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Obiageli Ezekwesili

Oil: Blessing or Curse?

Hossein Askari
Professor of Iran International Business and Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University; Author, Economic Development in the Countries of the GCC: The Curse and Blessing of Oil ,Saudi Arabia: Oil and the Search for Economic Development , and Oil Exporting Countries of the Middle East: What Happened to Economic Development? (forthcoming); former Special Adviser, Minister of Finance, Saudi Arabia; former Adviser, Executive Board, International Monetary Fund

Carlos Blanco
Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela; Associate, Fellows Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; former Minister for State Reform and President of the Presidential Commission for State Reform, Venezuela; former Director, Blanco & Asociados Consultores

Obiageli Ezekwesili | 2005 Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Recipient
Special Assistant for Budget to the President of Nigeria; Founder and Codirector, Center for Public Policy Priorities, Nigeria

Andrew Hess

Andrew Hess
Professor of Diplomacy and Director, The Program for Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization, the Contemporary Turkish Studies Program, and the Kuwaiti, Qatari, and Armenian Foreign Service Training Programs, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Executive, Arabian American Oil Company, Saudi Arabia; Author, "Cultural and Political Limits on Forward Presence in Southwest Asia"

Darren Kew
Assistant Professor, Dispute Resolution Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Author, "Fighting Corruption in Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Synthesis Assessment and Strategy Development"

Jacob Silberberg
Photojournalist, Getty Images and Panos Pictures; currently based in Nigeria where he covers West and Central Africa and is working on a long term project about the effects of oil on development; his work has been featured in TIME, Newsweek , Fortune , The New York Times , USA Today, and the Sunday Telegraph; Alumnus, EPIIC '01 and TILIP '02

Award Presentation: Margaret Senese, EPIIC Colloquium
Moderators: Catherine Caicedo and Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, EPIIC Colloquium