Security,
Stability, Self-Sufficiency:
International Assistance & The Case For U.S. Global Engagement
September 12, 2003
Participant Bios
Senator Richard Durbin
Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Springfield, is the 47th U.S. Senator
from the State of Illinois. He has been serving the people of Illinois
and our nation for over 20 years, including 14 years in the House of Representatives
and as a United States Senator since 1996 when he filled the seat left
vacant by the retirement of his longtime friend and mentor, U.S. Senator
Paul Simon.
Elected to the U.S. Senate
on November 5, 1996, Durbin has been a champion of the under-privileged,
the destitute and downtrodden whether they live in the United States or
in the far corners of the world. Durbin is the first Illinois Senator
to serve on the powerful U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee in more
than a quarter of a century, and has spearheaded efforts to increase assistance
for HIV/AIDS. A strong supporter of international humanitarian and development
programs, Durbin was instrumental in the passage of measures to increase
international food aid in both the FY03 omnibus appropriations and the
Iraq supplemental bill. Senator Durbin has been a forceful advocate on
behalf of women and children, championing micro-enterprise and girls education
programs in the Senate.
Durbin also serves on the Senate
Judiciary Committee, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate
Committee on Rules and Administration and the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence.
George Ingram, President,
U.S. Global Leadership Campaign
George Ingram is Executive Director of the Basic Education Coalition,
a group of eighteen development organizations that advocates for greater
priority to basic education in development programs. He also serves as
President of the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, a consortium of more
than 300 companies and NGOs, that advocates for greater resources for
U.S. international affairs activities.
From 1973 to 1995, Ingram was
a senior staff member of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign
Affairs, responsible for international economic and development issues.
His work included directing a year-long study of U.S. foreign assistance
programs and drafting the laws authorizing assistance to Eastern &
Central Europe (SEED Act) and to the Former Soviet Union (FREEDOM Support
Act).
Ingram served from 1995 to
1998 as Vice President of Citizens Democracy Corps, which conducts business
support programs in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe.
From 1998 to 2001, he was Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator of
the U.S. Agency for International Development with primary responsibility
for U.S. assistance programs in the Former Soviet Union.
Ingram received his Bachelor's
degree from the University of North Carolina, a Master's degree from Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan. He served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown
University 1998-2000.
William C. Lane, Washington
Director, Caterpillar, Inc.
Bill Lane is a leading business advocate for free trade and global engagement
in Washington D.C. He has been with Caterpillar since 1975 and is currently
the company's Washington Director for Government Affairs. Lane is a co-chair
of the U.S. Chile Free Trade Coalition and Vice President of the U.S.
Global Leadership Campaign, a group supporting a robust international
affairs budget.
Previously Lane founded and
chaired the USA Engage Coalition and was a co-chair of USTrade, a coalition
supporting Trade Promotion Authority. He has held numerous leadership
positions with the Business Roundtable, National Foreign Trade Council,
and Alliance for GATT NOW. During the late 1980s he founded and led the
Zero Tariff Coalition and Coalition of American Steel Using Manufacturers.
Lane is a member of the U.S.
Industry Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and a Board Member of Partners
for Democratic Change. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees
from the Pennsylvania State University and attended the University of
Cologne in Germany. Lane is an Adjunct Professor at the Elliott School
of International Affairs at George Washington University.
Carol Marin, Chicago
Tribune Columnist
Carol Marin has gained a national as well as local reputation for her
reporting. Most recently, Marin worked as a full-time correspondent for
CBS News. Marin joined CBS News in July 1997 as a reporter for WBBM-TV.
In addition to 60 MINUTES and 60 MINUTES II, she reported for THE EVENING
NEWS WITH DAN RATHER, 48 HOURS, and "Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel"
(October 1997-May 1998). During her time at CBS, Carol earned two Peabody
Awards --one for personal recognition of her accomplishments and integrity
in broadcasting (1998), a national Emmy Award (1999) and an Alfred DuPont-Columbia
Award (1999).
She won a Dupont-Columbia Silver
baton for her 1986 document on racism and organized crime in the Chicago
suburb of Cicero and was later honored with a National Emmy for Community
Service for her 1989 documentary that looked at the long-term affects
of violence on children. A member of the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame,
Marin has won more than a dozen local Emmys, five Peter Lisagor Awards,
and has been named LTPI's National Best Reporter. In addition, she was
awarded the first ever Ethics Award from the Chicago Headline Club in
1996. In 1997 that same organization of print and broadcast journalists
presented Marin with their first Courage In Journalism Award for her decision
to resign as anchor rather than share the set with Jerry Springer.
For the last 17 years, Marin
has been teamed with producer Don Moseley. Marin and Moseley pursued stories
of major importance in Chicago, including the Federal investigation into
political payoffs dubbed Operation Silver Shovel. In 1989, Marin and Moseley
broke the story of another major Federal probe called Operation Gambat.
Their reports outlined the corrupt relationship between organized crime
and Chicago's infamous First Ward. Marin graduated with a Bachelor's degree
in English from the University of Illinois in 1970.
Mary E. McClymont, President,
Interaction
Mary McClymont is the President and Chief Executive Officer of InterAction,
the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian
non-governmental organizations. Previously, she served at the Ford Foundation,
as Senior Director of the Peace and Social Justice Program, and as Acting
Director, Deputy Director, and Program Officer in the Rights and Social
Justice Program.
She also was the National Director
for Legalization of the Migration and Refugee Services, U.S. Catholic
Conference; Senior Staff Counsel, the National Prison Project of the American
Civil Liberties Union; Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department
of Justice; and Assistant Director for Corrections, National Street Law
Institute, Georgetown University Law Center.
McClymont has an LL.M. in International
Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law;
and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Zainab Salbi, Founder and
President, Women for Women International
Zainab Salbi is the Founder and President of Women for Women International,
a U.S.-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing women survivors
of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources
to move from crisis and poverty into self-sufficient and active citizens
who promote peace and stability.
Her experience as an Iraqi
native during the Iran-Iraq War and later the Gulf War sensitized her
to the plight of women survivors of war and led her to found Women for
Women International. Under her leadership, Women for Women International
now assists women in eight countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Kosovo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Colombia and Iraq. Its
programs have helped more than 20,000 women and 90,000 family members,
providing nearly 10 million dollars in direct assistance and loans.
Salbi's dedication to the plight
of women survivors of war has made her a sought after writer and lecturer.
She has been featured in numerous national and international media outlets,
as well as in several books on women leaders. She has received many nominations
for her work worldwide, and in 1995, was honored by President Clinton
at a White House ceremony for her humanitarian work in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Most recently, Salbi testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
on the situation for women in post-war Iraq.
Salbi earned a Master's degree in Economics and Development Studies from
the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2001 and a Bachelor's
degree in Sociology and Women's Studies from George Mason University in
1996.
Her Excellency Edith Grace
Ssempala, Ambassador of Uganda
Ambassador Ssempala became the Ambassador Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary
of Uganda to the United States of America and the representative to the
World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 1996.
For ten years, Ssempala served
as Ambassador Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary of Uganda to Denmark,
Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, while based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
During that time, she initiated and coordinated official and private visits
by President Yoweri Museveni to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (1986-1996).
From 1992 to 1996, while in Denmark, she served as Dean of the Diplomatic
Corps.
Ambassador Ssempala is credited with being the leading promoter of passage
of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which was signed into
law by former President Clinton in May 2000.
Townhall
Meeting Summary
Guide to International Relief and
Development Resources in Chicago
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