2020 World Day of the Poor

Fordham’s Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development (IPED) invites everyone to join in commemorating the 2020 World Day of the Poor with a webinar presented by America Media and the Mission of the Order of Malta to the United Nations.

Speakers

• Paul Beresford-Hill, KM, CBE, ambassador of the Order of Malta to the United Nations
• The Most Rev. Gabriele Caccia, apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
• Geraldine Byrne Nason, ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to the United Nations
• Audra Plepytė, ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations

Panelists

• Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times
• Sister Donna Markham, O.P., Catholic Charities USA
• Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, United Nations

This webinar will be moderated by Matthew F. Malone, S.J., president and editor-in-chief of America Media. Dominique Prince de la Rochefoucauld-Montbel, grand hospitaller of the Sovereign Order of Malta, will deliver special remarks.

This event is co-sponsored by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, the Mission of the Republic of Ireland to the United Nations, the Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations, Catholic Charities USA, Fordham University’s Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development, and Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Fondazione USA (CAPP-USA).