Who We Are

 

Chief Executive Officer

Scott Case
Vice Chairman, Malaria No More

Timothy "Scott" Case is a technologist, entrepreneur and inventor and was co-founder of priceline.com, the "Name Your Own Price" Internet service. As Chief Technology Officer, he was responsible for building the technology that enabled priceline.com's hyper-growth. Moving beyond technology he successfully launched several priceline.com businesses. These included Priceline for Gasoline, by far the firm's fastest growing business. At the Walker Digital Invention Laboratory, Scott helped build a portfolio of intellectual property, and is a named inventor on dozens of U.S. patents including the underlying portfolio for priceline.com. Previously, Scott co-founded Precision Training Software, a software company that developed the world's first PC-based simulated flight instructor and photo-realistic flight simulator.

In 2006, Scott joined the Malaria No More team to inspire individuals and institutions in the private sector to end deaths cause by malaria. He also serves as the Chairman of Network for Good (www.NetworkForGood.org), a national nonprofit that has distributed more than $100 million to 20,000 nonprofits. Network for Good provides online fundraising and communications services to over 5,000 nonprofit organizations. Scott continues to build social enterprises that use technology, commercial processes, and incentives to create sustainable, scalable solutions to improve people's lives.

 

Chairman & Co-Founder

Peter Chernin, Chairman
President and COO, News Corporation

As President and Chief Operating Officer of one of the world's largest media companies, Peter Chernin oversees diversified global operations spanning five continents, including the production and distribution of film and television programming; television, satellite and cable broadcasting; and expansion into the digital media and Internet space. Since joining News Corp. in 1989, Mr. Chernin has gained a reputation as an executive with a unique mastery of both the creative and corporate sides of the entertainment business. Prior to becoming News Corp.'s President and COO in 1996, Mr. Chernin headed Twentieth Century Fox Filmed Entertainment and earlier, served as President of Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. He has also had oversight of Fox's tremendous growth in sports, cable and general entertainment television programming and distribution in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Chernin joined Fox from Lorimar Film Entertainment, where he was president and COO. Earlier, he was executive vice president, Programming and Marketing for Showtime/The Movie Channel Inc., vice president of development and production at the David Gerber Company, an editor for Warner Books and associate publicity director of St. Martin's Press.

 

Co-Founder

Raymond G. Chambers, Founder
Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Malaria, Board Member in Absentia

Mr. Chambers is a philanthropist and humanitarian who has directed most of his efforts towards children. He is the Founding Chairman of the Points of Light Foundation and co-founded, with Colin Powell, America's Promise Alliance. Mr. Chambers is Co-Founder of the National Mentoring Partnership, and Founding Chairman of both The Millennium Promise Alliance and Malaria No More.

Mr. Chambers is also the Founding Chairman of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and is a member of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. His board memberships include The National Mentoring Partnership, The Points of Light Foundation/Hands on Network, America's Promise Alliance, Communities in Schools, University of Notre Dame, and American Museum of Natural History. He is the former Chairman of Wesray Capital Corporation, which he co-founded with William E. Simon.

In February 2008, the Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed Mr. Chambers as the first Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Malaria.

 

Board Members

Omar S. Amanat
Founder, Tradescape Corporation

Omar S. Amanat is a U.S. businessman and entrepreneur. Named one of Wall Street's "Top Ten Most Influential Technologists," Mr. Amanat was a pioneer in the electronic brokerage industry. He began his entrepreneurial career at Datek Online, which was sold to Ameritrade for $1.3 billion. He then co-founded CyberBlock, the predecessor of CyberTrader Inc., which was acquired by Charles Schwab in 2000 for $488 million. Most recently he was the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of Tradescape Corporation, a brokerage and technology firm that processed over 10% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume and was one of the largest U.S. electronic brokerage firms in 2002 when he sold it to E*Trade for $280 million, becoming one of E*Trade's largest shareholders.

Mr. Amanat attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business and was the recipient of the Albert P. Einstein Technology award for outstanding corporate citizenship. He sits on the boards of Harlem Youth Development Foundation, Human Rights Watch, is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was the Vice Chairman of the Acumen Fund.

John Bridgeland, Vice Chairman
Vice Chairman, Malaria No More
President and CEO, Civic Enterprises, LLC

John Bridgeland is also President & CEO of Civic Enterprises. He was a Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he offered a class on Presidential Decision Making. Most recently, Mr. Bridgeland served as Assistant to the President of the United States and the first Director of the USA Freedom Corps. In that role, he coordinated more than $1 billion in domestic and international service initiatives and worked with non-profits, corporations and schools to foster a culture of service in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Prior to that, Bridgeland served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House. Bridgeland graduated with honors in government from Harvard University and received his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Kathy Bushkin Calvin
Executive Vice President and COO, United Nations Foundation

Kathy Bushkin is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation, created in 1998 with businessman and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic gift to support UN causes. Prior to joining the UN Foundation, Ms. Bushkin served as President of the AOL Time Warner Foundation and was the chief architect of the company's corporate responsibility initiatives. Ms. Bushkin joined America Online in 1997 as Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer. Immediately prior to joining AOL, she was a Senior Managing Director at Hill and Knowlton, a global public relations company and, for 12 years before that, was the Director of Editorial Administration for U.S. News & World Report. From 1976 through 1984, Ms. Bushkin served as Senator Gary Hart's press secretary. Ms. Bushkin currently serves on the boards of City Year, the International Women's Media Foundation, Internews, Share Our Strength, the National Women's Law Center, and the United Nations Association of the United States of America. In 1999 she and Art Bushkin founded the Stargazer Foundation, which provides free online tools for nonprofits through the web platform StargazerNET.net. Ms. Bushkin is a graduate of Purdue University and the recipient of numerous awards for leadership and philanthropy.

Jean Case
CEO, Case Foundation

An actively engaged philanthropist and a pioneer in the world of interactive technologies, Jean Case's career as a technology executive in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997.

Prior to the founding of the Case Foundation, Mrs. Case's role as a senior executive at America Online, Inc. (AOL) contributed to an online revolution that changed the way millions of people learn, communicate, and do business. At AOL, Mrs. Case directed the marketing and branding effort that launched the AOL service, directed the communications strategy for taking the company public, and helped establish AOL as not just a household name, but a household utility. Mrs. Case's passion for all things digital didn't begin at AOL. Before joining AOL when it was a small startup, she held strategic marketing positions at GE's Information Services Division and at The Source, the nation's first online service.

Mrs. Case has been honored for her philanthropic work by City Year, Habitat for Humanity, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, which recognizes leaders who use their assets and resources to improve American lives and institutions. In addition, King Abdullah II of Jordan personally recognized Mrs. Case for her efforts to bridge the global digital divide.

In addition to serving as chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, she serves on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, ePals (formerly in2Books), Millennium Promise, PlayPumps, and the Potomac School in McLean, Va., as well as the advisory council of the National Geographic Society and the advisory board to the National Conference on Citizenship.

Chris Clarke
Global Chairman and CEO, Nitro

Born in Australia, Chris majored in business at Monash University. Early on, he left a career in finance to direct theater and music videos. He also wrote and directed a feature-length film called "The Inner Sanctuary". Working in media exposed Chris to the advertising industry, which became his next career step.

At the age of 23, he founded Pure Creative, which quickly expanded into seven offices and became one of Asia's hottest creative agencies with a blue-chip client base that included Mars Inc., Procter & Gamble, Australian Tourist Commission and Coca-Cola. In late 1999, Chris sold Pure Creative to Bcom3 (Leo Burnett - D'Arcy).

He then founded Virtual Communities in 2000, an Internet company whose board he still sits on today. Its sole purpose was to bridge the gap between information rich and poor, working in partnership with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, The Catholic and Anglican Churches.

In 2002, Chris founded Nitro in Shanghai, a creative agency that now has offices in Melbourne, London, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, and New York. His clients include Mars, Footlocker, Volvo, Kraft, and Nike.

In addition to his award-winning creative work, Chris is an active philanthropist who has founded charities including a "Celebration of Life," a charity benefiting children helping to rebuild the Royal Children's Hospital; as well involvement in an orphanage in China.

Reginald E. Davis
Eastern Banking Group Executive, Wachovia Corporation

Reggie Davis is the Eastern Banking Group Executive for Wachovia. In this capacity he is responsible for all General Bank operations including retail and wholesale activities, such as branch delivery, commercial banking, business banking and corporate customer service excellence in the states of Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Davis has held numerous leadership positions during his twenty-two year tenure with Wachovia, including Northern Banking Group Executive; CEO for Wachovia's Atlantic region, which includes New York, New Jersey and Connecticut; and president for its Georgia West region.

He serves on the board of the American Cancer Society and chairs the Dean's Advisory Board for Business Administration and Economics for Morehouse College, his alma mater. He is the recipient of numerous leadership awards and has been named one of the "75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America."

Sir Richard Feachem
Professor of Global Health
University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley
KBE, CBE, BSc, PhD, DSc(Med), FREng, HonFFPHM, HonDEng

Richard G A Feachem is Professor of Global Health at both the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Global Health Group at UCSF Global Health Sciences. He is also a Visiting Professor at London University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland.

From 2002 to 2007, Sir Richard served as founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. During this time, the Global Fund grew from scratch to become the world's largest health financing institution for developing countries, with assets of US $11 billion, supporting 450 programmes in 136 countries.

From 1999 to 2002, Professor Feachem was the founding Director of the Institute for Global Health at UCSF and UC Berkeley. From 1995 until 1999 Dr Feachem was Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Previously (1989-1995), he was Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Feachem served as Chairman of the Foundation Council of the Global Forum for Health Research; Treasurer of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; Council Member of Voluntary Service Overseas; and on numerous other boards and committees. He was a member of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, and the Commission on HIV and Governance in Africa. He has worked in international health and development for 40 years and has published extensively on public health, health policy and development finance.

Professor Feachem holds a Doctor of Science degree in Medicine from the University of London, and a PhD in Environmental Health from the University of New South Wales. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering by the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2002 he was elected to membership of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences. Sir Richard was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2007.

Gabrielle Fitzgerald
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Gabrielle Fitzgerald is a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, responsible for the foundation's global health issue advocacy portfolio. Prior to joining the foundation, she spent five years at the U.S. Agency for International Development, focusing on HIV/AIDS and emergency programs. Previously, she served as the communications director for the U.S. Committee for Refugees and was a fellow with USAID/Zambia. Earlier in her career, Gabrielle worked in the speechwriting office at The White House and worked at the Department of Health and Human Services. Gabrielle holds a Master's of Public Administration from The Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and a B.A. from American University in Washington DC.

Jeffrey Flug
Former CEO and Executive Director, Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc.

Jeffrey Flug served as the first Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc. for 2 years. Before joining Millennium Promise, Jeff was Managing Director and Head of North American Institutional Sales at JP Morgan's Investment Bank. Prior, Jeff served as Managing Director for Goldman Sachs & Co. in its Fixed Income Division for 12 years. He has worked successfully in the financial sector for the last 20 years and has extensive managerial and leadership experience. Jeff is leading Millennium Promise, in collaboration with its key partners, the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the UN Millennium Project, in the work to end extreme global poverty and achieve the World's Millennium Development Goals. Jeff has a B.B.A in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University. He currently serves on the boards of Millennium Promise, Building with Books and the Love Hallie Foundation. He is married to Sheryl Flug and they have three children. Jeff and his family reside in New York City.

Fred Matser
Founder, Malaria No More! Netherlands

Fred Matser is an inspiring humanitarian who, like many others, cares deeply about the future of the planet. He has made it his life's work to contribute towards creating a more functional society by means of inspiration and empowerment. Towards this end he has been a (co-)initiator, (co-)creator and (co-)financer on a wide range of projects and foundations, including Peace Child, Child Alive Program for Red Cross, The Fred Foundation, Peace Flame and The Twinkling Eyes Club. The projects as well as the foundations cover the fields of healthcare, environment, conservation, peace and global transformation.

For his work, Fred Matser has received several awards including the first international Caring Award, which was later awarded to individuals such as Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall. Throughout his work, Matser has had the privilege of working in close association with inspiring individuals, such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Ruud Lubbers, Jane Goodall, Patch Adams and Jerry Jampolsky. He has also participated in various international events for global transformation including the State of the World Forum and, in September '06, the table of free voices in Berlin, an initiative of Dropping Knowledge.

Matser currently is Chairman of Malaria no More! Netherlands, in addition to his inspired work with his other projects and foundations.

Youssou N'Dour
Artist and Producer

Born in Dakar in 1959, N'Dour is a singer endowed with remarkable range and poise, and, as a composer, bandleader and producer, with a prodigious musical intelligence. The New York Times most recently described his voice as an "arresting tenor, a supple weapon deployed with prophetic authority". N'Dour absorbs the entire Senegalese musical spectrum in his work, often filtering this through the lens of genre-defying rock or pop music from outside Senegalese culture.

Named "African Artist of the Century" by the English publication Roots at the threshold of the year 2000, N'Dour has made mbalax famous throughout the world during more than twenty years of recording and touring outside of Senegal with his band, The Super Etoile.

Throughout his career, N'Dour has dedicated his voice to humanitarian causes. He first toured the world to take part in the Amnesty International concerts in 1986, and sang before an audience of 3 billion people for the FIFA World Cup in 1998. His role as Goodwill Ambassador to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership was initiated in 2005, when his "Africa Live: Roll Back Malaria" concert in Dakar took place. The BBC documentary of this concert has since been viewed by more than one billion people around the world. In addition to his malaria advocacy, N'Dour also serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, Special Ambassador of the International Labour Organization, and Knight Chevalier of France. The YND Foundation, based in Dakar, is a humanitarian organization founded by N'Dour to bring opportunities to African youth. Notably among many honors, N'Dour was named to the "Time 100" in 2007.

Steven C. Phillips, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Director for Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation

Dr. Steven C. Phillips is the Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation, where his responsibilities include overseeing the Corporation's "outside-the-fenceline" community and public health programs throughout its global operations. In this capacity, he has worked closely with governments, NGO's, U.N. agencies, multilateral, faith-based, and community organizations, and the private sector in fostering "public-private partnerships" as a development platform to address urgent global health priorities.

Dr. Phillips currently serves on the Boards of Malaria No More, Net Impact, and the World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative. He serves as an advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria. He is a member of the Harvard School of Public Health's Leadership Council and the advisory panels of Medicines for Malaria Ventures, the UCSF Global Health Group, Episcopal Relief and Development's "NetsforLife" Initiative, the World Bank Malaria Booster Program, and the Strategic Advisory Group of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. He is also a Private Sector Advisory Board representative to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria.

Dr. Phillips received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Stanford University. He did his post-graduate training in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco, received a Master of Public Health from UCLA, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine. Dr. Phillips is a member of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.

Prior to joining Exxon, Dr. Phillips served in the U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Ian V. Rowe
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Public Affairs, MTV

Ian V. Rowe is the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Public Affairs for MTV: Music Television. His department oversees MTV's on-air, off-air, online and on-demand "pro-social" campaigns that engage, educate and empower young people to take action on the issues that impact their lives, their community and their world. This includes Choose or Lose, a Presidential election campaign which in 2004 helped inspire nearly 22 million 18-30-year-olds to vote. Mr. Rowe's team also launched think MTV and think.mtv.com, a new pro-social approach that aims to inform and empower young people on domestic and global issues such as education, the environment, and the fight against extreme poverty, malaria and HIV/AIDS. Prior to MTV, Mr. Rowe was the White House Director of Strategy and Performance Measurement for USA Freedom Corps. He was also founder and President of Third Millennium Media, a media consulting business, and was a Senior Engagement Manager at Andersen Consulting. Mr. Rowe worked at Teach For America and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Cornell University. He is an Echoing Green Fellow and a Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Fellow.

Edward W. Scott, Jr.
Founder, Friends of the Global Fights Against AIDS, TB and Malaria

Ed Scott is a founder of the Center for Global Development, DATA and Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for International Economics. In 1995, Ed Scott founded BEA Systems, Inc, where he served both as President and Executive Vice President for World Wide Field Operations, supervising BEA's sales, marketing and service operations.

Prior to founding BEA, Mr. Scott was executive vice president in charge of worldwide sales and marketing at Pyramid Technology. Mr. Scott also was one of the founders of Sun Microsystems Federal Division, Sun Federal. Mr. Scott was an executive in the US government for 17 years, where he served under seven Attorneys General and three Secretaries of Transportation. In his last government assignment, he was an Assistant Secretary in the US Department of Transportation. He holds a B.A. and Masters degrees from Michigan State University, and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.

Timothy P. Shriver
Chairman, Special Olympics, Inc.

Timothy Shriver is the Chairman of Special Olympics, Inc. In this capacity, he serves more than 2.25 million Special Olympics athletes and their families in over 160 countries, and has helped transform Special Olympics into a movement that focuses on acceptance, inclusion and respect for individuals with intellectual disabilities in all corners of the globe. Within his nine years as Chair, he has overseen a massive expansion of the organization, extending programs to developing and war-torn countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Iraq, Macedonia, and Serbia. He has also created new initiatives to enhance the lives of millions with intellectual disabilities, such as the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® and the Special Olympics Unified Sports®. Shriver earned his B.A. from Yale University, a Master's degree in Religion and Religious Education from Catholic University, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Connecticut. He currently serves on the Board of the Education Commission of the States' Compact for Learning and Citizenship, chairs the Board of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Christopher Stamos
Partner, Sterling Stamos Capital Management, L.P.

Christopher Stamos is a Partner and the former COO of Sterling Stamos Capital Management, L.P. Currently, Mr. Stamos is the President of Sterling Stamos Corporate Philanthropy and the Sterling Stamos Global Institute. Mr. Stamos worked for the Environmental Protection Agency's Air and Toxics Division as an Environmental Protection Specialist, and, more recently, for Saatchi & Saatchi in Taiwan. Mr. Stamos spent 10 years studying and working in China, Japan, and Taiwan. Mr. Stamos earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University, where he was awarded a Stanford Golden Grant and a Newton Tatum Scholarship towards a M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University, graduating with Honors. After attaining fluency in Mandarin at the Cultural University of Beijing, Mr. Stamos received a Mombusho Scholarship towards a M.A. in East Asian International Relations from the International University of Japan, graduating valedictorian. Mr. Stamos is the Vice Chairman of Friends Without A Border, a 501(c)3 which supports the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He is also an active supporter and advocate for the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation's HIV-AIDS Initiative, Partners In Health, the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, and the Cambodian Children's Fund.

The Honourable, Belinda Stronach
Executive Vice-Chairman, Magna International Inc. and Co-Founder, Spread the Net
Former Member of Parliament, Newmarket-Aurora

Belinda Stronach is a business and public leader who cares deeply about issues of quality of life both in Canada and abroad. In 2002, she was ranked #2 by Fortune Magazine in its list of the world's most powerful women in business. In 2004, TIME Magazine ranked Belinda as one of the world's 100 most influential people and in 2005 the World Economic Forum named her a member of its network of Young Global Leaders.

Belinda is Member of Parliament for Newmarket-Aurora (Ontario), representing the community where she has lived most of her life. She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2004 general election and then re-elected in the 2006 general election. In 2005, at the invitation of the Prime Minister, she joined the Cabinet and assumed responsibility for two separate and senior portfolios as Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal. She is currently the elected Chair of the Women's Caucus of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons.

Belinda is also Executive Vice-Chairman of Magna International Inc., one of the largest global suppliers of automotive systems and components in the world with 83,000 employees in 23 countries. Under her earlier corporate leadership as the former President and CEO of Magna, the company had record sales and profits in each year and its stock price nearly doubled in value.

In 2006, Belinda co-founded Spread the Net, a national grassroots fundraising campaign with Canadian television personality Rick Mercer. Inspired by the devastating effects of malaria observed on a trip to Africa in 2005, Belinda and Rick launched Spread the Net in partnership with UNICEF Canada to raise awareness and funds to combat death from malaria.

Belinda is a Director of the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. and a Director of Millennium Promise Canada, where she is involved in supporting the work of Professor Jeffrey Sachs with Millennium Villages as a model of integrated international development. Based on her personal experience with breast cancer in spring 2007, she is also patron of the Belinda Stronach Chair in Breast Cancer Reconstructive Surgery at the Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation. The Chair provides guaranteed funding for a program to ensure that the important option of reconstructive surgery for women who have undergone mastectomies is more widely available.

Ann Veneman
Executive Director, UNICEF

Ann M. Veneman assumed the leadership of UNICEF on May 1, 2005, becoming the fifth Executive Director to lead UNICEF. Prior to joining UNICEF, Veneman served as the 27th Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture from 2001 to 2005.

At UNICEF Veneman directs a global agency of more than 10,000 staff and annual total resources of about $3 billion, funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of governments, businesses, foundations and individuals. She has traveled across the world, witnessing firsthand the work of UNICEF, attending meetings and conferences, and visiting heads of state, government and other partners.

Veneman's vision at UNICEF includes instilling a "sense of urgency" about the Millennium Development Goals and their 2015 deadline, as well as ensuring that the agency's policies and programs are oriented around achieving them.

She has stressed a results-based approach that focuses on scaling up integrated packages of interventions to support children's health and development. Veneman has also emphasized the importance of strong, effective collaboration for efficient resource utilization and maximizing results.

Veneman earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Davis; a master's degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley; and a juris doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.

Veneman has received numerous awards and honors and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Rick Warren
Founder and Pastor, Saddleback Church

Dr. Warren is a global strategist, innovator, author, philanthropist, and pastor, and has been identified as "America's most influential spiritual leader."

Dr. Warren advises leaders in the public, private, and faith sectors on, poverty, health, education, corruption, leadership development, and faith and ethics in culture. He founded Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA. with one family in 1980. Today it may be America's most influential congregation with 83,000 names on the church roll, a 120 acre campus, and over 300 community ministries.

Dr. Warren built the Purpose Driven Network, a global alliance of over 400,000 pastors from in 162 countries and hundreds of denominations who have been trained by Warren. He also founded www.pastors.com, that provides sermons, forums, and resources for hundreds of thousands of church leaders. Dr. Warren wrote The Purpose Driven Life, the bestselling hardback in American history, according to Publisher's Weekly. It has sold 30 million copies in English and was the best-selling book in the world for 3 years, in over 50 languages. His previous book, The Purpose Driven Church, won the ECPA Gold Medallion and is listed in 100 Books that Changed the 20th Century.

Rick and Kay Warren give away 90% of their income through three charities: Acts of Mercy, which serves people with AIDS, Equipping Leaders, which trains leaders in developing countries, and The Global PEACE Fund, which fights poverty, disease, corruption, and illiteracy using local congregations.

Jeff Weiner
Executive in Residence, Accel Partners and Greylock Partners

Jeff Weiner is an Executive-in-Residence for leading Venture Capital firms Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, advising the firm's portfolio companies and evaluating new investment opportunities. Prior to joining Accel and Greylock, Weiner served in key leadership roles at Yahoo! for over seven years, most recently as the Executive Vice President of Yahoo!'s Network Division. In this position he led a team of over 3,000 employees, managing products reaching over 500 million consumers, and overseeing a P&L responsible for roughly $3 billion in annual revenue. During his tenure, Weiner helped drive the Network's Open and Social strategy as well as expansion of the company's category-leading consumer web products, including Yahoo!'s Front Doors, Communications and Community products, Search, and Media properties. From 2001 to 2002, Weiner oversaw Corporate Development at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for the development and modification of overall corporate and individual business unit strategy and M&A. From 1994 to 2000, he worked at Warner Bros., where he helped conceive the initial plan for Warner Bros. Online and played a key role in developing and overseeing the division. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Weiner is also actively involved in the non-profit sector, with specific focus on leveraging digital capabilities to broaden the reach and scale of high impact causes. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of DonorsChoose.org and Malaria No More.

Honorable Harris Wofford
Former U.S. Senator

Harris Wofford represented the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1991 to 1994. Previously, in the Bob Casey campaign for Governor in 1986, Wofford was chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and then served as Gov. Casey's Secretary of Labor and Industry. He was president of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA from 1970 to 1978.

In the 1960s, Wofford served as President Kennedy's Special Assistant for Civil Rights, and worked closely with Sargent Shriver in organizing the Peace Corps. Later he served as the Peace Corps' Special Representative to Africa and its Associate Director. In 1949 he and his wife Clare had a fellowship in India to study Gandhi, after which they wrote the book India Afire. Wofford became an advisor to Martin Luther King in the 1950s after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He was counsel to Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame on the first U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1958-60.

Wofford was appointed by President Clinton to be CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, the Senior Corps, Service-Learning and other national service programs. He serves as the spokesperson for the Experience Wave and is currently participating with Pennsylvania state leaders in a National Governors Association Policy Academy on Senior Engagement.

Wofford is on several boards and is the author five books, including Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and of both Howard and Yale law schools. In 1954, he was the first white man to graduate from Howard University School of Law.

 

Founding Members Advisory Group

Ambassador Nancy Brinker
Founder, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

Nancy G. Brinker ignited the global breast cancer movement more than 25 years ago by promising her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died at age 36 of the disease that she would put an end to the shame, the pain, the fear and the hopelessness that breast cancer caused.

In 1982, Ambassador Brinker, along with a handful of dedicated friends, founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure in her sister's memory. In the face of social criticism, she started the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure®, the most successful fundraising and education event for charity ever created. Additionally, she pioneered cause-related marketing to bring millions more people—from top executives to everyday consumers—into the ranks of the breast cancer battle. Her patient advocacy work resulted in the development of many new treatment options and a higher quality of life overall for breast cancer patients and long-term survivors. Susan G. Komen for the Cure has played a role in every major advance in breast cancer and is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Komen for the Cure is the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.

In addition to her personal dedication to the breast cancer movement, today Ambassador Brinker serves the United States as Chief of Protocol. The former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary, Ambassador Brinker is globally known as an agent of change and was included in TIME's "100 Most Influential People" in 2008 and has received numerous appointments and accolades for her work.

Helene Gayle
President and CEO, CARE USA

Helene D. Gayle is president and CEO of CARE USA. An internationally recognized expert on health, development and humanitarian issues, she decided early in her profession to focus on matters of social justice and equity. Dr. Gayle spent 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control, focused primarily on combating HIV/AIDS. Dr. Gayle then directed the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In April 2006, she joined CARE, one of the world's premier international humanitarian organizations, with programs in more than 70 countries to end poverty.

Named one of the Wall Street Journal's "50 Women to Watch" in 2006, Dr. Gayle has published numerous scientific articles and has been featured in media outlets as diverse as the New York Times, Washington Post, Glamour, O magazine, Ebony, Essence, the Financial Times, National Public Radio and CNN.

Dr. Gayle was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. She earned a B.A. in psychology at Barnard College, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Gayle serves on several boards, including the Centers for Strategic and International Studies, ONE, the American Museum of Natural History, the Institute of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Atlanta, GA.

Dr. Charles F. MacCormack
President and CEO, Save the Children

Dr. Charles F. "Charlie" MacCormack has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Save the Children since January, 1993.

Dr. MacCormack was President of World Learning (formerly known as The Experiment in International Living), in Brattleboro, Vermont from 1977 through 1992. Prior to becoming President of World Learning, he served as an International Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Assistant to the Dean of the International Fellows Program at Columbia University and lecturer at the University of New Hampshire.

Dr. MacCormack serves as Board Chair of InterAction, and previously served on InterAction's Executive Committee. He is also currently on the Board of the International Save the Children Alliance. He has served on the Food Security Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was selected by the United Nations Secretary General to participate in the founding of the United Nations University, served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the World Food Summit and the United States Delegation to the Preparatory Committee for the 2001 General Assembly Special Session on the Children.

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Education by Middlebury College, an honorary Doctor of Laws by Clark University and was made a member of the Grand Cordon of the Order of Al-Istiolal by King Hussein of Jordan.

Dr. MacCormack received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Columbia University. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. He received his B.A. from Middlebury College.

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter
Chairman, American Red Cross

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter is the Founder and CEO of Pace Communications, the largest custom publishing company in the nation serving an array of Fortune 500 companies, making Bonnie one of the nation's most successful women entrepreneurs, ranked by Working Woman Magazine as one of the top 175 women-owned businesses in America. Bonnie is also current Chairman of the American Red Cross and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland (2001-2004).

As a long-time philanthropist and charitable-cause activist, Bonnie was appointed by President Bush as National Chairman of the Board of the American Red Cross in 2005. Her appointment marked the first time a woman has been named to this position, and in 2007 the Board voted unanimously to appoint her as Chairman for a second term. Bonnie has served as a member of the International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity, chaired the Alexis de Tocqueville Society, served on the United Way of America Board as a member of its National Leadership Council, and is founder of the United Way Billion Dollar National Women's Leadership Initiative and co-founder of The Tiffany Circle Society of Women Leaders. Bonnie serves on several Boards, is Chairman of Washington National Opera's Global Advisory Board, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Dr. Carl-Christian Rosenbröijer Award and "Woman Entrepreneur of the Year" Award from the National Foundation for Women Legislatures.

Bonnie divides her time between Greensboro, North Carolina, Washington, DC…and an airplane... She is married to Bynum Merritt Hunter, an attorney with the law firm of Smith Helms. They have a 26-year-old son, Bynum Merritt Hunter, Jr., a 2005 graduate of Williams College, whom Bonnie calls the family's "Chairman of the Board."

 

Science and Health Advisors

Dr. Ogobara Doumbo
Director, Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Mali

Dr. Ogobara Doumbo is the Director of the Malaria Research and Training Center and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases at the University of Mali. From 1996 to 2001, he directed the Mali-Tulane Tropical Medical Research Center Program under a NIH grant; since 1994, he has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Tulane School of Public Health. An accomplished researcher and clinician, Dr. Doumbo has acted as primary investigator for numerous malarial drug trials, and worked on the WHO-sponsored Multilateral Initiative on Malaria/Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (MIM/TDR) task force on malaria research in Africa. Dr. Doumbo is the recipient of numerous scientific and teaching accolades, including the CIWARA PRICE in Biomedical Research, the Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mali, the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur Francaise, and, most recently, the Research Award on Malaria in Africa at the 6ème Forum International in Bamako. Dr. Doumbo received his MD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Mali and his PhD from the University of Montpellier, France in Parisitology. He has also received certificates in Epidemiology and Bioethics from Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities.

Dr. Brian Greenwood
Director, Gates Malaria Partnership, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

After attending the University of Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School Brian Greenwood qualified in medicine in 1962. Following house-officer appointments in London, he spent three years in Western Nigeria at University College Hospital, Ibadan as a medical registrar and research fellow. This period in Nigeria was followed by three years in the U.K. training in clinical immunology. In 1970, he returned to Nigeria to help establish a new medical school at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he developed his research interests in malaria and meningococcal disease whilst continuing to teach and practice clinical medicine.

In 1980, Dr. Greenwood moved to the U.K. Medical Research Council Laboratories in The Gambia which he directed for the next 15 years. In The Gambia, he helped to establish a multi-disciplinary research program which focused on some of the most important infectious diseases prevalent in The Gambia and neighboring countries; these diseases include malaria, pneumonia, measles, meningitis, hepatitis and HIV2.

In 1996, Dr. Greenwood was appointed to the staff of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he is now Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine and Director of the Gates Malaria Partnership which supports a program of research and capacity development in many countries in Africa directed at improving treatment and prevention of malaria.

Dr. Louis Miller
Malaria Research Scientist, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

Dr. Miller is the lead Malaria Research Scientist at the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Miller has focused his scientific life on malaria research and its control and treatment. He has made important discoveries about the factors malaria parasites use to infect and survive in humans and mosquitoes, researched how genetic engineering could be used to neutralize mosquitoes that act as carriers of malaria, and led a program to develop vaccines against the malarial parasite.

A graduate of Haverford College, Columbia University and the medical school at Washington University, Dr. Miller began working on malaria in 1965. In 1971, he joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to head the malaria section of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases.

Dr. Miller is a recipient of many awards and honors, including the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research; election to the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine; the Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize; and the Humanitarian award of Haverford College.

Dr. Laurence Slutsker
Chief, Malaria Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Laurence Slutsker, MD, MPH, is currently Chief of the Malaria Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has an appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Slutsker received his B.S. from the University of Michigan and his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, he also holds a Masters degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Slutsker is board certified in both internal medicine and preventive medicine. In 1987, Dr. Slutsker joined CDC. He has conducted and supervised epidemiologic research in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Sudan, South Africa, Japan and the United States on a variety of topics including malaria, HIV/AIDS, diarrheal diseases and general tropical public health. He has lectured widely in the U.S. and abroad on his research and on general public health issues. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 scientific journal articles, book chapters, and other publications. His current work is focused on prevention and treatment of malaria in infants and pregnant women, anti-malarial drug resistance, interactions between HIV and malaria, and evaluations of malaria control programs.

Honorary Chairs

President George W. Bush
First Lady Laura Bush

President George H.W. Bush