Administrator Samantha Power On A New Vision For Global Development

ADMINISTRATOR POWER: Thank you so much. Thank you. To be together, I don’t know that I fully appreciated how much I missed this. And to be in a classroom with students, particularly students of this incredible institution. Thank you Dean Hellman, for hosting us today and for your inspiring remarks. I really cannot overstate the impact that this school has had on America’s foreign policy and global impact, and I’m honored to address the young people who fill its halls.

Thank you so much, Liz, for that introduction, and for the longtime support and advocacy of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. When you first started this coalition, Liz, the United States Agency for International Development, battered by budget cuts, was arguably on the verge of extinction. We may not have had a 50th anniversary, let alone a 60th, without the work you and so many others did to rally our nation’s diplomatic corps, our military, our private sector, our nonprofits, and the general public in building broad bipartisan support for our mission and our funding.