SAMANTHA Power, a former US Ambassador to the United Nations and key adviser to former US President Barack Obama, will deliver a keynote address at this year’s virtual global leadership conference run by Belfast-based social enterprise body CO3.
Ambassador Power, who was the US’s representative at the UN between 2013 and 2017, is currently a Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School and has remained a vocal and high-profile supporter of the Democratic Party in the US since she left office.
Raised in Ireland until the age of nine, when her family emigrated to the US, she has spoken fondly of her Irish roots and is a regular visitor.
Beginning her career as a war journalist, reporting from regions like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan and Zimbabwe, she is widely considered to be one of the US’s leading and most well-respected experts on foreign policy.
Ambassador Power’s keynote address is titled “The Education of an Idealist: A Conversation with Ambassador Power” and will explore her career in the White House and at the heart of US government, as well as her insights into this November’s Presidential election.
The CO3 leadership conference and awards, which takes place virtually this year, will take place over two days on Thursday and Friday September 24 & 25.
With the theme “Leading Forward: Can a better society emerge?”, sessions will focus on leading through crisis, the power of high-impact leadership teams, building trusting partnerships, and building back better post-Covid.
Other keynote speakers include Emma Revie, chief executive of the UK’s largest network of food banks, the Trussell Trust; comedian and actress Rosie Jones, who lives with cerebral palsy and campaigns for greater representation of disability in the media and on television and stage; and Brendan Hall, who skippered a racing yacht in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 2009 and now speaks globally to organisations about positively developing their own internal culture.
Each delegate will receive a copy of Ambassador Power’s best-selling book ‘The Education of an Idealist’ as part of their delegate pass. To register and for more information, visit http://www.co3.bz/event/virtual-global-leadership-conference-2020.
