Event Report- International Thursdays 2005

December 15, 2005

Featured Speakers

• Sebastian Soto, Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo (Chile), on the Chilean elections
• G. Philip Hughes, White House Writers Group (Washington, DC), on the Bolivian elections
• Pedro Burelli, pmbcomments.com, on the recent parliamentary elections in Venezuela
• Otto Reich, Otto Reich Associates & former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, on trends in Latin America

November 17, 2005

Featured Speakers

• Mark Frazier, president of Openworld Inc. ( www.openworld.com )
• Hal Stratton, chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission ( www.cpsc.gov )
• Danxuan Yi, vice president of Huang Hua Gang ( www.huanghuagang.org )
• Scott LaGanga, executive director of Property Rights Alliance ( www.propertyrightsalliance.org )
• Gia Jandieri, vice president of the New Economic School-Georgia ( www.economics.ge )

October 20, 2005

Featured Speakers

• Andrei Piontkovsky, Hudson Institute ( www.hudson.org ), on Russia
• José-Luis Tapia-Rocha, Instituto de Libre Empresa ( www.ileperu.org ), on his institute’s activities in Peru
• Doug Bandow, Cato Institute ( www.cato.org ), on his recent trip to Nepal ( http://www.readtheboss.com/portal/event/talk_programme/index.htm )
• Talal Abu-Hassan, Center for International Private Enterprise ( www.cipe.org ), on CIPE’s mission and its Middle East & North Africa program

September 15, 2005

Featured Speakers

• Richard Lessner, Capital City Partners, on the World Summit on the Information Society ( www.itu.int/wsis )
• Roger Bate, American Enterprise Institute ( www.aei.org ), on the G-8 Summit and the UN’s Millennium Development Goals
• Richard Tren, Africa Fighting Malaria ( www.fightingmalaria.org ) , on the work of his South African organization
• Ulf Gartzke, Hanns Seidel Foundation ( www.hss.de ), on the upcoming elections in Germany
• Olavo de Carvalho, Mídia Sem Máscara ( www.midiasemmascara.org ), on the current situation in Brazil
• Akinyi June Arunga, a Kenyan activist and law student, on her current work – although June was not able to speak, you may read more about her and her BBC documentaries at:

August 11, 2005

Featured Speakers

• Young Howard of Liberty Union ( www.new-right.com ) on its activities in South Korea and the Network for Norht Korean Democracy and Human Rights ( http://www.dailynk.com/english/index.php )
• Lida Noory of the Independent Women’s Forum ( www.iwf.org ) on their outreach in the Middle East
• Amb. Curtin Winsor of Atlas on his trip to the Philippines
• Alvaro Vargas Llosa of Independent Institute ( www.independent.org ) on his book, Liberty for Latin America, and the new Center for Global Prosperity ( http://www.independent.org/research/cogp/ )

July 14, 2005

Featured Speakers

• Chresten Anderson, Director, MarkedsCentret (Denmark)
• Robert Guest, Author of The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives and Washington Correspondent for The Economist
• Fadi Haddadin, Koch Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies, native of Jordan
• Juan Vega, Legal Intern, House Committee on International Relations, author of study on China’s involvement in Latin America

June 16, 2005

Featured Speakers

• Ignacio de Leon ( CEDICE, Venezuela)
• Liu Kin Ming ( Apple Daily, Hong Kong, China)
• Sabine Herold ( Liberté Chérie, France)
• Jamal Barzinji ( International Institute of Islamic Thought, Virginia)
• Arnoldo Jiménez ( América Libre, El Salvador)
• Prof. Peter B. Kibas ( Inter Region Economic Network, Kenya)

May 12, 2005

Featured Speakers

• Barun Mitra (Liberty Institute, India) – Liberty Institute’s work
• Damian von Stauffenberg (Microrate, Virginia) – Microfinance in Africa and Latin America
• Romulo Lopez (Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Virginia) – Update on Ecuador
• Tom Palmer (Cato Institute, Washington, DC) – Update on trip to Iraq

April 7, 2005

Featured Speakers

• General John Thompson (ret.) – Update on Venezuela
• Jeffrey Krilla (IRI and the Uhuru Policy Group) – Update on Africa
• Radwan Masmoudi (Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy) – Update on the Middle East
• Todd Lofgren (USAID, GDA) – Priorities with the Global Development Alliance
• Maja Drakic (Montenegro) – Report on the work of TFA Prize winning program at Center for Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (Montenegro)

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