10/14/2005

World Food Prize Laureate Catherine Bertini to Speak as E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer

AUBURN, Ala. — Catherine A. Bertini, former executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme and recipient of the 2003 World Food Prize, will speak in Auburn Thursday, Oct. 27, as featured presenter in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecture Series.

Her lecture, entitled “Effective Responses to International Humanitarian Tragedies,” is set for 7 p.m. in the Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center auditorium. The presentation is free and open to the public, as is a reception that precedes the lecture at 5:45 in Ballroom A of the hotel and conference center.

As chief executive of the World Food Programme from 1992 to 2002, Bertini was credited with assisting more than 100 million victims of wars and natural disasters throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She was named 2003 World Food Prize laureate in recognition of the WFP’s dramatic strides toward ending famine and decreasing hunger under her leadership.

While in Auburn, Bertini will meet with AU’s Committee of 19, a student leadership group spearheading the university’s World Food Programme–sponsored War on Hunger campaign. The World Food Programme last year picked Auburn as its lead partner to establish a comprehensive model for student-led hunger initiatives that can and will be implemented on college campuses nationwide.

For more information on the York lecture, contact College of Agriculture Associate Dean Bill Hardy at 334-844-5620, hardywe@auburn.edu.

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