Post by Cornell University

Ambassador Samantha Power, USAID administrator from 2021 to 2025 and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, spoke at Cornell as part of the Bartels World Affairs Lecture hosted by the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Her talk explored the impacts of reductions in U.S. foreign assistance, the challenge of demonstrating aid program effectiveness to the public, and what is needed to restore — or reimagine — U.S. foreign aid.

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