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Speaker’s Biographies

Speaker Biography Danilo Türk President of Danilo Türk (1952) has a BA in Law from the University of (2007-2012) in 1975, an MA from the University of Belgrade Club de Madrid President (1978), and a PhD from the University of Ljubljana. In 1983 he became Director of the Institute on International Law at the University of Ljubljana. He was member of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, a UN body of independent experts. In that capacity he served, in 1986- 1992, as the UN Special Rapporteur on the realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In 996-1997 he also served as member of the Human Rights Committee. In 1990-1991 he took part in the drafting of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia by preparing the draft chapter of the Constitution related to human rights and fundamental freedoms. From 1992 to 2000, Mr. Türk was the first Slovene Permanent Representative to the UN in New York and represented Slovenia on the UN Security Council in 1998 - 1999. In 2000 he was invited by Mr. Kofi Annan, the then Secretary –General of the UN, to serve as UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs (2000 – 20005). In 2005 he returned to Slovenia as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. In 2007 he was elected President of the Republic of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. He became member of the Club de Madrid in 2013. In 2016 he was one of the candidates for the post of the Secretary-General of the UN. In 2015-2017 he chaired the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace which published its report "A Matter of Survival" at the end of 2017.

Aminata Touré Prime Minister of Senegal Aminata Touré served as Prime Minister of Senegal (2013-2014) between 2013 and until July 2014. She was the second Club de Madrid Member woman to become PM of Senegal. Previously she served her country has Minister of Justice from 2012 to 2013. Aminata Touré is the Special Envoy of President Macky Sall for Internal and External Affairs. She is currently President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Senegal.

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Her areas of competence include Economy, Good Governance and Gender. Before launching a political career in Senegal, Aminata Touré worked as Director for the Gender and Human Rights World at the United Nations Population Fund.

Aminata Touré holds a PhD in International Business Administration and Finance from the International School of Management ISM in New York and Paris and a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Dijon Business School (France).

She is fluent in English, French and Wolof and has more than 30 UNFPA worldwide publications credited to her name.

Kjell Magne Bondevik Prime Minister of Bondevik was born in , Norway in 1947. He entered (1997-2000; 2001-2005) the Norwegian School of Theology in 1975, and was Club de Madrid Member ordained as a pastor in the Lutheran in 1979.

Bondevik served as a member of Stortinget (Parliament of Norway) for the County of Møre og Romsdal from 1973- 2005, representing the Christian Democratic Party and being a part of the Young Christian Democrats movement. In 1983, he was appointed as Minister of Church Affairs and Education, where he would serve until 1986. In the meantime, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister to Prime Minister Kåre Willoch in 1985, a task that he fulfilled until 1986. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 until 1990.

He served as his party’s parliamentary leader from 1981- 1983, 1986-1989, 1993-1997, and 2000-2001

Kjell Magne Bondevik was elected Prime Minister in 1997, in a coalition consisting of the Christian Democratic Party, the and the .

He was appointed Prime Minister again in October 2001 heading a coalition government between the Christian Democratic Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party, and he served until 2005.

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After his political career, he founded The Oslo Center in 2006. He is currently the Executive Chairman of the Center.

He is also an Honorary Member of The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

He joined the Club de Madrid in 2005, ratified by the IV General Assembly.

Sanjay Reddy Associate Professor of Sanjay G. Reddy is an Associate Professor of Economics at Economics at the New The New School for Social Research. He is an Affiliated School for Social Research Faculty Member of the Politics Department of the New School for Social Research and a research associate of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in applied mathematics with physics from Harvard University. He has previously taught at Columbia University, and been a visitor at diverse academic institutions in India, Europe and the US.

He has held fellowships from the Center for Ethics, the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University, the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, the Justitia Amplificata program of the Goethe University of Frankfurt and Free University of Berlin and, and the Advanced Research Collaborative of the City University of New York. He has received research support from various sources including the inaugural grants program of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

He is a member of the Independent High-level Team of Advisers to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on the longer-term positioning of the UN Development System (in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development). He is one of the co- founders and team leaders of the Global Consumption and Income Project. He has been a member of the advisory panel of the UNDP's Human Development Report, the UN Statistics Division's Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics and the advisory board of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He was elected a Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. He is or has been a member of the editorial advisory

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boards of the American Review of Political Economy, Development, Ethics & International Affairs, the European Journal of Development Research, Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, Humanity, the Journal of Globalization and Development, the Review of Agrarian Studies, the Review of Income and Wealth and was Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. He is a lead author of the International Panel on Social Progress. He was previously Co-Academic Director of the India China Institute at the New School.

Andrea Ordoñez Director of Southern Voice Andrea Ordóñez is Director of Southern Voice and has been part of the initiative since inception in 2012. She leads the implementation of the network strategy and programmes. She co-edited the book “Southern Perspectives on the Post-2015 International Development Agenda” with Debapriya Bhattacharya.

Her work focuses on better fostering better knowledge systems to support sustainable development. Andrea has developed research projects for the public sector and numerous international organizations.

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