Speaker Biographies
Roger Bate is a resident fellow at AEI. He researches aid policy in Africa and the developing world, evaluating the performance and effectiveness of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, NGOs, and other aid organizations and development policy initiatives. He writes extensively on topics such as endemic diseases in developing countries (malaria, HIV/AIDS); taxes and tariffs; water policy; and international environmental and health agreements. Mr. Bate’s writings have appeared in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Economic Affairs, and he regularly contributes to AEI’s Environmental Policy Outlook and Health Policy Outlook series. Before joining AEI, Mr. Bate founded the environmental unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs in 1993 and cofounded the European Science and Environment Forum (1995–2001). He has also served as both a director and fellow at the International Policy Network in the United Kingdom.
Jeremiah Norris is the director of the Center for Science in Public Policy and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He works primarily on issues concerning trade, development, and global AIDS and malaria policies. Prior to this, he was senior director for Operations and International Affairs at the WebMD Foundation, where he developed a joint United Nations/private sector partnership to bridge the digital divide in public health through deployment of a “Health InterNetwork” for developing nations. For four years, he was a senior adviser for the Harvard Medical School’s international programs. In the George H. W. Bush administration, Mr. Norris was the director of the human resources office of the Bureau for Europe in the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. In this position, he managed the U.S. government response for health, pensions, and social activities in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He has also been a staff member of the Peace Corps, directing its Office of Private and International Affairs.
Ann Owen is an associate professor economics at Hamilton College. Her research interests include macroeconomics, economic growth, human capital formation, and sustainable development. Prior to teaching at Hamilton College, she was a visiting professor at Brown University and the New Economic School in Moscow. In 2005, she cofounded the Annual Workshop on Macroeconomic Research at Liberal Arts Colleges, an National Science Foundation–funded effort that facilitates research collaborations among faculty at small colleges. Ms. Owen has also been a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank and an economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, among them the Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic Journal, and the Review of International Economics.
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, he 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, Johns Hopkins University. He has also served as under secretary of defense for policy, 1989–1993, and U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, 1986–1989. He was the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, 1982–1986, 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, 1973–1977.
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