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Former administrators with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) discussed the impact of global assistance and development during a conversation hosted by the Center for Stra…

Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Chelsea Clinton joined a panel of global leaders to talked about the COVID-19 vaccine at a virtual discussion hosted by Georgetown University.

Washington Post hosted a virtual discussion with public health experts on reopening safely during the coronavirus pandemic. Admiral Brett Giroir, Health and Human Services assistant health s…

The Brookings Institution held a virtual discussion on the United Nations' outlook on global progress. The panel discussed how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalit…

Rajiv Shah, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and a former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator, talked about energy policy and developing countries. He …

Madeleine Albright, Leon Panetta, and others spoke about the 2016 election, foreign policy priorities, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s comments on NATO and relations with …

Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Heather Higginbottom, and USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah briefed reporters and responded to questions on State Department and USAID fis…

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah talked about the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa. Congress was being asked to appropriate ano…

Administration officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) briefed repor…

Rajiv Shah testified on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) priorities for the proposed fiscal year 2015 budget. He described the agency’s work on global hunger, educatio…

Rajiv Shah testified on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) priorities for the proposed fiscal year 2015 budget. A big part of the hearing was about the USAID’s social me…

Heather Higginbottom and Rajiv Shah spoke to reporters about President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal for their respective agencies. Heather Higginbottom said her State Department’…

Joseph Glauber gave the agricultural and trade outlook for 2014 and the Department of Agriculture annual Agricultural Outlook Forum. Following his presentation, panelists discussed the futur…

Rajiv Shah gave the keynote address at a Woodrow Wilson Center discussion on public and private sector partnerships to aid developing countries, innovate new technologies, and create new mar…

President Obama spoke at the annual congressional prayer breakfast, where legislators, officials and clergy gathered to offer thanks for the blessings bestowed on the United States. Calling …

Secretary of State John Kerry, former first ladies Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, and Afghan Ambassador to the U.N. Zahir Tanin were among those who spoke ab…

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah spoke about challenges ahead for achieving Universal Primary Education, one of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals and the focus of USAID’s Global…

Rajiv Shah and Daniel Yohannes testified on the budget request for their respective foreign assistance programs, the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Millennium Challenge…

Outgoing Republican Senator Dick Lugar spoke about foreign aid and assistance programs and said that he was concerned that U.S. foreign aid money was increasingly going to climate change pro…

Rajiv Shah talked about the recently announced partnership between the G-8, African nations, and private industry of the creation of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which w…