DIPLOMATIC TRAFFIC
Foreign visitors in Washington this week include:
Monday
• Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg of the Czech Republic, who meets with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and dignitaries at the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution and the Center for European Policy Analysis.
Tuesday
• Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of Canada’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy, who is on a tour to promote his new book, “The Canadian Century.”
Wednesday
• Greg Mills, director of South Africa’s Brenthurst Foundation, who discusses his book “Why Africa Is Poor and What Africans Can Do About It” at the Cato Institute.
Thursday
• Nicholas Haysom of the executive office of the U.N. secretary-general; Julian Thomas Hottinger of Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs; and retired Lt. Gen. Lazaro K. Sumbeiywo, former Kenyan special envoy and lead mediator of the Sudanese peace process. They address a forum sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Swiss Embassy on the conflict in Sudan.
• Paul Collier, director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Britain’s Oxford University; Bozidar Djelic, European Union deputy prime minister for integration and minister of science and technological development; Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, governor the Central Bank of Afghanistan; Shahid Hafeez Kardar, governor of the State Bank of Pakistan; Denis O’Brien, chairman of the Digicel Group of Ireland; Zaigham Rizvi, former chairman of the House Building Finance Corp. of Pakistan; John Rwangombwa, minister of finance and economic planning of Rwanda; Mauricio Santamaria, minister of social protection of Colombia; R.V. Verma, chairman of the National Housing Bank of India; and Adrian Wooldridge, management editor of Britain’s Economist magazine. They address the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Friday
• Arnold Ekpe, group chief executive officer of Ecobank Transnational of Togo; Adan Mohamed of Barclays Bank of Kenya, James Mwangi, chief executive officer of Equity Bank Limited of Kenya; Martin Oduor-Otieno, chief executive officer of Kenya Commercial Bank; and Henri-Claude Oyima of BGFIBank of Gabon. They are the nominees for the African Banker Award of 2010. Also attending the banquet are finance ministers Adji Oteth Ayassor of Togo, Samura Mw Kamara of Sierra Leone, Charles Diby Koffi of the Ivory Coast, Kwabena Duffour of Ghana and Situmbeko Musokotwane of Zambia.
• Katiuska King, the minister-coordinator of economic policy of Ecuador, who addresses the Inter-American Dialogue.
• Jorg Asmussen, state secretary in the German Ministry of Finance; Sharon Bowles of the European Parliament; Zsolt Darvas, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Garry Schinasi and Reinhilde Veugelers of Bruegel, a think tank in Brussels; Caio Koch-Weser of the Deutsche Bank; Rajiv Kumar, former director of ICRIER, a think tank in New Delhi; and Lorenzo Bini Smaghi of the European Central Bank. They participate in a forum sponsored by the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Bruegel.
• Call Embassy Row at 202/636-3297 or e-mail jmorrison@washingtontimes.com.
• James Morrison can be reached at jmorrison@washingtontimes.com.
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