OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
| Tuesday, 17 NOVEMBER |
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Session Start/End Time: 09:00 - 10:30 |
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Keynote speaker:
Dr. Judith Rodin,
President, Rockefeller Foundation |
ON-DEMAND WEBCAST AND PRESENTATION |
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 Judith Rodin - English | Judith Rodin - French
 D0WNLOAD SPEECH
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| Dr. Judith Rodin is the Rockefeller Foundation’s 12th president. She was previously president of the University of Pennsylvania, the first woman to lead an Ivy League institution, and provost of Yale University. Since joining the Foundation in 2005, Dr. Rodin recalibrated its focus for the 21st century. Today, the Foundation supports and shapes innovations to ensure that more people can access globalization’s benefits and strengthen resilience to risks, affirming its pioneering philanthropic mission since 1913 to “promote the well-being†of humanity. Dr. Rodin is the author of more than 200 academic articles and wrote or co-wrote 12 books, including her most recent, The University & Urban Renewal: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets. |
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Opening keynote