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	Book Launch:		A Global Life: My Journey among Rich and Poor, from Sydney to Wall Street to the World Bank
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, December, 14, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		James D. Wolfensohn; Caroline Anstey

	Book Launch:		Investing in Young Children: An Early Childhood:Development Guide for Policy Dialogue and Project Preparation
	Date/Time:		Monday, December, 13, 2010, 2:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Tamar Manuelyan Atinc; Sophie Naudeau; Luis Benveniste; Emiliana Vegas; Sara Hommel

	Book Launch:		Postcrisis Growth and Development: A Development Agenda for the G-20
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, December, 7, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Arvind Subramanian; Moisés Naím; Lawrence MacDonald; Shahrokh Fardoust; Justin Yifu Lin

	Book Launch:		Reaching Global Audiences in the iPhone Era
	Date/Time:		Monday, December, 6, 2010, 2:30 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Carlos Rossel; Neelan Choksi

	Book Launch:		The Great Recession and Developing Countries: Economic Impact and Growth Prospects
	Date/Time:		Thursday, December, 2, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Otaviano Canuto; Mustapha K. Nabli; Kemal Derviş; Alan Gelb; Justin Yifu Lin

	Book Launch:		World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Snapshots 2010: Entrepreneurship and the Financial Crisis
	Date/Time:		Friday, November, 19, 2010, 2:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Asli Demirguc-Kunt; Leora Klapper; Inessa Love; Marialisa Motta; Robert E. Litan

	Book Launch:		The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, November, 16, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Martin N. Baily; Robert J. Shiller; Otaviano Canuto

	Book Launch:		Kenya’s ICT revolution and the invention of mobile money: The remarkable story of Safaricom told
	Date/Time:		Friday, November, 12, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Shantayanan Devarajan; Philippe Dongier; Wolfgang Fengler

	Book Launch:		Y2Y Event and Youth and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Agents of Change
	Date/Time:		Thursday, November, 11, 2010, 8:00 AM
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Stephanie Schwartz

	Book Launch:		Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention
	Date/Time:		Thursday, November, 11, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Helena Molin Valdes; Saroj Jha; Inger Andersen; Apurva Sanghi; Roger Morier; Shanta Devarajan; Vikram Nehru; Indermit Gill; Richard Damania; Elena Ianchovichina; Martin Rama

	Book Launch:		Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity-My Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, November, 9, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Manal Omar

	Book Launch:		The United Nations and Civil Society: Legitimating Global Governance - Whose Voice?
	Date/Time:		Thursday, November, 4, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		MC8-100 (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		John W. Garrison; Nora McKeon; James V. Riker

	Book Launch:		Gender Disparities in Africa’s Labor Markets: Nature, extent, and root causes of labor disadvantages facing African women
	Date/Time:		Monday, November, 1, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sudhi Shetty; Shanta Devarajan; Jorge Saba Arbache; Mayra Buvinic; Juliana Oyegun

	Book Launch:		Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries are Leading the Way
	Date/Time:		Thursday, October, 21, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Shantayanan Devarajan; Steve Radelet

	Panel Discussion:		Domestic Violence Awareness
	Date/Time:		Monday, October, 18, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Gavin de Becker; Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala; Fons Marcelis; Maaika M. le Grand; Hasan A. Tuluy; Adriana Quinones

	Book Launch:		The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World
	Date/Time:		Monday, September, 27, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Justin Lin; Otaviano Canuto; Marcelo Giugale; Nancy Lee; Thomas J. Trebat

	Book Launch:		Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future
	Date/Time:		Wenesday, September, 22, 2010, 2:30 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Abha Joshi-Ghani; Apurva Sanghi; Matthew E. Kahn; Konrad von Ritter

	Book Launch:		Christy Turlington Burns Presents "No Woman, No Cry: The Unfished Business of Maternal Health & the MDGs"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, September 16, 2010, 11:00 AM
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Phil Hay; Christy Turlington Burns; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

	Book Launch:		Report Discussion for "Animal and Pandemic Inluenza"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 2:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Phil Hay; David Nabarro; Tamar Manuelyan Atinc; Olga Jonas

	Book Launch:		Janice Perlman launches "Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		MC13-121 (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Janice Perlman; Michael Woolcock; Makhtar Diop

	Book Launch:		Former Nigerian Candidate for President Pat Utomi discusses "Putting Nigeria to Work"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, August 12, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Pat Utomi; Brian Pinto; Volker Treichel

	Book Launch		A Practical Approach to Pharmaceutical Policy
	Date/Time		Monday, August 2, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by		Phil Hay; Andreas Seiter; Cristian Baeza; Jeff Sturchio

	Book Launch		10 Years of The Little Green Data Book 2010
	Date/Time		Thursday, July 29, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by		James Warren Evans; Giovanni Ruta; Kirk Hamilton; John A. Dixon

	Book Launch		The What, Why, & How of Global Corporate Culture
	Date/Time		Monday, June 7, 2010, 11:00 AM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by		Klaus Tilmes; Naoki Ogiwara (Senior Consultant KDI Fuji Xerox), Mary Jensen (Director Knowledge Management Baker Hughes) David McQueeney (VP Technology and Strategy IBM Federal Government Unit)

	Book Launch		"The Power of Half"
	Date/Time		Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 4:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Edith Grace Ssempala; Kevin Salwen; Hannah Salwen; John Coonrod

	Book Launch		"The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 12:30 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Kenneth Reinert, Ramkishen Rajan, Peter Dougherty, and Francisco Ferreira

	Book Launch		"Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 10:30 am
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Justin Lin, Ariel Fiszbein, Norbert Schady, Martin Ravallion, Tina Rosenberg, and Santiago Levy

	Book Launch		"The Second World: How Emerging Powers are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, February 12, 2009, 12:30 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Srilal Mohan Perera, Parag Khanna, and Stewart Patrick

	Book Launch		"Illuminating the Public Sphere in Post-Conflict and Fragile Environments"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 3:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Shanthi Kalathil, Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau, Ivan Sigal, and Karin von Hippel

	Book Launch		"South Asian Bond Markets: Developing Long-Term Finance and Growth"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, February 19, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Kiatchai Sophastienphong, Yibin Mu, Shidan Derakhshani, Phillip Anderson, Ernesto May, and Simon Bell

	Panel Discussion		"Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 3:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Hassan Zaman, Rick Rowden, and John Garrison

	Panel Discussion		"Development in Your Pocket: Improving Lives with Mobile Phones"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 4:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Nick Hughes, Katrin Verclas, Holly Ladd, Jesse Moore, and Gautam Ivatury

	Book Launch		"Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 2:00 pm
	Venue:		Conference Room 1, International Monetary Fund HQ2 (1900 Pennsylvania Ave. NW)
	Presented by:		Paul Collier, Jeffrey Gutman, Sanjay Pradhan, and Shantayanan Devarajan


	Book Launch		"Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can save the World"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 3:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Matthew Bishop, Daniel Runde, Homi Kharas, Carol Adelman

	Panel Discussion		Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, and Thomas Friedman"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 2:00 pm
	Venue:		IFC Auditorium (2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW)
	Presented by:		Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, Thomas Friedman, Apurva Sanghi

	Book Launch		"AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?"
	Date/Time		Monday, April 20, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Julie McLaughlin, Mariam Claeson, Mead Over, Robert Clay, Debrework Zewdie

	Book Launch		Edward Prescott (Nobel Laureate) "Time Inconsistent Traps: Bailouts for all when credible to none"
	Date/Time:		Friday, April 24, 2009, 2:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium I2-250 (1850 I Street NW)
	Presented by:		Edward Prescott, Shantayanan Devarajan, Vikram Nehru, Apurva Sanghi

	Book Launch		"Moving Out of Poverty "
	Date/Time:		Monday, April 27, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Danny Leipziger, Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett, Geoffrey Lamb

	Book Launch		"The Global Deal"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 4:30 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Nicholas Stern, Hartwig Schafer, Marianne Fay

	Book Launch		"The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Elizabeth King, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Paul Peterson, Neil McIntosh

	Book Launch		"Hardware and Software Industries in China and India"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, April 30, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Mohsen Khalil, Neil Gregory, Stanley Nollen, Stoyan Tenev, Shahid Yusuf, Albert Keidel

	Book Launch		"The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 3:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Elizabeth King, Jamil Salmi, Richard Miller, Philip Altbach

	Film Screening		"One Water"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 12:30 PM and 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sam Grogg, Sanjeev Chatterjee

	Panel Discussion		"Israel 2028"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Eli Hurvitz, David Brodet, Jaime Jaramillo-Vallej, David Miron-Wapner, Ann Liebschutz, Yoav Soffer

	Book Launch		"Two Billion Cars"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Daniel Sperling; Deborah Gordon; Andreas Kopp

	Book Launch		"Portfolios of the Poor"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Daryl Collins; Jonathan Morduch; Asli Demirguc-Kunt; Robert Cull

	Book Launch		"Water in the Arab World"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, May 28, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Daniela Gressani; Vijay Jagannathan; Christian Delvoie

	Panel Discussion		"Africa Development Indicators Online"
	Date/Time:		Monday, June 15, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sudhir Shetty; Jorge Saba Arbache; Jane Njuguna; Alan Gelb; Antoine Simonpietri; Valentina Kalk

	Book Launch		"IC4D 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Katherine Sierra; Christine Zen-Wei Qiang; Otaviano Canuto; G. "Anand" Anandalingam; Mohsen Khalil

	Film Screening		"The End of the Line"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Kieran Kelleher; Marea Eleni Hatziolos

	Book Launch		"Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 12:30 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Pierre Guislain, Ceci Sager, Louis T. Wells, Danny Cusick

	Book Launch		"Building Equality and Opportunity Through Social Guarantees"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:30 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Cyprian Fisiy; Pamela Cox; José Miguel Insulza; Francisco Pilotti; Andrew Norton; Rodrigo Jordan

	Book Launch		"Grappling With Health Worker Shortages"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium I2-250 (1850 I Street NW)
	Presented by:		Phil Hay; Marko Vujicic; Joy Phumaphi; Ruth Levine; Joan Holloway

	Book Launch		"Brazil as an Economic Superpower?"
	Date/Time		Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		José Guilherme Reis; Leonardo Martinez-Diaz; Bruno Saraiva; Francisco Ferreira

	Book Launch		Ambassador Melanee Verveer launches "Domestic Violence Awareness Month"
	Date/Time		Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala; Melanne Verveer; Hasan A. Tuluy; Tina Gry Tinde; Shirley Siegal

	Book Launch		"Welcome to the Urban Revolution"
	Date/Time		Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Abha Joshi-Ghani; Jeb Brugmann; Junaid Kamal Ahmad

	Book Launch		"Globalization, Wages, and the Quality of Jobs"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Arup Banerji; Raymond Robertson; Drusilla Brown; Kimberly Elliot; David Kaplan

	Book Launch		"The Idea of Justice"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 4:30 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Amartya Sen; Anne-Marie Leroy; Otaviano Canuto

	Film Screening		"Toxic Transactions"
	Date/Time:		Friday, October 16, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Frank Fariello; Alexandra Wrage; Stephen Zimmermann; Pascale Hélène Dubois

	Book Launch		Secretary General of Amnesty International, Irene Khan, discusses "The Unheard Truth"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		John Garrison; Irene Khan; Ellen Dorsey; Varun Gauri

	Film Screening		Y2Y Presents "Where the Water Meets the Sky"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, October 22, 2:45 PM
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Nikita Malik; Kimberley Sevcik

	Film Screening		Film Screening for BBC Documentary "Cash in Hand"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sergio Jellinek; Pamela Cox; Santiago Levy Algazi; Helena Ribe

	Book Launch		"Bringing Finance to Pakistan
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 11:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		John Speakman; Tatiana Nenova; Cecile Thioro Niang; Ernesto May; Consolate Rusagara; Anjali Kumar

	Book Launch		"Distortions to Agricultural Incentives"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, November 5, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Alan Gelb; Kym Anderson; Anne O. Krueger; Martien Van Nieuwkoop

	Book Launch		"What Color is Your Paratext? Trust and the Web"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Carlos Rossel; Geoffrey Bilder

	Book Launch		"Robert Skidelsky discusses "Keynes: The Return of the Master"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, November 19, 2009, 12:30 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Alan Gelb; Robert Skidelsky

	Book Launch		This event is cancelled - "Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart discuss "This Time is Different"
	Date/Time:		Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Hans Timmer; Carmen M. Reinhart; Kenneth S. Rogoff; Luc Laeven

	Book Launch		"Public Sentinel: New Media & Governance Reform"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sanjay Pradhan; Pippa Norris; Jose Edgardo L. Campos; Philip Keefer

	Book Launch		"World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, December 3, 2009, 2:00 PM
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Heidi Cullen; Rosina Bierbaum; Marianne Fay; William R. Cline; Stuart E. Eizenstat

	Book Launch		"World Bank-Civil Society Engagement: Review of Fiscal Years 2007 to 2009"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Marwan Muasher; John Garrison; Alnoor Ebrahim; Chad Dobson

	Book Launch		"Trade and Poverty: Are Women the Missing Link?
	Date/Time:		Thursday, December 10, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Mayra Buvinic; Maurizio Bussolo; Rafael De Hoyos; Caren Grown

	Film Screening		"Reaching Out to Parents & Teachers in Peru"
	Date/Time:		Monday, December 14, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Pamela Cox; Carlos Felipe Jaramillo; Elizabeth M. King; Evangeline P. Javier; Chingboon Lee; Ines Kudo; Bibiana Melzi; Emiliana Vegas

	Book Launch		"Road to Results: Designing and Conductive Effective Development Evaluations"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Vinod Thomas; Linda Morra Imas; Ray C. Rist; Gerald M. Britan; ancy MacPherson

	Book Launch		"Petroleum Exploration and Production Rights"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		IFC L-109 (2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW)
	Presented by:		Alan Gelb (IFC); Paulo de Sa (IFC); Charles McPherson (IMF); Robert Bacon (IFC); Wayne Camard (IMF); Gerald M. Britan (USAID); Nancy MacPherson ( Rockefeller Foundation)

	Book Launch		"Bioenergy Development: Issues and Impacts for Poverty and Natural Resource Management"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Gerhard Dieterle; Elizabeth Cushion; Linda Mossop-Rousseau; Tim Searchinger; Barbara Bramble

	Book Launch		"Social Collaboration at the World Bank & Beyond"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Klaus Tilmes; Shelley B. Leibowitz; Gentry Underwood; Kate Ehrlich; Rachel Kyte

	Book Launch		Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz discusses "Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, January 21, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		IFC Auditorium (2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW)
	Presented by:		Joseph E. Stiglitz; Otaviano Canuto

	Book Launch		"Self-Enforcing Trade: Developing Countries and WTO Dispute Settlement"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Bernard Hoekman; Chad P. Bown; Philip Levy; Jorge O. Miranda

	Book Launch		"Gender and Governance in Rural Services"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Eija Pehu; Regina Birner; Shantayanan Devarajan; Doina Petrescu; Natasha Hayward

	Book Launch		This event is cancelled "Origins, Journeys and Returns: Social Justice in International Higher Education"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Otaviano Canuto; Joan Dassin; Toby Alice Volkman; Roberta Malee Bassett; Laurence Simon

	Book Launch		"The Promise of Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, February 18, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Francisco H. G. Ferreira; Emiliana Vegas; Augusto de la Torre

	Book Launch		"Evaluating Climate Change & Development"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, February 18, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Uma Lele; Kenneth Chomitz; Rob D. van den Berg; Juha Uitto

	Book Launch		"Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction?"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Shantayanan Devarajan; Kai Kaiser; Carlo Cottarelli; Ehtisham Ahmad; Mario Marcel; Annalisa Fedelino

	Book Launch		"Have Fiscal Policies Constrained Needed Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Developing Countries?"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium I-200 (1850 I Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sanjeev Gupta; Peter Berman; Aldo Caliari; Rick Rowden; Brook Baker

	Book Launch		Film screening and panel discussion for "Enabling Business After Conflict: Liberia
	Date/Time:		Thursday, February 25, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Janamitra Devan; David Brigman; Richard V. Tolbert; Milton Weeks; Jumoke Jagun-Dokunmu

	Book Launch		"Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth: Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Warren Evans (ENV) ; Kathy Mackinnon (ENV); Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca (GEF)