EU Commissioner Wallström to speak at Foreign Policy Association

The Foreign Policy Association invites you to attend a lecture on "Europe at a turning point?"

Speaker: Margot Wallström
Vice President, European Commission

Presider: Gonzalo de Las Heras
Chairman, Foreign Policy Association
Director General, Grupo Santander

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007

Location: Grupo Santander
45 East 53rd Street (Park & Madison Avenue)

Time: Registration/5:30 pm Lecture/6:00 pm Reception/7:00pm
Admission: FPA Member - Free
Guest of FPA member - $15.00; OTR Member - $15.00
Non-member - $25.00; Student with ID - $5.00

Advanced registration is required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. After 6pm, seating will be released to the waiting list

Register online today: www.fpa.org
Or call: 212-481-8100, ext. 240

About Commissioner Wallström
Margot Wallström was born on 28 September 1954 in Sweden. She entered politics shortly after graduating from high school in 1973. She worked as an Ombudsman for the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League. In 1979, she was elected as a Member of the Swedish Parliament. Her ministerial career began in 1988 when she was appointed as Minister of Civil Affairs - Consumer Affairs, Woman and Youth (1988-1991). She later served as Minister of Culture (1994-1996) and Social Affairs (1996-1998). In 1998, she retired from Swedish politics to become Executive Vice-President of Worldview Global Media - a NGO based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The following year she as appointed as Member of the European Commission, under President Romano Prodi, and given responsibility for EU environmental policy. In 2004, when the Barroso Commission took office, she became Commission Vice President with responsibility for Inter-institutional Relations and Communication. Margot Wallström has received honorary doctors from Chalmers University, Sweden, Mälardalen University, Sweden and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. In 2002, She was voted "Commissioner of the Year" by the European Voice news paper. She was the first Commissioner to publish a web-log in which she comments on recent political developments.

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