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Former CARE president Bell to speak, April 3
Posted March 30, 2006; 10:03 p.m.
Peter Bell, former president of CARE USA, will present a lecture
titled "CARE's Partnership With the U.S. Government: Principles,
Pragmatism and Politics" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 3, in Dodds
Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Bell recently resigned after 10 years as the head of CARE, one of the
world's largest private relief and development organizations. He is
joining the Carter Center as a visiting fellow and will serve as a
visiting professor at Emory University's Rollins School of Public
Health.
Bell is a leading figure in global philanthropic and humanitarian
initiatives. Prior to joining CARE, he was president of the Edna
McConnell Clark Foundation, a senior associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace and president of the Inter-American
Foundation.
Bell served as special assistant to the secretary and deputy
undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
under President Carter in the late 1970s. Prior to that, he held senior
positions with the Ford Foundation.
Bell earned his MPA in international affairs from Princeton in 1964. He
received the James Madison Medal, the University's top honor for
graduate alumni, in 2002.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Graduate Career Services.