The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium

 The international symposium is an annual public forum designed and enacted by the EPIIC students. It features scores of international practitioners, academics, public intellectuals, activists and journalists in panel discussions and workshops.

This year’s Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award recipients include:

•    Sarah Chayes
Founder, Arghand Cooperative; Former reporter, National Public Radio and The Christian Science Monitor; Recipient, Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards; Author, The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
•    Dana Freyer
Co-chair and Founder, Global Partnership for Afghanistan; Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Former Assistant to the Afghanistan Ambassador to the United Nations
•    Sanjoy Hazarika
Former New York Times correspondent; Managing trustee, Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research
•    Ayesha Jalal
MacArthur Fellow and Professor of History, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Author, Self and Sovereignty: The Muslim Individual and the Community of Islam in South Asia since c. 1850; The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan; The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan’s Political Economy of Defence, among others.
•    Irene Khan
Secretary General, Amnesty International
•    Rory Stewart
Director, Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Professor of the Practice of Human Rights; Founder, Turquoise Mountain Foundation; Author, The Places in Between
• Shashi Tharoor, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and Member of the Indian Parliament; former Undersecretary General for Communications and Publications, United Nations


Advisers and Panelists include:

Reuben Abraham, Professor of Business and Executive Director, Center for Emerging Markets Solutions, Indian School of Business in Hyderabad

LT GEN David Barno, Director, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University; Commanded20,000 US and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan in 2003

Fred Berger, Chairman, Louis Berger Group; Member, IGL External Advisory Board 

Pulok Chatterji, Executive Director for South Asia, World Bank

Elora Chowdhury, Professor of Women’s Studies, U Mass, Boston

Steve Coll, President and CEO, New America Foundation

Keith Fitzgerald, Project Implementation Specialist, Sri Lanka Resident Mission, Asian Development Bank

Farooq Kathwari, Chairman of the Board, Kashmir Study Group; Chairman of Refugees International

Bennett Lowenthal, US State Department Director, Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team, Afghanistan

Ram Manikkalingam, former Adviser to the President of Sri Lanka on the Peace Process; Director of the Dialogue Advisory Group 

Lant Pritchett, Professor, Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

COL John Wood, Central/South Asia Division Chief, US Department of Defense
more information on the 2010 EPIIC SYMPOSIUM here