OPENING REMARKS
Aulikki H. Kuusela
Director, Human Resources Operations, World Bank
Ms. Kuusela currently holds the position of Director, Human
Resources (HR) Operations, and is responsible for HR services,
recruitment and Global Mobility services. Previously, Ms. Kuusela
held HR management positions in ECA, MENA and AFR regions. Prior to
joining the World Bank, Ms. Kuusela worked in development
cooperation in the field for bilateral and multilateral agencies.
PANELISTS
Helen Hall
Victim Services Advocate, Washington, D.C. DV Police Unit
Ms. Helen Hall is a Victim Services Advocate for the Metropolitan
Police Department (MPD) in Washington D.C. She has over 30 years of
experience in community advocacy in domestic violence and sexual
assault. A former victim, now survivor, Ms. Hall has studied human
behavior in various higher learning institutions and has a strong
passion to eliminate DA through community education and awareness.
She has worked as a consultant to organizations such as the World
Bank, Court Services & Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) and the
DC TANF Program.
Patricia Romano McGraw
Forensic Psychologist and Author
Dr. Patricia Romano McGraw is a clinical forensic psychologist with
a specialty in women?s issues and trauma. She has been treating
victims of domestic violence for over twenty years and frequently
testifies in court regarding interpersonal violence and its effects.
She is in private practice in Baltimore, MD and author of It?s Not
Your Fault: How Healing Relationships Change Your Brain and Can
Help You Overcome a Painful Past.
Joan Meier
Executive Director, Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals
Project
Ms. Meier is the Founder and Executive Director of the Domestic
Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP) and
Professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law
School. DV LEAP provides consulting services to the World Bank, IMF
and IADB. Over the past 20 years, Ms. Meier has litigated hundreds
of domestic violence cases at both the trial and appellate court
levels and has engaged in numerous national and local domestic
violence advocacy efforts. She regularly consults for numerous
organizations, including the Department of Justice and American Bar
Association, and delivers trainings and workshops for lawyers,
judges, advocates, and mental health professionals. She has served
on the Mayor?s Commission on Violence against Women and several
other boards and commissions addressing DV. Ms. Meier was a
featured commentator on a recent 20/20 broadcast regarding the
highly publicized Alec Baldwin story and in the PBS documentary,
Breaking the Silence: Children?s Stories, which aired in fall 2005.
Patricia Hoff
Legal Consultant, Interstate and International Child Custody and
Parental Kidnapping
Ms. Hoff is an attorney and legal consultant in the field of
interstate and international child custody and parental kidnapping.
She was legal director of the Obstacles to the Recovery and Return
of Parentally Abducted Children projects at the American Bar
Association?s Center on Children and the Law (?ABA?), and
co-authored the final reports. In addition, she was an advisor to
the committee that drafted the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction
and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA), and participated, as an observer, in
drafting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act (UCAPA).
MODERATOR
Phillip Hay
Communications Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Hay is Communications Adviser for the Human Development Network
at the World Bank, helping to raise the profile and proven impact of
human development issues such as health, nutrition and population,
HIV/AIDS, education, etc., in the global and national media, and
within the wider development community. He also works closely with
key partners such as civil society, the specialist UN agencies,
parliamentarians, the private sector, and others to advance the
human development agenda. Mr. Hay is a former BBC Special
Correspondent and veteran commentator and writer on international
affairs.
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About the Human Resources Global Mobility (HRSGM)
HRSGM provides relocation support services, including overseas
assignment briefings, education, child care, housing, spouse/partner
career, and domestic abuse prevention guidance to the staff of the
World Bank Group and Inter-American Development Bank. Additionally,
they extend Domestic Abuse Prevention services to the staff and
families of the IMF. HRSGM also provides educational outreach
programs and information on domestic abuse prevention.
For more information, visit:Global Mobility website
Contact us at globalmobility@worldbank.org or by phone at (202)
473-2445.
About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.
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