Session I
Topic: The Economy: Conflicting Theories, Collaborating Solutions…Connecting the Dots
February 2010
Dallas, Texas
Session II
Topic: Health Care: Prescriptions for what Ails us
May 2010
Miami, Florida
Session III
Topic: Education: The Virtual Learning Environment – The Walls are Falling Down
Boston, Massachusetts
September 2010
International Session
Dubai
September 2010 (Following Session III)
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For this week's spotlight we are focusing on a speaker that will share her insight on global leadershipand share with the class her personal leadership journey.
Margot Wallström is currently the First Vice-President of the European Commission, which is the executive branch for the European Union. Before taking up this position she worked for five years as EU Environment Commissioner.
She has had a long career in politics and served as a Member of Swedish Parliament 1979-1985.Her ministerial career began in 1988 when she was appointed as Minister of Civil Affairs to be followed by a position as Minister of Culture and then Minister of Social Affairs. In 1998, she retired from Swedish politics to become Executive Vice-President of Worldview Global Media – an NGO based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The following year, 1999, she was appointed Member of the European Commission, under President Romano Prodi, and responsible for EU environmental policy. During her mandate she developed the EU strategy and action programme for Sustainable Development with a main focus on human health, chemicals, biodiversity and climate change. She effectively mothered REACH which is a rigorous EU regulation on chemicals.
Wallström was also instrumental in concluding the ratification process of the Kyoto protocol. In 2004, when the Barroso Commission took office, she was appointed first Vice-President responsible for Inter-institutional Relations and Communication. Margot Wallström has received several honorary doctorates and awards for her work on Sustainable Development and Climate Change. She has done extensive work to endorse an EU-Africa partnership on renewable energy, champion equal opportunities and to further the CSR agenda in Europe.
Since 2001 Wallström is the honorary chair of the Business Leaders Initiative on Climate Change (BLICC). In this capacity she has developed an initiative on climate change called Road to Copenhagen together with Mary Robinson and Gro Harlem Brundtland (Club of Madrid).
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