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IPI 
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June 8, 2017 
US DHS CIS 
Vermont Service Center 
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Re: Ms. 
O-1 Visa Application 
Dear Sir or Madam: 
I am writing this letter on behalf of Ms. 
a 
communications 
and 
public 
relations 
professional 
of 
extraordinary ability, who has contributed immensely to our 
organization, International Peace Institute. 
Since 2005 I have been President of the International Peace 
Institute (IPI), an independent, international not-for-profit 
think tank dedicated to managing risk and building resilience to 
promote peace, security, and sustainable development. To achieve 
its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, strategic 
analysis, publishing, and convening. 
IPI is an independent non-profit research and policy 
development institution based in New York (beside the headquarters 
of the United Nations, with which IPI works closely). Additionally, 
the Institute has regional offices in Europe (Vienna, Austria), 
and in the Middle East. We specialize in multilateral approaches 
to peace and security issues, working closely with the Secretariat 
and membership of the United Nations. Our primary objective is to 
promote effective international responses to new and emerging 
issues and crises through 
research, analysis, and 
policy 
development. 
Before joining the IPI, I was principal architect of the 1990s 
Oslo Peace Accords (between the PLO and the Government of Israel) 
and am a Norwegian sociologist and diplomat who has served the UN 
as Norway's senior envoy in the Middle East. 
I had the distinct pleasure of working with 
benefitting from her extraordinary abilities. All my staff who 
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have worked closely with 
appreciate her skills, command 
of languages and her always warm and amicable personality. 
I first observed 
communication and language 
skills during a visit to Central Asia in 2014, where she interacted 
with foreign officials and professionals. 
Impressed with her extraordinary skills, we asked 
and the Enhanced Education Foundation, to provide support for our 
international conference on Global Health and Pandemics. 
III 
met and exceeded all our expectations. On September 
12 the IPI hosted a high-level international conference on 
"Preparing for Pandemics: Lessons Learned for More Effective 
Responses" at Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. 
Prominent leaders of international organizations such as the 
United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Red Cross, the 
Institut Pasteur, Medecins Sans Frontieres and the Open Society 
Foundation, as well as senior officials and leading health experts 
from around the world participated in this event. 
The conference offered an ideal platform to discuss 
challenges and lessons learned from the Ebola crisis, as well as 
actionable solutions and their implementation. The meeting builds 
on IPI's work on peace and health, particularly its cooperation 
with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to overcome the final 
barriers to the global eradication of polio. 
and the Enhanced Education Foundation has been 
an extraordinary asset for us the last few years, especially in 
the organizing and fundraising of the Epidemic Conference. III 
through Enhanced Education, helped allocate and raise 
funds for the Conference. Without her extraordinary efforts, the 
fundraising would not have reached the levels it reached. 
Furthermore, 
participated in the Conference on 
behalf of Enhanced Education, taking an active and lead role, 
coordinating the follow-up meetings. 
In major international 
conferences like our Epidemic Conference, the sessions and the 
program is very strict and rigid, given the world leaders 
participating. Policy, general mission and vision statements are 
made at the regular sessions. After the structured sessions, 
sometimes impromptu, sometimes formal, follow-up meetings need to 
be organized to effectively initiate the dialogue and the working 
relations for the goals and policies set forth at the conference 
sessions. And, this is where 
shined: Using her 
extraordinary understanding of international relations, knowing 
who is who, and, how they would interact with each other, and, 
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understanding precisely the goals and the mission of the 
Conference, she organized some of the follow-up meetings. 
The 
follow-up meetings, repeating myself, are as important as the 
Conference itself—the working groups and the stakeholders get 
together in the follow-up meetings more efficiently, and, the real 
work begins in these meetings. 
Given competing and sometimes 
conflicting interests, it is extremely difficult to put the right 
people on the right table. 
And this is where 
excelled—she understands the inner workings of international 
organizations and governments, and, she was able to, with her 
singular communications skills, was able to put the right people 
in the right room, furthering the success of our Conference. 
We are currently discussing with 
future 
fundraising opportunities for the IPI. 
is an amazing 
public relations and fundraising expert. She told me about her new 
endeavor, 
: She is undertaking a 
crucial task- promoting, subsidizing, and fostering STEM Education 
and standardized test taking preparations. 
As IPI, we firmly 
believe that education  is the key to  solving the world's problems. 
Therefore, we applaud 
in this endeavor. 
With best regards, 
roA 
Terje Rod-Larsen 
President 
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