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Speaker: Wade Channell, Senior Economic Growth Advisor, Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, USAID
About the Talk: The IDEV PIC invites you for a conversation on empowering women in international development with Wade Channell, gender equality expert at USAID. We will debate the most pressing challenges facing women and girls globally, discuss the role of bilateral aid agencies (such as USAID) in promoting gender equality, and explore how different frames of gender equality shape this work - should women’s empowerment be centered around women’s rights, or is it primarily “smart economics”?
About the Speaker: Wade Channell is a specialist in women's economic empowerment and business enabling environments. He has worked for more than 25 years on issues that constrain growth and private sector development, at USAID, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Emerging Markets Group, Chemonics, and others. His 13 years at USAID include more than five years working exclusively on issues of women's economic empowerment and equality, which is still his focus today. Prior to focusing on development, he spent 8 years as a commercial lawyer. Mr. Channell has also served as as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, and has worked in over 60 countries on six continents.