Washington: The Office of the Special Representative to Muslim Communities together with the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour and the Office of Civil Rights, will host the first ever strategy session on Diversity, Inclusion and US Foreign Policy.
The US Department of State will convene 100 top diversity leaders from the public and private sectors to focus on the impact of diverse professional environments and the way in which the diversity and inclusion agenda informs US foreign policy.
The programme opens promptly at 8.30 am on June 7 in the Marshall Center with opening remarks from Senator Ben Cardin (D/MD), Special Representative to Muslim Communities, Farah Pandith, and Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the Department of State.
Presentations and working groups continue throughout the day until 4.30 pm Dr. Ernest Wilson III, Dean of the Annenberg School of Public Diplomacy, will offer the keynote address at 8.45 am on “Why Diversity is ‘Mission Critical’ for the US”, a US Department of State press release said.
Participants will include US government leaders from the White House, Congress, USAID, the Department of State, Peace Corps, the US Marine Corps, and the US Navy, and Chief Diversity Officers from leading US corporations, educational institutions, and non-profit and other organizations, including Merck, Citigroup, Wal-Mart, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, McDonald’s, Abercrombie & Fitch, GlaxoSmithKline, American Red Cross, United Way Worldwide, Harvard University, Cornell University, and many others. The International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals and the Society for Human Resource Management are partners in this event.
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