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Oversight of Government Programs and Funds: Domestic and International Structures and Challenges – with Ann Calvaresi Barr

McGlinn Conference Center 460 Saint Bernardine Street, Reading, PA, United States

Former Inspector General Ann Calvaresi Barr led the oversight of activities conducted by USAID, the U.S. African Development Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. In fiscal year 2017, USAID alone managed nearly $30 billion in budgetary resources to provide humanitarian assistance and advance economic growth and democracy […]

How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impacts of Economic Warfare with Dr. Narges Bajoghli

Virtual Event PA, United States

Narges Bajoghli (pronounced: Nar-guess Baa-jogh-lee) is a scholar, public intellectual, and award-winning author whose work explores the intersections of media, power, and resistance in global politics. She serves as the Faculty Lead of  Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and is the co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative. Narges is also the […]

The Status of Women’s Global Leadership with Linda Robinson. An International Women’s Day Event.

McGlinn Conference Center 460 Saint Bernardine Street, Reading, PA, United States

Linda Robinson is senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) where she writes about women's political and economic leadership, the relationship between gender equality and democracy, technology-facilitated violence, and current international affairs. She was previously a senior international researcher and director of the Center for Middle East Public […]

The Role of the Inspector General in the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government with Glenn Fine

McGlinn Conference Center 460 Saint Bernardine Street, Reading, PA, United States

Glenn Fine is a nonresident fellow in the Governance Studies program at The Brookings Institution. Fine served as the Inspector General for the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations. As the Inspector General, he supervised and issued reports of investigations and audits on many high-profile issues facing […]