Global Drug Policy: Challenges, Trends and Opportunities

Global Drug Policy: Challenges, Trends and Opportunities
Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Who will shape the future of global drug policy reform? What is the impact of the Global Commission? What are cutting edge issues and questions at the intersection of drug policy and human rights, HIV/AIDS prevention and public health? How are the UNODC and other global agencies evolving in their perspective on drug policy? How is the US role evolving? What’s the latest with efforts to revise the UN anti-drug Conventions or to put forward a new model?  And to what extent is drug policy reform gaining ground in Asia and Africa? 

Facilitator:

• Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Director, Global Drug Policy Program, Open Society Foundation, Warsaw, Poland            
• Jonathan Cohen, Open Society Foundations, New York, NY          
• Amanda Fielding, Executive Director, Beckley Foundation, Oxford, UK  
• Rebecca Shleifer, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY
• Sanho Tree, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C.
• Alex Wodak, Director, Alcohol and Drug Services at St. Vincent's Hospital, and President, Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Sydney, Australia
• Coletta Youngers, Senior Fellow, Washington Office on Latin America, Washington, DC