Past Events and Initiatives for 2006

Event Archives: 2009 - 2008 - 2007

List of Past Events (Most Recent to Least Recent)

• Do visas kill?  The effects of African health professional emigration, November 28, 2006
• The Diaspora Phenomenon at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Ideational, Organizational and Behavioral Challenges, November 16, 2006
• Post-Conflict Economic Investment: The Case of Afghanistan, November 10, 2006
• Policy Challenges and American Competitiveness, October 30, 2006
• Experts Panel Speaks on the topic of "Business and Development", October 25, 2006
• International Migration of Talent and Home Country Development: Toward a Virtuous Cycle, October 24, 2006
• Conflict-Generated Diasporas and Peacebuilding, October 10, 2006
• US-Malaysia Free Trade Negotiations, Summer 2006

Diaspora Seminar Series
November 28
“Do visas kill?  The effects of African health professional emigration”

Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development.

Diaspora Seminar Series
November 16
“The Diaspora Phenomenon at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Ideational, Organizational and Behavioral Challenges.”

Gabriel Sheffer, Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University and Visiting Professor, Duke University. 

Hosted by the Institute of Global and International Studies, as part of its research seminar series.

November 10, 2006
"Post-Conflict Economic Investment: The Case of Afghanistan"

Above: Said T. Jawad, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan speaks at the GW-CIBER-sponsored International Development Forum on “Post-Conflict Economic Investment: The Case of Afghanistan.”

On November 10, 2006, the GW-CIBER held a conference on “Post-Conflict Economic Investment: The Case of Afghanistan.” Special guest, Said T. Jawad, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, provided opening remarks. Other featured discussants comprised business leaders, executives, and scholars, including: Ehsan Bayat, president and CEO, Telephone Systems International & Afghan Wireless; Ajmal Ghani, Chairman, Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC); and Rex Pingle, president, PMD International, Inc.

"Afghan ambassador talks business," by Philipp Lueckgen, The Daily Colonial, November 13, 2006. Click here to read the article, or go to: http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.dc?p=3&s=3425

"Afghanistan's Ambassador stresses the need for economic help," by Sean Redding, The GW Hatchet, November 13, 2006. To read the article go to:
http://www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2006/11/13/
News/Afghanistans.Ambassador.Stresses.The.Need.For.Economic.Help-2454886.shtml

Diaspora Seminar Series
November 7

Laura Hammond, Assistant Professor of International Development. Co-sponsored with the GW Institute for Ethnographic Research.

October 30, 2006
"Policy Challenges and American Competitiveness"

Professor Michael Moore (left) and Douglas Holtz-Eakin (right) speak at the GW-CIBER sponsored event on “Policy Challenges and American Competitiveness.”

On October 30, 2006, the GW-CIBER sponsored a talk on “Policy Challenges and American Competitiveness.” Speakers included: Professor Michael Moore (main event organizer) and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics of the Council on Foreign Relations. The talk explored U.S. competitiveness and domestic policies towards pension and healthcare and their impact on domestic long-term growth prospects.

October 25, 2006
Experts Panel Speaks on the topic of "Business and Development"

On October 25, 2006, the GW-CIBER sponsored a talk on “Business and Development.” The panel discussion focused on how business and development go hand in hand - from the creation of SME's, micro-credit and privatization of business.  Panelist Included: Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Associate Professor of Public Administration, of International Business, and of International Affairs; Kipp Efinger, Program Officer at Center for International Private Enterprise Refreshments will be provided; Rob Weiner, Professor of International Business, Public Policy & Public Administration & International Affairs; Christian Pennotti – Program Officer at QED Group, LLC.

Diaspora Seminar Series
“International Migration of Talent and Home Country Development: Toward a Virtuous Cycle ”
October 24

Yevgeny Kuznetsov, World Bank Institute

Diaspora Seminar Series
“Conflict-Generated Diasporas and Peacebuilding.”
October 10

Terrence Lyons, Associate Professor, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University.

Summer 2006
US-Malaysia Free Trade Negotiations

During the summer of 2006, the GW-CIBER hosted the U.S.-Malaysia Free Trade negotiations. The picture below shows (from the left): Jeri Jensen , Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Southeast Asia and Pacific Affairs; Barbara Weisel, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Southeast Asia, Pacific and Pharmaceutical Policy; Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, Lead negotiator for the Malaysian Delegation; Dr. Rajmah Hussain, Ambassador of Malaysia to the United States of America; and Tan Sri Adul Gani, Attorney General of Malaysia.

To learn more about the negotiations, please click here.