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AGENDA – 2010 USAID ECONOMIC GROWTH OFFICERS’ CONFERENCE
Academy for Educational Development
1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
June 21 – 25, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010 – THE CURRENT STATE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Topic Speaker(s) Moderator
8:00 am – 9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
Mary C. Ott
1. Welcome TBD
Plenary
Acting DAA, EGAT
9:00 am – 10:30am
Rajiv Shah (TBC)
2. Opening Address
Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance
10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee and Networking Break
Plenary
3. The Efficacy of Economic Leonardo
11:00 am – 12:30 pm TBD
Development Assistance Martinez-Diaz
Plenary
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch Event: TBD TBD TBD
Anne-Marie Slaughter –
Department of State (TBC)
Plenary
4. Rethinking U.S. Foreign Leonardo
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Gayle Smith – National Security
Assistance Martinez-Diaz
Council (TBC)
TBD – USAID
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee and Networking Break
Wade Warren – USAID / F
5. Implications of Foreign
Skip Waskin – USAID
Assistance Reform, including
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Bette Cooke – USAID Thomas Johnson
PSD-7 and QDDR Exercises, for
Thomas Johnson – USAID / COO
Economic Growth Officers
George Ingram – MFA Network
Breakout
6. Approaches to Development: Ken Baum /
TBD
Productivity or Policy? Wade Channell
David Ostermeyer – USAID/CFO
7. Aid Effectiveness: Alignment Tom Rishoi – USAID/PPL
Thomas Briggs
and Harmonization Bill Reynolds – USAID/OAA
Thomas Briggs – USAID/PPL
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Reception for All Conference Attendees
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE /
INNOVATIONS IN ECONOMIC GROWTH
Topic Speaker(s) Moderator
8:00 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast and Daily Overview
8. Global Climate Change: The
Adele C. Morris – Brookings
Economics of Global Climate Gary Linden
Institution
Plenary Change Policy
8:30 am – 10:30am
9. Global Climate Change: The
Impact of Climate Change on Gerald Nelson – IFPRI Don Sillers
Agriculture
10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee and Networking Break
Paul Bodnar – Dept. of State/OES
Plenary
10. Global Climate Change:
Avery Ouellette – USAID
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Leveraging Investment Flows Anastasia Liu
Huang Zheng – USAID
for Mitigation
Bill Baldridge – USAID
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
11. Global Climate Change:
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Low-Carbon Development Dan Bilello – NREL Anastasia Liu
Strategies
Breakout
12. Global Climate Change:
Collin Green – USAID Collin Green
Clean Energy Investments
13. Global Climate Change:
Natural and Agricultural Patrick Smith – USAID Patrick Smith
Landscape Management
14. Global Climate Change: David Wheeler – CGD
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Rob Schneider
Advance Market Commitments Matthew Hoffman – CGD
Breakout
15. Global Climate Change:
Wiley Barbour – Camco North
Carbon Market Financial Anastasia Liu
America
Mechanisms
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee and Networking Break
Sendhil Mullainathan – Poverty
16. A Behavioral Approach to
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Action Lab / Harvard University Rachel Bahn
Economic Development
Michael Kremer – Harvard Univ.
17. ICT in Business
TBD Cory O’Hara
Environment Reform
18. Reinventing Government: HE Minister Emad Fakhoury –
Breakout
Designing Programs to Enhance Government of Jordan
Mark Gallagher
Public Sector Effectiveness & Widad Qutaishat – DAI
Performance Dr. Emil Bolongaita – MSI
Sheila Young – USAID
19. Host-Country Cash
Anne Marie del Castillo – USAID Bill Baldridge
Transfers
Lora Kudaibergenova – USAID
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm Daily Wrap-Up
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010 – THE GLOBAL HUNGER & FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE /
TRENDS IN ECONOMIC GROWTH
Topic Speaker(s) Moderator
8:00 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast and Daily Overview
Ambassador Bill Garvelink –
20. Implementing the GHFSI:
USG Deputy Food Security Mike Yates
Meeting Program Challenges
Coordinator for Development
21. GHFSI: Food Security
Plenary
Phil Steffen – USAID/EGAT/AG TBD
8:30 am – 10:30am Concepts
22. Implementing the GHFSI: Josette Lewis –
TBD
Planning and Issues USAID/EGAT/AG
23. Implementing the GHFSI:
TBD – USAID TBD
Tales from the Front
10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee and Networking Break
24. Food Security by the
Numbers: Building Data
Collection Capacity, Measuring Leonardo Martinez-Diaz –
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Rachel Bahn
Food Insecurity, and Estimating USAID/EGAT/AA
the Benefits of Food Security
Investments
Breakout
25. Financing Food Security:
Finance Options, Index-Based Michael Carter – UC Davis
Lena Heron
Weather Insurance, and Michael Kremer – Harvard Univ.
Nudging Farmer Behavior
26. In Quest of an Enabling
Jeremy Schanck – Nathan Assoc.
Policy Environment: Making the
Niel Rassumen – WATH
Right Choices, Security of Land Wade Channell
TBD –
Tenure, Agriculture Input
Access, and Trade Corridors
Lunch Event: Reflections on
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Arnold Harberger
Service with USAID (TBC)
Steve Kapsos – ILO / Geneva
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm 27. Labor Markets Glenn Rogers
TBD – USAID
Melissa Scudo – Chemonics
28. Access to and Innovations
Eve Hamilton – Chemonics
Breakout
Bill Baldridge
in Financial Services
Michael Gold – Crimson Capital
29. Cost-Benefit Analysis TBD Mark Gellerson
Michael Sullivan – Dept of State
Mark
30. Extractive Industries Christina del Castillo – USAID
Schlagenhauf
Gail Spence – USAID
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee and Networking Break
31. Private Sector Alliances for Todd Kirkbride /
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm TBD
Economic Growth Rob Schneider
Breakout
32. Business Enabling
TBD – World Bank Cory O’Hara
Environment / DBI Update
33. Microenterprise Devt. John Wasielewski Allyn Moushey
34. Monitoring and Evaluation
TBD Brian Scholl
for Economic Growth
5:30 pm – 5:45 pm Daily Wrap-Up
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Thursday, June 24, 2010 – LESSONS AND LINKAGES FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
Topic Speaker(s) Moderator
8:00 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast and Daily Overview
35. Growth Diagnostics and
8:30 am – 10:00am Dino Merotto, World Bank Don Sillers
Constraints Analyses
36. Creating Economic
Coherence Through Policy Daniel W. Bromley – University Ken Baum /
Reform: The New Development of Wisconsin Wade Channell
Imperative
Jonathon Ortmanns – Kaufmann
37. Practical Methods to Foundation
Breakout
Promote Entrepreneurship and David Ferguson – USAID / ODP Steve Silcox
Innovation Steven Koltai – Dept of State
Maha Mousa – USAID / Jordan
Lewis Tatem – USAID
Stephen Eastham – USAID
Neal Nathanson, USAID
38. Regional Focus: Europe and Richard Johnson – USAID
Maureen Dugan
Eurasia Hugh Haworth – USAID
James Stein – USAID/Serbia
Joseph Lessard –
USAID/Macedonia
10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee and Networking Break
Ngozi Okonjo-Nweala – World
Bank (TBC)
39. Combating Corruption in
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Jeremy Weinstein – Stanford David Dod
Conflict-Affected States
University / NSC
Mark Karns – USAID
TBD – OMB
40. Regulatory Impact
Breakout
TBD – DAI Cory O’Hara
Assessment
TBD – OECD
Neal Nathanson – USAID
41. A New Competiveness Steve Silcox – USAID
Neal Nathanson
Vision Arnold Harberger – USAID
David Snelbecker – Sibley Intl.
42. Infrastructure Vivien Foster – World Bank Ken Baum
Lunch Event: Non-Project
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Assistance – The Case of Juan Carlos Rodriguez – USAID
Uganda’s NUDEIL Program
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43. Social Safety Nets,
Simona Marinescu – UNDP Bill Baldridge /
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Consumer Protection, and
Sue Rutledge – World Bank Anastasia Liu
Financial Literacy
44. China, Investment, and
Breakout
Vivien Foster – World Bank Karen Turner
Economic Development
Joseph Nye – George Mason
45. Institutional Economics Bill Butterfield
University
Maury
46. Economic Growth and
TBD Mendenhall /
Vulnerable Populations
Jason Wolfe
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Coffee and Networking Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 47. How to Be an Effective EG
Mary C. Ott Mary C. Ott
USAID ONLY Officer
Breakout
Sharon Cromer
Braden Enroth
48. Procurement for EG Charity Benson Hugh Haworth
Mark Karns
James Stein
Mary C. Ott
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm 49. Technical Competencies: Deborah Kennedy
Steve Hadley
USAID ONLY BS 11 and BS 21 David McLoud
Breakout
Gary Linden
50. State-USAID Cooperation: Skip Kissinger
How USAID Can Leverage Jennifer Wilson Nick Klissas
Expertise and Funding John Andre (TBC)
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm Daily Wrap-Up
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Friday, June 25, 2010 – CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
Topic Speaker(s) Moderator
8:00 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast and Daily Overview
51. Improving Host Eileen Browne – DAI
Government Service Delivery: Mike Keshishian – USAID
8:30 am – 10:00am David Dod
USAID Experience from Liberia Craig Buck – Emerging Markets
and Kosovo Group (TBC)
52. The Politics and Economics Jesse Ribot – University of Wade Channell /
of Place Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ed Connerly
Breakout
Dilip Ratha – World Bank
AnnaLee Saxenian – UC Leonardo
53. Migration and Development
Berkeley Martinez-Diaz
Neil Ruiz – World Bank
54. Regional Focus: Sub- David Atwood – USAID
Jerry Wolgin
Saharan Africa Eric Loken – USAID
10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee and Networking Break
55. The IMF’s New Thinking
10:30 am – 12:00 pm on Macro Policy – Implications TBD, World Bank / USED Don Sillers
for Developing Countries
Brian Bacon – NSC
56. EG in Conflict
Breakout
Barbara Smith – NSC/USAID
Environments and Civ-Mil Tyler Holt
Alan Van Egmond – USAID
Cooperation
Lt. Col. Skip Nordhoff – USAID
57. Regional Focus: Sub- David Atwood – USAID
Jerry Wolgin
Saharan Africa Eric Loken – USAID
Lunch Event: USAID Economic
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Growth Programming – Bruce Bolnick – Nathan Assoc. Stu Callison
Ultimate Impacts
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Conference Conclusion
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