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As Vice President of the Council of the Americas, Eric Farnsworth leads the Washington-based efforts of the Council, including policy development and advocacy, programming, and public affairs. In addition to his Council activities, Farnsworth maintains an active role in policy and trade matters. He is a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a member of the George Washington University Western Hemisphere Advisory Board; a former member of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy of the US Department of State; and the past Chairman (2000-2002) of the Greater Washington Board of Trade Western Hemisphere Task Force. He has written and spoken extensively about United States’ interests abroad, providing commentary to media such as CNN, BBC, NBC, CNBC, etc. and numerous newspapers. Prior to joining the Council, Farnsworth was Managing Director of Manatt Jones Global Strategies LLC, a Washington and Los Angeles-based strategic advisory and business facilitation firm. From 1995-98, Farnsworth oversaw policy and message development for the White House Office of the Special Envoy for the Americas. As an officer in the Department of State beginning in 1990, Farnsworth focused on issues including the restoration of Central America after the conflictive 1980’s and the re-establishment of democracy in Panama after Operation Just Cause. He also served at the Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa. Farnsworth was awarded the State Department’s Superior Honor Award three times and the Meritorious Honor Award once. In 1992, he was detailed to the Office of the US Trade Representative as part of the NAFTA negotiation team. He interned in 1987 with Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) during the Iran/contra hearings, and also with Congressman John Edward Porter (R-IL).Farnsworth holds an MPA in International Relations from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School where he studied economics under Ben Bernanke, and a BA, magna cum laude, from Ball State, where he captained the club soccer team. He is a Harry S. Truman Scholar and an alumnus of the Leadership America, Young Leaders of the (NATO) Alliance, and US-Spain Young Leaders programs. He is active with youth soccer and is a classically trained pianist and harpsichordist. He and his wife Molly have three children.
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Ambassador of India to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay since 10 october 2007.
Head of the Latin America and Caribbean Division in the Ministry of External Affairs in India from 2004 to 2007.
Ambassador to Venezuela in 2000-2003.
Consul General of India in Sao Paulo from 1996 to 2000
Previous postings include New York ( mission to the United Nations), Mauritius, Libya, Pakistan and Portugal.
Since 1996 he has been specialising in Latin America
‘Passionate about Latin America’ is how his calling card describes him. After five years as Consul-General in Sao Paulo, Brazil, three years as India’s Ambassador in Venezuela, and three more as Joint Secretary, Latin American Countries, in the Ministry of External Affairs,
Mr R. Viswanathan, is perhaps the country’s best resource-person for anything relating to the landmass south of Texas and down to the South pole.
Mr Viswanathan, once an ambitious village lad who had to scrounge for school textbooks as his family could not afford to buy them, and who could not understand a word of English until he was in college, today knows Latin America like the back of his hand. He combines this knowledge with his fluency in Portuguese and Spanish that he expects will help him in his mission to bridge the distance between India and Latin America..............................The Hindu Business Linehttp://www.rviswanathan.com/profile.html
NPR Biography
Foreign Correspondent, South America
NPR (National Public Radio)635 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, D.C. 20001In 2005, Julie McCarthy became NPR's correspondent based in South America. Previously, she covered the Middle East for NPR beginning in 2002, when she was dispatched to cover the Israeli incursion into the West Bank.
Before covering the Middle East, McCarthy was the London Bureau Chief for NPR, a position that frequently took her far from her post to cover stories that span the globe. McCarthy spent five weeks in Iran during the war in Afghanistan, covered the re-election of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and traveled to the Indian island nation of Madagascar to report on the political and ecological developments there. Following the terror attacks on the United States she was the lead reporter assigned to investigate al Qaeda in Europe.
In 1994, McCarthy became the first staff correspondent to head NPR's Tokyo bureau. She covered a range of stories in Japan with distinction, including the Kobe earthquake of 1995, the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the turmoil over U.S. troops on Okinawa. Her coverage of Japan won the East-West Center's Mary Morgan Hewett Award for the Advancement of Journalism.
McCarthy has also traveled extensively throughout Asia. Her coverage of the Asian economic crisis earned her the 1998 Overseas Press Club of America Award. She arrived in Indonesia weeks before the fall of Asia's longest-running ruler and chronicled a nation in chaos as President Suharto stepped from power.
Prior to her assignment in Asia, McCarthy was the foreign editor for Europe as well as Africa. She served as the Senior Washington Editor during the Persian Gulf War; NPR was honored with a Silver Baton in the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for its coverage of that conflict. McCarthy was awarded a Peabody, two additional Overseas Press Club Awards, and the Ohio State Award in her capacity as European and African Editor.
She was a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii in 1994.
She was selected to spend the 2002-2003 academic year at Stanford University, winning a place in the Knight Journalism Fellowship Program.
McCarthy comes to journalism by way of the law; she is also an attorney. She has worked for NPR since 1986.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100889
As Vice President of the Council of the Americas, Eric Farnsworth leads the Washington-based efforts of the Council, including policy development and advocacy, programming, and public affairs. In addition to his Council activities, Farnsworth maintains an active role in policy and trade matters. He is a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a member of the George Washington University Western Hemisphere Advisory Board; a former member of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy of the US Department of State; and the past Chairman (2000-2002) of the Greater Washington Board of Trade Western Hemisphere Task Force. He has written and spoken extensively about United States’ interests abroad, providing commentary to media such as CNN, BBC, NBC, CNBC, etc. and numerous newspapers. Prior to joining the Council, Farnsworth was Managing Director of Manatt Jones Global Strategies LLC, a Washington and Los Angeles-based strategic advisory and business facilitation firm. From 1995-98, Farnsworth oversaw policy and message development for the White House Office of the Special Envoy for the Americas. As an officer in the Department of State beginning in 1990, Farnsworth focused on issues including the restoration of Central America after the conflictive 1980’s and the re-establishment of democracy in Panama after Operation Just Cause. He also served at the Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa. Farnsworth was awarded the State Department’s Superior Honor Award three times and the Meritorious Honor Award once. In 1992, he was detailed to the Office of the US Trade Representative as part of the NAFTA negotiation team. He interned in 1987 with Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) during the Iran/contra hearings, and also with Congressman John Edward Porter (R-IL).Farnsworth holds an MPA in International Relations from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School where he studied economics under Ben Bernanke, and a BA, magna cum laude, from Ball State, where he captained the club soccer team. He is a Harry S. Truman Scholar and an alumnus of the Leadership America, Young Leaders of the (NATO) Alliance, and US-Spain Young Leaders programs. He is active with youth soccer and is a classically trained pianist and harpsichordist. He and his wife Molly have three children.
