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Plenary Speakers 1997-2007
The University for a Night program includes a plenary during which leaders from around the world share their perspectives on ways in which different sectors of society can work together to build a better world. The plenary concludes with a question-and-answer session with the audience.
Hafsat Abiola-Costello, Executive Director, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
Mariclaire Acosta, Special Advisor to the President, Organization of American States
Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations
Corazon C. Aquino, Chairperson, Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Foundation
Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
Michel Camdessus, Managing Director and Chair of the Executive Board, International Monetary Fund
Ruth Cardoso, First Lady of Brazil and President, Comunidade Solidaria
Raymond Chambers, Co-Chairman, Malaria No More
Mario Conejo Maldonado, Mayor, Otavalo, Ecuador
Robert H. Dunn, Co-founder, Business for Social Responsibility
Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children´s Defense Fund
Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
William H. Gates Sr, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Tex Gunning, Business Group President, Unilever Bestfoods, Asia
Maurice Greenberg, Chairman and CEO, American International Group, Inc.
William B. Harrison, Jr., Chairman and CEO, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Eveline Herfkens, United Nations Secretary-General´s Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, (plenary moderator)
E. Neville Isdell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company
Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State of the United States
Bruce Klatsky, Chairman and CEO, Phillips-Van Heusen
Graça Machel, Chairperson, Foundation for Community Development of Mozambique
Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
Helio Mattar, President, Abrinq Foundation for Children´s Rights, Brazil
Nafsiah Mboi, Member of Parliament of Indonesia
Richard A. McGinn, Chairman and CEO, Lucent Technologies
Charles A. Minor, Ambassador of Liberia to the United States
Esteban Moctezuma, Secretary of Social Development of Mexico
María Isabel Baquerizo de Noboa, First Lady of Ecuador
Sithembiso Nyoni, Minister of State, Zimbabwe and Founder, Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund
Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria
Richard Parsons, President, Time Warner
David Rockefeller, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
Tokyo Sexwale, Executive Chairman, Mvelaphanda Holdings
Corazon Juliano-Soliman, Cabinet Secretary for Social Welfare and, Development of the Philippines
Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
Ingrid Srinath, Chief Executive, Child Rights and You
Rajesh Tandon, Executive Director, Society for Participatory Research in Asia
Ted Turner, Founder and Chairman, United Nations Foundation
Philip Watts, Group Managing Director and Chairman Designate, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies
James D. Wolfensohn, President, The World Bank; Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement for the Quartet Principals
Positions listed are those held at time of event
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Corazon C. Aquino and James D. Wolfensohn at University for a Night 2005
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