I dream of being an agent of change for a better future, where women are empowered and enabled to take control of their lives. Pathfinder not only dreams of the same future but works towards making it a reality.
NIVERT RIHAN, Pathfinder Egypt
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Pathfinder Presidents’ Council
The Presidents’ Council is a group of 100+ distinguished leaders who provide strategic counsel, visibility, and support to Pathfinder. Council members serve as ambassadors and help to ...
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Barry White
Presidents' Council Co-Chair
Ambassador Barry White is the former U.S. Ambassador to Norway, serving from 2009 to 2013. Before entering the foreign service, Ambassador White served as CEO of Foley Hoag, LLP and as chair...
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Adam Miller
Presidents' Council
As CEO of Centauri Health Solutions, Adam Miller brings more than 20 years of experience in executive health care roles with expertise in strategy, product development, sales, marketing, dis...
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Adetoun Ilumoka
Presidents' Council
Dr. Adetoun Ilumoka was born and raised in Nigeria, mainly in the city of Lagos. A qualified solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, she has practiced and taught law in Niger...
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Alan Jones
Presidents' Council
Alan Jones (AJ) is a Senior Managing Director and Member of the Management Committee at Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), where he is responsible for Direct Private Investment in North Ameri...
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Bill Tate
Presidents' Council
Bill Tate is retired after a career working as staff to a Member of Congress for 23 years. Bill Tate is a longtime supporter of Pathfinder, and has served on the board. Tate was an Editorial...
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Bonnie New
Presidents' Council
Bonnie is a retired physician in Oregon, having previously practiced emergency medicine and public health. She is now a community volunteer active in local politics and natural resource cons...
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Brenda Lee Pearson
Presidents' Council
Brenda Lee Pearson is a passionate advocate for gender and social inclusion. She has implemented international development activities that target women, girls and vulnerable populations in m...
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Brenda Radichel Quaye
Presidents' Council
Brenda has owned and managed Venstar, LLC for over 20 years. Venstar, LLC is the holding company for the commercial real estate investments of Ms. Quaye in Minnesota. The company owns an...
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Brian Atwood
Presidents' Council
J. Brian Atwood served as dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs from 2002 to 2011, where he was widely credited for raising the school’s profile and national ranking. Atwood served...
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Caroline Ham
Presidents' Council
Caroline Ham is the first woman elected mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan. A recipient of the Kalamazoo Network’s Glass Ceiling Award and the Lifetime Woman of Achievement Award from the YWCA o...
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Carolyn Magill
Presidents' Council
Carolyn Magill is CEO of Aetion, Inc, a healthcare technology company delivering real-world evidence for life sciences, payers, providers, and regulatory agencies. She previously served in s...
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Ché Bolden
Presidents' Council
Ché Bolden is the President and CEO of The Charles F. Bolden Group, an executive leadership firm established for the global advancement of science and security. The Bolden Group transforms ...
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Claudia Morrissey Conlon
Presidents' Council
Dr. Claudia Morrissey Conlon, MD, MPH is a physician and served as USAID’s leader on maternal health. Claudia’s life work has centered on increasing gender equity and improving women’s...
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Dan Pellegrom
Presidents' Council
Dan Pellegrom served as President and CEO of Pathfinder International from February 1985 to February 2012. During his tenure Pathfinder grew from an annual budget of $8,000,000 to over $100,...
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David Eichenbaum
Presidents' Council
David Eichenbaum is a Washington based Democratic media consultant. Prior to that, he served as a campaign manager and press secretary on several U.S. Senate races. David has helped to elect...
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Debra Snider
Presidents' Council
Debra Snider is an author, speaker, and mentor who currently serves as an advisor to several organizations that provide resources, services, and education with the goal of empowering women. ...
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Deepak Krishnamurthy
Presidents' Council
Deepak Krishnamurthy is the Founder & Managing Partner at Gaia Ventures, an early-stage venture fund investing in next-gen AI startups around an emerging category of enterprise Workflows...
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Denise Holmes
Presidents' Council
Denise Holmes is an attorney and higher education association executive. In 13 years on the program/policy staff of a national association, she developed and operationalized national and glo...
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Deogratias Niyizonkiza
Presidents' Council
Deogratias “Deo” Niyizonkiza, VHW’s visionary founder and CEO, is a leading advocate for the most impoverished people in the world. His compassion, expertise, and life expe...
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Diana Farrell
Presidents' Council
Diana Farrell serves on the Board of Directors for eBay, The Urban Institute and the National Bureau of Economic Research. In addition, Ms. Farrell is a Trustee of the Trilateral Commission ...
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Doug Cameron
Presidents' Council
Dr. Doug Cameron is a technology investor and advisor in food, agriculture and applied biology. He is co-president of the investment firm, First Green Partners. He is a senior advisor to the...
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Ellen Blumenthal
Presidents' Council
Ellen is a child and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Cambridge, MA. She retired from the faculties of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in...
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Ellie Hamburger
Presidents' Council
Dr. Ellie Hamburger is a primary care pediatrician and Medical Director for the Pediatric Health Network, a Children’s National affiliated clinically integrated network. Dr. Hamburger has ...
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Estelle Brouwer
Presidents' Council
Estelle Brouwer served for the past six years as the former executive director of Women’s Advocates. In 1974, Women’s Advocates became the first shelter for people fleeing domestic viole...
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Faith Mitchell
Presidents' Council
Faith Mitchell is an Institute fellow working with the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the Health Policy Center. She is also developing the Urban Institute’s American Transformat...
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George Todd
Presidents' Council
George Todd is currently the Executive Chairman at Kalsec, Inc., a global food ingredient company. George’s passions are sustainability, education and family planning. He was Chairman of...
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Hamutal Gouri
Presidents' Council
Hamutal is Founding Director of Impact Storytelling: consulting, training, and storytelling for social change. Hamutal is a cultural critic, lecturer, consultant, and storyteller for social ...
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Harriett Paul
Presidents' Council
Harriett Paul is a social scientist and a senior international development professional working in higher education at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, Florida....
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Jennifer Rider
Presidents' Council
Jenny is a communications strategist and storyteller with more than 25 years of experience serving Fortune 500 companies and NGOs, including CNN, The New York Times Company, The Walt Disney ...
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Jeremy Bentham
Presidents' Council
Jeremy has been in the international energy business for over 40 years, giving him a broad grounding in other economic activities because little can be constructed, operated or moved without...
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Jerry White
Presidents' Council
Jerry White shares in the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. He is a social entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian activist. A Senior Ashoka Fello...
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Jessica Nordell
Presidents' Council
Jessica Nordell is an award-winning author and science writer known for blending rigorous science with compassionate humanity. Her first book, The End of Bias: A Beginning, shortlisted for t...
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Jim McLean
Presidents' Council
Jim McLean is the founder of Silicon Valley Data Capital and a co-founder of Silicon Valley Data Science. Jim has over 20 years of successful venture capital investing focused on early stage...
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Jocelyn Childs
Presidents' Council
A former petroleum geologist turned architect and cofounder of SPURRColorado (Social and Political Understanding of Reproductive Rights), Jocelyn is passionate about issues associated with r...
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Josh Kohnstamm
Presidents’ Council
Josh Kohnstamm is a natural products marketing executive and a former editor, political operative, and government communications director. He is founder of Kohnstamm Communications, an agenc...
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Jude Kelly
Presidents' Council
Jude Kelly CBE is CEO and Founder of The WOW Foundation. She founded WOW to celebrate the achievements of women and girls and confront global gender injustice. Starting as a three-day festiv...
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Kate Brennan
Presidents' Council
Kate Brennan is a retired health care attorney with three decades of experience in the public and private sector.
Kate focused her legal career on innovation in the health care sector. She s...
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Katey Pelican
Presidents' Council
Dr. Pelican’s work focuses on strengthening the multi sectoral systems needed to address the world’s most complex challenges arising at the interface of people, the planet, prosperity, p...
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Katherine Bourne
Presidents' Council
Katherine Bourne is a consultant in global public health, with a particular interest in maternal, child and newborn health, reproductive rights and health, gender and HIV.
Ms. Bourneâ€...
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Kathleen Harrington
Presidents' Council
Kathleen Harrington is a former Mayo Clinic executive who most recently served as president of the Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce before retiring in 2022. As Chair of the Division of Gov...
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Kathleen Regan
Presidents' Council
Ms. Regan has over 25 years of experience advising and investing in healthcare companies. Currently, she is EVP & COO at The Commonwealth Fund. In 2012, she served as a senior advisor to...
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Kathy Baughman McLeod
Presidents' Council
Kathy Baughman McLeod is a Global Climate Resilience Executive at the Climate Resilience Project. Previously, as the Senior Vice President of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resili...
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Kitty Lansing
Presidents' Council
Kitty has long been involved with advocating for access to quality healthcare for women and their families, domestically and internationally. She served on the Illinois Planned Parenthood Bo...
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Laura Walker
Presidents' Council
Laura R. Walker is the 11th president of Bennington College.Â
Prior to joining Bennington, she served as the President and CEO of NEW YORK Public Radio. Under her leadership, NYPR became...
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Lauren Baer
Presidents' Council
Lauren Baer is an attorney and foreign policy expert who served for six years as an official in the Obama administration, acting as a senior advisor to Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton a...
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Lenny Mendonca
Presidents' Council
Lenny Mendonca is the former chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom. He is also a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company, a lecturer on inequality at the Sta...
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Lisa Danzig
Presidents' Council
Dr. Danzig brings more than 20 years of infectious disease R&D experience, including advancing novel vaccines and diagnostics from research stage through clinical development. Most recen...
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Liz Bloomfield
Presidents' Council
As executive director for the nonprofit Ripple Effect Images, Liz Bloomfield leads a world-class team of photographers and filmmakers shining a light on solutions empowering women and childr...
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Lois Quam
Presidents' Council
Lois Quam is the President of Blue Shield of California. She served as CEO of Pathfinder from 2017-2024. A Minnesota native and Norwegian American, Quam has held senior positions in the U.S....
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Lucia Riddle
Presidents' Council
R. Lucia Riddle is the Owner of Sister Strength, LLC, a fitness company devoted to the wellness, cardio/strength training and physical conditioning needs of women 50 years of age and older. ...
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Mahesh Desai
Presidents' Council
Mahesh Desai is an experienced leader in the technology services industry. Over the years, Mahesh has been a key architect of growth at Infosys, CGI and TietoEVRY, driving growth across Euro...
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Margot Fahnestock
Presidents' Council
Margot Fahnestock is a philanthropy and policy expert in family planning and reproductive health. She’s currently Vice President, Strategic Development for nonprofit pharmaceutical organiz...
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Mariam Claeson
Presidents' Council
Mariam Claeson, M.D. M.P.H., is the former Director of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Every Woman Every Child at the World Bank (2016-2019). Prior to joining the GFF she served as D...
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Mario D’Amico
Presidents' Council
Mario D’Amico is a leading international advertising and communications executive and former Global Chief Marketing Officer for Cirque du Soleil and Chief Marketing Officer for TNC.
At Cir...
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Mary E. Taylor
Presidents' Council
Dr. Mary E. Taylor is a consultant and Associate Professor of Community Health at the Arctic University of Norway. She has devoted more than four decades to the promotion of essential public...
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Megan Murray
Presidents' Council
Megan Murray is an epidemiologist and an infectious disease physician with over 25 years of experience studying tuberculosis and other emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Dr. Murra...
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Melissa Butts
Presidents' Council
Director/Producer Melissa Butts is an award-winning visual storyteller who blends a passion for bringing inspirational stories to life while connecting to diverse global audiences. Melissa b...
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Michael Nakamoto
Presidents' Council
Michael brings two decades of experience contributing to social and environmental progress through understanding how systems work, developing lasting solutions to complex problems, and takin...
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Michael Osterholm
Presidents' Council
Dr. Osterholm is an epidemiologist, COVID-19 expert and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and formerly served as a COVID-19 adv...
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Michelle Pohlad
Presidents' Council
Michelle Marie Grabanski Pohlad is a dynamic transformational visionary and coach who is most invigorated when guiding people to reach their fullest potential rooted in love. Her hunger for ...
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Molly Wallace
Presidents' Council
Molly Wallace is The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Interim Lead, Global Policy and Government Relations. She leads TNC’s work to expand what is possible in conservation through transformati...
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Natasha Kofoworola Quist
Presidents' Council
Natasha is a British-born Jamaican-Nigerian and the founder of Quest Advisory Africa, a consulting firm dedicated to empowering governments, NGOs, and businesses across Africa to execute the...
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Normand Smith
Presidents' Council
Normand is a Boston based attorney, formerly chair of the Pathfinder Board of Directors. He received a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton University, and JD and LLM degrees from Boston Univer...
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Pat Cooper
Presidents' Council
Pat has over 30 years of private and public sector experience as a public policy analyst, strategic planner, entrepreneur and civic leader. Pat is an early co-founder and member of Beyond Ou...
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Patricia Haslach
Presidents' Council
Ambassador Patricia Haslach specializes in global trade, international development, and conflict stabilization across geostrategically complex regions. As a Principal at Brooch Associates, P...
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Patrick Fine
Presidents' Council
Patrick Fine is an international development professional with deep experience in global health, education, humanitarian response, and building resilient communities. He has served in senior...
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Peter Agre
Presidents' Council
Peter Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering aquaporins, a family of water channel proteins found throughout nature and responsible for numerous physiological processe...
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Phil Kirshman
Presidents' Council
With 35 years of financial management experience, Phil is a recognized leader in the sustainable and impact investing. Phil is the director of impact investing at Manchester Capital Manageme...
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Purnima Mane
Presidents' Council
Dr. Purnima Mane is an internationally recognized expert on gender, population and development, and public health who has devoted her career to advocating for population and development issu...
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Radhika Shah
Presidents' Council
Radhika Shah resides in Pune, India. She is a leadership coach and advisor with a particular interest in serving youth and adolescents.
...
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Ralph Tate
Presidents' Council
Ralph retired from a 30-year career in investment management, most recently with Standish, Ayer and Wood in Boston. Ralph serves on the board of Kestrel Land Trust and Amherst Academy and is...
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Rhett Buttle
Presidents' Council
Rhett Buttle is the Founder of Public Private Strategies, a consulting firm that is exclusively focused on where the public and private sectors meet. The firm is a leader in engaging busines...
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Richard Berkowitz
Presidents' Council
Dr. Berkowitz is professor of obstetrics and gynecology, director of quality improvement, and associate director of the residency program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Co...
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Richard Smith
Presidents' Council
Richard Smith is chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, the Point of Care Foundation, which promotes compassionate, dignified care, Patients Know Best (a company that gives patie...
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Ron Bloom
Presidents' Council
Ron Bloom is a Managing Partner and Vice Chair in Brookfield’s Private Equity Group, responsible for investment origination, analysis and execution across North America.
Prior to joining B...
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Roopa Dhatt
Presidents' Council
Dr. Roopa Dhatt is the co-founder of Women in Global Health and its former executive director. She is a practicing internal medicine physician, implementing partner and steering committee me...
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Rosemary Lombard
Presidents' Council
Rosemary Lombard, Ed.M, MBA, is an innovator in incubating community and institutional partnerships focused on resilience building, population-wide trauma relief, and improving education sys...
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Sabah Husain
Presidents' Council
Sabah Husain is an experienced technology banking professional at Wells Fargo. A first-generation Pakistani-American, Sabah has seen the discrepancies that exist in women’s healthcare on a...
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Sally Rockey
Presidents' Council
Dr. Sally Rockey is the inaugural Executive Director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research. Prior to this role, Dr. Rockey was a leader in federal research, overseeing the oper...
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Sarah Stoesz
Presidents' Council
Sarah Stoesz served as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States (PPNCS) from 2001-2022.  Under Sarah’s leadership, the organization grew from a two-state region t...
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Sharon Allison
Presidents' Council
Sharon Allison has served as a leader in reproductive health globally, in the United States, and in Texas. Sharon is the former president of the board of International Planned Parenthood Fed...
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Sheila McMillan
Presidents' Council
Sheila has held senior leadership roles in the health care industry for Fortune 20 companies to community non-profits. With a financial background, she has been involved with over a dozen ma...
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Shelly Lakly
Presidents' Council
Michelle (Shelly) Lakly, Ph.D., is a leader in global conservation action with over 20 years experience leading global teams at mission driven nonprofit organizations. She thrives on build...
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Sofia Latif
Presidents' Council
Sofia Latif is a leader of grantmaking and global operations at Avaaz Foundation, a campaigning movement with over 65 million members, empowering people from all walks of life to take acti...
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Sophie Crone
Presidents' Council
Sophie Crone is a young professional originally from Chicago, IL. After graduating from Tulane University with degrees in Marketing, Management, and Psychology, she spent several years in th...
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Stephanie Fraim
Presidents' Council
Stephanie Fraim has spent decades championing the rights of women and access to healthcare for all. From her earliest experience working in hospitals and social service agencies, to the pas...
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Suzanne Koepplinger
Presidents' Council
Suzanne Koepplinger is a seasoned nonprofit and philanthropic professional with over 20 years’ experience in executive leadership and creative problem-solving. She is a highly effective ne...
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Terry Gamble Boyer
Presidents' Council
Terry Gamble Boyer is a writer and philanthropist. She is the co-founder and president of the Caldera Foundation. She focuses on the issues of climate change, energy, water and land manageme...
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Thomas O’Neil
Presidents' Council
Tom O’Neil is a managing director with broad private- and public-sector experience, including leadership roles in boardrooms and C-suites of companies in the consumer, financial services, ...
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Tibebeselassie Awethahegn
Presidents' Council
Tibebe Awethahegn is an Ethiopian businessman based in Addis Ababa.
...
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Timothy Brown
Presidents' Council
Tim has retired as founder of Solutions Management, a national consulting firm focusing on strategic planning and market trends. Tim is an international speaker, consultant, mentor with a wi...
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Tope Folarin
Presidents' Council
Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at...
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Vânia Cury
Presidents' Council
Vânia Bueno Cury is a São Paulo based communication professional focused on human and organizational development. For more than 25 years she has been working strategically to improve the c...
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Virginia Blaser
Presidents' Council
Virginia Blaser is a Co-founder and CEO of Auxilia, a tech-inspired business operations company. After retiring as the CEO and board chair of a global tech company focused on machine learnin...
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Yogesh Rajkotia
Presidents' Council
Dr. Yogesh Rajkotia founded ThinkWell in 2011 to support human capital development around the world. Convinced that a break from the status quo of development assistance was urgently needed,...
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Yves Daccord
Presidents' Council
Yves Daccord is a renowned humanitarian leader, international strategist, influencer and changemaker. His current focus is on the theme of security, social contract and the role of cities at...
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Zeenat Rahman
Presidents' Council
Zeenat Rahman is the Project Director of the Inclusive America Project at the Aspen Institute. She is an expert on global youth issues, interfaith and diversity engagement, and is a former d...
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