Type: Seminar
Host: Student organizations, International Policy Center, Weiser Diplomacy Center

Dr. Roselyne Akombe in conversation with Ambassador Susan D. Page

Africa 2021, Where do we go from here?

Date & time

Apr 19, 2021, 11:00 am-12:30 pm EDT

Location

This is a Virtual Event.
Dr. Roselyne Akombe

IEDP presents Ambassador Susan D. Page in conversation with Dr. Roselyne Akombe about her new role at the United Nations as the Governance and Peacebuilding Regional Coordinator at UNDP's Regional Service Centre for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is transitioning from the Chief of Policy role at the Policy and Mediation Division, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs at the United Nations in New York. She's originally from Kenya and in 2017 briefly served as a Commissioner of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) before rejoining the UN.

Ambassador Susan D. Page

Faculty Expert

Susan D. Page

Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan's Law School. Director; Weiser Diplomacy Center
Page applies her vast foreign policy experience to the Weiser Diplomacy Center. She has served the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations in senior roles for decades, across East, Central, and Southern Africa, and in Haiti and Nepal. Page was the first U.S. ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan and served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in Haiti.