FDD Morning Brief

Serving as America’s development finance institution, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) was established in 2019 to ramp up financing, equity investment, and partnerships to support U.S. foreign policy and development-aligned transactions in emerging markets. DFC bolsters U.S. national and economic security, enabling the United States to work with key partners and allies to define a new vision of public-private development financing, centered around transparency, financial sustainability, and economic resilience, while reinforcing high standards for protecting human rights and the environment.

FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) hosts Nisha Biswal, Deputy CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, for a wide ranging conversation with Senior Director and Head of CEFP Elaine Dezenski. They will discuss critical areas for future DFC investment; evolving economic conditions across the global south; how the United States thinks about countering investments by adversarial regimes, including the Chinese Communist Party; and opportunities for greater collaboration with allies and partners. Ambassador John A. Simon, former ambassador to the African Union, and founder and Managing Partner of Total Impact Capital, will provide introductory remarks for the conversation. 

For more, check out: https://www.fdd.org/events/2024/07/11/supercharging-the-development-finance-corporation-opportunities-and-pathways-for-development-infrastructure-and-investment/

FDD Senior Fellow David Daoud delivers timely situational updates and analyses on Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, and the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with David Schenker, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.

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FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Kimberly Kagan, Founder and President of the Institute for the Study of War.

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FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Kassy Akiva, reporter and video journalist at The Daily Wire.

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FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes.

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"Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated," by Daniel Pipes: https://a.co/d/0c354bqP

FDD Senior Fellow David Daoud delivers timely situational updates and analyses on Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, and the war in the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Lina Khatib, Director of the UK-based SOAS Middle East Institute.

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FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Saeed Ghasseminejad, Senior Iran and Financial Economic Advisor at FDD.

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FDD Senior Vice President Jonathan Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis on headlines of the Middle East, followed by a conversation with Hanin Ghaddar, Friedmann Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant region of the Middle East.

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FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Israeli activist, author, and actress Noa Tishby to discuss antisemitism, extremism in Hollywood and on U.S. college campuses, anti-Israel bias on the world stage, and more.

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FDD Senior Vice President Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Australian-British author and academic, who was imprisoned for more than 800 days by the brutal Iranian regime.

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