The President of the UN General Assembly, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, is expected to deliver a lecture hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations Ghana, CFR-Ghana on Friday May 10 at the Accra International Conference Centre.
She will speak on the topic, “Responding to global challenges in a fast changing world”. Her address will also look at important issues facing societies in the 21st century, such as automisation and the future of work, cyber security, globalisation, reform of the UN General Assembly, the Security Council and multilateral rules as well as the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs.
Ms. Espinosa is the third speaker of the Distinguished Speakers Series of CFR-Ghana, an independent, non-governmental and non-profit foreign affairs think tank.
In June 2018, Ms. Espinosa became the fourth woman to be elected to the Presidency of the General Assembly. She has more than 20-year experience in international negotiations, defence, gender equality and sustainable development. She was Special Adviser to the President of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 2008 constitution of Ecuador. Before taking up politics and diplomacy, she was an academic and researcher, with post graduate qualifications in Social Sciences, Amazonian Studies, Anthropology and Political Science.
