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Don Oberdorfer, chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
"U.S.-Korea Relations: Celebrating 125 Years of Friendship"
May 21, 2007
Other speakers included Tae-sik Lee, South Korean ambassador to the United States and a SAIS graduate; Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy; and John Endicott, a Korea scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Festivities also included Yang Seung Hee performing songs of friendship on the stringed kayageum.
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Don Oberdorfer, SAIS journalist-in-residence
"Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman"
October 14, 2003
Other speakers included syndicated political columnist Mark Shields and former U.S. senator John Glenn (D-Ohio).
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, distinguished fellow of the Brookings Institution and Nigeria's former minister of finance and economy and of foreign affairs
"Fighting Corruption in Nigeria: Progress and Challenges"
February 28, 2007
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Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution senior fellow
"The Case for Soft Partition in Iraq"
July 5, 2007
Other speakers included Edward Joseph, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute visiting scholar and a SAIS graduate.
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Matt O’Neill, co-director of “Baghdad ER”
"Covering Iraq"
April 19, 2007
Other speakers included Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post; Chris Hondros, photojournalist with Getty Images; Quil Lawrence, foreign correspondent with  PRI/BBC’s “The World”; and Raney Aronson (moderator), producer for PBS’s “Frontline."
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Anthony Akoto Osei, minister of state at Ghana’s Ministry of Finance
"Ministers of Finance and Civil Society: Friends or Foes?”
October 18, 2007
Other speakers included Charlie Griffin, Brookings Institution senior fellow; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, distinguished fellow of the Brookings Institution and Nigeria's former minister of finance and economy and of foreign affairs; Shamsudden Usman, finance minster of Nigeria; Goodall E. Gondwe, finance minister of Malawi; Jean-Baptiste Compaore, finance minister of Burkina Faso; Aloysius Toe, Foundation for Human Rights executive director; and Gilbert Maoundonodji, the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project's Group for Alternative Research and Monitoring coordinator.
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Marina Ottaway, director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"The Elections in Morocco: What Lessons and Implications?"
October 15
Other speakers included Leslie Campbell, senior associate and regional director of the Middle East and North Africa Programs at the National Democratic Institute; Tamara Cofman Wittes, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution; Catherine Sweet, Morocco desk officer for the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research; and William Zartman (moderator), director of the SAIS Conflict Management Program.
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