Recorded at Iowa State University on October 13, 2004. Title from Lectures website.
Summary:
"Catherine Bertini is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Management. She served for 10 years as Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, the world's largest international humanitarian agency. Ms. Bertini is credited with assisting hundreds of millions of victims of wars and natural disasters throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This includes her efforts to end famine in North Korea; averting starvation in Afghanistan by delivering enormous amounts of urgently needed food aid in 2001; ensuring the provision of food supplies during the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo; and in 2000, averting the mass starvation that threatened 16 million people in the Horn of Africa. She was named the World Food Prize Laureate in 2003."--Lectures website.
Series:
[University lecture series / Iowa State University ; 2004]
OCLC:
(OCoLC)828151091
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
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