World Food Prize Laureate Bertini is Heuermann Lecturer Nov. 15

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World Food Prize Laureate Catherine Bertini is the Heuermann Lecturer Thursday, Nov. 15, in the Hardin Hall Auditorium, 33rd and Holdrege, in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Topic of her 3:30 p.m. public lecture is “Where America Must Lead: Ensuring the World Can Feed its People.” A 3 p.m. reception in the Hardin Hall lobby precedes the lecture.

Now a professor of public administration and international relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, Bertini also is co-chairwoman of the Global Agricultural Development Initiative of The Chicago Council of Global Affairs.

For 10 years she was chief executive and the driving force behind reform of the United Nations World Food Programme. She was honored for her work in 2003 as a World Food Prize Laureate.

Under her leadership, WFP’s institutional changes were cited by the U.S. government and the WFP’s 36-government board as models of UN reform that placed the food aid agency in the forefront of international agencies in efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and income.

Heuermann (pronounced Hugh-er-man) Lectures in IANR focus on providing and sustaining enough food, natural resources and renewable energy for the world’s people, and on securing the sustainability of rural communities where the vital work of producing food and renewable energy occurs. They’re made possible by a gift from B. Keith and Norma Heuermann of Phillips, long-time university supporters with a strong commitment to Nebraska’s production agriculture, natural resources, rural areas and people.

The lecture streams live at http://heuermannlectures.unl.edu, and all Heuermann lectures are archived at that site shortly after the lecture. Heuermann Lectures are broadcast on NET2 World at a date following the lecture.

More details at: http://go.unl.edu/0mo