Wendsday, March 2

 6:30 PM Welcome to Stanford
  • Coit D. Blacker, Director, Stanford Institute for International Studies & Senior Fellow, Stanford University
  • Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California
  8:00 PM Cultural Performance By Kitka
  • Introduction by Elizabeth Colton, Chair, International Museum of Women
 8:20 PM

 

Capturing Ingenuity & Building Capacity By Engaging, Educating, And Empowering Women
  • Introduction by Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
  • Susan V. Berresford, President, Ford Foundation, and
  • Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner & Founder, the Green Belt Movement

Thursday, March 3

  9:00 AM Conference Called To Order
  • Coit D. Blacker, Director, Stanford Institute for International Studies and Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Conference Framework
  • Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California

9:30 AM

Plenary 1: Iinforming Policy: Trade, Aid, And Debt Relief
  • Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico & Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
10:45 AM Breakout Sessions Round 1:
Re-shaping Policy
Investing in Population: Dividend for Development
  • Eunice Brookman-Amissah, Vice President for Africa, Ipas & Former Minister of Health (Ghana)
  • Sharon Camp, President and CEO, the Alan Guttmacher Institute
  • Carol Larson, President, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation [Moderator]
Advancing Human Rights
  • Shulamith Koenig, Founder & Executive Director, People's Movement for Human Rights Education
  • Habib Rahiab, Afghani Human Rights Activist
  • Theresa Fay-Bustillos, Executive Director, Levi-Strauss Foundation
  • Jane Olson, Chair of the Board, Human Rights Watch [Moderator]
Building Stability: Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • John Prendergast, Special Adviser to the President, International Crisis Group
  • Ozong Agborsangaya, Director for Sub Saharan Africa, Search for Common Ground
  • Jerry White, Executive Director, Landmine Survivors Network
  • Edith Eddy, Executive Director, Compton Foundation, Inc. [Moderator]
Combating Hunger
  • Lael Brainard, Director of the Poverty and Global Economy Initiative, the Brookings Institution
  • Richard Beahrs, Task Force Member, the Millennium Project & retired CEO, Court TV
  • Kathleen Kurz, Director of Reproductive Health and Nutrition, International Center for Research on Women
  • Thomas Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, University of California at Berkeley [Moderator]
1:15 PM

Plenary 2
PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTATION AND SUPPORT FOR INNOVATION: THE CASE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
  • William H. Gates, Sr., Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Introduction by Eunice Brookman Amissah, Vice President for Africa, Ipas & Former Minister of Health (Ghana)
FROM RESHAPING POLICY TO RESHAPING PHILANTHROPY
  • Jack Valenti, Former Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association & President, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria
2:45 PM Breakout Sessions Round 2: Re-Shaping Philanthropy
Engaging Youth: The Next Generation
  • Nicole Sanchez, Executive Director, Youth Philanthropy Worldwide
  • Eleonora Frey, Next Generation Advisory Board Member, Frey Family Foundation
  • Maggie Kamau, Communications Director, International Child Resource Institute
  • Esther Hewlett, Flora Family Foundation & Founder and Chair, Youth Philanthropy Worldwide [Moderator]
Engaging the Poor
  • Efrain Jimenez, Executive Projects Director, Zacatecan Federation of Southern California
  • Gaspar Rivera Salgado, Director of Transnational Communities Program, New Americans Immigration Museum and Learning Center
  • Salvatore LaSpada, Director of The Philanthropy Workshop, the Rockefeller Foundation [Moderator]
Engaging Core Competencies across Sectors and Cultures
  • Lisa Kleissner, President, K.L. Felicitias Foundation
  • Charly Kleissner, Co-Founder, K.L. Felicitias Foundation
  • Philip Berber, Chairman, A Glimmer of Hope
  • Lynn Fritz, Director-General, The Fritz Institute
  • Kelsang Aukatsang, US Representative, Instituto Terra & Genesis [Moderator]
Achieving Sustainability Through Market Mechanisms
  • Maria Eitel, President, the Nike Foundation
  • José Ignacio Avalos Hernandez, Founder, Gente Nueva (Mexico)
  • Janine Firpo, Director of Global Multisector Initiatives, Hewlett-Packard
  • Al Hammond, VP Special Projects & Innovation, World Resources Institute [Moderator]
6:00 PM
[Module A]REWARDING INNOVATION: MARKETPLACE WITH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
[MODULE B] DONOR GENERATED BREAKOUT SESSIONS
  8:00 PM Plenary: Fishbowl Jury

Friday, March 4

9:00 AM Call To Order
 
  • Ed Penhoet, President, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  PLENARY 4: Going To Scale: Meeting The Development Goals
 
  • 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
  • David de Ferranti, Special Advisor to the President, The World Bank Group [Moderator]
10:45 AM Breakout Sessions (Round 3): Re-Shaping Private Enterprise
  Public Investment in Private Entrepreneurship
 
  • Farzin Mirmotahari, Project Manager, International Finance Corporation
  • Katie Schmitz de Fernandez, Director of Business and Market Development, Water Health International
  • Pierre Tami, Director, Hagar
  • Mary Ellen Iskenderian, Director, International Finance Corporation (IFC) [Moderator]
  Hybrid Value Chain
 
  • Valeria Budinich, Vice-President leading Full Economic Citizenship Initiative, ASHOKA
  • Susan Davis, Chair, Grameen Foundation USA
  • Greg Steltenpohl, Executive Director, The Interra Project
  • Sally Osberg, President, Skoll Foundation [Moderator]
  Engaging Market Mechanisms to Advance Philanthropic Goals
 
  • Nicolas Frances, Founder and CEO, Easy Being Green Pty Ltd (Australia)
  • Ayesha Grewal, Managing Director, Environment Energy and Enterprise Ventures Private Ltd (India)
  • Anna Zuchetti, Founder, OACA (Peru)
  • Pamela Hartigan, Managing Director, Klaus Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship [Moderator]
  Capturing Technology
 
  • Jay Keasling, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
  • Eric Brewer, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley
  • Neil Renninger, Co-founder, Amyris Biotechnology
  • Richard Newton, Dean of the College of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley [Moderator]
  1:15 PM 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
  2:15 PM 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
  3:00 PM Closing Remarks
 
  • Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California