Women in the World 2011 Agenda
Heroines from Somalia and Cambodia, CEOs from fashion and finance, political powerhouses from the White House to the UN, and many others bring their voices to this year's gathering. See the whole lineup.
Heroines from Somalia and Cambodia, CEOs from fashion and finance, political powerhouses from the White House to the UN, and many others bring their voices to this year's gathering. See the whole lineup. Plus: see photos and bios of every speaker and performer.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10th Hudson Theatre
6:30 PM
Welcome
• Tina Brown, Editor in Chief, Newsweek & The Daily Beast • Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Managing Director, World Bank • Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation • Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook • Diane von Furstenberg, Chairman and Founder, Diane von Furstenberg Studio L.P.
7:00 PM
Mayor Bloomberg Welcome
• Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, New York City
7:03 PM
Reading by: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Actress
7:05 PM
Firebrands: Pioneers in the New Age of Dissent
Brave women of the Middle East, their creative forms of protest, and the hopes they share for the change that today's turmoil will bring for the future of women's rights in the Arab world.
Moderated By: Christiane Amanpour, Anchor, This Week with Christiane Amanpour
• Wajeha H. Al-Huwaider, Saudi Arabian journalist and activist • Sussan Tahmasebi, Co-founder, International Civil Society Action Network for Women's Rights, Peace and Security and Co-Founder, One Million Signatures Campaign (Iran) • Dalia Ziada, Egyptian author and activist • Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO, Women for Women International
7:40 PM
A Conversation with Melinda French Gates
Interviewed By: Charlie Rose, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
• Melinda French Gates, Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Gallery Eight
Followed By Dinner And A Conversation With President Bill Clinton
Interviewed By: Tina Brown, Editor in Chief, Newsweek & The Daily Beast
• President Bill Clinton, Founder, William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States
FRIDAY, MARCH 11th Hudson Theatre
8:30 AM
Welcome
• Tina Brown, Editor in Chief, Newsweek & The Daily Beast
8:45 AM
Stealing Beauty
This segment explores the dreadful impact and root causes of acid attacks—a gender-based form of violence, and the impetus for adopting and implementing new and effective laws that regulate the availability of acid and provide victim with access to justice.
Note: This panel will contain graphic images.
Moderated By: Juju Chang, News Anchor, Good Morning America
• The Honorable Janet Bond Arterton, United States District Judge • Yem Chhuon, Acid violence survivor • Dr. Ebby Elahi, Surgeon and Director, The Virtue Foundation
9:15 AM
Ain't No Mountain High Enough: Reaching Beyond the Connected World
A conversation with two pioneers on their bold and creative missions to bring modern healthcare to remote regions in Africa and the developing world.
Moderated By: Cynthia McFadden, Co-Anchor, Nightline, ABC News
• Amy G. Lehman MD, MBA, Founder and Executive Director, Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic • Gabi Zedlmayer, Vice President, Global Social Innovation, Hewlett-Packard
9:40 AM
"No Such Thing": Trafficking of Girls in the United States
Across the United States, between 100,000 and 300,000 children, mostly girls between the ages of twelve and fourteen, are vulnerable to being sold for sex by their captors, traffickers, and pimps. And many fear for their lives if they attempt to flee.
Moderated By: Hon. Jeanine Pirro, TV Host, former District Attorney & Judge
• Introduced By Ashley Judd, Activist and actress • Sharon Cooper, MD, FAAP, CEO of Developmental and Forensic Pediatrics, P.A. • Doug Justus, Retired Portland Police Sergeant • Malika Saada Saar, Founder and Executive Director, The Rebecca Project for Human Rights
10:50 AM
Women on the Front Lines
From radio to video, photo and the written word, these women journalists put their lives and the lives of others on the line to expose truths from the female perspective. Note: This panel contains graphic content.
Moderated By: Sir Harold Evans, Author and Editor at Large, The Week
• Lynsey Addario, American photojournalist • Lydia Cacho, Journalist and author • Caroline Drees, Managing Editor, Middle East and Africa, Reuters • Chouchou Namegabe, Co-founder and coordinator, AFEM/SK
11:30 AM
Global Women on The Rise
In the last five years, the women’s movement has been fueled by economic issues; new studies show that empowering and education women improve GDP. And more and more corporations are investing in women to improve their bottom line. We talk with three women focused on accelerating the empowerment of women in the workplace, and who view the world’s women as a potent, new emerging market.
Moderated By: Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
• Divya Keshav, Owner, Krishna Printernational • Dina Habib Powell, President, Goldman Sachs Foundation and Global Head of Corporate Engagement • Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO, Women for Women International
12:00 PM
Making a "Must Have" Market
This event showcases the success of two female designers—and how they were helped through mentorship to expand from small local enterprises to medium-sized, self-sustaining business ventures.
Introduced By: Alyse Nelson, President and CEO, Vital Voices Global Partnership
Moderated By: Robin Givhan, Special Correspondent, Style and Culture, Newsweek & The Daily Beast
• Phelicia Dell, Designer and CEO, VeVe Collections • Debbie Farah, Founder and CEO, Bajalia International and Bajalia Trading Company • Rebecca Lolosoli, Matriarch, Umoja Uaso Women's Village • Diane von Furstenberg, Chairman and Founder, Diane von Furstenberg Studio L.P.
Gallery Eight
12:50 PM
Condoleezza Rice & Madeleine K. Albright: A Conversation
The two former Secretaries of State will highlight the importance and inherent challenges of positioning U.S. policy to support women's issues around the world.
Moderated By: Lesley Stahl, Correspondent, 60 Minutes
• Madeleine K. Albright, Former Secretary of State and Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group and Albright Capital Management, LLC • Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser and Professor of Political Economy, Stanford's Graduate School of Business
Hudson Theatre
2:10 PM
China: What Women Want
This discussion will focus on the changing goals, attitudes and behaviors of women in the world's fastest growing economy, both in the cities and in rural regions; and how they contrast and/or mirror those of their Western counterparts.
Moderated By: Charlie Rose, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
• Amy Chua, John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law, Yale University • Melinda Liu, Beijing Bureau Chief, Newsweek & The Daily Beast • Wendi Deng Murdoch, Co-CEO, Big Feet Productions
2:45 PM
Women | Tools | Technology: A Global Leapfrog
A showcase of ingenious technologies accelerating women's economic advancement.
Moderated By: Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green
• Pam Darwin, Vice President, Geoscience, ExxonMobil Production Company • Eva Walusimbi, Solar Sister, ExxonMobil partner and Ashoka's Changemaker • Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO
3:20 PM
Women and Power
A two-part exploration of women and power.First, some analysis of surprising recent data indicating that women across a range of disciplines are getting stuck below the top rung of management. Followed by a vibrant, positive, forward-leaning conversation with women who have broken through offering lessons and concrete advice on how to obtain power and lead.
I. The Marzipan Layer: Why Women Are Stuck in the Middle
A no-holds-barred examination as to why so few women, particularly in the United States, are reaching the top echelons of business, politics, media and public sectors.
Moderated By: Mika Brzezinski, Co-host, MSNBC's Morning Joe
• Cherie Blair, Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women • John Donahoe, President and CEO, eBay Inc. • Cheryl Mills, Counselor and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton • Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook
II. New Ways to Lead
Recipes for successful leadership from the career women who have made it to the top.
Moderated By: Mika Brzezinski, Co-host, MSNBC's Morning Joe
• Tina Brown, Editor in Chief, Newsweek & The Daily Beast • Kirsten Gillibrand, United States Senator, New York • Susan Lyne, Chairman, Gilt Groupe • Susan Sobbott, President, American Express OPEN
III. Creating the Next Generation of leaders
• Dr. Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania in conversation with Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green
5:30 PM
Live Saxophone with Matana Roberts
6:00 PM
Italian Women Fight Back
This segment looks at how Italian women—in politics, media and elsewhere—are saying 'Basta!' and closing the gender gap in their country.
Moderated By: Lesley Stahl, Correspondent, 60 Minutes
• Honourable Emma Bonino, Vice Chair, Italian Senate • Barbie Latza Nadeau, Italy correspondent, Newsweek & The Daily Beast • Violante Placido, Actress and Activist
6:30 PM
A heroine for our Times: Dr. Hawa Abdi
An interview with Dr. Hawa Abdi, who founded a health clinic on her family farm in Somalia where, now, more than 90,000 internally displaced people live peacefully in what has become a model civil society.
Moderated By: Tina Brown, Editor in Chief, Newsweek & The Daily Beast
• Dr. Hawa Abdi, MD, Founder of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation and HA Village • Eliza Griswold, Senior Fellow, The New American Foundation • Dr. Deqo Mohamed, OB-GYN, Doctor at Hawa Abdi Hospital • Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
7:00 PM
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
United Nations
8:00 PM
DVF Awards Dinner
Diane von Furstenberg hosts The DVF Awards, a celebration dinner to recognize and support women who are using their leadership, courage and strength to transform the lives of other women. The four nominees are Sohini Chakraborty (Kolkata Sanved) and Kakenya Ntaiya (The Kakenya Center of Excellence), Taryn Davis (American Widow Project) and Elizabeth Smart. Honorees receive $50,000 from the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation in support of their organization (U.S. 501c3) to further their work.
SATURDAY, MARCH 12TH Hudson Theatre
8:30 AM
Welcome
Tina Brown, Editor in Chief, Newsweek & The Daily Beast
8:45 AM
Aung San Suu Kyi
Alyse Nelson just returned from Burma and reports on her private visit with the Nobel Laureate.
Interviewed by: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
• Alyse Nelson, President and CEO, Vital Voices Global Partnership
9:00 AM
A Conversation with Michelle Bachelet: The First 100 Days of UN Women
Introduced By: Kathy Bushkin Calvin, CEO, United Nations Foundation
Interviewed By: Barbara Walters, Creator, Co-host and Executive Producer, ABC's The View and Correspondent, ABC News
• Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women
9:30 AM
If You Knew Me, You Would Care
Photos and Stories on Women in the Congo.
Moderated By: Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media
• Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO, Women for Women International
9:55 AM
The Multiculturalism Debate: Is Europe Stigmatizing the Veil?
The multiculturalism debate raging across Europe and the new French ban against the niqab.
Moderated By: Andrew Sullivan, Editor in Chief, The Daily Dish
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Author and Founder, AHA Foundation • Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations • Liesl Gerntholtz, Director, Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
10:50 AM
A Conversation with Dr. Nawal El Saadawi
Interviewed By: Robin Morgan, Author and activist
• Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer, activist, physician, psychiatrist
11:10 AM
Women and Media 3.0
• Tina Brown, Editor in Chief, Newsweek & The Daily Beast • Anna Holmes, Writer and Creator, Jezebel.com • Arianna Huffington, President and Editor in Chief, Huffington Post Media Group • Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO, MTV Networks • Deborah Roberts, ABC News Correspondent, 20/20
11:40 PM
Raising Strong Girls, Raising Strong Leaders
This program will explore the lives of American girls juxtaposed against the culture. The discussion will introduce a number of recent studies on the connection between organized sports and leadership and the impact of digital life upon girls' social and psychological development.
Moderated By: Juju Chang, News Anchor, Good Morning America
• Anita L. DeFrantz, President, Member of Board of Directors, LA84 Foundation and Member and Chairperson of the Women and Sport Commission, The International Olympic Committee • Rachel Simmons, Author & Co-Founder, Girls Leadership Institute • Elizabeth Smart, Student and Activist
12:05 PM
Presenting 10 X 10: 10 Girls. 10 Countries. 10 Writers. 10 Compelling Stories.
Introduced By: Juju Chang, News Anchor, Good Morning America
Research indicates that educating and empowering adolescent girls in the developing world is vital to breaking cycles of poverty. 10x10, an international action campaign, tells this urgent story and provides direct routes to action for individuals, corporations and global leaders interested in making a lasting impact on the lives of girls, their families, their communities, and their countries.
• Sokha Chen, Student, A New Day Cambodia • Tracy Middendorf, Actor, director, & activist
12:30 PM
Farewell from Tina Brown