2009 SPEAKERSMODERATORS

is a Booz Allen Hamilton vice president. Pressley leads the firm’s diplomacy and international-development business, providing services to emerging-market economies in such matters as government transformation, economic performance, citizen services, and humanitarian support. Pressley’s primary focus is using new technologies and methodologies to help developing nations improve and expand their capacities to become productive parts of the global society and economy. Before joining Booz Allen, Pressley was a senior foreign service officer at the US Agency for International Development, with assignments as mission director in Poland, assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia, and acting administrator.