This is about 45 minutes. Good morning. Good morning, welcome to the society for International Developmentu. S. Chapters 2024 annual conference. Im kat repb, president of sidus. Its my pleasure to congress off what i know will be a remarkable day of connecting, sharing, and reflecting. This promises to be siduss largest conference ever. I know i say that every year, but every year we are, in fact, larger. We are expecting well over 1,200 people in person today. And another many, many hundreds of people online. You are coming in from all over the world. In person well welcome people from 30 states and 18 countries, and online you are coming in from everywhere. One of my favorite features of our virtual platform is the map under the participants tab that shows you where everyone is coming in from. So i hope everyone will take a look at that, including those of you in person. Hope youll get online late. We have more than 100 speakers, 96 sponsors, 12 inperson breakout panels, 13 virtual b
Good morning. Good morning, welcome to the society for International Developmentu. S. Chapters 2024 annual conference. Im kat repb, president of sidus. Its my pleasure to congress off what i know will be a remarkable day of connecting, sharing, and reflecting. This promises to be siduss largest conference ever. I know i say that every year, but every year we are, in fact, larger. We are expecting well over 1,200 people in person today. And another many, many hundreds of people online. You are coming in from all over the world. In person well welcome people from 30 states and 18 countries, and online you are coming in from everywhere. One of my favorite features of our virtual platform is the map under the participants tab that shows you where everyone is coming in from. So i hope everyone will take a look at that, including those of you in person. Hope youll get online late. We have more than 100 speakers, 96 sponsors, 12 inperson breakout panels, 13 virtual breakout, three learning la
After upfront stay with us here announcer zero. After you. Hes been called one of the most wanted political fugitives of twenty nine team thats former georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili faces possible extradition to his home country from his new country ukraine ill ask him if hes prepared for life behind bars and later ill talk to the somali refugee turned u. S. Politician about life in trumps america. Really thanks for joining me up front you were twice as president of georgia and govern there for nine years and yet youre now a wanted man in georgia youve gone from president to fugitive how does it feel. I mean i finished my president ial. Record well we you know georgia has been the most. Transformation case in this part of the world but then we had the government out there peaceful transition of course there were peaceful transition in this region which from the very beginning said our main one of main goals is to indict secretary going no matter what so in the end they said let
After upfront also use a bubble. Al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world and all the cameras are gone im still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. Hes been called one of the most wanted political fugitives of twenty nine team and former georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili faces possible extradition to his home country from his new country ukraine ill ask him if hes prepared for life behind bars and later ill talk to the somali refugee turned u. S. Politician about life in trumps america. Really thanks for joining me up front you were twice as president of georgia and governor for nine years and yet youre now a wanted man in georgia youve gone from president to fugitive how does it feel. I mean ive finished my president ial. With quite the. Reverend well we you know georgia has been the most. Transformation case in this part of the world bu
Date those are your current headlines next hour its up front well see you in just under half an hour. Hes been called one of the most wanted political fugitives of twenty nineteen thats former georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili faces possible extradition to his home country from his new country ukraine ill ask him if hes prepared for life behind bars and later ill talk to the somali refugee turned u. S. Politician about life in trumps america. Really thanks for joining me up front you were twice as president of georgia and govern there for nine years and yet youre now a wanted man in georgia youve gone from president to fugitive how does it feel. I mean i finished my president ial. Finish with quite the. Reverend well we you know georgia has been the most. Transformation case in this part of the world but then we had the government out there peaceful transition of course there were peaceful transition in this region which from the very beginning said our main one of main goals is t