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COLIN BRADFORD: ... the reform era requires political leadership, so I join the administrators and many others of you in the room and others outside in thinking that a Secretary for Global Development is an answer to this particular global moment, this global political moment and this moment for reform.
... If you look at what the president-elect has done with the national security team and the economic team, I mean it's clear that four is better than one, and that he's not lodging the leadership in a single person but in a team, in a group, all of whom were distinguished.
... just imagine a world in which the donor coordination functions of the United States are led by a person such as Jim Wolfensohn or even Bob Zoellick. Think about what kind of a world we would have if the policy coherence element, the drawing together of the different threads of American development cooperation effort were led by the likes of Wesley Clark or Colin Powell or even David Gergen.
Think of what it might be like if we had the Congressional relations in the hands of someone like Lee Hamilton or Jim Leach. Think of what would happen if we had the capacitation effort, the mobilization of the private sector and the civil society in the hands of someone like Senator Chuck Hagel or Bill Gates.
Now, I'm not suggesting that we have a debate here about whether these particular people are the people we want, but rather encouraging you to think of people like them that we might think about to take on leadership segments of the development cooperation effort so that there's actually a team of people that approach this. We haven't lodged all our hopes and all the world's hopes in a single person, but in a team of people who are able to bring this off.
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