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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2002
Tuesday September 24, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a conference to examine the questions surrounding a national energy policy Strategy.
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-NE
Congressman W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, R-LA
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM
Patrick Henry Wood, III, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
David N. Parker, President and CEO, American Gas Association
Red Cavaney, President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute
Joe F. Colvin, President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute
Thomas R. Kuhn, President, Edison Electric Institute
DATE: September 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682 or 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev discussing the country's relations with the United States and Russia.
DATE: September 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Mari Carmen Aponte, Director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration here in Washington discussing Puerto Rico celebrating the 50th anniversary of its status as a Commonwealth of the United States.
DATE: September 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Who Owns the Genome?
WHO: The speakers are:
Eric S. Lander, Ph.D. Director, Whitehead Center for Genome Research
Q. Todd Dickinson, JD, Partner Howrey Simon Arnold & White, Former Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Pilar N. Ossorio, Ph.D., JD, Assistant Professor of Law and Medicine, University of Wisconsin
Scott A. Brown, JD, Vice President, Chief Patent Counsel, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Justin Gillis, Staff Reporter, Washington Post
DATE: September 24, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
Wednesday September 25, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on China In Transition: Behind The Scenes.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction:
John Hamre, CSIS president and CEO, and John Holden, president,
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
9:20 a.m. - A Historical Perspective on China's Domestic Transitions
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University
10:30 a.m. - Challenges to Legitimacy: The Party in Transition
Chair: Ambassador James Sasser
Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University
Li Cheng, Woodrow Wilson Center and Hamilton College
Minxin Pei, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1:30 p.m. - Income, Population and Health: Welfare Society in Transition
Chair: Bates Gill, CSIS
Deborah Davis, Yale University
Huang Yanzhong, Grand Valley State University
Joan Kaufman, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
2:45 p.m. - Off the Beaten Track: Rural China in Transition
Chair: John Holden, National Committee on United States-China
Relations
Thomas Bernstein, Columbia University
Brian Schwarzwalder, Rural Development Institute
Liu Yawei, Carter Center, Emory University
4 p.m. -- The Changing Workplace: The Economy in Transition
Chair: Pieter Bottelier, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Kellee Tsai, Johns Hopkins University
Stoyan Tenev, International Finance Corporation
James McGregor, Vermilion Ventures
5:15 p.m. - Closing Remarks
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Food Fight: The Looming U.S.-EU Conflict over Plant Biotechnology and Trade.
WHO: The speakers are:
Alan Larson, U.S. Department of State; Ronald Bailey, Cato Institute
Tony Van der haegen, Delegation of the European Commission to the U.S.
Sarah Thorn, Grocery Manufacturers of America.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE features Carolyn Fisher, Resources for the Future discussing "Multilateral Trade Agreements and Market-Based Environmental Policies." Fischer will review legal provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that have implications
for a member country's ability and incentives to design economically efficient environmental policies.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
Thursday September 26, 2002
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program with Michael Katz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, discussing "Can a Little Theory Be a Dangerous Thing?"
DATE: September 26, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden Restaurant, 618 H St., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds an economic policy roundtable discussion and lunch entitled "Ten Years Of Asset Building: U.S. Results and Global Prospects."
WHO: The speakers are:
Michael Sherraden, Author, Assets and the Poor
Michelle Miller-Adams, Author, Owning Up
Ray Boshara, Director, Asset Building Program, New America Foundation
DATE: September 26, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Ignacy Paderewski and Woodrow Wilson: A Legacy of Freedom and Democracy."
WHO: The speakers are:
Bronislaw Geremek, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland, and former Wilson Center Fellow
Edward L. Rowny, President, INC International Negotiating Consultants, former U.S. Ambassador at Large and Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, and former Wilson Center Fellow
DATE: September 26, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
EVENT: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a presentation by Hedayat Amin Arsala, vice president of Afghanistan.
DATE: September 26, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
Friday September 27, 2002
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds Talkers Forum on "Election 2002: Policies & Politics."
WHO: The speakers are:
Jerry Agar, WPTF-AM, Raleigh, N.C.
Jim Bohannon, Westwood One Radio Network
Blanquita Cullum, Radio America Network
Barry Farber, Talk America Radio Network
Dom Giordano, WPHT-AM, Philadelphia
Jason Jarvis, Syndicated Radio Host
Victoria Jones, Syndicated Radio Host
David Lawrence, WGOP-AM, Washington, DC
Armstrong Williams, Syndicated Radio Host
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring General Secretary, National Council of Churches Bob Edgar
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
