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Wilson Center on the Hill is a nonpartisan forum that focuses on current issues related to international trade and security, sustainable development, and globalization. It sponsors about 20 seminar programs each year on Capitol Hill that feature leading independent analysts and experts from the 22 programs of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Funded by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Wilson Center on the Hill also sponsors congressional study trips, allowing Members of the U.S. Congress and senior congressional staff to examine these issues first-hand.
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Living on $2 a Day: A Finance System for the “Bottom Billion”
Tuesday, September 29 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
with Daryl Collins, Senior Associate, Bankable Frontier Associates; Jonathan Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, New York University and coauthor of The Economics of Microfinance; Moderated by: Geoff Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Program.
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What's the Prescription for Health Care Reform?
Thursday, September 24 2009, 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
with Jason Altmire, U.S. Representative (D-PA); Member, House Education and Labor Committee;Charles M. Brain, President, Capitol Hill Strategies; Director of Legislative Affairs, President Bill Clinton; Michael Burgess, U.S. Representative (R-TX); Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee; Joe Courtney, U.S. Representative (D-CT); Member, House Education and Labor Committee; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center; Barry Jackson, Former Assistant to President George W. Bush for Strategic Initiatives and External Affairs; Member, Board of Trustees, Woodrow Wilson Center; Linda Killian, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Gerald Seib, Assistant Managing Editor and Executive Washington Editor, The Wall Street Journal; John Shadegg, U.S. Representative (R-AZ); House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Can Journalism Survive: The New Media World
Tuesday, September 22 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Albert Eisele, Editor-at-Large and former Editor, The Hill; Gabor Steingart, Washington Bureau Chief, Der Spiegel; Moderator Martin Tolchin, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Former Congressional Reporter, The New York Times
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Modernizing U.S. Foreign Aid: The Challenges of a Changing World
Friday, June 26 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
with Diana Ohlbaum, Senior Professional Staff, House Committee on Foreign Affairs; and Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America. Moderated by: John Sewell, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges in the 111th Congress
In two seminars on Capitol Hill, Wilson Center experts discussed priority issues for developed and developing countries in light of the global economic crisis—issues that will or should be on President Obama's radar as his administration crafts its foreign policy.
Wilson Center Holds Seminars on the Hill
The new initiative Wilson Center on the Hill is bringing Center programming on the latest topics to Capitol Hill to help inform policymakers and their staff on their own turf. The nonpartisan forum tackles specific, timely issues related to foreign policy, economics, and the environment.
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Wilson Center on the Hill
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: onthehill@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4357
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