Businessman, philanthropist and author George Soros, the founder and chair of the Open Society Institute, chaired a roundtable discussion on multilateralism and its role in U.S. foreign policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
Among those making presentations at the roundtable were Phil Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust; Robert Muller, president of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation; LaShawn Jefferson, director of the Women s Right s Division of Human Rights Watch; and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R, Nebraska).Participants at the discussion included: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D, Vermont); Rep. Howard Berman (D, California); Phyllis Cuttino (United Nations Fourndation); Shep Forman (Center on International Cooperation); Melanie Greenberg, (The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation); Stephen Heintz (Rockefeller Brothers Fund); Dr. Henry Jarecki (The Falconwood Corporation); Stephen Kull (Program on International Policy Attitudes); Karin Lassakers (Soros Fund Management); Amb. Princeton Lyman (Global Interdependence Intiative); Sylvia Mathews (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation); Frank Pearl (Perseus Capital); Stephen Rickard (Nuremberg Legacy Project); Kenneth Roth (Human Rights Watch); and David Scheffer (United Nations Association).
For additional information about the roundtable discussion or an interview with Aryeh Neier, president of OSI, or Morton Halperin, director of OSI's Washington, D.C. office, please contact Christopher Madison at 202-721-5642 or by e-mail at: cmadison@osi-dc.org.
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