Empowering Women in Developing Countries Panel 



March 2, 2011

12:15-1:30PM 

in the Atrium of Van Munching Hall



The School of Public Policy is pleased to host “Empowering Women in Developing Countries: Solutions and Policies,” to explore the issues raised in the University of Maryland's First Year Book, HALF THE SKY.  Ioana Petrescu, Assistant Professor in International Development, will represent the School as part of an all-female panel designed to explore the large policy issues while addressing what specifically can be done to help solve the issues raised in the book.  The conversation will also discuss how University of Maryland students can prepare themselves through their educational programs to effectively attack the broad social issues that the book so clearly identifies. 



The panel includes:

Caren Grown  

Senior Gender Advisor

Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning

USAID



Jody Zall Kusek

Advisor, Health and Nutrition Group

The World Bank



Nelly P. Stromquist

Professor of International Education Policy

College of Education

University of Maryland



Light refreshments served



http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/2011-03-02