The Clough Colloquium Series* recognizes individuals who have made important contributions as ethical leaders in their fields and calls upon them to share what they have learned on their journey to becoming leaders through symposia, conferences and public events.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
4:30pm, Heights Room, Corcoran Commons
Alex Counts, President and CEO, Grameen Foundation and author, "Small Loans, Big Dreams."
Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization focused on enabling the poor to create a world without poverty, utilizing the tools of microfinance and technology. He trained under and worked closely with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, and the co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. | Past Speakers |
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Dr. Francis Collins, Former Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and Author, "The Language of God"
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. led the successful effort to complete the Human Genome Project, a complex multidisciplinary scientific enterprise directed at mapping and sequencing all of the human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. Watch Video
Cynthia Cooper,WorldCom Whistle Blower and 2002 Time Person of the Year
In 2002, Ms. Cooper and her team identified the corporate fraud at WorldCom – to date the largest corporate fraud in history. As a result of her efforts, in 2002 she was named one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year. She is also the author of Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower.
FW de Klerk, former president of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
F. W. de Klerk was state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. He pointed his country in a new direction and was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end apartheid (an official policy that virtually eliminated black African participation in government in South Africa). Watch Video |
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Janet L. Robinson
CEO, The New York Times Publishing Co.
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Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns ’78
"America's Challenge of Global Leadership in the 21st Century"
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David McCullough
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The BC Chronicle
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General Anthony Zinni (Ret.)
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*The Clough Colloquium Series is made possible through the generosity of Charles I. Clough, Jr. ’64 and Gloria Clough CGSON ’96.
