IFE/INFO 20th Season Celebration
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A pianist provided music amidst a festive backdrop at the Belgian Ambassador's Residence on Foxhall Road.
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The Institute for Education celebrated 20 years of civility and common ground through INFO Public Policy Roundtables at the residence of the Belgian Ambassador Wednesday evening. Ambassador Jan Matthysen, his wife Agnes and daughter Charlotte presided as hosts alongside IFE founder Kathy Kemper. The event brought together a large diplomatic crowd, including Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Norwegian Ambassador Wegger Strommen and Luxembourg Ambassador Claudia Fritsche. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his wife Joanna as well as Sen. Richard Shelby and his wife Annette were spotted in the crowd. Ina Ginsburg was awarded the 2011 International Diplomacy Award.
— report and photographs by Kate Oczypok
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Annette Shelby and Sen Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
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Ambassador Jan Matthysen of Belgium and IFE's Kathy Kemper
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Jill Cooper Udall, wife of Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) talks with Louise Akerblom and Kathy Kemper
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Dean Reed and Ina Ginsburg
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Jeanine Hayden and Gen. Mike Hayden, former director of the CIA
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Marci Robinson, Deane Fenstermaker and David Fenstermaker | 
Charlotte Matthysen, daughter of Ambassador and Mrs. Matthysen of Belgium and Joris Totte, press secretary for the Embassy of Belgium
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Hope Gleicher, Ruth Strommen, daughter of Norwegian ambassador Wegger
Strommen and Wegger Strommen, Norwegian ambssador to the U.S. | 
Sergey Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. and Sally Oren, wife of the Israeli Ambassador |
Jack Bonner and Dan Froomkin
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George Vradenburg, Joanna Breyer and Trish Vradenburg
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Iris White, Ken White and Walter Neumayer
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Shamim Jawad and Claudia Fritsche, Lichtenstein ambassador to the U.S.
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Kathy Kemper, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Joanna Breyer
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The Belgian Ambassador's residence is decorated by his wife Agnes Aerts.
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Elizabeth Patton, Tom Patton, Joann Weiner and Richard Weiner
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