Subject: USAID: 1/10 Luncheon Discussion in Washington, D.C. with Mara Rudman, Assistant Administrator for the Middle East Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
From: "Meghan Hagberg" <[email-masked]>
To: "Meghan Hagberg" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:03:08 -0500

The Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) is pleased to announce a luncheon discussion with

Ms. Mara Rudman
Assistant Administrator for the Middle East Bureau
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

January 10, 2012
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Washington, D.C.

Co-hosted by International Relief & Development, Inc. (IRD) and IREX

To register please use this link: USAID<http://bciu.org/wip02/online_event_invitation.asp?continent=0&country=0&currentorpast=current&eventsorprograms=events&IDNumber=1616&ProgramIDNumber=0&Keycode=7612268>

Venue details will be sent upon registration.

Biographical Information

Mara Rudman currently serves as Assistant Administrator for the Middle East Bureau at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).  Prior to USAID, Ms Rudman was a deputy envoy and chief of staff for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. She served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary to the National Security Council under President Obama from January through May 2009. From 2005 to 2009, she was the President of Quorum Strategies, LLC, an international strategic consulting firm, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where she focused on national security issues and advised Middle East Progress. She served as a deputy national security advisor and National Security Council chief of staff to President Clinton from 1999 to 2001, and earlier in her career, as chief counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Committee under Chairman Lee Hamilton (D-IN). She also has worked as a vice president and general counsel for The Cohen Group, a Washington-based consultancy founded by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen; and she worked previously for Rep. Gerry E. Studds (D-MA).  She is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College