Corps news – Embassy 18 – July/August 2009

YDL launches lunchtime lectures

The guest speaker at the inaugural YDL lunchtime lectures was Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Ms Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba, who spoke about the value of multiculturalism in international diplomacy, using the Commonwealth as an example as the organisation celebrates its 60th anniversary. The lunch was hosted by HSBC which, as “the world’s local bank” prides itself on multiculturalism.