2:30 pm - 4:00 pm - Private tour of US Capitol for registrants only
6:30 pm - Early arrivals dinner at the residence of Armand and Tina Scala

Friday, November 20

09:30 am - 10:30 am - Chris Smith, US Congress, R. NJ *
10:45 am - 11:30 am - International Orthodox Chrsitian Charities - $1.6 mil grant to Romania
12:00 pm - 01:15 pm - Lunch. Dr. Paul Goble - What's up in Central and Eastern Europe?
01:30 pm – 02:30 pm - Immigration: Visa Waiver, Linda Dodd-Major, Esq. Former Director for Business Development, INS* | Actual cases, Svetlana Schreiber, Esq., Immigration Attorney
02:30 pm - 04:15 pm - Panel of US Non-Governmental Organizations Working in Romania: St. Andrew Foundation, Romanian Childrens Relief, Reach To Romania
04:30 pm – 05:15 pm - Sheila Kast and Amb. Rosapepe - "Dracula is Dead" book
06:30 pm - 10:00 pm - Mark Meyer Esq. Chairman of the Romanian American Chamber of Commerce

Saturday, November 21

09:15 am - 10:00 am - To be announced
10:00 am - 11:00 am - William Schlickenmaier, Director for Central and Eastern Europe, NSC, White House *
01:30 pm - 01:00 pm - Lunch - H.E. Adrian Vieriţa, Ambassador of Romania
01:00 pm - Adjournment

^{* Invited}

Below are the CVs OF two of the speakers scheduled to take part in this year's meeting.

Mr. Mark Meyer has been Chairman of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce for 20 years. He has been a special advisor for legal and economic matters to six European heads of state including the Presidents of Romania, the Republic of Moldova and the Republic of Montenegro. In 2004, the President of Romania decorated Mr. Meyer with Romania’s National Order of Merit in the Rank of Commander. In 2006, the President of the Republic of Moldova bestowed upon Mr. Meyer the Republic of Moldova’s highest civilian decoration, the Medal of Civic Merit. In 2007, St. John’s University School of Law conferred upon Mr. Meyer the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, describing him as "a pioneer in promoting the rule of law in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990." In 2004, Mr. Meyer was named a Harvard Law School Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus for his "great skill in the economic, legal and political transformation of a developing region." He is an international lawyer; a member of the Panel of International Arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution SM (ICDR) and of the Romanian Court of International Commercial Arbitration in Bucharest; he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law; the Chair of the Foreign and Comparative Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Public International Law. Former President of Romania, H. E. Emil Constantinescu, appointed Mr. Meyer in May 1999 as Co-Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Improvement of the Business Environment in Romania. Mr. Meyer is a member of Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., and Rubin Meyer Doru & Trandafir, spca, in Bucharest, and he is admitted to the New York Bar and the Bucharest Bar.

Mr. Paul Goble directs research and publications programs at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku. Prior to joining that institution but after retiring from the U.S. government in 2004, he was vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. Earlier, he served in a variety of capacities in the U.S. government, including at the Department of State and Central Intelligence Agency; at U.S. international broadcasting institutions like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Voice of America, and at various think tanks, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Potomac Foundation, and the Jamestown Foundation. The editor of five volumes on ethnicity and religion in the former Soviet space, he continues to prepare daily commentaries on these issues, posting his articles at www.windowoneurasia.blogspot.com. Trained at Miami University in Ohio and the University of Chicago, he has been decorated by the governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for his work in promoting Baltic independence and the withdrawal of Russian forces from those formerly occupied lands.