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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: BANKERS' ASSOCIATION FOR FINANCE AND TRADE holds its 20TH Annual Midwinter Strategic Conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Outlook On Global Financial
MARKETS
Kenneth W. Dam, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
John Lipsky, Chief Economist & Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Dr. Theodore H. Moran, Director, Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy, Georgetown University,
School of Foreign Service
10:30 a.m. - PANEL: The Trade Finance Asset Class-- Gauging Liquidity in the Face of Economic
Challenges in Emerging Markets
Hernan T. Narea, Senior Vice President, ORIX Trade Capital and & Board Member, Association of Forfaiters in the
Americas
Bruce Fields, President, Standard Americas, Inc.
Therese Rabieh, Managing Director, Head of Latin American Distribution & Syndication,
JP Morgan Chase Securities, Inc.
Michael Sullivan, Partner & Legal Counsel, Association of Forfaiters in the Americas
11:15 a.m. PANEL: The Response to Money Laundering by the Wider Financial Industry
Robin King, Assistant Professor, Landegger Program in International Business, Diplomacy, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service
Russell W. Schrader, Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel, Visa U.S.A. Inc.
Edward L. Monahan, Jr. Director, Regulatory Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Martin Steinbach, Managing Director, Head of Global Services, UBS Zurich
12:15 p.m. - Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS)-- Five Months Out Report Card
Moderator: Lee Kidder, Director of Wholesale Banking, TowerGroup
Joseph De Feo, President and Chief Executive Officer, CLS Bank International
Barry Holland, Director of Treasury Operations, Barclays Capital
Phillip E. Scott, Senior Vice President, The Bank of New York
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Julie Malveaux, 202-663-5466
WEB ADDRESS: aba.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES holds it's annual meeting themed "A Very Different Decade" for Higher Education."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University
9:45 a.m. -- E. J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post Columnist and Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
10:30 a.m. - Academic Freedom, Religious Freedom, and the National Labor Relations Act after NLRB v. University of Great Falls, 278 F. 3rd. 1335 (D.C. Cir. 2002)
Nicholas Trott Long and Fred Gilliard
Regency A Ballroom
DATE: January 28, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Hotel- Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-8866
WEB ADDRESS: naicu.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: Club for Growth holds its Advocacy's Economic Summit.
AGENDA: Highlights:
2 p.m. -- The Economy and to Fix it
4 p.m. -- The Bush Tax Cut
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: The Ritz Carlton hotel, 1700 Tysons Boulevard, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-739-5920
WEB ADDRESS: clubforgrowth.org
TIME: 7 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL presents its Titans of Technology Breakfast to hear Dr. Vernon Smith, the 2002 Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences and a Professor of Law & Economics at George Mason University. Dr. Smith will discuss the applications of his economic research for the future of the technology sector.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Hilton McLean, 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA,
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: GLOBAL PEACE INITIATIVE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LEADERS holds a breakfast meeting to announce the creation of a Women's Peace Building Corps, a group of international women who will visit zones of conflict to initiate women to women diplomacy.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, Chair, Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders, first clergy woman to serve as spiritual leader and General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ (NCCC) in the U.S.
Dena Merriam, Convener, Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders, Vice-Chair, Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders; Partner & Vice Chair, the Ruder Finn Group.
Sharifa Alkateeb, President, North American Council for Muslim Women
Lois M. Dauway, Assistant Secretary General, Women's Division, The United Methodist Church
Rabbi Laura Geller, Temple Emanuel, Beverly Hills, CA, and author
Brenda Girton Mitchell, Director, Washington Office, The National Council of Churches
Virginia Harris, Chairman, Christian Science Board of Directors
Virginia Holmstrom, Executive Director, American Baptist Women's Ministries
Mary Lord, Executive Director, Friends Service Committee (Quaker)
Shiela McCarron, Program Director, National Council of Catholic Women
Sister Mary Motte, Provincial Superior of the U.S., The Franciscan Sisters of Mercy
Reverend Sister Priya, Senior Monastic, The Self-Realization Fellowship Order
Carole Shinnick, Executive Director, The Leadership Conference of Women Religious
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Willard Inter-Continental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-593-6353
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: MIGRATION POLICY CENTER holds a program on The Price of Protection: The Budgetary Threat to Multilateral Cooperation on Refugee Protection and Assistance.
AGENDA: UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, is struggling to provide basic relief and protection to refugees, recently returned refugees, and internally displaced people in the face of a serious budget crisis.
WHO: The speakers are:
Mr. Anne Willem Bijleveld, Director of Communication and Information for UNHCR
Kathleen Newland, Co-Director of the Migration Policy Institute
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Suite 600, 1400 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ana Claros, 202-266-1940
WEB ADDRESS: migrationpolicy.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on One Country, One System? Changes to Hong Kong's Basic Law.
WHO: The speakers are:
Kin-ming Liu, Apple Daily; Ellen Bork, Project for the New American
James R. Lilley, AEI & Arthur Waldron, AEI
Kin-ming Liu, Apple Daily
Ellen Bork, Project for the New American Century
Jacqueline Willis, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Washington
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: THE NATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION holds a rally and news conference.
AGENDA: The program will include research on the effects of poverty, Head Start's effectiveness, testimony from Head Start alumni, discussions of NHSA's new
Reauthorization Agenda--A Head Start for a New Generation, and conclude with a rally on Capitol Hill.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH)*
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)*
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)*
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)*
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT)*
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA)*
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)*
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)*
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 325 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-518-8047
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AFRICA SOCIETY OF THE NATIONAL SUMMIT ON AFRICA, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY ATTITUDES AND FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE holds a program on U.S. Policy Towards Africa.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Steven Kull, Director, and Dr. Clay Ramsay, Director of Research, the Program on International Policy Attitudes, University of Maryland
Donald M. Payne, Ranking Minority Member, House Subcommittee on Africa, U.S. House of Representatives
Dr. Jendayi Frazer, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Africa, National Security Council
Ambassador Princeton Lyman, Director, The Global Interdependence Institute, Aspen Institute
Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., President and CEO, The Africa Society, Moderator
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Fanta Doumbia or Dianne Peters, 202-232-3862
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program on "Dealing With North Korea."
WHO: The speakers are three specialists on North Korea:
Former UN Ambassador to South Korea and GATT Chairman, Keun Park
Former Washington Post Diplomatic Correspondent, Don Oberdorfer
President of the World Affairs Councils of America, Jerry Leach
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT ZOELLICK hold a news conference launching U.S.-Chile Free Trade Coalition. Chile is currently the 6th largest market
for U.S. exports in Latin America. A mutually beneficial free trade agreement will advance
U.S. interests by improving market access for agricultural and manufactured goods
and services, strengthened intellectual property and investor protections.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: S-207, Mansfield Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Comparative Development of Post-communist Societies with Andrew T. Green, Research Associate and Assistant Director, Center for Civil Societies, MD, and Title VIII multiple grant recipient.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring The Attorney General of Mexico and Chairman of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission of the Organization of American States (OAS) Rafael Macedo De La Concha and The Deputy Solicitor General of Canada and Vice Chairman of CICAD Paul Kenney, releasing and discussing the "34 National Reports and the Hemispheric Report on Control of Drug Trafficking and Abuse.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service BMW Center for German & European Studies presents Thierry de Montbrial, Professor of Economics at the École Polytechnique Chair of Economics and International Relations at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers discussing "The Evolving Image of the USA in France."
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 205 Old North, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program with Stan Liebowitz, University of Texas--Dallas, discussing "Rethinking the Network Economy."
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H St., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "The Afterlife of Communism," with Dr. Alan Charles Kors
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania and President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Bridgett Wagner, Director, Coalition Relations, The Heritage Foundation.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: REP. LUIS V GUTIERREZ, D-IL, holds a news conference to discuss new immigration legalization bill.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 2128 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-8203
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Genomics: Potential Solution to Our Global Energy Crisis?"
with J. Craig Venter, president and chairman of the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA) and founder of Celera Geonomics.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Nature, Wealth and Power: Emerging Best Practice for Revitalizing Rural Africa."
WHO: The speakers are:
Jon Anderson, an environmental resource adviser at USAID
Asif Shaikh, president and CEO of International Resources Group
Peter Veit, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "How Eyadema Was Combined With Democracy in 1993-94 Togo" with Jacques Rigault, adviser to the minister of Cooperation in France.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB holds a program on Generations of Women Who Fought for Freedom
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-MD
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (invited)
Jatrice Martel Gaiter, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE features Stephen Peck, Fleche, and formerly, the Electric Power Research Institute, discussing A Policy Approach to the Global Climate Issue. Peck will describe a system for international control of greenhouse gases to extend over the long term -- one hundred years or so. His approach is similar to the U.S. SO2 trading permit market, provides income to farmers and others who sequester greenhouse gases, and offers incentives for R&D on mitigation and absorption technologies.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a briefing on Post-State of the Union Analysis.
WHO: The speakers are:
E.J. Dionne JR., Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution;
Columnist, The Washington Post
Carol Graham, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies; Co-director,
Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies; Co-director, Welfare Reform & Beyond
Robert E. Litan, Vice President and Director, Economic Policy Studies; The Cabot Family Chair
Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies; The W. Averell Harriman Chair
Pietro S. Nivola, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies; Co-editor, Agenda for the Nation
(forthcoming, Brookings 2003)
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Sergey V. Yasterzhembskiy, Assistant to President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, discussing "International Terrorism in Chechnya: A Hard Way to Peace."
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing to discuss budget, tax and programmatic issues raised in the President's State of the Union address. The briefing will also include an assessment of the implications of the new budget baseline that will be released by the Congressional Budget Office that same morning.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Greenstein, Executive Director
Richard Kogan, Senior Fellow
DATE: January 29, 2003
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE hosts a discussion exploring the current political and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe and possible avenues towards peace
WHO; The speakers are:
Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
Simbi Mubako, Zimbabwean Ambassador to the United States.
Robert Rotberg, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Masipula Sithole, Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace, and Professor of Political Science, University of Zimbabwe.
Chester Crocker, Chairman, Board of Directors, U.S. Institute of Peace and Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies, Georgetown University.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-429-3824
WEB ADDRESS: usip.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy with Matthew J. Ouimet, Department of State discussing findings from his new book on the collapse of Soviet control in Eastern Europe between 1968 and 1989.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Internet Cents and Nonsense: Lessons from the Dot-Com Collapse and the Copyright Wars.
WHO: The speakers are:
Stan Liebowitz , Author, Rethinking the Network Economy: The True Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace
John Lott, American Enterprise Institute; and Tom Lenard, Progress and Freedom Foundation.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Modernizing China's Military" with David Shambaugh, a professor at George Washington University and author of Modernizing China's Military.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents The Igor Leschishin Classical Septet from the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra performing Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano by Poulenc, Quartet C-major Op 73 #1 for Bassoon and String Trio by Devienne, and Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings by Britten.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB FORUM presents a discussion on the Effect of Post 9/11 Restrictions on Media Coverage and Public's Right to Know. The Forum will focus on issues concerning executive privilege, government classification of documents, Pentagon access and credentialing, Freedom of Information Act costs to freelancers and security and war coverage.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Lynn Duke who was the Washington Post's Johannesburg bureau chief from 1995 to 1999, and covered the devastating Congolese war, post-apartheid South Africa; the continuing AIDS epidemic-but also their impact on the village and township level. Mandela, Mobutu, And Me: A Newswoman's African Journey reveals the continent through the stories of peacemakers and dictators, refugees and rebels, laborers and activists.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: 10TH ANNUAL FUNNIEST CELEBRITY IN WASHINGTON CONTEST proceeds raised at this one-of-a-kind gala benefits Work, Achievement, Values, and Education, Inc. There will be a total of 12 competitors and 8 to 10 judges. Chuck Conconi, Editor-at-Large for the Washingtonian Magazine, will again serve Master of Ceremonies.
WHO: The celebrity competitors:
Sen. John Breaux (D-LA)
Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Mr. Ted Leonsis
Dan Glickman
Mr. Cal Thomas
Jim Bohannan
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-296-7200 or 301-294-4690
