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John ADAIR, Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust
James ADAMS, Vice President, East Asia and the Pacific, World Bank
Emelia ARTHUR, British Council Development Partner, InterAction, Ghana
Dorothy Hamachi BERRY, Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, International Finance Corporation
Général Lamine CISSE, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the Central African Republic
Juan Jose DABOUB, Managing Director, World Bank
Ambassador Abdoulaye DIOP, Malian Ambassador to the United States
Jennifer L. DORN, President and CEO of the National Academy of Public Administration
Alan GOGBASHIAN, Co-Founder, Center for Leadership Development, Yerevan, Armenia
Manuel HINDS, Former Minister of Finance (El Salvador) and Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
H.E. Ellen JOHNSON-SIRLEAF, President of Republic of Liberia
Daniel KAUFMANN, Director, Global Program, World Bank Institute
Martyn LEWIS, CBE, Journalist and Broadcaster
Rakesh NANGIA, Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute
Dr. Annie McKEE, Cochair and Managing Director, Teleos Leadership Institute
Mr. Brian McQUINN, Conflict Prevention Adviser, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Program
Dr. Henry MINTZBERG, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies
Joy PHUMAPHI, Vice President & Head of Network for Human Development, World Bank
H.E. Haja Nirina RAZAFINJATOVO, Minister of National Education and Scientific Research, Madagascar
Güven SAK, Managing Director of the Turkish Economic Policy Studies Foundation (TEPAV)
Dr. Peter SENGE, Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graham TESKEY, Head of Governance and Social Development, DfID, UK
Vinod THOMAS, Director General, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Dr. Dean WILLIAMS, Chief Advisor to the President of Madagascar
Dr. Howard WOLPE, Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Dr. Lan XUE, Executive Associate Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

 


John ADAIR, Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust

John Adair is a foremost authority on leadership development. Over a million managers worldwide have taken part in the action-centered leadership programs he pioneered. After being a senior lecturer in military history and an advisor in leadership training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, as well as an associate director of the Industrial Society, in 1979 Adair became the world’s first professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Surrey. Between 1981 and 1986, Adair worked with Sir John Harvey-Jones at ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) and introduced a leadership development strategy that helped to change the loss-making, bureaucratic giant into the first British company to make a billion-pound profit. Adair has written over 40 books, translated into many languages. He is also a teacher and consultant. From St. Paul’s School he won a scholarship to Cambridge University. Adair holds the higher degrees of Master of Letters from Oxford and Doctor of Philosophy from King’s College, London, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Recently China awarded Adair the title of Honorary Professor in recognition of his “outstanding research and contribution in the field of Leadership.”

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James ADAMS, Vice President, East Asia and the Pacific, World Bank

Mr. Adams is the Vice President of East Asia & Pacific Regional Office since January 29, 2007. Before that position, he was the Vice President and Network Head, Operations Policy and Country Services, at the World Bank. Since joining the Bank in 1974, he has held a variety of operational positions in East Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Most recently, Adams served as Country Director for Tanzania and Uganda. He has also served as Director for Operations Policy, and as a Division Chief of several departments. Before joining the Bank, Adams worked as a loan officer for Merchants Bank, in Syracuse, New York. Adams studied at Colgate University, and holds an MPA from Princeton University.

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Emelia ARTHUR, British Council Development Partner, InterAction, Ghana

A 2002 Yale World Fellow in Global Leadership Studies, Emelia Arthur has over the past 13 years been engaged in development work at community, national and international levels in leadership, natural resource management (particularly forestry) and project/program management. Currently she works as Director for a community-based rural organization, Integrated Action for Development Initiatives, aimed at strengthening local initiatives for development. Arthur has been consultant to various organizations, including: the World Bank (IDA)/Government of Ghana Small Towns Water Supply Project; Peace Direct UK; the World Conservation Union (IUCN); International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Care International, and the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID). Currently she consults as the Team Leader for British Council’s InterAction Leadership Programme, running in 19 African countries and the UK, which supports dynamic leaders who are innovating, searching for alternatives, and challenging accepted ways of doing things. Arthur serves on the Boards of CARE International’s Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Advisory Group and of the Open Society Initiative in West Africa (OSIWA).

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Dorothy Hamachi BERRY, Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, International Finance Corporation

Berry is playing a leadership role in an organizational change effort to create a flexible, people-oriented IFC that is able to respond to changing client demands and to overcome internal boundaries.  Under Ms. Berry’s leadership, the IFC has received the board of director’s endorsement of innovative compensation practices that are unique in the World Bank Group and are designed to help create a performance culture.

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Général Lamine CISSE, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the Central African Republic

Général Lamine Cisse has served in numerous posts for his country, Senegal, and is currently the Special Representative of the General Secretary of the United Nations in the Central African Republic. Cisse is a former general inspector of the Senegalese Army, and a former minister of Homeland Security in Senegal. A longtime African leader of note, he is also the president of the International Observatory for Democracy, Conflicts and Crisis Management, located in Dakar. As Minister of Homeland Security in Senegal, he helped organize the legislative elections of May 1998, and the presidential election of February–March 2000, which facilitated the smooth political change in Senegal. Cissé is currently based in Bangui as the head of the United Nations office (BONUCA) in the Central African Republic.

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Juan Jose DABOUB, Managing Director, World Bank

Mr. Daboub is the World Bank Managing Director for Operations since July 1, 2006. Most recently he was El Salvador’s Minister of Finance, with responsibilities for international financial institutions, including the World Bank, IMF, and Inter-American Development Bank. Before that, he served as Chief of Staff to the President of El Salvador. After completing his PhD, Daboub led a family-owned business for nearly a decade before joining the Board of CEL, El Salvador’s electric utility. After preparing CEL for privatization, he was named President of ANTEL, the state-owned telecommunications company, which he led through union negotiations and privatization.

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H.E. Ambassador Abdoulaye DIOP, Malian Ambassador to the United States

His Excellency Ambassador Abdoulaye Diop has, throughout his long and illustrious diplomatic career, been instrumental in advising top officials and in carrying out negotiations that result in signed accords with a variety of other states. Just a few of his many accomplishments in this regard include: acting, from 2000 to 2003, as the diplomatic advisor to two heads of state and helping boost the subregional integration process; joining several national delegations that attended regional and international conferences to discuss issues such as regional integration, economic development, peace, and security; overseeing Mali’s participation in the Security Council of the United Nations in 2000 and 2001, acting as the advisor to the minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of political and diplomatic issues (1999–2000); handling multilateral cooperation issues at the Mali Embassy in Belgium (1998–1999), and participating in the negotiations and the signing of several agreements between Mali and the European Commission. Diop holds an MA in International Relations from the Paris International Institute of Public Administration, an MA in Diplomacy and Management of International Organizations from the University of Paris XI, and a BA in Diplomacy from the National School of Administration of Algeria.

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Jennifer L. DORN, President and CEO of the National Academy of Public Administration

Jennifer L. Dorn (Jenna) is the president and CEO of the National Academy of Public Administration. Dorn has been a fellow of the academy since 1992, and previously served on the academy’s board of directors. Dorn brings nearly 30 years of management experience to the academy, having led multibillion dollar federal agencies as well as not-for-profit organizations. She has been appointed by the President of the United States to four senior leadership posts in government. Dorn has also served as the U.S. representative on the Board of Directors of the World Bank Group and as the administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, which provides over $7 billion in financial assistance each year to develop new transit systems and to improve, maintain, and operate hundreds of existing transit systems throughout the US. She also has served as the assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Labor and as the associate deputy secretary of Transportation. Her not-for-profit leadership posts include Senior Vice President of the American National Red Cross and President of the National Health Museum. Dorn is a graduate of Oregon State University and received an MA in Public Administration from the University of Connecticut.

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Alan GOGBASHIAN, Co-Founder, Center for Leadership Development, Yerevan, Armenia

Alan Gogbashian is president and co-founder of the Center for Leadership Development (CLD) in Yerevan, Armenia. He co-founded CLD in 2000 with a mission to equip and develop a new generation of leaders of integrity and excellence to bring positive transformation to all spheres. Since its inception more than 200 students have completed CLD’s leadership training program and have gone on to bring transformational change in the fields of politics, business, medicine, education, law and the arts. Prior to his work in leadership development, Gogbashian worked as a corporate attorney in London and Paris and went on to work as Chief of Party for USAID’s privatization program in Armenia. He is currently completing an executive MBA at Imperial College London.

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Manuel HINDS, Former Minister of Finance (El Salvador) and Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Manuel Hinds has served as minister of finance in El Salvador twice—first in 1979–1980, then 1995–1999. He has also worked with the World Bank Group as a consultant for the private and public sector, and in various positions in the private sector. He is a member of the team evaluating the Financial Sector Appraisal Projects of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and Advisor to: the Central American Bank of Economic Integration; the IDB, on the Dominican Republic; the President of El Salvador, on monetary issues; the Bankers’ Association of Bolivia, on the current situation of the banking system; the Minister of Finance, of Ecuador; the President of El Salvador, on the dollarization of the country, and, more recentl,y on the negotiation of a Free Trade Agreement with the United States; and to the Finance Committee of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development, of which he is also a member. He wrote a major paper for the World Bank on the future role of the World Bank in the financial development of Third World countries, as well as a paper for the Center for Global Development, of Washington DC, on the role of the regional development banks in rebuilding the international financial architecture. He has also given expert testimony before the U.S. Senate. Hinds is an industrial engineer with an MA in economics from Northwestern University, Illinois.

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H. E. Ellen JOHNSON-SIRLEAF, President of Republic of Liberia

The first woman ever elected head of an African state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the President of Liberia. She served in the early 1970s as Liberia’s Finance Minister under President William Tolbert. After Tolbert was deposed and executed, Johnson-Sirleaf left Liberia to avoid detention by his successor, Samuel K. Doe, and spent most of the 1980s in Kenya and the United States as an executive in the international banking community. After ceding in the election of 1997, she again left the country to avoid President Taylor’s charges of treason. Called the “iron lady” of Liberian politics, “Ma” Johnson-Sirleaf returned to Liberia after Taylor fled to Nigeria in 2003. As the standard-bearer for the Unity Party, she ran again for the presidency in 2005, promising economic development and an end to corruption and civil war and beat out George Weah in a run-off election in November of 2005. She ascended the presidency the following January. Johnson-Sirleaf studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder and obtained an MA from Harvard University.

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Daniel KAUFMANN, Director, Global Program, World Bank Institute

Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries on governance and development, Kaufmann, with his team, has pioneered new approaches to analyze country governance as well as survey methodologies and indicators for good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world. He heads the work on Global Governance and Anti-Corruption, and previously held positions at the World Bank which include managing a team on Finance, Regulation and Governance, heading capacity building for Latin America, and also serving as Lead Economist both in economies in transition as well as in the Bank's research department. His research on economic development has been published in leading journals, and his work is frequently featured in international media and policy circles. A Chilean national, Kaufmann received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Martyn LEWIS, CBE, Journalist and Broadcaster, Chairman of Telaris and YouthNet and Trustee of the Windsor Leadership Trust

A preeminent journalist, Martyn Lewis was a news presenter on HTV and ITN before joining the BBC in 1986 to present BBC News bulletins. Lewis became the first presenter of the One O’Clock News on BBC One on October 27, 1986, when it launched as part of the introduction of the channel’s daytime schedule, replacing News After Noon. Lewis was a long-running host, from 1992, of the BBC news-based quiz show Today’s the Day and appeared on Have I Got News for You in 1993. He retired from newsreading in 1999 and has since presented occasional programs on ITV, including Dateline Jerusalem and Ultimate Questions. Lewis was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire)in 1997 for his service to young people and the hospice movement. He is president of United Response, a charity providing homes in the community for people with learning disabilities. Lewis has also concentrates on the charity YouthNet UK, which he founded in 1995, and has been the charity’s chairman since its inception.

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Rakesh NANGIA, Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Mr. Nangia is the World Bank Institute (WBI) Director of Operations, a position he assumed in September 2006. In that role, he manages WBI’s day-to-day operations, ensures delivery of a quality work program, provides strategic vision and ensures its operationalization, promotes stronger teamwork among WBI’s leadership team and among the staff, coordinates WBI’s positions on key institutional priorities, and represents WBI at both internal and external events. With the resignation of the Vice President and until a replacement is found, Nangia has been appointed Acting Vice President, WBI, effective March 16, 2007. In his more than 20 years in the World Bank, Nangia’s career has spanned a wide range of countries and positions, including development work in South Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and East Asia. Nangia attended the Indian Institute of Technology, the University of London, and Harvard University and holds degrees in business administration and engineering.

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Dr. Annie McKEE, PhD, Co-Chair and Managing Director, Teleos Leadership Institute

Annie McKee is an active writer and public speaker and co-founded the Teleos Leadership Institute with Frances Johnston in January 2001. Their vision: a values-based, professional consulting firm that encourages and develops values-based leadership around the world. McKee serves on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and teaches at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education. She has published numerous books and articles and has consulted to leaders internationally for over 10 years. She served as the managing director of the Center for Professional Development at the University of Pennsylvania and contributes to the growth of her field by writing and editing professional journals, and by providing pro bono services for nongovernmental agencies, both locally and internationally. McKee received her doctorate in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University and her BA, summa cum laude, from Chaminade University of Honolulu. She continues the study of her discipline with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Institut für Gestaltorientierte Organisationsberatung of Frankfurt, Germany.

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Mr. Brian McQUINN, Conflict Prevention Adviser, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Program

Prior to joining UNDP/BCPR, McQuinn was Assistant Director of The Carter Center's Conflict Resolution Program in Atlanta, Georgia. During his tenure at the Center, he focused primarily on initiatives related to conflict prevention, religion and politics, and most recently, managing the Center's efforts to support the Nepal peace process. McQuinn’s principal career focus has been the application of group negotiation and dialogue processes in addressing conflict. As a dialogue practitioner and researcher he brings a range of experience, from supporting peace processes in East Timor and Nepal, to training and mentoring facilitators involved in inter-ethnic/inter-religious dialogue in the Balkans, Indonesia, and Rwanda. He has also designed and guided strategic planning discussions in government, military, and INGO settings. McQuinn is an Honored Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution. He earned his Master's degree from the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute and a Bachelor's degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada.

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Dr. Henry MINTZBERG, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies

Henry Mintzberg is a preeminent academic of long standing. He is currently a Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University. He also holds the title of visiting scholar at INSEAD (European Institute for Business Administration) in Fontainbleau, France. Mintzberg devotes himself largely to his writing and research in the areas of managerial work, strategy formation, and forms of organizing, topic on which he is recognized as a leading authority. Mintzberg has worked for much of the past seven years in collaboration with colleagues from Canada, England, France, India, and Japan to develop new approaches to management education. In all, Mintzberg has written about 120 articles and 10 books, and he was selected as the Distinguished Scholar for the Year 2000 by the Academy of Management. Mintzberg graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a degree in mechanical engineering, and received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968.

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Joy PHUMAPHI, Vice President & Head of Network for Human Development, World Bank

A Botswana national, Ms. Phumaphi joins the Bank from the World Health Organization. She began public service in Botswana as a local government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to serve in Parliament and as a representative to the Southern African Development Community. She entered the Cabinet with responsibility for lands and housing and developed the first national housing policy. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for Health, where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. Since 2003, Phumaphi has worked at the World Health Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health Department, managing a staff of over 1100 globally, and has worked with colleagues at the Bank as the World Health Organization's representative to the GAVI Board. Phumaphi holds a Master of Science degree in Financial Accounting and Decision Sciences from Miami University, Ohio.

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H.E. Haja Nirina RAZAFINJATOVO, Minister of National Education and Scientific Research, Madagascar

Haja Nirina Razafinjatovo has received awards for his teaching ( Florida International University, James Madison University, and the University of Connecticut) and served as a Computer Specialist at the US Embassy in Antananarivo. After the election, President Marc Ravalomanana appointed Razafinjatovo Minister of Posts and Telecommunication, where he tackled the privatization of the incumbent state operator. Since becoming the Minister of National Education and Scientific Research in January 2004, his ambition is to contribute maximally to the installation of a renewed Malagasy educational system, in which Malagasy youth can expect quality education and to reach their full potential as contributing citizens of Madagascar. Razafinjatovo holds an MA and PhD in Applied Math, specializing in Signal Processing, from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.

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Güven SAK, Managing Director of the Turkish Economic Policy Studies Foundation (TEPAV)

Dr. Sak is also Vice-President and Professor of Economics in the TOBB Economics and Technology University (TOBB-ETU). He writes a regular column in Referans, Turkey's business daily newspaper. Sak was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Turkey between 2001 and 2006. He was head of research at the Capital Markets Board in Ankara from 1984 to 1995, leading a project for the modernization of Turkey's capital markets in 1991-1992. From 1995 to 1999 he headed a research project on the reform of social security in Turkey. Before coming to TOBB-ETU in 2006, he was Professor of Economics at the Ankara University Public Economics Department, having joined the faculty in 1995. He has written numerous articles and full-length studies on the Turkish economy and Turkey's financial system and public finance. Sak completed a PhD in economics in Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara and holds prior degrees from University of East Anglia and METU.

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Dr. Peter SENGE, Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Peter Senge, PhD, is highly celebrated in the field of Organizational Development. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants that aims “to increase our capacity to collectively realize our highest aspirations and productively resolve our differences through the mutual development of people and institutions.” The Journal of Business Strategy named him a “Strategist of the Century,” 1 of 24 men and women who have “had the greatest impact on the way we conduct business today” (September/October 1999). His special interest is on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations, so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively toward common goals. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools that can help create economic and organizational change. He has worked with leaders in business, education, health care, and government.

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Graham TESKEY, Head of Governance and Social Development, Department for International Development (DfID), UK

Graham Teskey is head of Governance and Social development in DFID. After graduate studies in economics and planning, Graham spent six years as working as an economist in the south Pacific. From 1985-1993 he taught development studies at the Development and Project Planning Centre at the University of Bradford in the north of England, a period which included two years in rural Tanzania working for NORAD. He joined DFID (ODA) as an economist in 1993, and since then has had spells in Fiji, London, Nairobi and Uganda. Now working in London, Graham was Head of Africa Policy Department until 2005, when he took up his current post of Deputy Director in Policy and Research Division. He oversaw the governance dimensions of the UK Government's 2006 White paper and is now working on a range of issues relating to state-building and democratisation.

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Vinod THOMAS, Director General, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank

Mr. Thomas is the Director-General, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) at the World Bank Group. He reports directly to the Board of Executive Directors. He was formerly Country Director for Brazil and a Vice President at the World Bank, a position that he held from 2001 to 2005. Prior to 2001, he was Vice President of the World Bank Institute (WBI). Prior to heading WBI, he held positions as Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific Region. He is the author of over 12 books and numerous journal articles. Before joining the Bank, Thomas lectured at Vassar College. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

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Dr. Dean WILLIAMS, Chief Advisor to the President of Madagascar

Dean Williams is the Chief Adviser to the President of Madagascar. He has been working with the President for four years on the leadership strategies for rapid development and transformation of the nation. He is also a faculty member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where he teaches public leadership. He has consulted to corporations, governments, educational systems, and non-profit organizations all over the world. Some of the governments and projects he has worked for include: East Timor on leadership development and conflict resolution; Singapore on organizational change; Brunei on civil service reform; the Queensland educational system in Australia on large scale change; superintendents of education in the United States on leadership development and system reform; and civic leadership development in Colombia, South America.

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Dr. Howard WOLPE, Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Howard Wolpe, a former seven-term Member of Congress and former Presidential Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes Region, is also Director of the Center’s Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. For ten of his fourteen years in the Congress, Wolpe chaired the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He has taught at Western Michigan University (Political Science Department) and the University of Michigan (Institute of Public Policy Studies), and has served as a Visiting Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, as a Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, and as a consultant to the World Bank and to the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. Wolpe is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), of the Board of Directors of Africare, and of the Advisory Board of Coexistence International. Wolpe received his B.A. degree from Reed College, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Dr. Lan XUE, Executive Associate Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Lan Xue is professor and Executive Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management and Executive Vice President of the Development Research Academy for the 21 st Century at Tsinghua University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Fellow of IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. His teaching and research interests include public policy analysis and management, science and technology policy, and crisis management. Xue taught at the George Washington University in the United States before returning to China in 1996. He has served as a policy advisor for many Chinese government agencies and has consulted for the World Bank, APEC, (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation), IDRC (International Development Research Council), and other international organizations. He currently serves as a Vice President of the Chinese Association of Science and S&T Policy, and as the Deputy Secretary General of the National Steering Committee for MPA (Management & Public Administration) Education. Xue is a member of the Policy Committee on Developing Countries, International Council for Science Unions, and an advisory member of Research on Knowledge Systems, IDRC, and others. He is on the board of SciDev.Net, an international nonprofit organization aimed at promoting science and technology for internal development. Xue holds a PhD in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

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