U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to keynote WWS colloquium

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will deliver the opening keynote address for the 2009 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs at 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, in the McCarter Theatre Center's Matthews Theatre on the Princeton University campus. The title of Ban's speech is "The Imperative for a New Multilateralism." The colloquium, titled "Prosperity or Peril? The Next Phase of Globalization," is hosted by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Friday and Saturday, April 17-18. It will examine whether and how the increasingly interconnected forces of globalization will result in a more stable and prosperous global society, or instead enable instability and violence to spread more easily across borders. Featured speakers include: Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton and winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in economics; Tadataka Yamada, president of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Program; and Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google Inc. and a 1976 Princeton graduate. Ban was elected as the eighth U.N. secretary-general in 2006. At the time of his election, he was minister of foreign affairs and trade for the Republic of Korea (South Korea).