The Global Philanthropy Forum presents Policy R&D: Informing Policy in the Developed and Developing World with Ruth Levine (Moderator) and panelists Jessica T. Mathews, Andrew S. Natsios and Pedro Sanchez.
Bio
Ruth Levine
Director of Programs and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development.
Jessica T. Mathews
Jessica Mathews is President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Andrew S. Natsios
Andrew Natsios was the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)from 2001-2005. USAID is the government agency that administers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide.
President Bush has also appointed him Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coor-dinator for the Sudan.
Natsios served previously at USAID, first as director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from 1989 to 1991 and then as assistant administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitar-ian Assistance (now the Bureau for Humanitarian Response) from 1991 to January 1993.
Now Natsios is a professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Pedro Sanchez
Director, Tropical Agriculture and Senior Research Scholar, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, Senior Science Advisor, The Millennium Village Project, The Earth Institute, Columbia University.