Network 20/20

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

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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/

Roger Cohen, Foreign Editor of the New York Times

network2020 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:20:06 +0000

Steven Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations

network2020 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:05:13 +0000

Andrew Selee, Director of Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute

network2020 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:59:42 +0000

Martin Wolf, Editor and Chief Economics Commentator

network2020 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:20:01 +0000

Karen Elliot House, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal and former president of the Dow Jones International

network2020 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:47:54 +0000

Sally Bedell Smith, bestselling author of autobiographies on the Kennedy White House and Diana, Princess of Wales

network2020 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:17:59 +0000

Sally Bedell Smith is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1996, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a cultural news reporter. She was awarded a Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for magazine reporting in 1982 and was a fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in 1986.

Robert Finn, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University Former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan

network2020 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:17:36 +0000

“Turkey: Bridging Foreign Policy between East and West”

Ambassador Robert P. Finn, Associate Research Scholar in the Liechtenstein Institute of the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, provides a cutting edge perspective on the interconnection between policy, energy, business and religion in Turkey’s foreign affairs. With his extensive expertise and diplomatic service in the region, Ambassador Finn further explores the question of Turkey’s long-term political and economic stability, as it continues to emerge as critical player in global politics.

Prior to his experience as a lecturer and research scholar at Princeton University, Ambassador Finn served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan in more than 20 years, in 2002, and has also been U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan. Other diplomatic postings include Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, Turkey; Lahore, Pakistan; and Zagreb, Croatia, and opened the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan in 1992. He is the author of the book The Early Turkish Novel, which has been published both in English and Turkish, and has received numerous awards, including two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards and one for heroism. Ambassador Finn holds a B.A. in American Literature and European History from St. John’s University, an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University, and an M.A. and Ph. D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey and a Fulbright scholar at Istanbul University, and speaks more than ten languages.

Onno Ruding, former Vice Chairman of Citicorp and Citibank, former Finance Minister of The Netherlands

network2020 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:06:43 +0000

Dr. H. Onno Ruding is a Network 20/20 Advisory Council member, the former Director of the IMF

Eckart Woertz, Visiting Fellow at Princeton University

network2020 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:49:44 +0000

As a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Environmental Institute, Dr. Eckart Woertz focuses on oil, energy, and sustainability in the Middle East. With extensive experience in banking and finance, he offers extraordinary insight on the political economy of the Middle East, including shifts within the region’s financial markets, energy issues, and social impacts of structural policies. Dr. Woertz has particular expertise in food inflation in the Gulf States as well as their agro-investments abroad.

Dr. Woertz is a regular contributor and commentator to major international and regional newspapers such as the Financial Times, Forbes, Der Spiegel, The National and Gulf News. He also appears regularly on Arabic, English and German speaking news channels like Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg and BBC. Among his many publications, Dr. Woertz predicted a long-term bull market in the precious metal, and also warned in early 2006 of the following stock market crash in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Dr. Woertz has previously held senior positions in financial service companies in Germany and the UAE, amongst them Delbrück & Co one of the oldest German private banks, and also served as the head of the Economics Department at the Gulf Research Center (GRC) in Dubai, which is regarded as the leading think tank of the Gulf region. He holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies and a PhD in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg.