Plenary 1: Thinking Differently- Blending the Private and Social Sectors

[Moderator] Iqbal Paroo, CEO, Omidyar Network
Brizio Biondi-Morra, President, Fundación AVINA
Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com
Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen Fund
Kurt Hoffman, Director, Shell Foundation [United Kingdom]

Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

Maria Otero is president and CEO of ACCION International, a leading global microfinance institution that seeks to open the financial systems in developing countries to reach the poor. ACCION provides technical assistance, equity investment and financial services to 27 of the most advanced microfinance institutions in the world, which ACCION helped start and/or grow. Most of these microfinance institutions are regulated, are members of the ACCION Network, and together reached 1.9 million borrowers at the end of 2005, with an active loan portfolio that exceeded $1 billion. Ms. Otero first joined ACCION in 1986 as director of its lending program in Honduras, where she lived for three years. She…

Plenary 4: Unusual Alliances to Halt Climate Change

[Moderator] Stephen Heintz, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Billy Parish, Co-Founder and Coordinator, Energy Action Coalition
Ernest C. Shea, President, Natural Resource Solutions LLC; Project Coordinator; 25×25
Kenneth Colburn, Senior Consultant, Center for Climate Strategies
Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
Thomas R. Jacob, Government Affairs Manager, Western Region, DuPont Company

Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

German American Business Association of California, Inc. and the MIT Club of Northern California Clean Technology Program invite you to this joint event. Towards Energy Autonomy New Politics for Renewable Energy.
This is also the topic of Hermann Scheer’s latest book. Hermann Scheer will discuss how policy models fostering renewable energy can pave the way for energy autonomy. He will also discuss the current trends regarding the upcoming review of the German EEG (feed-in-tariff) which is due by the end of 2007 / beginning 2008 and which has created the largest solar energy market in the world.

James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate and Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, describes the years leading up to his 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize with Drs. Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins (1962). Dr. Watson explains that the key to uncovering the causes of brain disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, fragile X syndrome, Alzheimers, etc. is in our genes. He depicts the strides being made by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research institution in the biological sciences, as they search to find the genetic basis of
neurological disorders. CSHL scientists’ seach to root out disease genes related to mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia…

R. Glen Hubbard, author of “Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System”, gives a talk with Hal Varian at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

This video is part of the Authors@Google series. Credits: Speaker:R. Glenn Hubbard, Speaker:Hal Varian

[Moderator] Lael Brainard, Vice President and Director, Global Economy and Development Program, The Brookings Institution
Jo’ Schwenke, Managing Director, Business Partners Ltd. [South Africa]
Ali A. Mufuruki, Chairman and CEO, Infotech Investment Group Ltd. [Tanzania]
Alan Patricof, Founder and Managing Director, Greycroft LLC

Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

Since the beginning of economic reforms two decades ago, the economy in China has produced real growth rates of between 8 percent and 10 percent per year. It is believed that China will continue to experience exceptional growth for decades to come at rates well above those of any other large country in the world. In this talk Professor Burton Malkiel discusses why China will enjoy growth rates of economic activity well above those in the developed world. But economic growth does not necessarily translate into high-security returns. Indeed, returns from investments in Chinese equities have been unattractive for the past decade, and corruption and corporate governance issues, as well as a variety of…

Plenary 9: Mobilizing for Action — Feeding the Mind, Tickling the Funny-bone, Touching the heart

[Moderator] Sally Osberg, President and CEO, Skoll Foundation
Richard Curtis, Co-Founder and Vice Chair, ComicRelief [United Kingdom]
Ben Cohen, Co-Founder, Ben and Jerry’s; President, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Angélique Kidjo, Singer & Songwriter; UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador [Benin]; Founder, The Batonga Foundation
Bobby Shriver, CEO, Product (Red)

Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.