Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Founder and Chairperson
BRAC

Born in 1936, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is the founder of BRAC. What began as a limited relief effort in Bangladesh in 1972 has gone on to become the largest development organization in the world. BRAC has been defeating poverty with a holistic approach geared toward inclusion, using tools like microfinance, education, health care, legal services, community empowerment, and more. Abed was an inaugural recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2007, and in 2010, was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) by the British crown. In 2011, he received the inaugural WISE Prize for Education in Qatar.

Madeleine K. Albright

Chair
Albright Stonebridge Group

Madeleine K. Albright is chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. In 1997, she was named the first female U.S. Secretary of State. She is a professor in the practice of diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She chairs the National Democratic Institute and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Albright serves on the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Policy Board, and on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute, and the Center for American Progress. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College, and master’s and doctorate degrees from Columbia University’s Department of Public Law and Government. In 2012, she was chosen by President Obama to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in recognition of her contributions to international peace and democracy.

Jack Andraka

Student, North County High School; Cancer Researcher Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Jack Andraka is a 15-year old high school student from Maryland who has developed a novel paper sensor for the detection of pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers in their earliest stages. In addition, the sensor has broad implications for the entire biomedical field through the detection of various proteins, moving toward the detection of nearly any disease and finding an optimal method for treatment. Andraka conducted all of his background research to come up with the idea through online search engines, mainly Google, and basic knowledge of biology. He then contacted over 200 different professors at Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health, receiving 199 rejections and one acceptance into the lab of Anirban Maitra, a professor of pathology and oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Andraka hopes his story can inspire other high school and middle school students to do advanced scientific research.

Kevin Anton

Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer
Alcoa, Inc.

Kevin Anton was named chief sustainability officer for Alcoa in August 2010. In this role, he is responsible for developing a comprehensive strategy that integrates the company’s sustainability efforts. He is a vice president of Alcoa and sits on the Alcoa E xecutive Council. Anton joined Alcoa in 1998 and has worked for over 30 years in the metals and mining industry. He has served as vice president of finance and strategy for Alcoa Global Primary Products and as president of Alcoa Materials Management, Alcoa’s commodity trading arm. Before joining Alcoa, he held senior management positions at Alumax, including serving as vice president and controller for its primary aluminum group. Earlier, Anton held various financial positions, including director of business planning and development for AMAX Inc. Anton is the past chairman of the U.S. Aluminum Association and currently sits on the boards of the Aluminum Association, Electronic Recyclers International Inc., and EarthWatch Institute.

Philip Auerswald

President
The National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Philip Auerswald is a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and an associate professor of public policy at George Mason University. He has been an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative since 2010. He is the co-founder and co-editor of “Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization”, a quarterly journal from MIT Press about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. He is also author and co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, most recently including “The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy” (from Oxford University Press in March of 2012).

Joyce Banda

President of the Republic of Malawi

President Joyce Banda was born on April 12, 1950. Regarded as one of the most powerful women in Africa and one of the continent’s prominent gender and human rights activists, she became vice president of the Republic of Malawi in May 2009. She held the position until April 2012, then assumed the presidency following the death of President Bingu Wa Mutharika. Having served in office for just over four months, President Banda has implemented a number of bold decisions and programs that have put Malawi’s ailing economy on a path to recovery after years of economic mismanagement. President Banda has restored the rule of law and respect in Malawi, as well as the protection of human rights and constitutionalism. She holds a bachelor’s degree in gender and development and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in leadership at Royal Roads University in Canada.

Walter A. Bell

Chairman of the Board
Swiss Re America Holding Corporation

Walter A. Bell joined Swiss Re as chairman in September 2008. In this capacity, he provides supervisory governance of Swiss Re America’s businesses and oversees and directs regulatory and public affairs for all of the North America businesses. Bell served as Alabama Department of Insurance Commissioner from 2003 to 2008. While commissioner, he also served as president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and vice chairman of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) Executive Committee. He is the retired vice president for diversity marketing for the MONY Group, a life insurance company that he joined in 1983, and a former trustee and graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. He is also a trustee of the Mobile Arts and Sports Association (the parent of the Senior football game) and a past trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Bell has served in various capacities in numerous charitable and civic endeavors in both Mobile and New York and has been honored in both cities for his civic leadership.

Jeroo Billimoria

Founder and Managing Director
Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI)

Jeroo Billimoria is managing director of Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), which is building a global movement for financial inclusion and financial education for children and youth. Billimoria is considered among the world’s leading social entrepreneurs and is now working on her ninth entrepreneurial venture. She is a Skoll awardee, and an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. Among her organizations are Childline India and ChildHelpline International, which have facilitated a global movement for the protection of children and youth and which are up and running in more than 120 countries and have responded to over 140 million calls. Her other organization, Aflatoun, provides social and financial education to over one million children in 83 countries and has been recognized among the world’s top 50 NGOs. As managing director of CYFI, Billimoria is working to ensure financial inclusion and ChildFinance Education for 100 million children and youth in 100 countries by 2015.

Lloyd C. Blankfein

Chairman and CEO
Goldman Sachs

Lloyd C. Blankfein is chairman and CEO of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He joined the J. Aron Currency and Commodities Division of Goldman Sachs in 1982 after working as an attorney. Blankfein was named partner in 1988, co-head of the J. Aron Division in 1994, and co-head of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division as of its formation in 1997. Blankfein served as vice chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2002 through 2003. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, he served as the firm’s president and chief operating officer from December 2003 through June 2006. Blankfein earned a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1978 and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1975. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School, a member of the Dean’s Council of Harvard University, a member of the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, an overseer of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and a board member of the Partnership for New York City.

Tim Brown

Chief Executive Officer
IDEO

Tim Brown is a leading voice on the value of design thinking in business and society. His ideas and experience are widely sought in industry, academia, and the nonprofit community. Brown advises senior executives of Fortune 500 companies and serves on the board o f t rustees for the C alifornia C ollege o f the Ar ts, the Mayo Innovation Advisory Council, and the Acumen Fund Advisory Council. Brown has led strategic client relationships with such companies as Sony, Microsoft, Motorola, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, and Steelcase. An industrial designer by training, his own work has earned him numerous design awards and has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Axis Gallery in Tokyo, and the Design Museum in London. Brown joined IDEO in 1987 after earning his Master of Arts in design from the Royal College of Art in London.

John Burt

Co-founder, Cambodia Living arts; Chair, Season of Cambodia

John Burt is co-founder of the non-government support organization, Cambodian Living Arts (CLA). Under his leadership, Cambodian Living Arts commissioned and produced the new Cambodian-American rock opera, “Where Elephants Weep,” which had its World Premiere in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2008. He currently serves on the CLA board of directors as chairman of its new initiative, Season of Cambodia, a festival of Cambodian arts coming to New York in the spring of 2013. Burt has been a theatrical producer and practicing expressive arts therapist and coach for thirty years. He received a Master of Arts in expressive art therapies from Lesley University and is currently a doctoral candidate in expressive arts at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. He is president of the Fresh Sound Foundation and is a past board member of the Marion Institute, Save the River, and the Roberts Foundation.

Felipe Calderón

President of Mexico

Felipe Calderón took office as president of Mexico on December 1, 2006. President Calderón has led a government that is transforming Mexico into a safer, more prosperous and just nation. He has valiantly pursued a major campaign to strengthen human security and the rule of law. Mexico has reached the goal of providing universal access to healthcare services and has dramatically expanded education at all levels. The Calderón government’s economic management has been critical to enabling continued economic growth and the largest investment in public infrastructure in recent history. This is fueling one of the most important transformations occurring in Mexico: the rise of the middle class. Mexico has also become a world leader in promoting sustainable development and a green agenda. President Calderón’s vision and policy agenda is setting the basis for long-term and sustainable economic growth, strong rule of law, and prosperity in Mexico.

Kate Canales

Director of Design and Innovation Programs
Southern Methodist University

Kate Canales is the director of design and innovation programs at the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University. She has a background in product design, design research, and design strategy. Canales has worked as a designer and content leader at IDEO and as a creative director at frog design. At Southern Methodist University, she is working to integrate human-centered design methodologies into the engineering curriculum. She is currently teaching freshman design and senior design, and she also teaches courses in human-centered design process and design research methods. Canales holds a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford University.

John Cary

Founder and Editor
PublicInterestDesign.org

John Cary is the author of “The Power of Pro Bono” and the founding editor of PublicInterestDesign.org. He is a research fellow within the University of Minnesota College of Design, focused on the growing field of public interest design. Cary is also a strategic advisor to the new $1 million TED Prize and co-lead of The City 2.0, the 2012 TED Prize. Cary and partner Courtney E. Martin are currently the first guest curators in residence at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco for an exhibition on public interest design opening October 4. Among other honors, Cary is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council, fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a resident of the Rockefeller Foundation‘s Bellagio Center.

John Chambers

Chairman and CEO
Cisco

John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco, takes an active role in corporate social responsibility initiatives worldwide. Having received numerous awards for his business and philanthropic leadership, he is a twotime recipient of the Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE), the United States Department of State’s top corporate social responsibility award, from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010 and Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in 2005. He was also one of the first recipients of the Clinton Global Citizen Award.

Anne Mei Chang

Senior Advisor for Women and Technology
U.S. Department of State

Ann Mei Chang is the senior advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to this position, she spent eight years as a senior engineering director at Google, most recently leading product development for Emerging Markets, with a mission to bring relevant mobile and Internet services to the half of the world’s population which is not yet online. During her tenure at Google she also led worldwide engineering for Google’s mobile applications and services, where she oversaw 20x growth in just three years and delivered over one billion dollars in annualized revenues. Chang holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Stanford University.

Jason Clay

Senior Vice President, Market Transformation
World Wildlife Fund

Jason Clay is World Wildlife Fund’s senior vice president for market transformation. He is a thought leader in the NGO community about global trends, supply chain management issues, and convening multi-stakeholder groups to work together on pre-competitive issues. Clay is a globally recognized expert on certification and food production. He created one of the world’s first ecolabels and helped develop standards for more than a dozen commodities through multistakeholder processes that reduce the impacts of production. Over the course of his career, Clay has run a family farm, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, helped create hundreds of products such as Rainforest Crunch with Ben & Jerry’s, and spent more than 30 years working with environmental and human rights organizations. Clay studied at Harvard University and the London School of Economics, and he received his doctorate in anthropology at Cornell University. He founded the award-winning Cultural Survival Quarterly and has authored more than 300 articles and 15 books, including “World Agriculture and the Environment.” In addition to his World Wildlife Fund role, Clay is the first food and sustainability fellow of the National Geographic Society.

Chelsea Clinton

Board Member
Clinton Global Initiative and William J. Clinton Foundation

Chelsea Clinton has worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital and studied at Stanford, Oxford, and Columbia Universities. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at Oxford, working at New York University and with the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, and is a special correspondent for NBC News. She serves on the boards of the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the School of American Ballet, Common Sense Media, and the Weill Cornell Medical College. She and her husband, Marc, live in New York City.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State

Hillary Rodham Clinton became the 67th secretary of state in January 2009, after decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, first lady, and senator from New York. As first lady, she led bipartisan efforts on adoption and foster care, teen pregnancy, and health care for children, and traveled the world as an advocate for human rights and democracy. As senator, she worked to rebuild New York after 9/11, address lasting health concerns of first responders, create economic opportunity, and improve health care for service members and veterans. And now as secretary of state, Secretary Clinton is President Obama’s principal advisor on foreign policy. She has visited 110 countries and is on track to travel one million miles during her tenure in office. Secretary Clinton was born in Chicago and graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Law School. She is married to former President Bill Clinton.

President Bill Clinton

42nd President of the United States
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative

Elected president of the United States in 1992 and 1996, President Bill Clinton was the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice. Under his leadership, the United States enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in its history. His administration resulted in moving the nation from record deficits to record surpluses; the creation of over 22 million jobs; low levels of unemployment, poverty and crime; and the highest home ownership and college enrollment rates in history. He also increased investment in education, expanded access to technology, encouraged investment in underserved communities, protected the environment, and countered the threat of terrorism while promoting peace and strengthening democracy around the world. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the U.S. and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.

Ron Cordes

Founder
Cordes Foundation

Ron Cordes co-founded the Cordes Foundation with his wife, Marty, in 2006. It works to utilize social entrepreneurship and impact investing as tools for global poverty alleviation. Cordes has spent more than 25 years in the investment industry and is currently co-chairman of Genworth Financial Wealth Management. He is a member of the board of regents for the University of the Pacific, as well as chairman of the advisory board for the university’s Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship. In addition, he is a board member of Fair Trade USA, MicroVest Holdings, Sarona Fund, and East Bay Community Foundation.

David Crane

President and CEO
NRG Energy, Inc.

David Crane is president and CEO of NRG Energy, a Fortune 300 company changing how people think about and use energy. As one of the largest solar power developers in the U.S., NRG is a pioneer in developing cleaner and smarter energy choices for its customers, building the first privately funded electric vehicle-charging infrastructure and giving customers the latest smart energy solutions to better manage their energy use. Crane holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a law degree from Harvard Law School.

Leslie Dach

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Leslie Dach is executive vice president of corporate affairs for Walmart. He is responsible for public policy, reputation management, corporate communications, philanthropy, government relations, and the company’s social responsibility and sustainability initiatives. He also manages the company’s global security, aviation, and travel departments. He has been responsible for the development of initiatives such as Walmart’s partnership with First Lady Michelle Obama to make food healthier by dramatically reducing sugar and salt content and to make healthy food more affordable by reducing prices on fresh fruits and vegetables. Other initiatives include Walmart’s $2 billion commitment to fight hunger, pledge to remove 20 million metric tons of carbon from its global supply chain, and overall corporate giving, which reached $800 million last year. Dach serves on the board of directors of the World Resources Institute.

Salma Samar Damluji

Chief Architect
Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation

Salma Samar Damluji is the 2012 recipient of the LOCUS Foundation’s Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. She worked with Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in Cairo from 1974 to 1975 and 1983 to 1984 and served as the human settlement officer with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) from 1981 to 1982. Damluji was a research fellow from 1987 to 1989 at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, where she later worked as a tutor at RCA’s Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts school and as a coordinator of the RCA Morocco-Asilah Studios. She was also a senior tutor at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Housing & Urbanism Graduate School from 1989 to 1997, and from 2002 to 2004, she was director of the Technical Office of the Chairman of The Works Department in Abu Dhabi. Since 2005, she has been working in Hadramut, Yemen, where she is a founding member of Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation, based in Mukalla. With over 12 published titles and several articles in journals, Damluji is a well-respected authority and specialist in her field. She is based between London and Beirut.

Steve Davis

President and CEO
PATH

Steve Davis is president and chief executive officer of PATH, a Seattle-based international nonprofit organization that transforms global health through innovation. He oversees PATH’s diverse portfolio, leads overall strategy, and represents PATH around the world. Davis previously served as a business leader and strategist for private companies and international organizations. He was CEO of the digital media firm Corbis, interim CEO of the Infectious Disease Research Institute, and director of social innovation for McKinsey & Company. He also served on PATH’s board of directors and as interim leader of our India program. Steve earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, his Master of Arts in Chinese studies from the University of Washington, and his law degree from Columbia University.

Krista Donaldson

Chief Executive Officer
D-Rev: Design Revolution

Krista Donaldson is the chief executive officer of D-Rev, a nonprofit technology company whose mission is to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4 per day. She has been working at the intersection of design and international development for over 12 years, applying design to confounding social problems in the developing world. Her recent work focused on medical devices: Brilliance, a device to treat babies with severe jaundice, and the JaipurKnee, an artificial knee for developing world amputees. Donaldson has previously worked at the United States Department of State on the reconstruction of Iraq’s electricity sector and at KickStart International in Nairobi, Kenya. She is also a lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University.

Fred Dust

Partner
IDEO

A partner at IDEO, Fred Dust leads the work responsible for helping clients to answer large, systemic questions about infrastructure, from governmental shifts to behavioral change and beyond. He serves on the Board of Governors at Parsons The New School for Design and on the Advisory Board of the Aspen Institute. He lectures widely on topics including design methodology, future experience trends, and the potential impact of business on social innovation. He holds numerous guest professor positions, including the Bruce Goff lectureship at the University of Oklahoma. Dust’s writing, published by various journals, appears in several IDEO books: “Extra Spatial” (Chronicle Books, 2003) discusses the design of spaces, and “Eyes Open: New York” and “Eyes Open: London” (Chronicle Books, 2008) are city guides that view exceptional experiences through an urban lens. Dust holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Reed College and a master’s in architecture from the School of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley.

Mallika Dutt

President and CEO
Breakthrough

Mallika Dutt, founder of global human rights organization Breakthrough, is one of today’s most innovative and effective leaders in cultural transformation. Dutt has reinvented the delivery of social and behavioral change through a mix of stirring multimedia campaigns, social media, pop culture, and on-the-ground community engagement. Her entrepreneurial style and ability to pinpoint the leading edge of the cultural arc have inspired millions to take bold action and has motivated them to challenge deeply entrenched norms and attitudes and bring the ideals of dignity, equality, and justice into their own relationships and communities. Through Breakthrough, Dutt puts innovative media tools and technology in the hands of real people, inspiring them to share their stories of transformation and bring empowerment and opportunity to a new generation of leaders emerging from the margins.

Henri van Eeghen

Chief Operating Officer
Cordaid

Henri van Eeghen is the chief operating officer at Cordaid. Cordaid combines more than 90 years’ experience and expertise in emergency aid and structural poverty eradication and is one of the largest international development organizations in The Netherlands, with a network of a thousand partner organizations in 28 countries. Cordaid’s activities include: conflict and conflict prevention (women leadership, extractives, and community security), health (maternal health, human resource management, and performance-based financing), humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction programs, and entrepreneurship (microfinance/SMEs). Van Eeghen’s former employment history includes serving as chief executive officer of the Van Eeghen Group, a family company (est. 1662) specialized in processing, trade, and the distribution of food ingredients with joint ventures in Canada, Mexico, South Africa, and China. He has also served as chief executive officer of the Mercurius Group in The Netherlands, a strategic holding company with six divisions and 38 independent subsidiaries worldwide. He has held various senior management positions with the paper and forestry multinational Stora Enso and has worked for them in Canada, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Finland, and The Netherlands.

Shelly Esque

President, Intel Foundation; Vice President Corporate Affairs, Intel Corporation

Shelly Esque oversees professionals in more than 35 countries working to enhance Intel’s reputation as the world’s leading technology brand and corporate citizen. A 15-year Intel veteran, Esque drove the creation of the corporate affairs group, adding Intel’s $100 million annual education effort to her existing portfolio managing Intel’s corporate social responsibility, environmental sustainability, community, foundation, and government relations efforts worldwide. Esque is an active member of international organizations focused on improving education.

Duquesne Fednard

Chief Executive Officer
D & E Green Enterprises, Inc.

Duquesne Fednard is the founder and CEO of D&E Green Enterprises (D&E), a social business committed to bringing affordable, reliable and clean energy to resource-constrained communities in Haiti. D&E combines local experience with technical expertise to produce social, environmental and economic returns. Duquesne has more than 13 years of professional and entrepreneurial experience encompassing finance, management, operations and engineering in both developed and developing countries. Past positions include director of NYC Business Solutions at Wildcat Service Corporation, global trade associate at Citigroup and vice president at Perfection Machine Shop (Haiti). In 2011, he won Digicel Haiti’s Entrepreneur of the Year award and AIDG’s Green Haiti Competition. Duquesne holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from State University of New York and a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.

Heather Fleming

Chief Executive Officer
Catapult Design

Heather Fleming is the co-founder and CEO of Catapult Design, a design agency working with entrepreneurs worldwide to develop market-based solutions to alleviate poverty. Fleming previously worked in the Silicon Valley product development consulting world and has nine years of experience designing, developing, and delivering product solutions for a diverse range of companies. She co-founded Catapult Design to make design and technical capacity accessible to entrepreneurs and organizations working within disadvantaged communities. Fleming is a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She was also previously an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University and a senior lecturer at California College of the Arts in the Industrial Design Department. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Navajo Chamber of Commerce and chairs a committee within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Engineering for Global Development initiative. Heather has a Bachelor of Science in product design from Stanford University.

Timothy F. Geithner

Secretary of the Treasury
U.S. Department of the Treasury

On January 26, 2009, Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in as the 75th Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury. From 2003-2009, Geithner served as the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In that capacity, he served as the vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Geithner first joined the Department of Treasury in 1988 and worked in three administrations for five Secretaries of the Treasury. He served as under secretary of the treasury for international affairs from 1999 to 2001. He was director of the policy development and review department at the International Monetary Fund from 2001 until 2003. Geithner graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelors degree in government and Asian studies and from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with a master’s in international economics and east Asian studies.

Ron Gonen

Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation, Recycling and Sustainability
New York City Department of Waste and Sanitation

Ron Gonen is currently the deputy commissioner of sanitation in New York City, where he is responsible for the city’s recycling and waste reduction programs. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches social entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the Bloomberg administration, he was the co-founder and managing director of Health Planet Partners, a company that deploys solar energy to sports stadiums and athletic facilities. From 2004 to 2010, Ron was the co-founder and CEO of RecycleBank, providing recycling services to over 100 communities and over 1million households. In 2009, the United Nations Environment Program designated Ron a “Champion of the Earth” in recognition of his commitment to the environment. He has been recognized by the World Economic Fund as a Technology Pioneer, served as a Catto Fellow at the Aspen Institute from 2010 to 2012, and received the 2010 Medal of Excellence from Columbia University. He is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Bill Goodwyn

Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Education
Discovery Communications Inc.

A 23-year veteran of Discovery Communications, Bill Goodwyn serves as chief executive officer of Discovery Education, the nation’s leading provider of curriculumbased digital content and professional development resources in U.S. schools. Discovery Education now reaches over half of all K-12 classrooms, one million educators, and 35 million students in the U.S., as well as 35 countries around the world. Since taking the helm in 2007, Goodwyn has transformed Discovery Education into the fastestgrowing division of the company and expanded into new products and services, most recently with the launch of the Discovery Education Techbook series in 2010. Goodwyn has been awarded the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Vanguard Award, the highest honor for Young Leadership, and was inducted into the Cable Center’s Cable TV Pioneer Hall of Fame and CableFAX Daily’s Sales Hall o f Fame. He has held board positions w ith the C able & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), CTAM’s Educational Foundation, the T. Howard Foundation (diversity in media), the Alexander Youth Network, and the UNC-Chapel Hill Journalism and Communications School Board of Advisors.

Alexander Grashow

Chief Executive Officer
Cambridge Leadership Associates

Alexander Grashow is a business adaptation specialist, master facilitator, speaker, and author. Alexander Grashow works with For tune 500 companies, entrepreneurial innovative businesses, aid organizations, and multiparty collaborations in the field of business and community adaptation. Whether dealing with increased complexity or ambition, Grashow mobilizes individuals and teams to do more for what they care most about. He is sought-after for his combination of creativity, discipline, and pragmatism. Grashow is the chief executive officer of Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA), an international leadership and consulting practice. He has co-authored “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership” (Harvard Business Press, 2009) and “Leadership in a Permanent Crisis” (Harvard Business Review). He is also board chair of the U.S. Africa Children’s Fellowship. A Brooklyn native, he studied economics and fine arts and continues to learn from his three kids.

Sarah Stein Greenberg

Managing Director
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (d. school)

Sarah Stein Greenberg helps lead the Stanford d.school. Previously, she worked in the innovation practice of Monitor Group in the U.S. and India and advised multinational companies on developing innovation capabilities. She helped develop new products and services in a number of emerging markets in Asia and Africa. In the classroom, she has co-taught the d.school’s foundational class “Design Thinking Bootcamp,” and its legendary course on design for the developing world, “Design for Extreme Affordability,” in addition to teaching executive education. She holds an Master of Business Administration from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in history from Oberlin College. She has recently discovered the joys of scuba diving, displaying the embarrassing level of enthusiasm that only an amateur can.

Randa Grob-Zakhary

Chief Executive Officer
LEGO Foundation

Randa Grob-Zakhary is the chief executive officer of the LEGO Foundation. The LEGO Foundation owns 25 percent of the LEGO Group and believes that creative play can expand possibilities and transform learning for children everywhere. Prior to joining LEGO, Grob- Zakhary founded the Babyboost Institute for Early Learning and Development in Switzerland, which has been cited in 2011 Global Education and Skills: An Oxbridge Guide. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she studied neuroscience. During her tenure at the global consultancy McKinsey & Company, she bridged the private and nonprofit sectors within the areas of strategic planning, organization, and governance.

Tim Hanstad

President and CEO
Landesa

Tim Hanstad is president and chief executive officer of Landesa. Hanstad’s international work experience spans 15 countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He has more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and international development. Hanstad i s a m ember o f t he W orld E conomic F orum c ommunity a nd t he Global Washington Policy Panel. He has been recognized as a leading social entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation for social entrepreneurship. His most recent book, published in 2009, was titled “One Billion Rising: Land, Law and the Alleviation of Global Poverty” (with Roy Prosterman and Robert Mitchell). Hanstad is an associate faculty member at the University of Washington School of Law. He holds a Juris Doctorate and a Master of Laws (both with Honors) from the University of Washington School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) from Seattle Pacific University in political science and history.

Robert S. Harrison

Chief Executive Officer
Clinton Global Initiative

Robert S. Harrison is the chief executive officer of the Clinton Global Initiative. Previously, he was the executive director of the Clinton Foundation’s childhood obesity initiative. Before joining the Clinton Foundation, Harrison spent 22 years on Wall Street as an investment banker and attorney. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1987, where he became a partner in the firm’s investment banking division and global co-head of its Communications, Media, and Entertainment group. From 1981 to 1987, Harrison practiced corporate law in the New York and Paris offices of Davis, Polk and Wardwell. Harrison is chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, a director of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, and honorary chairman of the Board of the Henry Street Settlement. He received a Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University, a Master of Arts in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School.

Anne H. Hastings

Chief Executive Officer
Fonkoze Financial Services

Anne Hastings has been the executive of Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest microfinance institution, since May 1996. Under her leadership, the institution has grown from two employees to over 900. Today, Fonkoze has 46 branches throughout Haiti and over 250,000 clients. In 2008, she was honored at the United Nations because of her commitment to the elimination of extreme poverty. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in business leadership by Duquesne University and was named a 2010 Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation. Hastings serves on the board of directors of MiCRO, an innovative microinsurance facility serving the poor. She is also a member of multiple global steering committees related to microfinance.

Robert Ivy

Executive Vice President and CEO
American Institute of Architects

Robert Ivy is an architect and the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), whose mission is to increase public understanding of architecture and design’s contribution to society. Prior to joining the AIA, Ivy served as vice president and editorial director of McGraw-Hill Construction and editor-in-chief of Architectural Record. Under his tenure, Architectural Record received awards including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, and in 2009, Ivy received the G.D. Crain Award for lifetime contributions to editorial excellence in business media. Prior to joining McGraw-Hill, Ivy was an architect and firm principal at Jackson, Mississippibased Dean, Dale, Dean, & Ivy, as well as a writer and critic of national and international architecture. He currently serves on the advisory boards of several schools of architecture including Mississippi State University, Auburn University, and Tongi University School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Shanghai, China.

David Janka

Fellow
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (d. school)

While a medical student at Stanford, David Janka began exploring the interface of medicine and design. He worked at the Stanford d.school on projects to develop novel therapies for children with pneumonia in Bangladesh and created innovative solutions for youth with chronic illness transitioning into adulthood. Upon completing medical school, he joined the d.school as a fellow where he is currently exploring the integration of design thinking principles into medical education, healthcare delivery, medical device design, and global health practice. In addition, over the next year he will work with the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies to foster a culture of entrepreneurship and creativity in the developing world.

Antony Jenkins

Group Chief Executive
Barclays PLC

Antony Jenkins was appointed group chief executive of Barclays PLC in August 2012. Barclays is where Jenkins started his career in finance back in 1983, when he completed the Barclays Management Development Programme before going on to hold various roles in retail and corporate banking. He moved to Citigroup in 1989, working in both London and New York before returning to Barclays in 2006 as chief executive of Barclaycard. From 2009 on he was chief executive of retail and business banking, where he led a revival in the fortunes of the business. Jenkins was educated at Oxford University and has a master’s in philosophy, politics, and economics. He also has a Master of Business Administration from the Cranfield Institute of Technology. Antony is married and a father of two children.

Goodluck E. Jonathan

President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Goodluck E. Jonathan was born in Otueke, Nigeria, to a family of canoe makers on 20 November, 1957. He holds a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Port Harcourt. After obtaining his degree, he worked as an education inspector, lecturer, and environmental-protection officer. Jonathan joined the People’s Democratic Party in 1998. He won the election to serve as deputy governor of Bayelsa State in 1999 and, in December 2005, he was elevated to governor. In December 2006, Jonathan was selected as running mate to Umaru Yar’Adua for the presidential election and, on May 29, 2007, he was inaugurated as Nigeria’s vice president. On February 9, 2010, Jonathan assumed office as Nigeria’s acting president, following President Yar’Adua’s absence for medical attention, and, after Yar’Adua’s death, was sworn in as Nigeria’s 14th Head of State. Later that year, Jonathan announced his intention to run for president in the next election. On April 18, 2011, he was officially declared the winner of the election.

Jacqueline Jones

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Learning
U.S. Department of Education

Jacqueline Jones ser ves as deput y assistant secretary for policy and early learning at the United States Department of Education. Leading the Office of Early Learning, Jones oversees the early learning initiative and the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge program. Jones previously served the New Jersey State Department of Education as assistant commissioner for the Division of Early Childhood Education. Prior to state government, Jones worked for 16 years at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in early childhood research and development. Jones has also been a visiting associate professor at Harvard University and a visiting scholar for the National Assessment of Educational Progress at ETS. She has directed numerous federally- and foundation-funded projects on early childhood learning. Jones earned her doctorate and master’s degrees in communication science and disorders from Northwestern University and has a Bachelor of Arts in speech pathology from Hunter College.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah is UNICEF’s first Eminent Advocate for Children and Honorary Chair of the UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI). Queen Rania is also a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, established to provide the international community a vision for development on the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals. In 2009, Her Majesty co-founded 1GOAL with FIFA World Cup 2010 and the Global Campaign for Education to advocate for quality education for all children. She also serves on the board of the United Nations Foundation. In Jordan, Her Majesty has founded Madrasati, a publicprivate initiative to refurbish Jordan’s public schools; the Queen Rania Teachers’ Academy; the Queen Rania Teachers’ Award for Excellence in Education; the Jordan River Foundation; and the Al Aman Fund for the Future of Orphans. She also currently leads the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) to promote technology in schools.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

President
GlobalECHO Foundation

Explorer, social entrepreneur, and environmental advocate, Philippe Cousteau continues in the spirit of his family as founder of EarthEcho International, a leading environmental education organization. In addition, he is a special correspondent for CNN International where he is the host of the “Going Green” series and reports on environmental and humanitarian stories worldwide. Extending his social and environmental work to the financial realm, Cousteau has partnered with AdvisorShares Investments to launch the Global Echo Exchange Traded Fund on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: GIVE), as well as the formation of GlobalECHO Foundation, a 501 ©(3) of which he serves as co-founder and chairman. He also serves on multiple boards.

Clarence Otis, Jr.

Chairman and CEO
Darden Restaurants, Inc

Clarence Otis, Jr. is chairman and CEO of Darden Restaurants, Inc. Darden is the world’s largest fullservice restaurant operating company w ith annual sales of $8 billion. The company owns and operates more than 2,000 Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, the Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Eddie V’s and Yard House restaurants in North America, employing more than 185,000 people. In 2012, Darden was named to the FORTUNE “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for the second year in a row. Otis earned a law degree from Stanford Law School and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Williams College, where he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He serves on the board of directors of VF Corporation, Verizon Communications, Inc., and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Sarah Degnan Kambou

President
International Center for Research on Women

As the president of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Sarah Degnan Kambou leads a global research institute that focuses on realizing women’s empowerment and gender equality to alleviate poverty worldwide. Her expertise centers on sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, and adolescent health and livelihoods. As a development professional, Degnan Kambou has worked for more than 27 years in Asia, Eastern Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. For more than a decade, Degnan Kambou lived in sub-Saharan Africa, managing signature programs for CARE. Through her work, she focused on addressing social and economic vulnerability of marginalized populations, strengthening civil society in post-conflict settings, and participatory development of underserved urban and rural communities. Prior to her work in Africa, Degnan Kambou managed the Center for International Health, which she co-founded in 1987, at the Boston University School of Public Health.

Randall Kempner

Executive Director
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

Randall Kempner is executive director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of organizations that propel small business entrepreneurship in emerging markets. ANDE’s 160 plus members operate in more than 150 emerging market countries. As executive director of ANDE, Kempner oversees the implementation of ANDE’s extensive program and training agenda, its five international chapters, and multiple grant and challenge competitions that support the entrepreneurship sector. Kempner has twenty years of experience in the field of international economic development. Most recently, he served as vice president for regional innovation at the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and prior to that was a founder of OTF Group. Kempner graduated from the University of Texas with a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Public Affairs. He earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard College.

Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General
United Nations

Ban Ki-moon is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, Ban was his country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His 37 years of service with the Ministry included postings in New Delhi, Washington D.C., and Vienna, and responsibility for a variety of portfolios, including foreign policy advisor to the President, chief national security advisor to the President, deputy minister for policy planning, and director-general of American affairs. His ties to the United Nations date back to 1975, when he worked for the Foreign Ministry’s United Nations Division. His assignments during this time included service as chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization and chef de cabinet during the Republic of Korea’s 2001-2002 presidency of the UN General Assembly. Ban holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Seoul National University and a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Jim Yong Kim

President
World Bank Group

Jim Yong Kim is the president of the World Bank Group. A physician and anthropologist, Kim has dedicated himself to international development for more than two decades. Before joining the World Bank, Kim served as president of Dartmouth College and held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. From 2003-2005, as director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/ AIDS Department, Kim led the “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which dramatically expanded AIDS treatment in developing countries. In 1987, Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a nonprofit medical organization now working in poor communities on four continents. Kim has received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and has been recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report. In 2006, TIME magazine named him among its “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Sasha Kramer

Co-founder and Executive Director
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)

Sasha Kramer is the co-founder and executive director of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). She is an ecologist and human rights advocate who has been living and working in Haiti since 2004. Kramer received her doctorate in ecology from Stanford University in 2006 and co-founded SOIL that same year while completing a post-doctoral research position with the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford. She is currently an adjunct professor of international studies and a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. Kramer is also a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and an Architect of the Future with the Waldzell Institute.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Columnist
The New York Times

Nicholas Kristof has been a columnist for The New York Times since 2001. He grew up on a farm in Oregon, graduated from Harvard, and then studied law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. After joining The New York Times in 1984, he served as bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, and he speaks Chinese and other languages. He has won two Pulitzer prizes, and with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, he has written several best-selling books, including “China Wakes” and his latest, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” A documentary film, “Reporter,” was made about him and shown on HBO, and a TV documentary about “Half the Sky” is now in production for airing on PBS. He was The New York Times’ first blogger and has more than one million followers on Twitter.

Ray LaHood

Secretary of Transportation
U.S. Department of Transportation

Ray LaHood became the 16th Secretary of Transportation on January 23, 2009. As secretary of transportation, LaHood leads an agency with more than 55,000 employees and a $70 billion budget that oversees air, maritime, and surface transportation missions. LaHood’s primary goals in implementing President Obama’s priorities for transportation include safety across all modes, restoring economic health, creating jobs, sustainability, and assuring that transportation policies focus on people who use the transportation system and their communities. LaHood served for 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives from the 18th District of Illinois (from 1995-2009). During that time he served on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Appropriations Committee. Prior to his election to the House, he served as chief of staff to U.S. Congressman Robert Michel and as district administrative assistant to Congressman Thomas Railsback. He also served in the Illinois State Legislature.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program
Council on Foreign Relations

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of the New York Times best seller “The Dressmaker of Khair Khana,” analyzed public policy for the global bond firm PIMCO after receiving her Master of Business Administration from Harvard. She covered politics for ABC News and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and is currently a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Lemmon frequently speaks to audiences at public and private institutions about her writings on the real-life implications of macro-economic trends and delivered the opening talk at TEDxWomen 2011 on the power of women entrepreneurs to jumpstart the global economy. A contributing editor-at-large at Newsweek Daily Beast, Lemmon writes regularly on entrepreneurs who create jobs in the world’s toughest business environments, including Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. She authored the Newsweek cover story “The Hillary Doctrine” about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s efforts to place women at the center of U.S. foreign policy.

Elizabeth L. Littlefield

President and CEO
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

Elizabeth Littlefield was appointed by President Barack Obama as the 10th president and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). From 2000 to 2010, Littlefield was director of private and finance sector at the World Bank and chief executive officer of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a multi-donor organization housed at the World Bank and created to help build a professional global microfinance industry. Prior to joining CGAP in 1999, Littlefield was JP Morgan’s managing director in charge of capital markets and financing in emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa. She has taught financing sector development as an adjunct professor in the master’s program at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. She has served on the board and executive committee of Women’s World Banking, the MasterCard Foundation, and the Calvert Foundation, among others. Littlefield is a graduate of Brown University and also attended École Nationale Supérieure de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

Mindy Lubber

President and CEO
Ceres

Mindy S. Lubber is the president and CEO of Ceres, a nonprofit organization that leads a national coalition of investors, environmental organizations, and other public interest groups working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change and water scarcity. Mindy also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a group of more than 100 institutional investors managing $10 trillion in assets focused on the business risks and opportunities of climate change.

Gregory Lucier

Chairman and CEO
Life Technologies

Gregory T. Lucier, chairman and chief executive officer of Life Technologies, is relentless in ensuring that his company remains an industry leader and trusted partner for scientists worldwide. With a singular mission to supply biomedical researchers with the technology they need, Lucier has overseen the growth of Life Technologies, a biotechnology and genetics company. Today, the company offers a broad range of superior products that have more than 600,000 citations — far more than any competitor in the life sciences industry. Leveraging his background in healthcare management, Lucier has brought medicine to the molecular level through Life Technology’s DNA semiconductor sequencing. This technology will facilitate the advancement of crime fighting and human identification, transform the energy sector through pioneering biofuels, and radically improve agricultural productivity. By positioning Life Technologies as a catalyst for innovation, Lucier is shaping a new era for life science.

Asad Mahmood

Managing Director, Global Social Investment Fund
Deutsche Bank

Asad Mahmood, managing director, is responsible for a loan and investment portfolio worth more than half a billion dollars that seeks both financial and social returns. He is also responsible for Deutsche Bank’s microfinance and social investment efforts globally, which comprise more than 100 relationships in 42 countries. Mahmood has positioned Deutsche Bank to be an investment bank for social capital and has served as a catalytic leader and innovator in the growth of financeable social ventures by bringing together differently motivated capital from development agencies, foundations, and socially focused commercial investors. He was the founding board member of the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX). He also is a member of the steering committee for the Smart Campaign, which promotes Client Protection Principles, and is on the Steering Committee of the Seal of Excellence, an effort to recognize microfinance institutions that are reaching the poorest of the poor.

Patrice Martin

Co-Lead and Creative Director
IDEO.org

Patrice Martin is the co-lead and creative director of IDEO.org, the nonprofit organization started by IDEO to address poverty-related challenges through design and to encourage the use of human-centered innovation in the social sector. Martin’s work at IDEO.org focuses on p artnering with nonprofits, social enterprises, and foundations to deliver innovative solutions to problems that affect low-income communities. She has worked across a diverse set of challenges, including youth employment, early childhood learning, scalable solutions for water and sanitation, and financial inclusion. Martin also created and stewarded HCD Connect, the online platform to build community amongst human-centered practitioners, now a vibrant website for innovators across the world. Before founding IDEO.org, Martin was a design director with IDEO. At IDEO, she led projects with clients including Nike, Mayo Clinic, the American Red Cross, Gates Foundation and Marriott International. Before joining IDEO, Martin was a senior designer with SonicRim, a design strategy consultancy.

Kathleen Matthews

Executive Vice President, Global Communications and Public Affairs
Marriot International, Inc.

Kathleen Matthews is the chief communications and public affairs officer for Marriott International, the leading global hotel company with 3,800 properties in more than 70 countries. She is responsible for the company’s global brand public relations, corporate communications, social responsibility, and government affairs. She co-chairs Marriott’s Executive Green Council and serves on the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board to the Secretary of Commerce, as well as on the boards of the U.S. Travel Association, the International Tourism Partnership, and the Economic Club of Washington. She is also vice-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Policy Council on Aviation, Travel, and Tourism. Matthews is a 1975 graduate of Stanford University, and was a 2004 fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to her career at Marriott, she was an award winning news anchor at the ABC-TV affiliate in Washington, D.C. She has been awarded nine local Emmys and other top honors.

William A. McDonough

Chairman
McDonough Advisors

A globally recognized leader in sustainable development, William McDonough and his firms advise commercial and governmental leaders worldwide on design for sustainable growth. He received the first Presidential Award for Sustainable Development in 1996 from President Clinton, the first U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 2003 from President George W. Bush, and the National Design Award in 2004. He served as the founding U.S. Chair of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development from 1999 to 2009. McDonough is the architect of many of the recognized flagships of sustainable design including NASA’s new “space station on Earth,” Sustainability Base, completed in 2011. McDonough has written and lectured extensively on design as the first signal of human intention. McDonough, with chemist Michael Braungart, authored “The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability” (1992) and “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things” (2002), internationally acknowledged as seminal pioneering texts of the sustainability movement. He launched the nonprofit Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute in 2009 to create a global standard for Cradle to Cradle CertifiedCM products..

Molly Melching

Founder and Executive Director
Tostan

Molly Melching is the founder and executive director of Tostan, an international nonprofit organization headquartered in Dakar, Senegal and working in eight African countries. Melching has lived and worked in Senegal since 1974 and has dedicated her life to the empowerment of communities at grassroots levels. She created two original basic education programs for women, adolescent girls, and their communities, and is highly regarded for her expertise in nonformal education, human rights training, and social transformation. Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program delivered in local languages empowers communities to lead development projects and catalyze positive social change, including the abandonment of female genital cutting and child/forced marriage. Tostan has received Sweden’s Anna Lindh Prize for human rights in 2005, the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) King Sejong Literacy Prize in 2007, and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2010.

Carolyn S. Miles

President and CEO
Save the Children

Carolyn S. Miles is president and CEO of Save the Children. Save the Children is the leading independent organization inspiring breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, achieving immediate and lasting change in their lives. It served more than 85 million children in the U.S. and in 60 countries around the world in 2011; it also contributes to the work of the global Save the Children movement working in 120 countries. Miles joined the organization in 1998, and after various leadership positions, served as chief operations officer for seven years, during which Save the Children doubled the number of children it reached with nutrition, health, educational, and other programs. She helped grow the organization’s budget — almost 90 percent of which goes directly to programs serving children — from $250 million to more than $550 million. She became the CEO and president in 2011 and since then, the organization has grown in annual resources of more than $620 million.

Cheryl D. Mills

Counselor and Chief of Staff
U.S. Department of State

As counselor and chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Cheryl D. Mills is a principal officer who serves the Secretary as a special advisor on major foreign policy challenges. She has led the Department’s involvement in the interagency food security initiative and diplomacy and development efforts in Haiti. As chief of staff, Mills manages the Secretary’s staff and provides policy and managerial support to the Secretary in administering operations of the Department. From 2002 to 2009, Mills served as senior vice president at New York University. From 1999 to 2001, Mills was senior vice president for corporate policy and public programming at Oxygen Media, where she oversaw public policy, communications, and philanthropic and community initiatives. Prior to joining Oxygen, Mills’ legal experience included serving as Deputy Counsel to the President. Mills received her Juris Doctorate in 1990 from Stanford Law School.

Benjamin William Mkapa

Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania
Founder, Benjamin William Mkapa HIV/AIDS Foundation

Benjamin William Mkapa is the former president of the United Republic of Tanzania who held office between 1995 to 2005. During his post-presidential period, he led an active portfolio of contributing to the empowerment of the poor, championing structural and sustainable changes that would provide lasting impact that would resonate for generations. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Africa Wildlife Foundation and Aga Khan International University. At 74 years of age, Mkapa leads an active portfolio of work as a board member of Club Madrid and a member of the InterAction Council and Africa Forum. Mkapa is the founder and settler of the Benjamin William Mkapa HIV/AIDS Foundation, a local trust established in Tanzania in February 2006. He is a graduate of Makerere University College, Uganda, with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English in 1962. He holds eight honorary degrees from across the world.

Luis Alberto Moreno

President
Inter-American Development Bank

Luis Alberto Moreno assumed the presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on October 1, 2005. As president of the Bank, Moreno also serves as chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) and chairman of the Donors’ Committee of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF). Previous to joining the IDB, Moreno served as Colombia’s Ambassador to the United States for seven years. Moreno was also Executive Producer of the “TV Hoy” news program, which received the King of Spain Prize for journalistic excellence. He received the Orden de Boyacá en el Grado de Gran Cruz — the highest distinction given by the Colombian state — from the President of Colombia on August 2, 2002. Moreno obtained bachelor’s degrees in business administration and economics from Florida Atlantic University in 1975, and a Master of Business Administration from Thunderbird School of Global Management in 1977.

Piers Morgan

Host
CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight

Since premiering in CNN’s primetime news-talk slot in January 2011, Piers Morgan has been seen in nearly 200 countries as host of “Piers Morgan Tonight.” Originally known to many in the U.S. as a judge on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and as winner of “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2009, Piers has had a long career in journalism in the United Kingdom as a newspaper editor and television personality. He began his career as a reporter for The Wimbledon News and subsequently was a columnist at The Sun. In 1994, when Piers was just 28, Rupert Murdoch appointed him the youngest ever editor of the News of the World. He later moved to the Daily Mirror, where he served as editor-in-chief from 1995 until 2004. Piers is also the host of “Piers Morgan’s Life Stories” in the United Kingdom, featuring oneon- one intimate interviews with celebrities and business and political leaders.

Ross Mountain

General Director
DARA

Ross Mountain is the general director of DARA, an independent organization committed to improving the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian aid for populations affected by conflict, natural disasters, and climate change. A recognized humanitarian leader, Mountain has more than 35 years of experience in the humanitarian and development fields in the United Nations. He has been a driver of humanitarian system reforms and has led some of the world’s largest emergency operations. Prior to joining DARA, Mountain was the deputy special representative of the Secretary General and the humanitarian coordinator/resident coordinator for the UN in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a period of five years, addressing the challenges of armed conflict, peacekeeping, and democratic elections. Other UN positions include assistant emergency relief coordinator, director of UN OCHA, and senior posts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, the eastern Caribbean, South Pacific, Mozambique, Timor Leste, Haiti, and Lebanon.

Trevor Mundel

President, Global Health Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Trevor Mundel, president of the Global Health Program, leads the Foundation’s efforts in research and development of health solutions including vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics, with a focus on health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. He oversees the Global Health Program’s work, which harnesses innovations in science and technology, to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Mundel joined the Foundation in 2011. His professional background is in healthcare and he earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also studied mathematics, logic, and philosophy at Balliol College of the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Chicago.

Noella Coursaris Musunka

Founder
Georges Malaika Foundation

Noella Coursaris Musunka was born in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and sent to Switzerland to obtain an education that was not available in the DRC. An international modeling career brought her to New York where she founded the Georges Malaika Foundation, which built and currently operates a school in the DRC that provides education to over 150 girls each year. The foundation works on many projects, including a recent partnership with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to create a community center that encompasses education, sports, health, and enterprise. To encourage the international community’s interest and involvement in Congo, Musunka has facilitated visits for many influential people, including Khaliah Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali and the Ben Affleck Foundation. She has been featured on CNN and on other prominent international panels. Musunka works to further any cause that will empower the Congolese people to bring socio-economic development to their country, allow children opportunities, and ignite positive change throughout Africa.

Jay Naidoo

Chairman
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Jay Naidoo is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), which is headquartered in Geneva and was launched at the 2002 UN Summit on Children as a publicprivate partnership to address the severe levels of malnutrition currently impacting two billion people across the world. He was the founding General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (launched in 1985) and a backbone of resistance to apartheid. In 1994 he served as the Minister of Reconstruction and Development and then the Minister of Communications in the first Mandela Cabinet. He is also the co-founder of an investment company in South Africa. Naidoo returned full-time to his voluntary work in advancing global development in 2010. He serves on many international committees, including the Broadband Commission, the Lead Committee on Nutrition appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General, and others.

Reema Nanavaty

Director, Economic and Rural Development
Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Af ter successfully joining the coveted Indian Administrative Services, Reema Nanavaty stepped out to work with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and stayed on to be elected as the general secretary in 1999. She expanded membership to new heights, making SEWA the largest union of informal sector workers. Nanavaty is expanding the activities of SEWA’s Trade Facilitation Centre and replicating the Trade Facilitation Centre model in all the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries, ensuring that women’s voices and contributions are central to world trade decisions. Nanavaty spearheads the education and literacy campaigns at SEWA, as well as the information and communications technologies (ICT) initiative of SEWA. She is leading rehabilitation programs in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, providing vocational training in agricultural and rural livelihood security. Nanavaty initiated the food security program covering one million households through its rural distribution network and is spearheading the Hariyali–Green Energy and Livelihoods Initiative at SEWA.

Arif Naqvi

Founder and Group Chief Executive
Abraaj Holdings

Arif Naqvi is founder and group chief executive officer of Abraaj Capital, a leading private equity group investing in global growth markets. Naqvi is a member of several thinktanks and policy groups and serves on a number of boards, including the United Nations Global Compact, Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), and the advisory board of the Columbia University Middle East Research Center. Naqvi is the chair of the advisory board at the London School of Economics and Political Science Middle East Centre and is the chairman of the British Asian Trust Advisory Committee, Pakistan. In 2008, he founded the Aman Foundation and is currently the chairman of its board of trustees. Naqvi previously worked with Arthur Andersen & Co, American Express Bank, Saudi Arabia’s Olayan Group, and the Cupola Group, which he founded in 1994. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Founder and CEO
Acumen Fund, Inc

Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of poverty. Under Novogratz’s leadership, Acumen Fund has invested more than $72 million in 65 companies in South Asia and Africa, all focused on delivering affordable healthcare, water, housing, and energy to the poor. These companies have created and supported more than 55,000 jobs, leveraged an additional $200 million, and brought basic services to tens of millions. Jacqueline currently sits on the advisory board of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Aspen Institute Board of Trustees, and the board of IDEO.org, and she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation. She was also appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the United States Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

Denis O'Brien

Chairman and Founder
Digicel Group

Denis O’Brien is chairman of the privately owned Digicel Group, one of the fastest growing mobile operators in the world. O’Brien founded Digicel in 2001, when the company launched a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) cellular phone service in the Caribbean. Digicel has extended its operations to 31 markets, with over 12.8 million subscribers in the Caribbean, Central America, and Pacific regions. O’Brien is one of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs, with extensive investments across several sectors, including international telecoms, radio, media, property, aircraft leasing, golf, and other leisure interests. He also founded Communicorp Group, which owns and manages a portfolio of media- and broadcasting-related companies in nine European countries. In 2010, O’Brien was named goodwill ambassador for the city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti by the mayor in recognition of his efforts to rebuild Haiti and attract foreign direct investment in the aftermath of the earthquake that year. Digicel is the single largest private investor in Haiti.

President Barack Obama

44th President of the United States of America

Barack H. Obama is the 44th president of the United States. He was sworn in on January 20, 2009. After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants. Upon graduation from Harvard Law School, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community. President Obama’s years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. As a United States senator, he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world’s most dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government by putting federal spending online.

Jean Oelwang

Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Unite
Virgin Management

Jean Oelwang is the chief executive officer of Virgin Unite, the entrepreneurial Foundation of the V irgin Group. Oelwang has lived and worked on five continents helping to lead successful mobile phone start-ups in South Africa, Colombia, Bulgaria, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and the United States. She has also worked for the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife in Australia and was a VISTA volunteer in the U.S. Oelwang and Virgin Unite work with Virgin businesses and beyond to put driving change at their core. She and the team have helped to incubate a number of global leadership initiatives such as the Elders, the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, and the Carbon War Room.

Liz Ogbu

Scholar in Residence, Center for Art and Public Life
California College of the Arts

A designer, social innovator, and academic, Liz Ogbu is an expert and consultant on sustainable design and spatial innovation in challenged urban environments globally. From designing shelters for immigrant day laborers in the U.S. to a water and health social enterprise for low-income Kenyans, Ogbu has a long history of engagement in the design for social impact movement. Currently, she’s serving as the first-ever scholar-in-residence at the Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts. Over the past year, Ogbu was an innovator-in-residence through the inaugural IDEO.org Fellowship. Previously, she served as design director at the nonprofit Public Architecture. Her projects have been featured in museum exhibitions and received numerous design awards globally. Among other honors, Ogbu is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and a member of the 2012 Next American City Vanguard. She earned architecture degrees from Wellesley and Harvard.

Sally Osberg

President and CEO
Skoll Foundation

Sally Osberg is president and chief executive officer of the Skoll Foundation. Named one of the “Millennium 100” for her role shaping Silicon Valley, she is a champion of social entrepreneurs and other innovators working to solve the world’s most pressing problems. With Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll, she has headed the Skoll Foundation’s team since inception, identifying and supporting innovators who are pioneering scalable solutions to global challenges. Osberg was formerly founding executive director of Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. She earned her Master of Arts in literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts in english from Scripps College. Osberg received the John Gardner Leadership Award and has been inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame. She serves on the board of the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll Global Threats Fund, the Oracle Education Foundation, and the Palestinebased Partners for Sustainable Development. She also serves on the advisory board of the Elders.

Stephan Ouaknine

Chairman, Managing Partner, and CEO
Inerjys Ventures Inc.

As founder of Inerjys, Stephan Ouaknine is both managing partner of Inerjys Ventures and president and CEO of Inerjys Renewables. He is responsible for fundraising, sourcing growth investments, and managing the day-to-day activities of Inerjys’ infrastructure projects globally. Ouaknine comes from the telecom sector, where over a 15-year career spanning three high-tech ventures, he has delivered over $1 billion in total shareholder value with three successful exits. Ouaknine’s success stories include Blueslice Networks, a leading provider of evolved Subscriber Data Management (eSDM) solutions for telecom carriers. He led Blueslice from its foundation in 2001 until its acquisition in 2010 by Tekelec. At the time of its acquisition, Blueslice was the global leader in cross-platform SDM solutions deployed in tier 1 accounts in over 25 countries. Ouaknine’s other successes include Emblaze, a next-generation mobile multimedia company that reached a $6 billion valuation during his tenure, and Airslide Systems, a leader in next-generation signaling that merged with Cantata Technology and was acquired by Dialogic. A proven and experienced entrepreneur, Ouaknine knows how to develop a startup from the idea stage into a truly successful, market-leading business.

Billy Parish

President
Mosaic

Billy Parish is Co-Founder and President of Mosaic, a clean energy investment marketplace, and Co-Author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World. In 2002, he dropped out of Yale to found the Energy Action Coalition and grew it into the largest youth organization in the world working on the climate crisis. A serial social entrepreneur, Parish has helped launch dozens of clean energy, youth, and green jobs related companies and organizations and has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. He lives in Oakland CA, with his wife and two daughters.

Kristin Peterson

Co-founder and CEO
Inveneo

Kristin Peterson is the co-founder and CEO of Inveneo, a nonprofit social enterprise focusing on Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in rural areas throughout the developing world. With more than 20 years of business and new market development experience, Peterson has been responsible for strategy, partnership, and support development since Inveneo’s inception in 2004. She has led Inveneo’s efforts to deliver education, healthcare, economic development, and relief projects in Haiti and in 25 countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, touching the lives of over 2.8 million people. Peterson was awarded the 2011 ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award in recognition of her dedication to promoting ICTs as a means of providing a better life for humanity, particularly in rural communities. In 2007, she was named a CNN Principal Voice in Innovation and Technology. Recently, Peterson became an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative Advisory Committee.

Timothy Prestero

Chief Executive Officer
Design that Matters

Timothy Prestero is the founder and chief executive officer of Design that Matters (DtM), a 501c3 nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. DtM collaborates with leading social entrepreneurs and hundreds of volunteers to design new products and services for the poor in developing countries. A former Peace Corps volunteer and MIT graduate, Prestero has worked in 17 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He is a Martin Fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, an Ashoka Affiliate, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow. His awards include the 2007 Social Venture Network Innovation Award and the 2009 World Technology Award. DtM’s Firefly infant phototherapy device received a Silver Award for social impact design in the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) 2012 IDEA Awards. DtM’s NeoNurture Infant Incubator was named number one of the “50 Best Inventions of 2010” by TIME Magazine. In 2012, DtM was named the winner of the National Design Award in Corporate and Institutional Achievement.

Johanna Ralston

Chief Executive Officer
World Heart Federation

Johanna Ralston joined the World Heart Federation, one of the founding members of the Non- Communicable Diseases (NCD) Alliance, as chief executive officer in February 2011. The World Heart Federation is headquartered in Geneva with 200 member organizations in more than 100 countries with a focus on the global fight against heart disease and stroke, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Before joining the World Heart Federation, Ralston was vice president of global strategies at the American Cancer Society, where she was hired in 1999 to build the organization’s global programs, eventually developing and overseeing cancer and tobacco control projects in more than 30 countries. Her work in development and global health has also included positions at New York University and International Planned Parenthood Federation in Latin America, where she served as program development advisor. Ralston studied at Harvard Business School and studied public health at Harvard School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Judith Rodin

President
The Rockefeller Foundation

Judith Rodin is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organizations. Prior to the Rockefeller Foundation, she was the president of the University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University. She was the first woman named to lead an Ivy League institution and is the first woman to serve as president of the Rockefeller Foundation in its nearly 100-year history. Since joining in 2005, Rodin has recalibrated the Foundation’s focus to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Today the Foundation supports and shapes innovations to strengthen resilience to risks and ensure that more people have access to the benefits of globalization. Rodin is the author of more than 200 academic articles, has written or co-written 12 books, has received 18 honorary degrees, and serves as a member of the board for several leading corporations and nonprofits. Rodin is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her doctorate in psychology from Columbia University.

James E. Rogers

Chairman, President, and CEO
Duke Energy

Jim Rogers has served as chairman, president, and CEO of Duke Energy since 2007. He has more than 23 years of experience as a chief executive officer in the electric utility industry. Over that period, he has delivered an average total shareholder return of more than 12 percent per year by focusing on stakeholders and finding business solutions to environmental challenges. Rogers has served more than 50 cumulative years on the boards of directors of eight Fortune 500 companies and has also served on numerous nonprofit boards, including current participation on the boards of the Asia Society and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. In 2012, he assumed the chairmanship of the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, a nonprofit organization composed of the world’s leading electricity utilities. He earned his bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of Kentucky and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Mitt Romney

Former Governor
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Mitt Romney graduated from Brigham Young University in 1971 and earned dual degrees from Harvard Law and Harvard Business School. He served as vice president at Bain & Company from 1978 to 1984, and in 1984 he founded the investment firm Bain Capital. Under his leadership, Bain Capital helped to launch or rebuild over one hundred companies. As Bain Capital grew in prominence, Romney returned to Bain & Company as chief executive officer and led a successful turnaround in a time of financial turmoil at the company. In addition to his private sector work, Romney served as president and chief executive officer of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. In 2002, Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts. During his time as governor, he signed into law job-creating incentives and eliminated a $3 billion deficit without borrowing or raising taxes. The state unemployment rate fell from 5.6 percent to 4.7 percent while he was in office and the Massachusetts economy added tens of thousands of new jobs. Romney is the nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

Charlie Rose

Executive Editor and Anchor
“Charlie Rose”

Charlie Rose is executive editor and anchor of “Charlie Rose,” the nightly one-hour interview program that engages in one-on-one in-depth conversations and round table discussions about important issues and ideas of our time. “Charlie Rose” appears nightly on PBS and also in prime time on Bloomberg Television in the United States and in 100 countries around the world. Since January 2012, he has also been co-anchor of the new daily morning television program “CBS This Morning.” Rose is also a contributing correspondent to the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” Since 1991, Rose has done more in-depth hours with Nobel Laureates and extraordinary men and women of science, politics, art, business, sports, technology, literature, and entertainment than any other program in the world. Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina and graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and a Juris Doctorate from the School of Law.

Irene Rosenfeld

Chairman and CEO
Kraft Foods, Inc.

Irene Rosenfeld, is a 30-year veteran of the food and beverage industry and is consistently ranked among the top women in global business. Since rejoining the company in 2006, she has repositioned Kraft Foods to deliver consistent top-tier growth by reinvigorating iconic brands, transforming the portfolio, and strengthening the company’s presence in fast-growing developing markets. Rosenfeld spearheaded Kraft’s decision to divide and create two industry-leading public companies later this year: a high-growth global snacks business, which she will lead as chairman and CEO following the separation, and a high-margin North American grocery business. She holds a doctorate in marketing and s tatistics, a Master o f Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, all from Cornell University. She is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and serves on the Grocery Manufacturers Association Board of Directors and Cornell’s Board of Trustees.

Reeta Roy

Chief Executive Officer
The MasterCard Foundation

Reeta Roy is president and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation, an independent, private foundation based in Toronto. Prior to joining the foundation, Roy was divisional vice president of global citizenship and policy at Abbott, and vice president of the Abbott Fund. Previously, she held a number of positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company from 1991 to 2002. Prior to joining the private sector, she worked at the UN. Roy is on the board of the Global Health Council. She received her bachelor’s degree from St. Andrews Presbyterian College and master’s in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Urvashi Sahni

Founder, President, and CEO
Studyhall Educational Foundation

Urvashi Sahni is founder and chief executive officer of Studyhall Educational Foundation in Lucknow, India. The Foundation aims to bring the benefits of quality education to all levels of society throughout India by establishing primary and secondary schools, teacher training institutions, open school classes, vocational training programs, and women’s empowerment programs. Sahni has established three K-12 schools serving over 3,000 children including middle class urban children, children with special needs, disadvantaged girls from urban slums, and rural children. She is also co-founder and director of The Digitial Studyhall and an Ashoka Fellow. Her work has a special focus on gender and she is currently engaged as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, working on research that advocates for the introduction of gender studies in school curricula at the secondary level.

Zainab Salbi

Founder and Former CEO
Women for Women International

Zainab Salbi is a humanitarian, an author, and a media commentator that has dedicated herself to women’s rights and freedom. She is the founder and former CEO of Women for Women International, an organization dedicated to helping women survivors of wars rebuild their lives. Salbi is also the author of a national bestseller “Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam” (with Laurie Becklund) and “The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope.” Salbi has been identified in the top lists of most influential women by Harper’s Bazaar (2010), Newsweek (2011), The Guardian (2011), Economist Intelligent Unite (2011), and FastCompany (2012). Salbi was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007 and top 22 young leaders by the Clinton Global Initiative in 2010. Salbi holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University.

Dov Seidman

Chief Executive Officer
LRN

Dov Seidman’s career has focused on how companies and their people can operate in both principled and profitable ways. That’s the inspiration behind his book, “HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything,” recently expanded and including a foreword from President Bill Clinton. Seidman is the chief executive officer of LRN. Since 1994, LRN has helped to shape winning organizational cultures inspired by sustainable values in hundreds of companies, with over 20 million people working in over 100 countries. LRN is the exclusive corporate sponsor of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Prize in Ethics. Fortune called Seidman the “hottest advisor on the corporate virtue circuit” and the Economic Times named him a “Top 60 Global Thinker of the Last Decade.” He is a Harvard Law School graduate with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in moral philosophy from UCLA and a graduate degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University.

Kiran Sethi

Founder and Director
The Riverside School, Ahmedabad-India

Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder and director of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad. She is also the founder of “aProCh,” an initiative to make our cities more child-friendly, for which she was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2008. In 2009, she was presented with the Call to Conscience Award from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, for the citizenship/liberation curriculum that the Riverside School implements. In 2009, she founded Design for Change (DFC), the world’s largest movement of change of and by children. This year, DFC is in over 35 countries, impacting 25 million children, and the end of September will see Riverside hosting the first Be the Change Conference to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday as Be the Change Day. In September 2011, DFC-2010 won the prestigious INDEX: Design to Improve Life Award and received the Rockefeller Foundation Youth Innovation Award in June 2012.

Ethnie Miller Simpson

Chief Executive Officer
Zinergy International

Ethnie Miller Simpson is chief executive officer and chief branding officer of Zinergy International, which brings innovative branding options and business idea generation to small entrepreneurs who want to start businesses and define new markets, as well as corporates seeking new ideas to connect with their increasing consumer base. Miller achieves these objectives through innovative methodology such as DNA Branding, which significantly aligns the strategic direction, market needs, and learning goals when branding people, places, and things. Miller is a 2011 participant of the FORTUNE/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership and i s an e xecutive m ember o f t he r ecently f ormed W omen Entrepreneurs Network for the Caribbean (WENC), with responsibility for capacity building. She has had 17 years in education, workforce development, and the branding of people through corporate universities.

Sandy Speicher

Educational Lead
IDEO

Sandy Speicher leads IDEO’s Education practice, which brings human-centered design to systemic challenges in education. Speicher works with organizations in the public, private, and social sectors to create new processes, tools, systems, and experiences that engage today’s learners of all ages. She has helped create a scalable school model in Peru, strategies to improve schools for the poor in India, and approaches to increasing teaching effectiveness in the United States. Recently, she collaborated with the Carnegie Corporation to launch 100kin10, which President Clinton referred to as a new model for social change. Clients have included the Gates Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund, University of Phoenix, the United States Department of Education, and NewsCorp’s Amplify. She holds a master’s in education from Stanford and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual communications from Washington University.

Kevin Starr

Managing Director
Mulago Foundation

Kevin Starr directs the Mulago Foundation and is the founder and director of the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program. Mulago spends its money to drive forward the most promising ideas in health, development, and conservation in the poorest countries. The Foundation is driven by impact: designing for it, measuring it, investing in it, and taking it to scale. The Rainer Arnhold Fellows program works with the best emerging social entrepreneurs tackling poverty, teaching a systematic process of design to drive maximum impact at big scale. Starr had a successful career in medicine when he stumbled into philanthropy in the early 1990’s. After a lot of time spent in the field, he became obsessed with understanding how to drive the maximum amount of impact with a given amount of philanthropy. Mulago now funds more than 25 organizations fighting poverty all over the world.

Richard Stengel

Managing Editor
Time Magazine

Richard Stengel is the managing editor of TIME, which has 50 million readers worldwide. He oversees the domestic, international, and tablet editions of the magazine, TIME.com, mobile, and TIME for Kids. Under Stengel, TIME has received numerous awards, including Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2012. The award, the industry’s top honor, recognizes excellence both in print and on digital platforms. Among his other notable achievements, Stengel collaborated with Nelson Mandela on Mandela’s best-selling 1993 autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom.” Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center, a museum, education center, and think tank on Independence Mall in Philadelphia.

Lynn Stout

Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business Law
Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute - Cornell Law School

Lynn A. Stout is the distinguished professor of corporate and business l aw a t t he J ack G . C larke Business Law Institute of Cornell Law School. Stout is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of corporate governance, financial derivatives, law and economics, and moral behavior. She has published numerous articles and books on these topics and lectures widely. Her most recent books are “The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations and the Public” (Berrett Koehler Publications, 2012) and “Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People” (Princeton University Press, 2011). She has also taught at Harvard, NYU, Georgetown, UCLA, and the George Washington University. She is an independent director of the Eaton Vance mutual funds and has served as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Stout holds a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, a master’s in public affairs from Princeton University, and a Juris Doctorate from the Yale Law School.

Luis A. Ubiñas

President
Ford Foundation

Luis A. Ubiñas became president of the Ford Foundation in 2008. He was previously director at McKinsey & Company, where he led its West Coast Media Practice. Ubiñas serves on the U.S. Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiation, the UN Permanent Advisory Memorial Committee, the Board of the New York Public Library, the Board of Electronic Arts, and is a trustee of the Collegiate School for Boys. Ubiñas earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in government at Harvard College, where he was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar and a John Winthrop Scholar. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Melanne Verveer

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues
U.S. Department of State

President Barack Obama appointed Melanne Verveer ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues in 2009. The president’s decision to create this new ambassadorship is unprecedented and denotes the importance of women’s issues. Verveer ensures that women’s rights are fully integrated with human rights in the development of all aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Before joining the State Department, Ambassador Verveer was the founder, chair and co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international nonprofit that invests in emerging women leaders and expands women’s roles in generating economic opportunity, promoting political participation, and safeguarding human rights. Verveer was also assistant to the President and chief of staff to the First Lady in the Clinton Administration. She has held leadership positions in several public policy organizations and served as legislative staff. Verveer has a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Georgetown University.

Jocelyn Wyatt

Co-Lead and Executive Director
IDEO.org

Jocelyn Wyatt is the co-lead and executive director of IDEO.org, the nonprofit organization started by IDEO to address poverty-related challenges through design and to encourage the use of human-centered innovation in the social sector. Wyatt’s work focuses on identifying nonprofit and social enterprises with whom to partner and designing innovative solutions related to water and sanitation, agriculture, energy, health, financial services, and early childhood education. Wyatt specializes in building social enterprises and advising businesses in the developing world, where she uses the market to effect social change. She oversees IDEO.org’s business development, fundraising, and operations and works to spread IDEO.org’s learnings through the social sector. Prior to joining IDEO in 2007, Wyatt worked in Kenya as an Acumen Fund fellow with an agropharmaceutical company involved in the production of malaria treatments. She served as VisionSpring’s interim country director in India, where she helped increase the distribution of low-cost reading glasses to the urban and rural poor. She also did training, project management, and business development for Chemonics International, a contractor for USAID.

Derek Yach

Senior Vice President, Global Health and Agriculture Policy
PepsiCo

Derek Yach is senior vice president of global health and agriculture policy at PepsiCo, where he leads engagement with major international groups and new African initiatives at the nexus of agriculture and nutrition. Yach has headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation and worked as a professor of global health at Yale University, and he is a former executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO). At the WHO, he served as cabinet director under director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland, where he led the development of the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity. Yach established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council. He serves on several advisory boards, including those of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Chicago Council on International Affairs’ Agricultural Development Initiative, the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture, the National Institutes for Health’s International Centre, and the World Food Program USA.

Michelle Yeoh

Global Ambassador, Make Roads Safe Campaign
FIA Foundation

Michelle Yeoh, an internationally acclaimed actress and producer, has starred in nearly thirty films including global hits like James Bond’s “Tomorrow Never Dies,” “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Sunshine,” “Mummy 3,” and most recently the soulstirring biopic “The Lady” which portrayed Burmese Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Through her films, she has challenged the traditional views of Asian women by creating very strong female roles. In addition to her acting career, Yeoh is ambassador of The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), Hong Kong Cancer Fund, Live to Love, and The Brain & Spine Institute (ICM). Since 2008, she has been a global ambassador and leading campaigner for the Make Roads Safe campaign, including leading its successful “Call for a Decade of Action,” and also travels widely in support of the FIA’s “Action for Road Safety” initiative. In December 2011, Michelle was promoted to “Officier de la Legion d’Honneur” by the President of the Republic of France for her continuous support and contributions to arts and cultural exchange between Asia and France.

Kandeh K. Yumkella

Director-General
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Kandeh K. Yumkella is the director-general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He has worked in different high-level policy positions in UNIDO, including as special advisor to two previous directors-general and as representative and director of the UNIDO Regional Office in Nigeria. In 2005, he was appointed director-general, and he reconfirmed for a second term in 2009. From 1994 to 1995 he was Minister for Trade, Industry and State Enterprises of Sierra Leone. Yumkella also chairs UN-Energy, which brings together all UN organizations dealing with energy issues, and he is co-chair of the High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All. Yumkella holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in agricultural economics from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Science in general agriculture from Njala University College in Sierra Leone.

Fareed Zakaria

Host
CNN-GPS

Fareed Zakaria is host of CNN’s flagship international affairs program, “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” Zakaria’s interviews with the Dalai Lama, heads of state including Barack Obama, King Abdullah II, Moammar Gadhafi, and Lula da Silva, as well as intellectuals, business leaders, politicians, and journalists have been broadcast in over 200 million homes. Zakaria is also the editor at large of TIME, a Washington Post columnist, a New York Times bestselling author, and a former editor of Newsweek International. He was described in 1999 by Esquire Magazine as “the most influential foreign policy advisor of his generation.” In 2010, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 global thinkers, and while his columns have received many awards including a 2010 National Magazine Award, his October 2001 Newsweek cover story, “Why They Hate Us,” remains the most decorated. His most recent book, “The Post-American World”, was heralded by the New York Times and The Economist and his previous book, The Future of Freedom, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into over 20 languages. Born in India, Zakaria received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Jochen Zeitz

CEO of the Sport & Lifestyle Division and Chief Sustainability Officer, PPR; Chairman, PUMA

Jochen Zeitz is chief sustainability officer of PPR, as well as the CEO of its sport and lifestyle division. He is also the chairman of PUMA, after serving as the company’s chairman and CEO for 18 years. Upon becoming PUMA’s chief executive officer in 1993, Zeitz turned it from an undesired brand nearing bankruptcy into one of the top three brands in the sporting goods industry. He pioneered a groundbreaking environmental profit-and-loss account that put a monetary value on the impacts across PUMA’s supply chain, and he believes in contributing to a new paradigm of corporate, social, and environmental sustainability. In 2008, he founded the Zeitz Foundation for Intercultural Ecosphere Safety to support sustainable solutions that balance conservation, community development, culture, and commerce. In addition to his current roles at PPR and PUMA, Zeitz is a member of the board and executive committee of PPR, and he serves as a board member and the chair of the sustainability committees at both Wilderness Safaris and Harley-Davidson. Zeitz is also a member of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Advisory Board.