2003 Agenda

June 5

PLENARY ONE: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT POVERTY, ITS CAUSES AND ITS CURES
  • Moderator: Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council
  • Nancy Birdsall, Founding President, Center for Global Development
  • Graça Machel, Chairperson, Foundation for Community Development, MozambiqueProgram
PLENARY TWO: HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
  • Video: "Apathy is Lethal"
  • Moderator: Christopher Chyba, Co-Director, Center for International Security an Cooperation at Stanford
  • Maya Ajmera, Founder and President, Global Fund for Children
  • Eric Goosby, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation
  • Betty H. Makoni, Director, Girl Child Network, Zimbabwe
PLENARY THREE: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
  • Moderator: Susan Bell, Vice President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Co-Founder, Global Philanthropy Forum
  • Lewis Coleman, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  • Susan Packard Orr, Chairman, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Martin Fisher, Executive Director, ApproTEC International
PLENARY FOUR: BUILDING INDIGENOUS INSTITUTIONS
  • Introduction: Adele Simmons, Senior Advisor on Philanthropy, World Economic Forum
  • Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, in conversation with
  • William P. Fuller, President, The Asia Foundation; Trustee, World Affairs Council of Northern California
PLENARY FIVE: POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION
  • Featured Speaker: Hernando de Soto, Founder and President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru

June 6

PLENARY SIX: CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT
  • Moderator: Coit D. Blacker, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
  • Charles MacCormack,President, Save the Children
  • Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
  • Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, United Nations
PLENARY SEVEN: PHILANTHROPY AND ADVOCACY
  • Moderator: Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Co-Founder, Global Philanthropy Forum
  • Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation
PLENARY EIGHT: PHILANTHROPY'S POLICY ROLE
  • Moderator: Sylvia Mathews, Chief Operating Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Aryeh Neier, President, Soros Foundations and Open Society Institute
  • Edward W. Scott, Jr., Co-Founder, BEA Systems, Inc.; Chairman and Co-Founder, Center for Global Development
  • Ellen Laipson, President and CEO, The Henry L. Stimson Center
PLENARY NINE: A CALL TO ACTION
  • Introduction and Comments: Peggy Dulany, Chair, Synergos Institute
  • Bono, by video