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August 13, 2014 – President and CEO of IESC, retired Ambassador Thomas J. Miller, will deliver the 8th Annual Adair Memorial Lecture on U.S. Diplomacy on Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 3 p.m. at American University’s Kay Memorial Chapel at Kay Spiritual Life Center. His presentation is titled, “The Nexus Between Diplomacy and Development: A Practitioner’s Perspective.” During his distinguished 29-year career at the State Department, the…
read moreIlda Guambe, a Mandela Washington Fellow from Mozambique, will spend eight weeks at IESC as an intern.
August 14, 2014
International Executive Service Corps (IESC) is hosting Ilda Suzana Massuanganhe Guambe of Mozambique through the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders program in August and September 2014.
The Washington Fellowship is the new…
read moreJuly 31, 2014
IESC has teamed with AARP to deliver a new volunteer program in China to advise Chinese organizations on global best practices and standards. Our first group of senior experts are currently on the ground.
Andrea Patrick discussing the new volunteer program at a meeting in Beijing earlier this year
Experienced industry professionals in food safety and meat processing, green energy…
read moreLiberia’s Golden Image award honors organizations that have made selfless contributions to peace and humanity
July 25, 2014
On July 16, the Liberia Investing for Business Expansion Program (IBEX) received the 2014 Golden Image Award for its efforts to provide technical assistance and empower local businesses. The Golden Image Award is a national Liberian award given to individuals or organizations that have made selfless…
read moreJuly 9, 2014
As America withdraws combat troops, the Afghans I have met over the past four years point to an increasingly vibrant entrepreneurial sector creating jobs and consumers ready to participate in a more stable economy. It has not gone unnoticed that Afghanistan, a nation of some 30 million people, is rich in natural resources. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that untapped mineral deposits there are worth between $900 billion…
read moreMay 30, 2014
Washington, DC — IESC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a major sub grant from Land O’Lakes International Development for the five year Yemen Competitive Agriculture Systems for High Value Crops (CASH) Program. The $24.5 million CASH Program is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under a Cooperative Agreement with the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA).
The CASH…
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