Kevin F. F. Quigley

Roundtable Discussion with Kevin Quigley:
The Peace Corps and the US Role in the 21st Century
November 17, 2006

The Eisenhower Institute hosted Kevin F. F. Quigley, president of the National Peace Corps Association, for a roundtable discussion on the Peace Corps and the US Role in the 21st century world. The event, held November 17, 2006 was by invitation only and was moderated by the Institute's Daniel R. DeNicola.

Quigley was a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow at Gettysburg College from November 13-17, and this Washington appearance concluded his residency. Quigley participated in a series of lectures, classroom visits, meetings with students and faculty, and consultations at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA. He delivered a keynote luncheon lecture entitlted, "Bringing the Message Home."

The Eisenhower Institute roundtable touched on many of the themes presented by Quigley during his residency, including the need for an expansion of opportunities to serve abroad, Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy's calls to leadership and service, the future of the Peace Corps, the role of the US in the world today and how the Peace Corps fits into that vision. The event was attended by various members of the National Peace Corps Association, the Shriver Peace Worker Program, the Eisenhower Institute and its board of directors, and the Honorable Harris Wofford, former Senator from Pennsylvania and long-time Peace Corps supporter.

Kevin F. F. Quigley was named president of the National Peace Corps Association in July, 2003. He has more than 25 years of experience working in the not-for-profit community for such organizations as the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Asia Society, and he most recently served as executive director of the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities. He has written for many publications and appeared on various network television programs to discuss civil society and other international issues. Quigley was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand from 1976 to 1979. 

Quigley is a graduate of Swarthmore College, University College Dublin, and Columbia University and received a doctorate in comparative government from Georgetown University. Among his many honors, hehas served as a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow, a U.S.-Japan leadership fellow, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars and a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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