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Ambassador Swanee Hunt
08-21-2010
Can Women Stop War!
Swanee Hunt chairs the Washington-based Institute for Inclusive Security, through which she works in more than 40 conflict areas to ensure that all stakeholders are integrated into the decision-making of peace processes.
From 1993 to 1997, she served as President Clinton's ambassador to Austria, where she hosted negotiations and international symposia focused on stabilizing the neighboring Balkan states. She is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. There, she founded, and for a decade directed, a research center: the Women and Public Policy Program. Ambassador Hunt is founder and president of Hunt Alternatives Fund, through which she has committed some $130 million in endowments and grants to local, national, and global initiatives.
For additional information contact:
LTC Diane Ryan, D/BS&L, X5632