Home>Undoing Science Diplomacy: Trump 2.0, USAID Retrenchment, and the Risks for the Global South
16.04.2025
Undoing Science Diplomacy: Trump 2.0, USAID Retrenchment, and the Risks for the Global South
About this event
16 April 2025 from 14:30 until 17:30
Salle H405
28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007, ParisSCIENCE & TECH DIPLOMACY
GRADUATE SEMINAR
Class of 2025
2.30 p.m. - Welcoming remarks
Prof. Stéphanie BALME (Director of CERI, Sciences Po/CNRS)
Christla PETITBERGHIEN (Master student, PSIA)
Emilie CHUM (Master student, PSIA)
2.45 p.m. - Aid in Decline, Influence at Risk: Foreign Policy Consequences of USAID Cuts Under Trump’s Return (Panel 1)
Moderators: Emma CARAPEZZA, Isabella PASQUIER ROA (Master students, PSIA)
Discussion:
Excellence Jeff HAWKINS (tbc), Former US Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Sciences Po adjunct Professor, Reims Campus.
Philippe ORLIANGE, Executive Directors, French Development Agency (AFD)
Dr. Roland MARCHAL, Senior Research Fellow, CERI, Sciences Po CNRS
Wrap-Up and Q&A
Coffee break
4.00 p.m. -The Future of Global South Science Diplomacy Post-USAID (Panel 2)
Moderators: Francesca PILIA, Walid ABI SALEH (Master Students, PSIA)
Discussion (45 mins)
Amine IDRISS, Director, African Union Development Agency
Salvatore AQUILINA, Policy Officer at the General Secretariat for European Affairs, SGAE, Vice-President, AEAP Sciences Po
Olivier VALLÉE, Head of the Scientific Committee, Pan-African Alliance for Citizenship (APC)
Wrap-Up and Q&A
5.15 p.m. - Concluding remarks
Jeanne CADON, (Master students, PSIA)
Isabel CHACON (Master students, PSIA)
Scientific coordinator: Stéphanie Balme
