A Special Luncheon Program

featuring

Honorable Sadako Ogata
Tokyo, Japan
Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Friday, May 18, 2001

12:00 Noon
(11:30 a.m. cash bar networking reception)
The Plimsoll Club, 30th Floor
World Trade Center of New Orleans
(Free validated parking in the WTC Garage)

The Honorable Sadako Ogata served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from February 1991 until December 2000. Mrs. Ogata was first elected to this post by the U.N. General Assembly in December 1990 for three years and was then re-elected for two additional terms. Among the many other high positions she previously held, Mrs. Ogata served as Chairman of the Executive Board of UNICEF and also was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations. Mrs. Ogata also served as Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo and was Director of the Institute of International Relations at the same university. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963, an M.A. in International Relations from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. in 1953, and a B.A. from the University of Sacred Heart in Tokyo in 1951. On May 19, the day after the WTC luncheon, Mrs. Ogata will be receiving an Honorary Degree from Tulane University.