Category: Member Perspectives

Lena Sene, Campaign Manager for the Senegalese Presidential Election Campaign of Idrissa Seck

Network 20/20 Board Member, Lena Sene, has become the Campaign Manager for the Senegalese Presidential Candidate Idrissa Seck, who was the previous Prime Minister of Senegal. She has become a vital figure in his campaign which hopes to win the 2012 Presidential Elections. Lena is working with a group of over 40 people to help get Idrissa Seck elected as the President of Senegal in the Elections in February 26^th 2012.

Lena is a former White House Fellow with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was appointed by the President in 2006 to the forty-four year old non-partisan leadership program, along with 13 other nationally selected Americans.

Prior to her appointment as a White House Fellow, Lena was an Investment Representative at the Private Investment Management Division of Lehman Brothers. And prior to that, she was a Private Banker at the JPMorgan Private Bank in New York.

Please click below to read more on Network 20/20 Board Member, Lena Sene, as she helps with the Presidential Campaign for Idrissa Seck.

http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAJA2658p008-009-bis.xml0/

http://www.idy4president.com/

http://sn.telediaspora.net/fr/texte.asp?idinfo=58087\

A Sanctions Policy Short on Smarts

In this article published by PBS Frontline, a Network 20/20 member discusses the unintended consequences of U.S. sanctions on Iranian banking–especially its impact on remittances between relatives in the U.S. and Iran–and proposes a fairer and more effective policy aimed at addressing U.S. national interests without affecting innocent transactions.

You can read the article here:

A Sanctions Policy Short on Smarts (PBS Frontline)

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