General News of Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Source: kasapafmonline.com

IEA boss billed to participate in third US presidential debate

Jean Mensah, Executive Director of IEA Jean Mensah, Executive Director of IEA

The Executive Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs(IEA), Jean Mensah will join a host of other members of the global network of Presidential debates to observe the third and final US Presidential debate, a release from the office of the IEA said Tuesday.

The debate is billed to come off at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US Commission on Presidential debate has announced.

While in the US, Mrs Jean Mensah will participate in the third Presidential debate and watch the debate Live. She will also interact with Secretary Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald Trump, Presidential Candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties respectively,

The statement said, she will also meet with moderators and producers of the debate and staff of the US Commission for Presidential debates to share ideas and discuss modalities and issues relating to Presidential debates in Ghana and Africa as a whole.

It may be recalled that in 2012, Mrs Jean Mensah was invited to participate in the US Presidential debate(Town Hall Style) between President Barack Obama and governor Mitt Romney in the University of Hofstra