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; access and innovation in pharmaceuticals; and international health agreements. Mr. Bate’s writings have appeared in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Lancet, and the British Medical Journal. His most recent book is Making a Killing: the Deadly Implications of the Counterfeit Drug Trade (AEI Press, May 2008).
Arthur C. Brooks is a visiting scholar and will become president of AEI in 2009. He researches and writes about the connections between culture, politics, and economic life in America. Mr. Brooks is also the Louis A. Bantle professor of business and government policy at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is the author of several books, including Social Entrepreneurship: A Modern Approach to Social Value Creation (Prentice Hall, 2008), Gross National Happiness (Basic Books, 2008), and Who Really Cares (Basic Books, 2006).
William Inboden is the senior vice president of the Legatum Institute. Most recently, he served as senior director for strategic planning on the National Security Council at the White House, where he worked on a range of foreign policy issues, including the national security strategy, democracy and governance, contingency planning, counter-radicalization, and multilateral institutions and initiatives. Previously, Mr. Inboden worked at the Department of State as a member of the policy planning staff and a special adviser in the Office of International Religious Freedom. Mr. Inboden was also a Civitas Fellow at AEI and has worked as a staff member in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. His latest book is Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Philip I. Levy studies international trade and development at AEI. Before joining AEI, he handled international economic issues as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff (2005–2006), was senior economist for trade on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2003–2005), and was a faculty member in Yale University’s department of economics (1994–2003). An economist by training, he has experience in many international trade and development policy issues, including free trade agreements, trade with China, antidumping policy, welfare effects of globalization, U.S. foreign assistance policy, and economic development policy.
Ryan Streeter is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute and an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute. Prior to joining Legatum, he was vice president of Civic Enterprises, a public policy development firm in Washington, D.C. Previously, Mr. Streeter was special assistant to the president for domestic policy at the White House, where he managed development policy on issues of poverty, civil society, global health, housing, human services, and health care. Mr. Streeter is the editor, coauthor, and author of four books, including Transforming Charity: Toward a Results-oriented Social Sector, (Hudson Institute, 2001), and he has published numerous articles.
Franck S. Wiebe is chief economist for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), where he is responsible for ensuring the quality and consistency of the analysis of economic logic and growth impact of MCC. Previously, Mr. Wiebe was chief economist and director of economic reform and development programs at The Asia Foundation, where he expanded the foundation’s engagement in programs aimed at enhancing the dynamism of the small business sector through regulatory reform. Mr. Wiebe also worked for the Harvard Institute for International Development, where he served as project associate on the Customs and Economic Management Project in Jakarta, Indonesia. Previously, Mr. Wiebe was a faculty member in the master of public policy program at National University of Singapore and he has worked as a consultant for the Indonesian government, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Wiebe’s published papers include “The Role of SMEs in Economic Development,” in Small and Medium Enterprise Development in Nepal and “Income Insecurity and Underdevelopment in Indonesia’s Informal Sector.”
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