- Jacques Rogge
Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Born in Ghent, Dr. Count Rogge competed in yachting in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and played on the Belgian national rugby union team. Rogge served as president of the Belgian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992, and as president of the European Olympic Committees from 1989 to 2001.
- Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi used to be the CEO of SAP. Today he is planning to rebuild the automobile industry from the ground up. With Better Place , he has a business model that may make electric cars real, tomorrow. He began when he was asked a simple question at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: How do you make the world a better place by 2020? Being an engineer, he took that question seriously and began thinking about moving transportation off oil, completely.
- Leo Apotheker
Léo Apotheker is a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG. Léo Apotheker has been a member of the SAP AG Executive Board and President of Global Customer Solutions & Operations since 2002.In his role, he is responsible for all of SAP’s customer operations including consulting, education and training, sales, marketing, SMB, and field services. Prior to that, he was President of SAP EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) from 1999 to 2002.
- Lee Jong-Wook
Lee Jong-wook was the Director-General of the World Health Organization for three years. He was born in Seoul, South Korea and died - while in office - in Geneva, Switzerland. Lee obtained a medical degree from Seoul National University, then enrolled at the University of Hawaii to study public health, earning a Master's degree. He joined the WHO in 1983, working on a variety of projects including the Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunizations and Stop TB.
- Rodrigo Rato
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo was Spain's Economy Minister and Vice President serving with the People's Party (PP) between 1996 and 2004. He was appointed to become director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on May 4, 2004. He actually became director on June 7, 2004 and he is expected to resign his post in October, 2007, after IMF Annual Meetings. He's married to María Ángeles Alarco Canosa, a businesswoman.
- Walter Reuther
Walter Philip Reuther was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic party in the mid 20th century. He was a leading liberal and supporter of the New Deal coalition. Reuther was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of a socialist brewery worker who had immigrated from Germany. In his entire career he was close to his brothers and co-workers Victor Reuther and Roy Reuther.
- Klaus Kleinfeld
Klaus Kleinfeld (born November 6 1957 in Bremen, Germany) was chief executive officer (CEO) of Siemens AG from 2005 till July 2007. On April 25, 2007, Siemens AG distributed a press release announcing that the supervisory board was not planning to renew Kleinfeld's contract, due to United States authorities' ongoing investigations of the Siemens corruption scandal. Displeased by this decision, Kleinfeld announced that he would leave his position by September 30, 2007.
- Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation.
- Larry Kellner
Lawrence W. "Larry" Kellner (born 1959) has been CEO of Continental Airlines since December 2004. He previously served as a vice president, chief financial officer and chief operations officer for the airline. Kellner grew up in Sumter, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1981 with a degree in accounting. He resides in Houston, Texas.
- Jana Bennett
Jana Bennett OBE is Head of Vision at the BBC. She took up the post in 2006, having previously been Director of Television since April 2002. Previously she had been Executive Vice President and General Manager at Discovery Communications in the USA. Born in Cooperstown, New York State, Bennett moved to Britain in 1969, and first joined the BBC in 1979. She worked on various news and current affairs programmes before becoming editor of "Horizon" in 1990.
- Tim Davie
Tim Davie (b.1967) is the BBC's Director of Marketing, Communications & Audiences. He joined the BBC in April 2005, from PepsiCo, and was Mark Thompson's first senior external appointment as Director General of the BBC. Prior to PepsiCo, Tim Davie worked at Procter and Gamble having studied English at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is a Director of Freeview and Digital UK. He is also a Trustee of Children in Need.
- Ken Georgetti
Kenneth (Ken) V. Georgetti (born 1952, Trail, British Columbia) is a Canadian labour union leader. He was elected president of the Canadian Labour Congress in May of 1999. Georgetti arrived at the head of the Canadian Labour Congress after a quarter century of union activism in British Columbia, home to Canada's most polarized politics and of a vibrant labour movement. Born in Trail, in the southern interior of the province, …
- Cees Maas
Cees Maas (born May 1, 1947) is currently the chief financial officer and vice chairman of the executive board for ING Group. He has been with the company since 1992 and became CFO in 1996. He graduated from Erasmus University Rotterdam with a degree in physical engineering and a master's degree in economics.
- Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a Democratic politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is best known as the first and only woman to date to represent a major U.S. political party as a candidate for Vice President. Ferraro and running mate Walter Mondale were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush in the 1984 election.
- Anthony Ruys
Anthony Ruys is a former Chairman of the Executive Board of Heineken N.V. Ruys studied commercial law at the University of Utrecht. He started his career for Unilever where he worked as marketing director and chairman for various subsidiaries of Unilever in the Netherlands, Colombia and Italy. In September 1993, Mr. Ruys continued his career at the Heineken Group, where he became Executive Board Member, responsible a.o. for marketing.
- Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced "Goff"), is an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. After initially falling short of gaining enough seats to win government at the 1969 election, Whitlam led the Labor Party in to government at the 1972 election after 23 years of conservative government in Australia.
- Rikki Klieman
Television anchor, legal analyst, trial attorney, actor and best-selling author, Rikki Klieman has earned a sterling reputation as one of the nation's most celebrated lawyers and legal authorities. A dynamic and versatile communicator, Klieman has found success in multiple fields, including television journalism, the courtroom, academia and public speaking.
- Gerold Bührer
Gerold Bührer is a Swiss politician and member of the National Council since 1991. Bührer presided the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) in 2001/2002. He was member of the parliament of the Canton of Schaffhausen from 1982 to 1991. From 1991 to 2000, Bührer was head of Corporate Treasury and Executive Committee member of Georg Fischer AG (CFO). Bührer is currently a member of the board of directors of Swiss Life (Vice Chairman), Georg Fischer AG, Bank Sal. Oppenheim jr.
- Carlos Cortez
Carlos Cortez (August 13, 1923 - January 19, 2005) was a poet, graphic artist, photographer, muralist and political activist, active for six decades in the Industrial Workers of the World. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1923, the son of a Mexican-Indian Wobbly union organizer father and a German socialist pacifist mother, …
- Bonnie J. Addario
Bonnie J. Addario is the Founder and Chair of The Bonnie J. Addario A Breath Away From The Cure Foundation (ABAFTC), a San Francisco, California based nonprofit that is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to eradicating lung cancer. In that role, Addario works with a diverse group of physicians, organizations, and individuals to identify solutions and make timely and meaningful change through research, screening, education, prevention, and treatment.
- Clara Lemlich
Clara Lemlich Shavelson (January 1, 1886 - July 12, 1982) was a leader of the "Uprising of 20,000", the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909. Later blacklisted from the industry for her union work, she became a member of the Communist Party and a consumer activist. In her last years as a nursing home resident she helped to organize the staff.
- Carol Bellamy
Carol Bellamy, president and CEO of World Learning, will deliver the commencement address at Vermont Law School’s 31st commencement ceremony. The public is invited to attend the ceremony, which will begin at 10:30 AM on the South Royalton town green. Bellamy also serves as president of the School for International Training.
- Tret Fure
Tret Fure (born March 18, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter, prominent in the women's music scene. Fure started her career as a backing vocalist on rock albums by Spencer Davis and Little Feat, and released her self-titled solo debut album in 1973 on MCA Records (produced by Lowell George and featuring Bonnie Raitt).
- Wayne Stevens
- Hilda Borko
Hilda Borko is an educational psychologist who researches teacher cognition and changes in novice and experienced teachers' knowledge and beliefs. Her work has identified factors that affect teachers' learning of reform-based practices. She is chair of the educational psychology program area in the school of education at the University of Colorado, and is a former president of the American Educational Research Association.
- Ben Ysursa
Ben Ysursa, born October 15 1949 in Boise, Idaho, is the Secretary of State in Idaho, USA. He was elected on the Republican Party ticket.
- Eileen Appelbaum
- Theodore Levin
Theodore Levin (February 18, 1897-December 31, 1970) was a prominent immigration lawyer and U.S. federal jurist who served on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1946 until his death in 1970. From 1959 to 1967, he was chief judge of that court. Levin was born in Chicago, though his family lived in London, Ontario, Canada from 1905 to 1913.
- Edward L. Masry
Edward L. Masry (born July 29,1932 in Paterson, New Jersey, died December 6,2005 in Thousand Oaks, California) was a partner in the law firm of Masry and Vititoe and a city councilman. Masry attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California Los Angeles, and University of Southern California. Although he never received a bachelor's degree, Loyola Law School accepted him on an exemption due to high placement scores.
- Shelton Quarles
Shelton Eugene Quarles (born September 11, 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a former linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team he played for in his ten year career from 1997 to 2006.
- Eldridge Haynes
Eldridge Haynes (1904-1976) is best remembered as the founder of Business International Corporation and a spokesman for free trade and advocate for the international business community. His early career in journalism took him to McGraw-Hill, and then eventually into starting a new magazine called Modern Industry. Recognizing that American companies were increasingly investing abroad, he founded Business International in 1953. By the time of his death in 1976, …
- David Ignatow
David Ignatow (February 7, 1914-November 17, 1997) was a noted US poet.
- Marcel Boyer
Marcel Boyer is one of Canada's best known economists. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie Mellon University and teaches at the economics department of the University of Montreal, where he currently occupies the Bell Canada Chair in industrial economics. He is also a fellow of the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations ( CIRANO ) and sits on the board of the Quebec agency for public-private partnerships.
- George H. Brown
George H. Brown was an American research engineer. He was a prolific inventor who held more than 80 patents and wrote over 100 technical papers. He led the RCA Corporation's efforts to develop a color television system which is still in use today. He was associated with the RCA for over forty years, becoming an executive vice president for research and engineering in November 1961.
- Robert Digges Wimberly Connor
Robert Digges Wimberly Connor (1878-1950) was an American historian and the first Archivist of the United States (1934-1941). He was born 26 Sept. 1878 in Wilson, North Carolina, the son of Henry G. Connor and Kate Whitfield Connor. At the time that President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to head the National Archive, Connor was serving as a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he graduated himself in 1899.
- Subhas Mukhopadhyay
Subhas Mukhopadhyay (February 12, 1919 - July 8, 2003) was one of the foremost Bengali poets of the 20th century.
- Nick Ferrari
Nick Ferrari , CEO, Erdos & Morgan Inc. Nick Ferrari has more than 20 years of experience in the advertising, marketing and research arena. His continuous involvement in new market strategies and tactics, including his leadership in both the old and new media, provides a depth of experience among an already established and dedicated team. Previously Ferrari was vice president, chief marketing officer, DMIND Corporation.
- Faye Ringel
Faye Ringel is a member of the Executive Board of the New England Associationof Teachers of English. In 2005 she received the Charles Swain Thomas Award, in recognition of distinguished service to that organization and to the profession of English. In 2004, she was the sole U.S. representative for Gothic studies at the European Association for American Studies convention in Prague.
- Harriet Miers
Harriet Miers serves as Counsel to the President. Most recently, she served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, and prior to that she was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary. Ms. Miers has a long and distinguished professional career. Before joining the President's staff, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000.
- Donald J. Carty
Mr. Carty has been a member of the Company's board of directors since 1992 and for much of that time has served as chairman of the Audit Committee. From 1998 to 2003, Carty served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of AMR Corporation. He also previously served as President of AMR Airline Group and American Airlines, Inc. Prior to that he was the Chief Financial Officer and held various other executive positions at AMR and its subsidiaries.