Invited Speakers

Last updated: January 14, 2010

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A wide variety of  leaders and experts have been invited to participate in the conference such as:

Very Special Invited Guest – President Barack Obama, whose mother and step father were both EWC students, has been invited to participate in our conference.

GOVERNMENT
Senator Daniel Inouye, Senior member of Hawaii’s Congressional Delegation and long time friend and supporter of the Center

Governor Linda Lingle, Governor of State of Hawaii and ex officio member of EWC Board of Governors

Shankar Sharma (Student  1980s), Nepal’s Ambassador to the United States and Head of EWCA Nepal Chapter

Shabbir Cheema (Student  1970s), Senior Fellow EWC and served as Program Director of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Shoji Nishimoto (Student  1970s), Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University and served as Assistant Secretary General, United Nations

Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, Executive Director, Pakistan Institute for Legislative Development and Transparency, Islamabad


ENVIRONMENT
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (EWC Fellow in 1980s) Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which received the Nobel Peace Prize

Eileen Shea (EWC researcher 2000s), Chief of the Climate Services Division of NOAA

Kazu Takemoto (Intern 1970s), Vice Minister for Global Environment, Japan

Kirk Smith, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Professor of Global Environmental Health, University of California

BUSINESS
Sachio Semmoto ( Seminar 1970s), Entrepreneur and Founder/Chairman of eAccess Ltd., Japan

Senen Bacani (Student in 1960s), President LA Frutera, Inc. and served as Minister of Agriculture for the Philippines

Leonard Menezes (Student in 1960s), Country Manager, India Hilton International

Tun Daim Zainuddin (Seminar 1982), served as Finance Minister, Malaysia

Tarun Das (Seminars 2000s), Chief Mentor, Confederation of Indian Industry

James Castle (Student  1970s ), President of Castle Asia, and President of American Chamber of Commerce, Jakarta


EDUCATION
Hao Ping (ASDP 1990s), Vice Minister, Ministry of Education, China

Michael Young, President, University of Utah

MRC Greenwood, President, University of Hawaii

Jane Knight, Professor of Comparative, International, and Development Education Center, University of Toronto


HUMAN RIGHTS
David Cohen, Director, Asian International Justice Initiative

Amanda Ellis (student 1980s), Gender Project, World Bank

Arfa Zehra (student 1970s), Chair, Pakistan Commission on Women

Purficacion Quisumbing (Student 1970s), Chairperson Commission on Human Rights, Philippines

GENERAL
Kathleen Jamieson (EWC Visiting Scholar in 1980’s), Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and also frequent guest on PBS news programs such as Bill Moyers

EWC Directors including Dr. Nancy Lewis (Research), Ambassador Raymond Burghardt (Seminars), Dr. Terry Bigalke (Education), Karen Kundsen (External Affairs), Sitiveni Halapua (Pacific Islands Development Program) Satu Limaye (EWC Washington)