TWO CENTURIES AFTER THE MONROE DOCTRINE: THE UNITED STATES AND THE AMERICAS

Join Mr. Schneider as he discusses U.S. policy with Latin America. He will lay out some of the relevant political, economic and diplomatic changes that affect how we think about that policy.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:

Mark L. Schneider’s public service career spans government, international organizations, civil society and academia. In government, Schneider served as Director of the Peace Corps from 1999 to 2001 and as Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from 1993 to 1999.

Schneider led USAID strategic planning in response to the civil conflict in Colombia in the late 1990s, working on the initial Plan Colombia design. Earlier, for UN organizations, he attended the Esquipulas peace conferences in the 1980s, supported negotiations to bring an end to the Central American conflicts and helped organize ceasefires in El Salvador to permit polio immunization campaigns, while heading policy planning at the Pan American Health Organization.

Schneider has lectured at various universities, published numerous articles, testified frequently before Congress and served on the American University Board of Trustees for ten years. He holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MA from San Jose University and an honorary LLD from American University. He was awarded the George W. Eastman Medal for Public Service from the University of Rochester. He received the Bernardo O’Higgins award in 1993 and the Orden al Merito, Gran Cruz, award in 2000 from the Government of Chile for his human rights work.