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Events with high posterior probability

Michael Posner (lawyer)	Posner has been actively engaged in reporting on global human rights situations through the State Department's annual Human Rights Reports, which are submitted to Congress by the Department of State in compliance with Sections 116 (d) and 502B (b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended.
Gennady Alferenko	In 2000, Alferenko organized Ring-2000, a civic initiative to create a National idea bank for the new President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Helen Zille	In April 2008, Zille was asked to address the UN in New York on population and development, offering her experience and lessons as mayor of Cape Town.
Bharrat Jagdeo	In June 2013, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced that former President Jagdeo will lead a high-level team of experts to identify solutions for unlocking resources to enable small, poor and climate-vulnerable Commonwealth countries to combat climate change.
Kirill Y. Kondratyev	Kondratyev served as a member of the International Programme Committee for the World Conference on Climate Change, held in Moscow in 2003, where he presented a paper entitled'' Uncertainties of Global Climate Change Observations and Simulation Modeling.''
M?rcio Moreira	In 1989, Moreira was promoted to Vice Chairman/Chief Creative Officer, International, In the mid-90s, McCann Worldwide focused on the Far East, given the re-emergence of China as an economic leader, the rise of the middle class in such markets as South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, and the region's new sensitivity about cultural values in advertising.
Robert Zoellick	According to the U. S. Trade Representative website, Zoellick completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization (WTO) ; developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting in Doha, Qatar ; shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement ; and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority.
Fatmir Besimi	As stated in the report of the World Economic Forum, on the basis of professional achievements, exceptional leadership capabilities and dedication to the society thus far, on 12 March 2010 Fatmir Besimi was selected as a member in the elite company of 197 best `` young global leaders'' from 72 countries, out of a total of 5,000 candidates, first from the Republic of Macedonia and one of three European Ministers for 2010.
Christiana Figueres	In 1997 she provided critical international strategy for achieving developing country support and approval of the Kyoto Protocol and the Clean Development Mechanism.
Paul James (academic)	As Research Director of Global Reconciliation (2009 -- present), an organization dedicated to global dialogue and community-level practice, he has (with Paul Komesaroff) contributed to redefining the concept of' reconciliation'.
F. W. de Klerk	De Klerk is also chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation which he set up in 2004, an organization which works to support democratic leadership, prevent and resolve conflict through mediation and promote good governance in the form of democratic institutions, open markets, human rights and the rule of law.
Rosina Bierbaum	She co-authored Confronting Climate Change : Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable, a report prepared at the request of the Commission on Sustainable Development (2007).
Zaw Zaw	In 2013 November, he lead Myanmar Football Federation to obtain the AFC Dream Asia award, which is given in recognition of those who share the values of Dream Asia, the AFC's social responsibility initiative, which promotes the culture of giving and emphasizes the power of football in bringing about positive change in respective Asian societies.
Lennart Meri	In 1992, Lennart Meri, together with 9 Baltic Ministers of Foreign Affairs and an EU commissioner, founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty.
Evangelos Marinakis	Since 2009, as CEO of Capital Maritime Corp., in an effort to preserve and safeguard the environment and to encourage public awareness regarding the great environmental challenges of our day, Marinakis sponsored various reforestation, recycling and environmental education projects through Capital Ship Management Corp.
Robert Swan	Swan was once again charged by the world leaders to continue his mission and report back at the next World Summit for Sustainable Development, ten years later, in 2012.
Mario Oriani-Ambrosini	In June 1992, he sat with Buthelezi at the meeting of the UN Security Council in a meeting called by Nelson Mandela to push forward the transition to democracy.
Vanessa Mdee	In May 2013, Vanessa was invited to speak at the World Economic Forum for Africa in Capetown, South Africa on behalf of the GAVI Alliance on the announcement of the new record low price for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines that will help ensure millions of girls in developing countries will be protected against Cervical Cancer.
Joan Russow	In March 2008, at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, she collaborated on a paper related to the delegitimization of war ; this paper was officially sanctioned for distribution to state delegations at the UN.
Abul Ahsan	He was one of the 15 members of the Council of Eminent Persons established by the Summit meeting of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) in 1994 to report on the working of the specialized bodies of the organization.
Dalton Tanonaka	In 2011, he created `` ASEAN Today,'' a monthly program done in partnership with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat.
Christopher Hills	Hills' global odyssey's itinerary grew out of publishing his views on conflict resolution and alternative government in a manifesto, Framework for Unity, that was circulated to The Commission for Research in the Creative Faculties of Man, a network he had founded of thinkers around the world which, in 1961, included Prof. Oliver Reiser, Humphry Osmond, Dr. Andrija Puharich, David Ben-Gurion, and Lady Isobel Cripps, among its 500 members.
Fred Hiatt	In December 2009, Hiatt was a featured speaker at the Tokyo Foundation conference entitled'' Japan after the Change : Perspectives of Western Opinion Leaders''.
Gareth Evans (politician)	He was also a member of the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, sponsored by Sweden and France and chaired by Ernesto Zedillo, which reported in September 2006.
Humayun Akhtar Khan	He also introduced reforms in the insurance sector and enacted copyright laws in 2007 and helped establish the Lahore Agenda for Farmer's rights to global markets in the 31st meeting of Cairns Group.
Joel Hunter	Hunter was asked in February 2006 to sign the Evangelical Climate Initiative, a document recognizing global warming based on the findings of the Nobel Prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Bernardo Kliksberg	He is considered'' one of the chief experts in the world in the fight against poverty'' (Buenos Aires Económico, October 27, 2010), a'' corporate social responsibility global guru'' (La Prensa, Panama, November 9, 2010), and'' a tireless champion of ethics and economic and social inequality reduction'' (Valor, Brazil May 27, 2010).
Jos? Eduardo dos Santos	In November 2006, dos Santos helped to found the African Countries Diamond Producers Association, an organization of approximately 20 African nations founded to promote market cooperation and foreign investment in the African diamond industry.
Lee Shin Cheng	In July 2009, while receiving an award on behalf of IOI Group at the Third Annual Best Financial Institutions in South-East Asia Awards in Kuala Lumpur, Lee lent weight to his moniker.''
Binayak Sen	The Global Health Council, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and several other prominent global health organizations issued a joint statement of support for Sen, requesting that Indian authorities allow the doctor to receive the Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights in person in Washington, D. C. on 29 May 2008, at the 35th Annual International Conference on Global Health.
Rich Lesser	Recently, he spoke at the 2013 World Economic Forum regarding issues relating to Asia, South America, and Africa among others.
Daniel Ben-Horin	In his address, `` Networks of Resources, Networks of Ideas, Connecting the Dots,'' he focused on TechSoup Global's `` Global Contributors' Summit,'' a 3-day conference which took place on February 15 -- 17, 2011, bringing together global networks of organizations that need technology support, networks of corporations that are willing to donate their products, networks of funders interested in building the capacity of civil society, and networks of technical volunteers.''
Mary Jordan (filmmaker)	In September 2013 Jordan spoke at the Social Good Summit along with Al Gore, Melinda Gates and other.
William Lawton	In 1998 Lawton was asked to produce a White Paper on developing China's financial system to support rapid economic growth by China Development Bank which he presented to senior China Development Officers in 1998.
Myron Solberg	In 2004, IFT created the Myron Solberg Award in honor of individuals who lead in establishing, successfully developing, and continuing a cooperative relationship among academia, government, and industry in food technology.
Stephen O. Andersen	In 1988 Stephen helped organize the technology assessment panel for the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Montreal Protocol by recruiting primarily experts working companies already pledged to halt the use of ozone-depleting substances.
?nal Aysal	He was honored in 1999 by the President of Turkey as the best representative of Turkish businesses abroad.
Manny Villar	According to a January 2010 survey by polling firm Pulse Asia and the February 2010 survey from Social Weather Stations, Villar was statistically tied in the lead with his main rival in the election, Senator Benigno Aquino III.
Omar Zakhilwal	He served as an author of Afghanistan's First National Human Development Report, which was released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in February 2007 and won the UN special award for best analysis in June 2007.
Sheila Sri Prakash	She was an invited speaker to the 2011 Confederation of Indian Industry and Indian Green Building Council Conference, to introduce a concept of'' Holistic Sustainability'' -- extending parameters for Sustainable Design beyond environmental footprint, to socio-economic impact.
Horst Rechelbacher	In 1992, along with his partner Kiran, he attended the Earth Summit, where three key agreements occurred : the Climate Change Convention, a pre-cursor to the Kyoto Protocol, the Convention on Biological Diversity and an Intellectual Property Rights accord for indigenous peoples that included preventing actions that could be deemed culturally inappropriate and/or cause environmental destruction.
Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir	Professional and human rights organizations also pushed for his release, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Amnesty International, Asian Human Rights Commission, Committee of Concerned Scientists, New York Academy of Sciences, Organisation mondiale contre la torture (World Organisation Against Torture), 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winners Physicians for Human Rights, Scholars at Risk, and South Asia Forum for Human Rights.
Michel Danino	In 2001, he convened the International Forum for India's Heritage (IFIH) with the mission of promoting the essential values of India's heritage in every field of life.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg	At a meeting of European defense ministers in Ghent in November 2010 Guttenberg called for closer military cooperation among EU member states, especially in the areas of procurement and training, to cope with rising budgetary pressures.
Subramanian Swamy	Earlier in November 1978, Swamy was member of the Group of Eminent persons called to Geneva to prepare a report of the United Nations (UNCTAD) on Economic Co-operation between Developing countries (ECDC).
Nguyen Tan Dung	On 12 April 2010, Dũng attended a luncheon with U. S. Vice President Biden and other world leaders at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D. C. On the same date he met Obama at the World Security Summit where he `` spoke glowingly to American business leaders of Vietnam's economic growth -- 7.
Sundeep Waslekar	Since 2009 Sundeep Waslekar and Ilmas Futehally have lead the strategic Foresight Group to develop the'' Blue Peace'' approach, which transforms trans-boundary water into an instrument for cooperation, with collaborative and sustainable strategies shared by riparian countries.
Nick Carter (musician)	Carter was announced as the new United Nations Special Ambassador for the Year of the Dolphin (YoD) on May 17, 2007 representing the United Nations Environment Programme, the Convention on Migratory Species, and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
Gunter Pauli	In 1994 Pauli initiated the Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives in Tokyo with the support of the Japanese Government and the United Nations University (UNU), redesigning production and consumption into clusters of industries inspired by natural systems.
Jean-Paul Agon	Jean-Paul Agon has stated that corporate social responsibility issues are as important as business profitability and this is shown with the announcement of the group wide sustainability plan that was announced in 2013.
Ayeta Anne Wangusa	Wangusa was selected by New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) to be part of the expert pool on Capacity Development and Knowledge Exchange, July 2011.
Norman Uphoff	There he chaired the Rural Development Committee until 1990 and worked on various aspects of participatory development : local organization, farmer associations, irrigation management, and other approaches to assisting small farmers in the developing world.
Audrey McLaughlin	In 2000, she joined the National Democratic Institute, an organization that promotes democracy and peace in developing nations and travelled to Kosovo to help women there to run in the country's first democratic election.
James Hansen	At the end of 2008, Hansen was named by EarthSky Communications and a panel of 600 scientist-advisors as the Scientist Communicator of the Year, citing him as an'' outspoken authority on climate change'' who had'' best communicated with the public about vital science issues or concepts during 2008.''
Serge Dumont	He led a team of experts who advised the Beijing Municipal Government and the World Health Organization during the SARS crisis of 2003.
John Comaroff	In this discussion of the global South the Comaroff's emphasize Africa's growing global importance (American Anthropological Association, 2012).
Gulnara Karimova	In 2012 Karimova was honoured with the'' Silk Road and Humanitarian Cooperation'' Award of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Denzil Douglas	In 2013, former US President Bill Clinton, at a meeting of the Clinton Foundation's Global Initiative, invited Douglas onto stage and publicly lauded and credited Douglas for his initiating the process which has led to the lowering of the cost for anti retro viral drugs.
Goh Chok Tong	In 2008, Goh was invited to join the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government, an independent international organisation of former world leaders.
Vincent Siew	On April 12, 2008, Vincent Siew met with Hu Jintao at the Boao Asia Forum as part of the Cross-Strait Common Market Foundation delegation, which also included other former and future government officials and business leaders from Taiwan.
David Vitter	United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea In September 2007, during hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Vitter expressed serious doubts about the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea treaty concerning issues of U. S. sovereignty echoing an array of conservative groups against the treaty including The National Center for Public Policy Research, the Heritage Foundation and the Center for Security Policy.
Melina Mercouri	In 1983, during the first Greek presidency of the Council of the European Union, Mercouri invited the Ministers for Culture of the other nine member states of the European Union at Zappeion, in order to increase the people's cultural awareness, since there was not any reference to cultural questions in the Treaty of Rome, which led to the establishment of formal sessions between the Ministers of Culture of the European Union.
Michael Roukes	In 2011, Roukes was one of the six scientists first advocating, to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a large-scale U. S. national neuroscience project to accelerate technology for functional connectomics.
Campbell Newman	Newman was selected as one of 25 mayors from across the world shortlisted for the 2010 World Mayor Prize, an online competition aimed at raising the profile of civic leaders.
Harry Chapin	Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger ; he was a key participant in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977.
R. S. Khare	Douglas and Khare (1979) statement on the Commission outlined the anthropological background of the Commission and ambitiously looked ahead to collaboration with social sciences, and international policy and research organizations.
Dimitri Kitsikis	Çankaya Köşkü, Ankara, 1990 Dimitri Kitsikis, since the 1960s, has been the recognised theorist, first in Greece and then in Turkey, of the idea of a Greek-Turkish Confederation, which he has promoted by influencing statesmen, politicians, journalists, artists and thinkers in both countries.
Prince Cedza Dlamini	In June 2004, Cedza was recruited by the United Nations Development Programme to participate in the first Pan African Youth Leadership Summit held in Dakar, Senegal focused on achieving Millennium Development Goals in Africa.
Presidency of Corazon Aquino	In her historic speech, Aquino promised to the International Community in expressing democratic freedoms in countries since the Philippines received freedom after the revolution in 1986, and to provide a resolution in the protection for migrant workers and their families.
Wam Kat	Wam co-founded the European youth environmental network EYFA (European Youth For (est) Action) in 1986 to address the effect of acid rain on the regional forests.
Linda P.B. Katehi	Under Katehi's leadership, UC Davis co-hosted the Governors' Global Climate Summit 3 : Building the Green Economy in November 2010.
Eli Beer	Nominated by a committee chaired by H. M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan for his efforts to create a multicultural, apolitical medical rescue organization, Beer was chosen to become one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders in 2012.
Newt Gingrich	In 2005 he became the co-chair of a task force for UN reform, which aimed to produce a plan for the U. S. to help strengthen the UN.
Sundeep Waslekar	In 2009, he launched dialogue processes to use water to promote mutual stakes and collaboration between traditional enemies in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
David McGuinty	In 2012 McGuinty was elected to head the Canadian chapter of an international alliance of lawmakers, Globe International, that presses governments to address global environment and economy challenges.
Pete Giddings	In 1996, Giddings was one of fifty meteorologists from around the world to be invited by the Clinton administration to participate in a summit on Climate Change.
Bob Wise	In 2010, Wise partnered with Jeb Bush to co-chair the Digital Learning Council (DLC), a diverse group of more than 100 leaders from education, government, philanthropy, business, technology and think tanks charged to develop a roadmap of reform for local, state and federal lawmakers and policymakers.
Vlad Lupan	Since 2008 he was a civil society expert on EU, NATO, security sector reform issues, as well as an external efficiency evaluator and, at the same time, had his show on Vocea Basarabiei radio station.
Medard Mulangala	During a visit to London in May 2011 Mulangala was invited to address the Institute of Economic Affairs on the future of the Mining and Extractives industry in DRC and how to bring transparency to this crucial industry (the IEA website hosts an MP3 recording of the speech.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas	During the 4th-18th sessions of the Human Rights Council, he has participated in panels on various issues including the right to development, extreme poverty, the millennium development goals, women's rights, self-determination, indigenous rights, Kashmir, moderated a panel on human dignity, and presented the statement of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on the International Day of Human Rights, 21 September 2007.
Gerald Chertavian	In 2011, Chertavian announced the creation of a Professional Training Corps (PTC) at the Clinton Global Initiative.
Alain Finkielkraut	In 2010, he was involved in founding JCall, advocacy group based in Europe to lobby the European Parliament on foreign policy issues concerning the Middle East.
Medea Benjamin	In September 2003, Benjamin was in Cancun, Mexico challenging the policies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in November in Miami protesting the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and highlighting the coalescing of the global peace and economic justice movements.
Laurence Brahm	In 2009, Himalayan Consensus was invited by the United Nations to become a member of the United Nations Theme Group for Poverty and Inequality.
Ted Hope	Ted has lectured throughout the world and speaks at numerous events on issues regarding the film industry, most recently at Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore and as the Keynote Speaker at Film Independent's annual Filmmaker Forum in 2008.
Kweku Anno	He spoke at the July 2013 Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) International Conference in Kenya describing how the Biofil Digester imitates nature's way of processing fecal material.
Ahmed Qurei	He also founded and became director of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR) in 1993 in order to help garner money from international donors.
John Michuki	He also took key leadership role in addressing Africa's position towards the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (December 2009) and served as the Co-Chair of International Environmental Governance (IEG).
Majida El Roumi	El Roumi chose this text after the UN ceremony in 2001, when she was named Goodwill Ambassador, and declared it to be the theme message for her mission of peace around the world.
Daniel Hannan	On 24 March 2009, after Gordon Brown had given a short speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg in advance of the G20 London summit, Hannan followed up by delivering a 3-minute speech strongly criticising the response by Gordon Brown to the global financial crisis.
Pramukh Swami Maharaj	The sentiments Pramukh Swami shared with world religious leaders at the 2000 Millennium World Peace Summit at the United Nations reflected a similar message.
Joseph Oladele Sanusi	Speaking in Washington, DC in April 2001 as chairman of the G-24, Sanusi expressed concern about the poor prospects for the world economy, particularly as it affected developing countries.
Nicholas Everett Hollis	Hollis' private meetings with senior government officials in many countries convinced him of the need to formalize trilateral assistance utilizing U. S. expertise and OPEC petrodollar s in African agricultural projects, and he pioneered several efforts in Sudan and Somalia after announcing the initiative at a U. S. commercial counselors' conference in Nairobi in February 1978.
Martti Ahtisaari	In September 2009 Ahtisaari joined The Elders, a group of independent global leaders who work together on peace and human rights issues.
Louis Ferrante	On September 15, 2011, Ferrante spoke at The Economist's Ideas Economy : Human Potential Summit in New York City.
Kathy Castor	In 2013, the Center for Democracy in the Americas presented Congresswoman Castor with the 2013 award for Courage in Congress for her advocacy in changing U. S. policy towards Cuba.
Gennady Burbulis	In 1987, during the perestroika period, Burbulis organized the Sverdlovsk Podium, an open forum for discussing local and later national social, political and economic problems.
Christopher G. Kennedy	Since 2005, he has been a member of The Commercial Club of Chicago, a group that brings together the city's business, educational, and cultural leaders on projects to improve central industries and create new economic opportunities.
Amitav Acharya	His 2001 book, Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia : ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order, was the primary basis of the initial Indonesian concept paper which ultimately resulted in the establishment of the ASEAN Political-Security Community.
John Stossel	In 2001, the media watchdog organization FAIR criticized Stossel's reportage of global warming in his documentary, Tampering with Nature, for using'' highly selective... information'' that gave'' center stage to three dissenters from among the 2,000 members of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which recently released a report stating that global temperatures are rising almost twice as fast as previously thought.''