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The Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations is an annual lecture and dinner established in 1996 with funds from Council Director Theodore C. Sorensen, who has been a member for over 40 years. The lecture series honors his wife, Gillian Martin Sorensen, for her work at the United Nations. The Sorensen Distinguished Lectureship is reserved for events on the subject of the United Nations or its work around the world.
Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations with Zalmay M. Khalilzad
Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Speaker: | Zalmay M. Khalilzad, U.S. Representative to the United Nations |
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| Presider: | Barbara Crossette, Editor, The InterDependent , a UNA-USA Magazine; Former United Nations Bureau Chief, New York Times |
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Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations: A Conversation with Mark Malloch Brown
Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Speaker: | Mark Malloch Brown, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations |
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| Presider: | Matthew Nimetz, Managing Director, General Atlantic LLC; Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for talks between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
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Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Speaker: | Paul A. Volcker, Chair, Independent Inquiry of Oil for Food Programme, United Nations Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
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| Presider: | Warren M. Hoge, Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the United Nations, The New York Times |
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Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations: Why Bother with Diplomacy?
Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Presider: | George J. Mitchell, Former Member, United States Senate (D-ME) |
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| Speaker: | Kieran Prendergast, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, United Nations |
Women in Leadership: Their Challenges in the Developing World
Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Presider: | Peggy Dulany, Chair, The Synergos Institute |
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| Speakers: | Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, World Food Programme |
| Catherine Bertini, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund | |
| Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, World Health Organization | |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, United Nations Population Fund | |
| Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director |
The United Nations and Global Community
Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Presider: | William H. Luers, Chairman, President and CEO, United Nations Association of the U.S.A. |
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| Speaker: | John G. Ruggie, Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations |
What the United States and the United Nations Can Do to Strengthen the U.N.
Related Projects: Campaign 2000 Series, Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Presider: | Donald F. McHenry, Research Professor of Diplomacy & International Affairs, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University |
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| Speaker: | Lee H. Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee (D-Ind.) |
An Inside Look at the Crisis in Iraq
Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Presider: | Richard N. Gardner |
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| Speaker: | Richard Butler, Executive Chairman of the U.N. Special Commission |
The United Nations: New Priorities, New Directions
Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations
| Presider: | Donald F. McHenry |
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| Speaker: | Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, the United Nations |
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