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Stiglitz on the Financial Crisis: A Fundraiser for the Welbodi Partnership

The Welbodi Partnership invites you to an evening with Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate and Columbia University Professor of Economics, discussing "The $12 Trillion Trap: The Economic Crisis, the Obama Administration's Response and Its Global Impact." The event will be moderated by Bloomberg News Editor-at-Large Mr. Robert Friedman, with an exhibition of photographs by Czech photographer David Lacina.

Time: May 26th 2009, 7-9PM
Location: Fourth Universalist Society of New York
160 Central Park West at 76th Street
Please RSVP at welbodinyc@gmail.com or by phone at (917) 945-7879

A minimum donation of $25 is requested. Exhibition photographs will be available for sale at $100. All cash donations and half of sale proceeds will go towards supporting the Welbodi Partnership, a charity dedicated to improving the provision of pediatric care in Sierra Leone. The event is made possible through the kind support of Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, the Fourth Universalist Society of New York, Mrs. Anya Stiglitz, Mr. Robert Friedman and Mr. David Lacina.

US donors can make tax-deductible donations to the Welbodi Partnership through FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds

By check: Please make checks payable to FJC and write "Welbodi Partnership" in the memo line of the check. Checks are accepted at our May 26 event or can be mailed directly to: FJC, 520 Eighth Ave., 20th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

By credit card: Please visit our website http://www.welbodipartnership.org/ to make a donation online.

By cash: Cash donations will be accepted at our May 26 event.

Dr. Joseph Stiglitz holds joint professorships at Columbia University's Economics Department, School of International and Public Affairs, and its Business School. He is cochair of IPD's macroeconomics, CML, and Intellectual Property Task Forces. From 1997 to 2000 he was the World Bank's Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist. From 1995 to 1997 Dr. Stiglitz served as Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers and as a member of President Clinton's cabinet. From 1993 to 1995 he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Stiglitz was previously a professor of economics at Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and All Souls College, Oxford. As an academic, Dr. Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics -" The Economics of Information" which has received widespread application throughout economics. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Stiglitz helped revive interest in the economics of technical change and other factors that contribute to long-term increases in productivity and living standards. Dr. Stiglitz is also a leading scholar of the economics of the public sector. Dr. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He was also awarded the American Economic Association's biennial John Bates Clark Award in 1979. Dr. Stiglitz's work has been recognized through his election as a fellow to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Academy.

Robert Friedman is an Editor at Large at Bloomberg News, where he helps supervise coverage of global financial issues. He is the former International Editor of Fortune, where for seven years he was in charge of the magazine's Europe and Asia editions, as well as its global business coverage. He edited special issues on China and India, won numerous awards for business journalism, and spoke at conferences around the world, including Fortune's own Global CEO Forums. Prior to joining Fortune in 2000, Friedman was an assistant managing editor of Life magazine, where he was in charge of international and medical coverage. He also edited six special issues of Life and two books, The Beatles: From Yesterday to Today (Bulfinch, 1996) and The LIFE Millennium: The 100 Most Important Events and People of the Past 1,000 Years (Bulfinch, 1998). Mr. Friedman was the former editor of The Village Voice and has also worked at New York Newsday and The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of Columbia College, Friedman was editor-in-chief of The Columbia Daily Spectator and co-author of Up Against the Ivy Wall, a book about the 1968 student protests at Columbia. He also has an M.A. in American literature from Columbia University and has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

David Lacina is a Czech freelance photographer and publicist currently residing in Oslo, Norway. When Lacina arrived in Norway 10 years ago, he purchased a manual Pentax ME-Super, his first SLR camera, and spent most of his free time outside photographing whatever that interested him. During the past years, he visited numerous countries including Morocco, Malaysia and Langkawi Islands, Sumatra and Siberut Islands of Indonesia, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, India, Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Caribbean island Curaçao. In these countries, Lacina often spends weeks in off-the-beaten-track areas, living with local people and learning about their culture and their customs. Several leading travel magazines have published his articles about the countries and tribes he has visited in Africa and Southeast Asia, including National Geographic and the leading Czech travel magazines TravelFocus, "Lide a Zeme" and "Koktejl". He holds a masters degree in Computer Science and Economics from Mendel University in Brno, the
Czech Republic. More of Lacina's works can be seen at http://photo.lacina.net/