Iraq’s Elections—and Iraq’s Future

Speaker

Ad Melkert is the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq and the former under-secretary-general and associate administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. Before joining the UN, he served as a member of the Board of Directors at the World Bank for over three years. Melkert joined the World Bank after a long and prominent political career in the Dutch Labour Party. He was member of parliament and minister of social affairs and employment, becoming the party’s parliamentary leader in 1998. In 2001, he was elected party leader.

Moderator

Jessica T. Mathews was appointed president of the Carnegie Endowment in 1997. Her career includes senior positions in the White House, State Department, Congress, Council on Foreign Relations, World Resources Institute, and the Washington Post.

Notes

• The Carnegie Middle East Program combines in-depth local knowledge with incisive comparative analysis to examine economic, socio-political, and strategic interests in the Arab world to provide analysis and recommendations in both English and Arabic that are deeply informed by knowledge and views from the region.
• The Carnegie Middle East Center is a public policy think tank and research center based in Beirut, Lebanon. Bringing together senior researchers from the region, the Carnegie Middle East Center aims to better inform the process of political change in the Middle East and deepen understanding of the issues the region and its people face.