Distinguished Speaker Series - Rosemary McCarney

Why Multilateral Diplomacy Matters

Former Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament

Rosemary McCarney, former Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, will speak on “Why Multilateral Diplomacy Matters” as part of Western Law’s Distinguished Speakers series. The talk takes place on Monday, September 9, 2019 at 12:30 p.m. in the Moot Court Room, Faculty of Law.

McCarney is an award‐winning humanitarian, a business leader, an author, a recognized public speaker and an expert on international economic development. She worked with the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, USAID and the Canadian International Development Agency, as well as with foreign governments and UN bodies. She was first Executive Director of the Canada‐US Law Institute and taught international and constitutional law at Case Western Reserve University and International Business Transactions Law at the University of Toronto. A graduate of Western Law school, she has practiced law in the US and Canada and has held executive level management positions in the private and not‐for‐profit sector. In 2005, she became the president and chief executive officer of Plan International Canada Inc., one of the oldest and largest charities in Canada, and was most recently the chair of both the Humanitarian Coalition and the Canadian Network on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. She recently served on the advisory boards of the Canada‐United States Law Institute and the Public Policy Committee of Imagine Canada.