EVENTS

Date:	Monday, April 20, 2009
Time:	3:00 PM -- 4:30 PM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Mauro De Lorenzo is a resident fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at AEI, where he is researching a book about the political economy of reform and foreign aid in transition countries and the place of development policy in America’s relations with the nonaligned world. In 2005, Mr. De Lorenzo worked as a consultant to Afghan construction companies in Kabul. He earlier served as a research associate at both the American University in Cairo and the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala, Uganda, focusing on refugee policy and the wars in the Great Lakes region of Africa. In 2002, he researched and was associate producer of The Price of Aid, a BBC documentary about the contradictions inherent in using food aid to address economic policy failures in Africa.

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI and is also a senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle. He serves on the advisory board of the Korea Economic Institute of America and is a founding member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Mr. Eberstadt is currently, inter alia, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and the Visiting Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health. Mr. Eberstadt is regularly consulted by governmental and international organizations, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the World Bank. Mr. Eberstadt has published over three hundred studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, mainly on topics in demography, international development, and East Asian security. His dozen-plus books and monographs include The Poverty of Communism (Transaction, 1988); The Tyranny of Numbers (AEI Press, 1995); The End of North Korea (AEI Press, 1999); Korea's Future and the Great Powers (University of Washington Press, 2001); The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe (Transaction, 2007); Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge: Unlocking the Value of Health (AEI Press, 2007); and, most recently, The Poverty of "The Poverty Rate": Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America (AEI Press, 2008).

Dambisa Moyo is the author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). Ms. Moyo was born and raised in Zambia, Southern Africa. She worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years in debt capital markets, hedge fund coverage, and global macroeconomics. Previously, she worked at the World Bank. Ms. Moyo was recently nominated to the board of Lundin Petroleum, a global independent oil and gas exploration and production company. She is a member of Cambridge University’s Centre for International Business and Management and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. She is also a patron for Absolute Return for Kids, a hedge fund-supported children’s charity, and serves on the board of the Lundin for Africa Foundation, which pledged $100 million toward microfinance initiatives. Ms. Moyo argues for more innovative ways for Africa to finance development, including trade with China, accessing the capital markets, and microfinance.

Paul Wolfowitz is a visiting scholar in foreign and defense policy studies at AEI, where he studies development issues. He has spent more than three decades in public service and higher education. Most recently, Mr. Wolfowitz served as president of the World Bank and deputy secretary of defense. Prior to that, he was dean and professor of international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has also served as under secretary of defense for policy (1989-93) and U.S. ambassador to Indonesia (1986-89). Mr. Wolfowitz was the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs (1982-86) and director of policy planning at the Department of State. He worked as deputy assistant secretary of defense for regional programs at the Department of Defense and as special assistant to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1973-77).