Nation Building and Development: Challenges and Opportunities in Asia’s Youngest Democracy

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2024 Yale World Fellow, Fausto Ximenes, will be the Pierson College Tea guest speaker. His talk with be: Nation Building and Development: Challenges and Opportunities in Asia’s Youngest Democracy.

Mr. Ximenes is Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste where he leads an international country team and strives, alongside local civil society partner organizations and communities, to tackle challenges of climate justice, gender equality and gender justice, inclusive economic development, and civic participation. Before joining Oxfam, Fausto was a Development Economist and Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), a Graduate Researcher with the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War (CCW) Centre where he undertook research and developed a case report on the Philippines’ Moro conflict, a Senior Access to Justice Manager on a USAID project, as well as a Human Rights Officer with the United Nations.