On 26 June 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was signed. To mark this milestone, the UN is partnering with the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and the Group of Women Leaders on a series of all-female panel discussions on the big global trends shaping our future.
This inaugural event will focus on what role the UN can – and should – play at a time when international cooperation is needed more than ever, but multilateral institutions are politically constrained, under-resourced and – often – undermined. Can the UN reinvent itself after 75 years?
- Introduction by Fabrizio Hochschild, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the 75th anniversary of the United Nations
Moderator: Anne-Marie Goetz, Clinical Professor, Center for Global Affairs, New York University School of Professional Studies
Speakers:
- H.E. María Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly; former Foreign Minister and Defense Minister; and member, Group of Women Leaders
- Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, former Executive Director, UN World Food Programme; Distinguished Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Visiting Scholar at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford; member, Group of Women Leaders
- Dr. Adriana Abdenur, Policy Expert and Executive Director, Plataforma CIPÓ
- Dr. Ayak Chol Deng Alak, Member of the secretariat representing the women’s coalition at the Strategic Defense and Security Review board, South Sudan; and Co-founder of Anataban Arts Initiative/youth movement
- Enyseh Teimory, campaigner, Together First campaign for global governance reform
