President of Refugees International
Gaza, Ukraine, and the Rising Tide of Refugees: Is the Refugee Convention Fit for the 21st Century?
DATE: April 4, 2024 6:00 pm
LOCATION: World Trade Center Baltimore
President of Refugees International, 2023-Present
Member of the World Health Organization’s high-level Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee,2024
U.S. representative to the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,2024
U.S. representative and chair of the OCHA Donor Support Group,2024
Lead Official of the US Global Monkeypox Response, USAID, 2022
Executive Director for COVID-19, USAID, 2022
Agency Review Teams for Biden Presidential Transition, 2020-2021
Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development, 2017 – 2021
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, 2017 – 2020
Director of USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, 2013 – 2017
Director of Policy and Advocacy, Mercy Corps, 2008 – 2013
Country Director, American Refugee Committee, 2003 – 2008
Refugee Officer, The U.S. State Department 2002 – 2003
Program Manager in Albania and Program Director in Kosovo, International Aid Inc, 1999 – 2001
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Calvin College
Master of Science in Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Publications and interviews
U.S. Policymakers’ Lessons from Yemen for Gaza
To Fix the COVID-19 Testing Gap, Take a Lesson from GM (or the Pentagon)
Lessons Ignored: John Bolton’s Bogus Defense of “Streamlining” Away Our Bio-Readiness
Related Publications about the topic
The Refugee Convention is dead: let’s bury it and start again
The World Needs a New Refugee Convention.
The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention? Dilemmas of Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Human Rights
Other Readings:
Three lessons from Europe’s response to Ukrainian migration
Abuse, Corruption, and Accountability: Time to Reassess EU & U.S. Migration Cooperation with Tunisia
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