Engage in this important discussion: Conflict, The Nobel Peace Prize, & World Hunger. This 90-minute conversation event will be on April 27th, 2022, at 1:00 pm EDT (UTC -4). Please use the Time Zone Converter to determine when this engaging conversation will be in your time zone.

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Speaker Bio

Michael Stayton

MICHAEL B. STAYTON recently retired as Chairman of United States Infrastructure Corporation (USIC) where he was a founding shareholder and President and CEO from 2008 – 2014. Mr. Stayton currently serves on a number of Boards, both for-profit and not-for-profit.

From 2002-2007, he served as Chief of Staff for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the largest international humanitarian agency in the world. WFP operates one of the largest logistics businesses in the world and is recognized by the international community as the world’s leader in emergency response capacity. Most notable emergency response programs implemented were in Afghanistan and Iraq after the Taliban and Hussein regimes fell, the Indian Ocean tsunami, civil war in the Sudan including Darfur, the Kashmir earthquake, and numerous droughts and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, and humanitarian crises in the Middle East & North Korea.

Prior to his tenure at WFP, Stayton held senior management positions with NiSource from 1995-2000 and was Director of Public Works & Enterprise Development for the City of Indianapolis from 1993-1995. Before that Mr. Stayton was engaged in venture capital activities and began his business career with Ford Motor Company in 1973, after 3 years as a U.S. Army officer. Mr. Stayton earned a BA from Wabash College and MS from George Washington University.