2008 L'Hommedieu Visiting Lecturer
Series
Barbara Krumsiek '74
President & CEO, Calvert Group, Ltd.
"Advancing Women and Minorities in Business"
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, Douglass College Center
Barbara Krumsiek '74 is one of the financial services
industry's highest-ranking female executives. Join us as she delivers
the 2008 L'Hommedieu Lecture on March 26, 2008, at Douglass College
Center in Trayes Hall (100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ) at
7:00 p.m.
Krumsiek's career in the investment industry spans three decades.
She is CEO and President of Calvert Group, Ltd. where she has been
active in global initiatives focused on encouraging corporations
to adopt sustainable business practices.
In 2004, with the support of the United Nations Development
Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Calvert created the Calvert Women's Principles,
a code of corporate conduct focusing on gender equality and women's
empowerment. The Principles are the first global code of corporate
conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing, and investing
in women worldwide.
Graduating Phi Beta Kappa with honors from Douglass
College, Krumsiek received a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and
a masters degree in mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, New York University. She was inducted into The Douglas
Society and the Rutgers University Alumni Federation Hall of Distinguished
Alumni.
The L'Hommedieu Lecture concludes a free daylong symposium
Women in the Era of Globalization: Women in Business from 9:30 a.m.
to 3:00 p.m. at the Douglass College Center. Symposium sessions
will focus on the topics of microcredit, social entrepreneurship,
negotiation, and women in small business.
The annual Frances B. L'Hommedieu Visiting Lecturer
Series hosts a distinguished visitor annually. The lecture series
began in 1984 in honor of Frances Bradley L'Hommedieu, a 1926 graduate.
Visiting lecturers meet with our students and faculty during the
day and deliver a free public lecture for alumnae and friends in
the evening.
Lecturers have included Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Frank McCourt; Doris Kearns Goodwin, political commentator, author,
and former special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson; renowned
primatologist Jane Goodall; Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland;
Carolyn G. Heilbrun, renowned humanities professor and author; Jill
Ker Conway, former president of Smith College; and Charlayne Hunter-Gault,
national correspondent for "The Lehrer News Hour." Other
speakers have included the Honorable Helen Suzman, Patricia Schroeder,
Sir Stephen Spender, Doctors Without Borders nurse Mary Lightfine,
Margarita Papandreou, renowned child psychologist Sylvia Barkan
Rimm '57, Dr. Antonia Coello Novello, Commissioner of Health of
the State of New York, and former Surgeon General, and fomer White
House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers.
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