a consultant to the National Intelligence Council. His publications include China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Policy Implications, co-author and editor, (forthcoming), and The Andes in Focus: Security, Democracy and Economic Reform, co-author, co-editor (2005). |
Please note that this information is subject to change. Consult this Web site for additional updates regarding this program.
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