Topic：U.S. Policy Toward Myanmar and the Role of Aung San Suu Kyi

Reporter: Distinguished Professor: David I. Steinberg

School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University,U.S.

Date： June 29, 2010（Tuesday）

Time： PM. 3：00

Place：Songen Building Room 514

Faculty of International Affairs & Research School of Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University

Brief introduction of David I. Steinberg

David I. Steinberg is Distinguished Professor of SchoolofForeign Service,GeorgetownUniversity. He was previously Representative of The Asia Foundation inKorea; Distinguished Professor of Korea Studies,GeorgetownUniversity; and formerly President of theMansfieldCenterfor Pacific Affairs. Earlier, as a member of the Senior Foreign Service, Agency for International Development [USAID], Department of State, he worked extensively on development in Asia and theMiddle East. He was Director for Technical Assistance for Asia and the Middle East; Director forPhilippines,Thailand, and Burma Affairs; and spent three years inThailandwith the Regional Development Office. He wrote extensively reviewing and evaluating previous AID programs while in AID’s Center for Development Information and Evaluation.

In addition to lecturing extensively at many universities and teaching at the Foreign Service Institute, where he was co-director of the Korea Area Studies program, Mr. Steinberg is the author of fourteen books and monographs including one translation, and over one hundred articles; most have been on political economies and development, but he has also published on social and cultural subjects.