Susan Eisenhower to Visit Triangle

Raleigh, NC November 7 2003-- The International Visitors Council / World Affairs Council (IVC / WAC) and the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, will sponsor a visit by Susan Eisenhower to the Triangle. Ms. Eisenhower is chair of the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, DC, and granddaughter of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ms. Eisenhower is best known for her work in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Ms. Eisenhower will make two speaking appearances in the Triangle. The first will be a luncheon at the Cardinal Club, 150 Fayetteville Street Mall (Wachovia Building), Suite 2800, Raleigh on November 20, 2003 at noon. The event is $30 for members of IVC / WAC; $35 for non-members. Must be paid in advance. Cardinal Club and Triangle Society members can register directly through the Club. Cost includes program, lunch, and all taxes & gratuities. Space is limited. RSVP is needed by November 17. The second appearance will be in Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, November 20, 6 - 7 p.m., followed by reception & wine tasting from 7 - 8:30 p.m. Ms. Eisenhower will share about U.S. / Russia relations. The Fuqua School of Business is located at 1 Towerview Road on the Duke University campus in Durham. For specific directions, call Student Services at 919.660.7934.The evening event at Duke is co-sponsored by the Fuqua MBA Association, Fuqua International Center, Duke Graduate and Professional Student Council, Fuqua Diversity Cabinet, Fuqua Admissions Department, Fuqua Leadership Cabinet, and Fuqua Association of Women in Business.Ms. Eisenhower has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences' standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) where she is now serving a third term. In 2000, a year before September 11, she co-edited a book, Islam and Central Asia, which carried the prescient subtitle, An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat? Among other commitments, Ms. Eisenhower serves as an Academic Fellow of the International Peace and Security program of Carnegie Corporation of New York, and is a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She served two terms on the National Advisory Council of NASA. About the Eisenhower InstituteThe Eisenhower Institute is a 501 (c)(3) organization founded in 1983 with a mission to advance Dwight D. Eisenhower's intellectual and leadership legacies in foreign and domestic policy through: a rigorous pursuit of facts; the encouragement of reasoned and respectful debate; and the quest for outcomes that serve the long-term interests of the American people while promoting justice and international peace. The goal of the organization is to build a policy institute in Washington, DC that promotes sound and forward-looking policies, and that lays the intellectual and civic groundwork for the next generation of opinion-leaders, policy-shapers and public servants. More information is available at www.eisenhowerinstitute.orgAbout IVC / WACFor 30 years, the International Visitor Council has brought participants to the Triangle from all over the world to meet and confer with their professional counterparts and to experience the United States firsthand. The visitors, who are current or potential leaders in government, politics, business, the media, education, and other fields, are selected by American officials overseas. They come to the United States for two to four week periods of sponsored travel through the auspices of the International Visitor Program of the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State.When their national itinerary includes the Triangle area, the International Visitors Council arranges their professional activities in a wide variety of fields, including biotechnology, business management, pharmaceuticals, environment law, government, grassroots democracy, print journalism, and broadcasting, finance, trade issues, the arts, and education. The emphasis of the program is to increase mutual understanding through communication at the personal and professional levels.More than 200 current and former Heads of State, 1,500 cabinet-level ministers and many other distinguished world leaders in government and the private sector have participated in the International Visitors Program.Our 2002 merger with the Triangle World Affairs Council complements our current programming and gives us additional resources, including access to former ambassadors and other prominent individuals available for speaking engagements in our area.More information is available at www.ivc-wac.org