"The Life You Can Save" discussed on March 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM in I1-200

A Joint Event by the InfoShop and the Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University:
Mr. Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton
University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than
thirty books, including Animal Liberation, widely considered to be
the founding statement of the animal rights movement, Practical
Ethics, One World: Ethics and Globalization, and The Life You Can
Save.

CHAIR
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi is Vice President of the World Bank?s Human Development
Network in Washington. D.C. She also chairs the Geneva-based
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and sits on the
Advisory Panel for the Bill and Melinda Gates Global Health Program.
Before joining the World Bank in February 2007, Ms. Phumaphi served
as Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health at the
World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, and represented the World
Health Organization on the Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines
and Immunizations (GAVI). From 1994-2003, Ms. Phumaphi served
variously as a Member of Parliament, a Cabinet Minister with
responsibility for lands and housing?in the course of which she
developed Botswana?s first national housing policy?and Minister for
Health. During her tenure as Minister, Ms. Phumaphi restructured the
health ministry to make it more focused on results and on
implementing HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services.

DISCUSSANT
Quentin Wodon
Adviser, Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics, Human
Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Wodon is the Adviser for the Development Dialogue on Values and
Ethics in the Human Development Network at the World Bank. After
completing business and engineering studies, Mr. Wodon worked for
the Belgian Foreign Trade Office and Procter & Gamble. In 1988, he
decided to leave a business career to work on poverty by joining the
volunteer corps of a grassroots and advocacy NGO. He joined the
World Bank ten years ago and now leads the World Bank's work on
issues related to faith, ethics, and development.

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