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Friday, June 16 Activities/Locations Presenters
7:45– 8:45am Registration and Continental
Breakfast – T.T. Allain Hall
Lobby (College of Business)
9:00 – 9:15am Dr. Ghirmay Ghebreyesus,
Welcome and Introduction Director,
EDA University Center
Overview University Center for Dr. Donald R. Andrews, Dean
Economic and Entrepreneurial College of Business – SUBR
Development
9:15 – 10:15am Louisiana Flooding Disasters Mr. Scott Burgess, Federal
Status Update on Flood Disaster Recovery Officer, FEMA
Recovery Efforts for Louisiana Mr. David Dodd, EDA Economic
Recovery Support Function
10:15 – 10:30am Coffee Break COB Lobby
10:30 – 11:30am The Role of Philanthropy in James A. Joseph, Former U.S.
Leadership Development: Ambassador to South Africa
What Can be done to Enhance Chairman of the Board Louisiana
Strategic Investment for Disaster Recovery Foundation
Disaster Recovery in Building During Hurricane Katrina
Resilient Communities:
Lessons from Katrina and the Introduced by Mr. Damon
2016 Great Baton Rouge Flood Batiste, President, New Orleans
South Africa Connection
11:30 – 12:30pm Entrepreneurship Development Dr. Ralph D. Christy, Professor of
in the Lower Mississippi Delta Emerging Markets and Director of
(Arkansas, Louisiana and the Cornell International Institute
Mississippi) for Food, Agriculture, and
Development (CIIFAD)
Introduced by Dr. Doze Y.
Butler, Professor and Associate
Dean College of Agricultural,
Family and Consumer Sciences
(CAFCS)
12:30 – 1:15pm Networking Lunch COB Lobby
1:15 – 2:00pm Emergency Preparedness and Lt. General Russel Honore’
Community Resiliency (Retired)
Emergency Preparedness Expert
Introduced by Agnes Andrews,
CEO,
Agnes Andrews Allstate Insurance
2:00 – 2:45pm Economic Development and Ms. Madhu Beriwal, President
Entrepreneurial Opportunities and CEO, Innovative Emergency
in Disaster Recovery Management (IEM)
Introduced by Dr. Byron
Clayton, President/CEO Research
Park Corporation
Questions & Answers Moderator: Mr. W.T. Winfield,
W T & Associates
