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CiteLeveraging New Technology for Women's Economic Empowerment: Setting the Context: Challenges and Opportunities
Experts discuss energy challenges facing women in the developing world and how new technologies can improve conditions and save lives.
Speakers: Leslie Cordes, Director of Partnership Development, Energy and Climate, United Nations Foundation
Gail Karlsson, United Nations Development Programme and ENERGIA
Richenda Van Leeuwen, Consultant and Former Senior Advisor, Good Energies, Inc.
Presider: Isobel Coleman, Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program and Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Introductory Speaker: Lorie D. Jackson, Director, Women's Economic Opportunity Initiative, ExxonMobil
April 21, 2010
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