Making Development Policy in the New Era:
Priorities, Politics, and Structures of U.S. Policymaking on Global Poverty and Hunger
An RFF Symposium
RFF Conference Center
1616 P Street NW, Washington, DC
Tuesday, January 29 (9:30 am to 1:00 pm)
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| 9:30 - 9:35 a.m. |
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Welcome
Paul R. Portney
(President, Resources for the Future) |
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| 9:35 - 11:00 a.m. |
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Panel I:
Perspectives on How Development Policy is Made and Executed |
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Introduction to Panel I
Thomas Freedman, Moderator
(Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future) |
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- Dan Glickman
(former Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
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- John Podesta
(former Chief of Staff to the President)
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- Alan Larson
(Undersecretary for Economics, Business and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State)
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- Emmy Simmons
(Advisor, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, U.S. Agency for International Development)
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- Mike Taylor
(Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future)
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- G. Edward Schuh
(Co-Chair, Food Security Advisory Committee)
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| 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. |
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Panel II: Roundtable Discussion
Connecting National Interest, Domestic Politics and the War on Hunger |
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- Introduction to Panel II
Thomas Freedman, Moderator
(Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future)
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- James McGovern
(D-MA 3rd, U.S. House of Representatives)
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- David Beckmann
(President, Bread for the World)
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- Mara Rudman
(former Chief of Staff to the National Security Council)
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- Bill Nichols
(State Department Reporter and Diplomatic Correspondent, USA Today)
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- Robert Thompson
(Director of Rural Development, The World Bank)
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- Michael O’Hanlon
(Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution)
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| 12:45 p.m. |
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Reception and Lunch |
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