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GCE Bangladesh Program Presented at the Waldzell Meetings in Austria |
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The GCE Bangladesh was chosen to participate in the 2007 Waldzell Meeting, an invitation-only conference on inspiring global change. The GCE Bangladesh attended as an "Architect of the Future," in a program developed to recognize young leaders in social entrepreneurship. The theme of the 2007 Waldzell Meeting, held on 17-19 September 2007 outside Vienna in the historic Benedictine Abbey of Melk, is "What is our legacy". The "Architects of the Future"
program honors initiatives that "contribute to making the world a better place."
RI Bangladesh Program Director, Nazrul Islam attended the "Architects of the Future" retreat in Vienna and presented GCE Bangladesh Program at the Waldzell Meeting on 19 September. The speakers of the conference included His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Sir Paul Nurse, President of Rockefeller University and Nobel Prize in Medicine 2001, LA based architect Frank Gehry, David Rosen, President of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, Bill Strickland , President and CEO Manchester Bidwell Corporation, Abbot Georg of Melk-Abbey, Archbishop Philip of Poltava and Kremenchug, Ahmed Mohammad El-Tayyib (Egyptian, Rector of Al-Azhar University in Cairo) , Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of Omega Institute in USA.
The Austrian-based Waldzell Institute brings together "people who have made remarkable contributions to the fields of science, art, politics, the economy and spirituality, with the great decision makers of the day and to come."
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