Annual Meeting 2004
The 40th Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture 
and Rural Development

"Progress in International Agriculture and Rural Development"
Speakers and Panelists

Margaret M. Zeigler
Deputy Director
Congressional Hunger Center

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Margaret M. Zeigler, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director of the Congressional Hunger Center. Her responsibilities include founding and directing the Mickey Leland International Fellows Program, establishing educational initiatives about hunger and food security, overseeing programs and financial operations, and helping establish a permanent endowment to fund the congressional fellowship programs. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and International Development, and she teaches a course examining humanitarian emergencies in the 20th and 21st centuries entitled "Complex Humanitarian Emergencies" at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Development.

 Margaret also serves as the co-chair of the Committee on Development Policy and Practice at InterAction, a consortium of over 160 non-governmental organizations working in humanitarian relief and international development. She was selected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to participate in a year-long national security fellowship program, Seminar XXI, in 1999-2000. In 1997-1998, she obtained funding from the US Institute of Peace to conduct research on coordination of humanitarian NGO's and the military in Bosnia, and she provides regular humanitarian training for the Southern Command of the US military and other Latin American military units during peacekeeping exercises. She provides international food security updates regularly for Bread for the World Institute's annual Hunger Report, publishes articles in journals such as Humanitarian Affairs Review and is a founding member of the Council on Faith and International Affairs (CFIA).