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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Hosts a conference on Afghanistan - America Summit on Recovery and Reconstruction
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. Working Group
John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University
Ishaq Shahryar, Afghan Ambassador to the United States
Andrew Natsios, Administrator, USAID
10 a.m. - Individual Working Groups (Meet simultaneously in the Car Barn)
Reconstruction, Commerce, and Trade
Scott Flemming, Assistant to the President for Federal Relations, Georgetown University
Robert Cumby, Professor of Economics and Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Participants include:
Sayed Mustafa Kazimi, Afghan Minister of Commerce
Mohammad Amin Farhang, Afghan Minister of Reconstruction
Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Afghan Minister of Rural Development
Kevin Murphy, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Dr. John Wilson, Senior Environmental Officer, USAID
Dan Stein, U.S. Trade and Development Agency Education
Michael J. Vande Berg, Director of International Programs, Georgetown University
Dr. Sharief Fayez, Afghan Minister of Higher Education Health
Katie Leonhardy, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Georgetown University
Suhaila Siddiq, Afghan Minister of Public Health
Bob Emrey, USAID Women, Family and Society
Susan Martin, Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
Patricia Weiss Fagen, Senior Associate, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
Habiba Sorabi, Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs
Daria Fane, Coordinator, For Afghanistan Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State
1 p.m. - Lunch, Dhalgren Quadrangle
John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University
Joseph J. Collins, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense (on DoD humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts)
Haron Amin, Deputy Chief of Afghan Mission to the United States
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan Foreign Minister
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE, DUBUQUE, IOWA, AND WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY, OSKALOOSA, IOWA hold a discussion on "Personal Account Options for Social Security."
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Rick Santorum, (R--PA)
Rep. Jim DeMint, (R-SC), co-sponsor of the Armey-DeMint Social Security Personal Account Plan
Charles Blahous, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-5920 or (800) 536-5920.
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE presents briefing on the possibilities for return of Angolan refugees and displaced people and the role of UNHCR featuring Kamel Morjane, United Nations Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ana Claros at (202) 266-1940
WEB ADDRESS: migrationpolicy.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Tom Foley and Chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation, Shoichiro Toyoda, discussing the future of U.S.-Japanese Relations.
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Taking Pakistan into the 21st Century: The Economic and Political Challenges.
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds a news conference to discuss Famine in Southern Africa: Underlying Causes, Long-term Solutions
AGENDA: About 10 million people in southern Africa-Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe-are experiencing famine, or the threat of
it. In Malawi, an estimated 70 percent of the population has been affected
by food shortages.
WHO: The speakers are:
Suresh Babu, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow
Todd Benson, IFPRI Research Fellow
Eleni Gabre-Madhin, IFPRI Research Fellow
Ken Simler, IFPRI Research Fellow
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, IFPRI Director General and winner of the 2001 World Food Prize
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5679
WEB ADDRESS: cgiar.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE holds a news conference unveil The State of Black America 2002, a collection of essays by prominent African American thinkers and leaders, which examines issues of economic, social and racial opportunity in America and begs the question "have we achieved equality?"
WHO: The speakers are:
William E. Spriggs, Director and Suzanne Bergeron, Senior Legislative and Policy Analyst, National Urban League Institute for Opportunity & Equality Welfare Reform and Black America
Bernard E. Anderson, Whitney M. Young Jr. Professor Of Management, The Wharton School, University Of Pennsylvania The Black Worker: Continuing Quest for Economic Parity
Leland Ware, University of Delaware, and Antoine Allen, President of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League The Geography of Discrimination: Hypersegregation, Isolation and Fragmentation Within the African American Community
John Sibley Butler, Professor of Management and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin Military Organizations: Best Practices and the Status of Black Americans
Theresa A. Hammond, Associate Professor of Accounting and Ernst and Young Research Fellow in Diversity Studies, Boston College Holding the Accountants Accountable: Why are There So Few African-American CPAs?
Maya Rockeymoore, Senior Resident Scholar, National Urban League's Institute for Opportunity and Equality African Americans Confront A Pandemic: Assessing Community Impact, Organization, and Advocacy in the Second Decade of AIDS
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Chatarra Jenkins, 212-558-5319
WEB ADDRESS: nul.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: SCOTT CLELAND, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE PRECURSOR GROUP, AND JOHN EADE, PRESIDENT OF ARGUS RESEARCH, announce the formation of a new investor group. The mission of the new group is to promote investor trust through the use of investment research that is financially aligned with investor interests.
WHO: The speakers are:
Scott Cleland, chief executive officer of The Precursor Group
John Eade, president of Argus Research
John Meserve, president of Bank of New York Jaywalk, Inc. (BNY Jaywalk, Inc)
Jack Hidary, president of Vista Research
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-828-7838
WEB ADDRESS: precursorgroup.com
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: NORML holds a news conference to discuss medicinal marijuana.
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: HC-9, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-5500
WEB ADDRESS: norml.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Chief Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, will speak on the "Outlook for the Economic Recovery and Long Term Growth.
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H St., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: THE INTERNET SECURITY ALLIANCE will release its Common Sense Guide for Senior Managers: Top Ten Recommended Information Security Practices.
AGENDA: The guide is aimed at making information security an issue that resonates in the Boardroom as well as the server room by targeting industry executive leadership. Its risk management-based approach is aimed at ensuring the survivability and security of critical information assets.
WHO: The speakers are:
David McCurdy, Executive Director, ISAlliance
Rich Pethia, Director, CERT/CC
Julia Allen, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, CERT/CC
Dr. William Hancock, Chief Security Office, Exodus, A UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Cable and Wireless Service
John Shaughnessy, Senior Vice President of Risk Management, Visa USA
Ty Sagalow, COO, AIG e-business Risk Solutions
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-465-0276.
WEB ADDRESS: eia.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INITIATE holds a briefing on "Connecting The Drops Towerds Creative Water Strategies and Exploring Pathways To a Sustainable Enterprise: SD Planner."
WHO: The speakers are:
Steve Hellem, executive director, GEMI
Elizabeth Schoen, Pfizer Inc.Paul
Dawn Rittenhouse, DuPont
Harry Ott, The Coca-Cola Company
Halberstadt, ConAgra Foods
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: One Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-296-7449
WEB ADDRESS: gemi.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Rail Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka discussing "The Political Situation in Sri Lanka, including the Dividends of Peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, such as Economic Rejuvenation and Improved Prospects for Investors."
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: - BUSINESS SOFTWARE ALLIANCE holds a news conference unveiling results of corporate cyber security survey of it professionals.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Holleyman, President and CEO, Business Software Alliance
Rep. Billy Tauzin, (R-LA), Chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee
Rep. Fred Upton, (R-MI), Chairman, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
Thom Riehle, President and COO, Ipsos Public Affairs
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: 2218 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jeri Clausing, 202-530-5127 or Doug McGinn or 202-715-1558
WEB ADDRESS: bsa.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a strategic forum with Abdullah Abdullah, Minister For Foreign Affairs Of Afghanistan who will speak on "Back from the Abyss: Prospects for the Future."
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents The Blues Blasters who are a Seville-based band, featuring classic blues sound and explosive stage act have blown away audiences at Spain's major blues and jazz festivals.
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE holds a panel discussion on Independent Music and Alternatives to Corporate Control.
WHO: The speakers are:
Go-Go musician (Experience Unlimited) Sugar Bear; Go-Go manager Doug Carter; DJ Rudy from 93 KYS; musician (Fugazi) and Dischord Records co-owner Ian MacKaye; Michael Bracy, Future of Music Coalition; and editor Norman Kelley. The moderator will be musician (Girls Against Boys) and Akashic Books publisher Johnny Temple.
DATE: July 24, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com