Smith School MBA Student Selected for State Department Mission in China

Smith School MBA student Bonnie Glick has been selected by the U.S. Department of State, to be part of a three-member team that will visit China this month to provide an objective assessment of the activities of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The team will gather information to assist the Bush Administration in determining whether or not the United Nations Population Fund?s China program is in violation of U.S. law (the Kemp-Kasten Amendment) and whether the Fund is therefore eligible to receive U.S. Government funding as appropriated. The field visit is planned for the last two weeks in May, with completion of the report by late June.

Glick, a first-year Smith MBA student, served 11 years as a career Foreign Service Officer with overseas postings in Ethiopia and Nicaragua, as well as with the State Department, White House, and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

In addition to Glick, the assessment team includes: Ambassador William Brown, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Ambassador to Thailand and Israel, who currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Dr. Theodore Tong, Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Public Health at the University of Arizona.