IDRC President to give William G. Demas Memorial Lecture Caribbean Integration in a Global World: The Role of Research Networks will be the title of the Eighth William G. Demas Memorial Lecture. The lecture will be given by Maureen O'Neil, President of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 29, 2007, at the Radisson Plaza Eurobuilding Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. It forms part of the activities for the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), which will be hosted by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.CDB inaugurated the lecture series in 2000, in honour of the late William Gilbert Demas, who served as the Bank's second president. He was a distinguished economist and champion of regional integration.Ms. O'Neil is a member of the International Board of Governors of the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a member of the Advisory Council on Corporate Social Responsibility of Canada's Export Development Corporation. She is also a Fellow of the School of Policy Studies of Queen's University, and has been a member and/or Chair of numerous Boards.A former Deputy Minister of Citizenship for the Government of Ontario, she has also represented Canada on the UN Commission on the Status of Women and on OECD committees, and has been a member of the UN Committee for Development Planning and the Board of the UN Research Institute for Social Development. Ms. O'Neil has a BA in Sociology from Carleton University and Honorary LLDs from Carleton University and Wilfrid Laurier University. She will be the first woman to deliver the lecture since the series was inaugurated.