SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Professor Ross Garnaut on "Impacts of Climate Change on the Australian Economy": October 30, 11:00-12:30, Room MC-C1-200

Colleagues,

Please join this seminar to be chaired by Sarah Cliffe on the latest
policy discussions in Australia on the impact of climate change and next steps.

The Garnaut Climate Change Review was an independent study conducted by
Professor Ross Garnaut and commissioned by Australia's federal, state and
territory Governments. The Review, completed on September 30 after extensive
consultations, is very influential in Australia and similar to the Stern Report
in the UK. It identified medium- and long-term domestic and international
policy recommendations to maintain the country's prosperity while mitigating the
negative influences of global warming and GHGs.

Professor Garnaut, an economic advisor to Prime Minister Rudd, has been a
Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at
the Australian National University since 1989. In 2008, he was appointed as
Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Professor Garnaut is a
director of the Lowy Institute, Australia's leading international policy think
tank. He is currently Chairman of a number of international companies and
research organizations, including the International Food Policy Research
Institute, and a board member of several others. From 1985-88, Professor
Garnaut was Australia's Ambassador to China.

Sarah and Professor Garnaut will be joined by Warren Evans, Director of
Environment, SDN, Kirk Hamilton, co-author of the 2009 WDR on Development and
Climate Change and Lead Environmental Economist and Team Leader Policy and
Economic in the Environment Department, SDN, and Johannes Heister, our Climate
Change and Carbon Finance Coordinator in EASOP.

The full report can be accessed at: www.garnautreview.org.au. For more
information about Australian progress on carbon reduction policies, please click
on http://www.climatechange.gov.au/greenpaper/factsheets/index.html.

James Adams, Vice President, East Asia & Pacific Region, World Bank

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SPECIAL EVENT "Domestic Violence Panel: What You May Not Know" October 29th, 2008 12-2 PM at The World Bank

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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.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.

"China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities" discussed on Wednesday, October 29 at 3:00 PM in JB1-080

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PRESENTING AUTHORS
C. Fred Bergsten
Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Bergsten has been director of the Peterson Institute for
International Economics since its creation in 1981. He has been the
most widely quoted think tank economist in the world over the
eight-year period 1997?2005. He was ranked in the top 50 ?Who Really
Moves the Markets?? by Fidelity Investment?s Worth, and as ?one of
the ten people who can change your life? in USA Today. He is
cochairman of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the United
States-India Trade Policy Forum. Mr. Bergsten was assistant
secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977?81). He
also functioned as undersecretary for monetary affairs (1980?81),
representing the United States on the G-5 Deputies and in preparing
G-7 summits. Mr. Bergsten coordinated US foreign economic policy in
the White House as assistant for international economic affairs
(1969?71) to Dr. Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council.
Mr. Bergsten has authored, coauthored, or edited 38 books on
international economic issues.

Charles Freeman
Chairholder, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Previous to CSIS, Mr. Freeman served as managing director of the
China Alliance. He also served as assistant US trade representative
(USTR) for China affairs (2002?05). During his tenure as assistant
USTR, he oversaw US efforts to integrate China into the global
trading architecture of the World Trade Organization. He also
negotiated and solved trade problems across a wide range of issues,
including intellectual property rights protection; financial and
nonfinancial services; tax, industrial standards, and technology
policies; and agricultural market access. Mr. Freeman served as
international affairs counsel to Senator Frank Murkowski (1999?02).

Nicholas Lardy
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Lardy joined the Peterson Institute in March 2003 from the
Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow in the Foreign
Policy Studies Program (1995?03) and served as interim director of
Foreign Policy Studies (2001). Mr. Lardy is the author, coauthor, or
codeditor of Debating China?s Exchange Rate Policy (2008), China The
Balance Sheet (2006), Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement
(2004), Integrating China into the Global Economy (2002), and
China?s Unfinished Economic Revolution (1998). Mr. Lardy is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the
editorial boards of the China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business,
China Review, and China Economic Review.

Derek Mitchell
Senior Fellow and Director for Asia, CSIS International Security
Program
Mr. Mitchell was special assistant for Asian and Pacific affairs in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1997?01) where he was the
principal author of the Department of Defense 1998 East Asia
Strategy Report. He served as senior program officer for Asia and
the former Soviet Union at the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mitchell worked as an
editor and reporter at the China Post on Taiwan (1989). He served as
assistant to the senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M.
Kennedy (1986?88). He is the coauthor of China the Balance Sheet
(2006) and coeditor of China and the Developing World: Beijing?s
Strategy for the 21st Century (2007).

MODERATOR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
Network (PREM)
Mr. Leipziger heads PREM, a network of more than 700 economists and
other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and
analytic work for the World Bank?s client countries. In this
capacity, he provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional
PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation
in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public
sector management and governance. He is heavily involved in
positioning the World Bank on major economic policy issues and in
managing the Bank?s overall interactions on these issues with key
partner institutions?including the IMF, OECD, regional development
banks and the European Union. He works closely with Regional Vice
Presidents on leading edge and cross-country economic matters.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.

"China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities" discussed on Wednesday, October 29 at 3:00 PM in JB1-080

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PRESENTING AUTHORS
C. Fred Bergsten
Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics:
Mr. Bergsten has been director of the Peterson Institute for
International Economics since its creation in 1981. He has been the
most widely quoted think tank economist in the world over the
eight-year period 1997?2005. He was ranked in the top 50 ?Who Really
Moves the Markets?? by Fidelity Investment?s Worth, and as ?one of
the ten people who can change your life? in USA Today. He is
cochairman of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the United
States-India Trade Policy Forum. Mr. Bergsten was assistant
secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977?81). He
also functioned as undersecretary for monetary affairs (1980?81),
representing the United States on the G-5 Deputies and in preparing
G-7 summits. Mr. Bergsten coordinated US foreign economic policy in
the White House as assistant for international economic affairs
(1969?71) to Dr. Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council.
Mr. Bergsten has authored, coauthored, or edited 38 books on
international economic issues.

Charles Freeman
Chairholder, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Previous to CSIS, Mr. Freeman served as managing director of the
China Alliance. He also served as assistant US trade representative
(USTR) for China affairs (2002?05). During his tenure as assistant
USTR, he oversaw US efforts to integrate China into the global
trading architecture of the World Trade Organization. He also
negotiated and solved trade problems across a wide range of issues,
including intellectual property rights protection; financial and
nonfinancial services; tax, industrial standards, and technology
policies; and agricultural market access. Mr. Freeman served as
international affairs counsel to Senator Frank Murkowski (1999?02).

Nicholas Lardy
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Lardy joined the Peterson Institute in March 2003 from the
Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow in the Foreign
Policy Studies Program (1995?03) and served as interim director of
Foreign Policy Studies (2001). Mr. Lardy is the author, coauthor, or
codeditor of Debating China?s Exchange Rate Policy (2008), China The
Balance Sheet (2006), Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement
(2004), Integrating China into the Global Economy (2002), and
China?s Unfinished Economic Revolution (1998). Mr. Lardy is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the
editorial boards of the China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business,
China Review, and China Economic Review.

Derek Mitchell
Senior Fellow and Director for Asia, CSIS International Security
Program
Mr. Mitchell was special assistant for Asian and Pacific affairs in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1997?01) where he was the
principal author of the Department of Defense 1998 East Asia
Strategy Report. He served as senior program officer for Asia and
the former Soviet Union at the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mitchell worked as an
editor and reporter at the China Post on Taiwan (1989). He served as
assistant to the senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M.
Kennedy (1986?88). He is the coauthor of China the Balance Sheet
(2006) and coeditor of China and the Developing World: Beijing?s
Strategy for the 21st Century (2007).

MODERATOR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
Network (PREM)
Mr. Leipziger heads PREM, a network of more than 700 economists and
other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and
analytic work for the World Bank?s client countries. In this
capacity, he provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional
PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation
in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public
sector management and governance. He is heavily involved in
positioning the World Bank on major economic policy issues and in
managing the Bank?s overall interactions on these issues with key
partner institutions?including the IMF, OECD, regional development
banks and the European Union. He works closely with Regional Vice
Presidents on leading edge and cross-country economic matters.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.

SPECIAL EVENT "Domestic Violence Panel: What You May Not Know" October 29th, 2008 12-2 PM in J1-050

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The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Inter-American Development Bank

"Partnering to Prevent Domestic Abuse"
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| | |
| | |
| | Panel Discussion: What You May |
| | Not Know |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | In recognition of October's |
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| | , the Human Resources Global |
| | Mobility (HRSGM) invites you to a |
| Wednesday, October 29, | panel discussion sponsored by The |
| 2008 | World Bank, International |
| 12:00 - 2:00 PM | Monetary Fund, and Inter-American |
| | Development Bank. Madeleine K. |
| Coffee and Cookies | Albright, former U.S. Secretary |
| Served | of State, successfully launched |
| | the month with a keynote address |
| Auditorium J1-050 | at the World Bank on October 1, |
| World Bank J Building | 2008. |
| 701 18th Street, NW | |
| Washington, DC | As a follow up to this series, |
| | please join a distinguished group |
| | of experts for a panel discussion |
| | entitled, "What You May Not |
| | Know." We have all heard someone |
| | say, "That does not happen in MY |
| | community!" In fact, domestic |
| | violence exists in all |
| | communities regardless of race, |
| | age, socioeconomic status, |
| | national origin, gender, religion |
| | or educational background. It |
| | impacts all of us, to a |
| | surprising degree. In our |
| | international organizations, |
| | several factors, such as language |
| | skills, cultural traditions, |
| | legal status, and lack of |
| | information, are barriers to |
| | seeking help. Please join us at |
| | this event and learn what |
| | domestic abuse is, how it affects |
| | families, and basic legal options |
| | for addressing it. Panelists will |
| | also address the unique |
| | challenges faced by staff and |
| | family members from international |
| | organizations. |
| | |
| | |
| | For more information, visit: |
| | Global Mobility website |
| | |
| | |
| | |
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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 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 additiion, 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.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.