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Leaders In International Higher Education
2007 Annual Conference Speakers
Announcing the keynote speakers at AIEA's 2007 conference:
Dr. Fukuyama, professor of International Political Economy at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, has published widely on issues concerning political and economic development. His most recent book America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy has just been published by Yale University Press in March 2006. At the 2007 AIEA conference, Dr. Fukuyama will be speaking on "American Foreign Policy and American Education."
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The 12th President of Monterey Institute of International Studies, Dr. Clara Yu was born in China, and educated in Taiwan and the United States. She holds a BA degree in English from the National Taiwan University and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois. She has taught at the University of Maryland and Middlebury College and served as a consultant in artificial intelligence in the Washington DC area.
A frequent speaker at conferences on higher education, Dr. Yu has served on technology task forces and consulted for educational institutions in the US and abroad. Her extensive list of scholarly publications covers a wide array of subjects including information technology, liberal arts education, language pedagogy, natural language processing and artificial intelligence, international studies, Chinese literature and Chinese culture.
Charles Kolb is President of the Committee for Economic Development (CED) with offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. CED is an independent, nonpartisan organization of 250 business and education leaders dedicated to economic and social policy research and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and private sectors. He has held this position since September 1997.
Prior to joining CED, he served as General Counsel and Secretary of United Way of America from 1992 to 1997. During nearly ten years of government service he held several senior-level positions. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, The White House (1990-1992). At the White House, he worked on several domestic issues involving economic, education, legal, and regulatory matters. From 1983 to 1990, he held three other government positions: Assistant General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget (1983-1986); Deputy General Counsel for Regulations and Legislation, U.S. Department of Education (1986-1988); and Deputy Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Education (1988-1990).