The Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

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    The Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

    The Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations is an annual lecture and dinner established in 1996 with funds from former 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 Lectures:

    Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations with Zalmay M. Khalilzad

    General Meeting

    December 3, 2007

    Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

    Speaker: Zalmay M. Khalilzad, U.S. Representative to the United Nations
    Presider: Barbara Crossette, Editor, The InterDependent , a UNA-USA Magazine; Former United Nations Bureau Chief, New York Times

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    *special time*

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    Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations: A Conversation with Mark Malloch Brown

    General Meeting

    December 11, 2006

    Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

    Speaker: Mark Malloch Brown, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
    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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    New York, NY

     

    Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

    General Meeting

    November 22, 2005

    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
    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?

    General Meeting

    May 26, 2004

    Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

    Presider: George J. Mitchell, Former Member, United States Senate (D-ME)
    Speaker: Kieran Prendergast, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, United Nations

     

    Women in Leadership: Their Challenges in the Developing World

    General Meeting

    October 18, 2001

    Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

    Presider: Peggy Dulany, Chair, The Synergos Institute
    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

    General Meeting

    November 29, 2000

    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.
    Speaker: John G. Ruggie, Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations

     

    What the United States and the United Nations Can Do to Strengthen the U.N.

    General Meeting

    May 27, 1999

    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
    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

    General Meeting

    February 24, 1998

    Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

    Presider: Richard N. Gardner
    Speaker: Richard Butler, Executive Chairman of the U.N. Special Commission

     

    The United Nations: New Priorities, New Directions

    General Meeting

    April 22, 1997

    Related Project: Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations

    Presider: Donald F. McHenry
    Speaker: Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, the United Nations
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