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IESC President Delivers 2014 Adair Lecture on Diplomacy and Development

Tom Miller delivering the 2014 Adair Lecture Photo Debra Blome/American Foreign Service Association

August 29, 2014 –On August 27, IESC President and CEO Tom Miller, a former ambassador and 30-year veteran of the State Department, delivered the 8th Annual Adair Memorial Lecture on U.S. Diplomacy at American University.

Miller’s presentation, titled “The Nexus…

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…

Ilda 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…

July 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…

Liberia’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…

By Afghans, for Afghans

July 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…