Distinguished Lecture Series
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
November 29, 2010
Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world's most influential development economists. He is the author of "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet" (2008) and "The End of Poverty," his seminal 2005 prescription for ending extreme poverty in the world by 2025. In addition to his work at Columbia University, Sachs is the Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.
Co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
November 10, 2010
Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews is President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910, its work is international, nonpartisan, and dedicated to achieving practical results. The Endowment has locally staffed research offices in five countries and publishes in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, and English. Dr. Mathews, who holds a PhD in molecular biology, has held positions in the executive and legislative branches, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism.
Co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Marek Belka
President, National Bank of Poland and former Director of IMF's European Department
October 12, 2010
Marek Belka is President of the National Bank of Poland and former Director of the IMF's European Department. He was previously Under-Secretary General at the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe. Belka served as the Prime Minister of Poland from 2004-05, and was Poland's Deputy Prime Minister in 1997 and Minister of Finance from 2001-02.
Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, the Center for European Studies-European Union Center , and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 
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Eric Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University
March 10, 2010
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has been a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues, and his work on efficiency, resource usage, and economic outcomes of schools has frequently entered into the design of both national and international educational policy. His research spans such diverse areas as the impacts of teacher quality, high stakes accountability, and class size reduction on achievement and the role of cognitive skills in international growth and development. His pioneering analysis measuring teacher quality through student achievement forms the basis for current research into the value-added of teachers and schools.
He is chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. He currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences. This event is cosponsored by the Center for Local, State and Urban Policy (CLOSUP).
Senator Chuck Hagel
Georgetown University and University of Nebraska, Omaha
A 2009 Citigroup Foundation Lecture
October 7, 2009
Chuck Hagel is a Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is Chairman of the Atlantic Council and a Member of the Secretary of Defense's Defense Policy Board. He serves on the Advisory Boards of Deutsche Bank Americas; Corsair Capital; is a Director of Wolfensohn and Company; Senior Advisor to McCarthy Capital Corporation; and a member of Pfizer's Emerging Markets and European Advisory Boards.
Paul Krugman
Princeton University and The New York Times
A 2009 Citigroup Foundation Lecture
October 5, 2009
Paul Krugman is an economist and prolific writer who divides his energies among many pursuits: he is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, a centenary professor at the London School of Economics, and, perhaps his best-known job, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times.
Krugman was recently honored for his work on global trade patterns by winning the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In recognition of his influence The Washington Monthly called him "the most important political columnist in America".
Edward S. Walker
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates
March 29, 2007
Edward S. Walker is one of the foremost U.S. experts on the politics of the Middle East. He served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs under both Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell (2000-2001), US Ambassador to Israel (1997-1999), US Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt (1994-1997), U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (1989-1992) and as Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations (1992-1993).
Upon retirement from the U.S. government he became the president of Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. In 2006 he stepped down from his post at the Middle East Institute, where he remains an adjunct scholar, to become the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.
Over the course of his nearly 35 years in the U.S. foreign service Edward Walker has worked closely with most of the major political leaders of the contemporary Middle East, including every Israeli Prime Minister since Golda Meier, Presidents Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Hafez and Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Kind Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, as well as Kings Hussein and Abdullah of Jordan. He played a pivotal role in the design of the Gore-Mubarak economic development program for Egypt, and helped to initiate the negotiations with Libya which culminated in Libya’s decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction program and pay compensation to the families of Pan Am flight 103 and UTA flight 772. He continues to be involved in Middle Eastern affairs through a range of private sector projects, including advising services to Israeli companies seeking US investors and business strategy consulting for US companies interested in expansion throughout the Middle East.
Danny Leipziger
Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) and Head of the PREM Network at World Bank
November 7, 2006
Danny Leipziger is the Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) and Head of the PREM Network of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and analytic work for the World Bank's client countries. In this capacity he provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance. He is heavily involved in positioning the Bank on major economic policy issues and in managing the Bank's overall interactions on these issues with key partner institutions - including the IMF, OECD, regional development banks and the European Union. He works closely with Regional Vice Presidents on leading edge and cross-country economic matters.
Previous Bank assignments include Director for Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure in the Latin America and Caribbean Region and managerial assignments at the World Bank Institute and in the East Asia and Pacific Region of the Bank. Career highlights include leading the Bank's first ($3 billion) economic recovery loan for Korea in 1997, managing the program of bank restructuring in Argentina in the post-Tequila financial crisis in 1995, and opening the economic dialogue with Vietnam in 1989-1990. Dr. Leipziger previously served in the Economic Bureau of the U.S. Department of State and on its Policy Planning Staff, where he was an economic advisor to the Secretary of State, as well as in USAID. Dr. Leipziger was Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University (2001-2004).
Kemal Derviş
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
A 2006 Citigroup Foundation Lecture
October 25, 2006
Kemal Derviş, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, gave the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy's Citigroup Lecture on October 25, 2006. Kemal Derviş was Turkey’s Minister for Economic Affairs and the Treasury and is now the head of the United Nations Development Programme, the UN's global development network. He is also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues, and was recently appointed as a member of the High Level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance and the Environment.
Prior to his appointment with UNDP, Mr. Derviş was a member of the Turkish Parliament representing Istanbul from 2002 to 2005, after he had been Minister for Economic Affairs and the Treasury from 2001-2002. During his time as a parliamentarian he represented the Turkish Parliament in the Constitutional Convention on the Future of Europe. From 1977-2001 Mr. Dervis held various positions at the World Bank including Vice-President for the Middle East and North Africa Region and Vice-President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
Dawei Liu
Chief Financial Officer, China Development Bank
Professor, Graduate School, China People’s Bank
October 18, 2006
Dawei Liu is the Chief Financial Officer of China Development Bank and Professor at the Graduate School of China People’s Bank. Through its role as a development financial institution of the government of China, China Development Bank has been an implementer of development financing while strengthening the competitiveness of China and improving the living standard of its people. Prior to joining the China Development Bank, Professor Liu served in various roles such as the Director of Research with the Beijing Municipal Government, the President of the China XinDa Trust Investment Company, and as the President of the China Investment Bank. In 2004 he presented case studies on infrastructure projects at the Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Forum.
Professor Liu has a degree from the Capital-University of Economics and Business of China and was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Banking and Finance, UNSW in Australia. He is the main editor of the book “Development Finance in China.”
Jean Lemierre
President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
A 2006 Citigroup Foundation Lecture
February 16, 2006
Jean Lemierre has been President of the EBRD since July 2000. His long and distinguished career in international finance also includes serving as Chair of the European Economic and Financial Committee, Chair of the Paris Club, Head of the French Private Office of the Minister of Economy and Finance, Director of France's Treasury, Head of France's Internal Revenue Service, and Head of the Tax Policy Administration.