Annual Luncheon 2005

Brian Williams, NBC News Anchor prior to speaking to the Luncheon attendees

Fund Chair Raghida Dergham welcoming Brian William, NBC News Anchor and Luncheon Guest Speaker

 

Fellows Shajna Zareer, Majdoline Hatoum, and Tilak Pokharel with Judith Aita, Fund Board member, greeting Brian Williams, NBC News Anchor

H.E. Mr. Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th General Assembly and Luncheon Co-Chair; Raghida Dergham, Chair of the Fund; Kathy Bushkin, EVP of The UN Foundation; and Enzo Viscuzzi, Senior Group Vice President, Eni SpA, and Luncheon Co-Chair

 

H.E. Mr. Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th General Assembly and Luncheon Co-Chair, greeting Enzo Viscusi, Senior Group Vice President, Eni, SpA and Luncheon Co-Chair Fund Chair Raghida Dergham acknowledging Iftikhar Ali who served as Chair of the Fund, 1980-1992

Fellow Shajna Zareer of Television Maldives expressing her appreciation

 

Fellow Tilak Pokharel of The Kathmandu Post expressing his appreciation Fellow Majdoline Hatoum of The Daily Star
in Beirut expressing her appreciation
Sanaa Youssef being acknowledged by Raghida Dergham for her service as Chair of the Fund, 1993-2004 Brian Williams, NBC News Anchor and Luncheon Guest Speaker with Enzo Viscusi, Senior Group Vice President of Eni SpA and Luncheon Co-Chair

From Left: Fund Board members Vikou Bessan, 2004 Dag Hammarskjold Fellow and now a correspondent with BBC, Herve Courtier of AFP greeting Fellows Pokharel and Zareer

Class of 2005 Fellows.
From left: Zerihun Tadesse of Ethiopia, Tilak Pokharel of Nepal, Shajna Zareer of The Maldives, and Majdoline Hatoum of Lebanon

 

Fellow Tilak Pokharel in discussion with Ambassador Al-Mullah of Kuwait, a member the Fund?s Honorary Advisory Council Special UN Envoy Terre Rod-Larsen welcoming Wa?el Chehab, 2005 Fund Donor

Ambassador Al-Mullah of Kuwait welcoming Ms. Thoraya Obaid, Director of UNFPA, both members of the Fund?s Honorary Advisory Council

From left: Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Advisor to the Secretary General, speaking with Ambassador Wang Guangya of China and Jane Arraf of CNN and Fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations

Abukakar Dungas, UNFPA Information Officer and Spokesman in discussion with Kathy Bushkin, EVP of the UN Foundation and Colleague
Kathy Bushkin, EVP of the UN Foundation, with Brian Williams and Warren Hoge,
UN Correspondent for NBC
Brian Williams greeting Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet for the
Secretary General

Fellows Shajna Zareer, Majdoline Haoum, and Tilak Pokharel with Judith Aita, Fund Board member, greeting Ambassador
Al-Mullah of Kuwait

Brian Williams, NBC News Anchor, addressing Luncheon attendees Ambassador Anders Liden of Sweden with his wife, Linnea Liden Hermance. Raghida Dergham, Chair of the Fund and senior diplomatic correspondent and columnist for Al Hayat, at the head table