Monthly Archives: September 2010
I write from the Clinton Global Initiative. I have attended CGI meetings beginning with the first one and am honored to be here again this year. Importantly for the IRC, the commitments made by world leaders, businesses, and philanthropists at the CGI can provide much-needed help for assisting uprooted people worldwide.
The Millennium Development goals will take center stage this week as the United Nations convenes its General Assembly in New York. The meeting of nearly 140 Heads of State will focus on how the eight goals, agreed upon in 2000 and intended to end extreme poverty and suffering around the world, can be met by 2015.
This week President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and USAID Administrator Raj Shah will be in New York for meetings at the U.N. General Assembly, the Millennium Development Goals Summit, and the Clinton Global Initiative, and it’s expected that development will be front and center. While Secretaries Clinton, Gates, and Geithner, along with Shah and MCC CEO [...]
This morning, the USGLC is proud to announce Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, and Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Daniel Yohannes will participate in a roundtable discussion on the Administration’s New Development Policy at our September 28th annual conference.
The news is out that the leading candidate to replace Jack Lew at the State Department is Thomas Nides, the current COO of Morgan Stanley. “In the Loop” broke the news yesterday, and the Financial Times has a story today. Nides fits the job description with both Washington and financial sector experience to handle the [...]
With what is expected to be one of the most volatile mid-term elections of modern times, we have our work cut out for us. In the last three elections, more than 40% of the USGLC champions in the House and Senate are no longer in Congress – and an astonishing 80% of our GOP champions [...]
Former Deputy Secretary of State and Navy veteran Richard L. Armitage just posted this message on our Veterans for Smart Power Facebook page.
In a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today reiterated the Obama Administration’s dedication to implementing a smart power approach to foreign affairs. The speech served as an update to Clinton’s remarks a year ago outlining the Administration’s approach to foreign policy.
The USGLC’s Veterans for Smart Power movement, launched in August, is an effort to enlist America’s veterans in supporting development and diplomacy alongside defense as the three pillars of American foreign policy.
The U.S. announced that it will up its assistance to Pakistan to $217 million to assist with relief and recovery efforts in the wake of the devastating floods, with “an additional $50 million . . . allocated for initial recovery efforts to assist with rebThe U.S. announced that it will up its assistance to Pakistan [...]
