How Lessons Learned From British System Of Foreign Aid Can Help Modernize And Improve Foreign Aid In The USA

Save the Children
will host a panel discussion of experts examining the British system
of foreign aid, with a special focus on how the United Kingdom's
Department of International Development (DFID) might serve as a model
to modernize and improve foreign aid in the United States.




Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Time: 3:30 - 5:00

Location: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2200, Washington, D.C.

Media Contact: Mike Kiernan, 202-640-6630, mkiernansavechildren




Moderator: Ambassador Michael Klosson, Associate Vice President &
Chief Policy Officer, Save the Children; Formerly U.S. Ambassador to
Cyprus and Foreign Service officer with 27 years of experience in
Europe and East Asia.



Panelists:



Richard Manning, Chair of the Institute of Development Studies;
former Chair of the Development Assistance Committee for the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); with
more than 35 years at DFID ending as the Director-General (Policy).



Bill Anderson, Former USAID Mission Director/career Senior Foreign
Service Officer; former USAID Development Advisor to the European
Command (EUCOM); previously an appropriations aide to Rep. Clarence
D. Long, Chairman of the House Foreign Aid Appropriations
Subcommittee.



Caroline Sergeant, DFID Senior Civil Servant with over twenty years
of development experience in Africa and Asia; former Head of DFID
Office in Tanzania; and former UK Alternate Executive Director at the
World Bank.



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