Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg

In 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed Lloyd Axworthy as his special envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace agreement between the East African countries. In 2006, the Organization of American States appointed him to head the OAS Electoral Observation Mission that monitored the 2006 general elections in Peru. He recently served as a member of the High Level Commission for the Empowerment of the Poor which released its report, Making the Law Work for Everyone, in 2008.

Dr. Axworthy currently serves as a commissioner on the Aspen Institute’s Dialogue and Commission on Arctic Climate Change. He is a Board member of the MacArthur Foundation, Human Rights Watch, the Educational Policy Institute, and the University of the Arctic, among others.

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