Past Conferences

2002 Agenda

Thursday, March 7

8:00 AM	REGISTRATION
8:30 AM	CONFERENCE CALLED TO ORDER
8:30 AM	Dean Robert L. Joss, Phillip Knight Professor and Dean, Stanford School of Business
8:45 AM	PLENARY ONE: THE CONTEXT : THE POST SEPTEMBER 11 LANDSCAPE
8:45 AM	Moderator: Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council A New Urgency - Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women The Immediate Conflict - Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, United Nations Development Program The Larger War on Poverty - Dr. Gordon Conway, President, Rockefeller Foundation
	BREAK
10:30 AM	PLENARY TWO: MEETING LONG-TERM NEEDS
10:30 AM	Moderator: James Phills, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business Educating and Empowering Women Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund Building Community in Transitional Societies Stephen Heintz, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Building Indigenous Philanthropy Peter Hero, President, Community Foundation Silicon Valley What Works in Central Asia Charles William Maynes, President, The Eurasia Foundation
12 - 12:30 PM	LUNCH
12 - 12:30 PM	Join leading philanthropists at designated tables during lunch
1:00 PM	PLENARY THREE: THE CHALLENGE, THE OPPORTUNITY
1:00 PM	Introduction, Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Richard Goldman, President, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund Oral Ataniyazova, Goldman Prize Recipient, Perzent, Uzbekistan
2:15 PM	PLENARY FOUR: MEETING IMMEDIATE NEEDS
2:15 PM	Moderator: Lewis Coleman, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Providing Humanitarian Relief Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, OXFAM Combating Infectious Disease Timothy E. Wirth, President, The United Nations Foundation Stopping the Spread of Weapons Zulfiqar Ahmad, South Asia Program Officer, Nautilus Institute
4:00 PM	BREAK OUT SESSIONS
	SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
	Moderator: Tracy Gary, Founder, Changemakers Chet Tchozewski, Executive Director, Global Greengrants Fund Ravi Agarwal, Founder, Toxics Link, India Paul Hawken, Co-Chair, TNS-International, Author
	EDUCATION
	Moderator: Stephen Toben, Vice President, Flora Family Foundation Maya Ajmera, Executive Director, Global Fund for Children Inderjit Khurana, Founder, The Train Platform Schools, India Sakeena Yacoobi, Professor, Afghan Institute of Learning, Afghanistan Tae Yoo, Director of Corporate Philanthropy, Cisco System, Inc.
	ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
	Moderator: Sarah Hobson, Executive Director, International Development Exchange Omar Chowdhury, Director, Community Development Services, Bangladesh Shashi Tyagi, Director, Center for People’s Science for Rural Development (GRAVIS), India Elisabeth Rix, Individual Donor
	HUMAN RIGHTS
	Moderator: Melanie Beth Oliviero, Steering Committee, International Human Rights Funders Group Dr. Kumar Amarendra N. Singh, Senior Research Officer, National Foundation of India Mary Ann Stein, Co-Founder, Fund for Global Human Rights Clint Dalton, Director, California North Human Rights Watch
7:00 PM	DINNER
	PLENARY FIVE: THE SEARCH FOR PEACE AND HUMAN SECURITY: HONORING NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATES
	Oscar Arias, 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate – by video message

Friday, March 8

8:30 AM	WELCOME
8:30 AM	Esther Hewlett, Flora Family Foundation Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senate — by video message
8:30 AM	WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFGHANISTAN
	Mavis Leno, Chair, Campaign to Help Afghan Women and Girls
9:00 AM	PLENARY SIX: FORMING PARTNERSHIPS
	Moderator: Susan Bell, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Adele Simmons, Senior Advisor on Philanthropy, World Economic Forum — Working with the Private Sector Lata Krishnan, President, America-India Foundation — Working with Diasporas Peter Bell, President, CARE — Working with Local Partners Bill Drayton, President, Ashoka — Working with Social Entrepreneurs
10:45 AM	BREAK
11:00 AM	BREAK OUT SESSIONS
	THE ROLE OF AFFINITY GROUPS
	Moderator: John Harvey, National Coordinator, Grantmakers Without Borders Robert Buchanan, Director, International Programs, Council on Foundations Jennifer Astone, Director, Firelight Foundation Indira Jena, Founder and Director, Nirnaya Indian Women’s Trust
	THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY AND TRUSTED INTERMEDIARIES
	Moderator: Barnett F. Baron, Executive Vice President, Asia Foundation Akhtar Badshah, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Partners Jaqueline Novogratz, Executive Director, Acumen Fund
	THE ROLE FOR DONOR EDUCATION
	Jim Brasher, Director of Development, Synergos Institute Christine Sherry, Director, The Philanthropy Workshop West
	THE ROLE OF DONORS AS ADVOCATES
	Moderator: Anne Bartley, Former President, Rockefeller Family Fund Ada Sanchez, Steering Committee, Funders Network on Trade and Globalization Lisa Jordan, Program Officer, Ford Foundation Jane Yett, Community Council, Global Fund for Women
12:30 PM	LUNCH
2:30 PM	PLENARY SEVEN: NEXT STEPS: INFORMING AND EXPANDING INTERNATIONAL GIVING
2:30 PM	Kate Greswold, TOSA Foundation John Morgridge, Chair, Cisco Systems, Inc. & CFO, TOSA Foundation