Opening Speeches
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer Sprache
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Dr. Philipp BLOM
Author, Lecturer & Broadcaster, Vienna
| Philipp Blom was born in 1970 in Hamburg and grew up in Detmold, in Germany. After university studies in Vienna and Oxford, he obtained a D.Phil in Modern History. He started writing at Oxford and published a novel as well as occasional journalism. After university, he worked in London as an editor, translator, writer and freelance journalist, contributing to newspapers, magazines and radio programmes in Great Britain, the US, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and France. In 2001, Philipp Blom moved to Paris to concentrate on his books. In 2007 he settled in Vienna, where he continues to write historical nonfiction as well as fiction, and journalism. He presents a cultural discussion programme on Austrian national radio and has lectured on philosophy and cultural history in Europe, the US, and South America. |
Mallika DUTT
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Breakthrough, New York
| 1982-1987 | Assistant Coordinator, International Women s Tribune Centre, New York |
| 1989-1991 | Associate, Litigation and Trusts & Estates Departments, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York |
| 1991 | ,1993 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Women s Studies & Political Science, Hunter College, New York |
| 1992-1994 | Director, The Norman Foundation, New York |
| 1994-1996 | Associate Director, Center for Women s Global Leadership, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Program Officer - Human Rights and Social Justice, Ford Foundation, New Delhi | |
| Since 2001 Founder, President and CEO, Breakthrough, New York and New Delhi | |
| Educational History | |
| 1983 | Mount Holyoke College, A.B. |
| 1986 | Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs M.I.A. |
| 1989 | New York University School of Law, J.D. |
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