Thursday, October 5, 2017

4:00 p.m.

Patricia George Decio Theatre
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
University of Notre Dame

Reception to follow in Jenkins and Nanovic Halls


Parking information

 

  • Visitor and Guest Parking
  • A free shuttle bus (Baseball-McKenna route) is available on campus. You can download the transportation app to see the bus location in real time here.
  • Accessible parking for vehicles with a state-approved license plate or hang tag is located by McKenna Hall on Notre Dame Avenue (building 1079).
  • Valet parking is available across the street at the Morris Inn (building 1049) for $10.
  • Additional parking can be found off-campus across Edison Road at Eddy Street Commons. Parking is free the first two hours.
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What do you expect from the Keough School of Global Affairs?

A panel discussion celebrating the opening of the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs — the first new school at the University of Notre Dame in nearly a century.

Watch a recording of the event here:

 

 

Moderator: Scott Appleby

Marilyn Keough Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs

Helena Hofbauer Balmori

Regional Director, Mexico and Central America, The Ford Foundation, Mexico City

Pete Buttigieg

Mayor of South Bend, Indiana

Patrick Keough

President and CEO, Lion Group Consulting, New York

John T. McGreevy

I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame

Martha L. Merritt

Dean and Carole M. Weinstein Chair of International Education, University of Richmond

Shamsia Ramadhan

Program Manager, Capacity for Inter-religious Action, Catholic Relief Services, Nairobi


Speaker bios

 

Scott Appleby
Marilyn Keough Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs

Scott Appleby was appointed inaugural dean of the Keough School in 2014. From 2000-2014, he served as the Regan Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. A professor of history at Notre Dame, he is a scholar of global religion who has been a member of Notre Dame’s faculty since 1994. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1978 and earned master’s and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of Chicago.

Pete Buttigieg
Mayor of South Bend, Indiana

Pete Buttigieg has served as chief executive of the City of South Bend since 2012. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied at Oxford and holds a bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard. Prior to becoming mayor, Buttigieg worked for McKinsey & Company, a top consulting firm. He was born and raised in South Bend.

Helena Hofbauer Balmori
Regional Director, Mexico and Central America, the Ford Foundation, Mexico City

Helena Hofbauer Balmori oversees the Ford Foundation’s Mexico and Central America office. She has worked for the International Budget Partnership and is the founding director of Fundar, the Center for Analysis and Research, which uses evidence-based advocacy to address complex social challenges. She holds a master’s degree in international peace studies from Notre Dame.

Patrick Keough
President and CEO, Lion Group Consulting, New York

Patrick Keough founded Lion Group Consulting, a corporate communications and public relations firm for global corporate clients. In his 30-year career in communications, he has managed the multi-platform needs of global brands such as Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, Samsung, and the Coca-Cola Company. Keough holds an M.A. from the University of Georgia and a B.A. from Notre Dame.

John T. McGreevy
I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame

John McGreevy, a 1986 Notre Dame graduate, holds a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. His most recent book is American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global. He teaches courses on American political history, American religious history, and the 20th century United States.

Martha L. Merritt
Dean and Carole M. Weinstein Chair of International Education, University of Richmond

Martha Merritt is a scholar of Russia with a doctorate in politics from Oxford University. Merritt, who facilitates the building of international networks for universities, established master’s-level internships in Cape Town, Jerusalem, and Mindanao, the Philippines while at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She also spent 10 years overseeing the University of Chicago’s center in Paris and its global network of undergraduate programs. In her position at the University of Richmond, Merritt promotes inter-city dialogue across international borders on compelling topics of mutual interest.

Shamsia Ramadhan
Program Manager, Capacity for Inter-religious Action, Catholic Relief Services, Nairobi

Shamsia Ramadhan is a peace practitioner with more than 15 years of experience in all aspects of peacebuilding: conflict analysis, conflict sensitivity, nonviolent social action and conflict transformation, religious peacebuilding, peace research, and peace education. At Catholic Relief Services, Ramadhan directs a peacebuilding project working with faith-based actors (Muslims and Christians) in multi-religious contexts. She holds an M.A. degree in international peace studies from Notre Dame.