Development Dialogue at DACOR

The USAID Alumni Association co-hosts occasional speaker luncheons with DACOR Bacon House. Development Dialogues at DACOR (DDD) provide a comfortable setting for USAID alumni and others to meet, dine and discuss overseas development issues in US foreign affairs. For the many UAA and DACOR members who live outside the DC region and cannot attend, an
audio podcast of most DDD presentations and discussion is made available on our respective websites within a day or so of the event.

Alumni speaker and topic suggestions are most welcome at <DDD@usaidalumni.org>. Following is a list of DDD speakers and topics to date:

DateSpeakerTopic
November 18, 2013Geoffrey Lamb
President of Global Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Rethinking Development Assistance for a Post "Aid" World
July 25, 2013Dr. Andrew Steer
President, World Resources Institute
How Green is the World Growing? What to Watch for in 2013 and Beyond
October 2, 2012Larry Garber
Director of USAID/PPL Offices of Science & Technology, and Learning, Evaluation and Research
USAID Forward: Projecting a 21st Century Development Agency
July 31, 2012Princeton Lyman
Special Envoy to Sudan, Dept. of State
The Unprecedented Gains in Global Development and Implications for the Future
June 19, 2012Steve Radelet
Chief Economist USAID
The Unprecedented Gains in Global Development and Implications for the Future
November 28, 2011Isabelle Tsakok
Former World Bank
Economist, Independent Consultant
Success in Agricultural Transformation”
October 26, 2011Connie Veillette
Center for Global
Development
The Future of Aid Amid Austerity”
August 4, 2011Maany Peyvan
USAID/A, Chief
Speechwriter
Administrator Shah’s Speeches and Themes –
Behind the Scenes
April 19, 2011Carol Lancaster
Dean, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; former USAID Deputy Administrator
Sixty Years of Foreign Aid – What Have We Learned? What Have We Accomplished?”
March 18, 2011Larry Heilman
former USAID FSO
“Bolivia – 70 Years of USG Development Assistance…Surprising Findings”
February 1, 2011Steve Radelet
USAID Chief Economist
“Emerging Africa: How Seventeen Countries Are Leading the Way”
January 25, 2011Janet Ballantyne
former Senior Advisor to USAID Administrator,
Deputy Administrator, and Mission Director
“USAID at 50 – Alumni Retrospectives on Development”
November 30, 2010James Foster
Professor, George Washington University
“Multidimensional Measures of Poverty”
October 5, 2010Fred Schieck
former USAID Deputy Administrator
"The Development 'D' - Running With the Big Dogs, Defense and Diplomacy"
July 20, 2010Aaron Williams and Stacy Rhodes
Director of Peace Corps and Chief of Staff
"The Peace Corps: Turning 50"
June 29, 2010Rev. Dr. David Beckmann
President, Bread for the World
"America's Role in the World - Mobilizing the Grassroots for Foreign Assistance Reform"
April 6, 2010John Mellor
former USAID Chief Economist
“Using Foreign Aid to Build Rural Political Support for Government in Conflict Societies – A Currently Unacceptable Position”
October 13, 2009Sheila Herrling
Senior Policy Associate and Director,
“Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program,” Center for Global Development;
leader of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network
“Current Status and Prospects for Revamping the Structure and Content of U.S. Foreign Development Assistance”
July 7, 2009Peter McPherson
former USAID Administrator and Chairman of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
“The Organizational Structure of Foreign Assistance”
June 2, 2009Henrietta Fore
former USAID Administrator and Director of United States Foreign Assistance
“Prospects and Challenges for Reforms in U.S. Foreign Assistance”
May 5, 2009James Kolbe
former US Congressman, R-AZ
“A Transatlantic Call for Renewed Leadership AND Partnerships for Global Development"
April 7, 2009Steve Sinding
Retired USAID Director, Office of Population, and
USAID Mission Director,
and
Director General, International Planned Parenthood Federation
“Reflections on USAID's 'Golden Era' in Population & Family Planning: Leadership Views from 1978 - 2008”
January 16, 2009Brian Atwood
former USAID Administrator, currently dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs,
University of Minnesota
“Development and Diplomatic Missions: How They Relate”
December 2, 2008Witney Schneidman
Director of Global Sullivan Principles, formerly an official at State Department,
World Bank, and Center for Strategic and International Studies
“The Future Role, Directions, and Structure of U.S. Development Assistance: A Personal Perspective”
May 6, 2008Andrew Natsios
former USAID Administrator,
Currently Distinguished Professor in Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
“Fragile and Failed States: the Development Challenge”
April 14, 2008Dennis de Tray
Vice President, Center for Global Development
“Getting the Focus Right: US Leadership in the Fight against Global Corruption”

FYI: DACOR (http://dacorbacon.org/) is an organization of foreign affairs professionals founded in 1952 as a place to foster interests in foreign affairs, to maintain and renew friendships, to celebrate lives shared in distant places, and to meet younger officers as they begin their careers. DACOR Bacon House, the home of DACOR, is a beautiful historic building near the World Bank and the “Old Executive Office” Building bequeathed in 1980 by the late Virginia Murray Bacon. It was Mrs. Bacon’s intention to “simply provide a quiet place for…meetings…to facilitate international peace and understanding by bringing together leaders in the field of foreign policy and international relations and law for the purpose of defining and resolving international problems.”

test