Keynote Speaker at Annual Meeting
Jose Ramos-Horta is the senior minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Timor-Leste, visiting professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and distinguished visiting professor, University of Victoria, Melbourne.
When Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, Ramos-Horta was on his way to the United Nations Security Council, urging them to take action in the face of the Indonesian Military onslaught that killed one third of the Timorese population. Despite his exile, in 1991 Ramos-Horta was elected Vice President of the National Council Maubere Resistance, an umbrella organization of pro-independence movements both in and outside East Timor.
Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his fellow countryman Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo. The Committee chose to honor the two laureates for their "sustained efforts to find diplomatic solution to the conflict of East Timor based on the people's right to self determination.”
Higher education leaders in the United States are keenly aware that the lack of international focus in our institutions is a deficit that must be corrected. There is a growing interest in the impact of globalization on higher education and the responsibilities we must shoulder in adequately educating our students. Ramos-Horta will pose key questions that need to be asked by American higher education leaders.
(excerpted from:http://www.mfac.gov.tp/ramos-horta.html)
When Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, Ramos-Horta was on his way to the United Nations Security Council, urging them to take action in the face of the Indonesian Military onslaught that killed one third of the Timorese population. Despite his exile, in 1991 Ramos-Horta was elected Vice President of the National Council Maubere Resistance, an umbrella organization of pro-independence movements both in and outside East Timor.
Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his fellow countryman Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo. The Committee chose to honor the two laureates for their "sustained efforts to find diplomatic solution to the conflict of East Timor based on the people's right to self determination.”
Higher education leaders in the United States are keenly aware that the lack of international focus in our institutions is a deficit that must be corrected. There is a growing interest in the impact of globalization on higher education and the responsibilities we must shoulder in adequately educating our students. Ramos-Horta will pose key questions that need to be asked by American higher education leaders.
(excerpted from:http://www.mfac.gov.tp/ramos-horta.html)
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