The 43rd Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture
and Rural Development

June 3-5, 2007

Speakers

Jesica Elizabeth Seacor
Assistant Director, Washington, DC office
International Labour Organization (ILO)

Jesica Elizabeth Seacor, J.D., M.B.A., is currently Assistant Director of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Washington, DC office, responsible for legal, political and research relationships with the U. S. Government, multilateral institutions and other ILO constituents in the U. S. Ms. Seacor joined ILO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in 1997 following positions as in-house counsel for international software and publishing companies in New York, Geneva and

London. She was previously an environmental lawyer in private practice in Washington, DC. Since February 2005, Jesica has been with the ILO's Washington Office following a secondment to the World Bank's Office of External Affairs. She is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.A. in American Studies), American University (J.D. in International and Environmental Law and editor-in-chief, Journal of International Law and Policy) and the University of Chicago (M. B. A.) Her publications include "Learning on the Job" in The Economist, Intelligent Life, Summer 2005 and "Environmental Terrorism: Lessons from the Oil Fires of Kuwait" in The American University Journal of Internationl Law and Policy.

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