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Jun
13
2018
9:00—10:30 AM
June 04, 2018
Five members of the Zimbabwe Working Group traveled to Harare May 20-25 to meet with the government, opposition leaders, and a wide range of business, religious, and civil society organizations to assess prospects for free and fair elections and for meaningful political and economic reform. Please j...
May
30
2018
9:00—10:15 AM
May 16, 2018
For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram’s campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok a...
Sep
7
2017
5:00—6:30 PM
August 07, 2017
In The Shadow List, State Department crisis expert Judd Ryker is chasing an American banker who’s disappeared after falling for a Nigerian scam. Meanwhile, his CIA wife Jessica is hunting a notorious Russian mob boss. Little do they know, they’re pulling on opposite ends of the same dang...
May
16
2017
4:00—6:00 PM
May 08, 2017
With cuts to foreign aid on the horizon, the United States, now more than ever, needs to sharpen its tools to operate in a constrained budget environment. Key to this approach is a strong development finance institution that can leverage private investment to achieve development outcomes, as well as...
Oct
6
2016
4:00—5:30 PM
September 20, 2016
Please join us for a unique event, where we will hear from the heads of five development finance institutions (DFIs) about how to unlock private resources for global prosperity. As public sector organizations set up to attract private wealth into development projects, these five DFIs together bring ...
Jun
9
2016
4:00—5:30 PM
May 13, 2016
Please join us for a special event marking the release of Choosing the Hero: My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africaʼs First Woman President by K. Riva Levinson. The book is an insider’s account of Riva’s longtime relationship with Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, two women wa...
Apr
12
2016
4:00—5:30 PM
March 21, 2016
How much energy do the world’s poor need? The current commonly-used definition is a mere 100 kilowatts hours per person per year—or enough to power a single lightbulb for five hours per day and charge a mobile phone. Such a low bar can have profound implications for national targets, for...
Jan
12
2016
4:00—5:30 PM
December 15, 2015
The slave trade, colonial rule and apartheid were once all legal. Hard power then won lawful authority: might literally made legal rights. The global revolutions that abolished those coercive rights were extraordinary—yet they left today’s multi-trillion trade in oil and minerals untouch...
Sep
17
2015
5:30—7:00 PM
August 27, 2015
Please join us for a reception to celebrate the release of Minute Zero, the latest thriller in the Judd Ryker series from Todd Moss about a professor inside the State Department’s Crisis Reaction Unit. In the novel, Ryker is sent to Zimbabwe where an aging dictator is stealing re-election and ...
Jul
16
2015
5:30—7:30 PM
July 01, 2015
In the second of our Summer Film Series, we’ll be showing the Nigerian oil documentary Big Men. After the screening Todd Moss will host a Q&A with filmmaker Rachel Boynton and George Owusu, who features in the film.
Big Men takes is a fast-paced tour through the high-powered world of ...