Please note this is a hybrid event - you have the option to attend in person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. For in-person attendees, the event will run from 11:45 am - 2 pm and will include lunch. The live stream will begin at 12:55 pm (virtual attendees will be sent a link for the event via email). This event is co-hosted by DACOR and UAA.
Join us for a conversation with George Ingram, who will be retiring soon from Brookings. Thus, it is opportune, at this extraordinary moment in history of USAID, development aid more broadly, and development itself, to sit George down with other experienced people to discuss “Where is Development Going? – Learning from Experience”. While this question is being discussed in many different fora, there is not a simple, clear-cut answer as the current situation confronts us with many more unknowns than ever before. Suddenly, all we have worked on for decades has been tossed out the window by the current administration. As George has focused on development issues from many different vantage points over his entire extraordinary career, he is ideally suited to lead us in a thoughtful discussion of this perplexing and multi-faceted issue.
George Ingram’s professional career—in Congress, the executive branch, and the nonprofit sector—has focused on international economic and development policy.
He is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development, housed in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. He serves as chair emeritus of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund, and member of the Executive Committee of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.
From 1973 to 1995, Ingram was a senior staff member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, responsible for international economic and development issues.
Ingram served from 1995 to 1998 as vice president of Citizens Democracy Corps.
From 1998 to 2000, he was principal deputy assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development with primary responsibility for U.S. assistance programs in the former Soviet Union.
From 2001-2011 he worked at AED, first as founding director of the Basic Education Coalition, subsequently as founding director of the Education Policy and Data Center, and then as senior vice president for public policy and briefly as interim president and CEO.
He serves on the boards of the Eurasia Foundation, the Executive Council on Diplomacy, and the Dockery Farm Foundation.
Ingram holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina, a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (first year in Bologna, Italy), and a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan. He served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University 1998-2000.
Location
Setting: Hybrid DACOR Bacon House OR Online 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
