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The Foreign Policy Association, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Americas Society invite you to a New York Democracy Forum lecture on "Democracy or Populism: Responding to the Crisis in Latin America," featuring The Honorable Alejandro Toledo President of Peru 2001-2006.

Date:

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Time:

Registration/5:30

Lecture/6:00

Location:

The Americas Society

680 Park Avenue (Northwestern corner of 68th Street)

Admission:

At this time the New York Democracy Forum with H.E. Alejandro Toledo on April 18, 2007 is sold out.

However we are creating a waiting list for those people who will be able to watch and listen a simulcast of the program in a screening room.

If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email your name, address and daytime phone number to eventsdepartment@fpa.org. Thank you

About the speaker:

Born in a small Andean village, former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo financed his undergraduate degree at the University of San Francisco with a soccer scholarship and by pumping gas. Toledo went on to earn three advanced degrees at Stanford University, including a Master in Economics and a Ph.D. in Education.

Toledo's professional career focused on economic development, with positions at the United Nations, the World Bank, and Harvard's Institute for International Development. Following an initial defeat, he won the Presidential election in 2001 after allegations of electoral fraud and political scandal forced President Fujimori to call new elections.

As President, Toledo oversaw a transition back to stability in Peru, pursuing policies marrying free markets and social justice. Following his presidential term in 2006, he returned to the United States to spend a year at Stanford University, where he is writing and lecturing on democracy and economic development.