Addressing the Challenge of Youth Unemployment in the Middle East

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Speakers

Pamela Flaherty

President and Chief Executive Officer, Citi Foundation

Jaime McAuliffe

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Education For Employment

Presider

Isobel Coleman

Senior Fellow and Director, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations

Isobel Coleman hosts Jamie McAuliffe, president and chief executive officer of Education For Employment, and Pamela Flaherty, president and chief executive officer of the Citi Foundation, for a discussion on addressing the challenge of youth unemployment in the Middle East.

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