Remaking the UN
The Ford Foundation and Project Syndicate are pleased to invite you to Remaking the UN, a high-level event to be held at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice on September 21.
As a member of our invitation-only audience, we hope you will join us and an exceptional group of experts for three sessions examining how the United Nations can be reimagined for a rapidly changing world and what the future of global governance could look like more broadly.
3:00 PM: Doors Open
3:30 PM: Arrive By (Seating Will Be Limited)
4:00 PM: Opening
4:15 PM: Session One: The UN and the Global Order
4:55 PM: Coffee Break
5:20 PM: Session Two: The UN and Its Parts
6:00 PM: Session Three (Fireside Chat): The UN and Its Members
6:20 PM: Closing
6:30 PM: Event Ends/Reception Begins
Please find the full agenda here, including confirmed speakers:
Heba Aly, Director of Article 109
Comfort Ero, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group
Heather Gerken, President of the Ford Foundation
Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Shamala Kandiah Thompson, Executive Director at Security Council Report
Susana Malcorra, Former Foreign Minister of Argentina, Former Chief of Staff to the UN Secretary-General, and Founder and President of GWL Voices
Enrique Javier Ochoa Martínez, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of Mexico
Natalie Samarasinghe, Co-founder of 1 for 8 Billion and Executive Director of Vibe Fund
Philipp Schönrock, Director of Cepei
Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America, Incoming Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE, and Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University