. >> so turning to the african union, this is interesting, she was for 25 years a medical doctor in tennessee in a town near where bev grew up. both her daughters are graduates, one already graduated from yale medical school and the other is in yale medical school. pretty impressive. what drove you to take on this position that you have now? >> well, i was minding my own busine business, actually in bed. it was exactly 3:02 in the morning when my phone rang, and it was then chairman of the african union informing me that my predecessor had turned in her resignation, that she was going to be running for president of tanzania. and that she couldn't think of anyone better than myself to take on that role. of course, i laughed at her. i couldn't see myself as an ambassador. i said well, what do you think i know, i'm a medical doctor. and she reminded me that she herself is a pediatrician, and that i should take some time and think about it. i thought she was kidding. about a week later, she called me again and slowly i began to realize that she was really serious. so we joke about it, w

. and ambassador chi hee is the ambassador of the african union. our moderator is nina easton. nina is also the chair of fortunes most powerful women international summit and the cochair of the global forum. thank you all again for joining us and over to you, nina. >> thank you. and let's -- around of applause for all of these been -- these women, first of all. it's truly an awesome and i tim dating experience to be around all these amazing women. we're first going to go down and talk to each of them a little bit about themselves and their countries and then we'll talk about some overarching geopolitical themes. but i really want to include you. so once we do two rounds, we are going to dak questions from the audience. go ahead and have them ready. there's cards. we will pick them up and we will read off the questions to our participants. so thank you. i'm first going to turn to my left, from sweden ambassador ole loss of d karin olofsdotter, and they have an foreign policy. >> we have a foreign government that has a feministic policy. >> you say feministic. >> that's maybe language

phone rang. and it was then chairman of the african union chairman zuma, informing me that my predecessor had turned in her resignation and that she was going to be running for president of tanzania. that she couldn't think of anyone better than myself to take on that role. i couldn't see myself as an ambassador. what do you think i know? i'm a medical doctor. and she reminded me that she herself is a pediatrician. that i should take some time and think about it. i thought she was kidding. about a week later she called me again. slowly i began to realize that she was really serious. so we joke about it. we say she courted me like a man would court a woman. it took her six months to finally get me to say yes. but it was not an easy decision, because it never occurred to me that my experience as a family physician would more than prepare me for diplomacy. and before i finally made the call to the chairman to say that i would take the position, i had a conversation with my husband, who reminded me of how as a physician you can very nicely tell a woman that she's overweight but th