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The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of the top graduate schools for international relations in the world. The institution is devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education.[1]

Among the political scientists and economists affiliated with the school are former World Bank Chief Economist Anne Krueger and military historian and former Counselor of the United States Department of State Eliot Cohen...

The SAIS Washington D.C. campus is located on Massachusetts Avenue NW's Embassy Row, just off Dupont Circle and across from the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and next to the Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute.

Child Protection Project

In June 2009, The Protection Project at SAIS partnered with the Koons Family Institute of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), creating the Child Protection Project, to draft a model law focusing on the issues of child protection; in particular: "neglect, abuse, maltreatment, and exploitation". The primary objectives of the Child Protection Project are to "research existing child protection laws in the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN); convene a series of regional expert working group meetings to establish a common definition for 'child protection'; create a database of national legislation and case law on child protection issues from around the world; and draft, publish, and globally disseminate model child protection legislation".[17]

The drafting process included six expert group meetings, held in Singapore, Egypt, Costa Rica, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S.[16] The final version of the Child Protection Model Law was published in January 2013. It was presented to the members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child during its 62nd Session in Geneva, Switzerland, in January 2013.[16][18] It was also presented before the 129th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva in October 2013.[16][19][20] Accompanying the Child Protection Model Law, ICMEC and The Protection Project published a companion "100 Best Practices in Child Protection" guide in 2013..

Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya, a Paris-based collector and philanthropist, founded Project Perpetual. It is a privately funded initiative that harnesses the creative energy of the world’s leading contemporary artists and global influencers to raise funds and facilitate advocacy for high-risk children. Each project personally engages influencers in government, business, entertainment, and culture to part with an object of particular significance.

Prominent artists then use these as inspiration to create unique works, transforming meaningful gestures into everlasting statements. For its inaugural edition, Project Perpetual will benefit ShotLife, a program of the United Nations Foundation. The ShotLife campaign came into existence when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation asked the United Nations Foundation to lead a new campaign to build support for inoculation of under-fives wherever they are born...

On November 9, Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya will host a gala dinner at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York. During dinner I will have the privilege of selling La Charité and the Koons Hermès bags at auction. The proceeds will go towards the United Nations Foundation...This is, to my knowledge, the first charity auction ever solely consisting of works done by a single artist. Jeff Koons is pioneering this new concept while following in the footsteps of Damien Hirst, who this year raised the bar of artist-led charity and generosity and took it to an entirely new level. In the May amfAR auction in Cannes and Leonardo DiCaprio’s auction in Saint Tropez—both of which I had the pleasure to conduct—Hirst’s works raised more than $20 million. It is wonderful to see that the strength of the global art market has its repercussions in the charity world.

Baron Simon de Pury (born 1951) is a Swiss auctioneer, art dealer, curator, collector, dj and photographer.[1] de Pury is often called "the Mick Jagger of art auctions" for his masterful, exciting style of auctioneering and is perhaps the world's best known art auctioneer..Simon de Pury was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1951, and studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts in the 1970s..

After studying at the Sotheby's Institute, de Pury began working for the Sotheby's auction house in 1974 at their London and Monte Carlo offices, and later opened their new Geneva branch in his native Switzerland. From 1979-1986 he was the curator of the famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection and organized numerous art exhibitions at the Villa Favorita in Lugano, Switzerland. In 1986, he was appointed chairman of Sotheby's Switzerland and later chairman of Sotheby's Europe[5] and chief auctioneer worldwide..

In 1997, de Pury left Sotheby's to start an art advisory company and dealership with Daniella Luxembourg, called de Pury and Luxembourg Art.[7] In 2001 the company merged with Philips Auctioneers, which was named Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg (from 2001-2002)[8] and then Phillips de Pury & Company (from 2003-2012), of which he was chairman and chief auctioneer.[9] In October 2008 a majority stake in the company was sold to the Russian luxury retailer The Mercury Group and Simon de Pury sold his remaining stakes in the company at the end of 2012. In 2013 the company name reverted back to being Phillips..

As an active charity auctioneer, it is estimated that de Pury has raised several billion dollars for a number of charities and cultural institutions over the course of his career including amfAR, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, MTV Staying Alive and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, among others..[/b]

..Simon de Pury was born in Basel, Switzerland and holds the noble title of Baron. His mother was Switzerland's leading expert in Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, and his father was head of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche[21] in Japan. He has been known to conduct auctions in fluent English, French, German, Italian and occasionally Russian..His private art collection includes works by Richard Prince, Alex Israel and Christopher Wool, but also contains an eclectic assortment of items such as coffee mugs shaped liked cartoon characters, skateboards and Godzilla figurines.

David de Pury (died 27 December 2000) was a Swiss businessman and diplomat. He served as the Swiss Trade Ambassador, representing Swiss interests at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and at the Inter-American Development Bank. He served as the Chairman of ABB Group and as Chair and publisher of Le Temps.

De Pury was a delegate of the Federal Council for Trade Agreements in Switzerland and served as Switzerland's Trade Ambassador,[1] and representing the country at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1987...De Pury succeeded Fritz Leutwiler as the Co-Chairman of ABB Group, serving in that capacity from 1992 to 1996.[3][4][5] He later served as the Chairman of BBC Brown Hoveri.[6][7] He held a number of government offices, including working in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern.[8] He represented Switzerland in The Hague, Brussels, and Washington, D.C..[8] In the 1980s he served as the Governor for Switzerland at the Inter-American Development Bank.[8] He was a board member of Nestlé, Ciba-Geigy and Zurich Insurance and Chairman and publisher of Le Temps.[8][9] In 1996 he co-founded the wealth management firm de Pury, Pictet, Turrettini.

ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
Members' Steering Committee:

Chairman: Peter, Lord Carrington-Chairman of the Board, Christie's International plc; Former Secretary-General NATO...
Switzerland: David de Pury-Chairman, BBC Brown Boveri Ltd; Co-Chairman, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Group.

Lord Peter Carrington : Peter Alexander Rupert Carington. was a British Conservative politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, chairman of British General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. Before his death in 2018, he was the last surviving member of the 1951–55 government of Winston Churchill, the Eden government, and the Macmillan government, as well as of the cabinets of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath. -->> DOPE INC. (http://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/NEX ... opeInc.pdf - full version : https://archive.org/details/DopeInc.Bri ... n2/page/n3)

**Ties in the Bronfmanns (history of Bronfmans :https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1989 ... ly_tur.pdf - Rise to power) The Bronfmans made "Space Research" in 1968 (its the name of the company) - Who sold nuclear warhead morter launchers to Iran..) In his Nov. 9 speech at Cambridge, the Chief Justice Lord Lane cited the fact that 84 percent of all the heroin now seized en route to Great Britain originates with Afghani rebels operating from Pakistan and the Indian subcontinent. This stream of heroin from the "Golden Crescent" is believed by security experts to reveal the footprints of a drugs-for-guns trafficking operation set up by Lord Carrington. In 1981 when· he was British Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington had sought· to oust U.S. intelligence control over the Afghani rebel movement, to gain a bargaining chip with the Soviets.

Such arrangements are not new to Lord Carrington. Before becoming Foreign Secretary he sat at the center of British involvement in Dope, Inc., the $500 billion international illegal narcotics cartel. Carrington joined the board of Barclay's Bank, exposed in the 1978 book Dope, Inc. -->> Linked via DOPE Inc to Henry Kissinger and Bronfman Family as the premier British bank involved in multi-billion dollar offshore laundering of dirty money from drug trafficking and other organized crime activities. Barclay's is part of a nexus that includes the Oppenheimer family interests which cartelized international gold and diamond markets, the main commodities used in illegal drug and gun deals. The Oppenheimer interests, including Anglo-American Gold Company and De Beers, have made similar cartel arrangements for Soviet production of these commodities. At the time he joined Barclay's, Lord Carrington was on the board of Hambros Bank, which was involved in joint ventures with the former Vatican banker Michele Sindona, now imprisoned in the United States. His position with Hambros brought Lord Carrington into the circles of the Propaganda-2 masonic lodge of Italy, pinpointed by Italian magistrates as responsible for every major coup attempt, assassination, and terrorist act since the late-1960s' NATO­linked "strategy of tension" in Italy.

Koons created ten new – and unique – works incorporating Hermès handbags donated by Marc Jacobs, Diane von Furstenberg, Naomi Campbell, Sofia Coppola, Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz, Reem Beljafla, Countess Daniela Memmo D’Amelio, HRH Princess Caroline of Hanover, Marie-Josée Kravis, Clara Kuo, and Almine Ruiz-Picasso. The evening featured a successful live auction led by Simon de Pury to benefit the United Nations Foundation’s ShotLife campaign, which helps provide children around the world with access to life-saving vaccines against harmful diseases such as measles, pneumonia, polio, and rotavirus.

Red Turner..

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland is a physician and politician. She is the former Prime Minister of Norway and served as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah is the Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Fábio C. Barbosa is the Chairman of the Board of Endeavor Brazil.

Elizabeth Cousens became the UN Foundation’s third President and Chief Executive Officer in 2020

Dr. Julio Frenk, a leader in global health and scholar, is the sixth President of the University of Miami. From 2009 to 2015, he was Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development.

Rt Hon Lord Mark Malloch-Brown KCMG is a former number two in the United Nations as well as having served in the British Cabinet and Foreign Office.

Narayana Murthy is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Infosys Limited, a global software consulting company

Hans Vestberg is the Chief Executive Officer of Verizon Communications.

Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Movement and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize