KOFI ANNAN EMINENT SPEAKERS’ LECTURE SERIES – 25-Apr-2008

James Wolfensohn

Mr. James Wolfensohn has demonstrated once again why indeed he is well suited to speak to us within the framework of this our Eminent Speakers Program. I wish to thank him for an excellent presentation, which I believe has challenged and enlightened us.

The deliberations have emphasized the...

KOFI ANNAN EMINENT SPEAKERS’ LECTURE SERIES

Leymah Gbowee

2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is Founder and President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, based in Monrovia.

Leymah is best known for leading a nonviolent movement that brought together Christian and Muslim women to...

Kofi Annan Eminent Speakers’ Lecture Series

Achille Mbembe

Professor Achille Mbembe, born in Cameroon, obtained his Ph.D in History at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris). He was Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, New York (1988-1991), a Senior Research Fellow at...

Kofi Annan Eminent Speakers’ Lecture Series

Ouided Bouchamaoui

Wided Bouchamaoui, also transcribed Ouided Bouchamaoui, (Arabic: وداد بوشماوي; born 1961) is a Tunisian businesswoman who since 2011 has been leader of the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA). As leader of the organization she took from 2013 part in Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet which led...

KOFI ANNAN EMINENT SPEAKERS’ LECTURE SERIES, October 27, 2009

Wangari Maathai

Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai, has underscored the importance of good governance in the effective and sustainable management of the continent’s natural resources. Speaking in Tunis, Tunisia, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, within the framework of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Eminent Speakers Program, Prof. Maathai noted that poverty...

Kofi Annan Eminent Speakers’ Lecture Series

Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus, (born June 28, 1940, Chittagong, East Bengal [now Bangladesh]), Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit (small loans to poor people possessing no collateral) to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Prize for Peace.

After...

Kofi Annan Eminent Speakers’ Lecture Series

Emir Sanusi II

Sanusi Lamido Sanusipronunciation (Ajami: سنوسي لاميط سنوسي, Muhammadu Sanusi na biyu; born 31 July 1961),known by the religious title Khalifa Sanusi II (Ajami: خليفة السنوسي), is a spiritual leader in the Tijanniyah Sufi order of Nigeria. He is a member of the Dabo dynasty and was emir (sarki) of the ancient city-state of Kano. He was born in Kano in...

KOFI ANNAN EMINENT SPEAKERS’ LECTURE SERIES

Graça Machel

Graça Machel is an African stateswoman whose decades-long professional and public life is rooted in Mozambique’s struggle for self-rule and international advocacy for women and children’s rights. She is a former freedom fighter in Mozambique’s FRELIMO movement and that country’s first Minister of Education.

In the years following...

KOFI ANNAN EMINENT SPEAKERS’ LECTURE SERIES, 2019 EDITION

THARMAN SHANMUGARATNAM

Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam has been Senior Minister since May 2019, after serving for several years as Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Finance. He is currently also Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, and advises the Prime Minister on economic policies.

Tharman is concurrently the Chairman of the...

KOFI ANNAN EMINENT SPEAKERS’ LECTURE SERIES - 2021

Esther Duflo

Nobel laureate Esther Duflo, Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will on 13 December deliver the 2021 Kofi Annan Eminent Speakers’ Lecture, organized by the African Development Institute.

The theme of the lecture is Good Economics for Warmer Times: How to Address Our Climate...