Annual Conference | Little Rock, AR, USA | 17-18 December 2012

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welcome letter

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logistics letter

the participants

sponsors list

the conference: finding solutions

For years the Club de Madrid has been addressing the challenges of the equitable partici-pation of women in politics, government, and the economy; all vital to effective democracy and essential for achieving sustainable development. In line with this, Members have agreed to centre the Club de Madrid’s Annual Conference this year on, ‘Harnessing 21st Century Solutions: a Focus on Women’.

The Conference will take place at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas on December 17-19, hosted by President Bill Clinton and organized in collaboration with the William J. Clinton Foundation and the support of the Council of Women World Leaders and UN Women as institutional partners.

Women’s political and economic empowerment has been on national and international agendas for years. It is an issue President Clinton cares deeply about. Through numerous commitments his Clinton Global Initiative is impacting the lives of over 16 million women around the world. At the Club de Madrid, we believe it is an ideal moment to review ap-proaches and strategies in light of 21st century challenges and opportunities, as well as the revamping of the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015.

At the Conference we will seek to share best practices in addressing political and economic empowerment from a gender perspective and to identify benchmarks that can serve to gui-de coordinated efforts and move this agenda forward. The Conference will gather high-level participants, including sitting political leaders, over 40 Members of the Club de Madrid - all democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers - and representatives from government, multilaterals, business, academia and civil society.

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Women’s empowerment has significantly advanced in the last few decades. There is much to celebrate as women around the world increasingly gain the right to vote, to education, to property, amongst others, transforming them into autonomous members of society capable of changing their communities as well as securing their own personal and professional fulfillment. While progress is undeniable, there are a multitude of challenges that hinder the economic and political empowerment of women and prevent their full realization in public and private spheres.

The Club de Madrid convening will explore the opportunities and challenges to addressing these issues by considering the following topics:

• Equal rights in a global world. If equal rights for women are still a goal for democracies, how are they being implemented and enforced? How can this goal be sustained in times of crisis?

• How are we addressing the existing challenges for women leaders to attain seats of power at both political and corporate decision-making tables?

• Post the Rio+20 meeting, how will governments and the private sector be held accountable to enhancing women’s right to access and control of natural resources?

• How can the consideration of cultural, religious and ethnic diversity be most effectively prioritized in gender analysis and used when considering 21st century challenges and demands?

We anticipate using the Club de Madrid platform to explore specific challenges to women’s broader participation in society as well as identify and share best practices and

recommendations that will allow governments and private sector to create enabling environments for women to realize their full economic and political potential.

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welcome letter

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Dear Participant,

On behalf of the 93 former Heads of State and Government, Members of the Club de Madrid, it is a pleasure to welcome you

to our Annual Conference on ‘Harnessing 21st Century Solutions: A Focus on Women’. Women’s empowerment has significantly advanced in the last few decades. There is much to celebrate as women around the world increasingly gain the right to vote, to education and to property, amongst others, transforming them into autonomous members of society, capable of changing their communities as well as securing their own personal and professional fulfillment. While progress is undeniable, there are a myriad of challenges that hamper the economic and political empowerment of women and prevent their full realization in public and private spheres.

The mission of the Club de Madrid is the promotion of ‘democracy that delivers’. Women’s empowerment must be an essential component of all democratization agendas. This international economic crisis has strained and hindered many processes. It is imperative to avoid backtracking in the women’s agenda and continue striving to further unleash their full potential politically, socially and economically. This is vital for social justice and sustained economic prosperity. The increasingly intensified burden we are witnessing on many women worldwide as a result of this crisis highlights the importance of continuing to push this empowerment agenda forward for the benefit of all society as well as the long road we still have ahead.

We, at the Club de Madrid, believe that it is an ideal moment to review approaches and strategies for women´s empowerment in light of 21st century challenges and opportunities, as well as the revamping of the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015. We anticipate using the Club de Madrid platform to explore specific challenges to women’s broader participation in society as well as to identify and share best practices and recommendations that will allow relevant actors to create enabling environments for women to realize their full potential. This Conference has therefore been designed to pool the combined knowledge and experience of an incredibly diverse collection of participants, all of whom work in unique ways to advance the role of women in various societies. In this spirit this Annual Conference aims to provide a platform for participants like you to share and compare personal experiences and points of view. The conclusions and ideas inspired by this Conference will blend to innovate fresh approaches to expand dialogue on topics such as enhancing equal rights for women, increasing the quantity of female leaders in democratic governments, or developing the right of women in accessing and controlling natural resources.

In this regard we are also very focused on the post- Conference and the possibilities of identifying, with our partners and participants, concrete initiatives that will help to implement the outcomes of the Conference at different levels around the globe.

We all look forward to engaging in focused and dynamic discussions that will allow us to set benchmarks and forge projects with many of the outstanding individuals and institutions that have joined us in Little Rock. Thank you for contributing to make this event a success!

Warm regards,

Wim KokPrime Minister of the Netherlands (1994-2002)

President of the Club de Madrid

the program

Monday 17 December

Opening SeSSiOn•ClintonCenter,GreatHall

Speakers:Stephanie S. Streett, Executive Director, William J. Clinton FoundationJerry Jones, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, AcxiomHillary R. Clinton (via video), U.S. Secretary of StateWim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1994-2002). President of the Club de Madrid

Framing the Debate • Clinton Center, Great Hall

Facilitator: Bill Clinton, President of the United States (1992-2000). Honorary Chair of the Club de Madrid

Speakers: Michelle Bachelet, Director of UN Women. President of Chile (2006-2010). Member of the Club de Madrid Roza Otunbayeva, President of Kyrgyzstan (2010-2011). Member of the Club de Madrid Felipe González, President of the Government of Spain (1982-1996). Member of the Club de Madrid Joachim Chissano, President of Mozambique (1986-2005). Member of the Club de Madrid

inaugural lunch. theme: WOmen in art anD meDia

Heifer Foundation, Jo Luck Global Impact Room

Master of Ceremonies: Mark Muller, Founding Director, Beyond Borders Foundation

Welcome: Mark Stodola, Mayor of Little RockJorge Fernando Quiroga, President of Bolivia (2001-2002). Vicepresident of the Club de Madrid.

Facilitator:Maya Harris, Vice President of the Democracy, Rights and Justice Program, Ford Foundation

Speakers:Geena Davis, Founder, Geena Davis Institute of Gender in MediaManal Al Dowanyan, Artist, Saudi Arabia2

cOnFerence participant regiStratiOn1 •Capital Hotel, Lobby Hospitality Desk09:00-13:00

13:15-14:30

15:30-16:30

15:00-15:30

1 Club de Madrid Members will have Conference accreditation and materials delivered to their hotel rooms upon arrival. 2 Please visit Manal Al Dowanyan’s art exhit of her work ‘I AM’ at the Clinton Center, Garden View Room.

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cOFFee break•ClintonCenter,GreatHall16:30-16:45

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1. Secrets to Securing Equality in the Board Room and Beyond? Clinton Center, Great Hall

Facilitator: Theo Sowa, Interim Chief Executive Officer, African Women’s Development Fund

Initiators:Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway (1997-2000; 2001-2005); Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile (2000-2006)José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, President of the Government of Spain (2004-2011)

Speakers: Jeni Klugman, Director, Gender and Development, World BankLaura Liswood, Secretary General, Council of Women World LeadersIrene Natividad, President of the Global Summit of Women

2. Harnessing Technology for Women’s Political Empowerment: the 2.0 Challenge•Clinton School of Public Service, Classroom 1

Facilitator: Lili Fournier, Producer, Director and Host (Quest Series PBS)

Initiators:Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia (1999-2007)Esko Aho, Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995)

Speakers:Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, ECLACAnn Mei Chang, Senior Advisor for Women and Technology, US StateDepartment Frank McCosker, Worldwide General Manager, International Organizations, Microsoft Corporation

3. Are peace and security processes sufficiently inclusive to be socially just and effective? •Clinton School of Public Service, Classroom 2

Facilitator:Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Chair, Hunt Alternatives Fund. Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria

Initiators:Andrés Pastrana, President of Colombia (1998-2002)Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005)

Speakers:Vice Admiral Carole Pottenger, Deputy Chief of Staff Capability Development at NATO Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Norfolk, Va.Kamilia Kuku, G40 Representative, NuWEDA, Sudan Zainab Bangura, UNSRSG on Sexual Violence

16:45-18:15BREAKOUT SESSIONS. Track I: Political Empowerment

OFFicial cOnFerence Dinner hOSteD by gOvernOr beebe•GovernorsMansion

Master of ceremonies: Jerry Jones, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Acxiom

Welcoming Words: Mike Beebe, Governor of Arkansas Mary Robinson, President of the Republic of Ireland (1990-1997). Member of the Club de Madrid

Dinner Talk: ArkansasPierre Ferrari, President and CEO, Heifer Foundation

19:30-21:00

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Tuesday 18 December

09:00-10:30BREAKOUT SESSIONS. Track II: Economic Empowerment

5. How can societies ensure women’s rights to access and control of natural resources? Clinton Center, Great Hall

Facilitator: Richenda Van Leeuwen, Executive Director, Energy and Climate, EnergyAccess Initiative, United Nations Foundation (UNF)

Initiators: Mary Robinson, President of Ireland (1990-1997) Sadiq Al-Mahdi, Prime Minister of Sudan (1966-1967; 1986-1989)

Speakers: Rajendra Pachauri (video), Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)Jamie Bechtel, Co-founder and CEO, New CourseAlimata Traore, President, COFERSA (New Field Foundation)Katherine Lucey, Founder and CEO, Solar Sisters

6 Sharing responsibilities in the fight against trafficking of women •Clinton School of Public Service, Classroom 2

Facilitator: Jackie K. Weatherspoon, Former Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives

Initiators:Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada (1993)Tarja Halonen, President of Finland (2000-2012)

Speakers:Luca Da’ll Oglio, Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Washington D.C.Ruth Ojiambo, Isis-Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange (ISIS-WICCE), UgandaCarol Kidu, Former Member of Parliament and Former Minister for Community Development, Papua New Guinea

4. Creating a 21st century work-life balance Clinton School of Public Service, Classroom 1

Facilitator:Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Global Women’s Leadership Initiative

Initiators:John Bruton, Prime Minister of Ireland (1994-1997)

Speakers:Sharan Burrow (video), General Secretary, International Trade UnionConfederation (ITUC)Nada al-Nashif, Regional Director ILO Office for Arab StatesCarla Koppell, Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’sEmpowerment, US Agency for International DevelopmentCecilia Lopez Montano, President and Founder, Centro Internacional dePensamiento Economico y Social (CISOE)

10:30-11:00 cOFFee break•ClintonCenter,GreatHall

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bringing it all tOgether•ClintonCenter,Great Hall

Facilitator:Stephen Sackur, Correspondent, BBC

Keynote: John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada

Speakers: Sylvia Burwell, President, The Walmart FoundationBineta Diop, Director and Founder, Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS)Mayra Buvinic, Senior Fellow, United Nations FoundationAdimaimalaga Tafuna’I, Executive Director, Women in Business Development Inc (Samoa)Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large, Global Women’s Issues, U.S. State Department

11:00-13:00

lunch talk: ‘WOmen in the mena regiOn: tOWarDS a neW SOcial cOntract’ • Heifer Foundation

Facilitator: Nada al-Nashif, Director of ILO Regional Office for Arab States

Speakers: Muna AbuSulayman, Partner, Directions Consultancy LLC, Effective Strategic Philanthropy and CSR; MBC Co-host Kalam Nouam, Partner Glowork, Women Employment Opportunities. Saudi Arabia. Rahma Fathalla, Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress Lina Hundaileh, Owner, Al-Zaytouni Company, Jordan

13:00-14:30

clOSing & aWarD giving ceremOny •ClintonCenter,GreatHall

Club de Madrid Young Leadership Award presented to Leila Janah by:Bill Clinton, President of the United States of America (1993-2001). Honorary Chair of the Club de MadridWim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1994-2002), President of the Club de Madrid Leila Janah, Founder and CEO, Samasource

Facilitator: Stephen Sackur, Correspondent, BBC

Speakers: Tawakel Karman, Co-founder of Women Journalists without Chains (WJWC). Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada (1993)Carol Kidu, Former Member of Parliament and Former Minister for Community Development, Papua New Guinea

15:30-16:30

receptiOn anD Dinner OFFereD by city OF nOrth little rOck•THEA Foundation & Argenta Community Theater19:00-21:00

logistics letter

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We are pleased to welcome you at the Club de Madrid´s XI Annual Conference that will be held in Little Rock , Arkansas on December 17 and 18. Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas located on the south bank of the

Arkansas River. The western part of the city is located in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Just northwest of the city limits are Pinnacle Mountain and Lake Maumelle.Little Rock derives its name from a small rock formation on the south bank of the Arkansas River called la Petite Roche (French: “the little rock”). The “little rock” was used by early river traffic as a landmark and became a well-known river crossing. The “little rock” is across the river from “big rock”, a large bluff at the edge of the river, which was once used as a rock quarry.

The Conference and meetings will be held in the following venues:

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER

1200 President Clinton Avenue Little Rock, AR 72201.Phone: +1 (501) 374-4242

This will be the main venue for the Club de Madrid Annual Conference.

Opened in 2004, the Center is home to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, and the Little Rock offices of the Clinton Foundation.The Center also plays an active role in the Little Rock community, hosting a number of events, lectures, and conferences throughout the year. The Center was instrumental in bringing more than $2.5 billion in economic development to the area, including renovations of the nearby historic River Market district.

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HEIFER INTERNATIONAL

1 World Avenue, P.O. Box 727, Little Rock, AR 72203Phone: +1 (501) 907-2600

All lunches will be served at the Heifer Foundation.

Heifer International’s mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth. Moved by the plight of orphans and refugees of the Spanish Civil War as he ladled out meager rations of powdered milk, Dan West, an Indiana farmer, volunteer relief worker and Church of the Brethren member, grasped that the people needed “a cow, not a cup”—cows that could produce milk so families would not have to depend on temporary aid. From that simple idea, Heifer International was born.

Clinton Presidential Center

Heifer Foundation

Governors House

Argenta Comm. Theater

GOVERNORS MANSION

1800 Center Street Little Rock, Arkansas Phone: +1 (501)-324-9805

Dinner on the 17th of December will be hosted by the Governor Mike Beebe at the Governors Mansion.

The Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, located on Center Street in downtown Little Rock, was originally completed in 1950 during the term of Governor Sidney McMath. Until that time, Arkansas had no official residence for her chief executive. Over 300,000 bricks were used to complete the mansion. Currently home to Governor Mike Beebe and First Lady Ginger Beebe

logistics letter

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Transportation to venues will be provided from and to the Capital Hotel for all conference participants. These are the transfer services provided:

Monday December 17th:

12:45 a.m. - Capital Hotel to Heifer Foundation06:15 p.m. - Clinton Center to Capital Hotel07:15 p.m. - Capital Hotel to Governors House09:00 p.m. - Governors House to Capital Hotel

Tuesday December 18th:

08:45 a.m. - Capital Hotel to Clinton Center04:30 p.m. - Clinton Center to Capital Hotel06:45 p.m. - Capital Hotel to THEA Foundation09:00 p.m. - THEA Foundation to Capital Hotel

Transport

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ARGENTA COMMUNITY THEATER

405 Main Street North Little Rock, AR 72114Phone: +1 (501) 353 1443

Dinner on the 18th of December will be hosted by the North Little Rock Mayor Patrick Hays at the Argenta Community Center.

The Argenta Community Theater (ACT) is a non profit organization committed to serving the community through education and advancement of the performing arts. North Little Rock was once known as Argenta, a name currently applied specifically to downtown North Little Rock. North Little Rock is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States, across the Arkansas River from Little Rock in the central part of the state.

If you need to take a taxi please find below the contact numbers:

River City Cab

Serving the Little Rock Area.Phone: +1 (501) 388-5582

Yellow Cab Co

Serving the Little Rock Area.Phone: +1 (501) 222-2222

Taxi

Please note that there will be translation English-Spanish-French only in the main meeting room: Great Hall, at the Clinton Center.

Languajes

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Little Rock’s winter climate is generally cool, with occasional frosty nights between December and February. January is usually the coldest month of the year in the city and there can be infrequent snow flurries. The following are the normal daily temperature ranges for Little Rock: December: 11°C / 52°F // 1°C / 34°F

Weather

For any additional information please contact:

Institutional Relations Officer: Agustina Brianoabriano@clubmadrid.org Mobile: 0034679445665

Contact numbers

Please make sure you have your visa before travelling to the United States. In case you need an ESTA please make sure you have it prior to travelling. You can find the address in: https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov If you need any help regarding your Visa Application, please do not hesitate to contact Club de Madrid Logistics department (events1@clubmadrid.org)

Visa

The hotels suggested by Club de Madrid are the following:

CAPITAL HOTEL

111 West Markham Street Little Rock, AR 72201 Phone Number: +1 501 374-7474Contact person Tulika ChopraContact email CH-RESERVATIONS@CAPITALHOTEL.COM

Accommodation THE PEABODY HOTEL

200 West Markham Street Little Rock, AR 72201Telephone number: +1 501-906-4000Contact person: Denise EvansE-mail addresse: denise.evans@peabodylittlerock.com

DOUBLE TREE HOTEL

424 West Markham St., Little Rock, Arkansas, 72201, USAPhone number: +1 501 372 4371E-mail addresse: tjones@doubletreelr.com

Capital Hotel Peabody Hotel Double Tree Hotel

Communications Officer:Luis Pérez Gillperez@clubmadrid.org Mobile: 0034607694232

Logistical Information:María Romero Events1@clubmadrid.orgMobile: 0034607694366

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Members of the Club de Madrid

Esko Aho•PrimeMinisterofFinland(1991-1995)

Mr. Esko Aho served as the Prime Minister of Finland 1991 – 1995. He became a Member of the Parliament in 1983 and continued as an MP until 2002. Aho led the Centre Party in 1990 – 2002. During that period Mr Aho spent academic year 2000 – 2001 at Harvard university as a fellow and adjunct lecturer. In Finnish political history, Aho is remembered as a strong prime minister who led the country through the hardest recession in the postwar period. He led the nation through many changes in its external relations, e.g. to the membership of the European Union. Aho became the President of the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development, Sitra on July 1, 2004.

Abdul-kareem Al-Eryani•PrimeMinisterofYemen(1980-1983,1998-2001)

As an expert on development issues, Dr. Al-Eryani led agricultural projects in his early career, before being appointed Chairman of the Central Planning Committee in 1972. Dr. Al-Eryani held various Ministerial portfolios throughout his career: Development, Education, Foreign Affairs, and Development Planning. He was elected Prime Minister for the first time in 1980, and a second time in 1998. He currently serves as a political advisor to the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. He is also since 2007 the Secretary General of the Arab Association for Democracy, a nongovernmental organisation with membership from 17 Arab countries.

Sadig Al-Mahdi•PrimeMinisterofSudan(1966-1967;1986-1989)

Sadig Al Mahdi started his career in the Ministry of Finance but resigned soon after the Abboud coup d’état (1958) then joining and leading the opposition movement. Elected President of Umma Party in 1964, he became Prime Minister in 1966 again in 1986 – in Sudan’s respectively second and third democracy. In between he played major roles in the opposition to military regimes suffering from a sum of about sixteen years of imprisonments and exiles during that time. In 2002 he was elected as the Imam of Alansar. He currently still serves as the leader of the Umma Party, and continues his mobilization efforts to restore peace and democracy in Sudan, and to solve the dialectic between modern life and religious revival in the Muslim World.

Michelle Bachelet•PresidentofChile(2006-2010)

Mrs. Bachelet’s political career goes back to her student life in the 1970s, when she actively par-ticipated and supported Chile’s Socialist Party until Augusto Pinochet’s regime forced to flee the country. After some time in Australia and East Germany, she came back to her home country to finish her medical studies, while remaining politically and advocating for the restoration of de-mocracy in Chile. Once democracy was restored in 1990, there was immediately a great need for professionals to help restore the country’s public health system. This is how and why Michelle Bachelet started her professional career as an epidemiologist. She later worked for the govern-ment and as a consultant for the both the Pan-American and the World Health Organization.

In 1998, Mrs. Bachelet was chosen by the Socialist Party’s Central Committee to join its Po-litical Committee, where she remained until March 11, 2000. She was named Minister of Health in President Ricardo Lagos’ administration in 2000 and moved to head the Defence Ministry in 2002. She was the first woman both in Chile and in Latin America to hold such a position. In Oc-tober 2004, Mrs. Bachelet stepped down to stand as presidential candidate. She was elected in January 15, 2006, thereby becoming the first woman in Chilean history to hold the highest office in the country. Her term ended on 11 March 2010 – the Chilean Constitution does not allow a candidate to run for a second term. She was most recently appointed Director of UN Women, the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

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Kjell Magne Bondevik•PrimeMinisterofNorway(1997-2000,2001-2005)

Mr. Bondevik is the founder and president of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights. He was Prime Minister of Norway between 1997 and 2000 and from 2001 to 2005. He has also been Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989-1990) and Minister of Church and Education (1983-1986). He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament (1973-2005). Mr. Bondevik served as the UN Secre-tary General’s Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa in 2006-2007. Mr. Bondevik holds the degree of Cand.Theol. and was ordained as a priest in the Lutheran Church of Norway in 1979.

John Bruton•PrimeMinisteroftheRepublicofIreland,1994-1997

John Bruton was first elected to the Dáil Éireann (House of Representatives) in 1969 and served continuously until his retirement from domestic politics in 2004. He served as Ireland’s Minis-ter for Finance; Minister for Industry & Energy; and Minister for Trade, Commerce & Tourism. In 1990, he became the leader of his party (Fine Gael) and successfully led it to government in 1994.

At the age of 47, making him the then youngest Taoiseach ever, John Bruton played a key role in making the Irish economy one of the fastest growing in the world, and reinforcing its image as ‘Celtic Tiger’. John Bruton was also deeply involved in the Northern Irish Peace Process and the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which allowed resolving a longstanding conflict of allegiances and decades of violence on the Irish island.

Whilst Prime Minister, John Bruton also presided over a successful Irish EU Presidency in 1996 and helped finalize the Stability and Growth Pact, which governed the management of the single European currency, the Euro. From 1999 until 2004, he was one of ten Vice Presidents of the European People’s Party – the largest party sitting in the European Parliament. Finally, from 2004 until 2009, he was the EU’s Ambassador to the United States.

Jerzy Bukez•PrimeMinisterofPoland(1997-2001)

Jerzy Buzek started his political activism by becoming a member of Solidarno in 1980 and his appointment as its Chair of the Works Committee. In 1981, he became a delegate to the First National Congress of Delegates of Solidarno , and he later chaired the fourth, fifth and sixth Na-tional Congresses. Having avoided internment in December 1981, he continued his political acti-vities in the underground movement. He published ‘S’, an illegal underground pamphlet, the first issue of which appeared in January 1982. He suspended his activities in 1987 as his daughter, Agata, was seriously ill. Following Solidarno’s triumph in 1989, he became a full-time academic.

In February 1997 Mr. Buzek became coordinator of the panel of economics experts within the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) party. Later that year, he was elected to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament, and was soon appointed Prime Minister of Poland. In this quality, he took Poland into NATO and negotiated the terms of Poland’s accession to the European Union. Jerzy Buzek’s coalition government undertook one of the most ambitious reform pro-grammes in Poland since 1989, initiating and carrying through reforms in the local government, pensions, healthcare, education and mining sectors. In January 1999 he became President of the AWS Social Movement. When the AWS lost the parliamentary elections in the autumn of 2001, Jerzy Buzek withdrew from active politics for a number of years.

Jerzy Buzek was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2004. During his term, he was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, an alternate member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the Delegation to the EU–Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and an alternate delegate for the de-legation for relations with the countries of Central America. He served as rapporteur on the EU’s 7th Framework Program for Research and Development, a multi-billion euro spending program for the years 2007–2013.

Mr. Buzek was re-elected in the European Parliament in June 2009, and was successfully elected President of the Parliament in July that year for two and a half years, sharing the full mandate with Martin Schultz from Germany who took the presidency in 2012.

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Kim Campbell•PrimeMinisterofCanada(1993)

Ms. Campbell served as the 19th and first female Prime Minister of Canada in 1993. She also held the cabinet portfolios of Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Justice and Attorney General, National Defence and Veterans’ Affairs. She was the first woman to hold the Justice and Defence portfolios and the first woman Minister of Defence of a NATO country.

Ms. Campbell taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2001-2004). She is past Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders and past President of the International Women’s Forum. She was Secretary General of the Club de Madrid (2004-2006). Kim Campbell currently serves on the boards and advisory committees of a number of interna-tional organizations including the Club de Madrid, the International Crisis Group, the Internatio-nal Centre for Democratic Transition, the Arab Democracy Foundation, the World Movement for Democracy and the Forum of Federations, among others.

Joachim Chissano•PresidentofMozambique(1986-2005)

Mr. Chissano was Mozambique’s second President since its independence in 1975 – a process in which he played an active role as Prime Minister of the transitional government. He was elected President after Samora Machel’s death. In 1994 he won the first multiparty elections in the country and was re-elected in 1999. He served as Chairman of the African Union from July 2003 to July 2004, and President of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Commit-tee for Cooperation in Political Affairs, Defence and Security. He is currently Chairperson of the Joachim Chissano Foundation and the Africa Forum as well as member of The Hunger Project (Board of Director), the Africa Statesmen’s Initiative and the Nelson Mandela Institution (for Science and Technology). Most recently, he was appointed the SADC mediator on Madagascar.

William J. Clinton•FormerPresidentoftheUnitedStates(1993-2001)

William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1992, and again in 1996— the first Democratic president to be awarded a second term in six decades. Under his leadership, the United States has enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. President Clinton’s core values of building community, creating opportunity, and demanding responsibility have resulted in unprecedented progress for America, including moving the nation from record deficits to record surpluses; the creation of over 22 million jobs— more than any other administration; low levels of unemployment, pover-ty, and crime; and the highest homeownership rate in history. His accomplishments as president include increasing critical investments in education, providing tax relief for working families, helping millions of Americans move from welfare to work, expan-ding access to technology, encouraging investment in underserved communities, and promoting peace and strengthening democracy around the world. President Clinton previously served as the Governor of Arkansas, chairman of the National Governors’ Association, and Attorney General of Arkansas. As former chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, he is one of the original architects and leading advocates for the Third Way movement.

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José María Figueres•PresidentofCostaRica(1994-1998)

José María Figueres served as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. As such, he was the youngest President of a Central American country in modern times. During his presidency, he created a comprehensive national Sustainable Development strategy combining sound ma-croeconomic indicators, together with strategic investment in human development, and a strong alliance with nature through the implementation of innovative environmental policies. Prior to serving as President he was Minister of Foreign Trade (1987-1988) and Minister of Agriculture (1988-1990).

In the international arena he has pioneered the linkage between Sustainable Development and technology, in the realms of business, public service, and non-profit organizations. He hel-ped create and lead the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (ICT) and is the founder of the Fundacion Costa Rica para el Desarrollo Sostenible (Entebbe) in Costa Rica. In 2000, President Figueres joined the World Economic Forum and became its first CEO in 2003, where he strengthened global corporate ties to social and governmental sectors by identifying common long-term interests.

Today he continues to work in the fields of technology and development, and is currently the CEO of CONCORDIA 21, based in Spain, dedicated to the support of organizations which promote development and democratic values around the world.

He holds an Industrial Engineering Degree from US Military Academy at West Point, and a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle•PresidentofChile(1994-2000)

Eduardo Frei began his political career by joining the Christian Democratic Party in 1958. A student leader, he actively participated in the presidential campaign of his father, Eduardo Frei Montalva, which the latter won in 1964. After his father’s death in 1982, Eduardo Frei founded the Eduardo Frei Montalva Foundation which he chaired until April 1993. During the Pinochet years, he helped initiate the Pro free-Elections Committee and actively took part in the campaign against the plebiscite summoned by the Pinochet regime in 1988. In 1989 he was elected in the Senate. In 1992 he was elected President of his party and also won the primary presidential elec-tions of his coalition. He was elected President in 1994 and served until 2000. Since the end of his mandate, he has been sitting in the Senate. In 2009 he ran for presidential elections again for the Concertacion por la democracia but was defeated by Sebastian Pinera, the first right-wing President ever elected in Chile since the restoration of democracy.

Felipe González•PresidentoftheGovernmentofSpain(1982-1996)

Felipe González was president of the Spanish Government (1982-1996). His government presided over the reconstruction of Spanish industry and the modernization of the education, healthcare and social security systems. One of González´ most important achievements while in office was the entrance of Spain into the European Union in 1986 and into NATO. He served as Secretary General of the PSOE beginning in 1974 and as its congressional leader beginning in 1977, where he played an important role in the constitutional debates during the transition period. He also served as the President of the Socialist International from 1978 to 1999. He has served as the president of the Global Progress Foundation since September 1997, and was Special Representa-tive of the EU to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1998.

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Alfred Gusenbauer•FederalChancellorofAustria(2007-2008)

Alfred Gusenbauer was Austria’s 11th Federal Chancellor, serving between 2007 and 2008. Dr. Gusenbauer spent his whole professional life in politics, either as an employee or as a parliamen-tary representative for his party, the Austria Social Democratic Party (SPÖ).

Little time after starting his law degree at the University of Vienna, he joined the federal Executive Committee of the SJÖ – the youth branch of the SPÖ. Elected Executive Secretary of the SLÖ in 1981, Federal Chairman of the organization in 1984 and Vice-President of the Interna-tional Youth Socialist in 1985, he entered the economic policy department of the Lower Austria Chamber of Labour in 1990. He made the final jump to the federal political arena in February 1991

In 2000, following SPÖ’s defeat in the legislative elections, and the resignation of his Presi-dent, Alfred Gusenbauer was elected the new President of his party and Leader of the Opposi-tion. In the 2006 elections, the SPÖ won a relative majority of the votes and after arduous nego-tiations formed a grand coalition with his rival party the ÖVP, with Alfred Gusenbauer chosen as Federal Chancellor. He served in this position from January 2007 until December 2008.

Tarja Halonen•PresidentofFinland(2000-2012)

Tarja Halonen´s professional career started in the national Union of Finnish Students, where she worked as the Social Affairs Secretary in 1969–70. She started as a lawyer in the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions in 1970 and held this position throughout her political career. Tarja Halonen joined the Social Democratic party in 1971. Her political career began in 1974 when she was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister. She was elected to the Parliament for the first time in 1979, and after that she was re-elected four times, until she assumed the office of the President of Finland.

In the Parliament she served as Chair of the Social Affairs Committee in 1984–87, Deputy Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee in 1991–95, and Chair of the Grand Committee in 1995. A central part of Tarja Halonen’s political activity has been her five terms in the Helsinki City Council in 1977–96. She has served in three cabinets and her appointments have been: Minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in 1987–90, Minister of Justice in 1990–91, and Minis-ter of Foreign Affairs in 1995–2000. She was also Minister responsible for Nordic co-operation in 1989–91. During her time as Foreign Minister, Finland held for the first time the EU Presidency from July to December in 1999. Tarja Halonen has also played an active role at the Council of Europe, first as Deputy-Chair of the Finnish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly from 1991 to 1995 and later in the Ministerial Committee. She was also a Member of the Committee of Wise Persons of the Council of Europe in 1998–99.

During her presidency, Tarja Halonen has served as co-chair of World Commission on the So-cial Dimension of Globalization, appointed by International Labour Organization ILO, from 2002 to 2004. Since March 2009, she has served as the Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders. In August 2010, Tarja Halonen was appointed co-chair of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability. Tarja Halonen has paid close attention to issues of human rights, democracy, and civil society. Issues concerning social justice and promotion of equality have been central themes throughout her political career.

Lionel Jospin•PrimeMinisterofFrance(1997-2002)

Graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Lionel Jospin served from 1965 to 1970 as Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the Ministry’s Directorate of Economic Affairs. From 1973 to 1981, he served in the French Socialist Party as National Secretary for Training, National Secretary, Third World Affairs and finally for International Relations and Coordination. Between 1977 and 1983, he served as Councillor in the Municipality of Paris and as Deputy in the National Assem-bly. In 1981, he became First Secretary of the Socialist Party and served until 1988. He served again as First Secretary from 1995 to 1997. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1988.

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Wim Kok•PrimeMinisteroftheNetherlands(1994-2002)

Mr. Kok was advisor to the President of the European Commission (1985-1986), deputy chairman of the Socialist International (1989-2002), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance (1986-1994) in Ruud Lubbers’ government. He succeeded the latter in 1994 serving until 2002. From May till November 2004, he was chairman of the High Level Group on the Lisbon Strategy, in charge of carrying out an independent analysis of European growth and employment, commis-sioned by the European Commission and European Council. He serves as President of the Club de Madrid since January 1, 2010.

Chandrika Kumaratunga•PresidentofSriLanka(1994-2005)

Chandrika Kumaratunga entered mainstream politics in 1993 when elected Chief Minister of the Western Provincial Council. She was Prime Minister in 1994 after her party won the general elections. She won the October 1994 presidential elections on the basis of a campaign built on ending corruption, good governance, a negotiated end to the ethnic crisis and peace acceptable to all communities. Days before being elected to her second term in 1999, she escaped a LTTE assassination attempt, however lost the use of her right eye. When the LTTE resumed its armed conflict, she urged the government forces to exercise caution and to minimize civilian casualties at all times. She was the only political leader to offer a political solution to the conflict but could not be translated into legislative bills as the government did not have the required 2/3 majority in parliament. Her government also implemented a successful economic development program-me, which took the benefits of development to all sections of the population: Education, Health, Ports, Airport, Highways, Water Supply.

Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera•PresidentofUruguay(1990-1995)

Luis Alberto Lacalle became affiliated with the Partido Nacional (Blanco) at the age of seventeen. His political career began when he was elected Member of the Parliament of Montevideo, a position which he held until the military coup d’état of 1973. When democracy was restored to Uruguay in 1984, Mr. Lacalle became both a Senator and Vice president of the Senate where he participated in the Public Funds, Transportation, and Public Works committees.

He was elected President of Uruguay in November of 1989 and formally entered the position on March 1st, 1990 to serve the five-year term from 1990 to 1995. His administration is known for having implemented a free market program; during his term in office Luis Alberto Lacalle, along with his colleagues in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, co-founded the MERCOSUR which was established by the Treaty of Asuncion on March 26th 1991.

He has been President of the National Party (Partido Nacional) on two occasions; between 1999 and 2004, and from August 2009. He was a candidate in the 2009 presidential elections but lost to José Mujica. He currently still serves in the Uruguayan Senate.

Ricardo Lagos•PresidentofChile(2000-2006)

In 1980’s, Mr. Lagos became politically active and emerged as a leader of the opposition to Augusto Pinochet. He served as Minister of Education (1992-1993) and Minister of Public Works (1994-1998). He was President of Chile from 2000 until 2006. He currently chairs the Fundacion Democracia y Desarrollo (Democracy and Development). He was the President of the Club de Madrid from 2006 till 2009. In 2007, he was named by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Special Envoy on Climate Change. He also teaches at the Watson Institute for the International Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island.

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Zlatko Lagumdzija•PrimeMinisterofBosnia&Herzegovina(2001-2002)

Mr. Lagumdzija was named Deputy Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina in 1992. He has been member of several international missions and commissions, including the International Electoral Observer Mission to the Pakistan elections (1998) and the International Commission on the Ba-lkans (2004). He was Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2003) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (2001-2002). He currently serves as President of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia & Herzegovina, and as Member of the House of Representatives since 1996.

Antonio M. Mascarenhas Monteiro•PresidentofCapeVerde(1991-2001)

A Mr. Mascarenhas served as Secretary-General of the Peoples National Assembly of Cape Verde from 1977 to1980 and as President of the Supreme Court of Justice from 1980 to 1990. He also participated in many international Cape Verdean Delegations, including the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Conference to draft the African Charter on Human Rights, the Addis Ababa Conference to review the OAU Charter, Human Rights Conferences in Nairobi (Kenya) Strasbourg (France) and Bologna (Italy), and the International Law Symposiums held in Coimbra (Portugal) and Utrecht (Netherlands).

In 1991, he became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Cape Verde and was reelected in 1996. During his term in office, Mr. Mascarenhas continued his participa-tion in the international sphere. He was Chairman of the Third Conference on Regional System of Human Rights Protection in Africa and Europe and participated in the OAU Goodwill mission to Angola following the country’s first free elections in 1992. In 1993, he was Chairman of the Colloquium on Constitutional Transition in Africa, held at the Catholic University of Louvain, and from 1994 to 1997 he served as President of the Inter-State Committee for Struggle Against Drought in Sahel (CILSS). In his role as Deputy President of the OAU Ad-Hoc Committee for Southern Africa, he attended the signing of the Lusaka Protocol on Peace in Angola in 1994. He was elected President of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) in 1998.

Since leaving office, Mr. Mascarenhas has participated as Chairman of the Contact Group of OAU sent to Madagascar in March, 2002 to mediate the conflict that broke out following the Presidential elections of 2001. He participated in the January 2003 NEPAD and Security Forum organized by the Global Coalition for Africa held in Accra, Ghana.

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Roza Otunbayeva•PresidentoftheKyrgyzRepublic(2010-2011)

In 1981 Ms Otunbayeva began her political career as the Communist Party’s second secretary of the Lenin raion council (raikom) of Frunze. In late 1980s, she served as head of the USSR Delegation to UNESCO in Paris, and later as the Soviet Ambassador to Malaysia. By 1992, the now independent Kyrgyzstan was led by Askar Akayev, who chose her to be both Foreign Mi-nister and Deputy Prime Minister; positions she held until later that year when she became her country’s first ambassador to the USA and Canada. In 1998-2001, she served as the first Kyrgyz ambassador to the United Kingdom. In 2002-2004, she was the deputy head of the United Nations Observing Mission in Georgia. Upon her return to Kyrgyzstan in late 2004, she and three other opposition parliamentarians founded the Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) party in preparation for the February 2005 parliamentary elections.

She was barred from becoming a candidate for the 2005 legislative election due to a previously enacted law requiring prospective MPs to have resided in the country for 5 years prior to the elec-tions. Her time as ambassador to the United Kingdom prevented her from meeting this criterion.

Otunbayeva was one of the key leaders of the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan which led to the overthrow of President Akayev. She also played a key role in November 2006 protests that pressed successfully for a new democratic constitution. In December 2007, Otunbayeva was elected to the parliament of Kyrgyzstan on the candidate list of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan. On April 7, 2010, Roza Otunbayeva was selected by opposition leaders as head of a Kyrgyz interim government, following widespread rioting in Bishkek and the ousting of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev who left the country on April 15.

Following a referendum of the new Kyrgyz Constitution, she was officially sworn in as Presi-dent of the Republic on July 3, 2010, serving until December 2011.

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Andrés Pastrana•PresidentofColombia(1998-2002)

Son of former Colombian President Misael Pastrana, Andrés Pastrana has had a sense of public duty from a very young age. He entered politics in 1982 at local level, serving as City Councilor of Bogotá until 1986 and as its Mayor from 1988 until 1990. Founder of the New Democratic Force movement he served in the Senate from 1991 until 1993. He was elected President of Colombia in 1998 for a four-year term. After his presidential tenure, he served as the Colombian Ambassa-dor in the US from 2005 until 2006.

Jorge Quiroga•PresidentofBolivia(2001-2002)

Jorge Quiroga´s public sector experience includes: President of Bolivia 2001-2002, Vice-President and President of Congress 1997-2001, Minister of Finance 1992, Vice-minister of Public Inves-tment and Cooperation 1990-92, and several international consulting assignments. In the private sector he has worked as a Systems Engineer with IBM in Texas (1981-88), Vice-President of Banco Mercantil in La Paz (1993-97), and others. He is currently the President of Bolivian public policy think tank FUNDEMOS, leads the congressional opposition in his country, participates in several international boards and organizations and publishes analyses on Latin American economic and political issues.

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Olusegun Obasanjo •PresidentofNigeria(1976-1979;1999-2007)

Mr. Obasanjo became the Nigerian head of state for the first time in February 1976 following the assassination of General Murtala Ramat Mohammed – Mr. Obasanjo was until then Federal Commissioner for Work and Housing in Murtala’s military government. Keeping the chain of command established by Murtala Muhammad in place, Mr. Obasanjo pledged to continue the programme for the restoration of civilian government and to carry forward the reform program-me to improve the quality of public service. In October 1977, a Constitutive Assembly was con-vened in order to draw a new Carta Magna, which was later approved in September 1978. This led to the abolition of the military government, the end of the state of siege which had come about with the arrival of the military regime in 1966, and the legalization of political parties.

Mr. Obasanjo served until October 1, 1979, when he handed power to Shehu Shagari, a de-mocratically elected civilian president, becoming the first leader in Nigerian history to surrender power willingly. In late 1983, however, the military seized power again. Mr. Obasanjo, being in retirement, did not participate in that coup, nor did he support it.

During the dictatorship of Sani Abacha (1993–1998), Mr. Obasanjo spoke out against the human rights abuses of the regime, and was imprisoned with the claim of planning a coup. He was released only after Abacha’s sudden death on 8 June 1998.

In the 1999 elections – the first democratic elections in sixteen years – he decided to run for the presidency as the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party. Mr. Obasanjo won the elections and was later also re-elected in 2003.

While leading a public campaign against corruption and implementing economic reforms in his country, he has been widely seen abroad as an African statesman championing debt relief and democratic institutions.

Olusegun Obasanjo stepped down after the April 2007 elections – won by Umaru Yar’Adua. He has recently been appointed Special Envoy by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mr. Obasanjo is a member of the Africa Progress Panel, an independent authority on Africa launched in April 2007 to focus world leaders’ attention on delivering their commitments to the continent.

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Mary Robinson •PresidentofIreland(1990-1997)

Mary Robinson was President of the Republic of Ireland from 1990 to 1997. From 1997 to 2002, she served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is a founding member and former Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders, and has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002. Among her most recent endeavours are Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, which seeks to incorporate human rights into the globaliza-tion process and support capacity building and good governance in developing countries, and currently heads the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, a centre for thought leader-ship, education and advocacy on the struggle to secure global justice for those many victims of climate change who are usually forgotten – the poor, the disempowered and the marginalised across the world.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero•PresidentoftheGovernmentofSpain(2004-2011)

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) in 1979, at the very young age of 19. After graduating, he worked as a professor of constitutional law at the University of Leon until 1991.

In 1986 Zapatero was elected to represent the province of Leon in the Spanish Parliament, a position to which he was reelected in successive elections during 1989, 1993, 1996 and 2000. He was appointed Secretary General of the Socialist Federation of Leon in 1989, a position he held until 2000. He then became the Secretary General for PSOE and President of the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the lower chamber (2000).

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been part of the Ombudsman, the Constitutional, and the Justice and Domestic Commissions at the Spanish national Parliament, also serving as Spokesper-son of the Commissions on Justice and Public Administration.

He was elected President of the Government of Spain at the general elections held on March 14, 2004, and re-elected four years after for a second term. He left office in November 2011.

Petre Roman•PrimeMinisterofRomania(1989-1991)

In 1989, Petre Roman became the first prime minister of the post-communist government. In 1992, he became member of the Chamber of Deputies where he chaired the Defence Committee. He served as Senator and Chairman of the Defence Committee (1996-1999) and as Minister of State and Foreign Affairs (1999-2000). He also served as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Romania (1993-2001). He was re-elected Senator in November 2000.

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Boris Tadic•PresidentofSerbia(2004-2012)

Boris Tadic began his political career as a student at the University of Belgrade, joining Serbia´s anti-communist dissident movement of the 1980´s at the cost of repeated political imprison-ment. After graduating from the University of Belgrade, Mr. Tadic taught psychology and worked as a military clinical psychologist. In 1997, he founded the Centre for the Development of Demo-cracy and Political Skills, an NGO specializing in political and civil education. After the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic´s regime in 2000, Tadic served as the Minister of Telecommunications under the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition. From 2003 until 2004, Tadic served as the Minister of Defense to Serbia and Montenegro. While serving as Minister of Defense, Mr. Tadic made dramatic reforms to the Ministry and the military, both of which displayed unique courage and leadership skills. He was responsible for creating a rapid reaction force under the control of civilians, and his reforms of the Ministry brought it to comply with NATO regulations. After the assassination of Zoran Đini in 2003 Mr. Tadic was chosen as the new leader of the Serbia´s Democratic Party in 2004, and later that year he won the general presidential elections. As pre-sident of Serbia, Boris Tadic led the movement for a “new Serbia”, and revitalized Serbia´s role internationally. Mr. Tadic encouraged the development of business within Serbia, and promoted regional trade within the Balkans. Under his presidency, Serbia´s partnerships with the United States, Russia, China, and EU member states were strategically improved. In 2007, Mr. Tadic made an official apology to Croatia for any crimes committed on Serbia´s part during the war with Croatia in the early 1990´s. Boris Tadic´s presidency brought Serbia closer to membership in the European Union. In 2008, Mr. Tadic received the Quadriga award for The Courage of Per-severance. In March of 2009, Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon of Madrid gave Mr. Tadic the Golden Keys of Madrid for his commitment to bringing Europe forward “in a positive way”.

Cassam Uteem•PresidentoftheRepublicofMauritius(1992-1997;1997-2002)

Cassam Uteem was elected to the Mauritian Parliament in 1976 and successively re-elected in 1982, 1983, 1987, and 1991. He served as Minister of Employment, Social Security and National Solidarity (1982-1983) and Lord Major of Port Louis (1986). He held the title of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Industrial Technology (1990-1991). Mr. Uteem is very active in the field of international public policy. He is currently Board Member of the Internatio-nal Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), Member of the Haut Conseil de la Francophonie, and Founder-Member of the Global Leadership Foundation (GLF).

Vaira Vike-Freiberga•PresidentofLatvia(1999-2007)

Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga is a professor and interdisciplinary scholar having published eleven books and numerous articles, essays and book chapters in addition to her extensive speaking engagements.

As President of the Republic of Latvia 1999-2007, she has been instrumental in achieving mem-bership in the European Union and NATO for her country. She is active in international politics, was named Special Envoy to the Secretary General on United Nations reform and was official candidate for UN Secretary General in 2006.

She remains active in the international arena and continues to speak up in defense of liberty, equality and social justice, and for the need of Europe to acknowledge the whole of its history. In December 2007 she was named vice-chair of the Reflection group on the long term future of the European Union. She is also known for her work in psycholinguistics, semiotics and analysis of the oral literature of her native country.

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Diego Hidalgo•PresidentoftheBoardofTrustees,FRIDE

Born in Madrid on November 5, 1942. He studied Law at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (1959-1964) and received a MBA from Harvard University (1966-1968). He completed his PhD in Political Science at the City University of New York (1996-2001). Mr. Hidalgo worked at the World Bank from 1968 to 1977, where he was promoted, in 1974, to Head of Division, assuming the responsibility for the Bank’s projects in the 45 sub-Saharan countries of Africa, becoming the Bank’s youngest Head of Division and the first Spaniard to hold this office. Founder of FRIDA (Foundation for Research and Investment for the Development of Africa), and Chairman of DFC (Development Finance Corporation) since 1977. Co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the PRISA - El País publishing group since 1980, and of the Cadena SER radio station since 1984, he was Managing Director and Chairman of Alianza Editorial, Editorial Revista de Occidente and Editorial Labor until 1989. Chairman of the Board of the Universidad de Extrema-dura (1986-1999), he is member of the Board of Directors and member of the Executive Board of the Corporacion Empresarial de Extremadura, and member of the Board of Directors of the Fundacion Santillana and SOGECABLE. In 1994, he entered the Fellows Programme of the Centre for International Affairs of Harvard University, where, between 1996 and 1999, he was Senior Associate of the Centre for European Studies. President of FRIDE (Fundacion para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior), founding member and Senior Fellow of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA), of the Board of Directors of the Confederacion Espanola de Fundaciones, as well as an active member of the Club of Rome and its Board of Governors. Member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Madrid and Trustee of the Toledo Internatio-nal Centre for Peace. Invested Doctor honoris causa by the Northeastern University, in Boston, in June 2001. In March 2002, he was granted the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Merito Civil by the government of José Maria Aznar. As well as publishing numerous articles throughout his profes-sional career, he has also written the following books: Europa, Globalizacion y Union Monetaria (Siddharth Mehta, 1998), and El futuro de Espana (1996), which was on the list of the top ten selling books in Spain for 23 weeks.

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José Manuel Romero Moreno•Vice-PresidentoftheBoardofTrustees,Fundacion para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE)

Mr. Romero is the Count of Fontao. He is the Legal Advisor of the Person, Family and House of H.M. The King Juan Carlos I of Spain. He is professor in Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy at the School of Law of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, since 1975, and senior partner of Romero Moreno Abogados. He is the President of the Fundacion Consejo Espanol del Refugiados and member of the board of trustees of Fundacion Winterthur, Fundacion Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, Fundacion Comité Espanol United World Colleges and FRIDE. He is also legal advisor of Fundacion Caja de Madrid, Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza, Colegio de Registradores, Md Anderson y Scherzo. He is member of the Board of the Fundacion Rafael del Pino and Board of the Patrimonio Nacional.

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George J. Matthews•Chairman,GorbachevFoundationofNorthAmerica

Born, raised, and educated in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, George is a graduate of Northeastern University, Boston. In 1978, George was elected to Northeastern’s Board of Trustees. Subse-quently, he was elected Vice Chairman of the Board and in 1989 was elected as the Board’s Chairman; a position he held for ten years. The University has honored George with its highest honor-an Honorary Doctorate. Presently, George serves as the University’s most senior advisor to the present Board’s Chairman and the University’s President with the title of Chairman Emeri-tus. The University’s most prestigious faculty and student awards, the Matthews’ Distinguished Professors and Scholars awards, were named for Mr. Matthews and his wife, Kathleen Waters Matthews. Elected to Northeastern’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Northeastern’s largest athletic facility, The Matthews Arena, was named in George’s honor. A well-known entrepreneur, George has been instrumental in the founding of over thirty business ventures. A founder of the United States Football League, George was the owner of the Boston Breakers Football Club. Presently, George is Managing Director of Hickory Hill Advisors, LLC, a venture capital firm and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Collegiate Enterprise Solutions, LLC. (CES), a full service provi-der to the field of higher education. Also, George is Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America, which he founded with the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. He is also an Executive Committee Member of the Club of Madrid, a resource center for democracy. A past President of the Clover Club of Boston, George is a member of the St. Botolph Club of Boston, and the Commercial Club of Boston. In 1998, George was a recipient of the highest honor of the Les Amis d’Escoffier Society of Boston. The Vatican State has honored Mr. Matthews with a knighthood-Knight Commander with Star of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, the oldest order of chivalry of the Vatican State, founded in 1099. Married with four children and eight grandchildren, Mr. Matthews resides with his wife, Kathleen Waters Matthews in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, USA.

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T. Anthony Jones•VicePresidentandExecutiveDirector,GorbachevFoundation of North America

A professor of sociology at Northeastern University, he has written extensively on Soviet/Rus-sian and East European social, political, and economic affairs, and previously taught at the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Club de Madrid, is on the Board of Advisors of FRIDE Foundation in Spain, and edits two journals. He was educated Princeton University (Ph.D 1978, M.A. 1972), Brown University (M.A. 1970), and the University of Leicester, England (B.A. 1968). Previous appointments include Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Research Staff, M.I.T.; Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leicester (England). He was formerly President of Cambridge East-West Consul-ting Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Published works include studies of Soviet society, social problems in Russia, business organization in the USSR/Russia, Russian/Soviet economic thought, Russian/Soviet education, workers and occupational change, technology and social organization in the USSR/Russia, Russian/Soviet private enterprise, and developments in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe. From 1987 through 1992 he taught courses on management to enterprise directors and to newly-emerging entrepreneurs in Moscow, Syktivkar, and Pechora. In 1992 he was a visiting professor at Moscow State University.

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Carlos Westendorp•SecretaryGeneraloftheClubdeMadrid

Carlos Westendorp joined the Spanish Diplomatic Service in 1966. Following several assignments abroad(1966 -1969: Deputy Consul General in Sao Paulo, Brazil; 1975-1979: Commercial and Eco-nomic Counsellor at the Spanish Embassy in the Hague, the Netherlands) and in Spain (1969 – 1975: Head of Economic Studies at the Diplomatic School; Director of Technological Agreements in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Industry) he dedicated a great part of his professional career to the process of integration of Spain into the European Communities. Between 1979 and 1985 at the Ministry of European Affairs, he successively served as Advisor to the Minister, as Head of the Minister’s Private Office and as Secretary General, presiding over the technical team in charge of the accession negotiations. In 1986, when Spain joined the European Communities, he was appointed its first Ambassador Permanent Repre-sentative. He chaired the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) during the first Spanish Presidency of the EEC in 1989. From 1991 to 1995 he was Spain’s Secretary of State for the European Union. He ws centrally involved in the Spanish Presidency of the EU in 1995, which coincided with the adoption of the Euro, the launching of the Barcelona process and the signing of the transatlantic agenda. In this last capacity, he chaired the Reflection group set up to prepa-re the negotiations on treaty change which led to the Treaties of Amsterdam and subsequently, Nice. In December 1995, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and served in that capacity until the end of the last government presided by Felipe González. In July 1996 he was appointed Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations in New York. From 1997 to 1999 he served as the High Representative of the International Community in Bosnia-Herze-govina. At his request, the Bonn conference empowered him to take the necessary decisions to implement the peace agreements (the flag, the national anthem, the single currency, common license plates, the laws on citizenship, privatization and others, refugee return, removal of elected officials, etc.). In 1999 he was elected Member of the European Parliament representing the PSOE. He served as Chairman of the Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Trade, Energy and Research until 2003. In 2003 he was elected Member of the Madrid Regional Assembly and Speaker on Economy of the Socialist Group. He was co-founder and Executive Vice-President of the Toledo Center for Peace and is now member of its board. After the elections of 2004 he was appointed Ambassador to the United States of America, a position he occupied until 2008. Most recently, he was the principal advisor to Felipe González, Chairman of the Reflection Group established by the EU Heads of State and Government to assist the European Union to anticipate and meet the challenges facing in the period 2020 to 2030.

María Elena Agüero•DeputysecretaryGeneral

With over 30 years experience in the field of international development, particularly in Latin America, she has been part of the professional staff of the Interamerican Development Bank, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program, working extensively in these organization’s Washington, Uruguay, Geneva, Brussels and Paris offices, and in their field offices. As project officer, sector specialist and senior adviser, in these organizations, she has done considerable project and programme work in a number of different areas, most recently in the fields of governance, State reform and civil society – governmental relations. She has also gathered significant experience on relations between international organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, national and international partners and counterparts. Early in her career Ms. Agüero was trade policy officer at the U.S. Department of Treasury and research assistant at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

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Rubén Campos•ProgramsCoordinator

Rubén Campos is an expert on South and South East Asia and in non-violent political move-ments; and professor of international relations in different Spanish universities. During the last eight years, he has worked in the design, implementation and/or evaluation of programs in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burma, Ecuador, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, South Africa or South Korea, as well as thematic programs on Social Cohesion and Shared Societies, Political and Interreligious Dialogue and Terrorism, Democracy and Human Rights. Since 2010 he is Program Officer and Coordinator of the Department of Programs. Previously, Mr. Campos worked as assistant to the Program Director and as a Academic Coordinator in a International Relations Master in Complu-tense University. As an expert and analyst in International Relations he collaborates usually with research centres as Casa Asia, CIDOB, Fundacion Alternativas, Instituto Catalán Internacional por la Paz or Real Instituto Elcano, as well as media as BBC World, Cadena Ser, Radio Francia Interna-cional, Radio Nederland or RTVE. He is currently preparing his doctoral thesis on the non-violent politics of the Indian National Movement and the Afroamerican Civil Rights Movement and has recently edited a collection of Mahatma Gandhi’s political writing in Spanish.

Luis Pérez•CommunicationsOfficer

Graduated from the Complutense University in Journalism and holds a Master in Journalism at the Autonoma de Madrid University. He has an extensive career in politics and institutional commu-nications. He was Head of the Communications of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Spain and communications advisor for two different Ministers of Education. He has also worked for Greenpeace as a Press Officer. In the hard news field his résumé includes a variety of media such as CNN+, Radio Espana, the New York City latin newspaper El Diario/La Prensa and the cultural maga-zine El Duende de Madrid. He is a sports lover and has worked in the press department of several editions of the ATP/WTA Madrid Tennis Masters Tournament and in Barcelona’s most emblematic tennis event, the Barcelona Banc Sabadell Open, (Trofeo Conde de Godo)

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Ricardo Hidalgo•ChiefFinancialOfficer

Ricardo Hidalgo is Chief Financial Officer of the Club of Madrid. Mr. Hidalgo has worked in the private sector and international NGOs, starting his professional career in 1988 in the financial departments of small and medium size industrial firms in the Basque Country. In 1996, he moved to the non profit sector and joined Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger), a French international humanitarian NGO based in Paris, assuming responsibility for financial relations with institutional donors. In 1998 he changed to the sister organization in Spain “Accion contra el Hambre”, first as its administrator for projects in Angola, and then as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hidalgo returned to the private sector in 2001, when he joined TRACK, S.A., a consultant firm based in Bilbao (Spain), as head of the strategy and management department. In 2003 he became an associate of TRACK, a position he held until becoming Chief Financial Officer of the Club de Madrid in July 2005. Mr. Hidalgo has a B.A. in Business Administration from the Univer-sity of Deusto (Bilbao-Spain), and has also completed postgraduate studies at the Universities of Cornell and Colorado. He has been a professor of Business Mathematics at the University of Deusto, and of “Financial aspects of Project cycle management” at the Universities of Deusto and Comillas (Madrid-Spain).

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María Romero•EventsManager

María Romero leads the Club of Madrid’s in-house event planning team. Focusing on event management and logistics throughout her career, Maria holds degrees in Tourism and Business Administration and Sales from the Universities of Carlos III, Madrid and Complutense, Madrid. Prior to joining the Club of Madrid in 2008, she worked with various large Spanish travel and events agencies, including Ultramar Express (TUI Travel Plc) and My travel PLC. While there, she managed the organization of conferences, meetings and corporate incentives for groups of 50-2000 people for both public and private companies.

Irene Vergara•ProgramOfficer

Irene is working on the Climate Change and Energy Program, implementing the activities of the different projects of the program. Irene holds a bachelor degree in Environmental Sciences from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (2006), and a postgraduate diploma in Human Ecology from the Free University of Brussels (2007). Before joining the Club de Madrid in 2011, she worked during three years at ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability implementing the local go-vernment strategy during the international climate negotiations. She has experienced as project coordinator through the implementation of project activities in different emerging economies countries. Irene’s mother tongue is Spanish, and she speaks English and French.

Belén Villar•ProgramOfficer

Anthropologist, master degrees on International Cooperation for Development (Gender and Development) and Latin America History. Gender Specialist, development worker and trainer; she has been working as project manager and gender equality officer for governmental national and federal machineries for the advancement of women, international cooperation units in NGOs and government, as well as for women groups and the United Nations system. Her professional experience includes ten-years assignments in regional programs in Central America and South & South-East Asia regions, as well as in Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and The Philippines.

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Rut C. Diamint•Professor,UniversidadTorcuatodiTella,Argentina

She is Professor at University Torcuato Di Tella. She is an independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technologic Research, CONICET. She is and former advisor and chief of cabinet to the Argentine Ministry of Defense (2003-2005) and former General Coordinator of the Advisory Units, Senate Sub Presidency Argentine House of Senate 2006-2009. Diamint is a member of the Advisory Committee of Club de Madrid. She had specialized in international and regional security, civil-military relations, defense issues and peace and democracy. Since 2010 she is co-directing a project on Leadership, Political renovation and democratic practices in Latin America.

Alexander Likhotal•PresidentandCEO,GreenCrossInternational

President of Green Cross International since 1996, Alexander Likhotal was born in Moscow in 1950. After completing a PhD in Political Science and History from Moscow Institute of International Relations (1975), Alexander started his academic career as a lecturer at the Moscow State Institute for International Affairs, and later became senior research fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. In 1988 he became Professor of Political Science and Internatio-nal Relations at the Diplomatic Academy and Vice-Rector of the Academy. During the time of Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, already being a recognised expert in European security, Alexander became the Head of the European security desk at the International Department of the Central Committee for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (top Soviet foreign policy co-ordination body), later becoming Head of the Consultants Group, adviser/speechwriter unit working directly for the Soviet leadership. In 1991, Alexander was appointed Deputy Spokesman and Adviser to the President of the USSR. He remained with President Gorbachev (after his resignation) as his adviser and spokesman and worked at the Gorbachev Foundation as the International and Media Director. Alexander was a visiting professor at the Northeastern University, Boston, USA (1996-1998), Research Associate at the insti-tute of European Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (1992-1997), and Associate Editor of Security Dialogue Journal, Oslo, Norway (1994-2000). He is also a member of the Club of Rome, a councillor at the World Future Council, and serves as adviser to the Club of Madrid.

Tim Phillips•Foundingco-chairoftheProjectonJusticeinTimesofTransition, Harvard University

Mr. Timothy Phillips is a founding co-chair of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition of Harvard University. He has served as a consultant to non-governmental and governmental organizations in the United States and abroad, including the US State Department and the Council of Europe, on democratization, conflict resolution and human rights initiatives. Mr. Phillips is a member of the Board of Directors and Advisors of the Foundation for a Civil Society, the University of the Middle East, the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, and the Coexistence Initiative. He served as an advisor to the Government of Sri Lanka in the design and implementation of its peace process and has worked closely with leaders in several countries on conflict resolution and reconciliation initiatives. Mr. Phillips serves on the Advisory Committee of the Club of Madrid, an organization of former heads of state of democracies around the world dedicated to promoting democratic consolidation and transition. Mr. Phillips was educated at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, and the London School of Economics.

Ted Piccone•SeniorFellowandDeputyDirectoroftheForeignPolicyProgram, Brookings Institution

Ted Piccone is a senior fellow and deputy director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. A foreign policy and legal expert on issues of democracy, human rights, international organiza-tions and U.S.-Latin American affairs, Piccone has over 20 years experience in government, law and research. Piccone also serves as an advisor to the Club of Madrid, an association of over 70 former heads of state and government engaged in efforts to strengthen democracy around the world, and previously served as its Washington office director.

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Muna AbuSulayman•Partner,DirectionsConsultancyLLC,EffectiveStrategicPhilanthropy and CSR. MBC Co-host Kalam Nouam, Partner Glowork, Women Employment Opportunities. Saudi Arabia

AbuSulayman is named as one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World, and One of the Most Influential Arabs Each year from 2009-2012, due to a diverse cross-sectors work experience over the past 16 years in Media, Education, Sustainable Development, and Female Empowerment. AbuSulayman has successfully launched, managed, and scaled multiple businesses and foun-dations throughout her career and is currently working on Entrepreneurship projects as well as legal empowerment of women in MENA. She is ranked as the Most Influential Arab in MENA region in Social Media by Klout and Top 100 Arabs

Manal Al Dowayan•Artist,SaudiArabia

Manal Al Dowayan was born and raised in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Over the course of her education, she partook in a range of courses in differing art institutions in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Bahrain and London. In 2009 she was a resident artist at the Delfina Foundation in London and attended the Clore Leadership program. In 2010 she was a resident artist at Cuadro Fine Art Gallery in Dubai, and 2011 she was a resident artist/intern at The Townhouse Gallery in Egypt. She is currently part of the British Council International Cultural Leaders program. Manal has also exhibited regionally and interna-tionally, in Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Korea, India, Bahrain, the UK, USA, UAE and Saudi Arabia. She won an international call for artists for the Imagining Ourselves anthology in 2003, which was managed by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco. Her photograph Pointing to the Future was exhibited in New York at the 49th Session of the United Nations Commis-sion on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2005. Al Dowayan also exhibited her work during the 2009 and 2011 Venice Biennale and the 2010 Berlin Biennale and Contemporary Istanbul. Her artworks are part of the permanent collections of the British Museum, the Jordan National Museum of Fine Art, the Abdul Latif Jamil Foundation, the Delfina Foundation in London, the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), the Nadour Foundation in Germany, and the Barjeel Foundation in Sharjah. Manal is represented by Cuadro Fine Art Gallery in Dubai.

Nada al-Nashif•RegionalDirectorILORegionalOfficeforArabStates

Nada was appointed Regional Director of the ILO Regional Office for Arab States and ILO Assis-tant Director-General in 2007. During her tenure, she has prioritized the roll-out of Decent Work Country Programmes across the region with particular emphasis on enhanced employment poli-cies; support to entrepreneurship culture; social dialogue mechanisms with vibrant workers’ and employers’ engagement; and promoted enhanced social protection for all. Continuing support to constituents in the Arab world has been at the core of the Regional Office’s programming that integrates UN Reform initiatives and expanded partnerships approaches. She came to the ILO from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) where she started in 1991. Ms. Al-Nashif holds a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) from Balliol College, Oxford University.

Zainab Bangura•UNSRSGonSexualViolence

Ms. Bangura is a former fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London, possessing Diplomas in Insurance Management from the City University Business School of London and Nottingham Universi-ty. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. She was previously the second female Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, including Chief Adviser and Spokesperson of the President on bilateral and international issues. Ms. Bangura has been instrumental in developing national programmes on affordable health, advocating for the elimination of genital mutilation, managing the country’s Peace Building Commission and contributing to the multilateral and bilateral relations with the international community. Positions held by Ms. Bangura prior to being UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon´s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict include: Executive Director of the National Accountability Groups, Chair and Co-founder of the Movement for Progress Party of Sierra Leone, and Coordinator and Co-founder of the Campaign for Good Governance. Ms. Bangura is married with two children.

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Jamie Bechtel•Co-Founder,NewCourse

Jamie Bechtel, a highly regarded leader in international conservation, is the Co-Founder and CEO of New Course. Her work has led to strategic advances in the fields of conservation, sustainable finance, and biology. Before founding New Course, Jamie worked for seven years at Conservation International (CI). During her tenure at CI, she worked in more than 20 countries, including such diverse areas as Ecuador, Costa Rica, Madagascar, Fiji, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, and Papua New Guinea. Through her work, Jamie has tackled myriad complex issues: mitigating destruc-tive fishing practices, improving legal and policy frameworks, increasing enforcement efforts, developing market-based solutions, improving community engagement, and ensuring scalability of projects. Through her extensive research and field experience, Jamie began to realize the im-portance of including women—typically excluded—in conservation and development strategies. This realization led Jamie to step down from her role at CI and reengage in conservation and po-verty alleviation through the development of a new non-profit model; New Course is focused on changing the course of women’s lives through conservation and sustainable development. Jamie has a Ph.D. from Boston University in biology, and a law degree from Boston College; however, it is Jamie’s experience on the ground that fundamentally shapes who she is and how she works.

Mike Beebe•GovernorofArkansas

Since taking office in 2007, Governor Mike Beebe has made improving education, expanding Arkansas’s economy and cutting taxes his top priorities. Under Beebe’s leadership, Arkansas was one of only four states to enter the past two fiscal years without a projected budget shortfall. Arkansas has avoided the massive cuts in services and tax increases suffered by other states, while achieving more than $1.2 billion in tax relief during the Beebe administration. Governor Beebe’s education policies and initiatives have garnered nationwide attention, and Arkansas now ranks fifth in overall K-12 education. To build a better-trained workforce, Governor Beebe has worked to match colleges and universities with local businesses and has led changes in the way schools teach math, science, engineering and technology. Born in Amagon, Arkansas, in 1946, the Governor earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Arkansas State University in 1968, and completed law school at the University of Arkansas in 1972, while serving in the U.S. Army Reserve. The parents of three adult children, Governor Beebe and his wife, Ginger, have worked together to improve children’s health and literacy throughout the State and have been recogni-zed for their leadership in fighting childhood hunger.

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John Baird•MinisterofForeignAffairsofCanada

John Baird was first elected to the House of Commons in 2006 and re-elected in 2008 and 2011. In February 2006, Mr. Baird was sworn in as President of the Treasury Board. In this role, he introduced and successfully steered the new Federal Accountability Act through both Houses of Parliament. In January 2007, he was named Minister of the Environment and, in October 2008, he became Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, where he spearheaded the design, negotiation and delivery of some 12,000 infrastructure stimulus projects across the country. In August 2010, he was named Leader of the Government in the House of Commons. From November 2010 to January 2011, he undertook additional responsibilities as Minister of the Environment. He was named to his current portfolio following the federal election of May 2011.Prior to entering federal politics, Mr. Baird was a member of Ontario’s provincial legislature, whe-re he represented the constituency of Nepean-Carleton from 1995 to 2005. During that time, he served as Minister of Community and Social Services, Energy, Francophone Affairs, Children and Youth Services, and as Government House Leader.Mr. Baird is a long-time member of the Royal Canadian Legion, an honorary member of the Kiwanis Club of Nepean, and a lifetime member of Canada’s largest Association for Community Living. In 2008, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Maclean’s Magazine and the Historica-Dominion Institute named him 2010 Parliamentarian of the Year, after a vote by his colleagues in all parties in the House of Commons.Mr. Baird holds a Bachelor of Arts in political studies from Queen’s University.

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Sylvia Burwell•President,theWalmartFoundation

Sylvia Mathews Burwell is President of the Walmart Foundation. Previously, she was President of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she oversaw the foundation’s efforts to help the world’s poorest people overcome hunger and poverty. Mrs. Mathews Burwell led Global Development’s areas of grantmaking: Agricultural Development; Financial Services for the Poor; Water, Sanitation & Hygiene; Global Libraries; Policy & Advocacy and Special Initiatives. She joined the Gates Foundation in 2001 as executive vice president and served as chief operating officer and executive director from 2002 to April 2006. Before joining the foundation, Mrs. Mathews Burwell served in the Clinton administration as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff to the president, and chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. She serves on the board of directors for MetLife Inc. and the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the board of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. She is also a member of the Trilateral Com-mission and the Nike Foundation Advisory Group. Mrs. Mathews Burwell is a graduate of Harvard University and is a Rhodes Scholar. She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.

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Sharan Burrow (video sent)•GeneralSecretary,ITUC

Sharan Burrow was elected General Secretary of the ITUC at its Second World Congress in Vancouver, June 2010. Prior to this, she held the position of ITUC President since its Founding Congress in Vienna (November 2006) and the position of ICFTU President since its 18th World Congress in Miyazaki (No-vember 2004). She is the first woman to have hald any of these positions. Sharan was born in 1954 in Warren, a small town in western NSW, into a family with a long history of involvement in unions and the struggle to improve the lives of working people. Her great, great grandfather participated in the shearers’ strike of 1891/92, becoming one of the first organisers for the Australian Workers’ Union and standing for the state seat of Cobar for the fledgling Australian Labor Party in 1896. Sharan studied teaching at the University of NSW in 1976 and began her teaching career in high schools around country NSW. She became an organiser for the NSW Teachers’ Federation, based in Bathurst, and was President of the Bathurst Trades and Labour Council during the 1980s.Sharan was elected Senior Vice-President of the NSW Teachers’ Federation and became President of the Australian Education Union (AEU) in 1992. She represented the AEU on the ACTU Executive through the 1990s. Sharan was previously Vice-President of Education International from 1995 to 2000. Education International is the international organisation of education unions representing 24 million members worldwide. In May 2000, Sharan Burrow became the second woman to be elected President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). In October 2000, Sharan also became the first woman to be elected President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Asia Pacific Region Organisation. She has also served as a member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation and a member of the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative. As part of her ILO responsibilities, Sharan chaired the Workers’ Group of the Sub-Committee on Multinational Enterprises.

Alicia Bárcena•ExecutiveSecretary,ECLAC

Ms. Bárcena assumed office as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 1 July 2008. She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the former Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan. Alicia Bárcena held the post of Deputy Executive Secretary and Director of ECLAC’s Environment and Human Settlements Division.Prior to her time at ECLAC, Ms. Bárcena served as Co-ordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), responsible for the Environmental Citizenship Project at the United Nations Environment Pro-gramme (UNEP). Alicia Bárcena was the Founding Director of the Earth Council in Costa Rica, a non-governmental organization in charge of follow-up to the agreements reached at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Ms. Bárcena has taught and conducted research in the Autonomous Metropolitan Univer-sity of Mexico. She has published numerous articles on sustainable development, public policy, environmental issues, and public participation. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and holds a Master degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. She has comple-ted the courses for a degree of Master in Ecology, and has initiated studies for a PhD degree in Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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Lydia Cacho•ExecutiveDirector,CentroIntegraldeAtenciónalasMujeres

Lydia Cacho (born 1963) is a Mexican journalist, author and a feminist activist against violence. In 2000 Ms. Cacho founded and directed a high security shelter for battered and sexually exploi-ted women and children in Cancun, Mexico. She was the first woman in Mexican history to take to trial an organized crime ring involved with child pornography, sexual tourism and trafficking of women. She filed a successful counter-suit for corruption and for violation of human rights. In this regard, Ms. Cacho was the first woman in Mexico to file a federal suit against a Governor, a District Attorney, and a judge for corruption and for attempted rape in prison. Ms. Cacho herself has been imprisoned for her work and has put her life on the line on behalf of women and children in Mexico. As a consequence of her unwavering defense of human rights and journalistic freedom, her own life has been repeatedly threatened. Despite these dangers, she continues to champion the advancement of human rights for all women and children because she belie-ves that every single person deserves to live a life of dignity. With more than twenty years of experience as a workshop teacher and keynote speaker, Ms. Cacho has toured the globe with her inspirational conferences on peace education, freedom of expression, and ethical commitment to changing the world. She has spoken at the United Nations General Assembly, UNESCO, and the European Union. She was recently appointed by the UNODC and the Spanish Government as Ambassador for the Blue Heart Campaign against sex trafficking. Ms. Cacho has published seven books, one of them is the award-wining Manual to prevent, detect and heal child sexual abuse (Con mi hij@ no). In addition, she is a coauthor of several collective books. Currently, Ms. Cacho is a columnist with El Universal, the main national newspaper in Mexico, and a workshop teacher on successful approaches to help trafficking victims and on Community Schools for Peace: a holistic approach to negotiate conflicts.

Ann Mei Chang•SeniorAdvisorforWomenandTechnology,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 US Department of State, where she is serving as a Franklin Fellow. Prior to State, she spent 8 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, including products such as search, ads, Google Mobile Maps, GMail, YouTube, Goggles, and Voice Search across all major mobile platforms. She oversaw 20x growth of Google’s mobile business in just three years, delivering over $1B in annualized revenues. Ann Mei has more than twenty years of engineering and leadership experience in diverse sectors of the software industry. Prior to Google, she served as the VP of Engineering at There, a high-tech startup building an online virtual world. And, while at both Apple and Macromedia, Ann Mei led engineering for the first release of Final Cut Pro, an award-winning professional video editing software product. She has also held leadership roles at several other leading Silicon Valley companies including Intuit, SGI, and a few startups. Ann Mei is a member of the 2011 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute, the GSMA Women Working Group, the International Steering Committee of the Mobile program at the Cherie Blair Foundation, and the Global Telecom Women’s Network International Steering Committee. She holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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Mayra Buvinic•SeniorFellow,UnitedNationsFoundation

Mayra Buvinic, an internationally recognized expert on gender and development and social development, is a Senior Fellow both with the UN Foundation and Vital Voices. Between 2005 and 2011, she was Director for Gender and Development at the World Bank; before joining the Bank, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) where she headed the Social Development Division and advised the IDB on violence prevention (1996-2005). Prior to that, she was founding member and President of the International Center for Research on Women (1978-1996). She has written extensively on gender and development and gender and poverty issues; violence reduction and violence prevention; and social development and social inclusion, the latter with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. She has a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Luca Dall’Oglio•PermanentObserverfortheInternationalOrganizationfor Migration (IOM) to the United Nations

Mr. Luca Dall’Oglio was appointed Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migra-tion (IOM), Washington office effective 1 October 2012. Prior to this assignment, he was Special Envoy of the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for Haiti from January 2010 and assumed the functions of resident Chief of Mission in June 2010. His pre-ceding assignment was the Permanent Observer for the IOM to the United Nations in New York, a position he has held since late 2003. A sociologist by training, Mr. Dall’Oglio has dedicated a large part of his career to issues related to population stabilization, post-crisis transition and recovery, with extensive field assignments in the Horn of Africa, Mozambique, Haiti, Guatemala and Kosovo.He was also IOM’s regional representative in Washington D.C. and Rome. Prior to IOM, he worked for UNESCO’s regional office for social sciences in Bangkok promoting teaching and research in the area of human rights, population, youth and migration. Before joining the international civil service, Mr. Dall’Oglio conducted teaching and research activities with the Uni-versity of Rome and national and international research organizations. He has authored several published papers on migration and international cooperation.

Geena Davis•AcademyAwardWinningActorandFounder,theGeenaDavis Institute of Gender in Media

Academy Award winner Geena Davis is one of Hollywood’s most respected actors, appearing in several roles that became cultural landmarks. Earning the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama, Davis broke ground in her portrayal of the first female President of the United States in ABC’s hit show “Commander in Chief.” In 1989, Davis received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the offbeat dog trainer Muriel Pritchett in Lawrence Kasdan’s “The Accidental Tourist.” She was again nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Ridley Scott’s “Thelma & Loui-se,” in which she co-starred with Susan Sarandon. Davis went on to receive a Golden Globe no-mination for Best Actress for her portrayal of baseball phenomenon Dottie Hinson in “A League of Their Own.” Davis made her feature film debut starring opposite Dustin Hoffman in “Tootsie.” She went on to star in such films as “The Fly,” “Beetlejuice,” “Angie,” “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” and “Stuart Little.” She is the founder of the non-profit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which engages film and television creators to dramatically increase the percentages of female characters -- and reduce gender stereotyping -- in media made for children 11 and under. Davis was recently appointed Special Envoy for Women and Girls in ICT for the UN’s Interna-tional Telecommunication Union (ITU). Davis is also an official partner of UN Women, working toward their goal of promoting gender equality and empowering women worldwide. Davis serves on the Board of the White House Project, and is the Chair of the California Commission on the Status of Women. Davis holds honorary degrees from Boston University, Bates College and New England College.

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Rangita de Silva de Alwis•DirectoroftheWilsonCenter´sGlobalWomen´s Leadership Initiative

Dr. Rangita de Silva de Alwis is the Director of Women in Public Service Project’s 2012 Institute at Wellesley College. Rangita is the Director of International Human Rights Policy at the Welles-ley Centers for Women and Faculty at the Madeleine Albright Institute for Global Affairs at We-llesley College. She is also the inaugural Susan McGee Bailey Scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women. Rangita has worked globally with a vast network of academic institutions, civil society and government organizations to develop innovative human rights initiatives around the world. She leads the Women’s Leadership Network in Muslim Communities at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She helped convene the Asia Cause Lawyer Network in India and the Women’s Watch- China. Rangita has created a curriculum and materials for the Asian University for Women’s course on Women Leading Change in Asia. Rangita has a Doctorate in Law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School and was a Teaching Fellow with the European Law Research Institute at Harvard Law School and a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She served on the Advisory Group brought together by UNIFEM and UNDP to develop United Nations Evaluation Guidelines and on the Advisory Board of the Women’s Democracy Network, IRI.

Bineta Diop•DirectorandFounder,FemmesAfricaSolidarité(FAS)

Ms. Bineta Diop of Senegal is the Founder and President of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS). She has led numerous peace building programs, including a women, peace and security initiative that resulted in the creation of a strong West African women’s movement, the Mano River Women’s Peace Network, which was awarded the United Nations General Assembly Prize in Human Rights in 2003.Ms. Diop has led teams to observe elections in post-conflict countries such as Liberia and solidarity missions to women in crisis situations, as in the case of Guinea. She has facilitated peace talks among women, particularly during the Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo peace negotiations. Ms. Diop has been elected President of the African Union ECOSOCC Gender Cluster. She is involved in various NGO Working Groups that monitor United Nations Se-curity Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. Ms. Diop is a member of the Glo-bal Agenda Council on Conflict Prevention of the World Economic Forum, and previously served in the 6th Advisory Group of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. In March 2010, she co-chaired the high-level Civil Society Advisory Group on Resolution 1325 with H.E. Mary Robinson.

Rahma Fathalla•EgyptianDemocraticLabourCongress

Rahma was born in Cairo, 26/3/1953. Soon, she missed her mother who passed away earlier. Her father was a professor of Arabic Language in Al Aazher University, nevertheless, he had a pure liberal attitude, and therefore she enjoyed- in her early life- with the same rights like her three brothers contrary to the situation of the majority do her companions. She has interested in lite-rary, like drawing and painting, and she has been very fond of music and singing. She hasn’t married yet, however, her motherly feelings have been satisfied with caring for her nieces and nephews. When she finished her high school education, she entered College of Medicine. Throughout her university education, she participated sensationally in the students’ movement which was witnes-sed in Egypt during the seventies years. Therefore, she was arrested- for six months in 1977 in the wake of the big demonstration in January 1977. She was accused- with hundreds of students and political activists, then- of motivation demonstrations. Although Rahma was acquitted according to the court judgment, she was discharged from her faculty. Then, Rahma decided to change her filed of specialization and studying laws to be more qualified for defending human rights. She had to re-peat her high school education to study the qualifying subjects, then, she joined the Faculty of laws in Cairo University in the year 1981. During the next years, Rahma carried out her study, while she was practicing as a human rights’ activist. Nevertheless, Rahma had to postpone her exam in 1984 as she was a candidate for the parliamentary election then. In 1986, Rahma graduated from Faculty of laws, and skilled in the office of Al Helalee [a famous lawyer contributed exceedingly to human and labour rights] On the 26th of March 1990. The Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services [CTUWS] was established.. Rahma Refaat was one of CTUWS founders, its lawyer and legal adviser. When the Egyptians have refused life under the humiliation of unemployment, and the silence of oppression, and went out to Tahrir Square, she was there with them.

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Pierre Ferrari•PresidentandCEO,HeiferProjectInternational

A graduate from the University of Cambridge with a master’s degree in Economics and the hol-der of an MBA from Harvard Business School, Ferrari has been greatly involved with ethical deve-lopment. An investor and director at Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest projects, he also worked at Hot Fudge Social Venture Fund and taught sustainable marketing at Bainbridge Graduate Insti-tute. Among these positions, Ferrari also found the time to found EthixVentures and QuatreCinq LLC and he currently sits on the board of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream. Prior to taking on the role of CEO with Heifer, Ferrari worked as a social venture developer with Coca-Cola USA.

Lili Fournier•Producer,DirectorandHost,PublicBroadcastingService(PBS)

A strong advocate for women’s rights, Lili Fournier is the founder of Women’s Day Live, (WDL) a global multi-venue benefit concert whose mission is to “Empower Women. Make Poverty His-tory. ” Patron, Desmond Tutu, invites women and men to gather in cities around the world for a historic celebration of over a century of progress for the women of the world on International Women’s Day March 8, 2014. WDL is a Clinton Global Initiative commitment. Lili is the pro-ducer, director and host of the award winning Women of Wisdom and Power trilogy featuring some of the world’s most fascinating and influential women and the Quest series of specials on PBS, her latest featuring Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Stephen Covey. The Quest aired on multiple TV networks in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, and successfully raised millions of dollars for PBS’s pledge, fund raising drives. She began her career working on live daily TV, dramatic series, Hollywood movies and as associate director on major multiple camera dramas and concerts. Selected Producing credits include: “Expulsion & Memory”, a documentary featuring the historic reconciliation of the King of Spain and the President of Israel. The 1992 television production of the “By My Spirit” Concert in Toledo with Zubin Mehta, the Israel Phil-harmonic Orchestra and Placido Domingo, in the presence of Queen Sophia, for Spain’s Quinto Centenario - an affirmation of humankind’s eternal hope for peace, tolerance and co-existence. As Chairperson of Community Liaison for Women in Film, she launched an immensely successful mentorship program and TV special and symposium on Women in the Media. In her inveterate adventures, as a lifestyle columnist, she has traveled to over 80 countries around the world, and was honored to be inducted in to the Canadian Who’s Who.

Maya Harris•VicepresidentoftheDemocracy,RightsandJusticeProgram, Ford Foundation

Maya Harris is vice president for the foundation’s Democracy, Rights and Justice Program. She leads the program’s worldwide efforts to strengthen the rule of law, improve government transparency and accountability, and create opportunities for civil society to thrive and fulfill the promise of human rights. She also oversees the foundation’s regional programming in Brazil, Mexico and Central America, and the Andean Region and Southern Cone. Before joining the Ford Foundation in 2008, Maya was executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the largest ACLU affiliate in the United States. She oversaw the affiliate’s litigation, public education, lobbying and grassroots organizing work on issues ranging from ra-cial and criminal justice to reproductive, immigrant and LGBT rights. In 2006, she served as lead counsel for the ACLU-NC in League of Women Voters v. McPherson, which restored the voting rights of more than 100,000 Californians who were wrongfully disenfranchised. She was dean of Lincoln Law School of San Jose, and has also served as an adjunct law professor teaching gender discrimination and contracts. Maya has written policy reports and published commentary on civil rights issues in numerous media outlets. She is also a contributing author to “The Covenant with Black America” (Third World Press, 2006), a collection of essays by African Americans, which climbed to No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list. She received her J.D. degree with Distinction from Stanford Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Lina Hundaileh•Owner,Al-ZaytouniCompany,Jordan

Lina Hundaileh graduated from the faculty of Agriculture-University of Jordan specializing in human nutrition. In between her studies she took a secretarial course in the YWCA, and studied the Greek language in Athens. She started her career in 1982, where she worked as Assistant director of a Regional office for a German company supplying universities and schools with scientific equipments. In 1990 the headquarters decided to close the office due to the gulf crisis. At this point, Ms. Hundaileh decided to start her own business, opening a Chocolate factory inspired by her love of chocolate and a desire to be her own boss. In August 2008, she decided to give up her job as the Founder and General Manager of Philadelphia Chocolate Manufacturing Company and started two new companies. One is called Chocolography, which is a new con-cept of personalizing gifts through printing on chocolate and the other company is production of chocolate in different sizes and flavors. Through Rawafed, the consulting company she co-founded in 2008, Ms. Handaileh strives to help SME’s in a myriad of ways and to lobby the government with the aim of creating a more attractive legislative ambience in which businesses can grow and foreign direct investment can be secured. Through Rawafed, she is also trying to start an Export House to help SMEs export quality Jordanian products to the USA, EU and GCC markets. They are piloting Dead Sea products, food and jewelry as a first step.

Swanee Hunt•Chair,HuntAlternativesFund.FormerU.S.Ambassadorto Austria

Ambassador Swanee Hunt is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy, founder of the Women and Public Policy Program, senior fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, and senior advisor on modern-day slavery at the Carr Center for Human Rights, all at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She is founder and chair of Hunt Alternatives Fund. The largest underta-king of the Fund is the Washington-based Institute for Inclusive Security, which consults with countries worldwide and conducts advocacy, training, and research to integrate women leaders into peace processes. From 1993 to 1997, Hunt served as President Clinton’s ambassador to Austria, where she hosted negotiations and international symposia focused on stabilizing the neighboring Balkan states. She became a specialist in the role of women in post-communist Europe, leading to the 1997 “Vital Voices: Women in Democracy” conference of women leaders from 39 countries, East and West. That meeting spawned an NGO co-chaired by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hunt is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and for more than a decade served on the board for USA of UNHCR and the International Crisis Group. She is a widely published researcher, columnist, and guest commen-tator. A composer and photographer, she was married for 25 years to international conductor Charles Ansbacher. Her world includes their three children and a menagerie of cat, parrot, horses, bison, and grandchildren.

Jerry Jones•SVPandChiefLegalOfficer,ACXIOM

Jerry C. Jones, age 56, is the Company’s Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President and Assistant Secretary. He joined Acxiom in 1999, oversees legal and privacy matters and assists in the strategy and execution of mergers and alliances and the Company’s strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Acxiom, he was employed for 19 years as an attorney with the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, representing a broad range of business interests. He is a member of the board of directors of Agilysys, Inc. (NASD: AGYS), a leading developer and marketer of proprietary enter-prise software, services and solutions to the hospitality and retail industries, where he serves as chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. He also serves on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Board of Visitors, and is a co-founder of uhire U.S. He was a member of the board of directors of Entrust, Inc. until it was purchased by private investors in 2009 and is former chairman of the board of the Arkansas Virtual Academy. Mr. Jones holds a juris doctorate degree and a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of Arkansas.

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Tawakel Karman•Co-founderofWomenJournalistswithoutChains(WJWC). Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011

Ms. Karman is a Yemini journalist, human rights activist and politician who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for her role in promoting the “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work” during the 2011 Yemeni uprising.

Carol Kidu•FormerMemberofParliamentandFormerMinisterforCom-munity Development, Papua New Guinea

Dame Carol Kidu, (a teacher by profession) was first elected to Parliament in Papua New Guinea in 1997 and re-elected in 2002 and 2007. She is presently the only woman in the 109 member Papua New Guinea Parliament. She served as the Minister For Community Development for nine years and in February 2012 assumed Leadership of the Opposition after a six month political impasse. She was the Minister for Community Development from 2002 until August 2011 and has been described as a “visionary reformer” because of her commitment to transform legislati-ve and policy frameworks for social development in PNG societies as they interface with Western society. Her focus has been on women, children, disability, HIV, poverty and the struggles of various marginalised groups. Dame Kidu has been awarded three Honorary Doctorates; the Imperial Award of Dame of the British Empire; the PNG International Woman of Courage Award by the Secretary of State of the United States of America; Pacific Person of the Year in 2007; the Regional Rights Resource Team Pacific Human Rights Award for her contribution to promoting the rights of Pacific Islanders; the Cross of Knight in the Order of the Legion d’Honneur of the Republic of France. These awards have been to recognise her commitment to improving the rights of marginalised groups such as the disabled, children, women, HIV positive people and in-digenous minorities. Dame Kidu is the Pacific representative on the Board of the Commonwealth of Learning; is an international advisor on the Board of the Cairns Institute and a member of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law.

Jeni Klugman•Director,GenderandDevelopment,WorldBank

Jeni Klugman is the Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank Group. In her current role, she acts as lead spokesperson for gender equality issues, and is responsible for promoting the institution’s gender and development priorities following the release of the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development. She currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Benchmarking Progress and Advisory Board on Sustainability and Competitiveness, and is a fellow of the Human Development and Capabi-lities Association. Prior to taking up this position in August 2011, Ms. Klugman was the director and lead author of three global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme: Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development (2009); The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development (2010); and, Sustainability and Equity: a Better Future for All (2011). From 1992-2008, she held various positions at the World Bank, focusing in particular on poverty, inequality and human development in low income countries in Africa, Europe and Asia. Ms. Klugman has published a number of books, papers and reports on topics ranging from poverty reduction strategies and labour markets to conflict, health reform, education and decentralization. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University, as well as postgraduate degrees in Law and Development Economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

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Carla Koppell•SeniorCoordinatorforGenderEqualityandWomen´sEmpowerment, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

M Carla Koppell currently serves as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and a Senior Advisor to the USAID Administrator. In that role, she is spearheading enhancement of US development assistance efforts to serve and empower women around the world and to ensure that programs are designed and implemented in a gender sensitive manner. Previously, Koppell served as director of The Institute for Inclusive Security and the Washington, DC office of Hunt Alternatives Fund where she worked to ensure that peace processes around the world involve women and civil society. While there, she worked extensively with leaders from volatile conflict zones including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan. Earlier in her career, Koppell was senior adviser and, prior to that, interim director of the Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson In-ternational Center for Scholars in Washington. Ms. Koppell served as deputy assistant secretary for international affairs of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was also special assistant to the administrator of the US Agency for International Develo-pment (USAID), director of the USAID climate change program, and has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She received her M.A. in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her B.A. from Cornell University.

Kamilia Kuku•G40AllianceRepresentative,NuWEDA

Kamilia Ibrahim Kuku Kura is the founder and current Executive Director of the Nuba Women for Education and Development Association (NuWEDA). She is also a passionate activist for women’s rights, a member of the G40 and coordinator for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in Sudan. Between 1991 and 1998, frequent fighting took place in the Nuba Mountains and Ms Kuku Kura decided to speak out on behalf of human rights, in spite of the many dangers. She achieved recognition for her association, fought to ensure that the basic needs of women in the camps were met and ran various aid programmes in small communities. In 2006, Ms Kuku Kura and other women were arrested in the Nuba Mountains. Freed as a result of pressure from several humanitarian organisations, her determination remains as strong as ever and she still wants to set an example in fighting for respect for women’s rights.

Laura Liswood•SecretaryGeneral,CouncilofWomenWorldLeaders.Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs

A In August 1996, Laura Liswood co-founded the Council of Women World Leaders, located in Washington, DC. Ms. Liswood is the Secretary General of the Council, which is composed of wo-men heads of state and government. In 2001, Ms. Liswood was named Managing Director, Global Leadership and Diversity for Goldman Sachs and is now a Senior Advisor to the firm. Liswood’s professional experience includes executive positions in Fortune 500 companies. After the events of September 11, 2001, she became a reserve police officer for the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department, and is now a Sergeant. Ms. Liswood holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a B.A. from California State University, San Diego, and a J.D. from the University of Cali-fornia, Davis, School of Law. Ms. Liswood is the author of the books The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity While Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work (Wiley and Sons, 2010), Women World Leaders (Harper, 1996/2007), and Serving Them Right (Harper Business, 1990).

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Frank McCosker•ManagingDirectorofGlobalStrategicAccounts,Microsoft

Francis (Frank) McCosker is a senior director of global strategic accounts for Microsoft with respon-sibility for Microsoft’s engagement with multilateral organisations, including international financial institutions, intergovernmental organisations and bilateral providers of official development assistance (ODA). Frank McCosker joined Microsoft’s East European Headquarters in 1997, and during his seven years with the company he successfully guided Microsoft in carrying out key public-sector-related development projects. In 1999 he was promoted from partner development manager to general manager of Microsoft Bulgaria and spent one year setting up the subsidiary in Sofia. Frank McCosker was named director and later general manager of Microsoft’s East European Headquarters in Munich, Germany, in 2000. Frank McCosker also spent his time on various strategic public-sector projects, helping the new EU Member States to meet the EU accession criteria. In addition, he is a member of a working group within Microsoft aimed at company transformation, focusing on new strategies to further socio-economic development in least developed countries (LDCs) and emerging markets. He served as a Trustee and was in charge of organising and running the annual holidays of the St. John’s Handicapped Children Trust between 1990 and 1996. Born in 1968 in Mexico, McCosker grew up in Italy and the UK. He graduated in with a bachelors degree in business studies from the Polytechnic of North London in 1991 and, prior to joining Microsoft, worked in variety of roles at ICL, including gene-ral manager of ICL Ukraine, where he spent two years. McCosker, his wife and their four children live in Brussels, Belgium. Outside work, his interests include reading, wine and, most importantly, his family.

Cecilia López Montaño•FounderandPresident,CentroInternacionaldePensamiento Economico y Social (CISOE)

As an economist, researcher, lecturer and politician in Colombia, Cecilia Lopez Montano has served as Director of Social Security, Director of PREALC, ILO, Ambassador of Colombia to the Netherlands, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Environment, Director of the National Planning Department, and Senator of the Republic. Counted among her principle legislative initiatives are the creation of the Legal Commission for Woman´s Equality and the Law 1413 of 2010, the latter of which regulates the inclusion of a caring economy in the system of National Accounts. Currently Ms. Montano serves as President and founding member of the International Center of Social and Economic Thought (CISOE).

Katherine Lucey•SolarSisters

Katherine Lucey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Solar Sister. After a 20 year career as an investment banker with expertise in the energy sector, Katherine retired from banking and tur-ned her attention to finding a sustainable solution to the energy poverty that causes suffering to a quarter of the world’s population. Katherine determined that a practical, grass-roots, locally gene-rated solution was needed. In addition to Solar Sister, Katherine has served as Chief of Operations for Arzu, Inc., a non-profit organization working to empower women in Afghanistan by providing employment and social benefits. She currently serves on the board of Solar Light for Africa, a not-for-profit corporation that brings solar energy to rural communities in East Africa, as well as several local charitable committees supporting education and the environment. She holds an M.B.A. from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia.

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Mark Muller•FoundingDirector,BeyondBordersFoundation

Mark Muller Stuart QC, is a barrister and international mediator, Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee, Co-founding director of The Delfina Foundation, and Executive Director of Beyond Borders, a Scottish not for profit dedicated to small nation dialogue and international cultural exchange. Mark is a senior advocate at Garden Court Chambers in London and the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh, where he specializes in criminal, terrorism, public and international law, and regularly advises on humanitarian conflict and resolution laws. He was appointed to the rank of Queen’s Counsel in 2006 and has won numerous international test cases and awards in the field of human rights. As a mediator, Mark has acted and advised for a variety of internatio-nal bodies concerned with conflict resolution and justice issues. Since 2005 he has principally ac-ted as a Senior Advisor and Mediator for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva, which has mediated a number of conflicts around the world. He is also a Fellow at Harvard Law School.

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Irene Natividad•PresidentoftheGlobalSummitofWomen

Irene Natividad is President of the Global Summit of Women, a 23-year old annual gathering of women leaders in business and government who come together to share strategies for increa-sing women’s economic empowerment globally. She also serves as Chair of Corporate Women Directors International, which conducts research and brings together women corporate directors from around the world on issues of corporate governance. A member of the Blue Ribbon Com-mission on Board Diversity with the National Association of Board Directors, Ms. Natividad has served on the numerous boards of directors and advisory boards of nonprofits such as the Glo-bal Economic Symposium and the National Museum of Women in the Arts to corporate advisory boards for Cigna, Wyndham International, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. In 1994, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of Sallie Mae, a Fortune 100 company, by President Clinton. The recipient of numerous awards, she was selected by Women’s eNews as one of the “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” in 2004; as one of “25 Most Influential Working Mothers” by Working Mother Magazine in 1997; and in 1988 as one of the “100 Most Powerful Women in America” by Ladies Home Journal.

Ruth Ojiambo•Isis-Women’sInternationalCrossCulturalExchange(ISIS-WICCE), Uganda

Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng is the executive director of the Isis Women International Cross-Cultural Exchange (Isis-Wicce) in Kampala and has worked with dozens of organizations supporting women’s rights and human rights. An expert in research and documentation, as well as peace building, Ruth has done workwith the Ugandan Ministry of Justice, Women Human Rights Defen-ders, Amnesty International, AMANITARE and UNIFEM, as well as the Women’s Network in South Africa. In Northern Uganda, she has been involved in the formation of the Kitgum Women’s Peace Initiative, the Teso Women’s Peace Initiative and the Lira Women’s Initiative. Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng has been a leading advocate for the participation of women in the Juba Peace Process for Northern Uganda, initiating the documentation of women’s voices in the conflict and par-ticipating in consultations with women in the greater north, as well as the Juba Peace Caravan. Ruth also coordinated several short term medical interventions for women in communities affected by the conflict in the greater north of Uganda. Ojiambo Ochieng received a diploma in library science from Makerere University, a bachelor’s degree in Information and Communication from North London Polytechnic and a master’s degree in Communications Policy Studies at City University in London, England.

Rajendra Pachauri•DirectorGeneral,TheEnergyandResourcesInstitute(TERI)

One of the world’s foremost environmental experts and activists, Rajendra K. Pachauri has devo-ted himself for the past three decades to advancing technology and promoting awareness in an effort to protect our planet’s natural resources. Born in India in 1940, Pachauri lived and worked in Asia for most of his early career before moving to the United States to earn his master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University, where he later taught as well. Having a scientific background led Pachauri to develop an interest in environmental issues, specifically those related to climate change. Since then, Pachauri has served on the board of environmental organizations, panels, and businesses on multiple continents, using his expertise and wide range of experience to influence the way the world views and uses our planet. Discou-raged by the apathy most demonstrate towards the perilous state of our environment, Pachauri is determined to spend his career educating people and improving technology so that everyone can participate in the protection of our natural resources. Today, Pachauri serves as the Director General of TERI and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the panel on whose behalf he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Pachauri has also been recognized for his work on environmental issues in India, where he has been awarded one of the country’s most prestigious civilian honors - the Padma Bhushan.

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Carole M. Pottenger•DeputyChiefofStaff,CapabilityDevelopmentatNATO Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation

Vice Admiral Pottenger is the deputy chief of staff Capability Development at NATO Headquar-ters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Norfolk, Va. Pottenger is a native of Chicago, Ill., and grew up in Saint Petersburg, Fla. She graduated from Purdue University in May 1977, and was commissioned as an ensign through NROTC. One of the first women selected for sea duty, Pottenger reported aboard USS Yosemite (AD 19) as engineering division officer and completed a Mediterranean deployment. Subsequent sea tours included assignment as operations officer aboard USS Yellowstone (AD 41) and executive officer aboard USS Kiska (AE 35). Pottenger assumed command of USS Shasta (AE 33) in 1996, completing several deployments in support of commander 5th Fleet and commander 7th Fleet. She took command of USS Bridge (AOE 10) in 2001, and during an extended deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, re-supplied 10 battle groups, amphibious groups and dozens of coalition ships; receiving the Battle E and the 2002 Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy. Shore tours have included assignment to commander, Service Group 2 as staff communications officer; assignment to USNA as the 25th company officer; commanding officer of two Navy Operational Support Centers in Mare Island, and San Diego Calif. She also served as COMNAVSURFRESFOR deputy chief of staff for Manpower, institutionalizing manpower and personnel best practices across a force of 65,000 Reservists.

Stephen Sackur•Correspondent,BBC

Stephen joined the BBC in 1986 as a trainee. In 1990 he was appointed the BBC’s foreign affairs correspondent. He was part of the BBC’s team of correspondents covering the Gulf War and spent eight weeks with the British army when the conflict began. Stephen was also the first correspondent to break the story of the mass killing on the Basra road out of Kuwait City which marked the end of the war. Whilst working as a correspondent for BBC Radio, he was a witness to the last days of communism, reporting on the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia and the re-unification of Germany. In 1992 Stephen became the BBC’s Middle East correspondent based in Cairo and moved to Jerusalem 1995. During this time he reported on the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the emergence of the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat. Whilst preparing for a documentary on Islamic fundamentalism, Stephen lived with Hezbollah guerrillas in South Lebanon for two weeks. In 1997 to 2002, Stephen was appointed as the BBC’s Washington correspondent. During this time he covered the scandal surrounding former US Pre-sident Bill Clinton and his subsequent impeachment trial, the 2000 US presidential elections and has interviewed US President George W Bush. In 2003, Stephen returned to Iraq just after the fall of Saddam Hussein and filed the first television pictures on Iraq’s mass graves containing the bodies of thousands of victims of Saddam’s regime. He was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire and stu-died at Cambridge University and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Theo Sowa•InterimCEO,AfricanWomen´sDevelopmentFund

Theo Sowa is an international social development specialist, with a particular emphasis on children’s rights and protection and women’s rights issues. She is currently the CEO of the African Women’s Development Fund, a fundraising and grant making foundation for African women’s rights. Born in Ghana, she has lived and worked in many countries in Africa, as well as the UK, Europe, and the USA. Her work includes advisory roles to African and other international women and children’s rights activists and leaders, plus policy development and advocacy with a variety of international agencies and organisations. Theo has served on a number of boards of various national and international civil society organisations and grant making foundations in the past. Currently, she is a trustee of Comic Relief (a multimillion grant making foundation) and Chair of their International Grants Committee; a member of the African Advisory Board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation; a member of the British Refugee Council’s Leadership Board; a Patron of Evidence for Development; and a board member of the Graça Machel Trust. Theo holds a public appointment as a Board Member of the Charity Commission for England and Wales. She was awarded a CBE in June 2010.

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Mark Stodola•Mayor,LittleRock

Mark Stodola was elected as Mayor for the City of Little Rock, beginning his term in January 2007 and re-elected to a 2nd term beginning in 2011. Since Stodola took office, the City’s homicide rate has fallen more than 50% with the violent crime rate falling 34%. The Mayor has partnered with the State Arkansas Economic Development Commission and the Chamber of Commerce to bring over $1 billion in new capital investment to the City and more than 4,100 new jobs since taking office. Prior to becoming Mayor, he served as a senior partner in the Little Rock Law Firm Catlett & Stodola, PLC. During his tenure as Prosecuting Attorney, he focused his energies on gang violence. He developed the first Domestic Violence Unit in the State and created a Gang Prosecution Team. Mayor Stodola has served as Vice-President of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), as well serving as a lecturer for the NDAA in Argentina and Russia. Mayor Stodola is Past President of the Arkansas Prosecuting Attorneys Association and Arkansas City Attorneys Association, as well as Past Chair of the Municipal Operations Section of the International Municipal Lawyers Association. Mayor Stodola as served as Vice-Pre-sident of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), as well as serving as a lecturer for the NDAA in Argentina and Russia. Mayor Stodola graduated from the University of Iowa with a double major in Political Science and Journalism, and received his law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville. Mayor Stodola is married to Jo Ellen and has three (3) children: a daughter, Allison; and twin sons, Robert and John Mark.

Stephanie Streett•ExecutiveDirector,WilliamJ.ClintonFoundation

Stephanie S. Streett’s is the Executive Director of the William J. Clinton Foundation in Little Rock, where she is responsible for the day- to-day operations of the Clinton Presidential Center including the Center’s educational programs, special events, exhibits, services and staff mana-gement. She establishes and cultivates partnerships and cooperative arrangements with state and local governments, the non-profit and private sector, community groups and other organi-zations. Stephanie serves on the Board of Directors for the Downtown Partnership of Little Rock, Arkansas and the University of Arkansas Alumni Association and is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for City Year Little Rock/North Little Rock. Additionally, she is a member of the Interna-tional Women’s Forum, the Arkansas Women’s Forum, the Rotary Club of Little Rock, where she was named a Paul Harris Fellow, and the Cities of Service Little Rock: Citizens Advisory Commit-tee. Previously she served on the Board of Directors for the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ Community Development Advisory Council. During the Clinton Administration Stephanie was appointed Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Scheduling. She directed the process of planning and executing all domestic and international travel for President Clinton as well as his daily White House schedule. Previously she served as a staff member for the U. S. Senate Committee on the Budget and was elected Congressional Liaison for Young Democrats of America in 1989. Afterward she returned to Arkansas and joined the Clinton Presidential Exploratory Committee. She was a scheduler on the Clinton-Gore Campaign and the Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition Team. Stephanie received a B.S. in political science from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. She resides in Little Rock with her husband Don Erbach who is Vice President of Paschall Strategic Communications. They have three daughters, Olivia, Katherine, and Caroline.

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Adimaimalaga Tafuna’i•ExecutiveDirector,WomeninBusinessDevelopment Incorporated.

Adimaimalaga Tafuna’i is a Co-founder and Executive Director of Women in Business Develop-ment Inc in Samoa. She helped start the organisation in 1991 and has since led it through several transitions, which included shifting from economic empowerment for urban women to creating and sustaining rural economies for struggling families in Samoa. In the 1990s, Mrs Tafuna’i began a campaign to organically certify farms to add value to their products and also because of the wellbeing and health organic produce offers. Mrs Tafuna’i was involved in bringing virgin coconut oil pressing to Samoa and, in 2008 her expertise in developing relationships saw a fair trade contract confirmed with cosmetic giant The Body Shop. Mrs Tafuna’i was also instrumental in reviving the dying art Samoa’s fine mat weaving and transforming it into an income-genera-ting activity for Samoa’s weavers. Regionally, Mrs Tafuna’i played a key role in the formation of the Regional Organic Task Force, which brought together regional organic practitioners to es-tablish a Pacific Organic and Ethical Community, which went on to establish the Pacific Organic Standard, only the third regional organic standard world wide. She has also assisted other Pacific organisations to become organically certified. In 2006, she served as the chair of the Pacific Island Association of Non-Governmental Organisations. In 2010, Samoa’s Government named Mrs Tafuna’i as “Person of the Year”. As a keen proponent of women’s rights, Mrs Tafuna’i was a panellist for the Gender Equality Dialogue during the Pacific Island Leaders Forum in the Cooks Islands in August.

Alimata Traoré•President,COFERSA(NewfieldFoundation)

Alimata Traoré was born in 1973, in Sikasso, southern Mali, where she grew up and now lives with her family. She works in agricultural production and the processing of local crops and livestock. She holds a primary school certificate and has completed the fourth level of high school. Since 2002, she has been involved in organizing rural women around income-generating activities in order to improve their economic situation and social position within society. Together with other rural women in Sikasso, Alimata created the Convergence of Rural Women for Food Sovereignty (COFERSA), of which she has been president since 2009. The organization is headquartered in Sikasso, and has about 1000 members who are rural women. Alimata is also deeply involved in the promotion of women’s rights. She actively participated in the farmer citizens’ jury in Mali on agricultural research priorities in West Africa and attended the dialogue between farmer organizations and AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution) in 2012 in Accra. Alimata writes and speaks French and Bambara.

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William L. Swing•DirectorGeneral,InternationalOrganizationforMigration (IOM)

On 18 June 2008, Ambassador William Lacy Swing of the United States was elected as the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). He assumed his post on 1 October 2008. From May 2003 till January 2008, as UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ambassador Swing successfully led all facets of the largest UN peacekeeping operation in history. Before his appointment to the DRC and since November 2001, Ambassador Swing was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara and Chief of Mission, United Nations Mission for the Refe-rendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). William Lacy Swing was named Ambassador to the Re-public of South Africa in 1989, shortly before Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. The posting was a culminating experience for William Lacy Swing, who began his diplomatic career twenty-six years before in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1963 to 1966. Mr. Swing was Deputy Director for Central African Affairs and Country Officer for Zaire at the Department of State, 1977-79. He was Ambassador to the People’s Republic of the Congo 1979-1981 and Ambassador to Liberia, 1981-85. In 1992, William Lacy Swing became Ambassador to Nigeria, and from 1993-98, served as Ambassador to Haiti. William Lacy Swing was born in 1934 in Lexington, North Carolina. He graduated from Catawba College (BA 1956) in North Carolina, and Yale University (BD, 1960) and did post-graduate studies at Tuebingen University, Germany. On 26 June 2012, Ambassador Swing received the American Foreign Service Association Award for Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy.

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Richenda Van Leeuwen•ExecutiveDirector,EnergyandClimate,EnergyAccess Initiative, United Nations Foundation (UNF)

Richenda Van Leeuwen is Executive Director, Energy and Climate, Energy Access Initiative team overseeing the UN Foundation’s work on energy access. She joined the UN Foundation in 2010 from Good Energies, a global renewable energy investment company. A sought out speaker on energy access and poverty issues, she has over 20 years of executive management experience with the UN, private sector and non-profits on several continents. Ms. Van Leeuwen has a range of expertise encompassing not only emerging markets commercial investment in renewable energy technolo-gies, but also the application of a range of renewable energy technologies for poverty alleviation, including business, financing and investment models to support scaling of Base of the Pyramid markets in developing countries. She also has many years of experience leading micro, small and medium sized enterprise investment activities and projects in Africa, Asia and the Americas with a focus on gender equity, as well as experience in refugee issues and post-conflict reconstruction particularly gained in SE Asia and the Balkans. She currently serves on the board of SELCO India, a leading renewable energy social enterprise focusing on energy solutions for poor families in India.

Melanee Verveer•Ambassador-at-Large,GlobalWomen’sIssues,U.S.State Department

President Barack Obama appointed Melanne Verveer as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. In her capacity as director of the Department of State’s new office on Global Women’s Issues, Ambassador Verveer coordinates foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women around the world. She mobilizes concrete support for women’s rights and political and economic empowerment through initiatives and programs designed to increase women’s and girls’ access to education and health care, to combat violence against women and girls in all its forms, and to ensure that women’s rights are fully integrated with human rights in the development of U.S. foreign policy. Ambassador Verveer most recently served as Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international nonprofit she co-founded. Vital Voices invests in emerging women leaders and works to expand women’s roles in generating economic opportunity, promoting political participation, and safeguarding human rights. Prior to her work with Vital Voices, Ambassador Verveer served as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady in the Clinton Administration and was chief assistant to then-First Lady Hillary Clinton in all her wide-ranging international activities to advance women’s rights and further social development, democracy and peace-building initiatives. She also led the effort to establish the President’s Interagency Council on Women. Ambassador Verveer has a B.A. and M.A. from Georgetown University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and numerous other organizations.

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Jackie K. Weatherspoon•FormerMemberNewHampshireHouseofRepresentatives

Jackie Weatherspoon, MPA 1991, exemplifies the party activist whose ability to multitask is matched only by her multiple skills and endless energy. She’s involved in the Democratic Party as a volunteer poll-watcher, get-out-the-vote coordinator, organizer of students and the youth vote, and she has also served as co-chair of New Hampshire’s Democratic Party convention. However, as committed as she is to the ideology of and candidates within her party, Weatherspoon also brings an uncommon level of commitment to and passion for the democratic process, which she is putting to use in this election year. Inspired while at the Kennedy School taking Professor Shirley Williams’s “To Be a Politician” class, Jackie returned to New Hampshire and was elected a state representative. However, after serving in office only a short while, she was selected by the United Nations to be an election officer in Bosnia, where for more than two-and-a-half years she registered people to vote for municipal elections in Gorazde while coalition forces were bombing nearby Kosovo. Since that time, Weatherspoon has observed elections in numerous countries, including Nigeria. Back home she puts her expertise to work on behalf of the Democratic party to ensure the electoral process is fair. As a volunteer faculty member at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, she also engages young people and helps inspire them to get involved in the political process. During the lead-up to the New Hampshire primaries, Weatherspoon trained groups of students to make voter calls, work on the party’s get-out-the-vote program, and canvass neighborhoods. She also helped place students in campaign offices of Democratic candidates. Weatherspoon’s most public role in 2008 was as the cochair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s convention.

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Penny Abeywardena•HeadofGirls&Women,ClintonGlobalInitiative

Penny leads the Clinton Global Initiative’s Girls and Women program and is Associate Director, Commitments. She is responsible for the portfolio of CGI Commitments focused on girls and women worldwide as well as spearheading year round efforts in this space. Prior to CGI, Penny worked in both development and programmatic areas for Human Rights Watch, the Funding Exchange and the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy. She graduated from the University of Southern California and completed her Master of International Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Penny is currently an organizer of TEDxHarlem 2012, serves on the Board of Directors of Harlem Success Academy Five, the Advisory Board of Blue Engine, and a member of the Global Fund for Muslim Women’s Global Advisory Council. She actively advises the development of a number of women-related summits and conferences and has previously served on the Boards of Sakhi for South Asian Women and Resource Generation.

Aileen Adams•DeputyMayoroftheCityofLosAngelesforStrategicPartnerships

In July 2009, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed Aileen Adams deputy mayor for strategic partnerships, a new position designed to maximize collaboration between the City and the nonprofit and philanthropic communities. Previously, Adams served as secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency and was a presidential appointee in the United States Justice Department, Office for Victims of Crime. She has also served as legal counsel at the UCLA Rape Treatment Center, where she co-founded and served as director of Stuart House, a center for sexually abused children. Adams currently serves on a number of community boards and has chaired both the Women’s Foundation of California and The Rape Foundation.

Mahnaz Afkhami•President&CEO,Women’sLearningPartnership(WLP)

In exile in the United States, Ms. Afkhami has been a leading advocate of women’s rights for more than three decades, having founded and headed several international non-governmental organizations focu-sed on advancing the status of women. Formerly, she was President of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute. Ms. Afkhami is a Co-Chair of the Women Leaders Intercultural Forum and the Global Women’s Action Network for Children. She serves on the boards and steering committees of a number of international organizations including Global Fund for Women, International Museum of Women, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, Women’s Human Rights Net, Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, and World Movement for Democracy. She created the concept and mobilized support for the establishment of the Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development (APCWD) and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). She served as a member of Iran’s High Council of Family Planning and Welfare, the board of trustees of Kerman University, and the board of trustees of Farah University for Women. Additionally, Ms. Afkhami has led numerous task forces on democratization, leadership, and women’s human rights in the Global South including multinational delegations to the UN Human Rights Conference in Vienna (1993) and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995). Ms. Afkhami has lectured and published extensively on the international women’s movement, women’s human rights, women in leadership, women and technology, and women’s participation in civil society building and democratization.

Najla Alfaraj•ElectronicsEngineeringDepartment,CollegeofTechnologicalStu-dies (CTS), Public Authority of Applied Education and Training (PAAET), Kuwait

Najla Alfaraj was born in Kuwait. She is an Assistant Professor at The College of Technological Studies (CTS) at The Public Authority of Applied Education and Training (PAAET) in Kuwait. She received her B.S. and M.S degrees in Computer Engineering from Kuwait University, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in the Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA in 2012. Before starting her Ph.D study in 2006, she worked in her field as system engineer at Schlumberger in 1999, then database administrator at Kuwait Uni-versity in 2000, and IT Vice manager in the Commercial Real Estate Company in Kuwait between 2002 and 2006. During the same time, she was an assistant instructor at CTS where she received her scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the United States.

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Farida Allaghi•FounderandPresident,LibyanForumforthesupportofCivil Society” LFCS” and A Human Rights Activist. Libya

Farida Allaghi is the senior advisor to HRH Prince Talal Bin Abdulazez Al Saud, president of the Arab Gulf Program for the United Nations Development Organizations in Saudi Arabia. She is also a freelance regional and international consultant in the areas of civil society, human rights, democracy, public policy and advocacy, women’s issues, and youth. From 2001 to 2002, Dr. Allaghi served as executive director of the Mentor Foundation, an international NGO that focu-ses on the prevention of drug misuse among young people, and the promotion of their health and well-being. From 1984 to 2000, Dr. Allaghi was director of the Woman and Child Division of the Arab Gulf Program. She served as the general coordinator for the Arab Council for Children from 1991 to 1996, and the general coordinator for the Arab Network for Civil Society from 1990 to 1997. Dr. Allaghi is a contributing editor to the United Nation’s Arab Human Development Report. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, USA.

Alaa M. Al Shroogi•CuadroFineArtGallery,Dubai,UAE

Alaa Al-Shroogi is the Director of Cuadro Gallery. Founded in 2008 at the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), Cuadro exhibits the work of international established and emerging artists and nurtures the careers of young artists from around the world. Cuadro’s curated exhibitions are supplemented by an education program and through its residency program, the gallery offers a select group of local and international artists studio space in the UAE. Al-Shroogi was formerly President of Acxiom’s Middle East North Africa operations, establishing the joint venture with regional offices in Dubai (UAE) and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Prior to Acxiom MENA, she was responsible for structured fixed income sales at UBS London, before which she held a position at Investcorp’s fund of hedge funds. Alaa Al-Shroogi carries an MBA in Finance and Marketing from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and a BA in International Relations and French from Tufts University.

Joel E. Anderson•Chancellor,UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

Dr. Joel E. Anderson became the Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2003, bringing with him more than thirty years of university and community service. Dr. Anderson previously served as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and as the founding Dean of the Graduate School. During his time as dean and then provost, Dr. Anderson led in the initia-tion of numerous master’s and doctoral programs. In 2000, UALR was classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a Research University. A professor of political science, Dr. Anderson was a charter member of the Arkansas Political Science Association and served as its third president and first journal editor. He is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Little Rock and a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow. Previous board service has included the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society and the Heart of Arkansas United Way. Dr. Anderson also has served as board member and president or chair of the Arkansas 4-H Foundation, the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, and the KLRE-KUAR Public Radio Board of Overseers. Dr. Anderson is a graduate of Harding University (BA in political science), American University, (MA in international relations), and the University of Michigan (PhD in political science). He also completed the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. Dr. Anderson grew up on a farm east of Swifton in northeast Arkansas. He and his wife, Ann, are members of the Pleasant Valley Church of Christ in Little Rock. Dr. and Mrs. Anderson have three sons, two granddaughters, and one grandson.

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Kim Azzarelli•VicePresident,NewVenturesatNewsweekDailyBeast&President of the Women in the World Foundation

Kim K. Azzarelli is Senior Vice President, Newsweek & The Daily Beast and President, Women in the World Foundation. Ms. Azzarelli has held senior legal, public affairs and philanthropic roles in U.S. public companies, including Goldman Sachs, the Hain Celestial Group and Avon Products, seeking to combine her experience in law, business and philanthropy with her passion for women’s legal and economic empowerment. She is the co-founder and Chair of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School and serves on the Board of the Avon Foundation for Women. Ms. Azzarelli is a graduate of Cornell Law School, Cornell University and Friends Seminary in NYC where she was born and raised. She resides in Manhattan with her husband Mattia Filiaci

Barbara Barrett•InterimPresident,ThunderbirdSchoolofGlobalManagement

Barbara Barrett is President and CEO of Triple Creek Guest Ranch, a Montana Hideaway. Un-til January 2009, Barrett was U.S. Ambassador to Finland. Prior to Finland she served on the corporate boards of Raytheon, Exponent and The Mayo Clinic, and was a trustee of Aerospace Corporation and Thunderbird School of Global Management. She was Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and a member of the Smithsonian National Board, Space Foundation Board, Horatio Alger Association Board and the Senior Advisory Board at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. As a member of the U.S.–Afghan Women’s Council, Barrett initia-ted a mentoring, development and training program for Afghan businesswomen called Project Artemis. She was Valley Bank of Arizona’s founding Chairman as well as President and CEO of the American Management Association. She taught leadership as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Barrett was President of the International Women’s Forum and the first woman Republican candidate for Governor of Arizona. She earned her bachelor, master and law degrees at Arizona State University. Barrett has been recognized with the Horatio Alger Award, Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship and Sandra Day O’Connor Excellence Award from the American Bar Association. An instrument rated pilot, Barrett has flown interna-tionally in civilian and military aircraft. She and her husband, Craig, live in Arizona.

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Loreen Arbus•President,TheLoreenArbusFoundation

Loreen Arbus is currently the President of Loreen Arbus Productions, Inc., The Loreen Arbus Foundation and The Goldenson-Arbus Foundation. Arbus holds the distinction of being the first woman to head programming for a U.S. network, a feat accomplished twice (both at Showtime and Cable Health Network/Lifetime). A prolific writer, she is the author of six books and nume-rous magazine/newspaper articles. She remains committed to the work of the United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) organization, co-founded by her parents, Isabelle and Leonard H. Goldenson, Foun-der/Chairman of ABC. She also is a member of the Brookings Institution, and Women Moving Millions. As a renowned, professional Argentine tango dancer and choreographer, who co-starred in and co-produced the first theatrical, Argentine tango stage show to originate in the United States, Ms. Arbus has toured four continents, and appeared on Broadway, at the Hollywood Bowl and featured in the opening ceremony of the World Cup. Ms. Arbus resides in Los Angeles, New York and Buenos Aires.

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Doug Becker•Founder,LaureateEducation

As chairman and chief executive officer, Douglas Becker has led the transformation of Laureate Education (formerly Sylvan Learning Systems) from a domestic tutoring provider into the world’s leading international higher education company with operations in 29 countries. Mr. Becker has served as chairman and CEO of the company since 2000, having previously served as the company’s president and co-CEO. During his tenure as CEO of Sylvan Learning Systems, Mr. Bec-ker was responsible for growing the company into the undisputed leader in K–12 tutoring with nearly 2,000 learning centers, more than 200,000 students, and the most recognized consumer brand name in education. The K–12 business of the company, now known as Educate, Inc., was sold in 2003 to allow the company to focus all of its energies on postsecondary education, by far its fastest growing line of business. It was in recognition of its new focus on higher educa-tion that the company changed its name to Laureate Education, Inc., in 2004. Today, Laureate Education is a trusted global leader in providing access to high-quality, innovative institutions of higher education to more than 740,000 students through its network of more than 60 campus-based and online institutions in 29 countries throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and the Middle East —a network known as Laureate International Universities. Mr. Becker is deeply committed to serving the community. He is the chair of the International Youth Foundation, which works in more than 70 countries to improve conditions and prospects for young people. He has been involved in many nonprofit activities in his hometown of Balti-more, Maryland, including having served as the founding chairman of Port Discovery Children’s Museum.

Kelly Elizabeth Behrend•DirectorofCorporateResponsibility,Peacework Development Fund

Kelly Elizabeth Behrend is Director of Corporate Responsibility for the Peacework Development Fund, Inc., an NGO with offices in Blacksburg and Little Rock and projects worldwide. She is a Bonner Scholar alumna of the University of Richmond and former associate of the Bonner Foun-dation where she led the design and implementation of the Bonner International Partnerships Initiative. Her thesis in International Peace and Conflict Studies was awarded with a series of institutional and national awards, including the James W. Jackson Award for Excellence in Library Research in the Social Sciences and Best Paper at the Midwest Political Science Association National Conference. Kelly’s study of refugee populations and experiences in strategic partner-ships for social change led to her studies as Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar at EOI Business School Madrid in Sustainable Development and Corporate Responsibility and eventually to her current position with Peacework. She currently resides in Madrid.

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Danielas Bas•DirectoroftheDivisionofSocialDevelopment,UNDESA

Ms. Daniela Bas was appointed Director of DESA’s Division for Social Policy and Development on 9 May 2011. A politologist specialized in international politics, human rights and social develop-ment, Ms. Bas has most recently served as Senior Consultant designated by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as expert on human rights to Institutes that operate internationally. She has also provided her expertise on anti-discrimination issues at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Ms. Bas has worked for close to 10 years for the UN as a Professional Officer in social development and human rights, traveling around the world on behalf of the UN and also as a speaker at international conventions. She has also held a number of other significant assign-ments including as Special Adviser on “Fundamental Rights” for the former Vice President of the European Commission; as the Italian representative designated by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers on the topic “Tourism for All” to the European Commission; and as journalist and broadcaster for Italian Radio and TV. Ms. Bas is a Board Member of the EU Agency for Fundamen-tal Rights and of the Committee to Promote non-Armed and non-Violent Civil Defense of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. She graduated in Political Science in 1985, with a major in International Politics and wrote a dissertation on ”The elimination of architectural barriers and the employment of people with physical disabilities”.

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Robert “Bob” Bloom•ChiefFinancialOfficer,HeiferInternational

Robert “Bob” Bloom joined Heifer International in June 2011. Bloom, a Certified Public Accoun-tant with a degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois came to Heifer from Vestcom International, a provider of shelf-edge communications to the retail industry, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Vestcom, he served as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Financial Relations Leader of Acxiom Corp., a Little Rock–based data processing and data content provider. Bloom also has worked for Wilson Sporting Goods Co., River Grove, Ill., as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Wilson International Division; and with the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., in Chicago, as Audit Manager.

Elizabeth Broderick•SexDiscriminationCommissionerandChair,Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force of Australia (World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development)

Elizabeth Broderick is Australia’s Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner. She has overall responsibility for advancing gender equality in Australia. Commissioner Broderick has been a key advocate for Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme, increasing women’s workfor-ce participation and recognition of domestic violence as a workplace issue. She has promoted changes to the Australian Stock Exchange Corporate Governance regime requiring all publicly listed companies to set targets for women at board and senior executive level. She has brought together Australia’s senior male leaders from business, government and the military to form the Male Champions of Change Group. Elizabeth is currently leading the Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force. She is married with two teenage children.

Alessio J. Brown•ExecutiveDirectorGES,KielInstitutefortheWorldEconomy

Alessio Brown was born in Rom, Italy, of British-Italian nationality. Mr. Brown holds degrees from the University of Passau and University College Dublin. He began work at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in 2003 in an Advanced Studies Program. Since 2007, he has been the Executive Director of the Global Economic Symposium at the Kiel Institute.

Matt Browne•CenterforAmericanProgress

Matt Browne is a Visiting Fellow at American Progress, working on building trans-Atlantic and international progressive networks and studying trans-Atlantic policy issues. Previously, Matt was director of public affairs in APCO Worldwide’s London office, where he ran the company’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa government relations practice. Matt is also the former director of Policy Network—the international network founded by Tony Blair, Gerhard Schroeder, Goran Persson, and Giuliano Amato—and remains a member of the organization’s governing board and advisory council. During his time at Policy Network, Matt worked closely with a host of progressive leaders, prime ministers’ and presidents’ offices across the globe, and international organizations such as the U.N. and WTO. Matt also ran the international press operation for New Labour’s general election campaigns in 2001 and 2005.

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Paula Caldwell St. Onge•ConsulGeneralofCanada(Texas,NewMexico,Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas)

Paula Caldwell St-Onge was appointed Consul General of Canada to the South Central United States in the summer of 2010. She was Minister Counsellor and Senior Trade Commissioner at the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City from 2008 to 2010. She served as Senior Trade Commis-sioner at the Consulate General of Canada in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 2005 to 2008. Formerly, Ms. Caldwell St-Onge was Director General of National Programs (Enforcement, Emergencies/Secu-rity and Environmental Assessments) at Environment Canada. Ms. Caldwell St-Onge began her career in the Public Service with the Federal Environmental Assessment Agency in 1989. She held progressively senior positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Privy Council Office and Environment Canada. These included Program Manager, Senior Advisor, Senior Communications Officer, Director and Director General respectively. She has also been the recipient of the Head of the Public Service Award (Excellence in Policy) and has served on two international boards on environmental enforcement. Prior to the Public Service she helped Central American refugees integrate into Canada and headed an endangered species program for turtles in the Caribbean. Ms. Caldwell St-Onge was born in Colombia. She received a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) in Sciences at Queen’s University and speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. She is married to Daniel St-Onge and they have one daughter.

Mildred O. Callear•ExecutiveVicePresidentandBoardMemberSmallEnterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)

Mildred Callear has more than 25 years of experience in the emerging market investment arena. She serves as the Executive Vice President of SEAF and as a member of the SEAF Board of Direc-tors. SEAF is a manager of socially responsible private equity and investment funds investing in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. She shares worldwide mana-gement responsibilities for SEAF with the Executive Chairman and CEO and has broad oversight as a Director on SEAF’s board. She is involved in establishing and implementing corporate policy in a wide variety of areas and serves on a number of SEAF fund boards and investment commit-tees. Over its more than 20-year history, SEAF has invested $430 million globally on committed capital of more than $650 million. SEAF has made more than 360 investments in 32 funds (both debt and equity) and has 22 offices globally. Ms. Callear has served on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) since its beginning. ANDE is the global network of more than 165 organizations that promote small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Prior to joining SEAF, Ms. Callear served for almost 20 years with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. government’s development finance institution focused on private investment in the emerging markets. For 13 years she was the Vice President/Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, served on OPIC’s investment committee and managed OPIC’s environmental, economic and social impact programs. Ms. Callear served as OPIC’s Chief Executive Officer on an interim basis in 1993 and 1997. Early in her career, Ms. Callear was a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D.C. Ms. Callear graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois in 1976 and cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979.

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Christy Carpenter•ChiefExecutiveOfficer,WinthropRockefellerInstitute

Christy Carpenter serves as the chief executive officer of the Winthrop Rockefeller (WRI) Institute, a center for thought leadership on state, national and international issues that strives to stimulate positive change in the world. Located on Petit Jean Mountain near Little Rock, Arkansas, WRI convenes great minds and leaders from civil society organizations, academia, business, and government to develop and share solutions to major 21st century challenges. From 2003-2011, she served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Paley Center for Media managing its operations in New York and Los Angeles. Based at the Center’s New York headquarters, she helped lead the institution through a period of positive transfor-mation. Prior to joining the Paley Center, Carpenter was appointed by President Clinton to the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1998, where she served as vice chair, and she subsequently served for nearly a decade on the board of KCET. A lawyer by training, she served as vice president and group director for the international public relations firm Hill & Knowlton in New York. Early in her career, Carpenter worked for all three branches of the federal government, including clerking for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark when he served as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge after retiring from the nation’s highest court. She received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and her law degree from the American University Law School as well as completing a year of studies at the London School of Economics.

Sean Carroll•SeniorDirector,CreativeAssociatesInternational

Sean Carroll is a seasoned development professional with 25 years of program, operations, ma-nagement, public policy, advocacy, and partnership experience working in 55 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. As COO at USAID, Sean guided and oversaw management strategy, operations and reforms of a 10,000-person organization with offices in 84 countries. He speaks Spanish, French and Catalan. Sean has served as the Chief of Staff under the Obama Administration, as well as the Chief Operating Officer of the US Agency for International Development. He currently serves on the boards of the Club of Madrid’s Share Societies Project, Development Solutions Organization, Latin American Youth Center, Mobile Alliance for Global Good and TechChange.

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Jana Carter•SeniorDirectorofInternationalCoorporateAffairs,Walmart Stores Inc.

Jana Carter currently serves as the Senior Director of International Corporate Affairs for Walmart International. She is responsible for leading the company’s international mergers and acquisition strategy from a corporate affairs perspective as well as managing much of the company’s policy work. She joined Walmart in 2008 as Senior Director of International Corporate Affairs, leading the development and implementation of government relations and communications strategies to facilitate growth, development, sourcing and other business objectives in the Asia-Pacific re-gion, which included the company’s operations in China, India, and Japan. Prior to Walmart, Jana served as Director of Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P in New York City, New York. In this role, Jana developed the rebranding strategy to help the firm and the accounting profession improve its ability to influence the global public policy environment. Previously, Jana served as Counsel for Quinn Gillespie & Associates in Washington, D.C., responsible for providing legal advice to the lobbying/public relations firm on a wide range of issues including the firm’s representation of Enron. Jana also served in a variety of roles for the U.S. Government during the Clinton Administration, including White House Liaison and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets for the U.S. Department of Treasury, Special Counsel to the President, and Counsel to the Large Loan Resolution Task Force for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Jana has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Molecular Biolo-gy from Arkansas Tech University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law. Jana is a member of the Arkansas and District of Colombia Bar Associations. Jana and her husband live in Fayetteville, Arkansas with their three children.

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Aaron Cesar•DelfinaFoundation

Over the last four years, he has positioned Delfina Foundation as a meeting point and incubator of creative talent, forming partnerships with leading institutions internationally. Independently and through Delfina Foundation, he sits on numerous boards, committees and advisory groups such as All Change Arts, Shubbak, the Young Arab Theatre Fund, the Marrakech Biennale and the Jarman Award 2012. Prior to Delfina Foundation, Aaron worked as Project Director of Metal, the artistic laboratory space established by Jude Kelly OBE, ultimately becoming Managing Director of Metal’s arts-based consultancy overseeing creative projects with a focus on urban regenera-tion. He has also worked with London 2012, as part of its culture team that secured London’s Olympic bid; at The Place, London; and in New York, as a management consultant. Also working as a creative producer, Aaron has first degrees in Economics and Dance from Princeton Universi-ty and a postgraduate degree in the Creative Industries from King’s College London.

Hela Cheikrouhou•Director,Energy,EnvironmentandClimateChange,African Development Bank

Ms. Hela Cheikhrouhou is the Director of the Energy, Environment and Climate Change De-partment of the African Development Bank. She oversees the Bank’s lending and policy dialogue related to energy and climate change in Africa. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Cheikhrouhou was Division Manager of Infrastructure Finance in AfDB’s Private Sector Department. She led the Bank’s significant growth in project finance in the areas of energy, transport and ICT. She also spent four years at the World Bank working on private and financial sector development in Latin America, and seven years in Citigroup focusing on North Africa trading and risk management. Ms Cheikhrouhou holds an MSc in Finance from HEC Montreal.

Wesley Clark•USArmyGeneral

General Wesley K. Clark is one of the nation’s most distinguished retired military officers. During his thirty-three years of service in the United States Army, he held numerous staff and command positions, served in Vietnam, and rose to the rank of 4-star general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander. Now in the private sector, General Clark is chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a strategic advisory and consulting firm, serves on the boards of several private corporations and non-profit organizations and comments regularly on politics, diplomacy and public affairs. From 1997 through May of 2000, General Clark was NATO Supreme Allied Com-mander and Commander in Chief of the United States European Command. In this position, Ge-neral Clark commanded Operation Allied Force, NATO’s first major combat action, which saved 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. From 1996 to 1997 General Clark served as Commander in Chief of the United States Southern Command, Panama, where he was respon-sible for the direction of U.S. military activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. From 1994 to 1996, he served as Director for Strategic Plans and Policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff with responsibilities for worldwide U.S. military strategic planning. General Clark is a 1966 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he graduated first in his class. He holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. General Clark is a recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign military awards, including the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He has received honorary Knighthoods from the British and Dutch governments and was made a commander of the French Legion of Honor. In August 2000, General Clark was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. General Clark is also an investment banker. He joined Stephens Inc. as a consultant in July of 2000 and was named Managing Director – Merchant Banking of Stephens Group, Inc. from March 2001 through February 2003. An acclaimed public speaker and commentator for CNN, General Clark is the author of the best-selling Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat (Public Affairs, New York, NY, 2001). He and his wife Gert live in Little Rock, Arkansas where he grew up and graduated from high school. They have one son, Wesley, who is married and lives in Los Angeles.

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Gertrude Clark

Gertrude K. “Gert” Clark, wife of General Wesley K. Clark (ret.), has dedicated her life to vo-lunteerism and service to others focusing primarily on the issues facing military families and pre-school through school-aged children. From 1996 to 2000, she was an official representative for the United States and the Unites States Armed Forces during military and diplomatic travels with her husband, who was then Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. During her 34-years as a military wife, she was the leader of the Army Officers’ Spouses’ Club at various commands. Groups she led ranged from 25 to several thousand spouses and family members. In addition, Mrs. Clark has been Honorary President, President, or Board Member of the following organiza-tions: Red Cross; Army Community Service; Officer Wives Club; and Thrift Shop at Army Posts from 1968 to 2000. She has served as a board member of the Little Rock Boys and Girls Clubs and The Museum of Discovery. She also serves on the National Military Families Association Advisory Board, of Washington, DC. The Clarks have been married for 45 years. Their son, Wes-ley, and his children, Wesley and Dashiell, live in Los Angeles. Gertrude K. Clark has received the following honors and awards: Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, 1996; Joint Chiefs of Staff Distinguished Public Service Award, 2000; and the Department of the Army Decoration for Distinguished Service, 2000. She also received the Lifetime of Service Award for City Year Little Rock.

Sean Cleary•ExecutiveViceChair,FutureWorldFoundation

Seán Cleary is Chairman of Strategic Concepts (Pty) Ltd., Managing Director of the Centre for Advanced Governance, Founder and Executive Vice Chair of the Future World Foundation and Chairman of Atlantic Holdings (Pty) Ltd. He studied social sciences and law at the University of South Africa, the University of Cape Town and Pahlavi University in Iran, and holds an MBA from Henley Management College at Brunel University in the United Kingdom. He served in the South African Navy on the staff of the Commander Maritime Defence before beginning a diplomatic career in the Middle East, the United States and Namibia. As Chief Director in Namibia in the mid-1980s, he initiated negotiations between all political parties, the release of political priso-ners and the adoption of a Bill of Rights, paving the way for independence. He lectures on global corporate strategy at the Graduate School of Business at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Henley Management College, the Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University of Pretoria, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Stellenbosch University. He also lectures on conflict resolution, the challenges of globalization and development economics at several U.S and European universities and institutes. He is the co-author, with Thierry Malle-ret, of two books on risk: “Resilience to Risk” (Human and Rousseau, 2006), and “Global Risks” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Geoffrey Cowan•President,theAnnenbergFoundationTrustatSunnylands

Geoffrey Cowan has been known for 30 years as an important force in both the communi-cations and public policy arenas -- as a lawyer, academic administrator, government official, best-selling author, distinguished professor, playwright, and Emmy Award-winning producer. Cowan served as dean of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Com-munication & Journalism from 1996 to 2007. He then was named a University Professor and director of USC Annenberg’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, and also holds the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership. Prior to his appointment as dean, Cowan was director of Voice of America under President Clinton. During that time, he also served as associate director of the United States Information Agency and as director of the International Broadcasting Bureau, with responsibility for Worldnet TV and Radio & TV Marti. From 1979 to 1984, Cowan was a member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where he played a key role in the development of National Public Radio. Cowan, a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, is a board member of California HealthCare Foundation, Common Sense Media, Human Rights Watch, and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

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Aart de Geus•ChairmanandCEO,BertelsmannStiftung

Aart Jan De Geus, born 1955, studied law at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. After his gra-duation (master of laws), he completed a postgraduate course in labor law at the University of Nijmegen. From 1980, De Geus worked for the Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond (CNV), a trade union federation in the Netherlands. He became its vice chairman in 1993 with responsibility for social security, pensions, health and employment. In this capacity, he was appointed a member of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (“Sociaal-Economische Raad”). In 1998, he became a partner in the consulting firm Boer & Croon in Amsterdam. From 2002 to 2007, De Geus served as Minister of Social Affairs and Employment in the Balkenende administrations. From 2007, as deputy secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), De Geus was responsible for employment, labor and social affairs (inclu-ding health, pensions and migration), education as well as entrepreneurship and governance. He coordinated the horizontal project Making Reform Happen, and was also in charge of the OECD’s activities on gender and diversity issues. Since September 2011, De Geus has been a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board. Since August 5th, 2012 he serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. He is responsible for the program areas Europe, employment, and globalization as well as for the offices in Brussels and Washington, DC.

Amitabh Desai•DirectorofForeignPolicy,ClintonFoundation

As Foreign Policy Adviser, Ami helps shape and coordinate President Clinton’s international programs (including the Clinton Climate Initiative, Clinton Development Initiative, and Clinton Global Initiative) and his relationships with foreign leaders and governments. Ami also serves on the Management Committee of the Haiti Development Fund, established by President Clinton, Carlos Slim, and Frank Giustra in 2010. Before joining the Clinton Foundation in 2007, Ami served as Legislative Aide to then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, with responsibility for foreign affairs including Africa, humanitarian crises, and international trade. Ami previously worked at JP Morgan on mergers & acquisitions (where he advised on the largest e-commerce merger of the year in 2000), and at the Greater New York Hospital Foundation. Ami also has spent time with the United Nations, International Crisis Group, and Senator Ted Kennedy’s office. Ami received a master’s degree in Foreign Policy from Columbia University, and graduated early with a bachelor’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. The son of immigrants from India, Ami lives in New York City with his wife and baby daughter.

Jane Dickey•RoseLawFirm

Jane Dickey is a senior member of Rose Law Firm, where she specializes in municipal and public finance law. She is a past president of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and Fifty for the Future and was instrumental in the creation of the consolidated public drinking water utility in the Little Rock area.

Madeline Di Nonno•ExecutiveDirector,GeenaDavisInstituteonGender in Media

M Madeline Di Nonno is the Executive Director of See Jane and The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. She brings over 25 years experience in media, marketing and business develop-ment in the entertainment, digital media and consumer packaged goods industries. Madeline has held Executive Management positions including Executive Vice President and GM for Nielsen EDI, Senior Vice President Worldwide Marketing at Anchor Bay Entertainment, served as a founding executive of the Hallmark Channel as Senior Vice President, Marketing Alliances and New Media. She also spent eight years at Universal Studios Home Video as Vice President, Strategic Marke-ting where she pioneered Universal’s DVD launch and digital media initiatives. Madeline began her career at ABC Television Network in corporate publicity. Madeline holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Boston University.

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Peter Eigen•Founder,formerChairandChairmanoftheAdvisoryCouncil, Transparency International

Prof. Dr. Peter Eigen has worked in economic development and governance for several decades and has led initiatives for better global governance and the fight against corruption. A lawyer by training, Eigen has worked as a World Bank manager of programs in Africa and Latin America; from 1988 to 1991 he was the Director of the Regional Mission for Eastern Africa of the World Bank. In 1993 Eigen founded Transparency International (TI), a non-governmental organization promoting transparency and accountability in international development. From 1993 to 2005 he was Chair of TI and is now Chair of the Advisory Council. In 2005, Eigen chaired the International Advisory Group of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), was the Chairman of the EITI from 2006 to February 2011 and is now EITI Special Representative. Eigen has taught law and political science at the universities of Frankfurt Main, the John F. Kennedy School of Gover-nment/ Harvard, SAIS/ Johns Hopkins, University of Washington and Bruges College of Europe. Since 2002, he is teaching as an Honorary Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Since 2007 Eigen is a member of Kofi Annan’s Africa Progress Panel (APP). In 2009 he joined the Management Board of the African Legal Support Facility of the African Development Bank Eigen is member of the board of the NGOs Kabissa, building the capacity of African non-profits, and of the German Doctors (Ärzte für die Dritte Welt) and since 2011 a member of the Advisory Council of the Arnold-Bergstrasser-Institute in Freiburg.

Dora Flesher•PositiveAtmosphereReachesKidsInc.,CFO

I graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BS/ accounting degree. I am a CPA (Cer-tified Public Accountant). I currently serve of the following boards: PARK ( Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids) Foundation Inc, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Single Parent Scholarship Fund and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Foundation. In addition I serve as a deacon at Second Presbyterian Church. My passion has been and will always be to help alleviate poverty through programs that educate those less fortunate. I also volunteer with inter-faith programs that encourage social engagement with those of other faiths.

Blair Glencorse•Advisor,ClubdeMadrid´sTransitionalLeadershipProject

Blair Glencorse won the Johns Hopkins Outstanding Recent Graduate Award and was named as a Transparency International “Game Changer” for his work on accountability and development in 2012. He is Founder and Executive Director of the Accountability Lab, an independent, non-profit organization that works to make power-holders responsible in the developing world. Previously, Blair worked on issues of state and market-building across Africa, Asia the Middle-East and Latin America at the Institute for State Effectiveness and the Aspen Institute, and on post-conflict and fragile states at the World Bank. Blair received a MA with honors in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he has also co-taught a course on post-conflict reconstruction; and an MA in Modern History from the University of Edinburgh where he won the Kirkpatrick Prize for the highest grades in the graduating class. Blair is a frequent commentator on development issues for media outlets including CNN, The Independent, and WABC Radio, among others. Blair is a Fellow at the British-American Project and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA); an Ambassador of the British Council’s TN2020 Leadership Network; and a BMW Foundation Young Leader. In 2011 during the Arab Awakenings, Blair was honored as a UN Alliance of Civilizations Fellow for the Middle East and North Africa; and in 2012 he was named one of the top “99 under 33” Foreign Policy Leaders by Diplomatic Courier magazine.

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Mark Grobmyer•Chairman,GlobalTechnologyDeploymentInitiativeand Senior Advisor SEAF

Mark W. Grobmyer, graduated with honors in 1972 from Washington and Lee University and attended law school at the University of Arkansas School of Law where he obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1975. He also studied international law and business at the University of Exeter in England. He served for many years as Senior Partner of a commercial law firm where his legal practice focused on International Law as well as Financial Services Law. Mr. Grobmyer has been very active in international issues, advising various international trade associations. He has chaired several internationally recognized conferences which have included the participation of ambassadors and other diplomats from more than 35 nations from throughout the world, as well as political leaders, former United States Secretaries of State and business leaders. Mr. Gro-bmyer has served as a lecturer and speaker on matters of public policy, legal affairs, technology and international business for many programs and seminars presented in the United States and several other countries. Currently Mr. Grobmyer serves as Chairman of the Global Technology Deployment Initiative which works with governments, multilateral development agencies, tech-nology investors, technology companies and several other parties to acclerate the deployment of clean technologies globally.

Gretchen Hall•PresidentandCEO,LittleRockConvention&VisitorsBureau

Gretchen Hall came to the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau in 2001. Starting out in the Operations department, she provided leadership within the Little Rock hospitality industry with her work in celebrating the Grand Opening of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park as well as the 50th Anniversary of the Integration of Little Rock Central High School. She later become the first Director of Merchandising and Communications and managed the public relations, communications and marketing initiatives for the bureau. She was named the bureau’s President and CEO in May 2011. She is the President of the Heart of Arkansas Tourism Associa-tion, an executive committee member of the Downtown Little Rock Partnership, and serves on the board of directors for the Southeast Tourism Society, Arkansas Travel Council, and Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. She is a Chairman Board member of the US Travel Association, member of Destination Marketing Association International, Skål International, and serves on the Lyon College President’s Council. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lyon College and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas Little Rock. She is a Certified Meeting Professional and Certified Destination Management Executive.

Kristin Haffert•Principle,HaffertGlobalLLC

Kristin Haffert is a Principal at Haffert Global LLC. Haffert Global LLC advises governments, corporations, foundations and non-profits on developing and executing initiatives to promote gender equality and sustainability in the US and abroad. With experience in more than 70 countries, Kristin Haffert has designed, delivered and mobilized resources for women’s leader-ship initiatives in every region of the world. Haffert Global LLC has advised partners on gender equality initiatives in education, political and civic participation, economic empowerment, gender-based violence and security. Prior to launching Haffert Global LLC, Ms. Haffert initiated and directed the first department for women’s programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). From 2002-2009 she served as senior management and provided strategic advice to political leaders on promoting women in legislatures, civic groups, political parties and electoral processes throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She launched major international efforts on gender equality such as the Win with Women Global Initiative chaired by former US Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and iKNOW Politics, a global, multilingual technology platform for female leaders and aspirants. Ms. Haffert began her career assisting corporations and public sector organizations with grassroots organizing strategies to promote social justice. Ms. Haffert holds a Masters Degree in Leadership from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and a Bachelors Degree from Douglass College at Rutgers University.

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Nicky Hamilton•Consultant

Nicky Hamilton is a native of Johannesburg, South Africa. Hamilton is passionate about educa-tion and the effects it has on economic, gender, and racial disparities that currently exist around the world. She has worked in higher education administration and has consulted on projects with various regional and international education-based organizations. Through work with the Desmond Tutu Peace Center, Rwanda Presidential Scholars Program, Girl Scouts Diamonds Council, and LifeLong Learners, an early childhood education advocacy organization which she helped establish, Hamilton has focused her recent endeavors on access to and transformation of educational experiences at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels; strategic planning and ca-pacity building; diversity initiatives; and development and implementation of peace and conflict resolution curriculum. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Sewanee: The University of the South in Tennessee and a Masters degree from the Clinton School of Public Service in Arkansas. Hamilton currently resides in Little Rock and consults on special projects for Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Patrick Hays•Mayor,NorthLittleRock

Mayor Hays, a native of North Little Rock, graduated from North Little Rock High School in 1965. He has been married to Linda Hays for over 26 years. Linda, a retired elementary school teacher, taught school for over 36 years. They attend Park Hill Baptist Church in North Little Rock, and are members of the Fraser Sunday School Class. Their daughter Josie and son-in-law Dr. Brent Staggs have three grandchildren. Mayor Hays was educated in Political Science and Law at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He practiced law in North Little Rock from 1973 until 1988, when he was elected to his first four-year term as Mayor. Prior to becoming Mayor, Hays served as an Assis-tant City Attorney for North Little Rock for several years. He was elected State Representative for District 66 and served in the 76th (1987-1988) Arkansas General Assembly. Hays was also elected as the City of North Little Rock’s delegate to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1979-1980. He attained the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. In addition, he serves as a Vice Chairman of the Energy Committee. In addition to being licensed in Arkansas, Mayor Hays is authorized to practice in Federal Courts in both Arkansas and Texas, and also the United States Eight Circuit Court of Appeals. Mayor Hays represents Arkansas cities serving on the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Advocacy Committee of the National League of Cities. Mayor Hays is a recognized leader in community economic development, neighborhood revitalization, community-oriented policing, historic preservation and recreation development.

Cheryl Hendricks•SeniorResearchFellow,InstituteforSecurityStudies,South Africa

Cheryl Hendricks joined the ISS in 2005. Her current position is that of Senior Research Fellow in the Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Programme working on Gender, Peace and Security. She holds a Phd from the University of South Carolina in Government and International Relations and an MA in Southern African Studies.

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Annette Heuser•ExecutiveDirector,BertelsmannFoundation

Annette Heuser is executive director of the Bertelsmann Foundation Washington DC, a private, nonpartisan operating foundation, working to promote and strengthen transatlantic coopera-tion. Before launching the Bertelsman Foundation in Washington DC, Ms. Heuser served in the corporate sector as Vice President of International Relations at Bertelsmann AG in Guetersloh, Germany, and as the founding Director of the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Brussels office from 2000 to 2006. Annette Heuser studied political science, law and sociology. Before joining the Bertelsmann Foundation, she was editor of the “Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration”, an annual publication that covers the year’s institutional and political developments within the process of European integration. She has published a number of articles in international newspa-pers, on transatlantic relations and European affairs.

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Sarah Hobson•ExecutiveDirector,NewFieldFoundation

Sarah Hobson joined New Field Foundation in 2003 as its first Executive Director. She brings to the organization her long experience of working with community-based initiatives in West Africa, South Asia, and Iran. Prior to joining New Field, Sarah was executive director of Interna-tional Development Exchange (IDEX), partnering with community organizations in Asia, Africa and Latin America on grassroots economic development. She was a consultant over many years to the UN agency, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and is founder and trustee of Open Channels, a British NGO working with indigenous peoples in Africa to define their lands, resources and rights. Sarah is the author, contributor and editor of eight books and has presented and produced many documentaries for television. She speaks English and French.

Scott Howe•CEO,Acxiom

As CEO and President of Acxiom, Scott drives a strong, results-oriented culture for Acxiom’s approximately 6,200 associates as the company deepens and expands its offerings of global marketing and technology products. Scott is a marketing and advertising veteran with extensive experience in digital media and technology. As the lines between traditional and digital mar-keting disappear, Scott insists on a singular focus on helping Acxiom’s clients understand the complexities of this new marketing era. A native of Milwaukee, Scott is a former Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Advertising Business Group. In this role, he managed a multibillion dollar business encompassing all emerging businesses related to online advertising, including search, display, ad networks, in-game, mobile, digital cable and a variety of enterprise software appli-cations. Previously, Scott was a corporate officer at aQuantive, where he managed three lines of business, including Avenue A|Razorfish (one of the world’s largest digital agencies), DRIVE Performance Media (now Microsoft Media Network) and Atlas International (one of the top two applications for enterprise software for advertising). Earlier in his career, he was with the Boston Consulting Group and also Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc. Scott is a magna cum laude gradua-te of Princeton University, with a degree in economics, and he earned an MBA from Harvard Uni-versity. He serves on the board of the Center for Medical Weight Loss and is a former director of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Turn, Inc., a digital advertising company.

Shirin Jamshidi•ArmyEnergyInitiativesTaskForce

Shirin Jamshidi is a 2008 graduate of University of California, San Diego (UCSD) with a B.A. in Communication and a minor in Business Management through Rady School of Management. Sin-ce graduating, Shirin has developed a distinct background focusing on communication strategies in diverse milieus. She has interned for Congressman Mike Honda (district 15-CA), worked for the Walt Disney Company as the lead associate to implement the green change management project in Disney Consumer Products, and consulted the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) on the expansion of USGBC Student Groups and social media exposure. In addition to her professio-nal and community building endeavors, Shirin has written and produced a short movie entitled “A Conversation to Remember”, which was screened at the 2011 Women’s International Film and Arts Festival in Hollywood, Florida and the 2011 Iranian America Noor Film Festival in Los Ange-les, California. Most notably, in April 2011, Shirin was recognized by UCSD for her instrumental role to initiate, advocate, and advance the winning opportunity for UCSD to host President William J. Clinton and his annual Clinton Global Initiative - University (CGIU) Conference.

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LaShawn Jefferson•ProgramOfficeronWomen´sHumanRights,FordFoundation

LaShawn R. Jefferson works on gender rights and equality, focusing on policies and practices that promote respect for women’s human rights, with a particular focus on the economic rights and economic participation of low-income women and women of color. Her grant making supports key national, regional, and global women’s human rights organizations and networks to be effective advocates in advancing women’s rights as a part of an integral component of achieving social justice. LaShawn joined the Ford Foundation in 2009 after holding many positions, most recently as the executive director within the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C., and New York City. The primary goal of her work was to develop and advance macro-level policies to improve the lives of millions of women around the world, combining changes in law with procedural and other on-the-ground measures to strengthen respect for women’s human rights. LaShawn provided strategic and intellectual guidance to the work on women’s international human rights, crafted and executed long-term advocacy strategies, repre-sented Human Rights Watch at the highest levels of national and international government, and was the organization’s primary spokesperson for women’s human rights. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Ad-vanced International Studies (SAIS). She is the author of numerous reports on a variety of issues confronting women around the world, and her op-eds have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The International Herald Tribune.

Cindy Jones-Nyland•ExecutiveVicePresidentofMarketingandResour-ce Development, Heifer International

As Executive Vice President of Marketing and Resource Development at Heifer International, Cin-dy Jones-Nyland directs the organizations’ global branding and revenue growth, including digital marketing, communications, education, and fundraising initiatives. Most recently, she served as Chief Marketing Officer for Lifeblue Media, a web design and search marketing agency based in Dallas. Before that Cindy worked for several years as Senior Director of Marketing & Interactive Media for Susan G. Komen For the Cure®, one of the world’s leading breast cancer organizations. There, she increased Komen’s overall brand awareness and led the efforts for their digital enga-gement strategy. She also has over 10 years’ experience in technology based organizations such as Oracle, MetaSolv Software and SBC. Cindy has a degree in marketing from Washburn Univer-sity and was awarded her Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is married to Tim Nyland and has one daughter. They live in Little Rock, Ark.

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Leila Janah•FounderandCEO,Samasource

Leila Janah is the founder of Samasource, an award-winning social business that connects people living in poverty to microwork— small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship and technology, and her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, NPR, the BBC, The New York Times, and The New Scientist. She serves on the board of the non-profit TechSoupGlobal and as an advisor to mobile shopping appSpreetales. She received the World Technology Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2010, and in 2009 was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Women in Technology.Prior to Samasource, Janah was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let’s Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo.Janah was a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University’s Center for Applied Philosophyand Public Ethics. She received a BA from Harvard and lives in San Francisco.

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Grant Jones•DarwinCollege,CambridgeUniversity

Mr. Jones is currently pursuing a MBA at the University of Cambridge, England. Prior to the MBA, Mr. Jones was a Vice President at Stephens Inc., a privately held investment bank, where he focused on mergers, acquisitions and capital raising transactions for both public and private companies. Prior to Stephens, Mr. Jones at Entrust Inc., a software security firm, where he assisted with the strategy and execution of mergers and acquisitions, alliances, and other strategic initiatives. Mr. Jones is an honors graduate of Southern Methodist University with a BBA in Finance from the Cox School of Business.

Judy Jones•WifeofJerryJones

Graduate of the University of Arkansas, former teacher, former President Arkansas Tennis Asso-ciation, Chairperson Arkansas Tennis Patrons Foundation, active in civic organizations.

Martha Deacon Jones•Attorney

Martha is an attorney whose work focuses on business and intellectual property litigation. She previously worked in the Dallas office of Fish & Richardson, P.C., and now resides in Cambridge, England.

Sarah Kambou•President,InternationalCenterforResearchonWomen

Sarah Degnan Kambou is president of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), a global research institute that focuses on realizing women’s empowerment and gender equality to alleviate poverty worldwide. Kambou has served as a technical advisor to multilaterals, corporations and gover-nments seeking to integrate gender into policies, programs and services that will advance the status of women and girls around the world. In 2010, Kambou was appointed by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to represent ICRW on the U.S. Commission to UNESCO. She was recognized that same year with Boston University’s School of Public Health’s Distinguished Alumni Award for her contribu-tions to the field of public health. And in 2011, Kambou was honored by Ashoka Changemakers as a “ChangemakeHER,” which celebrated the world’s most influential and inspiring women. Kambou’s ex-pertise centers on sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, and adolescent health and livelihoods. While there, 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 Kambou’s work in Africa, she managed the Center for International Health, which she co-founded in 1987 at the Boston University School of Public Health. Kambou lives in Maryland with her husband, a senior economist at the World Bank. They have two children.

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Murat Karimsakov•ChairmanoftheExecutiveBodyofthe“EurasianEconomic Club of Scientists” Association

Mr. Murat Karimsakov holds a degree with honors in Economics from Belarus State University gradua-ting in 1991. Since December of 2010 he has served as the Chairman of the Executive Body of the “Eura-sian Economic Club of Scientists” Association. Mr. Murat Karimsakov is actively involved and speaks on various international forums, UN meetings, UN ESCAP conferences, at Universities and etc, he also have published more than 30 scientific papers and articles. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, such as the “Order of the Golden eagle” of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Mr. Karimsakov was born in September 11, 1966 in Almaty city, Republic of Kazakhstan, married with three children.

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Ruth Nvumetta Kavuma•FormerMemberofUgandanParliament

Ruth Kavuma Nvumetta is a Ugandan, married with four children. She is a former Member of Parliament representing the people of Kalangala District, Ssesse Islands on Lake Victoria one of the largest lakes in the world. (84) Islands(2001-2011). At 34 years, Ruth was the first Ugandan headmistress of one of Uganda’s premier secondary schools for girls, GAYAZA HIGH SCHOOL from the ‘80’s into the 90’s. At, or about that time, she noticed that the millennium develop-ment goals were being established and one of them was “Universal Primary Education” (UPE). She was part of a team that initiated the Female Scholarship Initiative(FSI) at Makerere Univer-sity funded by Carnergie Foundation in 2000. As a scientist she has encouraged girls to take up science related careers. Her endless energy has led her to band with a couple of other ladies in parliament to establish a small non-profit (RESS) Reactivate Elevate Support Sustain Community Initiatives with a focus on education (especially young girls), community development, women leadership empowerment and women’s health, i.e. RH rights and FP. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the African Women Leadership Network(AWLN) for RH and FP, a Member of NAWMP (Uganda) focusing on RH ,Maternal Health and FP, and a member of the Board of Boitechonolgy and Boisafety Committee.

Surina Khan•DirectorofGenderRightsandEquality,FordFoundation

Surina Khan is the director of Gender Rights and Equality, overseeing the Ford Foundation’s work in three global human rights initiatives: Protecting Women’s Rights; Reducing HIV/AIDS Discri-mination and Exclusion; and Advancing LGBT Rights, a new foundation initiative that will launch later this year. Her team focuses on securing equal access to social, political and economic opportunities for all people—including those most marginalized in society, whether based on gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, citizenship or socioeconomic status. In addition, grant making is directed toward strengthening civil and human rights organizations, and supporting research, legal and policy advocacy efforts to protect rights and achieve equality. Surina joined the foundation in 2011, as its first LGBT Rights program officer, to develop and design the LGBT initiative. Over the past two decades, Surina has worked in a variety of capacities to advance the rights of women, LGBT people, and people living with HIV and AIDS. Prior to joining the foun-dation, Surina served as vice president of programs for the Women’s Foundation of California, providing strategic direction for grant making; strengthening the organizational effectiveness of social justice organizations; and overseeing the Women’s Policy Institute, a policy advocacy training program for community-based leaders. She previously served as executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, where she worked to advance the human rights of LGBT people and help people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide utilize human rights legal instruments. Surina has also worked as a research analyst for Political Research Associates, conducting groundbreaking research on the ex-gay movement and the anti-LGBT religious right. Surina was a 2010 Regents’ Lecturer in the Community Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writing and research have been published widely in print and online publications.

Elia King de Jordan•ExecutiveDirector,RaisVida(Perú)

Elia King, Master of Engineering and civil engineer from the University of Texas at Austin, Master of Business Administration, ESAN (Peru), and PAD from Universidad de Piura (Peru). At present, King is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RAIS VIDA and Inlingua Peru. She has developed her pro-fession in comprehensive and strategic management of new organizations as well as in transfor-ming established organizations. Now, as an entrepreneur, is leading the expansion of Rais Vida over international markets. Rais Vida is a company that researches, develops and commercializes natural beauty and personal care products made with plants that grow in the Peruvian Andes and Amazon region. She also manages the language center, Inlingua (Swiss franchise of Inlingua international). She worked at the pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly for 24 years, serving as Regional Executive Director for eleven countries from the Andean and Central American Region (2001-2003), Director of the Andean Branch (1998-2001), and General Manager for Peru and Bo-livia (1994-1998). She also has experience in the public sector when she worked at the Ministry of Transportation and Communications at the beginning of her professional life.

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Jakub Klepal•PExecutiveDirector,Forum2000

Executive Director of the Forum 2000 Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board for the As-sociation for International Affairs and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights (DEMAS), where he served as Chairman in 2009–2010. He is also a representative for DEMAS in the European Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN). Jakub Klepal has been working with the Forum 2000 Foundation since 2004. Previously, he worked as an analyst with the Research Centre of the Association for International Affairs. He has also worked as a journalist. He was a research scholar at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México and a Fulbright Scholar at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in the USA. Jakub Klepal is a graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University as well as a graduate of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

Kate Lappin•RegionalCoordinator.AsiaPacificForumonWomen,Lawand Development (APWLD)

Kate Lappin is the Regional Director of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. APWLD is a network of 180 women’s rights organiza-tions and activists covering 25 countries of the Asia Pacific region. APWLD works to build the ca-pacity, knowledge and impact of women’s movements in Asia Pacific. Kate has worked to promo-te women’s rights and justice for almost 20 years. She previously lead Amnesty International’s successful campaign in Australia for a National Plan of Action on Violence against Women and has worked in academe, state human rights institution and the trade union movement. She sits on the Executive Committee of the International Women Human Rights Defenders Coalition, the coordinating committee of the Southeast Asian Women’s Caucus on ASEAN, represents Asia Pacific women’s groups in the Global Council for the Civil Society Partnership on Development Effectiveness and the United for Foreign Domestic Workers Rights Network.

Maria Leissner•SecretaryGeneral,CommunityofDemocracies

Maria Leissner was elected Secretary General in April, 2012, being the first Secretary General of the Community of Democracies. Prior to that, she was Sweden’s Ambassador at large for Democracy, and led the CD Working Group on Governance that proposed the recent reforms of the CD. Maria Leissner has been Member of Parliament in Sweden from 1985 – 1991, after having led the Swedish Liberal Youth organisation both as Secretary General and as President. As an MP, she served on the Foreign Affairs Committee and was party spokesperson for refuge- and immigration issues. In 1995, she was elected leader of the Liberal Party in 1995, being the first woman leader of her party. Maria Leissner joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000 and was Ambassador to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize and Costa Rica in 2000 - 04. Maria Leissner has also served internationally as Director for NDI’s Governance program in Iraq 2004 – 2005 and as Senior Adviser for Human Rights at AMM (EU/ASEAN peace monitoring mission) in Aceh, Indonesia in 2005 – 2006. She has participated in a large number of election monito-ring and other short term democracy related missions with SIDA, The Scandinavian Institute for African Studies, NDI etc. She chaired the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (development NGO in Afghanistan) in 1991 – 94, and the Swedish women’s organisation ”Kvinnor Kan” in 1991 – 94, and is currently chair of the advisory board of the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Södertörn.

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Mariam Mansury•InstituteforInclusiveSecurity,CommunityofExpertsManager

Mariam Mansury is the Community of Experts Manager, Resolution to Act, at The Institute for Inclusive Security. She is responsible for leading the recruitment and selection of individuals who will serve as Experts for the Institute’s newest program, Resolution to Act, a groundbreaking initiative that will help us realize the promise of UNSCR 1325 by providing unparalleled support and expertise to countries creating or implementing national action plans on women, peace, and security. Ms. Mansury manages a process for recruiting, selecting, deploying and liaising regularly with each of the Experts. Ms. Mansury joined the Institute in 2005. In previous capacities, she led Inclusive Security’s Afghanistan program, regularly training US military and political officers on how to effectively engage with Afghan civil society. She also served as the Institute’s primary advocate to the US Congress. Ms. Mansury holds a BA in Political Science from Boston College. In 2012, she received a Masters in Public Policy from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Har-vard University. In addition to English, Ms. Mansury speaks Farsi and Arabic.

Susan Markham•Director,Women’sPoliticalParticipation,NationalDemocratic Institute (NDI)

Susan Markham joined NDI in 2010 as director of women’s political participation supporting the aspirations of women around the world to be equal and active partners in shaping and leading democratic societies. NDI’s creative and wide-ranging programs engage women in legislatures, political parties and civil society as leaders, activists and informed citizens. These programs create an environment where women can advocate on matters of policy, run for political office, govern effectively, and participate meaningfully in every facet of civic and political life. Ms. Markham started her political career in 1994 with Participation 2000, working on a statewide campaign as a fundraiser. Since that time she has served as the finance director for the Ohio Democratic Party, executive director of Participation 2000 (a multi-candidate political action committee) and campaign manager for four statewide campaigns. She also acted as director of Senate services at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Ms. Markham joined EMILY’s List in 2005 to manage its Campaign Corps program and later the Political Opportunity Program (POP) and the training department. In 2007, she was named deputy political director where she supervised the $2.5 million POP program recruiting, training and supporting women candidates running for statewide, legislative and local office in 35 states. She has a B.A. in political science and international studies from Ohio State University. She received her master’s degree in public policy and women’s studies from George Washington University.

John Mayner•VicePresident,MarketingandCommunications,LittleRock Convention & Visitors Bureau

John Mayner is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Little Rock Conven-tion and Visitors Bureau. With more than twenty years experience on the agency and client-si-de, Mayner is a strategic marketing and communications veteran, and has won numerous awards for his work in the advertising, marketing and public relations arenas. In his current role, Mayner oversees the Marketing and Communications division of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, where his primary role is to promote the city as a convention and tourist destination to the world.

Katie McClain•ClintonFoundation,DirectorofBuildingRetrofitProgram

Katie McClain is Director of the Clinton Climate Initiative Building Retrofit Program (CCI BRP) at the William J. Clinton Foundation (WJCF). Katie oversees and leads CCI BRP, focusing on increa-sing investment in the energy efficiency and clean energy space as well as scaling successful pilot programs. Prior to her current role at WJCF, Katie worked at WJCF as the C40-CCI Chicago City Director spearheading climate mitigation efforts across the public and private sectors. Before joining the WJCF Katie worked as a senior policy advisor for then Lt. Governor Pat Quinn. Katie is a graduate of DePauw University and the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy.

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Dustin McDaniel•ArkansasAttorneyGeneral

Dustin McDaniel became the 55th Attorney General of Arkansas in 2007. He was sworn in to his second term in January 2011 after being re-elected with strong support from across the state. As Attorney General and the state’s top consumer advocate, Dustin works tirelessly to protect the rights of Arkansas consumers. In March 2012, he launched the Got Your Back, Arkansas initiative and GotYourBackArkansas.org to equip Arkansans with the information they need to navigate the consumer marketplace and avoid scams and fraud. As Arkansas’s chief law enforce-ment officer, Dustin created the state’s Leads on Labs program and a Cyber Crimes Unit, which is dedicated to finding, capturing, and prosecuting those who wish to exploit and harm our children. In March 2012, Dustin was the first Arkansas Attorney General to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court in nearly 16 years in the Blueford v. Arkansas case. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and received his law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law. He was a uniformed patrol officer with the Jonesboro Police Department prior to entering law school. Upon graduation, he practiced law at his family’s law practice, McDaniel and Wells in Jonesboro, before being elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2004. Dustin is co-chairman of the National Association of Attor-neys General’s Tobacco Committee. Dustin is married to Bobbi McDaniel and has one daughter, Emma Grace, and two stepchildren, CJ and Alex Fowler. In his free time, he enjoys being with his family. He is an avid hunter, a private pilot and owns a farm in Craighead County.

Thomas “Mack” McLarty•CEO,McLartyCompanies

Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, III is president of McLarty Associates, which he co-founded in 1998 following a distinguished record of business leadership and public service, including various roles advising three U.S. Presidents: Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter. Mr. McLarty is also chairman of the McLarty Companies, a fourth-generation family transportation business. Additio-nally, he serves as senior adviser to the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and as senior adviser to the law firm Covington & Burling. He also organized the successful 1994 Summit of the Americas in Miami, which ultimately led to his appointment as special envoy for the Americas in 1997. As coun-selor to the President Clinton, Mr. McLarty advised on a broad range of international and domestic issues. He traveled to the Persian Gulf on the president’s behalf to build financial support for the Bosnian peace process, led the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, and signed the peace accords that brought peace to Guatemala for the first time in three decades. Prior to his government service, Mr. McLarty was chairman and chief executive officer of Arkla, a Fortune 500 natural gas company. Mr. McLarty was appointed by President Bush to the Na-tional Petroleum Council and the National Council on Environmental Quality, and he was a member of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board from 1989 through 1992. In addition, he serves as a senior international fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. McLarty is the recipient of the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal; the highest civilian honors of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela; and the Center for the Study of the Presidency Distinguished Service Award. Mr. McLarty is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Arkansas.

Donna McLarty•CO-FounderandViceChairEmeritus,VitalVoicesGlobal Partnership

Donna Cochran McLarty is co-founder and vice chair emeritus of Vital Voices Global Partnership. Currently she serves on the executive committee and as a liaison with the Clinton School of Public Ser-vice and the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. As a member of those boards of advisors, Ms. McLarty is facilitating work-study opportunities for students to intern with Vital Voices. She and her husband Thomas F. McLarty III have also endowed a study abroad foreign business and political science scholarship program. As a trustee of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Ms. McLarty created the multi-year, AmericArtes festival featuring the rich arts and culture of Latin America. She continues to serve as a member of the Kennedy Center’s International Committee on the Arts. She also serves on the Blair House board of trustees, the World Conference of Religions for Peace, and is a member of the board of governors for Wesley Theological Seminary, where she co-chairs the Global Initiatives Council. Ms. McLarty is also a member of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group.

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Andrew Morrison•ChiefoftheGenderandDiversityUnit,Inter-American Development Bank

Andrew Morrison is Chief of the Gender and Diversity Unit at the Inter American Development Bank (IDB). Prior to joining the IDB, he workedat the World Bank as a Lead Economist in the Gender and DevelopmentGroup and as the Regional Gender Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean. He also has worked as an associate professor of economics

Rovshan Muradov•ExecutiveDirectorNizamiGanjaviInternationalCenter and Founding Member Eurasia Dialogue Center, Azerbaijan

Mr. Rovshan Muradov obtained a PhD in International Economic Relations from Azerbaijan State Economic University. received a diploma from Cambridge College, USA. 2007-2011 represented Azerbaijan as a youth delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. as well as participated in many international events. Initiated establishment End Human Trafficking Campaign in Azer-baijan and hosted several international discussions. Actively involved with Alliance of Civiliza-tions and Intercultural Dialogue. Recently joined a newly establishing Nizami Ganjavi Internatio-nal Center in honor of the great sage, which is aimed to become a center for learning, tolerance, dialogue and understanding.

Shalini Nataraj•Director,AdvocacyandPartnerships,GlobalFundforWomen

Shalini Nataraj is Director of Advocacy and Partnerships at the Global Fund for Women, responsi-ble for leading the organization’s advocacy strategy and positioning on global issues and facilita-ting strategic partnerships. Prior to this, she was Vice President of Programs at the Global Fund, where she led a grants program that disbursed nearly $9 million annually to support women’s rights initiatives worldwide. Prior to joining GFW, Shalini was Associate Director of the Reebok Human Rights Award Program. Shalini has co-founded several advocacy organizations focused on human rights issues such as ending the practice of trafficking. She serves on the boards of the Engaged Funders for Global Equity Funders Alliance and the Women’s Funding Network and serves on the advisory committees of several more social justice and human rights organizations. Shalini possesses over 25 years experience in the fields of environmental justice, international development and human rights.

Tabara Ndiaye•ProgrammeOfficer,NewFieldFoundation

Tabara Ndiaye is a programme consultant with New Field Foundation, working with rural women’s associations in French-speaking West Africa. She is a qualified teacher, and from 1999-2005 she acted as a founding member and communications officer for Usoforal, a group promoting women’s solidarity for peace in the Casamance region of Senegal where she grew up. She has also managed an education program for young students on family planning and reproductive health, and worked with students on civic action projects to identify and influence a public policy within their communities.

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Alyse Nelson•PresidentandChiefExecutiveOfficer,VitalVoices

Alyse Nelson is president and chief executive officer of Vital Voices Global Partnership. A cofounder of Vital Voices, Alyse has worked for the organization for fifteen years, serving as vice president and senior director of programs before assuming her current role in 2009. Alyse has worked with women leaders to develop training programs and international forums in over 140 countries and has interviewed more than two hundred international leaders, including Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former presidents Mary Robinson and Bill Clinton, as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Wangari Maathai, and Muhammad Yunus. Under her leadership, Vital Voices has tripled in size and expanded its global reach to serve a network of over twelve thousand women leaders in 144 countries. Previously, Alyse served as deputy director of the Vital Voices Global Democracy Initiative at the U.S. Department of State. She serves on Secretary Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society and is a Board member of Running Start. She completed her graduate degree work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. In 2006 Alyse was named one of ‘’Ten Women to Watch’’ by Washingtonian Magazine, was honored by her alma mater, Emerson College, with the distinguished speaker award, and in 2011 she was featured in Newsweek as one of ‘’150 Women Shaking the World.’’

Serik Nugerbekov•SenatoroftheRepublicofKazakhstan.Co-chairofthe Coordination Council of the “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” (Former Head of the socio-economic monitoring department of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan).

He was born on September 8, 1962 in Karkaralinsk of the Karaganda Region. He holds a degree in Economy from the Karaganda Cooperative Institute, graduating in 1984. He has a PH.D in Economy. From 1984 through 1984, he worked as an economist at the Karkaralinsk Public Catering Company and was a secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Karkaralinsk Veterinary College. From 1985 through 1986, he underwent military service in the ranks of the Soviet Army. From 1986 through 1991, he was a second secretary of the Karkaralinsk District Committee of the Lenin Communist Union of Youth of Kazakhstan and worked as Head of the Karaganda TransAgency and instructor of the District Trade Union Committee of the Karkaralinsk Agro-Industrial Trade Union Committee. From 1991 through 1998, he worked as a Manager at Altyn Emel, JSC, Director of Ugol-Export Firm at the Kazpromexport Republican Export Enterprise and Vice-President of the Kazybek State Export Corporation, Almaty. From 1998 through 2000, he worked as a Deputy Director of the Mir (World) Interstate Television and Radio Company at Astana Branch Office. From 2000 through 2002, he headed the Financial Directorate of the Karaganda Region. From 2002 through 2005, he headed the Department of Financial Regulation of the Ministry of Transport and Communication of the Repu-blic of Kazakhstan. From 2005 through, he chaired the Board of Directors of the Yesnur and Co, LLP. From 2007 through 2009, he headed the Institute for Economic Research, JSC at the Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In June 2009 by the presidential order he has been appointed Head of Social and Economic Monitoring Department of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Diego Osorio•Advisor,ClubdeMadrid´sTransitionalLeadershipProject

Diego Osorio of Canada serves as the Political Affairs Officer to the UN Mission in Liberia. Mr. Osorio has 15 years of public administration and international experience covering the UN, NATO, World Bank, Canadian diplomacy and private sector ventures. Diego has worked on institutional/social reconstruction, civil-military coordination and humanitarian issues in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jordan, Timor Leste, Colombia Pakistan, Indonesia (Banda Aceh) and now Liberia. He also served as Senior Peacekeeping Officer at DFAIT. Associate Fellow of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at Université de Quebec a Montreal.

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Michele Ozumba•PresidentandCEO,Women’sFundingNetwork

Michele joined the Women´s Funding Network in May 2011 after serving for 10 years as Presi-dent and CEO of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP). She joi-ned G-CAPP in 1999 as its first Policy Director. From 1995-1999, Michele served as the Director of the Office of Aolescent Health at the Georgia Division of Public Health. Michele’s background includes 12 years as a lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Nigeria from 1982-1994. She was a co-investigator in the first national study on child abuse in Nigeria, which led to the creation of regional reporting centers funded by the Ford Foundation. She has served on the board of directors of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation, the national Healthy Teen Network, and the National Advisory Council on Sexual Health, chaired by Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General.

Clive Palmer•DirectorandOwner,MineralogyPty.Ltd,Australia

Professor Palmer has over 25 years experience in the Australian resource industry and has had significant success with major projects. He is Chairman and Founder of Mineralogy Pty Ltd (Mineralogy) since 1985, a private Australian Company that has successfully concluded major transactions with a number of companies including the Chinese Government-owned CITIC Pacific Limited (HK Listed), Australasian Resources Limited (ASX Listed) and a Memorandum of Unders-tanding with Fortescue Metals Limited (ASX Listed). Professor Palmer has also been responsible for the exploration and feasibility studies of numerous iron ore projects in Western Australia since the 1980s. In 2001, he negotiated an agreement with the State of Western Australia on behalf of Mineralogy and its subsidiary companies. In 2002, this agreement was ratified by the Western Australian Parliament as a new act and set out the development conditions for iron ore development and new port in the Pilbara region of Western Australia near Cape Preston. Professor Palmer’s experience in the oil and gas industry includes the successful negotiation of a A$5.0 billion gas supply agreement with North West Shelf Gas Partners including BHP Billiton Petroleum (North West Shelf) Pty Ltd, Chevron Australia Pty Limited, Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) Pty Limited, Shell Development (Australia) Pty Limited, Woodside Energy Limited and BP Develo-pments Australia Pty Limited in 2000.

Roland Rich•ExecutiveHeadoftheUNDemocracyFund

Dr. Roland Rich, an Australian national, assumed his position as Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) in 2007. UNDEF’s primary purpose is supporting democrati-zation around the world by funding projects that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes. Dr. Rich is concurrently Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) which serves as a gateway for corporate and philanthropic partnership opportunities with the UN family. Dr. Rich brings to the job over 30 years of experience as a diplomat, a scholar and a democracy promotion practitioner. Prior to his appointment to UNDEF, Dr. Rich was at the Australian Defence College, teaching and mentoring colonel-level officers. In 2005, Mr. Rich was a research Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC. Between 1998 and 2005, he was the Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions at the Australian National University which is Australia’s democracy promotion institute for the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Rich joined the Australian foreign service in 1975 and had postings in Paris, Rangoon, Manila and, from 1994-1997, as Australian Ambassador to Laos. He has also served as Legal Advisor and Assistant Secretary for International Organisations. In 2004, he edited The UN Role in Promoting Democracy. In 2007 he published Pacific Asia in Quest of Democracy. His most recent book is Parties and Parliaments in Southeast Asia – Non-Partisan Chambers in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, published by Routledge in 2012.

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Marty Rhodes•Chairman,LittleRockChamberofCommerce

Mr. Marty Rhodes is the 2012 Chairman of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce and will be our representative. Mr. Rhodes is President and CEO of Stephens Insurance, LLC and President of Stephens Consulting, LLC. He began his insurance career in 1973 with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. Mr. Rhodes founded Rhodes & Associates, Inc. in 1986 and then sold it to Brown & Brown, a publicly traded broker, in 2002. He joined Stephens as President and CEO in January 2005. Mr. Rhodes earned a Bachelor of Arts from Hendrix College in 1972. He is the past President of the Rotary Club of Little Rock for 2006-2007 and was also the past Chairman of the Board for the Boys & Girls Club of Central Arkansas. He is currently serving on the UALR College of Business Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of Arvest Bank, Fifty for the Future, Board of Trustees of Hendrix College and was elected 2012 Chairman of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Florinda Rojas•Founder,FundaciónEducaciónParaLosDerechosHumanos (Foundation Education for Human Rights), Dominican Republic

Dr. Florinda Rojas Rodríguez of the Dominican Republic, Doctor of Law from the Universidad Autonoma of Santo Domigo (UASD) and studied Human Rights at the Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos in Costa Rica, Emergency Management at the University of Wisconsin and English at the University of Georgetown in the United States of America, International Rights of Refugees in San Remo, Italy, among others. She is the Executive President of the Foundation for the Education of Human Rights (FUPAREDEH), an institution dedicated to the advancement, diffusion and education of Human Rights in the Dominican Republic. In 1987, Ms. Rojas initiated her international career with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR); occu-pying the position of Regional Representative for Southern Countries of South America (2003-2008), Representative in Greece (1999-2002), Deputy Representative for México, Cuba, Panamá, Belize and Central America. She was Mission Chief in Honduras (1995-1999) and Protection Offi-cer in El Salvador and Costa Rica (1988-1993). She implemented a Training Program for Refugees in Zambia, Africa (1993-1995). In 2004, Dr. Rojas founded the “Sergio Vieira de Mello” University Scholarship, designed to strengthen higher education in subjects related to Human Rights, ha-ving agreements with 22 public universities in South America. In the 7th Dominican Conference of Gender Studies, of November 2012, she presented the thesis “Political Participation of Women in an International Context”.

Sophia Said•SeniorPolicyAdvisor,IngenuityOutcomes,LLC

Sophia Said is the founder of Ingenuity Outcomes, a private consulting firm working in U.S. and Asia to reduce economic inequalities and provide gender mainstreaming in development work. She has worked with various community, state, and international organizations in the United States and Pakistan to empower women through designing community development initiatives and social justice programs. Said is also deeply committed to building bridges among people of various faiths. Serving as the Associate Director of the Interfaith Center in Arkansas, she is leading several community based programs to raise awareness about diversity and religious minorities in America. Sophia Said holds a degree in development economics from University of Utah and a Masters in Public Service from the Clinton School of Public Service. She lives in Little Rock with her husband, two children and two cats.

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Holly Sargent•FoundingDirectoroftheWomen’sLeadershipBoard,Harvard Kennedy School

Holly Taylor Sargent is the Founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leader-ship Board. She is also the founder and CEO of HTSargent, LLC., a consulting firm specializing in creative and entrepreneurial advice to non-profit organizations and individual philanthropists. Drawing from her extensive background and broad reach across industries, functions, and geographies, HTSargent, LLC., helps people and companies explore extraordinary opportunities, manage and sustain their philanthropic vision, and maximize revenue income. Sargent served 15 years at the Harvard Kennedy School as Senior Associate Dean of External Relations. In that capacity, she created several university wide fellowships and was responsible for expanding support for programs related to women and in rapidly growing the HKS into a global leader. Subsequent to her service at the Kennedy School, Dean Sargent was promoted to be Senior Associate Dean for Advancement and Senior Director for women’s initiatives for the entire University. In this capacity, she created several university wide fellowships and was responsible for expanding support for programs related to women. In addition to developing the Women’s Leadership Board, Sargent was the Founding Director of the Council of Women World Leaders, served on the Women Leaders Initiative of the World Economic Forum, and is on the internatio-nal advisory board for the Cherie Blair Women’s Foundation. Other board commitments include Cloud Industries Health which was recently founded by Professor Donovan of MIT, the advisory board of People’s United Bank (formerly Maine Bank & Trust), a board member of Right To Play, and Sargent also serves as board member for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.

Michael Schmitz•ExecutiveDirector,ICLEI-USA

Michael is the Executive Director of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability USA, the leading membership association of cities & counties committed to climate action, clean energy, and sustainability. A recognized leader in the sustainability and climate change field, he has consis-tently achieved success through building strong and dynamic teams. Michael is an attorney and non-profit leader with business experience who brings to the job over two decades of experien-ce in policy at the federal, state, and local levels. Before joining ICLEI, Michael was Principal of Go Forward Consulting specializing in strategic research, analysis and policy development. The firm managed and advised non-profit, business, and political clients on a range of issues including environmental regulation, land use, and economic development. In this capacity he served as Executive Director of CLEEN, a statewide coalition of environmental and public health organiza-tions advocating for the protection of California’s clean water and environmental health. Prior to founding the firm in 2003, he was a civil rights attorney and senior legislative counsel for the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus focusing on environmental, trade, and economic develo-pment policies. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Stanford, a law degree from UC Hastings in San Francisco, and a master’s degree in Urban Planning from UCLA. Michael’s civic activities include four years as Economic Development Commissioner in the City of Alameda and Board Member of the Restoration Advisory Board at Alameda Point NAS charged with overseeing the clean-up of the former Naval air station. He is an active PTA member at his children’s school. He and his wife Catherine have a seventh grader and a fourth grader and live in the Bay Area.

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Sarah Silver•ExecutiveDirector,AlanB.SlifkaFoundation

Sarah Silver has been the executive director of the Alan B. Slifka Foundation since 2002. Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Silver worked as a documentary television producer for ABC’s Peter Jennings, an aide to US Representative Mike Synar (D-OK), , and a communications strategist for a variety of U.S. non-governmental organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Rodney Slater•FormerUSSecretaryofTransportation

Mr. Rodney Earl Slater, J.D., BS, has been the Senior Vice President of Transportation and Critical Infrastructure of GlobalOptions Group Inc., since March 10, 2006. Mr. Slater serves as a Senior Advisor of James Lee Witt Associates LLC. He serves as Secretary of International Battery, Inc. He is a Partner of Patton Boggs LLP and has been its Head of transportation practice group -Washington since April 1, 2001. He served as a Secretary of Transportation for the U.S. De-partment of Transportation from 1997 to January 2001, where was responsible for overseeing national transportation policy, encouraging intermodal transportation, negotiating international transportation agreements and ensuring the fitness of U.S. airlines. Mr. Slater served as a Direc-tor of Government Relations at Arkansas State University, Executive Assistant for Economic and Community Programs for then-Governor Bill Clinton, Special Assistant for Community and Mi-nority Affairs and Assistant Attorney General-Litigation Division of the Arkansas State Attorney General’s Office. He was selected as a fellow of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He is a fellow with the National Academy of Public Administration and the Clinton Global Initiati-ve, and a NCAA Silver Anniversary Award recipient. Mr. Slater is a Lawyer and graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1977. He holds Law Degree at the University of Arkansas in 1980. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from Howard University in 1999.

Geoff Smith•MineralogyPty.Ltd.

Mr. Smith has 28 years experience as a lawyer and a senior partner in the prominent Queens-land legal firm of Bell Legal Group. Mr. Smith has extensive experience in commercial litigation, intellectual property and corporate work throughout his long career and has been a registered arbitrator for over 10 years. He is also on the board of a number of community organisations in Gold Coast City including the Gold Coast Titans Community Foundation. Mr. Smith retired as a principal of his legal practice to take up his appointment as Managing Director Legal in Minera-logy Pty Ltd.

Susan Stautberg•CoChair,WomenCorporateDirectors

Susan Schiffer Stautberg is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD), the only global community of women corporate directors. WCD has over 700 members serving on over 850 Corporate Boards in 27 global chapters. Susan is also the President of PartnerCom Corp., which assembles and manages Advisory Boards around the world, which include boards for Bayer, CIGNA, Citibank, Northern Trust, Northwestern Mutual, P&G, Walmart, and others. Susan also co-founded OnBoard Bootcamps, an insider’s guide on how to be selected to be a Corporate, Private Company or Advisory Board Director.

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Janice V. Sharry•Haynes&Boone,LLP,Partner

Jan Sharry is a veteran corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP. She has been with the firm for 35 years, representing many of the firm’s clients and holding various firm leadership positions. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at the firm. Jan joined Haynes and Boone at a time when women lawyers were still rare and few firms were hiring women. She was one of the first female lawyers and partners at Haynes and Boone. She has been named many times as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas and has gained national recognition as one of the Best Lawyers in America and is Chambers rated. She also has been recognized for her aviation expertise as one of the Best Aviation lawyers in America. Jan also has a long history of serving her community. Some of her current leaders-hip positions include her role as Membership Chair for the Dallas chapter of the International Women’s Forum, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Trinity Commons Foundation. She is a member of the United Way Tocqueville Society and has also served as the Chairman on the Board of Directors of Executive Women’s Roundtable. Jan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Knox College where she also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a juris docto-rate degree from Southern Methodist University where she graduated magna cum laude.

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Amy Lee Stewart•RoseLawFirm,LittleRock,Arkansas

B.A., Economics, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts; J. D., New York University School of Law; Senior Litigation Partner, Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the mother of 5 daughters.

Nada Stirratt•EVP,ACXIOM

Nada Stirratt Serves as chief revenue officer and executive vice president for Acxiom. In this role, nothing leads all of the client-facing areas of the business Including field, account management and consulting across the globe. Stirratt comes to Acxiom with a proven track record of delive-ring transformational business results. Prior to Acxiom, Stirratt served as chief revenue officer at MySpace, where she led overall sales, strategy and advertising operations. Previously, Nada served as executive vice president of digital advertising at MTV Networks, where she successfully led the company’s aggressive expansion into the digital arena advertising across all properties, overseeing advertising sales, strategy and operations. Earlier in her career, nothing was senior vice president and general manager of advertising sales at Advertising.com and held senior positions Also with some of the world ‘s most well-known brands, Including AOL, Moviefone, Hearst Publications and Condé Nast. Stirratt holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising from the University of Illinois. She is based in New York City.

Bill Sweeney•President/CEO,InternationalFoundationforElectoralSystems (IFES)

William “Bill” Sweeney, IFES President and CEO, brings decades of experience to the Interna-tional Foundation for Electoral Systems in election-assistance and democracy support. He was appointed as President in June 2009 by the IFES Board of Directors. Sweeney served on the Board of Directors at IFES from 1993 to 2001, and as Chairman from 1999 to 2000. After the election of President George H. Bush, in accord with the bipartisan tradition of IFES, he became Vice Chairman in 2001. Sweeney was Vice President for Global Government Affairs for EDS from 2000 to 2009 and managed relations with governments and policy organizations around the world. He joined the company in 1991. He was the founding President of Washington Resources & Strategy, Inc., a public affairs management company, from 1985 until 1991. From 1981 until 1985, Sweeney was Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He had served as Executive Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from 1977 until 1981. Sweeney has observed elections in the Philippines (1986), Russia (1994), Nicaragua (1996) and Jamaica (1997) as an official elections observer. And he is a member of the Advisory Committee for International IDEA’s Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security. He also serves on the board of directors of the National Foreign Trade Council Foundation.Sweeney holds a BA in political science from American University’s School of Government and Public Administration. He was a founder and director of the Campaign Management Institute at American University where he received awards for service and teaching. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.

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Raymond Tam Man Kim•CFA,CPA,CPA(Aust.),FRM,EMBAMinerologyPty.Ltd.

Mr Raymond Tam is a Project Director at Mineralogy Pty Ltd and is based in Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China. Mr Tam works closely with investment banks, strategic partners, investors/financiers, accountants and lawyers to secure funding for development projects. He is responsible for corporate finance & fund raising, business development & management, market & competitor research, strategic analysis of business, JV and M&A opportunities; strategic planning and forecasting. Mr Tam also serves as (i) Director of Asian Operations of Blue Star Line Pty Ltd, which has undertaken the task of building Titanic II, (ii) Project Director of International Minerals Pty Ltd, which plans to develop a world-class iron ore project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, and (iii) Director of Asia Pacific Shipping Enterprises Pte Ltd, shipping arm of Queensland Nickel group. Prior to joining Mineralogy in 2010, Mr Tam was a senior Vice Presi-dent of JPMorgan Chase Bank in Investment Banking after roles with Citibank Global Corporate & Investment Banking and HSBC Corporate, Investment Banking & Markets. Mr Tam was also a Structural & Civil Engineer. Mr Tam earned an Executive Master of Business Administration de-gree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada in October 2005, a Master of Practising Accounting degree from the Monash University in Australia in April 2001 and a Bachelor of Civil & Resources Engineering (First Class Honours) degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Mr Tam is a CFA, FRM charter-holder and has been a Certified Accountant of CPA Aus-tralia since 2002 and also a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 2010.In 2012, Mr Tam was honoured by CPA Australia as one of the Top 40 high-achieving senior business leaders worldwide under the age of 40 who have demonstrated sound business acumen and displayed excellent technical and leadership abilities. He was one of the three Ca-pital CFO Awards finalists for Australia’s Young Financial Manager of Year 2012. In 2011, Mr Tam was nominated and selected as an Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader and a delegate to the Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit held in India during November 2011. Summit delegates explored ways to address the most pressing challenges facing the Asia Pacific community

Sarah Thorn •SeniorDirector,FederalGovernmentRelations,WalmartFoundation

Sarah is primarily responsible for managing international policy issues at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. She advocates for Walmart priorities in legislation and trade negotiations that impact Walmart’s worldwide sourcing and retail distribution rights. For last year, Sarah has also led the strategy team that developed Walmart’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative, which is focused on empowering women throughout Walmart’s global supply chain. Before joining Walmart, Sarah worked for seven years at the Grocery Manufacturers Association where she led the food, beverage and consumer products industry advocacy on international trade issues. Sarah has also worked as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and served as an international relations representative with AMP Incorporated. Sarah began her career in Washington as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Information Agency. She holds a Master of Arts degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Bachelor of Arts degree in comparative area studies and comparative literature cum laude from Duke University.

Henri Van Eeghen•ChiefOperationsOfficer,Cordaid

Henri van Eeghen started as Chief Operational Officer of Cordaid as of december 2009. Previously he held a wide range of international company Directorships and Supervisory Board positions. He helped to initiate development projects in Kenya en South East Asia and was involved in several international and local charitable projects. Van Eeghen studied Economics and Social Psychology and MBA Business. In 2004 he became Joint Managing Director of the Family company, an inter-national distributor of food ingredients.

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Elizabeth Vazquez•President,CEOandCo-Founder,WEConnect

Elizabeth is a world leader in global supplier diversity and inclusion. As the CEO of WEConnect International, she is responsible for the development of the global strategy and network. She sits on several Boards of Directors, including the Global Banking Alliance for Women, is an Advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, and is a Member of the U.S. Department of State’s International Council on Women’s Business Leadership Subcommittee on Access to Markets. She is also the CEO and Co-Founder of TradeBuilders, which conducted the world’s first “Virtual Trade Missions” starting in 1999 to connect businesses over the Internet. Elizabeth was born in Mexico and has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she studied development economics and international negotiation as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

Peter Walkenhorst•SeniorProjectManager,GermanyandAsia,Bertelsmann Stiftung

Peter Walkenhorst is senior project manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Gütersloh, Germany. His current responsibilities include the coordination of the “Salzburg Trilogue” conference as well as projects dealing with European-Asian relations. Previously, Peter was a member of the global governance team, which developed ideas and suggestions for political management of globali-zation processes. He also worked in the foundation’s philanthropy and civil society division on enhancing the management quality, organizational effectiveness and innovation capacity of civil society organizations. He is the author and editor of several books and articles on the non-profit and philanthropic sectors as well as on German and European nationalism. Peter was a visiting lecturer at the University of Bologna’s Master in International Studies in Philanthropy in 2006 and 2008. Before joining the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Peter studied history and public law in Ger-many and the United States. He received his doctorate from the University of Bielefeld and holds a M. A. in History from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

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Eugene Yun•ManagingDirector,P80GroupFoundation

Dr Eugene Yun is Managing Director of the P80 Group Foundation. He is also Managing Partner of Eos Investment Partners, a Seoul-based investment firm he co-founded. Eos Investment Partners specializes in cross-border investments with particular emphasis in climate finance and natural resources. Dr. Yun also serves as Senior Strategic Advisor to the Asian Development Bank where he helps develop the Climate Public Private Partnership Fund. Dr. Yun has had the pleasure in the past of working in many different fields with Soros Fund Management, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Schroder Securities, Maeil Kyungje Shinmun, University of British Columbia and Ewha University. Dr. Yun studied undergraduate economics at Yonsei University and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota specializing in monetary and macroeconomic theory.

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