Speakers at the 2006 Conference

Peter Ackerman
Chairman of the Board, Freedom House

Olga Alexeeva 
Chief Executive, Charities Aid Foundation

Robert Annibale 
Global Director, Citigroup Microfinance Group

Deana Arsenian 
Senior Program Officer & Director of HSPU, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Rodrigo Baggio 
Executive Director, CDI-Comite para Democratizacao da Informatica

Jim Ball 
Executive Director, Evangelical Environmental Network & Creation Care Magazine

Amie Batson 
Senior Health Specialist, The World Bank

Shari Berenbach 
Executive Foundation, Calvert Foundation

Douglas Bereuter 
President, The Asia Foundation

Erik Berglof 
Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Jewelle Bickford 
Senior Managing Director, Rothschild Inc.

Dave Biggs 
Co-founder and Vice President, Envision

Naila Bolus 
Executive Director, Ploughshares Fund

Lael Brainard 
Director, Poverty and Global Economy Initiative 
The Brookings Institution

Kate Brandt 
Co-chair, Brown Chapter, Roosevelt Institution

Martin Brooks  
New Philanthropy Capital

Martin Burt 
General Manager, Fundacion Paraguaya

Kathy Bushkin Calvin 
Executive VP and COO, United Nations Foundation

William Clinton 
Founder, William J. Clinton Foundation

Isobel Coleman 
Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, The Council on Foreign Relations

Dinos Constantinou 
General Manager, Global Microfinance Group

Boris Cornejo Castro 
Vice President, Esquel Ecuador Foundation

Ann Cotton 
Executive Director, CAMFED International

Simone Coxe 
President, The Pluralism Fund

Ernest Darkoh 
Chairman, BroadReach Healthcare

David de Ferranti 
Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation

Kemal Dervis 
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Alan Detheridge 
Vice President, Exploration & Production External Affairs 
Shell International Limited

J.B. Dill  
YouthNoise

Aleke Dondo 
Managing Director, K-Rep Development Agency

William Drayton 
CEO and Chair, Ashoka

Jamie Drummond 
Executive Director, DATA

Michael T. Eckhart 
President, American Council on Renewable Energy

Trevor Field 
Founder, PlayPumps International

William Foote 
Founding Partner & Executive Director, Root Capital

Tina Frundt 
Outreach Coordinator, Polaris Project

Peter Gabriel 
Co-founder, WITNESS

Maria Eugenia Garces
Campagne Chair, Board of Directors, Fundacion Alvaralice

Juliette Gimon 
Trustee, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Gargee Gosh 
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Vartan Gregorian 
President, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Christine Grumm 
Executive Director, Women's Funding Network

Mark Hanis 
Co-Founder & Chief Executive, Genocide Intervention Network

Stephen Heintz 
President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Flora Hewlett  
Flora Family Foundation

Jeremy Hockenstein 
CEO, Digital Divide Data

Kurt Hoffman 
Director, Shell Foundation

Oksana Horbunova 
Global Advisory Council Member, Vital Voices Global Partnership

Mary Houghton 
President, ShoreBank Corporation

Steve Howard 
CEO, The Climate Group

Sharna Jarvis 
Programme Manager, Shell Foundation

Wyclef Jean 
Founder, Yele Haiti Foundation

Indira Jena 
Managing Trustee, International Women's Funders Network, India

Rajendra Joshi 
Managing Trustee, Saath

Ali Reza Khan 
Founder, Pakistan National Youth Service Program

Ashok Khosla 
Chairman, Development Alternatives

Susan King 
Vice President of Public Affairs, Carnegie Corporation of New York

David Lane 
Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Carol Larson 
President & CEO, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Ron Layton 
President, Light Years IP

Ruth Levine 
Director of Programs and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Elizabeth Littlefield 
CEO, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

Robert Malley 
Middle East and N. Africa Program Director , International Crisis Group

Jessica Mathews 
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Fred Mednick 
Founder & President, Teachers Without Borders

Molly Melching 
Founder and Director, Tostan, Inc.

Paul Meyer 
President and CEO, Voxiva, Inc.

John Miller 
Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, U.S. Department of State

John Morgridge 
Chairman of the Board, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Vis Naidoo 
CEO, Mindset Network

Andrew Natsios 
Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University

Sam Nunn 
Co-chairman and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Sally Osberg 
President and CEO, Skoll Foundation

Billy Parish 
Co-founder and Coordinator, Energy Action Coalition

Alan Patricof 
Managing Director, Greycroft LLC

Rachel Payne 
Manager, Google.org

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi  (D-CA)

Jan Piercy 
Executive Vice President, ShoreBank Corporation

John Podesta 
President & CEO, Center for American Progress

Geeta Rao Gupta 
President, International Center for Research on Women

Sylvia Reyes 
Executive Director, Fundacion Junto con los Ninos (JUCONI)

A.H.M. Rezwan 
Executive Director, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha (SSS)

Jano Rosebiani 
Founder and President, Evini Films

Dan Runde 
Head, Partnership Development, International Finance Corporation

Amitabha Sadangi 
CEO, International Development Enterprises India

Pedro Sanchez 
Director, The Earth Institute's Tropical Agriculture Program

Victor Alfredo Aquila Sanchez 
President, Barro Sin Plomo, A.C.

Edward Scott 
Co-Founder and Chairman, Center for Global Development

Hadi Semati 
Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Int'l Center for Scholars

Ernest Shea 
President, Natural Resource Solutions LLC

Yonce Shelton 
Policy Director, Call to Renewal

Lisbeth Shepherd 
Co-Founder, Unis-Cite

Nina Smith 
Executive Director, Rugmark Foundation USA

Sterling Speirn 
President and CEO, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Michael Swaine 
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Miguel Szekely 
Vice Minister of Prospective Planning & Evaluation, Social Development Ministry of Mexico

Artur Taevere 
Director, Estonia Charities Foundation

Erin Thornton 
Policy Director, DATA- Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa

Eric Thurman 
CEO, Geneva Global

Karen Tse 
Founder, President and CEO, International Bridges to Justice

Ted Turner 
Chairman, Turner Enterprises

Damian von Stauffenberg 
Founder and Principal, MicroRate

Rhoi Wangila 
Founder and Executive Director, Ark Foundation of Africa

Peter Wheeler 
Trustee, New Philanthropy Capital

Timothy Wirth 
President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund

Kathryn Wolford 
President, Lutheran World Relief