Event Date: January 7, 2010 - 5:00 pm
Location: Social Science Building, 120 University pvt, Room 4004
A talk by Peter Bell, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University.
Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English and French.
Peter D. Bell has been a senior research fellow at Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations since September 2007. He also chairs the facilitation group for the NGO Leaders Forum. Previously, he served for ten years as president of CARE USA, one of the world’s largest nongovernmental relief and development organizations. Mr. Bell has also been president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; president of the Inter-American Foundation; and deputy under-secretary of the US Department of Health Education and Welfare; as well as a member of the Ford Foundation’s staff in international development and domestic US social policy. Mr. Bell’s volunteer positions include being vice chair of the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, a director of The Global Water Challenge, a director of Transparency International—USA, a trustee of the World Peace Foundation and chairman emeritus of the Inter-American Dialogue. He was formerly the chair of the ONE Campaign, a director of Human Rights Watch and the chair of the Refugee Policy Group.
The Role of Global NGOs in World Politics: The Case of Relief and Development Organizations