show bio Ambassador Alan Eastham

Alan Eastham is a career Foreign Service official who has served in various diplomatic positions in Kenya, Zaire, France, India, Pakistan and as current Ambassador to Malawi. Before moving to Malawi, Eastham was the Special Negotiator for Conflict Diamonds in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, where he negotiated the Kimberley Process agreement regulating the global trade in rough diamonds.

U.S Relations with Africa
Date: 5/10/2007

U.S. Ambassador to Malawi Alan Eastham, a native of Arkansas, discusses current issues in America’s foreign aid programs with specific examples from his work in Malawi in a public speech at the Clinton School. Sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated county, Malawi is an impoverished nation with a life expectancy rate of less than 37 years old. Eastham addresses the changing theories surrounding U.S. foreign aid since the end of the Cold War and identifies the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a driving issue the deployment of U.S. international aid. He also discusses the overall growth of U.S. aid to African countries, which has more than tripled since 2001.

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