Cunard: The Most Famous Ocean Liners In The World

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Ambassador Gwen C. Clare

A career diplomat for 30 years, Gwen Clare served in Portugal, Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Brazil, and Ecuador, where she was the American Ambassador. She also lived in Ethiopia, Guatemala, and Paraguay. In Washington, she worked on the staff of Secretary of State George Shultz. As Director of the Orientation Division of the Foreign Service Institute, Ambassador Clare prepared for duty 450 new officers. During her assignment as Diplomat in Residence at the Carter Center, she monitored the election process in Nicaragua and East Timor. A frequent lecturer both during her government career and in retirement, she serves on the board of the local World Affairs Council. Gwen earned her B.A. from George Washington University. She did graduate work at the National War College and at Johns Hopkins School of International Studies, while on Capitol Hill as a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

Giancarlo Impiglia

Giancarlo Impiglia was born in Rome, Italy to a family of artists and musicians. He studied at the Arts Lyceum and the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, moving to New York in 1973. His American art career was launched in 1974 with an important commission for the Great American Insurance Building at 99 John Street in Lower Manhattan. This led to a succession of commissions in the city and in many other American cities. In 1994, he was commissioned to create art works for the Lido Restaurant and Lido Bar on the newly refurbished QE2. In 2003, Cunard again commissioned Giancarlo to create artworks for the Queen Mary 2: 4 large paintings on the theme of entertainment to decorate the walls opposite the the Royal Court Theatre on decks 2 and 3. Recently, a new commission, a portrait: “ Queen Victoria as a Young Woman”. The portrait will be displayed in the Queen's Room on the new Ocean Liner Queen Victoria. Giancarlo Impiglia's work is part of many important private and public collections and is also featured in the permanent collections of the Museum of the city of New York, the Zimmerly Museum at Rutgers University, NJ, the Kentucky Derby Museum, the Sangre the Cristo Museum in Pueblo, Colorado, the Absolut Museum, and the Pfizer Collection in New York. Giancarlo Impiglia has been a guest lecturer on Queen Elizabeth 2 for more than 10 years and on Queen Mary 2 since her launch in 2003. His sophisticated and informative presentations are followed with interest by art lovers from all over the world.

Dr Peter Bourne

Dr Peter Bourne has had a career as a clinician and researcher, senior government official, international civil servant, diplomat and author. He is currently Visiting Scholar, Green College, University of Oxford, Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, St. George’s University, Grenada, Chairman, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC). He has previously served as special assistant to the president of the United States in the Carter White House, Director of the Office of Drug Abuse Policy and later as Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations. Among his many publications are two major biographies, Fidel: A Biography of Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter: From Plains to the Post-Presidency. He is the producer of a recently released full-length documentary film !Salud! about the Cuban health care system and the role of Cuban doctors around the world.

Ian Haydn Smith

Ian Haydn Smith is the Editor of the International Film Guide. He has written extensively on film and interviewed numerous directors on stage. He curates and presents the Screen Salon at London’s Everyman Cinema, looking at various periods of film history. His favourite directors include Preston Sturges, Luis Bunuel and Alfred Hitchcock.

Mary King

Mary Elizabeth King is professor of peace and conflict studies at the UN-affiliated University for Peace, and distinguished scholar with the American University’s Center for Global Peace, in Washington, DC. She is a fellow at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute, in Britain. Her professional work has taken her to more than 130 countries. As a presidential appointee in the Jimmy Carter administration, King had worldwide oversight for the Peace Corps and other U.S. volunteer service corps programs. In the U.S. civil rights movement, she worked alongside the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (no relation). She is a leader in introducing the technique of civil resistance (nonviolent struggle) to societies in conflict. Author of many books and articles, her most recent book is A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance. Forthcoming is The New York Times and Emerging Democracies, on eight Eastern European countries (Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Serbia) that won independence from the USSR through civil resistance. In 1988, she won a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award for Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In 2002, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action, which chronicles nine contemporary nonviolent struggles, originally published by UNESCO in 1999, was published in India. In 2003 she received the Jamnalal Bajaj International Prize for the promotion of Gandhian values.

Ambassador Gwen C. Clare

Giancarlo Impiglia

Dr Peter Bourne

Ian Haydn Smith

Mary King

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