Sponsored By:

2:10 pm Symposia #2 Maxwell Auditorium, first floor Maxwell Hall 300,000 and Counting: Are Transnational NGOs Changing the World? Participants: John Clark After working in NGOs for 18 years (with Oxfam UK), John Clark joined World Bank where he was manager of the NGO and Civil Society Unit and later the Lead Social Development Specialist for East Asia. He then moved to the UN Secretary Gerneral’s Office to become Project Director of a new panel to advise Kofi Annan on reforming the UN’s relations with civil society. He is currently Lead Social Development Specialist for the World Bank’s East Asia Region. Walden Bello Walden Bello was born in Manila in the Philippines in 1945. He received a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University. Bello is a key figure in international social movements to restore democracy in the Philippines and provide analysis critical of the role, perspective and impact of the Bretton Woods institutions. He is also a leading voice in the anti-globalization movement. Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of the Philippines, Bello also directs an important Southern think-tank and NGO Focus on the Global South, based in Bangkok, which seeks to build grassroots capacity to tackle wider regional issues of development and capital flows. Leslie Lenkowsky Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky is the Director of Graduate Programs for Philanthropic Studies at the Center on Philanthropy and a Professor of Public Affairs and Philanthropic Studies in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to take up the role of chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service. He holds a PhD from Harvard University. Moderator: Arthur Brooks Arthur C. Brooks is Associate Professor of Public Administration, specializing in nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and arts and culture. Brooks is co-editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. He is a consultant to the RAND Corporation, where he has performed research on topics ranging from national security to nonprofit arts. He earned an MA in economics from Florida Atlantic University and his PhD and MPhil in public policy from the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies.