Congresswoman Barbara Lee Joins United Nations General Assembly
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 23, 2013
Contact: Carrie Adams (202) 225-2661
Washington, D.C.— Congresswoman Barbara Lee, newly nominated as a Representative of the United States to the Sixty-eighth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, will spend the next two days in New York for a series of high-level meetings, including meeting with U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and attending President Obama’s address to the General Assembly on Tuesday morning.
Among additional duties, Congresswoman Lee will be speaking on several panels, including:
United Nations Foundation Social Good Summit: Defeating AIDS: The Opportunity of Our Generation
Panelists Include:
Barbara Lee, United States Congresswoman
Maranda Pleasant, Founder and Editor, ORIGIN Magazine
Mark Dybul, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
United Nations Foundation: The Millennium Development Goals: Momentum toward 2015 & Beyond
Introduction by Joie Chen, Al Jazeera America, on Millennium Development Goals challenges and drivers
Panelists Include:
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Nigeria
Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Sweden
John Kufuor, Chair, Sanitation and Water for All Partnership
Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, UNFPA, on behalf of H4+
Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, World Food Programme
Dejan Bojanic, Youth Advocacy Group, Global Education First Initiative
Michael Anderson, CEO, CIFF
Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank
Barbara Lee, Congresswoman, U.S. House of Representatives
Mark Malloch-Brown, FTI Consulting
The GAVI Alliance: 21st Century Development: Harnessing the Power of Global Public-Private Partnerships in the Post-2015 Agenda
Opening remarks by His Excellency, President of the Republic of Ghana, Mr. John Dramani Mahama
Panelists include:
Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, The GAVI Alliance
Pascal Canfin, Delegate Minister for Development, France
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Member of Congress, United States Congress
Mark Dybul, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Chris Elias, President, Global Development Program, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Evelyne Kibuchi, Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium
Kenya Keizo Takemi, Member, House of Councillors, Japan
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee is a former Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and currently serves as CPC Whip and Chair of the Task Force on Global Peace and Security. In September of 2013, President Obama nominated Congresswoman Lee to serve as a Representative of the United States to the Sixty-eighth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, making her the first African-American woman to hold this position.