Trade, Aid and Security Coalition

Jamie Drummond, Executive Director of DATA delivering the keynote

Claude Fontheim, Chairman of TASC, and Jamie Drummond

Ann Tutwiler of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Greg Simpkins of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation

Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Honorable Erastus Mwencha

Jamie Drummond and Secretary General Mwencha 

Gabriel Laizer and Emily Nohner of the Alliance to End Hunger and Isak Pretorius of Joint Aid Management (South Africa)

Congressman Jim McDermott providing remarks at the reception

Congressman Jim McDermott speaking with Dr. Libidwe Sibanda of South Africa and Savior Mwambwa of Zambia. 

Congressman Jim McDermott and Legislative Director Jayme White speaking with Ambassador Ronald Eng of Cambodia

Members of the audience  

 Devry Boughner of Cargill, Inc, Zahid Torres-Rahman of Business Action for Africa, Katrin Kuhlmann of TASC and Steve Radelet of Center for Global Development. 

Steve Radelet of the Center for Global Development and Gayle Smith of the Center for American Progress  

Secretary General Mwencha taking questions from the audience and Katrin Kuhlmann, President of TASC moderating 

  Lael Brainard of the Brookings Institution

Stephen Morrison of CSIS, Lawrence Jones of the University of Washington, and Dr. Libidwe Sibanda of FANPRAN (South Africa)  

  Savior Mwambwa of Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (Zambia)

Mel Foote of Constituency for Africa, Jodi Jacobson of the American Jewish World Service, Reed Kramer of All Africa Global Media, Tom Freedman of Freedman Consulting and Grant Aldonas of CSIS

Bill Jackson of USTR, Nancy Carter Foster of the U.S. Department of State, Danielle Langton of the Congressional Research Service, Erin Tunney of Bread for the World, Jamie Drummond of DATA

Grant Aldonas of CSIS moderating a panel  

Photos by Douglas DeMark