Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile from 2006 to 2010, will give the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels 2012 World Affairs Fellowship Lecture Sept. 4 at 4:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.

Bachelet will speak on "Women and the New Development Paradigm." She is the first undersecretary-general and executive director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women works with governments, civil society and the private sector to advance women's empowerment and gender equality worldwide.

Bachelet, a physician and surgeon, became the first woman to be elected president in the history of the Republic of Chile. A long-time champion of women's rights, she has advocated for gender equality and women's empowerment throughout her career.

The Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship was established in 1984 to bring prominent international leaders to Cornell. The mission of the fellowship program is explicitly educational -- to foster a broadened worldview among Cornell students by bringing to campus persons who have distinguished themselves as international public figures.