"Making Private Capital Work for the Poor "
with Sir Mark Malloch Brown
Monday, October 1, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
Mark Malloch Brown joined Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Cabinet in June, 2007. His  ministerial responsibilities include working with nations in Africa and Asia as well as the UN, and advising the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on human rights and other global issues. As former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Malloch Brown was also a leader of the Millennium Development Project, whose twelve point agenda seeks to eradicate world poverty by 2015. The Millennium Development Project serves as the world's time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions--income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion--while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. These goals also seek to provide basic human rights, including the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter, and security.
Sir Mark Malloch Brown’s previous posts have included work at the World Bank and the UN High Commission for Refugees. He holds a number of honorary degrees and prizes, including appearing on Time Magazine’s 2005 list of the world’s 100 most influential people; he was knighted in 2007.
This lecture series honors Frank Porter Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, 1930-1949, and United States Senator, 1949-1950. “Dr Frank,” perhaps more than any other person, defined education, culture, and politics in North Carolina in the twentieth century. Three of the enduring themes throughout Graham’s life were:
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a universal concern for those living in desperate conditions – the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, or the oppressed in body and spirit;
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an unflinching commitment to freedom of speech as the essence of a free University in a free society, a commitment grounded in the knowledge that when the despised speaker is denied a forum, democracy is threatened; and
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an abiding confidence and trust in the ability of students to play a responsible role in the affairs of the University.
This lecture series seeks to enshrine these parts of the legacy of Frank Porter Graham.
The Frank Porter Graham Lecture Series is made possible by a generous gift to the University by Taylor McMillan ’60.
Sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, the Center for Global Initiatives, Carolina Performing Arts, the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Public Policy Majors Union, the Roosevelt Institute, and the Department of Public Policy.
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