Archive News (November 2007)

DLSC Administrators Attend Nobel Winner Lecture

DLSC, headed by Br. Joaquin Martinez FSC attended the lecture of 1999 Nobel Laureate for Economics, Professor Robert A. Mundell entitled "Economic Development by fitting globalization into the national development strategy" at the Teresa Yuchengco Theater, De La Salle University-Manila last November 15, 2007.

Professor Mundell's visit is the first of a series of visits of Nobel Prize winners and other distinguished guests to the Philippines under the program "Bridges - Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace" which is hosted through the International Peace Foundation. The event, which was hosted by DLSU-Manila in cooperation with Mapua Institute of Technology, was attended by members of educational institutions, professional, government and non-government organizations and other groups in the areas of business, economics and development.

College Dean Dr. Arnulfo Azcarraga, School Director for Management and Technopreneurship Mr. Joel Yuvienco, Integrated School Principal Mrs. Lily Hope Mendoza and Academic Level Leader Ms. Riza Estefani also represented DLSC to Professor Mundell's lecture.

2004 Nobel Laureate for Physics Professor David J. Gross, former President of the The World Bank Mr. James D. Wolfensohn and 1996 Nobel Laureate for Peace and President of Timor-Leste His Excellency Professor Jose Ramos-Horta are also set to visit the Philippines and conduct lectures between January-April 2008 as part of the "Bridges" program.

The International Peace Foundation started Bridges in Thailand, and extended it this year to the Philippines, with the aim of facilitating and strengthening dialogue and communication between societies in Southeast Asia as well as with people in other parts of the world, to promote understanding and trust.

Through Nobel Laureates and with local universities and other institutions in Southeast Asia, Bridges seeks to contribute to the United Nations' Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence, with the establishment of long-term relationships which may result in common research programs and other forms of collaboration.

Washington SyCip, founder of the SGV Group and of the Asian Institute of Management, is the Philippine honorary chairman of Bridges, and Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chair and CEO of the Ayala Corporation, is the program's Philippine chairman.

(Some details and information courtesy of DLSU-Manila)