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Nancy Birdsall leads a discussion with Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Michael Froman, who gave remarks at CGD in July 2012 on the Obama administration's economic strategy for Africa.[/caption]
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Senior Fellow and Director of Global Health Policy Amanda Glassman speaks in a panel at the XIX International AIDS Conference in July 2012 regarding opportunities to exploit available policy instruments for improving value for money in HIV/AIDS and other disease treatments.[/caption]
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Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow Todd Moss chairs the discussion at the annual Partners Council Summit in November 2012, which explored the development agenda for President Obama as he began his second term in office.[/caption]
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The Center’s communications and outreach became more multimedia-savvy throughout 2012, with more whiteboard video talks, increasing presence on social media, and live-streaming of events.[/caption]
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered the keynote address at a CGD event on the Rio+20 Summit in April 2012, highlighting the UN initiative on sustainable energy access for all.[/caption]
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Partners Council members Smita Singh (also on CGD’s Board of Directors), Byron Auguste of McKinsey and the Hewlett Foundation’s Advisory Board, and Whitney Schneidman at the Board dinner following the seventh annual Sabot Lecture in April 2012.[/caption]
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CGD Board members David F. Gordon, Qazi Munir Alam, and Patty Stonesifer at the Center’s annual Board meeting, which is held in April of every year.[/caption]
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Nancy Birdsall with Indonesian Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy and candidate for Director-General of the World Trade Organization Mari Pangestu, and Senior Fellow Kim Elliott at a private luncheon in January 2013 about the future of the WTO.[/caption]
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Professor of Latin American Economics in the Department of Economics at Tulane and CGD Non-Resident Fellow Nora Lustig, Senior Fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez, and Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Kaushik Basu at a CGD event in November 2011, “Latin America’s Surging Middle Classes: Are They Really a Force for Change?”[/caption]
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde delivering a public speech at CGD in June 2012 on the IMF’s new approach to climate policy and carbon pricing, in which she highlighted how economic, environmental, and social challenges are closely interlinked.[/caption]
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Former Director of the White House National Economic Council and CGD Board member Larry Summers delivering his May 2012 speech at CGD on the role of the United States in a world of emerging markets.[/caption]
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CGD staff, family, friends, and alumni gather for the Center’s annual holiday party in December 2012.[/caption]
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CGD founding Board Chair Edward W. Scott Jr. with the Senator Richard Lugar, awarded the annual Commitment to Development “Ideas to Action” Award for his statesmanship in overcoming partisan divides to enact smart development policies. CGD and Foreign Policy have jointly sponsored the award since 2003.[/caption]
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Research Fellow Justin Sandefur, Professor at Wellesley College and CGD Advisory Group Chair David Lindauer, Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and CGD Non-Resident Fellow Carol Lancaster, Professor at the School of International Service at American University David Hirschmann, and Professor and Faculty Director of the new Master of International Development Policy Program at Georgetown University and CGD Visiting Fellow Franck Wiebe at a CGD event on development educators in November 2012.[/caption]
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Nancy Birdsall urges action by “global citizens” during a September 2012 UN General Assembly session on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN-endorsed poverty-reduction targets that will expire in 2015.[/caption]
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Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow Todd Moss being filmed for his whiteboard video on Oil-to-Cash, a policy option that utilizes the direct distribution of resource revenues to encourage a social contract in resource-rich countries.[/caption]
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CGD Board member Robert Mosbacher Jr. with Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council, at a June 2012 CGD event on Partnership for Growth, a new model for the United States to engage with a select group of countries to accelerate and sustain broad-based economic growth.[/caption]
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Program Associate for CGD in Europe Rita Perakis speaking in a whiteboard video on development impact bonds, a new type of investment vehicle that attracts private investors who want to do good and do well while delivering development outcomes.[/caption]
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Guest lecturer for the seventh annual Sabot Lecture and anticorruption expert John Githongo, CGD Board member David F. Gordon, and former Chief Economist for USAID Steve Radelet at the Board dinner following the lecture.[/caption]
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Liberian economist and Director of the Africa Department at the IMF Antoinette Sayeh with CGD Board member and former First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF John Lipsky at a CGD event with the Washington Post on the future president of the World Bank in April 2012.[/caption]
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Senior Fellow Alan Gelb, whose research focuses on the application biometric ID technology and the economics of resource-rich countries, at the annual Board dinner.[/caption]
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Visiting Fellow Darius Nassiry, Visiting Senior Associate Michele de Nevers, Republic of Korea’s Ambassador for Green Growth Boonam Shin, Vice President Lawrence MacDonald, and intern Anita Tung prior to a private breakfast in November 2012 featuring the Ambassador.[/caption]