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Emerging Trends in Women’s Global Leadership
Vital Voices Global Partnership and the Women’s Foreign Policy Group will partner with the Brookings Institution’s Poverty and the Global Economy Initiative to co-host a panel discussion Wednesday at Brookings on “Emerging Trends in Women’s Global Leadership.” The program will feature the Vital Voices 2004 nominees—prominent women who are working to effect change and who are facing challenges in building democracy, strengthening economies, and defending human rights. The discussion will highlight a number of critical issues, including:
Refreshments will be served.
Agenda
Introductory Remarks by
Lael Brainard
Member - Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Ambassador Melanne Verveer
Executive Director - Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Moderators
Sandra Willett Jackson
President, Vital Voices Global Partnership
Panelists
Amat Al Aleem Ali Alsoswa
Minister of Human Rights, Sana'a, Yemen
Danielle Saint Lot
Minister for Commerce, Industry, and Tourism, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Marie Lucie Bonhomme
Journalist and Legal Rights Advocate, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Marina Pisklakova-Parker
Human Rights Activist, Moscow, Russia
Reyna McPeck
Businesswoman and Community Leader, Caracas, Venezuela
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