Date: 12 Mar 2009
Speaker: Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma
Location: Peterhouse Lecture, Cambridge University, UK
"Thank you very much, Vice Chancellor, for your warm welcome. It is also one of the very few occasions when the microphone does not have to be adjusted for my centre of gravity, which is extremely progressive! You saw me off sumptuously when I was leaving London, and now you invite me back handsomely again. I am very grateful for that. I am always very happy to come to Cambridge; perhaps that has something to do with the fact that a criminal is always drawn to the scene of his crimes. I try to relive those years I was here, which were so transformative for me. I could not imagine then, that I would be standing here and speaking to any kind of audience, and least of all that anyone would be interested in what I have to say!"
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Global Transformation and Challenge