The 2005 conference considered ways to advance the Millennium Development Goals, using three strands of strategic philanthropy: building capacity, informing policy, and investing in small and medium sized enterprises that produce a social return.

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Keynote Address: Capturing Ingenuity & Building Capacity by 
Engaging, Educating and Empowering Women

Introduction:
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women

Speakers:
Susan V. Berresford, President, Ford Foundation
Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner & Founder, the Green Belt Movement

  

Plenary 1: Informing Policy: Trade, Aid, and Debt Relief

Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico & Director
And Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
 

 

Plenary 2:
Practical Experimentation and Support for Innovation: The Case of Public Health

Introduction:
Eunice Brookman Amissah, Vice President for Africa, Ipas & Former Minister of Health (Ghana)

Speaker:
William H. Gates, Sr., Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 

 

Plenary 4: Going to Scale: Meeting the Development Goals

Moderator:
David de Ferranti, Special Advisor to the President, The World Bank Group  
Speakers:
Yassine Fall, Senior Economic Advisor, UN Development Fund for Women; advisor, the Millennium Project
Sherri Kraham, Director of Development Policy, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute

Plenary 5: Expanding the Options: Advocating Peace

Yossi Beilin, Negotiator of the Geneva Accords for Middle East Peace & Former Israeli Minister of Justice

In conversation with Jane Wales
 

 

Plenary 6: Advocacy: Educating Policymakers and the Public

Teresa Heinz Kerry, Chair, the Heinz Family Philanthropies

In conversation with Stephen Heintz, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund