Lecture: USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah & Acting Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 18 Oct 2012 at 4:30 pm |
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| Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures Live Green |
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Drawing upon resources and expertise of agencies across the U.S. Government, Feed the Future is a Presidential Initiative is helping countries transform their own agriculture sectors to sustainably grow enough food to feed their people.
Dr. Rajiv Shah leads more than 8,000 professionals in 80 missions around the world as USAID Administrator. He has managed the U.S. Government's response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, co-chaired the State Department's first review of American diplomacy and development operations, and now spearheads President Barack Obama's landmark Feed the Future food security initiative. He is also leading "USAID Forward," an extensive set of reforms to USAID's business model. Shah previously served as undersecretary for research, education and economics as well as chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There he launched the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which significantly elevated the status and funding of agricultural research. He also served for seven years with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including as director of agricultural development in the Global Development Program and as director of strategic opportunities. Dr. Shah earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and his master's in health economics from the Wharton School of Business. He attended the London School of Economics and is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Carrie Hessler-Radelet is acting director of the Peace Corps. She previously served as deputy director and as a volunteer in Western Somoa from 1981 to 1983. She has worked in the field of public health for the past two decades, specializing in HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health. Hessler-Radelet was actively involved in the establishment of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and was a primary author on PEPFAR's first strategic plan. She was a Johns Hopkins Fellow with USAID in Indonesia and assisted the Indonesian government in developing and implementing its first national AIDS strategy.