Last month, a team of six staff from the Civic Initiative (a business group of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute) were in Islamabad. They held a three-day follow-up conference for alumni from recent cohorts of the Study of the U.S. Institutes Comparative Public Policymaking program that has been held annually by the Civic Initiative since 2010. The SUSI program is funded by the US Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs Office.
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Rizwan Shinwari and Ken LeBlond
AIPS members Rizwan Shinwari and Ken LeBlond collaborated on a presentation at the National University of Modern Languages on November 3rd. Mr. LeBlond, marketing communications manager at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute, gave a presentation on the U.S. credit system to Mr. Shinwari’s macroeconomics class via Zoom. Mr. LeBlond detailed his experiences with credit cards, interest rates, and the credit reporting system. He then had a discussion with the students about Islamic banking.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022