From Morgan Stanley
Here is information about a speaker that we are bringing to Iowa State University on October 23.
Ayla Kayal will be speaking at 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. in the Gallery of the Memorial Union. She will be talking about Socially Responsible Investing. Her presentation will last 30 minutes and she will leave 20 minutes for questions.
The following is information about her.
Alya Z. Kayal, Esq., Senior Social Research Analyst and Coordinator for Global Outreach and Research. University of Minnesota Law School, JD; Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, BA, Sociology and International Communications.
Ms. Kayal joined the Calvert Group's Social Research on August 1, 1994 as an International/Human Rights Analyst. She was previously employed as a research assistant by the US Department of Labor's International Labor Affairs Bureau to work on an International Child Labor Report. She has also worked on a special project of the US Information Agency and the Soros Foundation on the status of independent media in Eastern Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union. Ms. Kayal has also worked as an aide to the US Member to the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in 1992. While there, she drafted several human rights resolutions and assisted in negotiations on complex political and human rights issues with representatives from various countries. Ms. Kayal was the co-chair of the Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Sub-Committee of the International Human Rights Committee of the American Bar Association's international law division. She is a co-author of The Forty-Fourth Session of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and the Special Session of the Commission on Human Rights on the Situation in the Former Yugoslavia, 15 Human Rights Quarterly (1993). She is also the author of the Human Rights chapter of the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators. At Calvert, Ms. Kayal specializes in analyzing international/human rights issues for US and international companies.
Alya Z. Kayal, Esq.
Senior Analyst, International/Human Rights
Calvert Group Ltd.
4550 Montgomery Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
USA
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