Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) to Keynote CSIS Strategic Foreign Assistance Transitions Report Release on Capitol Hill

July 10, 2012

WASHINGTON, July 10, 2012 – The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Project on Prosperity and Development will host representatives from the international trade and development community to release its new report: “Strategic Foreign Assistance Transitions: Enhancing U.S. Trade and Cooperation Relations with Middle-Income Countries.” The panel appears below.



WHEN/WHERE:

Wednesday, July 11, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
325 Russell Senate Office Building (Kennedy Caucus Room)

Washington, DC 20002
 
Featured speaker:


Richard G. Lugar 

U.S. Senator (R-IN)
Ranking Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
 
Panel:

Rodney Bent 

Director United Nations Information Office in Washington;
former Acting CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation


Peggy Philbin

Deputy Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency



Patrick Fine

Vice President, Department of Compact Operations, Millennium Challenge Corporation



Richard Bissell

Executive Director for Policy and Global Affairs, National Academy of Sciences; former Assistant Administrator, USAID

Moderated by:


Daniel F. Runde
Director of the Project on Prosperity and Development and William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, CSIS
 
Credentialed members of the press who would like to attend must RSVP to aschwartz@csis.org.
 
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