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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fall 2025 Professor Saul M. Katz Lecture on Eco
 nomic and Social Development featuring Nitin Madhav (MID/MPH). Register to 
 save your seat: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bw5GkjX0brB59IO.
  \n\nUntil the closure of the United States Agency for International Develo
 pment (USAID) in Washington\, DC in July 2025 by the Trump Administration\,
  Nitin Madhav was the Director of Central Asia and Afghanistan Affairs\, wh
 ere he led a team that supported programs throughout the five Central Asian
  Republics and Afghanistan. Prior to that\, he was the Acting Deputy Assist
 ant Administrator for Afghanistan Affairs where he led the Agency’s efforts
  during the largest airlift of refugees during the evacuation of Kabul in 2
 021.\n\nPrior to his current work on Afghanistan\, Mr. Madhav was the Offic
 er-in-Charge for USAID’s Burma\, China\, Tibet\, Cambodia\, Mongolia and La
 os Programs and worked on regional frameworks such as the Lower Mekong Init
 iative.\n\nPreviously\, Mr. Madhav was the Officer-in-Charge of Pakistan Pr
 ograms\, supporting the USAID Mission in Pakistan to implement almost half 
 a billion dollars in development and earthquake reconstruction programs\, a
 nd a $750 million program in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along 
 the volatile border with Afghanistan.\n\nFrom 2002-2025\, Mr. Madhav was th
 e Program Development Officer covering Afghanistan\, spending the majority 
 of his time in Kabul. Soon after the fall of the Taliban\, the USAID Admini
 strator requested that Mr. Madhav spearhead an emergency back-to-school pro
 gram for Afghan children who had been denied an education under that regime
 . Mr. Madhav led a team of 2\,000 people to print and distribute 10.5 milli
 on textbooks across Afghanistan in time for the March 21\, 2002 opening of 
 schools\, for which he received a White House commendation.\n\nMr. Madhav f
 irst joined USAID in 1999 as a Technical Advisor for the Child Survival Gra
 nts Program – a series of grants made to U.S.-based organizations to work i
 n child survival and maternal health issues in 36 countries worldwide.\n\nH
 e also worked on USAID’s flagship child survival project\, BASICS\, backsto
 pping programs in West Africa\, Ethiopia\, Eritrea and the countries of the
  former Soviet Union. He was also the Country Director for Doctors of the W
 orld’s refugee program in Rwanda in 1997. He worked with Save the Children\
 , UNICEF\, Médecins Sans Frontières and Relief International in Tajikistan 
 following the 1993 civil war. Mr. Madhav got his start in international dev
 elopment working with Afghan refugees in Pakistan in 1992.\n\nMr. Madhav ha
 s two master’s degrees in Public and International Affairs (MPIA)and Public
  Health (MPH) from the University of Pittsburgh and specializes in countrie
 s in conflict. He is fluent in several South Asian languages.\n\nThis event
  is co-hosted by the SPIA Dean's Office and the Ford Institute for Human Se
 curity.
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SUMMARY:Professor Saul M. Katz Lecture featuring Nitin Madhav
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