Longtime President of the influential American NGO Bread for the World Rev. David Beckmann will open a conversation about Trump administration policies, bipartisan congressional support for development assistance, the elections and advocacy strategies, all desiged to find the best ways to help sustain a generation of progress against poverty.
Rev. Beckmann has been president of Bread for the World and Bread for the World Institute since 1991, leading large-scale and successful campaigns to strengthen U.S. political commitment to overcome hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. Beckmann also founded and serves as president of the Alliance to End Hunger. A World Food Prize laureate, he appears regularly in the media and most recently authored Exodus from Hunger: We are Called to Change the Politics of Hunger.
Currently Beckmann serves on USAID's Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, the U.S. Trade Representative's Advisory Committee on Africa, and the Executive Committee of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
