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Venue: Council on Foreign Relations - New York, NY Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, discusses the role of microcredit in fighting poverty. Dr. Yunus founded the bank with the objective of helping poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound principles of finances so they can help themselves.
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Venue: Books Inc. - San Francisco, CA Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard discusses Tough Choices, telling her own story, along with her unique perspective on leadership, technology, globalization, and sexism. Carly Fiorina was president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 and chairman from 2000 to 2005. Before joining HP, she spent nearly twenty years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies.
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Venue: World Affairs Council of Northern California - San Francisco, CA Joseph Stiglitz's new book, "Making Globalization Work," is an imaginative and, above all, practical vision for a successful and equitable world. Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was the chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001.
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Venue: World Affairs Council of Oregon - Portland, OR A global cooperative owned by its 184 member countries, The World Bank provides $20 billion annually in loans, grants, and technical assistance to low and middle income countries. Jennifer Dorn is the U.S. Executive Director to the Board of The World Bank Group in Washington DC. She represents the US government as the largest shareholder of the Board of Directors.
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Venue: Cody's Books - San Francisco, CA In 1998, John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft when he took a vacation that changed his life. What started as a trekking holiday in Nepal became a spiritual journey, and then a mission: to change the world one book and one child at a time. John's career at Microsoft spanned 1991 to 1999, where he ran significant parts of Microsoft's international business.
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