Speakers at the 2005 Conference 

Mwajuma Alice Abok  
Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA)

Ozong Agborsangaya 
Director, Sub Saharan Africa Search for Common Ground

Kelsang Aukatsang 
US Representative Instituto, Terra & Genesis

Donna Baranski-Walker 
Executive Director, The Rebuilding Alliance

Richard Beahrs  
Millennium Project

Yossi Beilin  

Philip Berber 
Chairman, A Glimmer of Hope

Susan Berresford 
President, Ford Foundation

Coit Blacker 
Director and Sr. Fellow, Stanford Institute for Int'l Studies

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

Eric Brewer 
Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Eunice Brookman-Amissah 
President, Ipas

Valeria Budinich 
VP, Full Economic Citizenship Initiative 
Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Sharon Camp 
President and CEO, The Alan Guttmacher Institute

Marie Charles 
Founder and President, International Center for Equal Healthcare Access, Inc.

Elizabeth Colton 
Board Chair, International Museum of Women

Susan Davis 
Chair, Grameen Foundation USA

David de Ferranti 
Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation

Edith Eddy 
Executive Director, Compton Foundation, Inc.

Yassine Fall 
Senior Policy Advisor, UN Millennium Project

Theresa Fay-Bustillos 
Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation

Janine Firpo  
Sevak Solutions

Nicolas Frances 
Founder and CEO, Easy Being Green

Pushpika Freitas 
Founder and President, MarketPlace

Eleonora Frey 
COO, Foundation for Civic Leadership

Lynn Fritz 
Director General, Fritz Institute

Ashok Gadgil  
WaterHealth

Bill Gates, Sr. 
Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Ayesha Grewal 
Managing Director, Environment, Energy, & Enterprise Ventures Private Ltd.

Allen Hammond 
President, World Resources Institute

Pamela Hartigan 
Managing Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Stephen Heintz 
President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Teresa Heinz Kerry 
Chair, The Heinz Family Philanthropies

Esther Hewlett 
Chair, New Global Citizens

Mary Ellen Iskenderian 
President, Women's World Banking

Abisola Jadesimi  
Venture Strategies for Health and Development

Efrain Jimenez  
Zacatecan Federation of Southern California

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri 
Co-Founder and Director, Nyaka AIDS Orphan School

Thomas Kalil 
Special Asst. to the Chancellor for Science & Tech, UC Berkeley

Maggie Kamau 
Communications Director, International Child Resource Institute

Jay Keasling 
Professor Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Liza Kimbo 
Director, Sustainable Healthcare Foundation

Charly Kleissner 
Co-founder, KL Felicitas Foundation

Lisa Kleissner 
Co-founder, KL Felicitas Foundation

Shulamith Koenig 
Founder, People's Movement for Human Rights Learning

Sherri Kraham 
Director of Development Policy, Millennium Challenge Corporation

Kathleen Kurz 
Director of Reproductive Health and Nutrition 
International Center for Research on Women

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

Jonathan Lash 
President World Resources Institute

Salvatore LaSpada 
Chief Executive Institute for Philanthropy

Wangari Maathai 
Founder, The Green Belt Movement

Farzin Mirmotahari 
Project Manager, International Finance Corporation

Olga Murray  
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation

Richard Newton 
Dean College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Jane Olson 
Chair of the Board, Human Rights Watch

Sally Osberg 
President and CEO, Skoll Foundation

Kei Otsuki 
Amazon Paper

Edward Penhoet 
President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

John Prendergast 
Special Advisor to the President, International Crisis Group

Habib Rahiab 
Afghan Human Rights Activist, Human Rights Watch

Kavita Ramdas 
President and CEO, Global Fund for Women

Neil Renninger 
Co-Founder Amyris, Biotechnologies, Inc.

Gaspar Rivera Salgado 
Director, Transnational Communities Program 
New American Immigration Museum and Learning Center

Haydee Rodriguez-Pastor 
President, VIDA

Nicole Sanchez 
Executive Director, New Global Citizens

Katie Schmitz de Fernandez 
Director of Business and Market Development, WaterHealth International

S. Sethunarayanan  
Center for Development of Disadvantaged People

Greg Steltenpohl 
Co-founder and ED, The Interra Project

Pierre Tami 
Director, Hagar

Prakash Tyagi  
Gravis

Jack Valenti 
President, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, TB, & Malaria

Thuppil Venkatesh  
Occupational Knowledge International

Gerald White 
President & CEO, Landmine Survivors Network

Sakena Yacoobi
Professor, Afghan Institute of Learning, India

Ernesto Zedillo 
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

Anna Zuchetti 
Founder, Group GEA