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Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Room: Macdonald A–D

Speaker(s)
Stephen Lewis, Co-director, AIDS-Free World; former Canada Ambassador to the United Nations

Description
Stephen Lewis will make a panoramic sweep of international affairs, concentrating especially on globalization, conflict, poverty, disease and the role of socially responsible investors in all of it.

Speaker Biographies
Stephen Lewis Formerly Canada's Ambassador to the UN, Stephen Lewis' work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He has served as the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. He is currently co-Director of AIDS-Free World, a new international AIDS advocacy organization, based in the United States (www.aids-freeworld.org), a Professor in Global Health, Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and a Senior Advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York.

Mr. Lewis holds 28 honorary degrees from Canadian universities and is a Companion of the Order of Canada, that country's highest honour for lifetime achievement. He is co-chair of the Leadership Programme Committee for the XVII International AIDS Conference (Mexico City, August 2008). He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and is the chair of the board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation in Canada (www.stephenlewisfoundation.org). In 2006, Mr. Lewis' best-selling book, Race Against Time won the Canadian Booksellers Association's Libris Award for non-fiction book of the year.

Special thanks to Voyageur Asset Management for their support in securing Stephen Lewis as our Opening Plenary speaker! Photo (c) Kellan Higgins