Monday and Tuesday I was so busy attending this...
that I had no time for anything else. However with Stephen Lewis at the same conference as me, who wouldn't be inspired...
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I would like to throttle . . . those who've waited so unendurably long to act, those who can find infinite resources for war but never sufficient resources to ameliorate the human condition."- Stephen Lewis
Canada ’s former Ambassador to the United Nations and currently the UN’s Special Envoy for HIV / AIDS in Africa , our keynote speaker, Stephen Lewis was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in The World in 2005. Mr. Lewis will speak firsthand about Educating Our World: the Power of People. A champion of education as an agent for positive change and a powerful spokesman for equity in human relations, Stephen Lewis has an extraordinary gift for inspiring people to take action. One of the finest orators of our time, he speaks with passion, eloquence and profound personal experience on human, social and economic development, globalization and human rights. He is the author of Race Against Time, which offers pragmatic proposals for achieving the Millennium Development Goals defined by the UN in 2000.
About Stephen Lewis
Lewis, Stephen, Keynote Speaker
Stephen Lewis is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa , a post he’s held since June 2001. He is also a Commissioner for the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, and a Senior Advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. Mr. Lewis is also a director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which is dedicated to easing the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa .
Mr. Lewis’ work with the UN has shaped the past two decades of his career. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization’s global headquarters in New York .
In 1997, in addition to his work at UNICEF, Mr. Lewis was appointed by the Organization of African Unity to a Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the Genocide in Rwanda. The ‘ Rwanda Report’ was issued in June of 2000.
In 1993, Mr. Lewis became coordinator for the international study – known as the Graça Machel study – on the "Consequences of Armed Conflict on Children". The report was tabled in the United Nations in 1995.
From 1984 through 1988, Stephen Lewis was Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. In this capacity, he chaired the Committee that drafted the Five-Year UN Programme on African Economic Recovery. He also chaired the first International Conference on Climate Change, which drew up the first comprehensive policy on global warming.
Mr. Lewis holds 22 honorary degrees from Canadian universities and is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada . In May 2003, in recognition of outstanding contributions to public health, Columbia University ’s Mailman School of Public Health honoured Mr. Lewis with the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award.
Mr. Lewis was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest honour for lifetime achievement, in 2003. The same year, Maclean’s magazine honoured Mr. Lewis as their inaugural “Canadian of the Year.”
MORE about Stephen Lewis and his foundation can be found here.
