JHU SAIS to Host Forum on Future of Trade and Transport in Afghanistan and Central Asia

The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will hold a forum, "Trade Beats Aid? The Future of Continental Transport and Trade in Afghanistan and Central Asia" on Wednesday, 10/16 at 4:30 p.m. (a reception will precede the forum at 4 p.m.)

Panelists for this W.P Carey Forum, sponsored by the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) at SAIS, include:

· Ravshan Alimov, director of the Institute of Interregional and Strategic Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

· Martha Blaxall, an economist at Yale University

· Sam Brownback, U.S. Senator (R.-Kan.) and ranking member on the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

· Eva Molnar, manager for the Eastern European Transport Sector of the World Bank

· Emin Sazak, vice chairman of Yuksel Construction Company in Ankara, Turkey

The event, free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school's Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to 202.663.7721 or [email protected].

Members of the media who want to cover this event should contact Katrine Petkova Gloukhov in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at 202.663.7738 or [email protected].