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- **Event Name**: The Charles Gati Current Events Seminar
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for lunch and an open, Professor-led discussion covering the latest developments in European and Eurasian politics.About this EventJoin us for the second installment of The Charles Gati Current Events Seminar for Spring 2025 semester, where students are invited for lunch and an open, Professor-led discussion covering the latest developments in European and Eurasian politics, including foreign policy, elections, and transatlantic relations.Date and Time: Wednesday, February 18th, 2025, 1-2:15 PMLocation: Room 640 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg CenterThis edition will be hosted by one of JHU SAIS Europe and Eurasia Focus Area's esteemed professors, Dr. Marsha McGraw-Olive, PhD, who is a development practitioner and scholar of Eurasian affairs. A retired World Bank manager, she has served as adjunct faculty at SAIS in European and Eurasian Studies since 2018 and received an Outstanding Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. In March 2024 she moderated the B5+1 (Business) Forum in Almaty, the first public-private dialogue ever held between the United States and Central Asian states.In 2022, she was awarded a George F. Kennan Fellowship at the Wilson Center to prepare a White Paper for the US Government on US strategy in Central Asia. She is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and Advisory Board member of the Eurasia Foundation and Caspian Policy Center.Dr. Olive joined the staff of the World Bank’s Board of Directors in 1988 and was selected for the newly-established Soviet team in 1991. After the fall of the Soviet Union, she participated in the Bank’s inaugural mission to Central Asia and joined the first Russia country unit (1992 - 1997).During a nearly thirty-year career, including external service as Senior Vice President of the Eurasia Foundation (1998-2002), she led strategic planning, multi-million-dollar investment portfolios, and small grant programs in Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Her Bank service included Acting Country Director in Moscow (2010) and Country Manager in Tajikistan, with the rank of ambassador. During her tenure in Dushanbe (2011 – 2014), she conducted regional consultations on the Rogun Hydropower Project, coordinated the work of over twenty-five development agencies, and received a team award for participation in the CASA-1000 project. Following retirement in 2015, she was the lead consultant for the Bank’s regional strategy in Central Asia (2018-2022).In her early career, she served as the Soviet non-proliferation officer in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, as Associate Director of the Arms Control Association, and Legislative Assistant in the House of Representatives. She served under Madeleine Albright on the Mondale for President foreign policy team in 1984.Her publications span a broad career focus on political economy and security studies. She is the author most recently of Owning the City: Property Rights in Authoritarian Regimes (2022, Agenda Publishing) as well as works on Central Asia and nuclear arms control in Europe.
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- **city**: Washington
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- **country**: United States
- **location**: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center
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- **full address**: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States

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