BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:188@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20150901T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20150901T130000 DTSTAMP:20231222T082946Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/globlal-interest-in-the -arctic/ SUMMARY:Global Interest in the Arctic DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Alaska World Affairs Council will host representatives from the official government delegations that have traveled to Alaska for the U.S. State Department’s August 30-31 Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation\, Innovation\, Engagement and Resilience (GLAC IER).\n\n Speaker Bios:\n\n Dr. Henryka Moscicka-Dendys\, Undersecretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs\, European Policy and Human Rights\, Po land\n Henryka was appointed Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Fo reign Affairs of Poland in charge of European policy\, human rights and pa rliamentary affairs on April 16\, 2013. Prior to that\, she served as Dire ctor of the European Policy Department  (from 2012) and Deputy Director o f this Department\, responsible for institutional affairs and Northern Eur ope (2011-2012). She graduated in law and classics at the University of Si lesia in Katowice and holds a Ph.D. in international law from the Universi ty of Warsaw. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland in 2002 . Her previous postings include Copenhagen\, where she got seconded to the office of the CBSS Commissioner for democratic development  (2003) and B erlin where she served as 1st secretary and later as counselor at the Poli sh Embassy\, covering EU policies including enlargement and institutional issues (2007-2011). She is a member of Board of the Foundation for Polish- German Cooperation and speaks German\, English and Russian.\n\nTony Siddiq ue\, Ambassador &\; Special Envoy for Oceanic Affairs\, Republic of Sin gapore\n Ambassador Tony K Siddique is currently Singapore’s Special Env oy for Arctic Affairs\, and concurrently the Non-Resident Ambassador to th e Carribean Community (Caricom). Ambassador Siddique is a senior diplomat who has served as Singapore’s Ambassador to a host of European countries \, including the Federal Republic of Germany and the then-Union of the Sov iet Socialist Republics. Ambassador Siddique retired from the civil servic e in 1996 after a stellar 26-year career\, and is now the Executive Direct or of Tony K Siddique &\; Associates Pte Ltd\, a strategy advisory firm . He currently holds the following diplomatic appointments: Special Envoy to the Asia-Middle East Dialogue for Economic/Business Issues (from July 2 006) and Special Envoy to Ukraine (from March 2011).\n\n \;\n\nKim Cha n-Woo\, Ambassador for Arctic Affairs\, Republic of Korea\nMr. Kim Chan-Wo o works as Ambassador for Arctic Affairs and also as Deputy Chief Negotiat or for Climate Change in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic o f Korea\, handling the negotiations on the Post-2020 climate regime. He se rved as Ambassador to the Republic of Kenya\, and also as Permanent Repres entative to UNEP and UN-Habitat from May 2011 to February 2014. Ambassador Kim joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984. Over the last 20-odd years he has handled a wide spectrum of environmental issues\, in particul ar those related to the UNCSD\, the OECD and the UNEP\, and multilateral e nvironmental agreements (MEAs) such as UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol\, CBD and Nagoya Protocol\, Ramsar Convention\, and Northeast Asian and bilateral e nvironmental mechanisms. Ambassador Kim has published two books in Korean\ , Environmental Diplomacy in the 21st Century in 2006\, and Post-2012 Clim ate Change Negotiations in 2010 based on his experience as a negotiator of the Republic of Korea from Bali conference in 2007 to Copenhagen conferen ce in 2009.\n\n \;\nPanel moderated by Fran Ulmer – Chair of the U.S . Arctic Research Commission\n The former chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage and former Lt. Governor of Alaska received her law degree from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. In addition to her role as Ch air of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission\, she now also serves in an adv isory role with the State Department as the U.S. prepares to chair the Arc tic Council\, an intergovernmental forum for Arctic governments and people s.\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nPresented in Partnership with\n\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\nThis program's podcast is available t hrough Alaska Public Media's AWAC Presents\, click here to listen. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2015/08/GlobalInterestGraphic.jpg CATEGORIES:Arctic Series,International Program Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0900 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:AKDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR