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IGD Speaker Series events provide opportunities for business leaders to learn about and participate in effective measures to reduce global poverty. Each speaker brings expertise and a unique personal perspective to the discussion of possible solutions and key policy reforms. Speaker Series events are by invitation only. Read summaries of select event discussions below.
2008 |
Jim Kolbe, Senior Transatlantic Fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States
Ambassador John J. Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and President of Realizing Rights
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2007 |
Carleton S. Fiorina, Former Chairman, President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company
Daniel S. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State, co-sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
His Excellency Levy P. Mwanawasa, S.C., President of Zambia
African Trade Delegation luncheon
Senator John McCain luncheon, co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council and CityClub
Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, co-sponsored by the
Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme,
co-sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
World Justice Project discussion with Bill Neukom, President-Elect of the American
Bar Association, co-sponsored by the Washington State Bar Association |
2006 |
Joseph
R. Biden, Jr., U.S. Senate, State of Delaware
Ambassador John J. Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
Jennifer B. Dunn, Former Congresswoman (R-WA) and
The H.E.L.P. Commission
Karen P. Hughes, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Daniel F. Runde, Director, Global Development Alliance, USAID
Jeffrey
Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Daniel S. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary, Economic and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State
National Summit
Madeleine K. Albright, Former Secretary of State
Ambassador Karan Bhatia, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
Ambassador John Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Donald L. Evans, Former Secretary of Commerce
Carleton S. Fiorina, Former Chairman, President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company
Rajat Gupta, Senior Partner Worldwide, McKinsey & Company
Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
Jim Lehrer, Executive Editor & Anchor, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Colin L. Powell, Former Secretary of State
William D. Ruckelshaus, Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
General John M. Shalikashvili, Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ambassador Randall L. Tobias, U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Adminstrator
Ted Turner, Chairman, Turner Enterprises
James Wolfensohn, Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Citigroup
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2005 |
Madeleine
Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
Lynn
C. Fritz, Director General, Fritz Institute
Dr. Leroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems Biology
Dr. Richard Klausner, Former Executive Director, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
William T. Loris, Co-Founder, International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
William Neukom, Chair, Preston Gates & Ellis
Pamela Passman, Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Roy
Prosterman, Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Rural
Development Institute
Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Bill
Stafford, President, Trade Development Alliance
(TDA)
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2004 |
Paul Applegarth, Former CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
J. Brian
Atwood, Former Administrator, USAID
Bill Emmott, Editor in Chief, The Economist
James Morris, Executive Director, World Food Programme
Michael J. Phillips, Chairman, Russell Investment
Group
Dr. C.K. Prahalad, International Economist and Professor
of Corporate Strategy and International Business, University
of Michigan Business School
George Russell, Chairman
Emeritus, Russell Investment Group
Randall Tobias, Global
AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State
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2003 |
Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty & Democracy
Carla Hills, Former US Trade Representative
Mark Malloch Brown, Chief of Staff to Kofi Annan and
Administrator to the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP)
George J. Mitchell, Former US Senator
Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General
Ed Scott, Founder, Center for Global Development
George Soros, Financier and Philanthropist, Open Society Institute
Tim Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation |
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