PRESS CONFERENCE
July 6, 2007
Raffles Hotel Le Royal
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Cosponsored by The Stanley Foundation and The Asia Foundation
(Audio includes English and Khmer translation)

A summary of the key recommendations from the conference is available here.

SPEAKERS:
Catharin E. Dalpino is chair of the Stanley Foundation's project on "New Power Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Issues for US Policy." She is also a visiting associate professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she teaches Southeast Asian politics, security and international relations. Concurrently, Professor Dalpino is co-editor of the Georgetown Southeast Asia Survey, an annual review of developments in Southeast Asia and their implication for US policy. She is also presently Coordinator of the US-Vietnam Dialogue on Agent Orange/Dioxin, the secretariat for which is based at the Aspen Institute. Professor Dalpino has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1993-1997); a fellow at the Brookings Institution (1997-2003) and, for ten years, as a career officer of The Asia Foundation. She was the Foundation's representative for Thailand, Laos and Cambodia in the late 1980's. Prior to joining the Foundation, Professor Dalpino was a policy analyst at the World Bank. Professor Dalpino is the author of three books on US-Asian relations and numerous op eds and articles. She has testified before both the United States Senate and US House of Representatives on Asian issues and US-Asian relations, and is a frequent media commenter.

Lionel C. Johnson is Senior Managing Director of GWI Consulting, the business arm of GoodWorks International LLC. Mr. Johnson's career spans 25 years in the private, public and NGO sectors. He is also a Senior Advisor for Global Business, Trade and Investment to Creative Associates International, Inc. Mr. Johnson is a member of the boards of the United States Council for International Business, the International Center, the NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education, and the University of the District of Columbia Foundation. He is also a member of the steering group of the Stanley Foundation's multiyear project on New Power Dynamics in Southeast Asia, and is Treasurer of the Corporate Council on Africa.

Mr. Johnson was Vice President and Director, International Government Affairs of Citigroup, Inc. from 1996-2007, and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Development, Debt and Environment Policy in the Clinton Administration. As Senior Advisor for Resources, Plans and Policy he advised Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Department principals on the allocation of International Affairs budget resources in response to urgent global, political, social and economic developments. Mr. Johnson also served as a member of the Department of State Policy Planning Staff, and was a member of the Clinton/Gore transition team, serving as Senior Assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher. During the 1992 campaign, he was Assistant to Senior Foreign Policy Advisors Anthony Lake and Samuel R. Berger. Mr. Johnson was a senior program officer of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) from 1990-1993, directing the Institute's democratic development programs in Haiti, including collaboration with former President Jimmy Carter in support of the country's 1990 elections, and managed NDI programs in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. As a member of the US Foreign Service from 1982-1990, Johnson served as Political Officer in Kenya; Executive Secretariat Staff Officer; Assistant to the US Ambassador to the Philippines; Vice Consul in Haiti; and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State George P. Shultz and James A. Baker, III. Johnson served as a graduate instructor of US foreign policy and American politics at the City University of Manila, Philippines from 1985-1987. He received his BA in Political Science from Rutgers University in 1982.

Roderick Brazier is The Asia Foundation's country representative to Cambodia. He was appointed May 2006. Before this appointment, Mr. Brazier served in the Indonesia office for more than seven years, including three years as deputy country representative. Before joining the Foundation, Mr. Brazier worked for two years as a director at Castle Asia, a Jakarta consulting firm that specializes in advising foreign investors. His articles on the Indonesian and regional economy have been published in the International Herald Tribune and Jakarta Post. Earlier, he spent four years in Canberra as an analyst of Indonesian politics and business in the Australian prime minister's Foreign Affairs Advisory Agency, the Office of National Assessments, and in the Australian Department of Defense. Mr. Brazier has certified native speaker proficiency in the Indonesian language.