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STORRS, Conn. — Former U.S. Rep. Barbara B. Kennelly and Edward Silverman, managing director and head of public policy for RBS Greenwich Capital, will discuss the role of business and non-profit agencies in the creation of public policy during a seminar at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, at the University of Connecticut's Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
With the backdrop of calls for greater separation between the public and private sectors, campaign finance reform, and concerns over the outsourcing of policy development to private entities (e.g. energy policy), questions persist about the relationship between these two important and inter-related sectors.
In an effort to stimulate meaningful dialogue around this topic and explore the current state of the relationship, as well as ways to balance it, former Congresswoman Kennelly and Silverman, a former chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, will discuss the perceived and real nuances of the relationship, with an eye toward using it to benefit the public good. Anticipated topics of discussion include: How can the relationship between public and private sectors - Washington and Wall Street - be developed and used in ways that leverage policy development and the pursuit of profit for the broadest public good?
What are the inherent obstacles, conflicts and incongruencies in the relationship - perceived and real? Who are the leaders in government and business trying to ensure a legitimate relationship for all parties?
The program includes a question-and-answer session.
Kennelly, who became president and chief executive officer of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare in April 2002, has spent 25 years in public service at the local, state and federal levels, including 17 as a member of the U.S. Congress, representing Connecticut 's first district.
Kennelly served on the 2005 White House Conference on Aging and, in 2006, was appointed to the Social Security Advisory Board. Currently, she is serving as the interim head of the Dodd Center 's National Advisory Board. Silverman began his career at RBS Greenwich Capital in 1989 after a 12-year career in the executive and legislative branches of government. He is responsible for strategic planning relative to developments in the political/public sectors. He served in the U.S. Senate for nine years as banking committee counsel, legislative director, and chief of staff to Dodd.
From 1978 through 1981, he served as deputy assistant secretary for legislation and congressional relations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
RBS Greenwich Capital Inc., together with its affiliates, is a trading, finance, and investment company firm with more than 20 years' experience in fixed-income markets. Headquartered in Greenwich , it is a primary dealer of U.S. Treasury securities and serves as both principal and agent in the sale and trading of mortgage and asset-backed securities. It is also a dealer in over-the-counter U.S. Treasury options and a broker in exchange-listed futures and operations.
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