AFP PHOTO / HECTOR MATA ( Photo credit should read HECTOR MATA / AFP / Getty Images ) UNITED NATIONS , UNITED NATIONS : Hernando de Soto ( L ) , founder and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima , Peru , and Madeleine K. Albright ( C ) , former secretary of state of the United States , listen to Ashraf Ghani ( 2R , facing camera ) , Dean of Kabul University , speak 20 January , 2006 at UN headquarters in New York , during a meeting of the High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor , a new independent committee that explores how nations can reduce poverty through reforms that expand access to legal protection . De Soto and Albright are co - chairs of the committee . AFP PHOTO / Stan HONDA ( Photo credit should read STAN HONDA / AFP / Getty Images ) Washington , UNITED STATES : Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies justice.initiatejudicialprocess.trialhearing during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee 17 January , 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington , DC . The hearing was to examine the current situation on the war in Iraq . AFP PHOTO / TIM SLOAN ( Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN / AFP / Getty Images ) WASHINGTON - JANUARY 17 : Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee January 17 , 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington , DC .