Anne-Marie Slaughter (JD '85): Solutions for a New America

Tuesday March 11, 2014, 5:30 - 6:45 p.m.

New America is one of the leading, nonpartisan organizations working on solutions to public problems in the United States. Their expertise extends from foreign policy to economic development; their hallmarks are big ideas, better technology, and bottom-up change. One area of focus for President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter and of New America is education, the foundation of success in the digital age. We are entering an era in which a strong basic foundation coupled with life-long learning skills and habits will become essential, and in which how, where, and when we deliver education will all be disrupted. Dr. Slaughter will walk us through some of the big ideas in education policy, breadwinning and caregiving, asset-building and civic technology in the United States around the world.

Event Details:
Cost: $40; $20 for Rotman/U of T Alumni; $10 for Youth Leaders under 30
Location: Desautels Hall (2/F South Building)
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
105 St. George Street
Toronto, ON
M5S 3E6

Further Information: Please see the event listing on the Rotman School of Management website.

About the Speaker:
Anne-Marie Slaughter is President and CEO of the New America Foundation and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She was previously the director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department and dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. From 2009-2011, Slaughter served as Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. After leaving the State Department, she received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor conferred by the State Department, for her work leading the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. She also received a Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Prior to her government service, Slaughter was the dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 2002-2009. She has written or edited six books, including A New World Order (2004) and The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World (2007). From 1994-2002, Slaughter was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and director of the International Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. She received a B.A. from Princeton, an M.Phil and D.Phil in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard.