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OFFICE/DEPARTMENT
Partnership, Prosperity, and Peace
Development as a Cornerstone for Resilient Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific Region
Featuring
Michael Schiffer
Assistant Administrator for Asia, USAID
Speaker's Summary:
Just over a year ago, the Biden Administration released the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), charting a vision for an Indo-Pacific region that is free, open, connected, prosperous, resilient, and secure. At the beginning of 2022, autocrats seemed poised to leverage forces of instability – such as the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, and supply chain shortages – to consolidate power. However, at the start of 2023, we are observing that strong democratic systems are proving effective in global efforts to weather a tumultuous time. USAID’s Assistant Administrator for Asia, Michael Schiffer, will elucidate how the U.S. Government’s approach to development is uniquely able to unlock lasting progress in the Indo-Pacific. More importantly, he will chart a vision for its efforts to cultivate momentum and partnerships that strengthen democratic systems and maximize this trend toward resilience.
This will be followed by a fireside chat with East-West Center President Suzanne Vares-Lum and Vice President Dr. Satu Limaye to further discuss this vision.
Michael Schiffer is the Assistant Administrator of USAID’s Bureau for Asia. From 2012 to 2022, Mr. Schiffer was a senior advisor and counselor on the Democratic Staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. Before joining the Department of Defense he was a program officer at the Stanley Foundation, responsible for the Foundation's Asia programs as well as a range of other U.S. national and global security issues and in 2004-2005 was a Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan.
From 1995 to 2004, he worked on the staff of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), including as her senior national security adviser and legislative director. Prior to that, he was director of international security programs at New York University's Center for War, Peace, and the News Media and was co-manager of the Poipu Bed and Breakfast Inn in Poipu, Kauai.
The views expressed are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect East-West Center policies or positions.
Partnership, Prosperity, and Peace
Development as a Cornerstone for Resilient Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific Region
Featuring
Michael Schiffer
Assistant Administrator for Asia, USAID
Speaker's Summary:
Just over a year ago, the Biden Administration released the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), charting a vision for an Indo-Pacific region that is free, open, connected, prosperous, resilient, and secure. At the beginning of 2022, autocrats seemed poised to leverage forces of instability – such as the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, and supply chain shortages – to consolidate power. However, at the start of 2023, we are observing that strong democratic systems are proving effective in global efforts to weather a tumultuous time. USAID’s Assistant Administrator for Asia, Michael Schiffer, will elucidate how the U.S. Government’s approach to development is uniquely able to unlock lasting progress in the Indo-Pacific. More importantly, he will chart a vision for its efforts to cultivate momentum and partnerships that strengthen democratic systems and maximize this trend toward resilience.
This will be followed by a fireside chat with East-West Center President Suzanne Vares-Lum and Vice President Dr. Satu Limaye to further discuss this vision.
Michael Schiffer is the Assistant Administrator of USAID’s Bureau for Asia. From 2012 to 2022, Mr. Schiffer was a senior advisor and counselor on the Democratic Staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. Before joining the Department of Defense he was a program officer at the Stanley Foundation, responsible for the Foundation's Asia programs as well as a range of other U.S. national and global security issues and in 2004-2005 was a Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan.
From 1995 to 2004, he worked on the staff of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), including as her senior national security adviser and legislative director. Prior to that, he was director of international security programs at New York University's Center for War, Peace, and the News Media and was co-manager of the Poipu Bed and Breakfast Inn in Poipu, Kauai.
The views expressed are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect East-West Center policies or positions.
