Subject: CSIS 6/20 Event on The USIA Experience: Lessons for the Proposed USAID/State Department Merger
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CSIS 6/20 Event at 1:00 p.m. on The USIA Experience: Lessons for the Proposed USAID/State Department Merger
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The Project on U.S. Leadership in Development cordially invites you to:

** The USIA Experience: Lessons for the Proposed USAID/State Department Merger
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Featuring

** Hilda Arellano
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Former Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs
U.S. Embassy in Kabul

** Kenton Keith
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Former Director of the Office of North African, Near Eastern, and South Asian Affairs
U.S. Information Agency (USIA)

** Susan Stevenson
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Acting Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Public Affairs

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Moderated by

** Shannon N. Green
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Director and Senior Fellow of the Human Rights Initiative, CSIS

** Daniel F. Runde
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William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis and Director of the Project on Prosperity and Development, CSIS

** Tuesday, June 20, 2017
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** 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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2nd FLOOR CONFERENCE CENTER
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** Please join us for an expert panel discussion that examines the proposed major organizational restructuring of the State Department and USAID through the lens of the previous merger of the State Department and the U.S. Information Agency (USIA).
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In response to President Trump’s request for reorganization proposals, the Department of State’s leadership is quietly reviewing various options to streamline the United States’ diplomatic and development operations. One of the proposals under consideration is a merger of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

While there are certainly changes that can be made at both organizations, a State Department/USAID merger—where personnel, procurement, programmatic, and budgeting functions are combined—would be a huge mistake. To understand the risks and downsides of such a move, we can look to the experience of the merger of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) into the State Department in 1999.

** Please join us for this timely and relevant discussion. For more information, check out our recent commentary, The Folly of Mergining State Department and USAID: Lesson from USIA.  (http://csis.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=7fb9cae550&e=e55aaf27de)
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