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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE hosts the conference on Public-Private Sector Community Partnerships. It is to explore ways to advance civic, philanthropic, and development partnerships within the United States and abroad.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Thomas J. Donohue, President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
9:15 p.m. - Citizen Involvement in Community Development - What Does this Mean in 2002?
John Bridgeland, Executive Director, USA Freedom Corps
Robert Goodwin, President, Points of Light Foundation
Leslie Lenkowsky, CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service
Sara Melendez, President, Independent Sector
Bernard J. Milano, President, KPMG Foundation
Dorothy Ridings, President, Council on Foundations
E.J. Dionne, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
11 a.m. - Key Issues and Model Practices in Community Development
Roy Bernardi, Assistant Secretary, Community Planning and Development, HUD
Terri Copeland, SVP, Community Development, SunTrust Bank
Michele Kahane, Program Officer, Economic Development Unit, The Ford Foundation
Mike Kimsey, The Kimsey Foundation
Michael Rubinger, President, LISC
Scott Shuster, Business Week
5:30 p.m. - Networking Reception
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-CT
Sen. Rick Santorum, R-PA
Rep. J.C. Watts, R-OK
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA
DATE: May 29, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 10:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Seminar Series In Tax Policy entitled What Direction for the European Union?
AGENDA: Highlighted speakers:
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
Claude E. Barfield, AEI
Michael S. Greve, AEI
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
The EU's Policy on Financial Integration after Enron
Peter Wallison, AEI
Frederick (Frits) Bolkestein, European Commissio
DATE: May 29, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
Thursday, May 30, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: EMBASSY OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC Slovak Agency for Foreign Investment and Trade Development presents The Inwest Forum Central Europe Conference. It is aimed to present the economic and investment climate of the entire Central European region comprised of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.
AGENDA: The conference will focus on engineering, defense industry, IT, telecommunications, offset programs and biotechnology.
DATE: May 30, 2002
LOCATION: Radisson Barcelo Washington Hotel, Washington DC
CONTACT: 718-748-7957
WEB ADDRESS:inwest.sk
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Seminar Series In Tax Policy entitled Seminar Series In Tax Policy When Does a Downturn Become a Recession?
AGENDA: Highlighted speakers:
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
Marcelle Chauvet, University of California, Riverside
Frank Diebold, University of Pennsylvania
James D. Hamilton, University of California, San Diego
DATE: May 30, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Conflict Prevention in Europe: Does the OSCE Have a Future?
WHO: The speakers are:
Amb. William Hill, Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar and former Head of OSCE Mission in Moldova AMB. Robert Barry, former Head of OSCE Mission in Bosnia; P. Terrence Hopmann, Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
DATE: May 30, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring J. Steven Landefeld, Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis discussing "Budgeting with GDP Revisions."
DATE: May 30, 2002
LOCATION: Madison Building, Montpelier Dining Room, 6th Floor, 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a book forum with Adam Posen and Steven Vogel co-authors, discussing "U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World."
DATE: May 30, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
Friday, May 31, 2002
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JAPAN INFORMATION ACCESS PROJECT holds a program on "Japan-US Relations: The Next Ten Years."
WHO: The speakers are:
Professors Steven Vogel, University of California, Berkeley
Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia
DATE: May 31, 2002
LOCATION: Chesapeake Room, Law Firm of McKenna & Cuneo, LLP 1900 K Street, NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-496-7500
WEB ADDRESS: jiaponline.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: SMITSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussing some of the women who have inspired her: Malvina Shanklin Harlan, Polly Marshall, Sarah Story, and Helen Herron Taft, as well as their husbands, who served on the Supreme Court.
DATE: May 31, 2002
LOCATION: Natural History Museum, Baird Auditorium, 10th Street and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
