October 23, 2009Conference on Peace through Reconstruction
Program
9:00 am: Introductory Remarks (Teatro, 2nd floor)
Prof. Edmund S. Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society (CCS). McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University. Winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals. Member, CCS.
9:30am – 11:00am: Panel 1: Issues, Lessons and Policy Guidelines for Effective Reconstruction (Teatro, 2nd floor)
Moderator: Amb. Richard Solomon, President, United States Institute of Peace.
Amb. John Negroponte, Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Affairs, MacMillan Center, Yale University. Former Deputy Secretary of State, Ambassador to the UN (2001-04) and to Iraq (2004-05).
Prof. Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science, Columbia University. Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2001-2003).
Mr. Richard Carey, Director, Development Co-ordination Directorate, OECD.
Amb. John E. Herbst, Coordinator for Reconstruction & Stabilization, Department of State.
Mr. Jordan D. Ryan, Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP.
11:00 – 11:15am: Coffee (Teatro, 2nd floor)
11:15am – 12:45pm: Panel 2: A Change in Strategy for Economic Reconstruction in Afghanistan (Teatro, 2nd floor)
Moderator: Thomas R. Keene, CFA. Editor at Large, Bloomberg News. Host, Bloomberg Surveillance and Bloomberg on the Economy.
Dr. Graciana del Castillo, Senior Research Scholar and Associate Director, CCS, Columbia University. Author Rebuilding War-Torn States (Oxford, 2008).
Prof. M. Ishaq Nadiri, Jay Gould Professor of Economics and C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University. Senior Economic Advisor to President Karzai (2005-2008).
Amb. Herman Schaper, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations. Former Ambassador to NATO.
Mr. Alastair McKechnie, Director, Fragile & Conflict-Affected Countries, World Bank.
Prof. William Easterly, Professor of Economics (Joint with Africa House), Co-Director, Development Research Institute, New York University.
12:50pm – 2:30pm: Lunch – By Invitation Only (Library, 3rd floor)
Introductory Remarks: Prof. Nicholas B. Dirks, Vice-President for the Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty, and Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology, Columbia University.
Lunch Speaker: Amb. Alvaro de Soto, Senior Fellow, Ralph Bunche Institute. Associate Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Member, Global Leadership Foundation. Former Under-Secretary General, United Nations.
2:40pm – 4:10pm: Panel 3: Economic Strategies for War-Torn Countries (Teatro, 2nd floor)
Moderator: Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, Editor-in-Chief and Chairman, THISDAY Newspapers Group, Nigeria.
Prof. Roger B. Myerson, The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago. Winner of 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Dr. Raymond Gilpin, Associate Vice-President, Sustainable Economies, US Institute of Peace.
Prof. Susan L. Woodward, Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Author of the Balkan Tragedy.
Dr. Michael Penfold, Associate Director, Public Policy and Competitiveness, CAF (“Corporación Andina de Fomento”). Former Tinker Professor, SIPA, Columbia University.
Prof. Tatiana Wah, Haitian Policy Program Development Policy Advisor, Earth Institute, Columbia University. Assistant Professor, New School University, Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy.
4:10pm – 4:25pm: Coffee (Teatro, 2nd floor)
4:25pm – 5:55pm: Panel 4: Aid, Investment and Community-based Approaches to Reconstruction in Africa (Teatro, 2nd floor)
Moderator: Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals. Member, CCS.
Prof. R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics. Member, CCS. Former Chairman, President’s Council on Economic Advisers. Author The Aid Trap (Columbia, 2009).
Dr. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Director of Health, Millennium Villages Project.
Dr. John W. McArthur, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Promise. Research Associate, Earth Institute at Columbia University and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Dr. David Hamburg, President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York. DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Prof. Glenn Denning, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Associate Director, Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University.
5:55pm – 6:00 Closing Remarks from Sponsors: Dr. Joseph Salim, Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Virtue Foundation
6:00pm – 7:00pm: Reception
| Date: |
Friday, October 23, 2009 |
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9:00 am – 7:00 pm |
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Italian Academy, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th & 118th Streets) |
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