Razi Mohiuddin, a Google Enterprise Search Superstar, speaks about how he increased customer satisfaction and employee morale.

Wendy Spero is an actress, comedian, and writer who has performed on Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, and the Food Network. Her one woman show, “Microthrills”, won “Best Solo Show” at the ECNY awards. Her most recent solo show, “Who’s Your Daddy?”, which premiered at The NY International Fringe Festival in August 2003, had a year long run at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NYC before being produced at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Wendy has been featured in The New York Post, NY Magazine, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. In addition to recording stories for NPR, Wendy has written an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times, a feature story for Esquire, and an essay for Bar Mitzvah Disco, a…

Keynote Address: Financing Global Health

Introduction: Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org

William H. Foege, Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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

Roger Frank is an emerging markets veteran, having traveled and worked in over 40 countries. He has been instrumental in raising over $1 billion in primary and secondary transactions for emerging markets companies in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Pakistan and India.

Prior to joining DWM he helped introduce many emerging markets to top-tier investment firms and their clients. Starting on Wall Street in the late 1980s, when overseas equity investing was just beginning and emerging market investing was non-existent, he traveled to, researched and sold emerging market and international equities to US-based institutional investors from positions at Salomon Smith…

“Rough Crossings” is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war’s end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the ‘Moses’ of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final…

Keynote Address: Financing Poverty Alleviation

Introduction: Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President, Global Online Sales and Operations, Google

John Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation

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

NBC News’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell spoke at Google on March 16, 2006.

Mitchell has reported on politics for over 30 years, covering all the presidents from Carter through George W. Bush. She has done exclusive interviews with both the famous and infamous including Fidel Castro, sat in on high-level negotiations in the Middle East and North Korea, and much, much more. The story of her career in journalism and the tales of what she has been a part of are simply fascinating.

Andrea’s latest book is titled “Talking Back: …to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.”

This video is part of the Authors@Google series. Credits: Speaker:Andrea Mitchell

A candid conversation with Larry Brilliant about pandemic bird flu, the risks we face, the uncertainties, and to talk about the accuracy and inaccuracies in the mass media.

Keywords:
Health, Bird Flu, Avian, Google.org, Sensationalism

Angélique Kidjo, Singer & Songwriter; UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador [Benin]; Founder, The Batonga Foundation

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