Symposia speakers and presentations
The following distinguished speakers participated as panelists in the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Symposia, held in conjunction with the Hilton Humanitiarian Prize ceremonies, from 1998 to 2009.
Fazle Hasan Abed
Founder and Chairperson, BRAC
Thinking Big and Scaling Up: The BRAC Approach to Poverty Alleviation (2007) (pdf)
Morton Abramowitz
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Staying Ahead of the Next Crisis: Post Cold War, Foreign Policy Considerations, Emerging Threats (1998) (pdf)
Maya Ajmera
Executive Director, Global Fund for Children
Innovations in Advancing the Human Rights of Children (2002) (pdf)
Hellen Grace Akwii-Wangusa
Anglican Observer at the United Nations
Defining New Strategies for Reaching the Bottom Billion (2008) (pdf)
Francis Amar
Head of the International Organizations Division, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Is Neutrality Still Possible? (1998) (pdf)
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Ph.D., LL.B.
Professor of Law and Fellow of the Law and Religion Program, Emory University
Human Rights Between International Law and International Relations (1999) (pdf)
His Excellency Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Prize Ceremony Keynote Address (2001) (pdf)
Louise Arbour
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Responsibility to Protect: The End of Ambiguity (2005) (pdf)
Oscar Arias
Nobel Peace Laureate; former President of Costa Rica
Prize Ceremony Keynote Address: Social Justice in the 21st Century (2002) (pdf)
Jaime N. Bayona, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Socios En Salud (Partners In Health) Lima, Peru
Facing MDR-TB: An Opportunity to Get Involved (2004) (pdf)
Donna Barry, N.P., M.P.H.
Director of Policy and Advocacy, Partners in Health
Hilton Prize Laureates: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts (2009) (pdf)
Richard Behar
Investigative Journalist
China in Africa: The West's Moral and Economic Default (2008) (pdf)
Catherine Bertini
Senior Fellow in Agricultural Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Professor of Public Administration, Syracuse University
Ending Hunger – Why Stopping Inter-Generational Hunger Can Bridge the Poverty Gap (2002) (pdf)
Women and Girls: Real Change for the Bottom Billion (2008) (pdf)
Nancy Birdsall
President of the Center for Global Development
Do No Harm: Aid, State Formation and the Missing Middle in Africa (2006) (pdf)
Emma Bonino
European Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs
Is Neutrality Still Possible? Politicization of Humanitarian Aid/Priority Setting in Ethical Dilemmas (1998) (pdf)
David Bornstein
Author
Innovative People Need Innovative Capital—Financing Social Entrepreneurs (2007) (pdf)
Mark Malloch Brown
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
The Role of the U.N. in Reconstruction of Iraq (2003) (pdf)
The Development Dimension of Crisis and Recovery (1999) (pdf)
Charlotte Bunch
Founder and Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University
Women's Human Rights: A Key Component to Building a Culture of Peace (1999) (pdf)
The Honorable George H.W. Bush
Former President of the United States
Prize Ceremony Keynote Address (1998) (pdf)
Mayra Buvinic
World Bank – Sector Director, Gender, Development, Poverty
Gender and the Millennium Development Goals (2005) (pdf)
Kevin Cahill, M.D.
President, Center for International Health and Cooperation
Training a New Generation for Humanitarian Crises (1999) (pdf)
Melvin Cheatham, M.D., FACS
Samaritan’s Purse
North Korea: An Unseen, but Vulnerable Population (2005) (pdf)
Lincoln C. Chen, M.D.
Director, Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University
Expanding the Humanitarian Space: Challenge for Global Philanthropy (2003) (pdf)
Joaquim Alberto Chissano
Former President of Mozambique, Chairman of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation
Symposium Keynote Address: Aid, Governance, and Development (2008) (pdf)
Anwarul Karim Chowdhury
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
Culture of Peace and Human Development (2000) (pdf)
Helena Cobban
Author, "The Moral Architecture of World Peace"
Whose Justice? What Justice? (2000) (pdf)
Julius E. Coles
Paul Collier, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, Oxford University
Connecting Firms in the Bottom Billion to Markets (2008) (pdf)
Sam Daley-Harris
Founder of RESULTS, Inc. and Executive Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign
Reaching the Poorest Through Microcredit: A Breakthrough for all of Development (2004) (pdf)
John Danilovich
Ambassador and CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Democracy and Development: The MCC Effect (2006) (pdf)
MCC: Changing Development Assistance to Better Reach the Bottom Billion (2008) (pdf)
Nils Daulaire
President and CEO, Global Health Council
The Fundamental Right: a Healthy Life (2006) (pdf)
Susan Davis
President & CEO, BRAC USA; Vice President, Ashoka
How Social Entrepreneurship Is Changing the World (2007) (pdf)
Francis M. Deng, LL.B., LL.M., J.S.D.
Former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons; Brookings-Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Project on Internal Displacement
Creating Opportunities in Crisis (1999) (pdf)
Divided Nations: The Role of the International Community in Protecting Vulnerable Populations (2004) (pdf)
Sudan—A Nation in Turbulence in Search of Itself (2005) (pdf)
Kemal Derviş
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Democracy, Development and Economic Governance (2006) (pdf)
Arthur E. (Gene) Dewey
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Developing Tools for Transition (2004) (pdf)
Collaboration: Evolving Roles – Military (1998) (pdf)
Bineta Diop
Executive Director, Femmes Africa Solidarité
Why Is Gender Still Not on the Peace and Security Agenda in Africa? (2005) (pdf)
Paula Dobriansky
United States Under Secretary of State, Democracy and Global Affairs
The Role of Democracy in Development (2006) (pdf)
William Easterly
Professor of Economics (Joint with Africa House), Co-Director of Development Research Institute, New York University
The Case for Economic Rights: Without Apologies (2006) (pdf)
Jan Egeland
Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo
A Billion Lives—Report From the Frontlines (2008) (pdf)
Dr. Christopher J. Elias, M.D., M.P.H.
President and CEO, PATH
Open Dialogoue on Future Trends in Global Health (2009) (pdf)
Paul Faeth
President, Global Water Challenge
Innovative Financial Models for Community Water and Sanitation Programs (2009) (pdf)
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Director, Infectious Disease and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; Co-founder, Partners in Health
Globalization and the Plagues of the Poor (2002) (pdf)
William H. Foege, M.D., M.P.H.
Chairman of the Global Health Council and Senior Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Open Dialogue on Future Trends in Global Health (2009) (pdf)
Health Lessons: Learned and Relearned (2004) (pdf)
Lynn C. Fritz
Director General and Founder, Fritz Institute and Co-chair of the Disaster Response Network of the World Economic Forum
Private Sector Expertise Can Stretch Resources (2004) (pdf)
Helene Gayle
President and CEO, CARE
Partnering for Change: Philanthropy for Sustainable Development (2007) (pdf)
Jonathan Greenblatt
Founder, Ethos™ Water
Ethos Water and the Imperative of Ethical Brands (2007) (pdf)
Martin Griffiths
Director, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
The Prevention of Conflict: A Humanitarian Objective (2000) (pdf)
T. Jeremy Gunn, Ph.D., J.D.
Executive Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
State Sovereignty and Humanitarian Crises (1999) (pdf)
Roy Gutman
Director, Crimes of War Project, American University; State Department/International Security Correspondent, Newsday
Humanitarian Law: Guidepost for a New World Order? (1999) (pdf)
Tim Hanstad
President and CEO, Rural Development Institute
40 Years, 40 Countries, 400 Million Heroes (2007) (pdf)
Ameerah Haq
Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP
Poverty and Conflict: the Challenge of Building Resilient Societies (2002) (pdf)
Pamela Hartigan
Founding Partner of Volans Ventures and author of “The Power of Unreasonable People”
Celebrating Unreasonable People (2008) (pdf)
Hans R. Herren, Ph.D.
President, Millennium Institute
Noeleen Heyzer, Ph.D.
Executive Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Human Security Through Women’s Eyes (2003) (pdf)
Sir John Holmes
U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs & Emergency Relief Coordinator
Making Hope Happen—Challenges in Providing Humanitarian Assistance (2007) (pdf)
His Excellency Lee Hong-Koo
Former Prime Minister of South Korea
Korea: The Last Chapter in the History of the Cold War (2000) (pdf)
Michael Hopkins, Ph.D.
CEO and Chairman of MHC International Ltd.
The International Dimension of CSR and its Impact on the Bottom Billion (2008) (pdf)
Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University and President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute
Combating the Neglected Tropical Diseases (2008) (pdf)
Bob Francis Jalang'o
Former Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations
Opportunities for Africa in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (2003) (pdf)
Zahir Jamal
Chief of Regional Programmes in the Arab States, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Righting Human Wrongs: the First Arab Human Development Report (2003) (pdf)
Philip Johnston
Quincy Jones
Lee Jong-wook, M.D., M.P.H.
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Prize Ceremony Keynote Address (2004) (pdf)
Ban Ki-moon
Jim Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Director, HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization
Injecting Pace and Rhythm to the Millennium Development Goals (2005) (pdf)
Rene Kosirnik, LL.B., MALD
Deputy Director, International Law and Communications, International Committee of the Red Cross
How to Best Protect War Victims by Humanitarian Law or by Human Rights (1999) (pdf)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Prize Ceremony Keynote Address (2003) (pdf)
Colonel Annette Leijenaar
Chief, Training Unit, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
The Military's Role in Creating Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation (2000) (pdf)
Reynold Levy
President, International Rescue Committee
Collaboration: Survival Strategy for the Future? (1998) (pdf)
Jo Luck
President and CEO, Heifer International
Hilton Prize Laureates: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts (2009) (pdf)
William P. Magee, Jr., D.D.S., M.D.
Co-Founder and CEO, Operation Smile
Hilton Prize Laureates: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts (2009) (pdf)
John Maresca
President, Business Humanitarian Forum
Harnessing the Positive Potential of the Private Sector (2005) (pdf)
Carolyn McAskie
Emergency Relief Coordinator, a.i., Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations
Humanitarian Action and Efforts Toward Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation (2000) (pdf)
Monica McWilliams
Member of the Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly
The Dynamics of Peace Building: Untangling the Consequences of Conflict (2000) (pdf)
Molly Melching
Founder and Director of Tostan
Hilton Prize Laureates: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts (2009) (pdf)
Human Rights Education: The First Step to Health (2004) (pdf)
Larry Minear
Director, Humanitarianism and War Project, Brown University
Priority Setting in Ethical Dilemmas (1998) (pdf)
Richard Morford
Managing Director, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Millennium Challenge Account and the Millennium Development Goals (2005) (pdf)
Andrew S. Natsios
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Moral Dilemmas of Humanitarian Assistance (2002) (pdf)
Alberto Navarro
Director, European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), European Commission
ECHO, The Human Face of the European Union (1999) (pdf)
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
Chair, King Hussein Foundation
Conference Keynote Address (2002) (pdf)
Prize Ceremony Keynote Address (2000) (pdf)
José Antonio Ocampo, Ph.D.
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
The Global Challenge of Inequality (2006) (pdf)
Olara Otunnu
Former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
Ending Wars Against Children (2005) (pdf)
Symposium Keynote Address (1999) (pdf)
Todd Petersen
Chief Executive Officer, HelpAge International
Reaching Those in Greatest Need? Current Realities, Future Trends (2003) (pdf)
Giandomenico "Gianni" Picco
Chairman and CEO, GDP Associates, Inc.
There Is Properly No History; Only Biographies (2000) (pdf)
Roy Prosterman
President, Rural Development Institute
Land Reform: A Neglected, Yet Essential Antidote to Global Poverty (2002) (pdf)
Steven Radelet
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
The Changing Face of U.S. Foreign Assistance (2007) (pdf)
Dr. Mamphela Ramphele
Managing Director, The World Bank
The Human Face of the Global Community (2000) (pdf)
Dr. Joe Riverson
Medical Specialist, World Vision
Transforming Lives of the Poor—World Vision Experience (2002) (pdf)
Mary Robinson
Executive Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative; former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and, former President of Ireland
Human Rights and Human Security (2003) (pdf)
Prize Ceremony Keynote Address (1999) (pdf)
Judith Rodin
President, Rockefeller Foundation
Putting Philanthropy to Work for Women and Women to Work for Philanthropy (2009) (pdf)
Paul Rusesabagina
Founder, Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation
From Rwanda to Darfur: The Past Repeating the Present? (2005) (pdf)
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals
Ending Global Poverty (2003) (pdf)
Two-way Videoconference with a Question and Answer Session (2005) (pdf)
Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D.
Author, “Understanding Terror Networks” and Clinical Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Understanding the Al Qaeda Network (2004) (pdf)
Zainab Salbi
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Women for Women International
Women, the Key to Winning the Peace (2004) (pdf)
David J. Scheffer
Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State
The Unfinished Agenda of International Justice (2000) (pdf)
Robert A. Seiple
Chairman and Founder, Institute for Global Engagement
Religion: the Little Girl with the Curl (2003) (pdf)
Sovereign vs. Sovereignty – Role of Religion in Humanitarian Intervention (1999) (pdf)
Conference Keynote Address (1998) (pdf)
Amartya Sen, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics and Lamont University Professor at Harvard University
Health and Global Security (2004) (pdf)
Ritu Sharma, M.P.H.
Executive Director, Women's EDGE
Closing the GAP: A Gender Action Plan (2002) (pdf)
Karen Sherman
Executive Director for Global Programs, Women for Women International
Hilton Prize Laureates:Greater Than the Sum of the Parts (2009) (pdf)
Matthias Stiefel
Executive Director, WSP International
Mending Relationships, Restoring Faith, Dignity, and Trust (2000) (pdf)
Juergen Stoerk
President, Peace Brigades International
Protecting Human Rights: the Role of International Accompaniment (2000) (pdf)
Ousmane Sy
Director, Centre for Political and Institutional Expertise in Africa
Governance in Africa—Stakes and Perspectives (2006) (pdf)
Julia Taft
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, U.S. State Department
Geopolitical Impact of Population Shifts (1998) (pdf)
Colin Thomas-Jensen
Advocacy and Research Officer for Africa, International Crisis Group
When Theory Meets the Janjaweed (2005) (pdf)
Vanessa Tobin
UNICEF- Chief of Water; Environment / Sanitation Section
Reaching the MDGs for Water and Sanitation: Targeting the Poorest and Most Vulnerable (2005) (pdf)
Michael Toole, M.D.
Head, International Health Unit, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research
Emerging Threats (1998) (pdf)
Ivan Vejvoda
Executive Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy
A Novel Approach To Democracy Promotion (2006) (pdf)
Ann Veneman
Melanne Verveer
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. State Department
Putting Philanthropy to Work for Women and Women to Work for Philanthropy (2009) (pdf)
Sergio Vieira de Mello
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations
Towards Rights-Based Humanitarian Action: The Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (1999) (pdf)
Foreign Policy Considerations (1998) (pdf)
George F. Ward, Jr.
Former Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance in the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), Iraq
Civil-Military Cooperation—An Impossible Dream? (2003) (pdf)
Tom Watson
Chief Strategy Officer, Changing Our World, Inc.
The Facebook Generation: Their Impact on the Future of Philanthropy (2007) (pdf)
Roy Williams
Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, Bureau for Humanitarian Response, USAID
Conference Rapporteur (1998) (pdf)
Timothy Wirth
President, United Nations Foundation
Role of Governments vs. Private Sector (1998) (pdf)
Linda Tsao Yang
U.S. Executive Director, Asian Development Bank
Development Aid: Opportunities for Social Change (1998) (pdf)
Muhammad Yunus
Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank
Open Dialogoue on Future Trends in Global Health (2009) (pdf)
Information Technology Can Help the Poor Move Out of Poverty (2002) (pdf)
Ernesto Zedillo, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University
International Cooperation in 2005: Half Full or Half Empty Glass? (2005) (pdf)
