How Foreign Ministries Promote Gen der Equality Globally
This event is intended for UBC student s and alumni only. Join this roundtable discussion with all-female Consul G enerals around how Foreign Ministries promote gender equality globally. Com e prepared with your questions!
Wednesday\, November 21
Noon – 1:30 pm
Liu Institute for Global Issues – Mul
tipurpose Room
Light refreshments offered.
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Our Speakers include:
Moderated by: Jillian S
tirk\, a retired member of the Canadian Foreign Service
Bio: An expert
in foreign policy and multilateral negotiations\, Jillian Stirk is a forme
r Ambassador to Norway and assistant deputy minister in the federal public
service. Jillian has spent more than thirty years working on human rights\,
security\, and conflict prevention in Eastern Europe\, the Balkans\, the M
iddle East\, and Afghanistan. She has conducted negotiations through a vari
ety of multilateral organisations including the United Nations\, NATO\, the
OSCE\, the Arctic Council\, and the EU.
Consul General Biogr aphies:
Nicole Davison took up her position as British Consul General to Vancouver in July 2016. She is the British go vernment’s representative in British Columbia\, the Yukon and the North Wes t Territories. She is accompanied by her partner\, Karen. Nicole joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1988 and has served in South Afri ca\, Bangladesh\, Ukraine and China. Most recently\, she was the Deputy Hea d of Mission at the British Embassy in Zagreb\, Croatia. In London\, Nicole has worked in the FCO’s Western European Department and Latin America and Caribbean Department. She has also been responsible for the FCO’s parliamen tary affairs and ran one of the teams in the FCO’s Global Response Centre ( covering consular and political crises).
Tuti Wahyuningsih Ir man is Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia. From 2014 unti l now\, she has acted as Inspector II with the Inspectorate General\, Minis try of Foreign Affairs. Before this post\, she was Minister Counsellor\, Re presentative of Indonesia for the United Nations in New York for three year s. In 2018\, she co-authored “Responding to the New Challenges of Independe nt and Active Foreign Policy” in Medwell Journal. Consul General Irman has a Doctoral Degree in International Relations from Padjadjaran University\, Bandung (2017)\, a Master Degree in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1995) and a Bachelor Degree in Interna tional Relations from the University of Indonesia (1990).
Kat herine S. Dhanani is Consulate General of The United States and a career Foreign Service Officer. Her most recent assignments were in the Sta te Department’s Bureau of Human Resources and in the Bureau of African Affa irs’ Office of Regional and Security Affairs. Before returning to Washingto n in 2013\, she served as Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in H yderabad\, India. Ms. Dhanani began her career working on western hemispher e issues\, with tours as an Economic Officer in Georgetown\, Guyana\, on th e Mexico desk\, and in Mexico City\, as well as in the Bureau of Western He misphere. She also has served five assignments to Embassies in central and southern Africa. Ms. Dhanani trained as an Economist at Kenyon College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught economics at Grinnell College before joining the Foreign Service.
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Berenice Díaz Ceballos Parada is Consulate General of Mexico. She has a Bachelor in International Relations with more than 25 years of work experience in the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs especially on bilateral issues (Europe\, Asia-Pacific and A frica and Middle East) and multilateral in the political\, economic\, finan cial\, social\, environmental\, migration\, organized transnational crime\, corruption and human rights. Since July 2016\, she has served as Consul Ge neral of Mexico in Vancouver\, Canada.
Hosted as part of the Wome n in Policy series at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs ( SPPGA).
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