Musimbi Kanyoro - Public Appearances

Public Appearances

Musimbi Kanyoro appears regularly at various international forums. She was a speaker at the Wachovia's Leadership Program, Conference for Women in Charlotte North Carolina where the Liberia's President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf gave the keynote address.

Dr. Kanyoro Signed together with UNICEF ED the Memorandum of Understanding with UNICEF, committing the World YWCA and UNICEF to working together on country programs to improve the lives of women and girls.

She recently spoke to the United National General Assembly and was a plenary speaker at the International AIDS Conference and chaired the largest panel on women and AIDS.

In October 2008 she was the Inaugural Nelson Mandela Lecturer at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre

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