Stephen Lewis
Thursday, October 20, 2005
8:00 p.m.
Ramada Marlborough Conference Centre, 330 Garry Street
Tickets available through TicketMaster:
$17.55 for general admission, $11.70 for students.
Stephen Lewis’s determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider’s perspective on our ongoing failure to help. Lewis is the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, a commissioner of the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation (www.stephenlewisfoundation.org).
His extensive experience as a politician, diplomat, and humanitarian includes tenures as Canadian ambassador to the UN, special advisor on Africa to the UN Secretary-General, and deputy executive director of UNICEF. He was named by Maclean’s magazine as the 2003 “Canadian of the Year” and one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005 by TIME magazine.
The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by CBC Radio, House of Anansi Press, and Massey College in the University of Toronto. The Winnipeg lecture is co-sponsored by The University of Winnipeg.
