Ivey and Western Law students present at United Nations

Nine Ivey MBA students and a Western Law student worked to make their mark on world policy-making by sharing information about Canadian HIV/AIDS initiatives at a recent United Nations (UN) meeting in New York City.

The students made three presentations to the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women – part of the Economic and Social Council – during its annual meeting March 2-13. Their presentations were sponsored by the National Council of Women of Canada, a governmental agency that works to improve the quality of life for women. They are the first Canadian university students to present at a UN meeting, with sponsorship from a UN-accredited public policy agency…

The initiative was organized by the Ivey MBA Diversity Committee. Bhat, a founding member of the committee, attended a UN meeting last year as an observer and then pitched the idea of presenting this year to the committee. Tarun Agarwal, an MBA student and Diversity Committee executive was interested, as well as seven other MBA students – Hetal Pandya, Pooja Sharma, Manju Das, Charles Newton Price, Erin MacKenzie, Tory McKillop and Imad Harb – and Omar Ha-Redeye, a Western Law student.

Above (L - R): Rashmi Bhat, Mary Scott, Omar Ha-Redeye, Pooja Sharma, Muriel Smith, Imad Harb, Tarun Agarwal. Mary Scott and Muriel Smith are from the National Council of Women of Canada.