Andrea Smith, Publicist
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-DEBRA FRIEDMAN is an established and internationally exhibited
photographer and educator living in Toronto, Canada. She has a BFA
from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an MFA from
The Chicago Art Institute. She is the recipient of numerous visual
arts awards from The Polaroid Corporation, The Canada Council and
The Ontario Arts Council and has enjoyed several
artists’residencies, notably at The Hambidge Centre in Rabuns Gap,
Georgia and at Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
-Tom Butterfield is founder and executive director of the
Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. He graduated from Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, in1976 and received a Canada
Council Grant for photography before moving back to his homeland,
Bermuda. In 1987. There, he started Masterworks Museum based on the
notion that if Winslow Homer and other world prominent artists came
to the island to create work, many other visual artists may have
been inspired by the island as well. Today, the collection of over
1500 artworks including painting, drawing, sculpture and
photography is housed in a state-of-the-art museum in the Bermuda
Botanical Gardens attracting thousands of visitors each year.
-The Hon. Dame Pamela Gordon Banks DBE, JP
Dame Pamela Gordon Banks was the first woman, and youngest person,
ever to serve as the Premier of Bermuda. As head of state, Dame
Pamela led a Cabinet that fostered the continued growth of
international business and educational advancement, during which
Bermuda experienced unrivalled prosperity. Knighted by Her Majesty,
Queen Elizabeth II, for service to her country, Dame Pamela helped
to unify Bermuda with Britain’s other Overseas Territories, and
marshalled their representatives in negotiations with the UK
Government. Her years of public service brought Dame Pamela
together with leaders as diverse as Benazir Bhutto, Fidel Castro,
Eugenia Charles, Jean Chretien, Hillary Clinton, Coretta Scott
King, Margaret Thatcher and John Major. In more than 14 years in
politics, Dame Pamela served in such varied positions as Premier,
Leader of the Opposition, Minister of the Environment & Natural
Resources, Minister of Youth & Sport, and Member of Parliament. To
promote responsible governance, Dame Pamela has debated politics
everywhere from CNN to the Oxford Union to Harvard University’s
Kennedy School of Government to the Woodrow Wilson Center for
Scholars. As a Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics, Dame
Pamela has extensively lectured university students keen to
practice the art of the possible”. Dame Pamela champions a vision
of hope grounded in economic reality. She draws on the knowledge
gained from earning her MBA at Queen’s University to advocate her
vision with fellow members of the Council of Women World Leaders
and the Global Leaders of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum.
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