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| | Soul Work Together explores and highlights |
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"We need to do a better job to learn from successful faith and
interfaith work to make the world a better, more peaceful place.
This volume describes an impressive array of innovative partnerships
and alliances. It inspires us to dream bigger about what development
can accomplish."
David Saperstein, Director and Counsel, Religious Action Center of
Reform Judaism
Friday, November 30, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Cookes and Coffee will be served
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OPENING REMARKS
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network,World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana
as a local government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to
serve in Parliament and as a representative to the Southern African
Development Community. She entered the Cabinet with responsibility
for lands and housing and developed the first national housing
policy. Ms. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for Health
where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on
results while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and
putting into action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In
2003, she joined the World Health Organization as the Assistant
Director General for Family and Community Health Department,
managing a staff of over 1100 globally. She is in the Board of
GAVI. She has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on
Economics and a UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is
a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa. Ms. Phumaphi is a
distinguished Afgrad Fellow who serves as a member of the
Africa-America Institute Campaign Committee. She joined the Bank
and became the Vice President of the Human Development Network on
February 5, 2007.
DISCUSSED BY
James Adams
Vice President, East Asia and the Pacific Region, World Bank
Mr. Adams has overall responsibility for World Bank operations in
the one of the world?s most dynamic regions. Previously, Mr. Adams
was Vice President and Head of Network, Operations Policy and
Country Services, at the World Bank. In this capacity, he was
responsible for operational policy development, procurement and
financial management activities, relations with United Nations and
nongovernmental organizations, and support to Regional staff working
in all these areas. Since joining the Bank in 1974, he has held a
variety of operational positions in East Asia, Latin America, and
Sub-Saharan Africa, including as Country Director for Tanzania and
Uganda, as Director for Operations Policy, and as a Division Chief
of several departments. Before joining the Bank, Mr. Adams worked
as a loan officer for Merchants Bank, in Syracuse, NY, and with the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in Geneva, Switzerland.
PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Marshall has worked for over three decades on international
development, with a focus on issues facing the world?s poorest
countries. She is also a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at
Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics, values, and faith in
development work, as counselor to the World Bank?s President. Ms.
Marshall served earlier as Country Director in the World Bank?s
Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa.
She led the Bank's work on social policy and governance during the
East Asia crisis years. She also worked extensively on Eastern
Africa and Latin America.
Marisa Van Saanen
Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Van Saanen has worked with the Development Dialogue on Values
and Ethics since 2003 and is currently a JD student at the Yale Law
School. Ms. Van Saanen has volunteered, interned, and worked with a
variety of organizations working on health and poverty issues,
including with a rural U.S. Department of Human Services; with
Washington, D.C. non-profits like Food & Friends; with Bread for the
World; with the United States Senate on health and aging issues; and
with former President Clinton?s Office of National AIDS Policy. She
has traveled extensively studying social movements and grassroots
organizing; wrote her graduate thesis on the WTO and public health;
and has twice co-taught an undergraduate course in India, on the
Gandhian Legacy, Grassroots Development, and Conflict Resolution in
India.
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