- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", …
- Laura Scher
Laura Scher Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, Working Assets Laura Scher is co-founder, chairperson and chief executive officer of Working Assets, a mobile and credit card company dedicated to building a world that is more just, humane and environmentally sustainable. Laura co-founded Working Assets in 1985 on the belief that building a business and building a better world are not mutually exclusive.
- Catherine L. Hughes
Catherine L. Hughes Founder, Chairperson of the Board and Secretary Ms. Hughes has been Chairperson of the Board of Directors and Secretary of Radio One since 1980 and was Chief Executive Officer of Radio One from 1980 to 1997. She was one of the founders of Radio One�s predecessor company in 1980. Since 1980, Ms. Hughes has worked in various capacities for Radio One including President, General Manager, General Sales Manager and talk show host.
- Jayoti Lahiri
Jayoti Lahiri Founder Chairperson
- Liavan Mallin
Liavan Mallin Liavan Mallin graduated from DCU in 1985 with a BSc in Computer Applications. She later received a degree in Applied Finance from the Irish Management Institute. Ms. Mallin is the founder, Chairperson and CEO of ShopDirect as well as being founder and Chairperson of Onemade.com. A member of the Board of Trustees, Dublin City University since 1998, she has worked with the DCU Educational Trust to improve teaching, sports and social facilities at the University.
- Anna Zhuravel
- Solomy Balungi Bossa
Solomy Balungi Bossa was born in Kampala Uganda in 1957 and after her Degree course at Makerere University in 1979, she pursued a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. She went on to become the first female president of the Uganda Law Society and was also the founder President of the East African Law Society between 1995 and 1997. A member of the International Commission of Jurists, Bossa was until her appointment to the ICTR, judge of the High Court of Uganda.
- Christine Delport
Christine studied BA Social Work through the University of South Africa, (1974-1977) after which she started working for the Dept. of Social Welfare in Johannesburgfor the next few years. This experience would remain with her for the rest of her life in as far as her being passionate about and caring for the well being of people around her, and always attempting to play a role in ensuring a better quality of life for those whom she serve and people who might cross her path.
- Cheryl Mayberry-
Cheryl Mayberry-McKissack, Founder, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, NiaOnline
- Cheryl Mayberry-McKissack
Cheryl Mayberry-McKissack Founder, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer
- Najmah Thomas
Najmah Thomas , Founder, Chairperson 2002-2007
- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …
- Fazle Hasan Abed
Fazle Hasan Abed is a Bangladeshi social worker, and the founder and chairman of BRAC (formerly, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). For his outstanding contributions to social improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul Haq Award. Abed is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specificially on the link between exclusion, poverty and law.
- Catherine L. Hughes
Catherine L. Hughes is the founder and chairperson of Radio One, the largest African American owned and operated broadcast company in the nation. Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1947, Catherine Hughes attended Creighton University and University of Nebraska. Around 1969 she began working at KOWH, a black radio station in Omaha. In 1971, Hughes moved to Washington, DC and became a lecturer at the newly established School of Communications at Howard University.
- Eric Byrne
Eric Byrne is an Irish Labour Party politician and former Teachta Dála (TD). He was formerly a member of Sinn Féin - The Workers' Party, the Workers' Party and Democratic Left. A carpenter before entering politics, Byrne stood unsuccessfully for election to Dáil Éireann as a Workers' Party candidate for Dublin Rathmines West in the 1977 general election and Dublin South Central in the 1981, February 1982, November 1982 and 1987 general elections.
- Sima Samar Sima Samar
Dr. Sima Samar is the Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Darfur, Sudan. Dr. Samar obtained her degree in medicine from Kabul University in 1982 and fled Afghanistan two years later for Pakistan, where she spent more than a decade as refugee. In Pakistan, Dr. Samar established the Shuhada Organization and Shuhada Clinic in Quetta for Afghan women and girls refugees.
- Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen's advocacy organization as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization.
- Lex Frieden
Lex Frieden , one of the architects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and a nationally-recognized independent living advocate, has joined the faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Lex Frieden Frieden's primary appointment is as a professor of health informatics at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston (SHIS), where he will direct the school's new Laboratory for Adaptive Technologies.
- Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team.
- Peter Senge
Peter Senge received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT. He lives with his wife and their two children in central Massachusetts. Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Jonas Chartock
Jonas Samuel Chartock is President & CEO of the Charter School Policy Institute. He was hired in January 2005. Upon graduating from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1997, Chartock joined Teach For America and taught fourth grade for three years at General Rosecrans Elementary School in Compton, California.
- Lara Hedberg Deam
Lara Hedberg Deam (b. 1967) is the founder of architecture and design magazine "Dwell" and current chair of the Dwell, LLC board. Hedberg was raised in Janesville, Wisconsin and is the daughter of Don and Gerry Hedberg, founders of the company, Lab Safety Supply. After her family sold the company, Hedberg involved herself in various philanthropies. When she moved to Mill Valley, California in 1994, …
- Ellen L. Shackelford
Ellen L. Shackelford President, Connections Access Consulting Services, LLC (CACS) Ms. Ellen Shackelford As a person who has sustained a disability through injury, Ellen Shackelford is well aware of the many challenges people with disabilities face daily. She also knows people with disabilities are often overlooked in social situations and activities.
- Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington was born on January 2, 1969 in Walnut Creek, California, United States of America. She is a famous international model and actress. Biography and Career : Christy Turlington grew up in Danville, California, with a British father and a mother from El Salvador. She has also worked on various campaigns for Maybelline Cosmetic and Giorgio Armani , has appeared in several...
- Christopher Borgen
- Elizabeth Funk
Elizabeth Funk is the Chairman of the Board of Unitus (www.unitus.com), a microfinance accelerator, and the founder of the Dignity Fund (www.dignityfund.com), a microfinance investment vehicle. Until early 2007, Ms. Funk served as the President and CEO of CML Global Capital, a diversified international investment firm. Prior to joining CML, Ms. Funk was an early employee of Yahoo! , where she founded the Yahoo!
- Ellen V. Sigal
Ellen V. Sigal , PhD - Chairperson [ print ] Marlene Malek - President [ print ] Ellen V. Sigal , PhD , is the founder and Chairperson of Friends of Cancer Research (
- Prakash Bhattarai
Prakash Bhattarai is Chairperson of Youth Action Nepal who is acting as youth human rights activist for the last ten years. He has completed his master degree in Population Studies from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He is also acting as a researcher, trainer, planner and campaigner on number of social issues from local to international level.
- Richard Mills CFA
Richard Mills Chairman (Advisor) Richard is a featured presenter for Asia region conferences and provided Keynote Addresses for the following international expositions: HR Shared Services & BPO (Singapore), Successful Shared Services (Singapore), Executive Compensation & Benefits 2007 (Singapore). He is a columnist and thought leader for a host of international publications. Some of these include: ComputerWorld, AsiaTimes, TelecomAsia, YahooNews, AsiaMiner and IndiaDaily.
- Katherine Acey
Katherine Acey / Executive Director Katherine is a highly respected activist, best known for her expertise and commitment to lesbian and women's philanthropy. Her creative and inclusive vision of funding has been instrumental in setting a standard for a more progressive, diverse and community-based definition of philanthropy.
- Larry Merculieff
Larry Merculieff Larry Merculieff , Alaska Native science Commission Larry Merculieff has almost four decades of experience serving his people, the Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands and other Alaska Native peoples in a number of capacities.
- Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer brings a strong management background with more than 20 years experience in the telecommunications, software and data sectors. Prior to Authentrus, Mr. Palmer was a manager for BellSouth in the Network Services division responsible for its dynamic addressing strategy and deployment producing significant cost savings for the company. Robert began working with data networking protocols over radio frequencies in 1990 with packet radio.
- Mohammed Suleiman al Ismaily
Mr. Mohammed Suleiman Al Ismaily DIRECTOR Chairperson's Report The Founder
- Steve Alley
Steve Alley - Founder and Board Member Steve Alley has been President/CEO of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona since June 4, 2001. Prior to that time, he was the Director of the Community Foundations Institute and Associate Director of Public Service at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University . Mr. Alley also served as Vice President for Development/External relations at the Central Indiana Community Foundation.
- Sharon Wood
Sharon's style is personal and moving. She uses powerful anecdotes and vivid analogies to convey the real-life obstacles and possibilities of achievement. Sharon effectively conveys both the individual and the team perspective. She emphasizes the importance of her own passion while striving to realize her personal aspirations. As well, she talks of her essential role as a member of a team committed to levering every component of their strategy to realize their vision.
- Connie S.P. Chen
Connie S.P. Chen , CFP CHEN PLANNING CONSULTANTS, INC. - PRESIDENT EAST WEST COLLABORATION, INC. - FOUNDER & CHAIR Ms. Connie S.P. Chen is the founder and chair of East West Collaboration, Inc. an international business advisory consortium. In addition, Ms. Connie S.P. Chen is founder and president of Chen Planning Consultants, a comprehensive financial planning and management firm in New York City.
- Nan Fritz
Nan Fritz Chairperson Nan Fritz is founder and chairperson of nSight, Inc.
- Sue Straughn
Sue Straughn , Board Chairperson , was elected to the lead the board of directors of Council on Aging of West Florida in June 2007. Ms. Straughn has served on the board of directors since 1990. Ms. Straughn has been with WEAR ABC3 since 1973 and currently holds the positions of News Anchor/Public Affairs Director, Producer/Host of Straughn & Company public affairs program and Founder/Organizer of Communities Caring at Christmas campaign.
- Quentin L. Kopp
Judge Kopp retired effective January 31, 2004, but was immediately accepted in the Assigned Judges Program of the California Judicial Council. By order of the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Judge Kopp has been assigned almost continuously to the San Mateo Superior Court since February 1, 2004, with intermittent assignments to the Los Angeles Superior Court, Humboldt Superior Court, Sonoma Superior Court, Napa Superior Court and Santa Cruz Superior Court.
- V.V. Krishna
Dr V.V. Krishna is a Professor in Science Policy and Chairperson (2006-08), Centre for Studies in Science Policy. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology of Science from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. He has 27 years of research experience in the areas of sociology of science, science and technology policy and national innovation systems in Asia and Pacific and social history of science.