Speaker biographies
A. Lawrence Chickering is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and is founder and president of Educate Girls Globally, a nongovernmental organization that promotes girls’ education in developing countries. He cofounded the International Center for Economic Growth and served as its executive director until 1998, and he has worked in Pakistan, India, and Egypt. He edited (with Mohammed Salahdine) a book on the informal sector in development called The Silent Revolution (ICS Press, 1991), and he is the author of a book on American politics, Beyond Left and Right: Breaking the Political Stalemate (ICS Press, 1993).
P. Edward Haley is the WM Keck Professor of International Strategic Studies at Claremont-McKenna College. He is a member of the advisory board of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and is chairman of the International Relations Committee at Claremont McKenna College. His latest book is Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, April 2006).
Stewart Patrick is a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he directs the Project on Weak States and U.S. National Security, and also focuses more broadly on the intersection between security and development. He joined the Center for Global Development after serving on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff (September 2002–January 2005), where he helped formulate U.S. policy on Afghanistan as well as a range of global and transnational challenges, including weak and failing states, humanitarian crises, post-conflict reconstruction, organized crime, global health, and sustainable development. He is a former International Affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former research associate at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, where he also taught U.S. foreign policy. Among other writings, he is coauthor and coeditor of Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement and of Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Post-Conflict Recovery (Lynne Rienner, 2002).
John Sullivan has served as executive director of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, since 1991. In 1983, he was associate director of the bipartisan Democracy Program, which created the National Endowment for Democracy, which in turn supports CIPE. After the endowment was established, Mr. Sullivan returned to the Chamber of Commerce to help create CIPE, where he served as program director. From 1977 to 1982, he worked at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s public affairs department and special project division. In 1976, Mr. Sullivan joined President Ford’s election committee in the research department on campaign strategy, polling, and market research. Prior to this, he worked with the Institute for Economic Research and the office of minority business enterprise in the U.S. Department of Commerce in Los Angeles, completing projects to stimulate small and minority enterprise. He is the author of a number of articles and publications on the transition to democracy in central and eastern Europe, corporate governance, and market-oriented democratic development.
Vance Serchuk is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at AEI, where he studies international organizations and the overlap between U.S. strategic interests and development policy. Previously he was a research associate at AEI, coordinating its defense and security policy program. He has also worked as a consultant for the Project for the New American Century and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Before joining AEI, Mr. Serchuk was a Fulbright scholar in the Russian Federation. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Sun, The Weekly Standard, The Forward, and other publications.
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