The Asia Leadership Center

Announcements

EMINENT LEADERS LECTURE SERIES

NOBEL LAUREATES

THURSDAY: May 28, 2009 (Cancelled)
Dr. Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Commission, Brussels
Topic: TBC
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: November 4, 2009
Professor Aaron Ciechanover, 2004 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry; Research Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa
Topic: Science and Technology as a Novel Language of Peace
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: December 2, 2009
Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, Sociologist and Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics
Topic: The Politics of Climate Change
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: January 6, 2010
Professor David J. Gross, 2004 Nobel Laureate for Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California in Santa Barabara
Topic: The Lessons of Science
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: January 20, 2010
Professor Eric S. Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate for Economics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
Topic: Why Global Markets Have Failed to Reduce Inequality
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: February 3, 2010
Professor Torsten N. Wiesel, 1981 Nobel Laureate for Medicine at the Rockefeller University in New York
Topic: Science for Peace
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

MONDAY: March 9, 2010
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Classical Pianist, London

Title: Concert for a Culture of Peace

Venue: Chaktomuk Theater at 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: March 24, 2010
Professor Sir Clive W.J. Granger, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Economics at the University of California at San Diego
Topic: The Economics of Peace
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: April 21, 2010
Professor Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Laureate for Peace and former Chairman of the US President’s Commission on the Holocaust, New York
Topic: Building a Culture of Peace and Development in a Globalized World
Venue: UC Conference Center at 2 p.m.



Lord George Carey Former Archbishop of Canterbury *"Leadership in Education"* Lord Carey's speech PowerPoint	H.E. Ong Keng Yong Ambassador-at-Large *Republic of Singapore* Former ASEAN Secretary-General *"Youth and Leadership Bring Out the Best in People"* Ong Keng Yong's speech PowerPoint

Vision

The Asia Leadership Center aims to be the world’s premier leadership program by delivering a variety of interactive, theoretical, and practical leadership initiatives. Ultimately, it will inform and nurture visionary leaders working toward a progressively developed and peacefully sustained society.

Mission

The Asia Leadership Center is committed to the development of leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes in order to build the character of public, private, civil, academic, female, and youth leaders. We provide leaders with the tools needed to act responsibly in the interest of society. The ALC’s work is informed by our valued network of eminent leaders, practitioners, and academics and is guided by local, national, and international needs for inspirational and effective leaders to transform all of Asia.

Core Values

The Asia Leadership Center believes that every human being has the right to live with dignity and integrity in order to achieve full human potential. The Asia Leadership Center works to ensure the existence of a diverse conglomerate of responsible youth, female, academic, civil, public and private leaders. To this end:

Inclusiveness: ALC believes in inclusiveness and promoting acceptance irrespective of ethnicity, religious affiliation, gender, and economic status. All citizens have the right to reach their maximum potential.

Responsibility: ALC promotes social responsibility and good governance among leaders from all levels of developed and sustained society.

Participation: ALC believes in a rights-based approach to development, leadership as a participatory process, and direct advocacy with action as the most effective means to leadership development.

Partnership: ALC recognizes a network of members with a unified voice increases the potency of its actions and leads to the network’s expansion.

Commitment: ALC recognizes the dynamic nature of leadership. It is committed to the development of leadership styles, monitoring the growth process, and proactively offering policy recommendations.

University of Cambodia

alc@uc.edu.kh | Phone: (855-89) 810-288 | Fax: (855-23) 993-284
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 166, Phnom Penh 12000, Kingdom of Cambodia