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Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture with Rena Lee and Jan Egeland
On 16 September Rena Lee, Singapore’s Ambassador for International Law, and Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, will each give the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture in Uppsala. The lectures are open to the public.
Journalists who want to reserve a seat in the Grand Auditorium should contact Uppsala University’s press office via press@uu.se or + 46 70-167 92 96.
The Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture is an annual event held in memory of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the values for which he stood in his work: compassion, humanism and international solidarity and collaboration.
Rena Lee is Singapore’s Ambassador for International Law and the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. She led the complex multi-year UN negotiations that resulted in the Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement in 2023, to safeguard marine biological diversity in the high seas that no country owns or controls, and which cover 45 per cent of the Earth.
Rena Lee's lecture is entitled ‘From Sea to Shore: Multilateralism and the Value of International Law’.
Jan Egeland is Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council. He has previously served as Under-Secretary-General of the UN and Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). He has also served as a diplomat and as State Secretary at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Jan Egeland’s lecture is entitled ‘The Lesson from Hammarskjöld for Conflict Resolution Today’.
More information:
https://www.daghammarskjold.se/event/the-dag-hammarskjold-lecture-2023-2024/
Time: 16 September, 17:00 –18:00
Venue: The Grand Auditorium, The University Main Building, Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala.
The lecture and subsequent discussion will be held in English.
Journalists who want to reserve a seat in the Grand Auditorium should contact Uppsala University’s press office via press@uu.se or + 46 70-167 92 96.
The Dag Hammarskjöld lectures are organised by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation https://www.daghammarskjold.se/and Uppsala University. The lecture is arranged in collaboration with the students’ associations Uppsala Association of International Affairs and Pax et Bellum.
About Dag Hammarskjöld: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/history/nobel-prizes/dag-hammarskjold
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