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2012 Conference |
The annual Latin American Social and Public Policy conference features presentations on social and public policy research in Latin America by students from the University of Pittsburgh and other universities, with comments by University of Pittsburgh faculty. 2012 Annual Latin American Social Dates: February 24 - 25, 2012 Location: University Club, 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 This year featuring: KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Friday, February 24, 2012 at 4:00pm) "Latin America: Where Next?" by Janet Ballantyne Janet Ballantyne is a Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She is a Career Minister in the Senior Foreign Service, with over 30 years of USAID experience. Currently she is serving as Senior USAID Advisor to the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State. From 2009 to late 2010, she was USAID Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean. She served as USAID Mission Director in Nicaragua (1990-1994), Russia (1996-2000), and the Central Asia Republics (2008-09). She also served as Deputy Director for USAID missions in Morocco and Nepal. Dr. Ballantyne holds a BA from Cornell University, an MPA from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and a PhD in International Development from Cornell University's School of Management. She is an adjunct faculty member of Syracuse University (Washington D.C. campus) where she teaches a graduate seminar on Development Theory and Practice to students from the universities of Syracuse, Denver, and Pittsburgh. FACULTY SPEAKER (Friday, February 24, 2012 at 1:00pm) “The puzzle of civil society weakness in Mexico: Nuno S. Themudo is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he taught at the London School of Economics, where he earned his PhD. His research has been published in several prestigious scholarly outlets including Governance, World Development, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and the Global Civil Society Yearbook. In 2010, Nuno’s article on Gender and the Nonprofit Sector received the award for Best Article in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. He has also written reports for agencies such as Amnesty International and The World Bank. Nuno is the current Secretary of ARNOVA, the Association of Researchers in Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action.
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