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Honourable Linda Tarr-Whelan
Former US Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Ladies Home Journal named her "One of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Washington." She has been a managing director with Tarr-Whelan & Associates, Inc. since 2000.
As CEO and President, she built the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) into the leading state progressive policy and leadership center over fourteen years. She initiated and led CPA national policy campaigns and Leadership Institutes for elected leaders and created a decade-long bi-partisan and multi-cultural research and communications initiative, "Women's Voices", and two economic summits regarding the role of women and the economy with the White House in 1997 and at 11 Downing Street Summit in London in 1999.
She was appointed as Ambassador by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate in 1997 as the US Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She led international negotiations for the US on women and globalization, development, entrepreneurship, economic and political participation and human rights and served on the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations.
Linda was Deputy Assistant to President Jimmy Carter in the White House, director of government relations and chief lobbyist for the National Education Association, the Administrative Director of the New York State Department of Labor, Director of AFSCME - NY and created the AFSCME Public Policy Department.
She has served on numerous boards and commissions, spoken national and internationally and is frequently quoted in the press. She began her career as a nurse and holds a BSN from Johns Hopkins University, an MS from the University of Maryland and an honorary PhD in Public Service from Chatham College.
Past Speaking Events
10 February 2010
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Breakfast Meeting
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London
Women Lead the Way?
The former ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will share with us her recent research and views on how more women in leadership is both good business and smart politics and that real change starts to happen when women's representation at the top reaches 30%.