FOURTH DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD ANNIVERSARY LECTURE TO BE HELD ON 14 NOVEMBER

Note to Correspondents

FOURTH DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD ANNIVERSARY LECTURE TO BE HELD ON 14 NOVEMBER

This fourth in a series of lectures and conversations to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld will be held on Monday, 14 November 2005 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium.

Titled From Collections to Connections:  Information and Knowledge for Global Decision-Making, the event will feature a panel discussion with Clare Hart, President and Chief Executive Officer of Factiva®, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company; Lawrence Prusak, Scholar in Residence at Babson College in Massachusetts; and Thomas Davenport, Professor, President’s Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College in Massachusetts.  The discussion will be moderated by the Assistant-Secretary-General for Human Resources Management, Jan Beagle.

The series is being organized by the United Nations’ Dag Hammarskjöld Library with the support of the Government of Sweden.

Members of Permanent Missions, Secretariat staff and the media are invited to attend.

For further information contact:  Nasra Soud, Tel.:  212-963-0521.

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