JULY 29-AUGUST 1, 2014 The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. The Institute has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, and on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It also maintains offices in New York City and has an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org.

The Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) is a worldwide community of successful, high-integrity, entrepreneurial leaders, called Aspen Global Leadership Fellows. Because of their demonstrated leadership accomplishments and abilities, these Fellows have been selected to be part of one of 12 active or sector-specific Fellowships around the world. These Fellowships include or are modeled after the Aspen Institute’s flagship values-based leadership program, the Henry Crown Fellowship Program, launched in 1997.

Fellows enter their program having demonstrated a great deal of personal success. They leave it inspired to make a greater mark on their communities and the world; to move, as we say, “from success to significance.” In between, they are provided with an intimate forum for deep introspection, probing dialogue, and interactive problem-solving.

The Aspen Global Leadership Network is designed to spur these Fellows to stretch themselves — to take their leadership to greater heights and broaden their impact to include society at large. The Network connects Fellows through events like the Aspen Action Forum so that they can learn from, collaborate with, and support one another.

The Aspen Global Leadership Network includes nearly 1,900 Fellows from 48 countries — and is growing.

Fellows are using their businesses and their positions to create new ventures and jobs, fight rare genetic diseases, improve employability, provide healthy meals to schoolchildren, promote environmental sustainability, reduce infant mortality, raise classroom engagement, stop ethnic violence, keep kids out of gangs, and battle corruption, just to name a few.

Active Programs Include:

■ Africa Leadership Initiative — East Africa ■ China Fellowship Program ■ Africa Leadership Initiative — South Africa ■ Henry Crown Fellowship Program ■ Africa Leadership Initiative — West Africa ■ India Leadership Initiative ■ Aspen Institute — Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership ■ Liberty Fellowship ■ Catto Fellowship Program ■ Middle East Leadership Initiative ■ Central America Leadership Initiative ■ Pahara — Aspen Education Fellowship

Past Programs Include:

■ Africa Leadership Initiative — Mozambique ■ Aspen Teacher-Leaders Program ■ Nigeria Leadership Initiative — Senior Fellows Program

Plans for 2015-2017 include possible new initiatives in Southeast Asia and the U.S. state of Michigan, along with Fellowships targeting U.S. urban innovators, the U.S. healthcare industry and the global financial industry. Welcome to the 2014 Aspen Action Forum!

Our theme this year is “disruptive leadership.”

Disruption.

Some hear this word and equate it with discomfort. Others with opportunity. Still others with progress. Of course, how you hear it depends on where you sit.

You, the leaders gathered at this Forum, sit at the very top of companies, governments and organizations. You face constant disruption. Our goal in convening you from across so many industries and countries is to give you the opportunity to explore the sort of disruption going on all around us and to share how you are responding to it, channeling it and mastering it.

But we also want to highlight how you are leading disruption — challenging the status quo in your companies, governments, organizations and communities — to build that elusive thing that we at the Aspen Institute call a “Good Society.”

We face so many daunting challenges and enticing opportunities in 2014.

It’s comforting to know that so many good people are leaning in to tackle them — firm in your values and even firmer in your determination to make the world a better place.

Thank you. And enjoy!

Lynda Resnick Peter Reiling

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 1 Ask yourself what you can do to make a difference. And then take that action.

Graça Machel-Mandela

2 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 1 Welcome

4 Sponsors

10 Event Information

13 Participant Overview

16 Action Pledge Updates

PROGRAM 26 Agenda

35 Moderators for the Mini-Seminars

DAILY CONTENT 46 Movie Nights July 28, Print the Legend August 1, A River Between Us

49 July 29, 2014 About the Mini-Seminars About the Action Workshops

57 July 30, 2014 Interactive Roundtable Topics The Leadership in Action Series Part 1 The John P. McNulty Prize

89 July 31, 2014 Interactive Roundtable Topics The Leadership in Action Series Part 2

121 August 1, 2014 Interactive Roundtable Topics

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 3 SPONSORS

major funding provided by the RESNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION

ABOUT LYNDA RESNICK At the age of 19, Lynda Resnick founded a full-service advertising agency. Running a successful business so early in life gave her invaluable hands-on marketing experience. Her sound entrepreneurial instinct, a passion for authenticity and a deep understanding of consumer behavior have been the hallmarks of her 50-year career. Lynda has been dubbed the POM Queen for obvious reasons. In 2002, only 12 percent of the population even knew what a pomegranate was. Today, pomegranates are everywhere – in beverages, foods, nutritional supplements, even cosmetics – primarily due to the effective marketing efforts of Lynda and her team at POM Wonderful. In 1979, in one of her first entrepreneurial forays, Lynda and her husband Stewart purchased a fledgling floral wire service called Teleflora. She had the inspiration to pair fresh flowers with a collectible keepsake container. This simple idea turned ordinary flowers into something more lasting and meaningful, and earned her a Gold Effie Award. Today, Teleflora is the world’s largest floral service and floral products company. In late 2004, Lynda and Stewart acquired FIJI Water. She quickly orchestrated a brand identity relaunch, with marketing initiatives that were as unique as the brand itself. FIJI Water is now the largest imported bottled water brand in the United States. Lynda and Stewart also own Paramount Farms and Paramount Citrus Companies, as well as JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery and Landmark Vineyards. For Paramount Farms, she helped create the iconic Get Crackin’ campaign for Wonderful Pistachios, a successful advertising and marketing campaign now in its fifth year. She continues to create new, good-for- you brands including the recently launched Wonderful Halos California mandarins. In 2009, Lynda shared her marketing secrets in a best-selling book, RUBIES IN THE ORCHARD. Published by Random House, it was an authoritative guide to building memorable brands and creating fresh approaches to launching them. In addition to her business achievements, she is Vice Chair of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees, as well as a longtime steward of the Collectors Committee; serves on the executive boards of The Aspen Institute, UCLA Medical Sciences, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and the Milken Family Foundation; and is a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

4 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org In 2010, Lynda turned her philanthropic attention to California’s Central Valley, where a large portion of her company’s employees live and work. Her philanthropic efforts include multi-pronged initiatives that focus on K-12 education and college and career readiness, as well as programs that nurture future leaders and transform low-income and underserved towns into hopeful and vibrant communities. In 2012, Lynda was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters by Bard College. The Resnicks are proud parents and grandparents and maintain homes in Beverly Hills, California and Aspen, Colorado.

ABOUT STEWART RESNICK Stewart A. Resnick is chairman and owner of Roll Global, a Los Angeles-based holding company that includes both global agricultural operations and well-known consumer-facing brands. Among Mr. Resnick’s companies are a number of Central California-based farming companies, including Paramount Citrus, Paramount Farming and Paramount Farms, the world’s largest growers, processors and marketers of citrus, almonds and pistachios. His holdings also include POM Wonderful, grower of pomegranates and maker of the all-natural POM Wonderful pomegranate juice; Teleflora, the largest floral wire service in the world; FIJI Water, the largest imported bottle water in the United States; Suterra, the largest biorational pest control company in the United States; and more recently, JUSTIN Vineyards and Winery, an award-winning winery based in Paso Robles, and Landmark Vineyards, based in the Sonoma Valley. Mr. Resnick is a member of the Executive Board of the UCLA Medical Sciences; member of the Board of Trustees of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; member of the Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust; member of the Board of Conservation International; and trustee of the California Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Anderson School Management, University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Resnick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Juris Doctorate from UCLA Law School.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 5 SPONSORS

MAJOR FUNDING PROVIDED BY THE RESNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION

ADDITIONAL SPONSORSHIP David M. Rubenstein PROVIDED BY The Skoll Foundation

Accenture Michael Klein and Joany Fabry The John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation Margot and Tom Pritzker Gillian and Robert Steel

The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation The Ithaka Foundation Liberty Fellowship The Rodel Foundations Irja Brant and Alireza Ittihadieh The Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation

IN-KIND GoPro CONTRIBUTIONS LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. W.W. Norton & Company

6 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org Tom Friedman shares remarks at the 2013 Action Forum

We would like to thank the Leadership Committee of the Aspen Institute Board of Trustees for their unwavering support, with special thanks to Margot Pritzker and Bill Mayer for their leadership and tireless commitment to the Scholars & Scholarships Campaign.

Margot Pritzker, Chair Jacqueline Novogratz, Vice Chair Michael Klein Paul Anderson William E. Mayer Keith Berwick Bonnie McCloskey William D. Budinger Anne Welsh McNulty Andrea Cunningham Chadia El Meouchi Naoum Sol Echeverria Karlheinz Muhr Mickey Edwards Marc B. Nathanson Patrick Gross Peter Reiling Arjun Gupta Isaac Shongwe Hayne Hipp Alice Young

A heartfelt thank you to the countless staff of the Aspen Institute who contribute to making the Aspen Action Forum possible and to the staff of the Aspen Global Leadership Network for their year-round support. Special thanks to Tom Loper for his leadership in managing the Aspen Action Forum.

We would be remiss not to recognize our Aspen Global Leadership Network partners without whom none of this would be possible.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 7 CONFIDENTIALITY

DID I HEAR SOMETHING SPOKEN IN CONFIDENCE?

8 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org Over the next four days, you will participate in a full range of intimate dialogues ranging from mini-seminars to interactive roundtables to Action Workshops.

All of these dialogues are meant to be opportunities for you to learn from your peers in a safe space, free from judgment and in absolute confidentiality.

We ask that these norms be respected by all in attendance. Ideas surfaced may surely be used. But neither the identity nor the affiliation of participants sharing personal opinions should be shared unless explicitly agreed.

WHAT IS SAID IN THE SEMINAR ROOM MUST STAY IN THE SEMINAR ROOM.

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HAVE A QUESTION? Ask one of our volunteers in the red short-sleeve shirts or any staff person wearing a red name badge.

ACTION PLEDGES & THE ACTION WALLS DOERR-HOSIER CENTER & GREENWALD PAVILION All participants are encouraged to make an Action Pledge during the event. Action Pledges are inspirational commitments to focus on new or existing efforts, projects, or initiatives. Over 400 Action Pledges have been made since 2013. You can make your Action Pledge on either of the Action Walls located near the Doerr-Hosier Center or the Greenwald Pavilion. Tweet your Action Pledge using #MyAspenAction. See page 13 for examples.

THE HUB THE TENT IN THE MARBLE GARDEN The Hub is designed for you to network and recharge. The Hub offers:

■■ A Network Bar staffed by members of the Aspen Global Leadership Network team to help you make connections with leaders at the Aspen Action Forum.

■■ A Complimentary Espresso Bar and lounge environment to reconnect with friends and meet Action Forum participants.

■■ A Complimentary Oxygen Bar to fend off symptoms of altitude sickness.

■■ A Community Board to post everything from Breakfast Workshops to ride-sharing between Aspen and Denver, etc.

■■ Charging Stations for your mobile devices. ■■ Custom Designed Social Media Banners featuring your 2014 Action Pledge or Action Updates. Personalized banners will be available within 24 hours and tweeted to #MyAspenAction.

ALTITUDE SICKNESS & MEDICAL ASSISTANCE Oxygen levels are lower in Aspen due to the high altitude. That, coupled with the dry climate, can contribute to the symptoms of altitude sickness — nausea, insomnia, shortness of breath, headache, accelerated pulse, or nasal congestion. You can prepare yourself by staying well-hydrated, avoiding alcoholic beverages, keeping physical exertion to a minimum, and taking in additional oxygen available at the Oxygen Bar in The Hub. An emergency medical responder is also available at the event. Please contact the nearest staff person for medical assistance.

MOBILE TOOLS Visit www.AspenActionForum.org to access:

■■ Biographies for all leaders at the Aspen Action Forum ■■ Your personalized agenda ■■ Daily event updates

10 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org TRAVEL ASSISTANCE Our travel partner, Ski.com, will have agents available on-site for any travel assistance you require. Visit the Ski.com agents in The Hub during these hours:

■■ July 30 from 12:15pm - 2:00pm ■■ July 31 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm ■■ August 1 from 8:30am - 1:00pm TRANSPORTATION AROUND ASPEN Action Forum Shuttles will run on a continuous loop to and from the Aspen Institute campus in the mornings and evenings, July 29 - August 1, stopping at the Limelight Hotel, Sky Hotel, St. Regis Hotel, across the street from Rubey Park bus terminal, The Little Nell bus stop, The Hotel Jerome, The Hotel Aspen/Molly Gibson and The Annabelle Inn.

In addition, the RFTA Cross-Town Shuttle provides FREE transportation every 30 minutes, to and from downtown Aspen to the Aspen Institute campus. Many of the hotels in Aspen also provide shuttle service around town for their guests.

Aspen Club & Spa ASPEN

Gondola C Plaza NORTH DEAN ST. E D

DURANT ASPEN DURANT MAP Benedict Music Tent 1 COOPER B Paepcke Auditorium 2 HYMAN A FIRST Doerr-Hosier Center 3 SECOND

MONARCH GARMISCH ORIGINAL HOPKINS G Aspen Meadows I MAIN MAIN 4 SPRING THIRD Reception Center F BLEEKER H J

HUNTER GALENA HALLAM HWY 82 Limelight Hotel A

FIFTH FOURTH 355 S Monarch St Rio Grande MILL FRANCIS Parking Garage SIXTH SEVENTH EIGHTH Rubey Park Bus Terminal B SMUGGLER Durant Ave between Galena St & Mill St NORTH (Shuttle stops across the street) St. Regis C GILLESPIE 315 E Dean St Aspen Pedestrian/Bike Way System The Little Nell 4 D Route to Benedict Music Tent and Aspen Institute campus. 1 675 E Durant Ave 2 3 Sky Hotel E FREE Cross-Town Shuttle 709 E Durant Ave 7:54 AM – 9:06 PM daily The Hotel Jerome F Every 30 minutes, the RFTA Cross-Town Shuttle provides FREE transportation to and from downtown 330 E Main St Aspen to the Aspen Institute campus and Music Tent. The bus stop is in the main Music Tent parking lot. Explore Booksellers G OUTBOUND 221 E Main St From Rubey Park (downtown Aspen) to Harris Hall at the Aspen Institute campus Hotel Aspen at :06 and :36 past each hour. H 110 W Main St INBOUND Molly Gibson Lodge* I From Harris Hall at the Aspen Institute campus to Rubey Park at :15 and :45 past each hour. 101 W Main St Call 970-925-8484 for more information. Annabelle Inn J Action Forum Shuttle 232 W Main St Shuttles will run on a continuous loop to and from the Aspen Institute campus in the mornings and evenings, July 29 - August 1, stopping at the Limelight Hotel, St. Regis Hotel, across the street from Rubey Park *Guests staying at the Molly Gibson Lodge bus terminal, The Little Nell bus stop, The Hotel Jerome, The Hotel Aspen/Molly Gibson and The Annabelle Inn. can catch the shuttle Purple dots indicate venues and landmarks that are not shuttle stops. across the street • at the Hotel Aspen. WE-cycle Bike Share WE-cycle, Aspen¹s community bike-share program, features 100 bikes and 13 stations open 24/7. Designed for quick point-to-point trips, WE-cycle makes pedaling a fast, easy, and fun way to get around town. A special, discounted 5-day pass is available for Aspen Action Forum participants. Participants who signed up for a pass online (in advance of the forum) can pick up their passes at the main registration desk in the Doerr-HosierCenter. Applications will also be available at the main registration desk for those wishing to sign-up for a WE-cycle pass onsite.

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WE’RE EXCITED TO SHARE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WITH YOU:

ECO-FRIENDLY TOTE BAG Keep all your Action Forum material organized with this stylish tote bag designed by China Fellow Lin Lin Jacobs! Made with eco-friendly materials, this bag features three large front pockets for easy access to your notebook, mobile device, and anything else you want to keep handy.

STONE NOTEBOOK Capture ideas and turn them into action with this notebook created with 100% ecological stone paper manufactured without wood pulp, water, or air pollutants.

STYLUS PEN This ergonomic ballpoint pen allows not only for ultra-smooth writing, it can also be converted into a stylus for your tablet, iPad, or smartphone with the click of a button.

SPORTS WATER BOTTLE This BPA-free bottle is dishwasher safe and can be reused to keep you hydrated during your time at the Action Forum. Don’t forget to stop by the water coolers and fill up between sessions.

PORTABLE DEVICE CHARGER This small and sleek universal, portable charger is a great travel accessory that allows you to recharge your device at the same speed as a wall charger.

LUGGAGE TAG Help your luggage stand out on your next trip with these branded Action Forum tags. Just slip in your business card and you are ready for your next adventure.

BALL-CAPS Keep that Aspen sun out of your eyes with an Aspen Action Forum ball-cap in your choice of blue or white. Make sure to pick one up at the registration table.

SUN SCREEN AND LIP BALM Protect your skin from Aspen’s bright rays with this handy SPF 30 sunblock in a convenient spray bottle. And with Aspen’s dry climate, keep your lips hydrated and chap-free with beeswax lip balm.

PERSONAL OXYGEN HOSE Stop by and plug-in to the Oxygen Bar in The Hub anytime with your personal hose.

12 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org 2014 PARTICIPANT OVERVIEW

320 ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERS 2014 ACTION PLEDGES BY IMPACT AREA (WORK IN PROGRESS – MORE ACTION PLEDGES COLLECTED ON THE ACTION WALL THROUGHOUT THE EVENT.)

37 BUILDING COMMUNITIES

35 EDUCATION

8 ENVIRONMENT JOB SECTORS 8 HEALTH

7 JOB TRAINING 65% BUSINESS 28% NON-PROFIT

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 300 PLEDGES FROM 2013 ON OUR WEBSITE. 7% GOVERNMENT 31 COUNTRIES 51% AUSTRIA BELGIUM BRAZIL CANADA CHINA MALE COSTA RICA EL SALVADOR FRANCE GHANA GUATEMALA HONDURAS INDIA ISRAEL JORDAN KENYA LEBANON MOZAMBIQUE NICARAGUA 49% NIGERIA PAKISTAN PANAMA PORTUGAL ROMANIA RWANDA SOUTH AFRICA FEMALE SPAIN TANZANIA UGANDA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES

SELECTION OF 2014 ACTION PLEDGES

HAE-SIN THOMAS GOVINDRAJ ETHIRAJ KC HARDIN I will create a network of 10 I will encourage the I will help the four remaining revitalized neighborhood top 5,000 influencers gangs in Panama City, schools for children in the in India to disseminate Panama to demobilize and Fruitvale and Elmhurst data that will power the integrate into mainstream neighborhoods of Oakland, citizens’ movement for society in the next two years. California by 2017. better governance and accountability by 2015.

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MOVING ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERS FROM THOUGHT TO ACTION

The Action Forum is designed to connect Fellows from the Aspen Global Leadership Network with other action-oriented leaders from Aspen Institute programs and partners. All of those attending – over 300 each year – share a common thread: They are DOERS – men and women who have committed to making a positive difference in the world.

Africa Leadership Initiative — East Africa Africa Leadership Initiative — Mozambique Africa Leadership Initiative — South Africa Africa Leadership Initiative — West Africa Aspen Institute — Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership Aspen Teacher-Leaders Program Catto Fellowship Program Central America Leadership Initiative China Fellowship Program Henry Crown Fellowship Program India Leadership Initiative Liberty Fellowship Middle East Leadership Initiative Nigeria Leadership Initiative — Senior Fellows Program Pahara — Aspen Education Fellowship

SELECTION OF 2014 ACTION PLEDGES

KIRSTEN SAENZ TOBEY GHASSAN HASBANI AMINA OYAGBOLA I will improve access to I will develop a new I will develop 250 women healthy food and healthy generation of 100 to be part of the next habits among over 250,000 enlightened leaders in the generation of leaders in students in underserved U.S. Middle East by engaging Nigeria by 2020 through a communities by 2016. them in publications and strategic mentoring program. seminars that promote values-based leadership by the end of 2014.

14 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE ASPEN INSTITUTE PROGRAMS AND PARTNERS PARTICIPATING IN THE Aspen First Movers 2014 ASPEN ACTION FORUM AT Fellowship ASPENACTIONFORUM.ORG

Echoing Ashesi Green University

Resnick Leadership Fellows from the Institut Aspen California The France Central Valley Aspen Institute Society of Fellows: Vanguard Chapter Aspen Institute España

The Aspen Institute Society of Fellows Aspen Aspen Institute Ascend Romania Fellowship

The Aspen Institute Center for Native American Youth The Skoll Foundation’s Social Entrepreneurs

AMIT BHATIA ALICE RAY JAMES SIMMONS I will make one million Indian I will provide 50,000 teens I will decrease obesity in youth employable between and 25,000 veterans access South Carolina 25% by 2017 2007 and 2022 through to PocketBuddy, an app that by changing the approach Aspire’s job training pipeline. provides secure, confidential to assessing and managing motivational counseling pediatric obesity. and cognitive behavior skill training, by 2017.

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ACTION PLEDGE UPDATES

ACTION PLEDGE UPDATES Leaders who attend the Aspen Action Forum are making a real “dent in the universe” by tackling the most intractable challenges in their communities. All participants are encouraged to make an Action Pledge. Action Pledges are inspirational commitments to focus on new or existing efforts, projects, or initiatives. Over 400 Action Pledges have been made since 2013. Review the featured updates from the 2013 Aspen Action Forum below and see year-round Action Pledge updates at www.AspenActionForum.org/Action.

Thank you to GoPro for donating cameras to capture our Action Pledge Updates

JULIET ASANTE ACCRA, GHANA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will educate young people in Ghana through mobile phones.”

UPDATE: Juliet has shot her first one-minute video to educate girls on their sexual health as a contribution to Save Our Women International. This video was distributed through WhatsApp messaging and social media. She has also signed an initial agreement with Phillips Consulting in Nigeria to explore the development of some of their educational library into a mobile-learning project.

DIEGO DE SOLA SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will continue to help expand Glasswing to two more countries in Central America.”

UPDATE: Glasswing, an organization that promotes strategic social investment through “action networks” comprised of businesses, foundations, governmental, and nonprofit organizations, has opened a new office in Panama (in addition to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) and is on its way to expanding to Costa Rica and Nicaragua by the end of the year. They plan to have their New York City office set up for online fundraising by early 2015.

18 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org STEPHEN DEBERRY SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will move $50 million of investment to the benefit of low-income communities.”

UPDATE: Stephen is working on building an investment firm called Bronze Investments that is totally focused on proving that for-profit companies can drive positive social impact. The flagship investment is the creation of what he hopes will be the most affordable and accessible university in the world. He sponsored the first investment in the company three years ago, and it is now accredited by WASC (the same institute that accredits Stanford and Berkeley), and tuition is less than $5,000 a year. He wants to prove that capitalism can happen in a way that is pro- growth AND pro-society.

ORODE DOHERTY LAGOS, NIGERIA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will increase access to healthcare for women and children in Nigeria.”

UPDATE: Since the 2013 Aspen Action Forum, with funding from Chevron, Orode has led a team responsible for bringing malaria prevention, diagnostics and treatment, and health services to four flooded communities in Nigeria. Orode has personally attended to several thousand flood victims and trained about 200 others to provide medical care. Her project emphasizes access for pregnant women and children under five years old, because they are more vulnerable, tend to seek care late, and have worse outcomes if not diagnosed. Over 40,000 women and children have been treated to date.

ERIN FITZGERALD CHICAGO, UNITED STATES 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will create a 21st century food system and bio-economy.”

UPDATE: Thanks in part to Erin’s leadership, the U.S. dairy industry has voluntarily made a commitment to reduce emissions 25 percent by 2020 domestically. Under the new methane plan, the US Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Energy will jointly release a “Biogas Roadmap” in partnership with the dairy industry outlining the cost-effective actions dairy-farm families can take to turn environmental risks into new revenue opportunities while being even better neighbors. Ultimately, by accelerating the adoption of biogas technologies, the dairy industry will help combat climate change by reducing emissions while providing local economies with renewable energy, natural fertilizer, and other benefits.

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BETH GALANTE NEW ORLEANS, UNITED STATES 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will bring energy security to 10,000 low-income families in Louisiana by 2020.”

UPDATE: Through PosiGen Green Grants, Beth has now reached more than 3,500 Louisiana families, with many enjoying energy costs slashed by more than 50 percent. Beth’s project provides energy security to low-income clients by putting solar panels on their roofs, making energy efficiency improvements to their homes, and educating them on how to reduce their energy costs even further. Beth hopes to bring this model to working-class families in many other states around the country and ideally expand into developing countries in the future.

GHASSAN HASBANI BEIRUT, LEBANON 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will develop a new generation of leaders in the Middle East by 2030 through initiatives that improve the health, education level, and civic engagement of people in the region.”

UPDATE: Ghassan launched the Renewed Thought Forum, a monthly gathering of 100 people aimed at encouraging open debate around new ideas for social, political, and economic development in Lebanon. He is doing this by highlighting the work of young writers and encouraging thought leadership in these areas among young potential leaders. The most recent forum’s topic was “Chehab and the limits of political modernization in Lebanon.”

JORDAN KASSALOW NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will work to ensure 525,000 people gain access to affordable eyeglasses in 2013.”

UPDATE: Last year, VisionSpring provided affordable eyeglasses to 500,000 low-income people across the world, and by this summer, they will have given out their 2 millionth pair. Jordan’s venture was profitable for nine months running in El Salvador and his board has approved an eightfold expansion of their work in Central America, enabling them to scale into Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala.

20 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org MANOJ KUMAR HYDERABAD, INDIA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will educate 100,000 Indian girls by 2020.”

UPDATE: As of May 25, 2014, Manoj has been able to reach 92,450 girls in India. He hopes to make it to 100,00 by August of this year.

ADAM LOWRY SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will build a world-class sustainable factory in the Midwest US.”

UPDATE: Adam has taken ownership of 22 acres in Chicago, broken ground, and is starting to build the walls for his 150,000-sq-ft factory, to be completed in late 2014. Leading the green manufacturing movement, it will be powered by wind turbine and solar power, will be zero landfill and water neutral, and the building will be LEED Platinum.

KARLA MENOCAL DE MATA GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will empower girls and protect them from violence in Guatemala.”

UPDATE: Karla launched a media campaign against sexual violence in Guatemala, La Alianza Ayuda (La Alianza Helps). She used television advertisements and Pinterest to spread awareness and raise money for abused girls. In the past year, she has reached more than 100,000 viewers.

NEO MUYANGA CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will create greater intellectual and cultural diversity through art.”

UPDATE: Neo has developed a musically illustrative talk on aesthetics in the protest songs of South Africa, based on research and historical archives. Neo presented this at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City, and at the Tate Modern in London. He has also composed an opera, Letter to Mandela, that premiered in June of this year in Johannesburg.

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BRUCE ROBERTSON DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will register 15,000 farming families in northern Uganda to produce organic agriculture.”

UPDATE: Bruce has registered 29,400 organic farmers to date, well exceeding his Action Pledge of 15,000 farmers.

JAFAR SABBAH NAZARETH, ISRAEL 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will launch the first app to promote leadership and innovation for kids in the Middle East.”

UPDATE: Jafar achieved the first part of his Action Pledge by launching “Who’s Behind The Pictures,” a puzzle game featuring world leaders and figures for kids, and now hopes to produce Sinbad’s Adventures – the first ever series of apps to promote creativity and leadership for kids. Jafar’s app is available in Arabic and English. They successfully reached 25,000 downloads within the first few months of launching. He is currently fundraising on Indiegogo for the first two appisodes of Sinbad’s Adventures, a sailor on a journey with games inside the story to help kids boost their creativity and leadership skills.

GISELA SANCHEZ SANTA ANA, COSTA RICA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will reduce malnutrition in Central America through the creation of Nutrivida, a line of inexpensive, high-nutrition food and beverage products.”

UPDATE: Nutrivida officially launched in Central America and Haiti on November 25, 2013, together with Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Gisela has teamed up with a Costa Rican NGO and the government of Costa Rica (through the Well-Being and Poverty Ministry) to create a community network of women to sell the products. They have 100 saleswomen and will have at least 1,000 on board in the next few months.

22 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org HILDEGARD VASQUEZ PANAMA CITY, PANAMA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will increase the number of women graduating from Captacitación para el Trabajo (CAPTA) – an organization I founded to empower marginalized women with self-reliance and the practical skills to gain employment, break the cycle of poverty, and retain their homes in rapidly gentrifying communities.”

UPDATE: Hildegard has been working on structuring CAPTA for expansive growth — writing manuals, developing a franchising structure, and identifying potential partners. CAPTA is now in the initial phase of expanding to four cities in Guatemala with established partners. They have also begun to solidify their financial sustainability with enhanced fundraising capacity. Since making the Action Pledge, CAPTA trained 100 more women in Panama alone.

REJANE WOODROFFE CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 2013 ACTION PLEDGE: “I will scale my work with the Bulungula Incubator — designed to provide improved health, education, and livelihoods in the Eastern Cape of South Africa — to a national level.”

UPDATE: Rejane launched Bulungula’s in-home early childhood development program in four villages. This program provides a flexible way for children to learn while also meeting their obligations to the household so they don’t have to choose between education and work in the home. They have completed a comprehensive survey of all the software available to give children from remote, under-resourced schools access to their school curriculum using tablets or laptops. The Incubator is now in the process of raising the funds for the hardware costs, which includes solar electricity and satellite internet systems, since these services are not available in their area of operation.

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24 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org The Aspen Institute brings leaders from thought to action. Walter Isaacson President and CEO, The Aspen Institute THE AGENDA

YOUR CUSTOM ASPEN EXPERIENCE The Aspen Action Forum is tailored to your interests. While registering, you select topics to personalize your experience. Those selections create an event that is designed for you. Access your personalized agenda on your badge and from your mobile device. Stop by the registration table in the Doerr-Hosier Center’s Lobby or “The Hub” to have your custom agenda resent to you. An interactive agenda is available at www.AspenActionForum.org/Agenda. Access session rosters, read biographies, watch film trailers, and more.

26 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org MONDAY, JULY 28

7:00 PM Film & Discussion PUBLIC OPTIONAL Paepcke Building: “Print the Legend” Paepcke Auditorium Produced by Chad Troutwine

TUESDAY, JULY 29

7:00 AM - 10:00 AM Hike in Maroon Bells OPTIONAL Multiple Bus Pickup Locations Buses will pick up hikers at 7:00AM from the The Aspen Meadows Reception Center, The Limelight Hotel, and The Sky Hotel.

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Registration Doerr-Hosier Center: Barksdale Lobby

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Orientation for Invited Participants Doerr-Hosier Center: Kaufman Room

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Welcome Lunch Doerr-Hosier Center: Keynote: Walter Isaacson, President & CEO, The Aspen Institute The McNulty Room

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Mini-Seminars - “Touching Base”: Rotation 1 of 3 Multiple Breakout Locations • Readings-based, moderated discussions. • Seminar sessions are pre-assigned.

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Action Workshops: Rotation 1 of 2 Multiple Breakout Locations Participants serve as a personal board of advisors to help presenters overcome a leadership challenge.

6:15 PM - 7:30 PM Welcome Reception Doerr-Hosier Center: Heavy hors d’oeuvres, carving station, raw bar, pasta stations. Barksdale Lobby & Terraces

7:30 PM Live Jazz in the Marble Garden OPTIONAL The Hub Featuring Josefina Mendez The Marble Garden

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 27 IS YOUR FAMILY IN ASPEN? While most of the Action Forum activities are closed to the public and to family members, The Leadership in Action Series offers several special discussions open to both. The content is geared toward an adult audience, but children of all ages are welcome. Options are marked “public” throughout the agenda.

As a registered participant, the public dialogues and films are already part of your schedule, so there’s no need to sign up. If your family is in Aspen during the Action Forum, this is a terrific way to give them a taste of the Forum. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis and are available for purchase at the registration table in the Doerr-Hosier Center’s Lobby. Additional activities are also available. Ask our staff for more information.

28 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org WEDNESDAY, JULY 30

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Open Breakfast & Breakfast Workshops The Aspen Meadows Resort Is there a topic you’d like to discuss during the Action Forum? Propose a Multiple Locations Breakfast Workshop topic on-site on the community board in “The Hub”

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Interactive Roundtable Topics - Rotation 1 of 3

Participants selected sessions while registering online.

Anatomy of a Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: Revolution: Art Breaking Barriers Educating Our Kids - Teaching The View From Time for a Re-Think? Inside the Storm

Madeleine Albright Jonathan Ferrara Ana Lopez de Mateo Kriste Dragon Cynthia Robinson-Rivers Amjad Tadros Neo Muyanga Tareq Maayah Kaya Henderson Preston Smith Li Yuan Tamsin Smith Isaac Shongwe Matt Navo Hae-Sin Thomas

Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Elliot Gerson Ricky Arriola Ranji Nagaswami John Deasy Tony Klemmer

Doerr-Hosier Center: Doerr-Hosier Center: Boettcher Building: Koch Building: Paepcke Building: Catto Room Kaufman Room Dingman Room Lauder Room Paepcke Gallery

Be Disruptive: Bouncing Back: Channeling Nelson Education: Project Workshop: Technology There’s No Success Mandela: What We Secret Success Three Things I Like Failure... Can Still Learn From Factor X = Grit Learned in Building His Life and Legacy a Successful Project

Anousheh Ansari Mark Contreras Ferial Haffajee Katie Albright Bill Bynum Jigar Shah Jerry Paffendorf Leslie Maasdorp Jim Balfanz Arturo Sagrera Angela Wang Hagai Tal Mcebisi Ndletyana Ana Ponce Maryam Uwais

Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Arjun Gupta James Abraham Suzanne Malveaux Kim Smith Stace Lindsay

Paepcke Building: Koch Building: Boettcher Building: Koch Building: Booz Boettcher Building: Paepcke Library Stranahan Room Hudson Room Allen Hamilton Room Harris Room

Pursuing the Good Tribes: Life: Life Beyond What’s Yours? Work

Alexandra Alfaro Maram Al-Jazireh Preeta Bansal Julie Gichuru Nike Irvin Shamina Singh

Co-Moderators: Moderator: Keith Berwick Anand Giridharadas Heather Sonn

Resnick-Malek The Buckminster Health Center Fuller Dome

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Speed Networking The Aspen Meadows Resort Multiple Breakout Locations

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch Challenge The Aspen Meadows Resort Action Forum participants collaborate to tackle intractable challenges.

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Mini-Seminars - “Disruptive Change”: Rotation 2 of 3 The Aspen Meadows Resort • Readings-based, moderated discussions. Multiple Breakout Locations • Seminar sessions are pre-assigned.

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM The Leadership in Action Series PUBLIC The Aspen Meadows Resort Greenwald Pavilion

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Reception Doerr-Hosier Center: Barksdale Lobby

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Dinner & The Announcement of The 2014 John P. McNulty Prize Laureates Doerr-Hosier Center: The John P. McNulty Prize celebrates the boldness and impact Aspen Global The McNulty Room Leadership Fellows are bringing to the toughest challenges in their communities and the world-at-large.

8:00 PM Karaoke & Bon Fire The Aspen Meadows Resort Welcome Center

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 29 THE QUOTE BANNERS – SELECTED BY YOU Throughout this program book and across the Aspen Meadows campus are quotes from influential leaders. These leaders were selected by you and other participants during registration. Like you, they believe in moving from thought to action.

30 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org THURSDAY, JULY 31

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Open Breakfast & Breakfast Workshops The Aspen Meadows Resort Is there a topic you’d like to discuss during the Action Forum? Propose a Multiple Locations Breakfast Workshop topic on-site on the community board in “The Hub”

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Interactive Roundtable Topics - Rotation 2 of 3 Participants selected sessions while registering online.

Aging Parents: Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: Caring for our Diet & Nutrition Disruption is Great… Education Journalism Caregivers Until It Disrupts YOU Technology

Beth Brooke-Marciniak Gisela Sanchez Bruno Berthon Greg Gunn Fernando Espuelas Govindraj Ethiraj Kirsten Saenz Tobey Mark Contreras Alice Ray Amjad Tadros Jenny Horne Omar Wasow Jason Premo Preston Smith Li Yuan

Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Eric Motley Meena Mansharamani Chris Varelas Victor Reinoso Anand Giridharadas

Doerr-Hosier Center: Koch Building: Boettcher Building: Paepcke Building: Meadows Reception Catto Room Lauder Room Harris Room Paepcke Gallery Center: Bernhard Room

House of Cards: Is Green Investing Knowing When to Parenting: Positioning Kids for Cooking in the Dead? Hold Them…. Leadership Lessons Success: Aligning Kitchen of Politics and When to from Your Kids Skills and Jobs Fold Them

Gisela Alvarez de Porras Aimée Christinsen Fan Bao Pauline Brown Eric Barba Brendan Boyle Arjun Gupta Hildegard Vasquez Bart Houlahan Amit Bhatia Noemi Donoso Jigar Shah Elie Wurtman Isaac Shongwe Deema Bibi Jaime Zablah-Siri Ryan Ruskin

Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Bill Budinger James Abraham Harry Strachan Margot Pritzker Anita Antenucci

Koch Building: Booz Doerr-Hosier Center: The Buckminster Koch Building: Boettcher Building: Allen Hamilton Room Kaufman Room Fuller Dome Stranahan Room Dingman Room

Project Workshop: The Challenges of Why Is It So Hard to Pitching My Project Going to Scale Talk About Race?

Bill Bynum LaToya Cantrell Aimee Eubanks-Davis Neil Phillips Kim Polese Ref Rodriguez

Workshop Facilitator: Moderator: Moderator: Richard Greene Jordan Kassalow Jean-Claude Brizard

Paepcke Building: Boettcher Building: Resnick-Malek Paepcke Library Hudson Room Health Center

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Action Workshops: Rotation 2 of 2 The Aspen Meadows Resort Participants serve as a personal board of advisors to help presenters overcome Multiple Breakout Locations a leadership challenge.

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM Understanding Our Collective Impact Doerr-Hosier Center: Keynote: Stace Lindsay, Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Aspen Global The McNulty Room Leadership Network

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM In Conversation with Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Doerr-Hosier Center: Interviewed by Action Forum Participants The McNulty Room

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM The Leadership in Action Series PUBLIC The Aspen Meadows Resort Greenwald Pavilion

6:30 PM - 11:30 PM Closing Reception & Dancing at 11,212 Feet The Sundeck at the top of Live music performed by The Jerry Barnett Xperience Band Aspen Mountain Enjoy a ride on the Silver Queen Gondola to the top of Aspen Mountain beginning at 6:30 PM. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served. Last Gondola ride at 11:30 PM.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 31 PREPARE FOR EACH AGENDA SESSION The vast majority of your time in Aspen will be spent in varying dialogue formats. Some sessions require no advance preparation, while others do. Remember to follow your custom agenda as topics and preparation varies.

■■ Mini-Seminars: There are three rotations of Mini-Seminar sessions throughout the agenda. Each Mini-Seminar has a reading packet with two readings. To get the most out of these dialogues and to actively participate, you should read each packet at least once. The Mini-Seminar Moderators will refer to these readings throughout the session. The three reading packets are available in your personal final logistics e-mail, in our Interactive Agenda (www.AspenActionForum.org/Agenda), and at the registration table in the Doerr-Hosier Center lobby.

■■ Action Workshops: There are two rotations of Action Workshops throughout the agenda. The majority of Action Workshops have a one-page summary explaining the workshop presenter’s leadership challenge. Read these one-page summaries before you arrive. The summaries are available in your personal final logistics e-mail and at the registration table in the Doerr-Hosier Center lobby.

■■ Interactive Roundtable Sessions: There are three rotations of Interactive Roundtable Topics throughout the agenda. No preparation is needed except for your forethought on each of the three topics you will attend. Three Lead Discussants have been pre-selected to kick-start the conversation, and then the full group will be incorporated into the dialogue by the Moderator.

■■ Speed Networking: There is one Speed Networking session. No preparation is needed. ■■ Public Sessions: There are four public sessions throughout the agenda. No preparation is needed. Sit back and enjoy the two films and thought-provoking speakers.

32 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org FRIDAY, AUGUST 1

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Open Breakfast & Breakfast Workshops The Aspen Meadows Resort Is there a topic you’d like to discuss during the Action Forum? Propose a Multiple Locations Breakfast Workshop topic on-site on the community board in “The Hub”

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Interactive Roundtable Topics - Rotation 3 of 3

Participants selected sessions while registering online.

“As One”: Mobilizing Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: Be Disruptive: for Collective Action Big Data Higher Education Medical Care Steve Jobs

KC Hardin James Beldock Sandra Caldwell Sheila Marcelo John Hamm Funmi Iyanda Govindraj Ethiraj Arturo Condo Audrey Marshall Alice Ray Adam Lowry Ryan McManus Lila Ibrahim Michelle Wilver Chad Troutwine Sara Menker J.B. Schramm

Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Keith Berwick David Langstaff Betsy Fleming Michael Ferro Walter Isaacson

Resnick-Malek Boettcher Building: Paepcke Building: Doerr-Hosier Center: Koch Building: Booz Health Center Hudson Room Paepcke Gallery Catto Room Allen Hamilton Room

China: Mao’s Diversity: Good Education: Filling Big Shoes… Financial Reform: Revolution at 65 Optics or Smart It Takes a Village? Following a Founder Overreaction or Investment? Underestimation

Eric Li Cindy Kent Ben Austin Hussein Hachem Fan Bao Angela Wang Michelle Kydd Lee Saul Gonzalez Meredith Siegfried Gisela Porras Li Yuan Carmita Vaughan Bill Jackson Preston Smith Chris Varelas Jon Schnur

Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Tom Pritzker Rebecca Blumenstein Diane Robinson Bill Mayer Ranji Nagaswami

Doerr-Hosier Center: The Buckminster Koch Building: Boettcher Building: Boettcher Building: Kaufman Room Fuller Dome Lauder Room Harris Room Dingman Room

Free Speech Under Keeping Kids Out of Leading from the Stepping Out Siege: Survival the Bubble Eye of the Storm Gracefully… Without Strategies Stepping In It

Yan Mei Scott Cochran Linus Gitahi Jean-Claude Brizard Dele Olojede Aimée Eubanks Davis Anton Gunn Paul Gaffney Sugata Srinivasaraju Christy Orris Mark Hoplamazian Annmarie Higgins

Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Moderator: Joanna Rees Hildegard Vasquez Kitty Boone Tom McCloskey

Koch Building: Paepcke Building: Kresge Building: Meadows Reception Stranahan Room Paepcke Library Hines Room Center: Bernhard Room

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Mini-Seminars - “Why Not?”: Rotation 3 of 3 Multiple Breakout Locations • Readings-based, moderated discussions. • Seminar sessions are pre-assigned.

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM Closing Lunch Doerr-Hosier Center: The McNulty Room

7:00 PM Film & Discussion PUBLIC OPTIONAL Paepcke Building: “A River Between Us” Paepcke Auditorium Directed by Jason Atkinson

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ABOUT THE ASPEN GLOBAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK MODERATOR CORPS

Moderator Apprentices at the 2013 Moderator Workshop enjoy a capstone evening at the home of AGLN Senior Moderator Skip Battle.

We’ve identified four key ingredients to the success of any Aspen Global Leadership seminar. We need to have the right entrepreneurial participants, the right thought-provoking curriculum, and the right inspiring meeting space — but without the right session moderators, all is for naught.

In the beginning, in 1997, there were three: Keith Berwick, Skip Battle, and Ben (Bernie) Dunlap.

As this effort grew beyond the Henry Crown Fellowship it became quickly apparent that our “thin blue line” could not hold. And so, with the generous support of people like Paul and Mary Anderson and Anne Welsh McNulty, we began a systematic process to build a global moderator corps that would be as accomplished, compelling, and challenging as our “Founding Three” and as diverse as the Fellows around the seminar table – whether that table is in Shanghai, Arusha, Managua, Kerala, or Aspen. We feel great about what we have built. And we aren’t done.

No one gets rich moderating for the Aspen Institute. But we know our Fellows are enriched by their dedication and generosity of spirit. MODERATORS FOR THE MINI-SEMINARS

THE MODERATORS FOR THE 2014 MINI-SEMINAR DIALOGUES JAMES ABRAHAM India Leadership Initiative Founder & Director, SolarArise INDIA James Abraham is the founder and director of SolarArise, which will own and operate one of the largest portfolio of solar-power plants in India. Prior to this, he was the managing director of SunBorne Energy, which focuses on making solar energy as low-cost as other sources of power in India. James and the team led the development of solar policy in India and launched the largest public-private partnership in solar R&D with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. James is currently a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Renewable Energy Council, the US-India Track 2 Dialogue on Climate Change, and serves on several boards. Prior to SunBorne, James was a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group in India. He started his career with BCG in Toronto before moving to India in 1998, and then founded BCG’s New Delhi office. James has a degree in electrical engineering from the Univeristy of Waterloo, an MBA (Baker Scholar) from the Wharton School, and an MA (international relations) from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He is a Fellow of the third class of the India Leadership Initiative as well as a moderator for and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. SKIP BATTLE Senior Moderator, The Aspen Global Leadership Network UNITED STATES A. George (Skip) Battle is a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a long time Institute moderator. He was previously executive chairman of the board of Ask Jeeves, Inc., which was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in July 2005. Prior to that, he served as CEO of the company from 2000 to 2003. From 1968 until his retirement in 1995, Skip served in management roles at Arthur Andersen LLP and then Andersen Consulting LLP (now Accenture), where he became worldwide managing partner of market development and a member of the firm’s executive committee. He currently serves as chairman of the board of FICO and as a director of OpenTable, Netflix, LinkedIn, Workday, and Expedia, Inc. He was previously a director of the Masters Select Family of Mutual Funds, PeopleSoft, Advent Software, and Barra, Inc. He is also a grape farmer in the Alexander Valley of Sonoma County, California. He received a BA with highest distinction in economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA in finance from Stanford Business School, where he held McCarthy and University Fellowships, and has lectured at Stanford Business School, University of California-Berkeley Business School and the American University. Skip makes his home in Berkeley, California. KEITH BERWICK Senior Moderator, The Aspen Global Leadership Network Trustee of the Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Keith Berwick is a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute and inaugural holder of the Keith Berwick Chair of Leadership. As such, he moderates seminars for the India Leadership Initiative, the Africa Leadership Initiative, the Catto Fellowship in Environmental Leadership, and other programs of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). From 1996 to 2007, he served as executive director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program and from 2003 to 2004 was executive vice president for seminars of the Aspen Institute. A native Canadian, Keith has had a long and varied career as a historian, educator, television broadcaster, newspaper publisher, and editor. He was educated at Syracuse University and the University of Chicago, where he earned his PhD in US history. He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Claremont Graduate School; Pepperdine University; and the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, and he has lectured extensively at colleges and universities around the world. He is a four-time Emmy Award-winning television broadcaster and principal of Berwick Communication, Inc., a newspaper and communication consulting company. He was founding president of Barry Ambrosetti & Associates, an Italian-American joint venture in global strategic planning; associate editor of Pacific Historical Review; and editor of New Management magazine. From 1990 to 1996, he and his wife Sheena were publishers of the Country News, a weekly newspaper on California’s Central Coast. Keith has served as member of the board of the Santa Barbara Foundation and the Eleos Foundation and is a Lifetime Trustee of the Aspen Institute. He is author of The American Revolutionary Experience, 1776-1976 and The Federal Age, 1789-1829: America in the Process of Becoming, among other historical works. He and his wife make their home in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

36 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org JOHN DEASY Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District UNITED STATES John E. Deasy is superintendent for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest school district in the nation. Prior to this position, John was the deputy superintendent for LAUSD. John has also served as a deputy director of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, he was superintendent of Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland. During his time in Prince George’s, John launched a pay-for-performance plan that was approved by the board of education and developed jointly with labor. Previously, he served as superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in California and of the Coventry Public Schools in Rhode Island. He has been a Broad Fellow, an Annenberg Fellow, a State Superintendent of the Year, and a consultant to school districts undertaking high-school reform and district-wide improvement strategies. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. GOVINDRAJ ETHIRAJ India Leadership Initiative Founder-Editor, IndiaSpend INDIA Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist and founder-editor of www.indiaspend.org, India’s first data journalism initiative and a social entrepreneurship venture. He is also the founder of Ping Digital Broadcast, a Google multi-channel network (MCN) for knowledge, news, and utility programming for digital audiences. He also writes for newspapers like Business Standard on mostly business issues and anchors seasonal shows on channels like Headlines Today and Rajya Sabha Television. Previously, Govindraj was founder and editor in chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hour business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008 and a partnership between Bloomberg LLP and the UTV Group in India. Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV India, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as editor, with a specific mandate of integrating the newspaper’s news operations with its digital or Web platform. Before that, Govindraj spent five years with television channel CNBC-TV18, where he drove most of the channel’s programming growth and expansion initiatives. He also worked with the Economic Times newspaper, Business World, and Business India magazines. His awards include: British Chevening Scholarships For Young Indian Print Journalists at The University of Westminster in 1998; Selected as one of 25 most influential personalities in media and advertising in Bombay by Mid-Day on its 25th Anniversary (2004); Nominated for Distinction in Communication at the Teacher’s Achievement Awards 2004; Award For Outstanding Contribution To Media; Indira Award For Marketing Excellence 2006. In 2014, he was a recipient of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Award. He graduated from Elphinstone College, Mumbai. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the India Leadership Initiative as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. PAUL GAFFNEY Henry Crown Fellowship Program President & Chief Executive Officer, After I Go, Inc. UNITED STATES Paul Gaffney is the president and CEO of After I Go, a seed-stage venture providing peace of mind through software for estate planning. Paul has a broad background in consumer services, retailing, and software. Most recently, he was president and CEO of the Northern California, Nevada, and Utah chapter of AAA, a 112-year old auto club that provides services to over four million members. He has held executive positions at Charles Schwab, Staples, and Office Depot, where he played a key role in bringing internet technology to consumer financial services and to traditional retailing. Paul has been an early-stage executive at two start-ups. He was the initial CEO of Website Pros, now web.com, and he was the COO of Desktone, recently acquired by VMWare. Paul was inducted into the Chief Information Officer Hall of Fame by CIO magazine. He lives in Diablo, California with his wife Kate; their two children are in college. He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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ARJUN GUPTA Henry Crown Fellowship Program Trustee of the Aspen Institute Founder and Chief Believer, TeleSoft Partners UNITED STATES Arjun Gupta is the founder and chief believer at TeleSoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm. Over the last two decades, he has overseen investing in and helping build over 60 technology companies, resulting in over 40 acquisitions and IPOs to date. Arjun is also a member of the new ownership group of the Sacramento Kings NBA team and helps revitalize downtown Sacramento. He serves on the boards of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), and the AG Family Foundation, which has provided partial funding for over 90 projects in the US, India, and Africa. Earlier in his career, Arjun was a strategy consultant for high-tech clients with McKinsey & Company and a software engineer with Tektronix, Inc. He has an MBA from Stanford University, an MS and BS (phi beta kappa) in computer science from Washington State University, and a BA (honors) in economics from St. Stephen’s College (India). Arjun is a passionate outdoorsman and among his many adventures, he was a member of the 100th anniversary ski expeditions to both the North and South poles. He is an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University, a 2001 Henry Crown Fellow, a trustee of the Aspen Institute, as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. FERIAL HAFFAJEE Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Editor in Chief, City Press, Media24 SOUTH AFRICA Ferial Haffajee is editor in chief of City Press. She previously held the same position at the Mail & Guardian, Africa’s first online newspaper. She sits on the board of Gender Links, an NGO geared toward improving the media’s coverage of development and gender empowerment. She is also on the boards of the International Press Institute and the World Editors Forum, and she chairs the SA National Editors Forum’s ethics and diversity committee. Ferial has received the Shoprite-Checkers Woman of the Year Award, The Media magazine’s Women in Media Award, a Sanlam financial journalism award, and the Naspers group’s most prestigious internal prize, the Phil Weber Award. In 2008, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Ferial has also worked at Financial Mail and at the SABC in both radio and television. Ferial is a Fellow of the second class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. TONYA HINCH Henry Crown Fellowship Program Managing Director, Henry Crown Fellowship Program UNITED STATES Tonya Hinch is the managing director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program. She was previously CEO of Hinch & Associates, a regional insurance agency, and founder of LifePlanning Unlimited, a coaching and seminar business that supports women in areas such as “raising their cash IQ” and “retiring backwards.” Prior to this, Tonya successfully created and enjoyed a career that encompassed Fortune 500 companies, a groundbreaking start-up in a highly politicized category, and leadership in one of the most controversial education reform movements in the United States. Tonya was executive vice president of operations at Edison Schools, responsible for $500 million in business and overseeing more than 100 schools in 23 states and over 7,000 employees. Tonya previously specialized in marketing and sales at consumer-packaged goods companies, including Ultrafem, Neutrogena, Clairol, and Procter & Gamble. She received a BS in marketing from the University of Tennessee. Tonya is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. JENNIE JOHNSON Executive Director, Liberty Fellowship UNITED STATES Jennie M. Johnson is the executive director and a moderator of Liberty Fellowship. She was previously president of Liberty Insurance Services and executive vice president of RBC Liberty Insurance. Her prior experience includes the presidency of Pierce National Life Insurance Company, strategic planning for Liberty Corporation and Ashland Oil, and planning for United Way. A graduate of Miami University with a degree in political science, Jennie earned her MA in public administration from the University of Virginia and her MBA from Wake Forest University. Jennie is a moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

38 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org MANOJ KUMAR India Leadership Initiative Chief Executive Officer, Naandi Foundation INDIA As CEO of Naandi Foundation, Manoj Kumar feeds 1.2 million hungry children every day, provides safe drinking water to three million people in rural areas, runs 1,726 schools guaranteeing quality education to over 100,000 children, and works with 12,000 adivasi small farmers to export over one million kilograms of coffee every year. Most of this is done by convincing government to outsource poorly run programs for the poor to Naandi. A Robert McNamara Fellow of the World Bank, Manoj shifted his career from banking to the social sector, with a pit stop in microfinance, before taking over leadership at Naandi. Having taken Naandi to a scale and prominence that makes it one of the top-notch not-for-profits in India today, Manoj is now busy breaking down this organization that he built into separate for-profit social business ventures. Manoj is currently chasing the dream of banishing malnutrition from India. He is a Fellow of the second class of the India Leadership Initiative as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. DAVID LANGSTAFF Senior Moderator, The Aspen Global Leadership Network UNITED STATES David Langstaff, from 2010 to 2013, was chairman and then president and CEO of TASC, a $1.5 billion company offering advanced enterprise engineering, integration, and decision-support and other technical services across the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and civilian agencies of the federal government. Previously, he was founder, president, CEO, and director of Veridian Corporation, from its formation in 1995 until its sale to General Dynamics in August 2003. David chairs the advisory board of the Aspen Institute Business and Society policy program, is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, and is a director of The Hitachi Foundation. He serves on the Defense Business Board, which provides independent advice to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense. David is also a musician, and he is currently putting together a PBS special on the history of recorded music, with Sir George Martin, to be aired in late 2015 or early 2016. David is a senior moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. STACE LINDSAY Henry Crown Fellowship Program Senior Moderator, The Aspen Global Leadership Network Director of Strategic Initiatives, The Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Stace Lindsay is the director of strategic initiatives for the Aspen Global Leadership Network, a role he assumed in 2014 to help broaden and deepen the collective impact of the work being done by its 1,800 alumni. He was most recently president of Fusion Venture Partners, a firm he started in order to bring together: people of great vision who inspire change, engender trust, and are moved deeply to make a difference; insights that have the power to improve our quality of life, protect that which is in danger, or to fix what is broken in our world; and capital that can be deployed with foresight, patience, and commitment to finding ways to be leveraged for economic and social good. He has been a strategic advisor to senior business, government, and nonprofit leaders throughout the world, having held senior positions at both Monitor Company and the OTF Group, where he worked closely with Michael Porter to adapt his work to emerging markets. He also has significant start-up, turnaround, and operating experience with companies, having been CEO of New England Portable Storage and vice president of business development for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals. He has also been a managing partner in the Latin American-focused venture capital firm Explorador.net. Stace is the co-founder of the Central American Leadership Initiative, part of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leadership Network. Stace has served on the executive committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs and on the board of directors of TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building competitive businesses in rural Africa and Latin America. He has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Business School and the University of Adolpho Ibanez Business School in Chile. He is the co-author of Plowing the Sea: Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Growth in the Developing World and author of the chapter “Culture, Strategy and Prosperity” in the book Culture Matters. Stace earned his degrees in international relations from Georgetown University and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He and his family make their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stace is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and a senior moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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MARIAM LUYOMBO Africa Leadership Initiative–East Africa Director, Taibah Schools Uganda CANADA Mariam Luyombo is an educational entrepreneur and currently serves as director of Taibah Schools Uganda. Within the space of ten years, she founded four private schools in Uganda. She has received a number of prestigious awards in education innovation and entrepreneurship. She has done consultancy work in both areas and has served on several boards. She is a graduate of Makerere University, Kampala and has a bachelor of arts degree and a masters in education. She currently lives in Ontario, Canada, where she runs her own business. Mariam is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–East Africa as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. ERIC MOTLEY Henry Crown Fellowship Program Vice President and Executive Director of National Programs, The Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Eric Motley is vice president of the Aspen Institute and executive director of national programs. He served as vice president and managing director of the Henry Crown Fellows Program from January 2007 until April 2014. He also served as executive director of the Aspen-Rockefeller Foundation’s Commission to Reform the Federal Appointments Process, an independent, nonpartisan effort to evaluate the federal government’s vetting and clearance procedures. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Eric was director of the US Department of State’s Office of International Visitors within the bureau of Public Diplomacy. While there, he oversaw the International Visitor Leadership Program, a program designed to build mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through carefully designed visits that reflect future foreign leaders’ interests and support US foreign policy goals. In 2003, he became special assistant to President George W. Bush for presidential personnel, where he managed the appointment process in the White House for over 1,200 presidentially appointed advisory board and commission positions. He joined the White House staff as deputy associate director of the Office of Presidential Personnel in 2001 at the age of 27, immediately after receiving his PhD. He has written and lectured on the intellectual and political contributions of Scottish-born American founding father James Wilson. He is currently engaged in developing a collection on the scholarship of the eminent Greek scholar Sir Kenneth Dover, including copies of all his books, personal papers, and various items from his personal catalogue. In October 2006, he published his first volume of poetry, Luminaria. Eric is an avid book collector whose library consists of over 4,500 volumes, which includes but is not limited to over 1,700 first editions and rare books. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from Samford University in 1996. As a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, he earned a master of letters in international relations and a PhD in international relations as the John Steven Watson Scholar. Eric is a 2003 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. RANJI NAGASWAMI Henry Crown Fellowship Program Former Chief Investment Advisor to Mayor Bloomberg UNITED STATES A 27-year investment industry veteran, Ranji Nagaswami is working to champion sound investment policy and public pension governance reform in the United States. She is a seminar moderator for the Aspen Institute and is launching the Finance Fellows Program within the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Ranji is a visiting executive fellow at Yale School of Management, working with MBA students on a research project related to the pension and investment industry. She most recently worked at Bridgewater Associates, the $130 billion-plus global macro-hedge fund and risk-parity strategy pioneer. From 2010 through 2012, she served as chief investment advisor to the administration of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for the City’s $150 billion-plus employee retirement systems. Prior to joining the public sector, Ranji held executive and portfolio management positions at two world-class asset management firms, AllianceBernstein LP and UBS Asset Management. During her tenure, she served as chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager within the firms’ fixed-income, value equity, global mutual fund (retail client), and multi-asset (asset allocation) portfolio units. Ranji is currently a member of the $60 billion UAW VEBA Medical Benefits Trust Investment Advisory Council and the CFA Institute’s Asset Manager Code of Conduct Advisory Committee. She was previously a member of the Yale University Investments Committee, the Yale

40 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org School of Management Advisory Board, a trustee of Greenwich Academy, trustee and chair of the Investment Committee of the Wallace Foundation, and on the North American Council of Ashoka, a global fellowship of social entrepreneurs. Ranji earned a bachelor of commerce degree from Bombay University in India and her MBA from the Yale School of Management and is a chartered financial analyst. She is a 2005 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. DELE OLOJEDE Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, Timbuktu Media SOUTH AFRICA Dele Olojede is publisher and CEO of NEXT, NextOnSunday, and 234NEXT.com, which provide news and informed opinion primarily for a Nigerian audience to further the common good. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former foreign editor at New York Newsday, he is chairman of the Global Network Initiative International Advisory Council and a member of the governing board of The Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa. In 2010, the Global Forum for Ethics in Business honored him as an exemplar of ethical business leadership, and Fast Company named him the same year as one of the 100 Most Creative People. A frequent public speaker on the good society, Dele earlier in his journalism career reported from more than 50 countries, as bureau chief for New York Newsday in Johannesburg, in Beijing, and at the United Nations. He was educated at the University of Lagos and Columbia University in New York, though all he ever needed to know he learned at Modakeke High. He persists at golf despite very little hope of ever getting very good at it. Dele is a Fellow of the second class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa, a moderator for and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and the 2011 winner of the John P. McNulty Prize. JOANNA REES Henry Crown Fellowship Program Managing Director, Soda Rock Partners UNITED STATES Joanna Rees is a managing director at Soda Rock Partners LLC, supporting entrepreneurs to build leading high-growth companies and organizations. She is also leading the formation and capital raise for Endeavor Catalyst, an impact investment fund supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Joanna was a candidate for mayor of San Francisco in November 2011. Previously, she founded VSP Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. Joanna has served on the boards of more than 25 venture-backed companies across a broad range of industries. She also served on the boards of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the Coppola Companies (Francis Ford Coppola), and as chairman of the USA for Madrid-based FON. She is an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University, where she teaches leadership in the Leavey School of Business. Joanna was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and an Entrepreneur of the Year by NAWBO. She serves on the board of New Schools Venture Fund and on the global board of Endeavor. She earned her MBA from Columbia University (beta gamma sigma) and a BS from Duke University. She is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. VICTOR REINOSO Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Entrepreneur in Residence, NewSchools Venture Fund UNITED STATES Victor Reinoso is currently the entrepreneur in residence at the NewSchools Venture Fund. He was most recently senior advisor to the president and CFO of Georgetown University. Victor served four years as deputy mayor for education in the District of Columbia under Mayor Adrian Fenty. He resigned as an elected member of the school board to lead the mayor’s takeover of the public school system. Under Mayor Fenty, Michelle Rhee, and Victor, District of Columbia public schools showed unprecedented improvements in math and reading test scores, as well as graduation rates, and became a national model for what is possible in public education reform. Prior to public service, Victor served as COO for the Federal City Council, a membership organization comprising the capital’s top business, professional, educational, and civic leaders, and as CEO of RadioFutura, a venture- backed radio distribution service. Victor has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. He is a Fellow of the second class of the Pahara- Aspen Education Fellowship as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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BRUCE ROBERTSON Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Chief Executive Officer, Gulu Agricultural Development Company SOUTH AFRICA Bruce Robertson currently serves as CEO of Gulu Agricultural Development Company (GADC) and has been director of Romsdal Investments in Zimbabwe since 1999. Romsdal owns a cotton ginnery in Triangle in southern Zimbabwe and provides cotton inputs to some 18,000 small-holder farmers in Zimbabwe. Bruce has worked closely with management to guide the company through the tumultuous years of hyperinflation and dirty politics. In 1995, he raised capital and invested in cotton ginneries in eastern Uganda, the first foreign investor in the newly liberalized cotton sector. Cotton production in Uganda had declined from 470,000 bales in the early 1970s to around 30,000 bales due to the turmoil following Idi Amin’s regime. Bruce has worked with the Ugandan government, cotton farmers, and other ginners for the last 15 years to build the cotton crop. He now has investments in three cotton ginneries in north, east, and western Uganda; employs around 1,000 people; and is the chairman of the Uganda Ginners and Cotton Exporters’ Association, which provides farming inputs to 300,000 cotton farmers. From 1991 to 1995, Bruce was general manager of Premier International Development, where he was responsible for trade in wheat flour, maize, and edible oils for Premier Group in sub-Saharan Africa. He also investigated investment opportunities for Premier in other African nations. He was regional coordinator of Consultative Business Movement from 1990 to 1991 (Johannesburg region), where he was responsible for establishing dialogue between business leaders and political leaders in the area of economic policy, development, and conflict resolution. Bruce was educated at Hilton College, University of Natal (MS, agricultural economics) and University of Cambridge (MPhil, economics and politics of development). He is married to Janina Masojada, has two young children, Aleks and Klara, and lives in Durban. His time is taken up balancing travel and travails in Africa with a delightful but expectant family. Any advice on the art of balancing is welcome but will be returned with interest. In his spare time, he runs, surfs, plays polo, and reads. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. RAMEZ SHEHADI Middle East Leadership Initiative Executive Vice President & Managing Director, Booz Allen Hamilton LEBANON Ramez T. Shehadi has recently re-joined Booz Allen Hamilton as executive vice president and managing director tasked with driving the international expansion of the firm’s general management consulting services for public and private sector clients across all major industry verticals. Prior to this, Ramez lead Booz & Company’s Digital Business & Technology practice in the Middle East and served as the global leader of the Digitization platform. He has written extensively on digital strategy and technology-driven socio-economic development. Ramez also led Booz & Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility program in the Middle East, with the aim to deliver positive change across the region through diversified support on essential themes, such as empowerment of women, entrepreneurship, health care provision, and other socio-economic issues. Prior to this, Ramez was senior director of product development at eBreviate.com in San Francisco, a senior associate at A.T. Kearney in Toronto, a research associate at the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship in Toronto, a mechanical engineer at Stone & Webster in Boston, and a competitive 8m class amateur sailor and medalist in the 1997 and 1998 North American Championships and the 1999 World Championships. Ramez is a board member of the Young Arab Leaders and several other regional NGOs and technology start-ups and remains an active Endeavor mentor. He holds a BEng in mechanical engineering from Rutgers University and an MASc in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the second class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute as well as moderator for and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. JOHN SIMPKINS Liberty Fellowship Program Deputy General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget UNITED STATES John L. S. Simpkins is the deputy general counsel for the White House Office of Management and Budget. Previously he was a counsel with Wyche, P.A., visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Victoria, and a Fellow at Charleston School of Law. As a member of the African Network of the International Association of Constitutional Law, he serves as a consultant and conducts research in comparative constitutional law and constitutional design. John received his BA in government from Harvard College and a JD and

42 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org LLM in international and comparative law from Duke University School of Law. He lives with his wife Carolyn and son Jonah in Vancouver, British Columbia and Washington, D.C. He is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Liberty Fellowship as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. HEATHER SONN Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Managing Director, Gamiro Investment Group SOUTH AFRICA Heather Sonn is the managing director of Gamiro Investment Holdings, which has a focus on making investments in the renewable energy, agriculture and financial services sectors. The company is committed to creating sustainable legacy businesses based in South Africa through sound commercial practices as well as delivering positive social returns — a dual imperative in doing business in South Africa today. The company has recently been appointed by a jointly government- and community-owned diamond-mining company to create sustainable businesses in the area while creating social improvement opportunities for the community. Sectors will include agriculture and renewable energy. Heather started her career completing the investment banking analyst program at Merrill Lynch in New York, working in the globally branded consumer goods and leveraged buyout divisions. She has held senior executive positions in the investment management, stockbroking, and banking industries, including CEO of a stockbroking firm in South Africa that expanded its business to include the launch of a successful hedge fund; deputy CEO of the largest women’s investment company in South Africa, Wipcapital, that served over 200,000 women beneficiaries via its trusts; and a senior executive of Barclays in London, where she was responsible for formulating the commercial banking strategy for global philanthropy organizations, testing the globally integrated banking model. Heather has also worked in national social cohesion projects aimed at increasing the strength of South Africa’s democracy and lobbying government and the social-justice sector on various aspects of policy. She currently holds directorships on a number of listed and unlisted company boards, including Steinhoff International and Prescient Limited. She is also on the board of Foodbank South Africa, the Prescient Foundation, and GreenCape, an organization formed to support the growth of the green economy in the Western Cape. Heather holds a liberal arts degree from Smith College and a master of science in international affairs (business) from Georgetown University. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. HARRY STRACHAN Managing Director, Mesoamerica Investments COSTA RICA Harry Strachan is managing partner of Mesoamerica Investments. Harry was a partner of Bain & Company from 1979 to 1998 and continues part time with Bain and Bain Capital in the company’s new-partner training. Harry was a business school professor at INCAE and the Harvard Business School from 1970 to 1979 and rector of INCAE during the 1981/1982 transition. He is president of the Strachan Foundation, which he established in honor of his parents and grandparents. He also serves as an advisor on the boards of the Mesoamerica Foundation, INCAE, Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios, Hospital Clínica Bíblica, and Fundación Adelante. He received his DBA from Harvard Business School, his JD from Harvard Law School, and his BA from Wheaton College. Harry was born in Costa Rica of missionary parents. He is married and has two children and several grandchildren. His hobbies are golf, poker, and reading. Harry is a moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. CHRISTOPHER VARELAS Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Riverwood Capital UNITED STATES Christopher Varelas is a founding partner and chief investment officer of Riverwood Capital. Riverwood makes private equity investments in high-growth global technology and technology- enabled businesses. Prior to establishing Riverwood, Christopher was the global head of technology, media, and telecom investment banking at Citigroup Global Markets as well as head of Citi’s National Investment Bank. During his 20-year Wall Street career, he was one of the top-rated TMT bankers responsible for many of the largest transactions in the sector, as evidenced by his leadership on landmark transactions such as Compaq/ HP, Lucent Fiber, PeopleSoft/Oracle, IBM/PWC, and Flextronics/Solectron. Christopher was a senior member of Citi Investment Bank’s Operating Committee and head of Citi’s Culture Management Board. He was named to the list of the top 100 dealmakers by The New York Times and was named top technology Rainmaker by DealMakers magazine. Christopher earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he serves on the board of trustees. Christopher is a moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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HILDEGARD VASQUEZ Central America Leadership Initiative Co-Founder and Head Architect, Hache Uve, S.A. PANAMA Hildegard Vasquez has led the architectural office Hache Uve, which she created, since 1998, concentrating mostly on preservation and renovation of historic sites such as San Felipe, Panama´s historic district, and the city of Granada, Nicaragua. Her office has worked on major restoration projects such as the National Theater of Panama, Santo Domingo Convent, Las Clementinas Hotel, Benedetti Building (recognized with the Architectural Restoration First Prize of the Society of Panamanian Architects, November 9, 2011) and the American Trade Hotel and Hall. She is a founding member and president of Fundación Calicanto, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring and conserving the historic and human heritage of Casco Antiguo (San Felipe). Fundación Calicanto projects include the re-socialization of local gangs, educational programs for single mothers, a leadership in the arts program for kids, multi-cultural events, and many direct battles for the conservation of historical heritage. She also serves on the board of the Interoceanic Canal Museum since its inception in 1997 and was part of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Arts from 2001 to 2005. Hildegard has a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of fine arts from Rhode Island School of Design and a master of architecture in historic restoration from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She was a finalist for Avon Woman of the Year in 2011, Hero for Panama in 2011, and recognized as a Light in the Community by the Association of Women Entrepreneurs in Panama in 2011. Hildegard is a 2011 finalist for the John P. McNulty Prize, winner of the 2013 Latin America FT/Citibank Urban Ingenuity Award, recipient of the 2014 RISD Professional Achievement Award. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Central America Leadership Initiative, as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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Mahatma Gandhi MOVIE NIGHTS

JULY 28 AT 7:00 PM FILM AND DISCUSSION PRINT THE LEGEND Produced by Chad Troutwine PAEPCKE BUILDING: PAEPCKE AUDITORIUM

3D printing is changing the world – from printing guns and human organs, to dismantling the world’s industrial infrastructure by enabling home manufacturing. It’s “the next Industrial Revolution.” For the first time in history, the stories of the human beings building an industry have been filmed. The result: PRINT THE LEGEND, which follows the people racing to bring 3D printing to your desktop and into your life. For the winners, there are fortunes – and history – to be made. PRINT THE LEGEND is both the definitive 3D Printing Documentary – capturing a tech in the midst of its “Macintosh Moment” – and a compelling tale about what it takes to live the American Dream In any field.

ABOUT CHAD TROUTWINE Henry Crown Fellowship Program Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Veritas Prep UNITED STATES Chad is the founder of three successful companies and a decorated film producer. He is co-founder and CEO of Veritas Prep, the largest GMAT preparation and graduate school admissions consulting company in the world, which employs more than 500 people in 22 countries. Chad also co-founded Freakonomics Media, a digital partnership with author Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt. In addition, Chad co-founded and owns Spectrum Station, the largest early learning education center in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Spectrum Station provides early education for hundreds of children from infancy through private kindergarten and pioneered a fresh foods initiative. Over the past decade, Chad has also produced ten feature films, each of which earned a theatrical release and premiered at one of the world’s preeminent film festivals: Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, or Cannes. His films have earned two Emmy and three Academy Award nominations. He currently serves on the boards of directors at Veritas Prep, Freakonomics Media, Spectrum Station, the Fishing River Community Improvement District, the Yale School of Management Alumni Association, and the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership. Chad earned a BA from Arizona State University, a JD from the University of Missouri, an MBA from the Yale University School of Management, and an MPA from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he served on the admissions committee. Chad is a member of the 2013 Class of Henry Crown Fellows of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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FILM & DISCUSSION A RIVER BETWEEN US Produced by Jason Atkinson PAEPCKE BUILDING: PAEPCKE AUDITORIUM A River Between Us tells the story of the longest running and most bitterly disputed water war in the western United States today. The film’s primary focus is the environmental disaster on the Klamath River—however, in this case, the most dangerous toxin polluting the water is thirty years of bad blood between the local farmers, ranchers, Native Tribes, members of the Tea Party, state politicians and federal government. Most importantly, this documentary provides a solution to ending this generations-old conflict: in order to save a river, you must first heal a people. ABOUT JASON ATKINSON Rodel Fellowship Program Filmmaker/Author UNITED STATES Jason Atkinson is an Oregon state senator. He was originally elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1998, where he was appointed assistant majority leader. Two years later, Jason successfully ran for the state Senate, where he has since served as deputy majority leader, majority whip, and committee chair. He has served as a representative of the United States to Egypt IS YOUR FAMILY and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Trade missions have sent him to both Taiwan and the Peoples’ Republic of China. Jason IN ASPEN? co-authored one of the most progressive new energy siting bills in America, discussed tax policy at the White House with Additional movie tickets President George W. Bush, and was named co-chair of Oregon’s available for purchase Committee on Information, Management and Technology. Jason at the regsistration table has a tremendous interest in the Middle East and has worked through politics, business, and the nonprofit sectors for the in the Doerr-Hosier Center people of Kurdistan. He is a 2005 Rodel Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 49 ABOUT THE MINI-SEMINARS

Mini-Seminars feature moderated, text-based Socratic dialogue designed to prompt participants to reflect on their responsibilities as leaders and on the urgency for action.

The 2014 Mini-Seminars are organized into three themes, each captured in two readings; but, as always, we hope they will provoke one ongoing conversation throughout the Forum.

JULY 29: TOUCHING BASE. The first pair of readings provide space for us to reconnect with the Aspen spirit and with those who have come from all corners of the globe to be together. We begin with a poem by William Stafford that challenges us to take the time to listen and understand one another. It’s followed by a commencement speech given by the founder of DropBox who asks a deceptively simple question: What interesting problems are you working on?

JULY 30: DISRUPTIVE LEADERSHIP. This session begins with a profile of Pope Francis — a disruptive leader with a unique set of challenges and an equally unique style — from whom we suspect there is much to learn, even as his story unfolds with each new day. We then move to a reflection on the 100-year anniversary of World War I to ask: Are there parallels between the state of the world then and the state of the world now? And are there things we, as a globally connected web of leaders, should be doing right now to help avoid a tragic repeat of history?

AUGUST 1: WHY NOT? We launch this session (somewhat unconventionally for the Aspen Institute) with a blog post. It flips a question we often ask of ourselves on its head: Instead of asking us what we might want to do, this piece provokes us to make an honest assessment of how much pain we’re willing to bear to do what we think needs doing. The final piece is the eulogy of Robert F. Kennedy delivered by his brother Ted in 1968. It challenges us, even today, to expand our sense of what is possible, not by complaining about what is, but by asking: Why not?

As with any seminar, we hope that you spent some time with the mini-seminar texts before you embarked upon your journey to Aspen. They are rich, and you will benefit from having read (and re-read) them multiple times.

You can download copies of the readings through the electronic interactive agenda. A limited number of print copies are available at the registration table in the Doerr-Hosier Center as well as in the seminar rooms. Designing an Impactful Finance Fellowship for the Aspen Institute Scaling and the

Expanding Reach of a Women’s Mentorship Program in Nigeria Just Enough Design.

Building a Skill Training and Motivational Counseling App for U.S. Military Veterans

ABOUTCrafting the Messaging and THE Determining the Founder’s Role for a Program to Help

Teen Mothers in Panama Securing Buy-In for a Unique Teaching Concept for Struggling Schools in South Carolina Deepen Support and Improve College Retention Rate for Scholarship RecipientsACTION in California’s Central Valley Building Momentum for Democracy in El Salvador Scaling Up a Green Building and Lifestyle Initiative in China Integrating Social Impact into a

Global Corporation’s Performance Metrics Branding and Partnership Strategy for Women’s CareerWORKSHOPS Management Platform Scaling and Updating an Online Health Platform for Teens in Costa Rica Refocusing Society on the Important Role of Mothers in Early Childhood Development

Increasing Participation by School Superintendents in Peer-Learning Group Measuring the

Impact of an Early Childhood Literacy Program in the Sanger School District of Central California

Expanding a Foster Youth Program to Ensure a Successful Transition to Society in Panama

A Program to Apply African Know-how to Developing the Continent Scaling U.S. “Children’s

Savings Accounts” in a Sustainable Way Designing an Impactful Finance Fellowship for the

Aspen Institute Scaling and the Expanding Reach of a Women’s Mentorship Program in Nigeria

Just Enough Design. Building a Skill Training and Motivational Counseling App for U.S. Military

Veterans Crafting the Messaging and Determining the Founder’s Role for a Program to Help

Teen Mothers in Panama Securing Buy-In for a Unique Teaching Concept for Struggling Schools in South Carolina Deepen Support and Improve College Retention Rate for Scholarship

Recipients in California’s Central Valley Building Momentum for Democracy in El Salvador

Scaling Up a Green Building and Lifestyle Initiative in China Integrating Social Impact into a

Global Corporation’s Performance Metrics Branding and Partnership Strategy for Women’s

Career Management Platform Scaling and Updating an Online Health Platform for Teens in Costa

Rica Refocusing Society on the Important Role of Mothers in Early Childhood Development

Increasing Participation by School Superintendents in Peer-Learning Group Measuring the Impact of an Early Childhood Literacy Program in the Sanger School District of Central

California Expanding a Foster Youth Program to Ensure a Successful Transition to Society in

Panama A Program to Apply African Know-how to Developing the Continent Scaling U.S.

“Children’s Savings Accounts” in a Sustainable Way Designing an Impactful Finance Fellowship THE ACTION WORKSHOP FORMAT Action Workshops are designed for attendees to present challenges related to their Fellowship projects or action focus for an in-depth consultation with approximately 25 of their peers.

The Action Workshops use a protocol (or approach) employed by a variety of organizations, perhaps most notably the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). The essence of this approach is that the presenter (in this case, the Action Forum participant) provides a group of advisors (i.e. those participating in the Action Workshop) a very brief and focused description of the challenge (no PowerPoints or handouts other than a one-page summary of the challenge, distributed prior to the workshop), answers specific clarifying questions, and then remains silent while the group “consults.” The Aspen Global Leadership Network has used this approach to great effect many times over the last five years. The key to its success is strict time management and succinctness.

Action Workshops use the following 90-minute workshop format:

STEP 1. INTRODUCE PROTOCOL, IDENTIFY ROLES, AND REVIEW NORMS (5 MINUTES) The moderator introduces him/herself, describes the protocol and norms, and introduces the presenter.

STEP 2. PRESENTER GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROBLEM (10 MINUTES) The presenter introduces him/herself, gives a brief overview of the problem, describes the context, and frames a specific question for the consultancy group to consider. The problem-framing and the quality of the presenter’s reflections on the issue being discussed are the key features of this protocol.

STEP 3. CONSULTANCY GROUP ASKS CLARIFYING QUESTIONS (5 MINUTES) The consultancy group asks clarifying questions of the presenter. These should be questions that have factual responses and can be answered with a yes or no, or a phrase or two. The presenter responds briefly to each question.

STEP 4. CONSULTANCY GROUP ASKS PROBING QUESTIONS (10 MINUTES) The consultancy group asks probing questions of the presenter: open-ended, thought-provoking questions intended to help the presenter clarify and expand his/her thinking around the question and challenge. The presenter responds, but the group does not discuss the answers. The moderator ends this section by asking the presenter to restate the question.

STEP 5. GROUP CONSULTS AND PRESENTER LISTENS (25 MINUTES) The group discusses the issues presented and brainstorms solutions based on questions such as: What did we think about the questions and issues presented? What did we hear? What has the presenter not considered? What are the gaps or issues that have not been examined? What challenges need to be resolved in order to address the larger issue? What are potential solutions? What are other organizations doing to address this issue? What are some examples of best practices? What are our recommendations for addressing this challenge? The conversation should include both “warm” and “cool” feedback and specific recommendations to address the challenge. The presenter does not speak during this discussion, but instead listens and takes notes.

STEP 6. PRESENTER RESPONDS AND CONSULTANCY GROUP LISTENS (10 MINUTES) The presenter describes what he/she heard and what resonated, as well as his/her reactions to the proposed solutions and potential next steps.

STEP 7. MODERATOR LEADS A SHARED CONVERSATION (20 MINUTES) The moderator leads an open conversation about the issue. Team members can summarize responses to what the presenter said, identify a common understanding of the problem, and establish a timeline for the presenter to implement some of the suggested strategies. The presenter can respond to questions about whether the solutions presented will work in his/her particular context and what changes should be made to facilitate successful implementation.

STEP 8. MODERATOR LEADS A BRIEF DISCUSSION ON PROCESS (5 MINUTES) The moderator asks the group to reflect on the process: What did the team learn? What worked and what didn’t work with the session and the protocol?

Two rotations of Action Workshops take place during the Action Forum on July 29 and July 31.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 53 CONCURRENT ACTION WORKSHOPS JULY 29

Visit AspenActionForum.org to read the workshop descriptions.

ACTION WORKSHOPS

Designing an Impactful Finance Fellowship for the Aspen Institute PRESENTER Ranji Nagaswami Henry Crown Fellowship Program Former Chief Investment Advisor to Mayor Bloomberg PRESENTER Chris Varelas Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Riverwood Capital UNITED STATES

Scaling and the Expanding Reach of a Women’s Mentorship Program in Nigeria PRESENTER Amina Oyagbola Africa Leadership Initiative-West Africa Human Resources Executive, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited NIGERIA

Building a Skill Training and Motivational Counseling App for U.S. Military Veterans PRESENTER Alice Ray Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Chief Executive Officer, Ripple Effects UNITED STATES

Crafting the Messaging and Determining the Founder’s Role for a Program to Help Teen Mothers in Panama PRESENTER Gisela Porras Central America Leadership Initiative Managing Partner, Arias & Muñoz PANAMA

Securing Buy-In for a Unique Teaching Concept for Struggling Schools in South Carolina PRESENTER Trip DuBard Liberty Fellowship Executive Director, South Carolina Future Minds UNITED STATES

54 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org Deepening Support and Improving College Retention Rate for Scholarship Recipients in California’s Central Valley PRESENTER Jennifer Sohn Lim Resnick Leadership Fellow Director, College Readiness and Retention, Roll Global UNITED STATES

Building Momentum for Democracy in El Salvador PRESENTER Marlon Hernández Anzora Central America Leadership Initiative Consultant EL SALVADOR

Scaling Up a Green Building and Lifestyle Initiative in China PRESENTER Lin Lin Jacobs China Fellowship Program Founder and Executive Creative Director, Jellymon CHINA

PROJECT WORKSHOPS Five Secrets to Successfully Scaling Your Venture PRESENTER Rick Braddock Trustee of the Aspen Institute UNITED STATES

Just Enough Design PRESENTER Erika Hall Founder, Mule Design UNITED STATES

Crowdfunding for Your Project or Business PRESENTER Alisa Cordesius Indiegogo UNITED STATES

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 55 People have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

Maya Angelou

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INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Anatomy of a Revolution: The View From Inside the Storm JULY 30 DOERR-HOSIER CENTER: CATTO ROOM

The past 25 years — and many of our Fellows — have been witness to a range of mass protests and revolutions in places like China, South Africa, and Egypt. How did they happen? What was it like to be part of one? In retrospect, were they worth the pain and suffering? Would the Fellows do it all over again? Has the nature of revolution changed in the era of social media? Can Twitter, Weibo, and Facebook substitute for skin in the game? LEAD DISCUSSANTS MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Trustee of the Aspen Institute Former US Secretary of State UNITED STATES Madeleine K. Albright is chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. She was the 64th secretary of state of the United States. In 1997, she was named the first female secretary of state and became, at that time, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the US government. As secretary of state, Madeleine reinforced America’s alliances, advocated for democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade, business, labor, and environmental standards abroad. From 1993 to 1997, she served as the US permanent representative to the United Nations and was a member of the president’s Cabinet. From 1989 to 1992, she served as president of the Center for National Policy. Previously, she was a member of President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Council and White House staff and served as chief legislative assistant to US Senator Edmund S. Muskie. Madeleine is a professor in the practice of diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She chairs both the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the Pew Global Attitudes Project and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. She serves on the US Department of Defense’s Defense Policy Board, a group tasked with providing the secretary of defense with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning matters of defense policy. Madeleine also serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute, and the Center for American Progress. In 2009, she was asked by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to chair a group of experts focused on developing NATO’s New Strategic Concept. Madeleine is the author of four New York Times best-sellers: her autobiography, Madam Secretary: A Memoir (2003); The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs (2006); Memo to the President: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership (2008); and Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box (2009). Madeleine received a BA with honors from Wellesley College and master’s and doctorate degrees from Columbia University’s Department of Public Law and Government, as well as a certificate from its Russian Institute.

AMJAD TADROS Middle East Leadership Initiative Middle East Producer, CBS News JORDAN Amjad Tadros is both an entrepreneur and award-winning investigative journalist. He has successfully founded and managed more than half a dozen regional businesses in the diverse fields of communications, marketing and also security and logistics. He is the Middle East Producer for CBS News, managing the network’s coverage and operations in the region since 1990. In 2001, he was awarded an Emmy in Investigative Journalism. In 2007, he received an Alfred Dupont Award for excellence by the University of Columbia in New York. He is also a co-recipient of the Peabody award in 2008. In 2006, he founded ShooFeeTV, the first internet- based television guide in Arabic. ShooFeeTV was launched on the web in 2008, and quickly expanded its program

58 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org listings to newspapers, and mobile devices. Later, the platform expanded into a wider lifestyle guide that includes gaming, cooking and films. In 2013, Amjad co-founded Syria Direct, a non-profit media organization that produces timely, credible coverage of Syria while training a small group of aspiring Syrian and American journalists in professional news-gathering and accurate, in-depth reporting. Syria Direct is committed to using the highest journalistic standards for Syrians to tell their own story. Amjad Tadros holds an honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London. He is married and divides his time between Amman, Jordan and Devon, Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

LI YUAN China Fellowship Program Editor in Chief, The Wall Street Journal China CHINA Li Yuan is editor in chief of cn.wsj.com, the Chinese online edition of The Wall Street Journal. She joined the Journal in New York in 2004, working as a reporter covering the US telecom industry, then as a columnist with WSJ.com. She moved back to Beijing to head the Chinese WSJ website in 2008. Before joining the Journal, Li was a reporter with Xinhua News Agency, covering events in Thailand, Laos, and Afghanistan and an international news editor with Xinhua in Beijing. A native of Ningxia, China, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s in international policy and practice from George Washington University. Li is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the China Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR ELLIOT GERSON Executive Vice President, The Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Elliot Gerson is an executive vice president at the Aspen Institute, responsible for its Policy Programs, its Public Programs, and its relations with international partners. The Institute’s Policy Programs, which number almost 30, focus on both domestic and international issues. They provide neutral venues, do nonpartisan analysis, and promote candid dialogue among leaders. The Institute’s public programs — including the Aspen Ideas Festival and many smaller programs across the country — open the Institute’s doors to a broader audience. The Institute has international partners in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Romania, and Spain. Gerson also administers the US Rhodes Scholarships. He was a Rhodes Scholar, a US Supreme Court clerk, practiced law in government and privately, held executive positions in state and federal government and on a presidential campaign, and was president of start-ups in health care and education and of two leading insurance and health care companies. He also sits on the National Petroleum Council, which advises the secretary of energy.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 59 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Art JULY 30 DOERR-HOSIER CENTER: KAUFMAN ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. What is it about art that moves people? Can it move people to action? What artists have moved you? What are the opportunities you see for the arts to shine a light on major challenges where you live? How can you encourage and support these efforts?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS JONATHAN FERRARA Artist, Owner, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery UNITED STATES Jonathan Ferrara is a New Orleans artist, gallery owner, community activist, and arts entrepreneur. His gallery exhibits cutting-edge works of art from local, national, and international artists, including paintings, sculpture, glass, metal works, mixed media, and installation art. Exhibitions he has produced have been featured in The New York Times, TIME magazine, the Associated Press, Art In America, ARTPAPERS, ARTnews, ELLE magazine, on NPR, and on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” as well as in numerous local and regional publications. Ferrara’s gallery is a collective environment of creative visions — a commercial gallery with a public conscience, focusing on cutting-edge works with a sense of purpose, mission, and message. He has produced exhibitions across the United States and in Europe. He is known for using art to stimulate new thinking on issues that face his community and the country — using art as catalyst for change.

NEO MUYANGA Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Composer, Neosong SOUTH AFRICA Neo Muyanga is a composer and musician. He was born in Soweto into a long line of traditional composers and makers of the timbila, a Mozambican tuned wood percussion instrument. He studied the Italian madrigal tradition with choral maestro Piero Poclen in Trieste, Italy. In the mid 1990s he co-founded the acoustic guitar duo BLK Sonshine with Masauko Chipembere, garnering critical acclaim throughout Southern Africa and internationally. Neo writes, plays, and composes for chorus, chamber, and large ensembles. Most recently, his Memory of How It Feels was performed at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. He has also composed music for and toured with Britain’s prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and South Africa’s celebrated Handspring Puppet Company and served as artist in residence at the University of Cape Town School of Drama. He continues to tour widely as a solo performer and as a member of BLK Sonshine. Neo also curates the Pan African Space Station online. He is a Fellow of the third class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

60 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org TAMSIN SMITH Henry Crown Fellowship Program President, SlipStreamStrategy UNITED STATES Tamsin Smith is founder and president of SlipStreamStrategy, which works with philanthropists, corporate executives, international organizations, nonprofits, and innovative thinkers to form creative coalitions that impact society’s collective challenges. She was previously the president of (RED), which produces specially branded products in partnership with iconic global brands — including Apple, Emporio Armani, Converse, Gap, Dell, and Starbucks — to activate the buying power of the public in the fight against AIDS in Africa. Tamsin was recruited in early 2006 by (RED) founders Bono and Bobby Shriver to launch and build the program internationally. At the time of her departure, (RED) had generated nearly $190 million — 100 percent of which is invested in HIV and AIDS programs on the ground in Africa. Prior to joining (RED), she shepherded Gap Inc.’s public-policy strategy and engagement. Before moving to California, she spent six years on Capitol Hill as senior legislative assistant to two members of the US House of Representatives. Tamsin holds an MA in international law and diplomacy from Tufts University and a BA in English literature from Kenyon College, where she graduated summa cum laude. She is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR RICKY ARRIOLA President & CEO, Inktel Holdings Corporation UNITED STATES Ricky Arriola is president and CEO of Inktel Direct Corp, a company headquartered in Miami and with offices throughout the United States. He has held various executive-level positions in the entertainment, e-commerce, investment banking and legal industries. His passion for his community inspired him to serve as chairman of the board of Directors of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Ricky was recently named a South Florida “Ultimate CEO” by the South Florida Business Journal, and one of Poder Magazine’s “Most Influential People of 2010.” Ricky serves on President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Mr. Arriola is also actively involved the Young Presidents Organization, the Miami Art Museum, the American Teleservices Association, the Orange Bowl Committee and Leadership Florida. He also serves as a mentor through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Although involved in many organizations and charities, Mr. Arriola still finds the time to devote to competing in triathlons, marathons and other races across the country. He holds degrees from Harvard University Graduate School of Business (MBA), St. John’s University School of Law (JD) and Boston College (BA). He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 61 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Breaking Barriers JULY 30 BOETTCHER BUILDING: DINGMAN ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. What are the cultural, political, and other barriers that you think need to be broken? How hard will this be? Where do you start? What can you learn from others to help you succeed?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS ANA VICTORIA LÓPEZ DE MATEO Central America Leadership Initiative Language Program Coordinator, Wuqu’ Kawoq GUATEMALA Ana Victoria López de Mateo is the language program coordinator at Kab’lajuj Ey, a program of Wuqu’ Kawoq, a nongovernmental organization committed to facilitating excellence and linguistic competence in medical care delivery for indigenous communities of Guatemala. Soon after graduating from high school, Ana developed different projects that have improved the quality of life in Guatemala; her projects aimed at reducing malnutrition, supporting mothers, improving family nutrition, promoting self-sustainability, and reducing dependence on domestic and foreign aid. Ana lived in the United States for 11 years and returned to Guatemala in August of 2012. While living in the United States, she worked as a teacher’s assistant in Spanish at Harvard University and a Kaqchikel consultant for field methods at Harvard, Kansas University, and MIT. She also worked as a para-educator, interpreter, and bilingual customer-service representative. Ana was a cross-cultural trainer for the Peace Corps in Guatemala. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in food science from South Dakota State University and obtained an associate’s degree in food science and technology from Mount Hood Community College in Oregon. She is the recipient of several scholarships, including the CASS, Albert and Edna Thompson Scholarship, and the Lloyd Everson Scholarship. Ana is fluent in English, Spanish, and Kaqchikel. She is married and has two children. She is a Fellow of the ninth class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

TAREQ MAAYAH Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, Exalt Technologies PALESTINE Tareq Sameeh Maayah is the CEO of Exalt Technologies, a leading Palestinian software house. Prior to this position, he was the CEO for Siemens Information and Communication Technologies Ltd., a Siemens AG research and development center for data communication equipment. Tareq has served on many boards and was chairman of the Palestine Information Technology Association of Companies and Palestine Information and Communication Technologies Incubator from 2004 to 2006. Tareq holds a master’s of science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

62 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org ISAAC SHONGWE Henry Crown Fellowship Program Trustee of the Aspen Institute Former Executive Director, Barloworld Limited SOUTH AFRICA Isaac Shongwe is the former executive director of Barloworld Limited, where his portfolios included strategy, human capital, innovation, solutions development, sustainability, and stakeholder management. He is a member of several boards, including the Wits Business School; Endeavor, an NGO focusing on entrepreneurship development in South Africa; the Aspen Institute, and the Ragon Institute. Before starting Letsema in 1995, Isaac worked for various companies owned by Barloworld Limited from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, he joined Monitor Consulting Company, a business strategy outfit headquartered in Boston. As a strategy consultant, Isaac has worked on various strategy-formulation projects, both for blue-chip private sector clients and various public sector clients. In addition to his business interests, Isaac is heavily involved in social and community upliftment projects. He has created Letsema Foundation, through which he funds most of his social interests. The foundation focuses on leadership development, entrepreneurship, and education. In 1988, Isaac was named 21st Century Trust Fellow, in recognition of his potential as a future leader in his country, and in 1996 was named Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. In 1987, Isaac graduated with honors from Wesleyan University (USA). In 1989, he received a degree in marketing from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 1991, he also obtained an MPhil in management studies from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Isaac is married to Khumo and they have six children. He is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, chairman and founder of the Africa Leadership Foundation in South Africa, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR RANJI NAGASWAMI Henry Crown Fellowship Program Former Chief Investment Advisor to Mayor Bloomberg UNITED STATES A 27-year investment industry veteran, Ranji Nagaswami is working to champion sound investment policy and public pension governance reform in the United States. She is a seminar moderator for the Aspen Institute and is launching the Finance Fellows Program within the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Ranji is a visiting executive fellow at Yale School of Management, working with MBA students on a research project related to the pension and investment industry. She most recently worked at Bridgewater Associates, the $130 billion-plus global macro-hedge fund and risk-parity strategy pioneer. From 2010 through 2012, she served as chief investment advisor to the administration of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for the City’s $150 billion-plus employee retirement systems. Prior to joining the public sector, Ranji held executive and portfolio management positions at two world-class asset management firms, AllianceBernstein LP and UBS Asset Management. During her tenure, she served as chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager within the firms’ fixed-income, value equity, global mutual fund (retail client), and multi-asset (asset allocation) portfolio units. Ranji is currently a member of the $60 billion UAW VEBA Medical Benefits Trust Investment Advisory Council and the CFA Institute’s Asset Manager Code of Conduct Advisory Committee. She was previously a member of the Yale University Investments Committee, the Yale School of Management Advisory Board, a trustee of Greenwich Academy, trustee and chair of the Investment Committee of the Wallace Foundation, and on the North American Council of Ashoka, a global fellowship of social entrepreneurs. Ranji earned a bachelor of commerce degree from Bombay University in India and her MBA from the Yale School of Management and is a chartered financial analyst. She is a 2005 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 63 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Educating Our Kids — Time for a Re-Think? JULY 30 KOCH BUILDING: LAUDER ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. We seem unable to provide every child with a high-quality education that prepares them for a good life well-lived. Why? Do our systems need a fundamental redesign? Are existing solutions too narrow? What’s being done that is new and unequivocally succeeding? What about the way we educate needs disruptive thinking?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS KRISTE DRAGON Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Citizens of the World Charter Schools UNITED STATES Kriste Dragon began her work in education as a middle school mathematics teacher in south Los Angeles. She later served as executive director of Teach For America in Los Angeles and vice president of regional operations for six of Teach For America’s western regions. In that role, Kriste was responsible for the placement and ongoing support of over 900 Teach For America corps members. She has also served as professional development coordinator at UCLA’s Center X, developing mathematics curricula and training more than 4,000 teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Kriste served as founding board chair for Citizens of the World Charter School Hollywood, vice chair of Community Magnet Charter School for five years, and a board member of Larchmont Charter Schools for eight years. She has a JD from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Alabama. Kriste is a member of the first cohort of the Broad Fellowship for Education Leaders. She is a Fellow of the sixth class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

KAYA HENDERSON Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Chancellor, DC Public Schools UNITED STATES On June 21, 2011, the DC Council confirmed Kaya Henderson as chancellor of DC Public Schools. Kaya’s career in education began as a middle-school Spanish teacher in the South Bronx. She has also served as both a recruiter and national director of admissions for Teach For America and, in 1997, became the executive director of Teach For America-DC, where she was responsible for 170 teachers in more than 50 DC public schools. In 2000, Kaya began work with The New Teacher Project, where she eventually became vice president for strategic partnerships, overseeing the organization’s work on improving teacher hiring for school districts. She came to DC Public Schools as deputy chancellor in 2007 and led the district’s human capital efforts, as well as the development of IMPACT, a new and innovative teacher assessment system designed to ensure that an effective teacher is leading every classroom. Kaya is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington DC, where she received a bachelor’s degree in international relations and a master’s degree in leadership. She is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Pahara- Aspen Education Fellowship as well as a moderator for and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

64 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org MATT NAVO Superintendent, Sanger Unified School District UNITED STATES Matt Navo is the superintendent of the Sanger Unified School District in California, where he is in his 14th year in the district. Matt has been involved in public education in the Central Valley for over 18 years. He began his work as a special education teacher. He then worked at the high- school level as both a counselor and resource teacher. Matt followed that experience as a junior high learning director overseeing many departments, including special education, and arrived at Sanger Unified School District in 1999, where he worked as a high school assistant principal, elementary principal, alternative education principal, and director of special education before assuming the role of area administrator and now as superintendent. Matt received his bachelor’s degree in education and his master’s degree in special education from California State University at Fresno. He has an array of credentials, which include a professional administrative credential, multiple subject teaching credentials, a professional specialists credential in special education, and a supplemental credential with an autism emphasis.

MODERATOR JOHN DEASY Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District UNITED STATES John E. Deasy is superintendent for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest school district in the nation. Prior to this position, John was the deputy superintendent for LAUSD. John has also served as a deputy director of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, he was superintendent of Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland. During his time in Prince George’s, John launched a pay-for-performance plan that was approved by the board of education and developed jointly with labor. Previously, he served as superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in California and of the Coventry Public Schools in Rhode Island. He has been a Broad Fellow, an Annenberg Fellow, a State Superintendent of the Year, and a consultant to school districts undertaking high-school reform and district-wide improvement strategies. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship as well as a moderator for and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 65 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Teaching JULY 30 PAEPCKE BUILDING: PAEPCKE GALLERY

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. Teachers are a key ingredient in student success. Can all students learn? Do they all learn in the same ways? Must success in school be limited by where you live? What’s new in the world of effective teaching? How can you support a revolution in teaching?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS CYNTHIA ROBINSON-RIVERS Aspen Teacher Leaders Fellowship Assistant Principal for Literacy, District of Columbia Public Schools UNITED STATES Cynthia Robinson-Rivers is an assistant principal for literacy at DC Public Schools (DCPS). In this role, she oversees implementation of reading interventions and trains teachers and other staff members on best practices in Common Core-aligned English Language Arts (ELA) instruction. Prior to this, she worked in the DCPS central office as the director of teacher retention and recognition, where she developed projects to improve retention of highly effective teachers. Those projects included LIFT: Leadership Initiative for Teachers, a first-of-its-kind career-ladder system for teachers, and Teaching In Action, a program that connects teachers with high- performing colleagues in their content area for classroom observations. Before her work on teacher retention, Cynthia worked as the director of the DCPS Master Educator Program during the inaugural year of IMPACT, the district’s teacher evaluation system, and as a senior master educator for early childhood in the second year of the program. Cynthia has taught in public schools in Oakland, East Palo Alto, and Washington, DC. She holds a BA in communication and art from Stanford University and a MA in education from George Washington University. She is a Fellow of the first class of the Aspen Teacher Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

PRESTON SMITH Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship President and Chief Executive Officer, Rocketship Education UNITED STATES Preston Smith is president and CEO of Rocketship Education. Formerly, he served as Rocketship Education’s chief achievement officer. Before co-founding Rocketship, he was the principal of L.U.C.H.A. Elementary School, a small school within the Alum Rock Unified School District in San Jose, California. He founded L.U.C.H.A in collaboration with neighborhood families in 2004 to provide parents with an excellent school focused on high academic achievement and parental involvement. In 2007, after three years of operation, L.U.C.H.A. received an API score of 881 and was the highest-ranked elementary school in the district and county of Santa Clara. Before founding L.U.C.H.A, Preston taught first grade for three years at Clyde Arbuckle Elementary School, the first two as a member of Teach for America. In 2003, Preston was named Teacher of the Year at Arbuckle and was also nominated as one of six finalists for TFA’s Sue Lehmann award, given to TFA corps members with the highest classroom academic gains in the nation. Preston graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the third class the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

66 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org HAE-SIN THOMAS Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Chief Executive Officer, Education for Change UNITED STATES Hae-Sin Kim Thomas is the CEO of Education for Change Public Schools (EFCPS), a charter management organization in Oakland, California focused on converting existing district public schools in high-poverty communities to charter schools. Prior to joining EFCPS, she was in the turnaround space — working with school districts and charter management organizations to recreate their lowest-performing schools as the CEO of urbanED solutions. She was also the lead organizer and co-founder of Great Oakland Public Schools, an Oakland-based education advocacy group and watchdog. Before urbanED solutions, Hae-Sin worked for the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) as a teacher, principal, school developer, and executive officer. She led a team charged with designing and leading two foundational tenets of OUSD’s nationally recognized reform effort — creating quality school options for families in every neighborhood and ensuring high-performing, more personalized communities of learning for children. She facilitated the design and opening of 22 new schools, replacing 18 chronically failing schools. Prior to that, she was the founding principal of ASCEND, one of the five original new small and autonomous schools opened in Oakland, California, a school recognized for accelerating achievement and engaging community. Hae-Sin started teaching in Oakland through Teach for America in 1993 and continued teaching for six years before becoming a site administrator. During this time, she also worked as the special education school director for the Teach for America Summer Institute. She holds a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s in curriculum and instruction from the University of San Francisco, and a master’s in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR TONY KLEMMER Aspen Teacher Leaders Fellowship President, NAATE Program UNITED STATES Tony Klemmer is the founder and president of the NAATE Program and The Center for Better Schools, which is the nation’s most advanced program of learning for experienced, high-performing K-12 classroom teachers. Today, NAATE serves over 300 top-tier educators and over 220,000 students from across the nation in more than 35 charter, district, and faith-based school organizations. Tony has participated in the start-up and board-level activities of a number of social enterprises. He has a long history in entrepreneurial settings, having helped found several high-tech companies in the medical device, advanced materials, and industrial automation industries, as well as international experience. Tony also managed a successful marketing, strategic planning, and investment consultancy and led the health care and life science practice at a Boston-based boutique investment bank. Tony received his PhD in humanities from Salve Regina University. His doctoral work focused on “Moral Coherence in the Modern World.” He graduated from the Harvard Business School and has a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Tony taught in the MBA program at Babson College, and he is a cum laude graduate of Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In 2010, Tony and The Center for Better Schools were named one of 47 Finalists, from a field of over 500 applicants, as a Kauffman Foundation Education Venture Fellow. He is a Fellow of the first class of the Aspen Teacher Leaders Fellowship and a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 67 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Technology JULY 30 PAEPCKE BUILDING: PAEPCKE LIBRARY

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. Is technology a pathway or a barrier to a truly good life? What new technologies are in the works that might help us to live better? How can technology help build a “Good Society”?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS ANOUSHEH ANSARI Middle East Leadership Initiative Co-Founder and Chairman, Prodea Systems UNITED STATES Anousheh Ansari is co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems in Iran and the United States. On September 18, 2006, she captured headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer, travelling to and staying onboard the International Space Station for ten days. Afterward, back on Earth, as a successful serial entrepreneur, Anousheh returned to her job as co-founder and chairman of her latest technology company, Prodea Systems. In her previous endeavor, Anousheh served as co-founder, CEO, and chairman of the board for Telecom Technologies, Inc. An active proponent of world-changing technologies and social entrepreneurship, in 2004, Anousheh and her family provided the title sponsorship for the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million cash award for the first nongovernmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. Furthermore, she currently works to enable social entrepreneurs to bring about radical change globally, with organizations such as Ashoka and the PARSA Community Foundation. She also hopes her tale of determination, hope, and success inspires children to dream big and study hard to overcome obstacles and reach their dreams. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

JIGAR SHAH Catto Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, Jigar Shah Consulting UNITED STATES Jigar Shah is the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy. He unlocked the multi-billion-dollar worldwide solar industry with a business-model innovation, the Power Purchase Agreement. This model created SunEdison, the largest solar services company worldwide. Jigar has shown that business-model innovation applied to the biggest challenge of our lifetime – climate change – will unlock a $10 trillion new economy. After a successful exit at SunEdison, Jigar served as the first CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global nonprofit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change. Today, as CEO of Jigar Shah Consulting, he works to bring “pay as you save” money to other resource-efficiency sectors from his offices in New York City. Jigar sits on the boards of Empower Energies, KMR Infrastructure, and SolarNexus. He is a Fellow of the second class of the Catto Fellowship of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

68 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org ANGELA WANG China Fellowship Program Senior Vice President and Board Secretary, Neusoft Corporation CHINA Dr. Angela Wang is senior vice president and board secretary of Neusoft Corporation, the leading IT solution and service provider in China. She is in charge of corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, international business development, and corporate branding and marketing. Having started as a software engineer at Neusoft, Angela has accumulated extensive experience in a wide variety of fields such as technology, business development, and corporate management in the past 16 years. She was promoted to vice president of Neusoft Corporation in 2009 and senior vice president in 2011. In 2007, she was appointed general manager of the International Business Development Division, dedicated to international business development to build alliances and partnerships as well as to explore overseas markets, especially in North America and Europe. Since 2000, she has successively served as deputy general manager of Neusoft Middleware Technologies, director of Mobile Internet Division, and deputy director of Advanced Automotive Electronic Technology Research Center. Angela studied at Northeastern University in China and received her PhD in computer application. Angela is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the China Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. MODERATOR ARJUN GUPTA Henry Crown Fellowship Program Trustee of the Aspen Institute Founder and Chief Believer, TeleSoft Partners UNITED STATES Arjun Gupta is the founder and chief believer at TeleSoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm. Over the last two decades, he has overseen investing in and helping build over 60 technology companies, resulting in over 40 acquisitions and IPOs to date. Arjun is also a member of the new ownership group of the Sacramento Kings NBA team and helps revitalize downtown Sacramento. He serves on the boards of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), and the AG Family Foundation, which has provided partial funding for over 90 projects in the US, India, and Africa. Earlier in his career, Arjun was a strategy consultant for high-tech clients with McKinsey & Company and a software engineer with Tektronix, Inc. He has an MBA from Stanford University, an MS and BS (phi beta kappa) in computer science from Washington State University, and a BA (honors) in economics from St. Stephen’s College (India). Arjun is a passionate outdoorsman and among his many adventures, he was a member of the 100th anniversary ski expeditions to both the North and South poles. He is an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University, a 2001 Henry Crown Fellow, a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 69 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Bouncing Back: There’s No Success Like Failure… JULY 30 KOCH BUILDING: STRANAHAN ROOM

Bill Gates said, “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” Do you have a bounce-back story to share? When did things seem darkest? How did you turn the corner? What, in retrospect, did you learn from the experience? What might you learn from others who have bounced back?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS MARK CONTRERAS Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, Calkins Media Incorporated UNITED STATES Mark Contreras is CEO of Calkins Media Incorporated, a family-owned television broadcasting, newspaper publishing, and digital media company with operations in the eastern and southern United States. Prior to joining Calkins in late 2011, he was the head of the Scripps newspaper division (senior vice president/newspapers) from 2006 to 2011. Before Scripps, he served five years as senior vice president of Pulitzer, Inc. and oversaw more than 13 daily newspapers from Illinois to Hawaii, including Pulitzer’s 50 percent interest in the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. Mark spent more than a decade with Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. prior to its sale to the Walt Disney Company in the late 1990s. He was previously president and publisher of The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Prior to The Times Leader, he spent five years in advertising and circulation leadership positions at The Kansas City Star. He began his newspaper career as marketing services manager for The Oakland Press in Pontiac, Michigan. Mark earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in history from the University of Chicago. He developed his interest in public-service journalism from his work with former US senator Paul Simon (D-IL), for whom he served as a legislative assistant on the US Senate Judiciary Committee. He has completed the advanced executive program at Northwestern University’s Media Management Center. From 2010 to 2011, he served as chairman of the Newspaper Association of America, the newspaper industry’s primary trade organization. Mark is former chairman of The American Press Institute. He is a board member of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts and is a former trustee of the Scripps Howard Foundation. He is a 1998 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

JERRY PAFFENDORF Chief Executive Officer, LOVELAND Technologies UNITED STATES Jerry loves developing new ways for the superpowers of the Web to impact the realities of the world. The challenges of Detroit have become an endless inspiration. He has deep experience in the world of social technology startups, art and media, and a masters of science in studies of the future from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

70 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org HAGAI TAL Middle East Leadership Initiative Independent Entrepreneur and Investor ISRAEL Hagai Tal is an independent entrepreneur and investor. Between 2008 and 2011, as CEO of BlueSnap, Hagai led the company’s development of work and project management processes. This, in addition to building a strong management team and a corporation focused on a clear and profitable business strategy, created added value for BlueSnap, its investors, customers, and partners and culminated in the sale of the company to a private equity firm. Hagai has guided and invested in many start-up companies in the past ten years, helping them successfully grow or reach their IPO. Among these companies are Kontera, Payoneer, and Marimedia. As vice president of marketing at Spark Networks from 2002 to 2005, he was responsible for the organization’s marketing strategies and was appointed team lead in establishing the Israel Chapter of Spark Networks and its leading website, JDate. After living in Silicon Valley for four years, Hagai has returned to Jerusalem, Israel where he was born. He is a Fellow of the third class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR JAMES ABRAHAM India Leadership Initiative Founder & Director, SolarArise INDIA James Abraham is the founder and director of SolarArise, which will own and operate one of the largest portfolio of solar-power plants in India. Prior to this, he was the managing director of SunBorne Energy, which focuses on making solar energy as low-cost as other sources of power in India. James and the team led the development of solar policy in India and launched the largest public-private partnership in solar R&D with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. James is currently a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Renewable Energy Council, the US-India Track 2 Dialogue on Climate Change, and serves on several boards. Prior to SunBorne, James was a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group in India. He started his career with BCG in Toronto before moving to India in 1998, and then founded BCG’s New Delhi office. James has a degree in electrical engineering from the Univeristy of Waterloo, an MBA (Baker Scholar) from the Wharton School, and an MA (international relations) from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He is a Fellow of the third class of the India Leadership Initiative as well as a moderator for and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 71 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Channeling Nelson Mandela: What We Can Still Learn From His Life and Legacy JULY 30 BOETTCHER BUILDING: HUDSON ROOM

In December 2013, the world paused to say farewell and to reflect on the legacy of Nelson Mandela. What would Madiba think of how you lead? Of how you live your life? How can you integrate more of Mandela’s leadership style into your own?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS FERIAL HAFFAJEE Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Editor in Chief, City Press, Media24 SOUTH AFRICA Ferial Haffajee is editor in chief of City Press. She previously held the same position at the Mail & Guardian, Africa’s first online newspaper. She sits on the board of Gender Links, an NGO geared toward improving the media’s coverage of development and gender empowerment. She is also on the boards of the International Press Institute and the World Editors Forum, and she chairs the SA National Editors Forum’s ethics and diversity committee. Ferial has received the Shoprite-Checkers Woman of the Year Award, The Media magazine’s Women in Media Award, a Sanlam financial journalism award, and the Naspers group’s most prestigious internal prize, the Phil Weber Award. In 2008, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Ferial has also worked at Financial Mail and at the SABC in both radio and television. Ferial is a Fellow of the second class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

LESLIE MAASDORP Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Former President, Merrill Lynch South Africa SOUTH AFRICA Leslie W. Maasdorp is the former president of Merrill Lynch South Africa. He was previously vice chairman of Barclays Capital and Absa Capital. In 2002, he was the first African to be appointed as international advisor to Goldman Sachs International. Prior to this role, he served as deputy director general in the Department of Public Enterprises from 1999 until 2002. In 1994, Leslie was appointed special adviser to the Minister of Labour, Mr. Tito Mboweni. He then joined Deloitte Consulting as associate director in strategy. Before the political transition in South Africa in 1994, he worked as a policy coordinator for the Department of Economic Policy of the African National Congress. In 1986, he was detained without trial for 12 months during the State of Emergency in South Africa. Upon his release, he was regional secretary for the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union. He serves on various boards, including Yard Capital, the International Marketing Council of South Africa, Johnnic, Robor, Pangbourne, and the Coega Development Corporation. Leslie holds an MS degree in economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. In 2007, he was designated a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

72 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org MCEBISI NDLETYANA Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Head of Political-Economy Faculty, Mapungubwe Insitute for Strategic Reflection SOUTH AFRICA Mcebisi Ndletyana is head of the political-economy faculty at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA). He has held research positions at various institutions including the Centre for Policy Studies, Steve Biko Foundation, and the Human Sciences Research Council. He taught at New York’s City University of New York, Marrymount Manhattan College, and the Nelson Mandela Metro University in Port Elizabeth. Mcebisi has edited special journal volumes and published a book, book chapters, and journal articles. His research and writing is on African intellectuals, African nationalism, identity, and electoral politics. Mcebisi also writes regularly for newspapers and provides political analysis on electronic media. Mcebisi holds a PhD in political science from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a Fellow of the eighth class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR SUZANNE MALVEAUX Henry Crown Fellowship Program National Correspondent, CNN UNITED STATES Award-winning journalist Suzanne Malveaux serves as CNN’s national correspondent, covering politics, national news, international events, and culture. Previously, she co-anchored CNN’s “Around The World” and co-anchored the network’s Emmy-winning coverage of the revolution in Egypt and the network’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of the Arab Spring. Suzanne also covered the White House for more than ten years as a White House correspondent, covering Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. In September 2011, Suzanne was embedded with US troops in Afghanistan for the 10th anniversary of 9/11, where she led breaking news coverage of the Taliban’s terrorist attack on the US embassy there. In October 2012, she traveled to South Africa, where she interviewed family of Nelson Mandela and covered Soweto 36 years after the student uprising. Suzanne was recognized by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism for covering one of the top 100 stories of the century, for her reporting on the 2008 Obama campaign. She has been recognized as one of America’s Most Powerful Players under 40 by Black Enterprise, one of Ebony’s Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications, one of the The Root 100 most influential young African Americans by The Root.com, and 2009 Journalist of the Year by Essence Magazine. Suzanne earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is personally dedicated to promoting awareness and research for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and enjoys participating in marathons and triathlons. She is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and she holds four honorary bachelor degrees. Suzanne is a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 73 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Education: Secret Success Factor X=Grit JULY 30 KOCH BUILDING: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON ROOM

For kids — or adults — to succeed, they need to know how to persist and to bounce back from failure. Is this something you can teach? What is the role of communities, schools, and families in developing a student’s resilience? Have you seen it done well? Are you doing enough with your own kids?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS KATIE ALBRIGHT Aspen Ascend Fellow Executive Director, San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center UNITED STATES Katie Albright, an attorney, is the executive director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, a community-based nonprofit dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect and promoting healthy families and the mental health of children. Katie has 20 years of experience advocating for children throughout her career working in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in California and Washington, DC. Before joining the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, Katie served as a San Francisco deputy city attorney as well as acting general counsel and deputy general counsel for the San Francisco Unified School District. She co-led policy development and outreach efforts at both the San Francisco Education Fund and Preschool California. Katie was an associate at Latham & Watkins, LLP in Los Angeles and clerked for Chief Judge Motz on the United States District Court in Maryland. She co-founded and taught in the Kayole-Gitau Nursery School and Community Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Katie received her law degree, graduating cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and received her bachelor of arts with honors from Williams College. She serves on the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Commission as well as the board of her children’s school. Katie previously served on the San Francisco Board of Appeals and the boards of NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, as well as other nonprofits and municipal committees dedicated to women, education, and children’s rights. Katie is an Ascend Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

JIM BALFANZ Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship President, City Year, Inc. UNITED STATES Jim Balfanz has served as president of City Year since 2010, steering its continued evolution as a performance-driven organization. Jim led City Year’s strategic shift toward leveraging national service to focus on improving student achievement in America’s high-need urban schools and co-authored a 2012 City Year report, “Closing the Implementation Gap.” In partnership with Johns Hopkins Talent Development and Communities In Schools, Jim has also played a leadership role in the development of Diplomas Now, which was awarded a $36 million Investing in Innovation Award by the Department of Education. Prior to his role as president, Jim served as City Year’s COO for five years and guided the organization through a sustained period of growth that enabled it to scale from 15 to 21 US locations and launch its second international affiliate in London. Jim began his work with City Year as a corps member at a Head Start Program in Boston in 1993, after which he joined City Year’s staff. He then assumed various roles in City Year’s national headquarters, including deputy director of national affairs and director of new site development, followed by being named the founding executive director of City Year Greater Philadelphia in 1997. Jim received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University and is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business Executive Management Program. He currently serves on the Mass Insight Education board of directors, the Eye to Eye governing board and the City Year London board of trustees. Jim is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

74 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org ANA PONCE Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Chief Executive Officer, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy UNITED STATES Ana Ponce is the CEO of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA), a network of high-performing charter schools serving more than 2,500 pre-K through 12th grade students near downtown Los Angeles. CNCA schools serve predominantly Latino English language learners and have won various awards and distinctions, including the Title 1 Academic Achievement Award, the California Association of Bilingual Education Seal of Excellence, the California Distinguished Schools Award, and the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) award. An alumnus of Teach For America, Ana spent three years in the classroom before becoming one of the founding teachers and administrators at The Accelerated School, the first independent charter school in south Los Angeles. Under her instructional leadership, The Accelerated School was named elementary school of the year by TIME magazine in 2001. Ana serves on the board of the California Charter Schools Association. She earned her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and a master’s degree in bilingual-bicultural education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She earned her administrative Tier 1 credential and second master’s degree from UCLA through the Principal’s Leadership Institute (PLI) and is a doctoral candidate in educational leadership at Loyola Marymount University. She is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR KIM SMITH Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Pahara Institute UNITED STATES Kim Smith is CEO and founder of the Pahara Institute. She is widely recognized as an innovative and entrepreneurial leader in education and was featured in Newsweek’s report on the Women of the 21st Century as “the kind of woman who will shape America’s new century.” Immediately prior to the Pahara Institute, Kim was co-founder of Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit organization working to improve educational outcomes for low-income students. Earlier in her career, she served as a founding team member at Teach For America, created and led an AmeriCorps program for community-based leaders in education, managed a business start-up, and completed a brief stint in early online learning at Silicon Graphics. After completing her MBA at Stanford University, she co-founded and led NewSchools Venture Fund, a philanthropic organization focused on transforming public education through social entrepreneurship, where she helped to catalyze a new, bipartisan, cross-sector community of entrepreneurial change agents for public education. Kim has helped to incubate numerous education and social change organizations and has served on a range of boards, which currently include those of Bellwether, NewSchools, and Rocketship Education, and she has authored or co-authored a number of publications about innovation and social entrepreneurial change in education. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. She is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 75 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Project Workshop: Three Things I Learned in Building a Successful Project JULY 30 BOETTCHER BUILDING: HARRIS ROOM

Every participant at the Action Forum has committed to an Action Pledge or a Fellowship project. Join a discussion with Action Forum leaders who have launched highly successful projects. What do they think were the key factors that led to success? What would they do differently the next time around?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS BILL BYNUM Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, HOPE UNITED STATES For three decades, Bill Bynum has worked to advance economic opportunity for disenfranchised populations. He began his professional career by helping to establish Self-Help, a pioneer in the development finance industry, and later built nationally recognized programs at the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center. He moved to Jackson in 1994 to become the founding CEO of the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta and in 1995 organized Hope Credit Union. Today HOPE (Hope Enterprise Corporation/Hope Credit Union) is a regional community development financial institution, intermediary, and policy center that provides and promotes responsible financial services and related assistance for entrepreneurs, home buyers, and community development projects in distressed communities across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Bill has advised Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama on community development, small business, and financial service matters, serving for ten years as a presidential appointee and chairman of the Treasury Department’s Community Development Advisory Board. In 2012, he was named vice chairman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s inaugural Consumer Advisory Board. A Salzburg Seminar Fellow, Bill is a recipient of the University of North Carolina Distinguished Alumnus Award, Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year Award, National Rural Assembly Rural Hero Award, and National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Helping Hands Award. His board/trustee service includes Millsaps College, Jackson State University Development Foundation, University of Mississippi MIND Center, Mississippi Children’s Museum, Corporation for Enterprise Development, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. Bill is a 1998 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Bill is the 2013 winner of the John P. McNulty Prize.

ARTURO SAGRERA Central America Leadership Initiative Vice President of Operations, Grupo Hilasal EL SALVADOR Arturo Sagrera is vice president of operations of Grupo Hilasal, El Salvador. Grupo Hilasal, founded in 1942, is a group of companies in the following industries: textiles and apparel, distribution, real estate and logistics. During his time at HILASAL, he co-founded and was director of sales for Thinkinkids, an educational toys company based in Guatemala. Prior to joining HILASAL, he was business development director at ERITMO.COM, an online Latin music portal based in Miami, Florida. He previously worked as account executive at Young & Rubicam in Miami where he managed the Dell account for Latin America and the Caribbean. He serves as director of PROGRAMA EMPRESARIAL SUPERATE! (PES), a non-profit educational program focused on English, computing, and values for underprivileged high school students in Central America. He is director of Centro de Capacitacion Hilasal and Centro de Capacitacion ADOC. Additionally, he serves as a director of Fundación Sagrera Palomo which founded the PES and also supports other educational initiatives and social causes in El Salvador. He is a member of YPO El Salvador. Arturo received an MBA from Babson College and a BA in Economics from Pepperdine University. He is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

76 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org MARYAM UWAIS Nigeria Leadership Initiative Legal Practitioner and Human Rights Activist NIGERIA Maryam Uwais is a legal practitioner and human rights activist based in Abuja, Nigeria. In July 2010, she was appointed a member of the National Job Creation Committee. Prior to that, she served on the Acting President of Nigeria’s Presidential Advisory Council. She founded the Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative in December 2009, which targets the conditions of women and children in education, healthcare and empowerment. She was also a task force member of the Next Generation Nigeria Report convened by the British Council in November 2009. Maryam has worked as a consultant to the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the British Department for International Development. She has published articles relating to economic, social and cultural rights; child justice administration; children and women’s rights; interfaith dialogue; and justice sector reform. She serves on the boards of the Justice Research Institute, the Nigeria Leadership Initiative, the African Union Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and the Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR STACE LINDSAY Henry Crown Fellowship Program Senior Moderator, The Aspen Global Leadership Network Director of Strategic Initiatives, The Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Stace Lindsay is the director of strategic initiatives for the Aspen Global Leadership Network, a role he assumed in 2014 to help broaden and deepen the collective impact of the work being done by its 1,800 alumni. He was most recently president of Fusion Venture Partners, a firm he started in order to bring together: people of great vision who inspire change, engender trust, and are moved deeply to make a difference; insights that have the power to improve our quality of life, protect that which is in danger, or to fix what is broken in our world; and capital that can be deployed with foresight, patience, and commitment to finding ways to be leveraged for economic and social good. He has been a strategic advisor to senior business, government, and nonprofit leaders throughout the world, having held senior positions at both Monitor Company and the OTF Group, where he worked closely with Michael Porter to adapt his work to emerging markets. He also has significant start-up, turnaround, and operating experience with companies, having been CEO of New England Portable Storage and vice president of business development for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals. He has also been a managing partner in the Latin American-focused venture capital firm Explorador.net. Stace is the co-founder of the Central American Leadership Initiative, part of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leadership Network. Stace has served on the executive committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs and on the board of directors of TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building competitive businesses in rural Africa and Latin America. He has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Business School and the University of Adolpho Ibanez Business School in Chile. He is the co-author of Plowing the Sea: Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Growth in the Developing World and author of the chapter “Culture, Strategy and Prosperity” in the book Culture Matters. Stace earned his degrees in international relations from Georgetown University and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He and his family make their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stace is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and a senior moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 77 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Pursuing the Good Life: Life Beyond Work JULY 30 RESNICK-MALEK HEALTH CENTER

Is the work that you do essential to your identity and sense of self? How do friends, family, and community contribute to your personal pursuit of happiness? This special session with Aspen Institute Senior Moderator and former executive director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Keith Berwick and Heather Sonn, Moderator and South Africa Leadership Initiative Fellow, offers a window into the journey of self-discovery found in the popular Aspen Global Leadership Network “Pursuing the Good Life” alumni seminar.

LEAD DISCUSSANTS ALEXANDRA ALFARO Central America Leadership Initiative Vice President of Senior Marketing, Cable and Wireless Panama PANAMA Alexandra Alfaro is the senior vice president of marketing for Cable & Wireless Panama. She was previously the regional manager of Miller Genuine Draft for Latin America and before that the marketing director of global beer brands at SAB Miller Panama. Before moving to Panama, she worked in her native El Salvador as regional marketing director for Tecoloco.com, an online recruiting site where she was also partner. In parallel, she consulted in beverage portfolio strategies in Costa Rica and Panama. Alexandra worked for SAB Miller in El Salvador from 1999 to 2005 as marketing director for the mainstream beer brands portfolio, as well as for the Coca-Cola Company. Her biggest achievement in her career in the beverage industry was leading Miller Lite’s launch in Panama. This was catalogued as the most successful brand launch SAB Miller has seen in Latin America since entering the region in 2002. Miller Lite’s results led her to win a Mercatus Award (SAB Miller’s top award at a country level for excellence in marketing strategy and execution). Alexandra has been married to Alfonso Molina for five years and has two children, Ariela and Alfonso. She is a Fellow of the eighth class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. PREETA BANSAL Henry Crown Fellowship Program Writer, Global Executive, Senior Government Official, Public Lawyer UNITED STATES Preeta D. Bansal was most recently global general counsel for HSBC Holdings PLC. Prior to this, Preeta was the general counsel and senior policy advisor of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2009 to 2011. In that capacity, she was also a government member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States, serving as vice chair from 2010 until 2011. Following her departure from government in 2011, President Obama appointed her as a public, nongovernmental member of the governing Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States, a public-private partnership designed to make government work better. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Preeta was a partner and head of the appellate litigation practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP in New York City. She also served as the solicitor general of the State of New York from 1999 to 2001, where she helped supervise 600 attorneys in the New York attorney general’s office. While in private practice from 2003 to 2009, Preeta served as a commissioner of the bipartisan United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, serving as chair in 2004-2005. Raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, Preeta was a visiting professor of constitutional law and federalism at the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2002-2003. Earlier in her career, she was a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court, counselor in the US Department of Justice, and a special counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel. Preeta received a JD, magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review, and an AB magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard-Radcliffe College. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Preeta is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

78 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org NIKE IRVIN Henry Crown Fellowship Program Vice President of Programs, California Community Foundation UNITED STATES Nike Irvin leads the California Community Foundation’s (CCF) programs team, responsible for more than $20 million in annual grants that provide core operating support to priority program areas such as the arts, education, and health care. She also leads teams on four special initiatives: Building a Lifetime of Options and Opportunities for Men (BLOOM), the El Monte Community Building Initiative, Preparing Achievers for Tomorrow, and the Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative. Her areas of expertise include capacity building, branding, and program development and implementation. Before joining CCF, Nike served as president of The Riordan Foundation for seven years and as a consultant/coach for nonprofits and foundations. She has more than 20 years of experience in both nonprofit leadership and consulting to numerous nonprofit organizations, foundations, and charitable arms of for-profit companies. Nike also has extensive marketing experience in the private sector for Nestlé USA and Pepsi Cola Company. A native of Los Angeles, she serves on several boards of directors and is a trustee for The Riordan Foundation, Crystal Stairs, UCLA Alumni Association, and Southern California Grantmakers. Nike received a BA in economics and political science from Yale University and was named one of the 100 Most Inspirational Alumni by the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she earned an MBA. She is a Marshall Memorial Fellow, and a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly. Nike is a 2004 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. CO-MODERATORS KEITH BERWICK Senior Moderator, The Aspen Global Leadership Network Trustee of the Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Keith Berwick is a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute and inaugural holder of the Keith Berwick Chair of Leadership. As such, he moderates seminars for the India Leadership Initiative, the Africa Leadership Initiative, the Catto Fellowship in Environmental Leadership, and other programs of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). From 1996 to 2007, he served as executive director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program and from 2003 to 2004 was executive vice president for seminars of the Aspen Institute. A native Canadian, Keith has had a long and varied career as a historian, educator, television broadcaster, newspaper publisher, and editor. He was educated at Syracuse University and the University of Chicago, where he earned his PhD in US history. He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Claremont Graduate School; Pepperdine University; and the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, and he has lectured extensively at colleges and universities around the world. He is a four-time Emmy Award-winning television broadcaster and principal of Berwick Communication, Inc., a newspaper and communication consulting company. He was founding president of Barry Ambrosetti & Associates, an Italian-American joint venture in global strategic planning; associate editor of Pacific Historical Review; and editor of New Management magazine. From 1990 to 1996, he and his wife Sheena were publishers of the Country News, a weekly newspaper on California’s Central Coast. Keith has served as member of the board of the Santa Barbara Foundation and the Eleos Foundation and is a Lifetime Trustee of the Aspen Institute. He is author of The American Revolutionary Experience, 1776-1976 and The Federal Age, 1789-1829: America in the Process of Becoming, among other historical works. He and his wife make their home in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania. continued >

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CO-MODERATORS HEATHER SONN Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Managing Director, Gamiro Investment Group SOUTH AFRICA Heather Sonn is the managing director of Gamiro Investment Holdings, which has a focus on making investments in the renewable energy, agriculture and financial services sectors. The company is committed to creating sustainable legacy businesses based in South Africa through sound commercial practices as well as delivering positive social returns — a dual imperative in doing business in South Africa today. The company has recently been appointed by a jointly government- and community-owned diamond-mining company to create sustainable businesses in the area while creating social improvement opportunities for the community. Sectors will include agriculture and renewable energy. Heather started her career completing the investment banking analyst program at Merrill Lynch in New York, working in the globally branded consumer goods and leveraged buyout divisions. She has held senior executive positions in the investment management, stockbroking, and banking industries, including CEO of a stockbroking firm in South Africa that expanded its business to include the launch of a successful hedge fund; deputy CEO of the largest women’s investment company in South Africa, Wipcapital, that served over 200,000 women beneficiaries via its trusts; and a senior executive of Barclays in London, where she was responsible for formulating the commercial banking strategy for global philanthropy organizations, testing the globally integrated banking model. Heather has also worked in national social cohesion projects aimed at increasing the strength of South Africa’s democracy and lobbying government and the social-justice sector on various aspects of policy. She currently holds directorships on a number of listed and unlisted company boards, including Steinhoff International and Prescient Limited. She is also on the board of Foodbank South Africa, the Prescient Foundation, and GreenCape, an organization formed to support the growth of the green economy in the Western Cape. Heather holds a liberal arts degree from Smith College and a master of science in international affairs (business) from Georgetown University. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Tribes: What’s Yours? JULY 30 THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER DOME

Whether we know or admit it, we’re all members of tribes. What’s yours? Why do tribes exist? Why do they persist? Does it matter that they do? Should tribalism be nurtured or discouraged?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS MARAM AL-JAZIREH Middle East Leadership Initiative Senior Vice President, Arab Bank JORDAN Maram Al-Jazireh is the senior vice president and global head of financial institutions at Arab Bank in Amman, Jordan and is responsible for relationships as well as business development activities with financial institutions globally. Maram is also a member of the Financial Institutions Credit Committee and the Global Treasury Steering Committee. Prior to joining Arab Bank in 2001, she worked at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh International; Cairo Amman Bank; Citibank N.A, Amman; and ABN Amro Bank, Dubai. Her work experience in both corporate and banking sectors spans 22 years. Maram currently resides in Jordan after having lived in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, where she studied at Oklahoma State University and majored in accounting. She is a Fellow of the third class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network

JULIE GICHURU Africa Leadership Initiative–East Africa Executive Director, Arimus Media LTD/SisiTv KENYA Julie Gichuru is an entrepreneur and television host with a passion for Africa. She has embarked on several business ventures and is a director in a numbers of companies. Her business ventures include the online retail fashion outlet Mimi and production company Arimus Media Ltd. Julie is a TV host with East Africa’s leading broadcaster Citizen TV; her prime time news and current affairs show “Sunday Live with Julie Gichuru” airs weekly at 9 pm. Julie is currently working on growing local productions through Arimus Media Limited, including “Africa Leadership Dialogues,” “Great Debaters Contest,” “Maisha,” and “Glam Show.” Julie’s career in the media over the past 12 years has seen her work across the fields of broadcast, print, and digital media. In 2009, Julie conceptualized and hosted “Fist to Five for Change,” which facilitated reconciliation and healing for victims and perpetrators of post-election violence in Kenya. She has also pioneered an impressive number of television shows, from the first Kenyan investigative TV series, “The Inside Story,” to various current affairs shows, including the celebrated post- election peace specials “Voices of Reason.” Julie and Anthony Gichuru established Footprints Africa Foundation to help empower and grow healthy, dignified and informed societies in the region. FAF supports the “Great Debaters Contest” and the “Africa Leadership Dialogues,” both platforms for discussion and exchange of ideas on African challenges and opportunities. Julie is passionate about family. She is married to entrepreneur Anthony Gichuru, and they have had five children. “Above all we have a responsibility to nurture and grow the younger generation and our primary role is vested in the family unit.” Having had five children, Julie is also passionate about maternal health care and is an ambassador of the AMREF Stand Up for African Mothers campaign, which seeks to train over 15,000 midwives across East Africa. Julie has also been a UNICEF ambassador for breastfeeding. She is a Fellow of the second class of the African Leadership Initiative–East Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

82 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org SHAMINA SINGH Henry Crown Fellowship Program Global Director for Government Social Programs and Solutions, MasterCard. UNITED STATES Shamina Singh is the executive director of the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth. In this position, she is responsible for the Center’s consistent achievement of its mission to advance sustainable and equitable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world. She also holds the position of global director for government social programs. Prior to joining MasterCard, she led the government and public affairs departments for Nike and spent five years with Citigroup’s Global Community Development Group. Over the course of 15 years in the public sector, Shamina has held senior positions within the Clinton administration and the US House of Representatives. She is a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum and served on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Military Leadership Diversity. Shamina has a graduate degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School for Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and has completed executive programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Yale’s Jackson Institute for Diplomacy and the India School of Business. Shamina is a 2000 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR ANAND GIRIDHARADAS Henry Crown Fellowship Program Columnist, The New York Times UNITED STATES Anand Giridharadas is an author and New York Times columnist. He writes the Admit One column for The Times’s arts pages and the Letter from America for its global edition. He is the author of the new book The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, about a Muslim immigrant’s campaign to spare from Texas’s death row the white supremacist who tried to kill him. In 2011, he published India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking, about returning to the India his parents left. In 2009, he completed a four-and-a-half year tour reporting from India for The Times and the Herald Tribune, chronicling India’s transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty, and democracy. He was appointed as a columnist in 2008, writing the Letter from India series. He first interned for The New York Times at age 17. In 2003, after graduating from college, he moved to Bombay to work as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. He appears regularly on television and radio in the United States and internationally. He has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, Brown, the University of Michigan, the United Nations, and Google. He studied history of political thought at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is presently a doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Anand is a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 83 THE LEADERSHIP IN ACTION SERIES PART 1 GREENWALD PAVILION THE LEADERSHIP IN ACTION SERIES offers an opportunity to take a deep dive with leaders at the Aspen Action Forum on what we might learn about leaders and leadership, from leaders of today and the past.

See the current agenda at AspenActionForum.org/Public CELEBRATING EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT Celebration Dinner and Announcement of 2013 WINNER Hopelessness in a community the Laureates of the John P. McNulty Prize is when there isn’t a clear path HOPE CREDIT to a better future. At Hope, UNION we provide a vehicle for people US to work together and boost WILLIAM BYNUM Henry Crown Fellowship each other up to that next rung www.hope-ec.org/friends on the economic ladder. The remarkable accomplishments of these individuals and their WILLIAM BYNUM

organizations are a call to action to private sector leaders to step up, By opening the doors of economic opportunity to underserved individuals across the country, Hope has proven that fi nancial institutions focused on community development can truly transform weak economies into stronger, sustainable ones, and improve the lives of and to bring their leadership abilities, business acumen and resources thousands of people in the progress.

ANNE WELSH MCNULTY Burdened with the highest poverty rates in the nation, individuals, businesses and communities in the Mid South have long suff ered from to tackle the world’s most diffi cult problems. a lack of access to traditional fi nancial services. Bynum, an advisor to Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama on community development issues founded HOPE to provide fi nancial services that support jobs, housing, access to health care and other critical needs in the region’s most distressed communities.

LAUREATES THE McNULTY PRIZE celebrates the boldness CEO of the Naandi Foundation, Kumar created and impact Aspen Global Leadership Network Araku Originals Ltd to enable the inhabitants ARAKU Fellows are bringing to the toughest challenges of the Araku Valley to change the economics of ORIGINALS LTD their coff ee farms by harnessing the power of in their communities and the world at large. niche global markets to build economically and India environmentally sustainable sources of income. MANOJ KUMAR India Leadership Initiative The winner of this annual $100,000 prize is selected by an international jury that includes Madeleine Albright, Brizio Biondi-Morra, Olara Otunnu and Shashi Tharoor. Laureates receive $10,000 each. The winner METHOD Co-founder and Chief Greenskeeper of will be announced in November, in New York. Method Products, Inc, Lowry adopted the OCEAN PLASTIC Ocean Plastic Project from his experience in the Catto Fellowship. Through his company, US Method, he’s pioneered a completely new The Prize was created in honor of John P. ADAM LOWRY technique and supply chain for harvesting, McNulty to recognize his leadership, his Catto Fellowship recycling and producing new plastic from methodhome.com/ocean-plastic the immense garbage patches polluting creativity, his energy, and the spark he carried the Pacifi c. to ignite that in others. www.mcnultyprize.org 2008-2013 Top management consultant and advisor to Fortune 1000 executives Onyeagoro noticed that FUNDWELL WILLIAM BYNUM, HOPE CREDIT UNION - USA • ADAM LOWRY, OCEAN PLASTIC PROJECT - USA • CHINWE ONYEAGORO, FUNDWELL - USA • MANOJ KUMAR, ARAKU ORIGINALS - India • AMIT BHATIA, ASPIRE - India • HILDEGARD VÁSQUEZ, CAPTA - Panama • CHARLES LUYCKX & GARY CAMPBELL, FUEL TRUST - South qualifi ed businesses in inner cities that should US Africa • MÁRIA PACHECO, VITAL VOICES GUATEMALA - Guatemala • DELE OLOJEDE, NEXT - Nigeria • JAY COEN GILBERT & ANDREW KASSOY, B LAB - USA • have access to aff ordable fi nancing were being CHINWE ONYEAGORO TIMOTHY MARQUEZ, DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION - USA • ANN LAMONT, LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COLLABORATION IN THE shut out of credit markets due to information Henry Crown Fellowship CHILDREN’S SECTOR - South Africa • ALEJANDRO POMA, LIBRAS DE AMOR - El Salvador • JOHN DANNER, ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION - USA • MEHRDAD ineffi ciencies, she co-founded FundWell with thefundwell.com BAGHAI, HIGH RESOLVES INITIATIVE - Australia • DIEGO DE SOLA, GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL - El Salvador • JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ, ACUMEN FUND Sharon E. Jones to connect under-served business FELLOWS PROGRAM - USA • PATRICK AWUAH, ASHESI UNIVERSITY - Ghana • RICARDO TERÁN, AGORA PARTNERSHIPS - Nicaragua • WILLIAM BYNUM, owners with lenders locally and nationwide as HOPE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION - USA • JAMES WHITAKER, PROJECT REBIRTH - USA • SYLVIA GEREDA, SWITCH - Guatemala • JORDAN KASSALOW, well as improve their fi nancial health. VISIONSPRING - Africa, Asia & Central America

John P. McNulty Prize_Action Forum pages.R3.indd 1-2 7/5/14 10:50 PM CELEBRATING EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT Celebration Dinner and Announcement of 2013 WINNER Hopelessness in a community the Laureates of the John P. McNulty Prize is when there isn’t a clear path HOPE CREDIT to a better future. At Hope, UNION we provide a vehicle for people US to work together and boost WILLIAM BYNUM Henry Crown Fellowship each other up to that next rung www.hope-ec.org/friends on the economic ladder. The remarkable accomplishments of these individuals and their WILLIAM BYNUM organizations are a call to action to private sector leaders to step up, By opening the doors of economic opportunity to underserved individuals across the country, Hope has proven that fi nancial institutions focused on community development can truly transform weak economies into stronger, sustainable ones, and improve the lives of and to bring their leadership abilities, business acumen and resources thousands of people in the progress.

ANNE WELSH MCNULTY Burdened with the highest poverty rates in the nation, individuals, businesses and communities in the Mid South have long suff ered from to tackle the world’s most diffi cult problems. a lack of access to traditional fi nancial services. Bynum, an advisor to Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama on community development issues founded HOPE to provide fi nancial services that support jobs, housing, access to health care and other critical needs in the region’s most distressed communities.

LAUREATES THE McNULTY PRIZE celebrates the boldness CEO of the Naandi Foundation, Kumar created and impact Aspen Global Leadership Network Araku Originals Ltd to enable the inhabitants ARAKU Fellows are bringing to the toughest challenges of the Araku Valley to change the economics of ORIGINALS LTD their coff ee farms by harnessing the power of in their communities and the world at large. niche global markets to build economically and India environmentally sustainable sources of income. MANOJ KUMAR India Leadership Initiative The winner of this annual $100,000 prize is selected by an international jury that includes Madeleine Albright, Brizio Biondi-Morra, Olara Otunnu and Shashi Tharoor. Laureates receive $10,000 each. The winner METHOD Co-founder and Chief Greenskeeper of will be announced in November, in New York. Method Products, Inc, Lowry adopted the OCEAN PLASTIC Ocean Plastic Project from his experience in the Catto Fellowship. Through his company, US Method, he’s pioneered a completely new The Prize was created in honor of John P. ADAM LOWRY technique and supply chain for harvesting, McNulty to recognize his leadership, his Catto Fellowship recycling and producing new plastic from methodhome.com/ocean-plastic the immense garbage patches polluting creativity, his energy, and the spark he carried the Pacifi c. to ignite that in others. www.mcnultyprize.org 2008-2013 Top management consultant and advisor to Fortune 1000 executives Onyeagoro noticed that FUNDWELL WILLIAM BYNUM, HOPE CREDIT UNION - USA • ADAM LOWRY, OCEAN PLASTIC PROJECT - USA • CHINWE ONYEAGORO, FUNDWELL - USA • MANOJ KUMAR, ARAKU ORIGINALS - India • AMIT BHATIA, ASPIRE - India • HILDEGARD VÁSQUEZ, CAPTA - Panama • CHARLES LUYCKX & GARY CAMPBELL, FUEL TRUST - South qualifi ed businesses in inner cities that should US Africa • MÁRIA PACHECO, VITAL VOICES GUATEMALA - Guatemala • DELE OLOJEDE, NEXT - Nigeria • JAY COEN GILBERT & ANDREW KASSOY, B LAB - USA • have access to aff ordable fi nancing were being CHINWE ONYEAGORO TIMOTHY MARQUEZ, DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION - USA • ANN LAMONT, LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COLLABORATION IN THE shut out of credit markets due to information Henry Crown Fellowship CHILDREN’S SECTOR - South Africa • ALEJANDRO POMA, LIBRAS DE AMOR - El Salvador • JOHN DANNER, ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION - USA • MEHRDAD ineffi ciencies, she co-founded FundWell with thefundwell.com BAGHAI, HIGH RESOLVES INITIATIVE - Australia • DIEGO DE SOLA, GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL - El Salvador • JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ, ACUMEN FUND Sharon E. Jones to connect under-served business FELLOWS PROGRAM - USA • PATRICK AWUAH, ASHESI UNIVERSITY - Ghana • RICARDO TERÁN, AGORA PARTNERSHIPS - Nicaragua • WILLIAM BYNUM, owners with lenders locally and nationwide as HOPE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION - USA • JAMES WHITAKER, PROJECT REBIRTH - USA • SYLVIA GEREDA, SWITCH - Guatemala • JORDAN KASSALOW, well as improve their fi nancial health. VISIONSPRING - Africa, Asia & Central America

John P. McNulty Prize_Action Forum pages.R3.indd 1-2 7/5/14 10:50 PM When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius

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#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 89 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Aging Parents: Caring for our Caregivers JULY 31 DOERR-HOSIER CENTER: CATTO ROOM

As children, we are cared for by our parents. But then the table turns, and we become the caregivers. Caring for our parents can be emotionally, physically, and financially exhausting. Have you cared for your mother and/or father? What lessons can you share? What might you have done differently? What might you take away from others who have or are caring for their aging parents?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS BETH BROOKE-MARCINIAK Henry Crown Fellowship Program Trustee of the Aspen Institute Global Vice Chair of Public Policy, EY UNITED STATES Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak is global vice chair of public policy at EY and is a member of the firm’s global executive board. Beth has public-policy responsibility for the firm’s operations in 150 countries. In addition, she has global responsibility for the firm’s diversity and inclusiveness efforts. She has been named seven times to Forbes’s list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women and was named 2009 Woman of the Year by Concern Worldwide. During the Clinton administration, she worked for two years in the US Department of the Treasury, where she was responsible for all tax policy matters related to insurance and managed care. She played important roles in the health care reform and Superfund reform efforts. Throughout her career, Beth has been actively engaged in numerous civic and business organizations. She serves on the boards of Vital Voices, The Committee for Economic Development, and TechnoServe. Beth is co-chair of the board of WEConnect International and a member of the Committee of 200. She serves on the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute and the Women’s Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum. She is also on the public policy advisory councils for Georgetown University and Indiana University. Beth formerly served on the International Council on Women’s Business Leadership led by Hillary Clinton. Beth is a 1997 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

GOVINDRAJ ETHIRAJ India Leadership Initiative Founder-Editor, IndiaSpend INDIA Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist and founder-editor of www.indiaspend.org, India’s first data journalism initiative and a social entrepreneurship venture. He is also the founder of Ping Digital Broadcast, a Google multi-channel network (MCN) for knowledge, news, and utility programming for digital audiences. He also writes for newspapers like Business Standard on mostly business issues and anchors seasonal shows on channels like Headlines Today and Rajya Sabha Television. Previously, Govindraj was founder and editor in chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hour business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008 and a partnership between Bloomberg LLP and the UTV Group in India. Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV India, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as editor, with a specific mandate of integrating the newspaper’s news operations with its digital or Web platform. Before that, Govindraj spent five years with television channel CNBC-TV18, where he drove most of the channel’s programming growth and expansion initiatives. He also worked with the Economic Times newspaper, Business World, and Business India magazines. His awards include: British Chevening Scholarships For Young Indian Print Journalists at The University of Westminster in 1998; Selected as one of 25 most influential personalities in media and advertising in Bombay by Mid-Day on its 25th Anniversary (2004); Nominated for Distinction in Communication at the Teacher’s Achievement Awards 2004; Award For Outstanding Contribution To Media; Indira Award For Marketing Excellence 2006. In 2014, he was a recipient of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Award. He graduated from Elphinstone College, Mumbai. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the India Leadership Initiative as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

90 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org JENNY HORNE Liberty Fellowship State Representative, South Carolina House of Representatives UNITED STATES Jenny A. Horne is currently practicing law in Summerville, South Carolina. She is also broker in charge for Horne Realty, LLC. Her prior legal experience has been as a litigator at Elizey & Brooks; Willoughby & Hoefer; Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard; and Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein. She clerked for the Honorable Margaret Beane Seymour, United States District Court. Jenny currently is serving in the South Carolina House of Representatives, District 94 (Charleston and Dorchester Counties). She has served as the volunteer executive director of Communities in Schools of Dorchester County, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the high school dropout rate, and helped to establish a free, after-school program for underprivileged students at three schools in Dorchester County. She is the mentoring chairman of Summerville Oakbrook Rotary and on the board of Heritage Trust Federal Credit Union. She is president of the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association. Jenny earned her juris doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The South Carolina Honors College of USC with a BA degree in English and a minor in political science. She resides in Summerville. Jenny is a Fellow of the sixth class of the Liberty Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR ERIC MOTLEY Henry Crown Fellowship Program Vice President and Executive Director of National Programs, The Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Eric Motley is vice president of the Aspen Institute and executive director of national programs. He served as vice president and managing director of the Henry Crown Fellows Program from January 2007 until April 2014. He also served as executive director of the Aspen-Rockefeller Foundation’s Commission to Reform the Federal Appointments Process, an independent, nonpartisan effort to evaluate the federal government’s vetting and clearance procedures. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Eric was director of the US Department of State’s Office of International Visitors within the bureau of Public Diplomacy. While there, he oversaw the International Visitor Leadership Program, a program designed to build mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through carefully designed visits that reflect future foreign leaders’ interests and support US foreign policy goals. In 2003, he became special assistant to President George W. Bush for presidential personnel, where he managed the appointment process in the White House for over 1,200 presidentially appointed advisory board and commission positions. He joined the White House staff as deputy associate director of the Office of Presidential Personnel in 2001 at the age of 27, immediately after receiving his PhD. He has written and lectured on the intellectual and political contributions of Scottish-born American founding father James Wilson. He is currently engaged in developing a collection on the scholarship of the eminent Greek scholar Sir Kenneth Dover, including copies of all his books, personal papers, and various items from his personal catalogue. In October 2006, he published his first volume of poetry, Luminaria. Eric is an avid book collector whose library consists of over 4,500 volumes, which includes but is not limited to over 1,700 first editions and rare books. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from Samford University in 1996. As a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, he earned a master of letters in international relations and a PhD in international relations as the John Steven Watson Scholar. Eric is a 2003 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 91 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Diet & Nutrition JULY 31 KOCH BUILDING: LAUDER ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. How do you nudge a society toward healthier eating and lifestyles? Why is it so hard? Where do you start? What works? What doesn’t? What more could be done in your community?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS KIRSTEN SAENZ TOBEY Catto Fellowship Program Chief Impact Officer, Revolution Foods UNITED STATES Kirsten Saenz Tobey is founder and chief impact officer for Revolution Foods. She founded Revolution Foods in 2006 with Kristin Groos Richmond, a former classmate at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and continues to steward the mission and drive the vision and brand experience for the company, overseeing marketing communications and talent management, among other key aspects of the business. Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kirsten’s career spanned from leading experiential education programs in the United States and Ecuador to evaluating the scalability of school feeding programs with the United Nations Hunger Task Force in Ghana. Kirsten is an Ashoka Fellow, and a member of the Culinary Institute of America’s Sustainable Business Council. With Revolution Foods co-founder Groos Richmond, she was named Entrepreneur of the Year by NewSchools Venture Fund in 2010, is one of TIME magazine’s Education Activists of 2011, and is listed as one of Fortune’s 40 under 40 for 2013. Kirsten’s work centers around developing innovative, attainable solutions aimed at providing access to healthy food and education to all current and future generations. She currently is a member of the boards of directors for Net Impact, Global Citizen Year, and People’s Community Market. Kirsten holds an AB from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two daughters. Kirsten’s past associations include being a member of the USF Presidential Commission for Health Professions and a mentor for the Women’s Initiative Fellowship Program through the George W. Bush Institute. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Catto Fellowship program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

GISELA SÁNCHEZ Central America Leadership Initiative Director of Corporate Affairs, Florida Ice & Farm Co. COSTA RICA Gisela Sánchez is the director of corporate affairs at Florida Ice & Farm Co. Before joining this company, she worked as a consultant for governments, NGOs, and companies in Central America in the areas of competitiveness and corporate social responsibility. In 2006, she published 10 Cases on Corporate Social Responsibility Good Practices and The Competitiveness Potential of Guatemala. Between 2001 and 2003, she worked for the AVINA Foundation in Latin America as strategic initiatives manager supporting the development of social and environmental leaders in the region. Before joining AVINA, she worked as a researcher and project coordinator for the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development at INCAE. A native of San José, Costa Rica, Sánchez attended the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, majoring in strategy and marketing. She is a Fellow of the seventh class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

92 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org OMAR WASOW Henry Crown Fellowship Program Assistant Professor, Princeton University UNITED STATES Omar Wasow is an assistant professor in Princeton’s Department of Politics. His research focuses on race and politics, particularly in relation to education and criminal justice policy. Prior to joining the academy, Omar co-founded one of the first major social networks, BlackPlanet.com. He has also served as an on-air technology analyst for NBC, CNN, and NPR. In 2003, he helped found Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and continues to serve on its board. He is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. He received a PhD in African American studies, an MA in statistics and an MA in government from Harvard. He received his BA from Stanford. Omar is a 2008 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR MEENA MANSHARAMANI Henry Crown Fellowship Program Former Managing Director, Materne North America UNITED STATES Meena Mansharamani is the former managing director of Materne North America. Materne North America owns GoGo squeeZ, a leader in squeezable 100% fruit pouches for kids and families. Materne North America is owned by private-equity owned Groupe MOM in France. Meena was formerly the senior vice president, innovation and insights for Pepsi-Cola North America (PCNA), a position she assumed in November 2005. Prior to joining PCNA, Meena was vice president of corporate strategy at Pepsi for four years. Prior to joining the PepsiCo team, Meena was vice president in the consumer goods and retail practice of A.T. Kearney, a management consulting firm. During her 10-year tenure at A.T. Kearney, she served a variety of industries, including apparel, automotive, transportation and financial services. Meena received her MBA from Wharton and her MA and BA from Harvard University. She is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 93 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Disruption is Great… Until It Disrupts YOU JULY 31 BOETTCHER BUILDING: HARRIS ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. Travel agents. Car dealers. Newspapers. Camera makers. All have been on the receiving end of major business disruptions. Have you been in the crosshairs of a disruptor? Could you be now? How does it feel? And how do you respond?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS

BRUNO BERTHON Global Managing Director Cross-Industry Strategy & Sustainability, Accenture FRANCE Bruno Berthon serves as global managing director for Accenture Strategy & Sustainability, in charge of the Strategy Talent segment across Accenture as well as key offerings like M&A, digital, transformation and sustainability. He developed and still leads Accenture activity in the Sustainability space, helping clients in their search for sustainable growth. Bruno’s expertise lies in helping multinational clients evaluate and transform business opportunities and challenges related to major disruptive trends, including digital, climate change or social sustainability across industrial sectors, and in public service, and to support them on their transformational journey. Bruno has been working for the past 20 years with the top management of large multinationals and administrations across several industrial sectors, including consumer goods, retail, transportation, hi-technology and media on their transformation agendas, helping them address the challenges of globalization, large-scale operating model change, the Internet and now digital revolutions, and innovation and sustainability-led transformation. Bruno lives in Paris; he graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris and holds an MBA from INSEAD, a master’s degree in Macroeconomics from La Sorbonne and a Degree in Law.

MARK CONTRERAS Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, Calkins Media Incorporated UNITED STATES Mark Contreras is CEO of Calkins Media, Inc. Prior to joining Calkins in late 2011, he was the head of the Scripps newspaper division (senior vice president/newspapers) from 2006 to 2011. Before Scripps, he served five years as senior vice president of Pulitzer, Inc. Mark spent more than a decade with Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. prior to its sale to the Walt Disney Company in the late 1990s. He was previously president and publisher of The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Prior to the Times Leader, he spent five years atThe Kansas City Star. He began his newspaper career as marketing services manager for The Oakland Press in Pontiac, Michigan. Mark earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in history from the University of Chicago. He has completed the advanced executive program at Northwestern University’s Newspaper Management Center. He served as chairman of the Newspaper Association of America from 2010 to 2011. Mark is former chairman of The American Press Institute. He is a board member of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts and is a trustee of the Scripps Howard Foundation. He is a 1998 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

94 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org JASON PREMO Liberty Fellowship Chief Executive Officer and Co-Owner, ADEX Machining Technologies UNITED STATES Jason Premo is CEO and co-owner of ADEX Machining Technologies, a Greenville-based manufacturer of ultra-high precision prototypes and production components for the aerospace, defense and energy industries. He started his career with Universal Studios as a process engineer and then moved to Avery Dennison where he was a project engineer on large capital projects all over the world. Jason serves on the board of Greenville Technical College Foundation where he also has worked to implement one of South Carolina’s approved apprenticeship programs for precision engineering. He is a past chair of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Jason is on the board of Greenville County Museum of Art (vice president) and The Commerce Club, is an executive committee member for the American Heart Association Heart Ball and is a senior examiner for the Presidential Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. He earned his BS in industrial systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and resides in Greenville. He is a Fellow of the eighth class of the Liberty Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR CHRISTOPHER VARELAS Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Riverwood Capital UNITED STATES Christopher Varelas is a founding partner and chief investment officer of Riverwood Capital. Riverwood makes private equity investments in high-growth global technology and technology- enabled businesses. Prior to establishing Riverwood, Christopher was the global head of technology, media, and telecom investment banking at Citigroup Global Markets as well as head of Citi’s National Investment Bank. During his 20-year Wall Street career, he was one of the top-rated TMT bankers responsible for many of the largest transactions in the sector, as evidenced by his leadership on landmark transactions such as Compaq/ HP, Lucent Fiber, PeopleSoft/Oracle, IBM/PWC, and Flextronics/Solectron. Christopher was a senior member of Citi Investment Bank’s Operating Committee and head of Citi’s Culture Management Board. He was named to the list of the top 100 dealmakers by The New York Times and was named top technology Rainmaker by DealMakers magazine. Christopher earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he serves on the board of trustees. Christopher is a moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 95 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Education Technology JULY 31 PAEPCKE BUILDING: PAEPCKE GALLERY

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. Keeping textbooks fresh. Helping kids learn at their own speed. Tracking student progress over time. Managing expenses within schools and across districts. Technology is playing a growing role in education. What’s working? And what is not? Can you positively disrupt your local school system?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS GREG GUNN Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Entrepreneur in Residence, City Light Capital UNITED STATES Greg Gunn is an entrepreneur in residence at City Light Capital, where he focuses on early stage investments in educational software and services companies. In 2000, he co-founded Wireless Generation, a leading educational software company now serving more than three million children with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products. As president, Greg created and led the product development team, shipping the award-winning mCLASS® handheld formative assessment platform. He took over and revamped the company’s sales division, landing key state and district sales and tripling the company’s revenue in 18 months. As chief scientist, he designed highly effective professional development techniques and created the company’s analytics and data-mining division, turning raw data into new insights about student learning progressions. The company was sold to News Corporation in December 2010. Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Chicago, an MBA and master’s in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a Rhodes Scholar. He currently is a trustee of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and of the Center for Excellence in Education and was named one of Fast Company magazine’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012. He serves as an expert in residence at Harvard University’s Innovation Lab and coaches entrepreneurial students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Greg is a Fellow of the fourth class of Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

ALICE RAY Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Chief Executive Officer, Ripple Effects UNITED STATES Alice Ray is a social entrepreneur who has worked for three decades to help schools address nonacademic factors in school success. In 1982, Alice brought the Talking about Touching curriculum to market as the first executive director of Committee for Children (CfC), and in 1986 conceived and supervised development of Second Step, a violence-prevention curriculum now used in more than 26,000 schools. In the process of bringing Second Step to market, she nearly grew CfC bankrupt, leading to her foundation-sponsored entrance in business school. Alice received an executive MBA from the University of Washington in 1987. For most of the next decade, she provided consulting to nonprofits on making good works and good business. Since 1997, when she co-founded Ripple Effects, Alice has focused on the use of technology to provide personalized skill building, problem solving, and personal guidance to students whose behavior puts them at risk of school failure and to teachers who need further development of their own social-emotional competencies and their ability to manage diverse learners. Ripple Effects software is listed on the National Registry of Evidence Proven Practices (NREPP) as a children’s mental health and substance abuse intervention, with documented positive impact on resiliency assets and academic achievement. Alice is the recipient of numerous awards for social leadership on child safety, entrepreneurial success as a woman business owner, and creative excellence — including eight Emmys, a dozen national film and video awards, and more than two dozen software awards from the education, health, and communications industries. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

96 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org PRESTON SMITH Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship President and Chief Executive Officer, Rocketship Education UNITED STATES Preston Smith is president and CEO of Rocketship Education. Formerly, he served as Rocketship Education’s chief achievement officer. Before co-founding Rocketship, he was the principal of L.U.C.H.A. Elementary School, a small school within the Alum Rock Unified School District in San Jose, California. He founded L.U.C.H.A in collaboration with neighborhood families in 2004 to provide parents with an excellent school focused on high academic achievement and parental involvement. In 2007, after three years of operation, L.U.C.H.A. received an API score of 881 and was the highest-ranked elementary school in the district and county of Santa Clara. Before founding L.U.C.H.A, Preston taught first grade for three years at Clyde Arbuckle Elementary School, the first two as a member of Teach for America. In 2003, Preston was named Teacher of the Year at Arbuckle and was also nominated as one of six finalists for TFA’s Sue Lehmann award, given to TFA corps members with the highest classroom academic gains in the nation. Preston graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the third class the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR VICTOR REINOSO Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Entrepreneur in Residence, NewSchools Venture Fund UNITED STATES Victor Reinoso is currently the entrepreneur in residence at the NewSchools Venture Fund. He was most recently senior advisor to the president and CFO of Georgetown University. Victor served four years as deputy mayor for education in the District of Columbia under Mayor Adrian Fenty. He resigned as an elected member of the school board to lead the mayor’s takeover of the public school system. Under Mayor Fenty, Michelle Rhee, and Victor, District of Columbia public schools showed unprecedented improvements in math and reading test scores, as well as graduation rates, and became a national model for what is possible in public education reform. Prior to public service, Victor served as COO for the Federal City Council, a membership organization comprising the capital’s top business, professional, educational, and civic leaders, and as CEO of RadioFutura, a venture- backed radio distribution service. Victor has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. He is a Fellow of the second class of the Pahara- Aspen Education Fellowship as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 97 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Journalism JULY 31 MEADOWS RECEPTION CENTER: BERNHARD ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. Some journalists simply report the facts. Others work to change the realities they see for the better. What should the role of the journalist be? And what about citizen journalists? Do they fulfill a useful role or muddy the waters? What impact have disruptive news stories had on your community? What stories need to be written?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS FERNANDO ESPUELAS Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, VoxGente LLC UNITED STATES Fernando Espuelas is CEO of VoxGente, LLC, a media company developing content for the US Hispanic market. He is also the host and managing editor of “The Fernando Espuelas Show,” a radio talk show on the Univision Radio Network. Fernando founded and was chairman and CEO of StarMedia Network, a media company for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences worldwide. By 2000, StarMedia served 25 million people and reached a market capitalization of $3.8 billion. Fernando was one of TIME’s Leaders of the Millennium and was honored as a 2000 All-Star by Crain’s New York Business. He was Latin Trade Magazine’s Internet CEO of the Year. Prior to founding StarMedia, Fernando was the managing director of marketing communications for AT&T Latin America and the Caribbean. He also held senior positions at Ogilvy & Mather, Lowe & Partners, and Young & Rubicam’s Wunderman Worldwide. He is the author of the book Life in Action. Fernando received a BA in history with distinction from Connecticut College. He is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

AMJAD TADROS Middle East Leadership Initiative Middle East Producer, CBS News JORDAN Amjad Tadros is both an entrepreneur and award-winning investigative journalist. He has successfully founded and managed more than half a dozen regional businesses in the diverse fields of communications, marketing and also security and logistics. He is the Middle East Producer for CBS News, managing the network’s coverage and operations in the region since 1990. In 2001, he was awarded an Emmy in Investigative Journalism. In 2007, he received an Alfred Dupont Award for excellence by the University of Columbia in New York. He is also a co-recipient of the Peabody award in 2008. In 2006, he founded ShooFeeTV, the first internet- based television guide in Arabic. ShooFeeTV was launched on the web in 2008, and quickly expanded its program listings to newspapers, and mobile devices. Later, the platform expanded into a wider lifestyle guide that includes gaming, cooking and films. In 2013, Amjad co-founded Syria Direct, a non-profit media organization that produces timely, credible coverage of Syria while training a small group of aspiring Syrian and American journalists in professional news-gathering and accurate, in-depth reporting. Syria Direct is committed to using the highest journalistic standards for Syrians to tell their own story. Amjad Tadros holds an honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London. He is married and divides his time between Amman, Jordan and Devon, Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

98 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org LI YUAN China Fellowship Program Editor in Chief, The Wall Street Journal China CHINA Li Yuan is editor in chief of cn.wsj.com, the Chinese online edition of The Wall Street Journal. She joined the Journal in New York in 2004, working as a reporter covering the US telecom industry, then as a columnist with WSJ.com. She moved back to Beijing to head the Chinese WSJ website in 2008. Before joining the Journal, Li was a reporter with Xinhua News Agency, covering events in Thailand, Laos, and Afghanistan and an international news editor with Xinhua in Beijing. A native of Ningxia, China, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s in international policy and practice from George Washington University. Li is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the China Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR ANAND GIRIDHARADAS Henry Crown Fellowship Program Columnist, The New York Times UNITED STATES Anand Giridharadas is an author and New York Times columnist. He writes the Admit One column for The Times’s arts pages and the Letter from America for its global edition. He is the author of the new book The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, about a Muslim immigrant’s campaign to spare from Texas’s death row the white supremacist who tried to kill him. In 2011, he published India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking, about returning to the India his parents left. In 2009, he completed a four-and-a-half year tour reporting from India for The Times and the Herald Tribune, chronicling India’s transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty, and democracy. He was appointed as a columnist in 2008, writing the Letter from India series. He first interned for The New York Times at age 17. In 2003, after graduating from college, he moved to Bombay to work as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. He appears regularly on television and radio in the United States and internationally. He has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, Brown, the University of Michigan, the United Nations, and Google. He studied history of political thought at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is presently a doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Anand is a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 99 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE House of Cards: Cooking in the Kitchen of Politics JULY 31 KOCH BUILDING: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON ROOM

The acclaimed Netflix series “House of Cards” — an adaptation of a similar, earlier series on BBC — depicts the world of politics as one devoid of scruples and focused solely on the pursuit of power. How accurate is this depiction ... really? What is it like to serve in the highest offices of the land? Does it take a unique set of skills? Where does one learn these skills? How easy is it to transition from the world of business to the world of politics, and vice versa? Have you considered this transition? What intrigues you about it? What holds you back? What can you learn from those who have done it?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS GISELA ALVAREZ DE PORRAS Central America Leadership Initiative Managing Partner, Arias & Muñoz PANAMA Gisela Alvarez de Porras is a managing partner with Arias & Muñoz, Panama. She has just finished launching Albacrome, a large commercial printing company, in Panama. She is the former minister of commerce and industry in Panama. In government, she has been director general of Panama’s Internal Revenue Service and vice minister of finance. She has represented Panama before the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations and has been the head negotiator of the International Treaties to Avoid Double Taxation. She specialized in tax and estate planning as a partner in the firm of Patton, Moreno & Asvat and was managing director of Assets Trust & Corporate Services. From 2004 to 2005, she was a member of the Presidential Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering, representing the private sector. She studied at the London School of Economics (LLM) and has a postgraduate degree from Stetson University in real estate and a master of science from the Swiss Business School (SBS). She completed her MBA in 2009. Gisela is certified as a trust and estate practitioner by The Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (London) and is founding partner of the Panama branch. She is president of Vital Voices Panama and a member of the Panamanian Association of Executives, where she was a member of the board. She is a member of the board of directors of the Panamanian Stock Exchange and Special Olympics. She is a Fellow of the third class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

BRENDAN BOYLE Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership State Representative, State of Pennsylvania UNITED STATES Brendan Boyle won the US primary in Pennsylvania’s 13th congressional district in May 2014. He was first elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2008 and subsequently reelected twice. He is also an adjunct professor of public policy at Drexel University. A first generation American, Brendan was the first in his family to attend college, earning a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Notre Dame. He later earned a master’s degree in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is a 2011 Rodel Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

100 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org NOEMI DONOSO Senior Vice President, Education Initiative, Roll Global UNITED STATES Dr. Noemi Donoso leads local and national education initiatives for Roll Global LLC, a Los Angeles- based company that has invested millions of dollars to dramatically improve educational outcomes for students in the Central Valley of California and across the country. She brings two decades of proven experience as a senior school administrator, principal, teacher, and teacher coach to her work as senior vice president of education initiatives for Roll Global.

MODERATOR BILL BUDINGER Trustee of the Aspen Institute Founder, Rodel Inc. UNITED STATES Bill Budinger, inventor and holder of over three dozen patents, founded and served for 33 years as CEO and chairman of Rodel, Inc. Rodel built plants in Delaware, Arizona, North Carolina, Germany, Japan, and Malaysia to manufacture products for the electronics industry. It was privately held until it joined Rohm and Haas’ Shipley Electronics Group in 1997 — 2001. Bill has served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards and has been a guest lecturer at several universities, including MIT and Harvard. His writings have appeared in various law journals as well as in trade and public policy magazines. He drafted much of the 1998 patent reform law and has testified on patent, trade, and labor law reform before various committees of the US House and Senate. Most of his time is now spent as a trustee at the Rodel Foundation, helping to pursue its education-reform objectives. In 2005, Bill received the Henry Crown Leadership Award for exemplifying values-based leadership throughout his career.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 101 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Is Green Investing Dead? JULY 31 DOERR-HOSIER CENTER: KAUFMAN ROOM

It wasn’t long ago that the idea of green investing seemed to permeate every future-oriented business article and political speech. Then came a wave of stories about failed companies like Solyndra and disappointing returns elsewhere in this space. But surely the imperative to invest sustainably hasn’t gone away. What is the current state-of- play in green investing? What seems to have worked? What hasn’t? Has the field simply shifted away from sexy, high- profile investments like solar energy and electric cars to more mundane but equally impactful ones? Are there things you should be doing in your company, your community, and your home to reduce your environmental footprint?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS AIMÉE CHRISTENSEN Catto Fellowship Program Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Christensen Global Strategies UNITED STATES Aimée Christensen is founder and CEO of Christensen Global Strategies, collaborating with industries, investors, governments, organizations, and individuals worldwide to develop solutions for a strong clean global economy. Her clients have included the Carbon War Room, the Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy, Microsoft, Ogilvy, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Swiss Re, The Elders, the United Nations, the US Department of Energy, Virgin Unite, and Wolfensohn & Co. Trained as an environmental and energy lawyer, she has two decades’ experience in policy, law, investment, and philanthropy, including with Google, the World Bank, Baker & McKenzie, and the US Department of Energy. Aimée has helped shape platforms for collaborative impact and action, including the Global Ocean Commission, the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All, and the World Climate Summit, where over 800 business leaders meet to share strategies and mobilize solutions to our climate challenge, as well as Business Action for Climate 2010, showcasing business leadership on climate change with the CEOs of Duke Energy, Dow Chemical, The Coca-Cola Company, and FEMSA; the president of Mexico; and the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. From 2007 to 2009, she advised Virgin Unite, including helping to shape two of Sir Richard Branson’s initiatives, The Elders and The Carbon War Room. She has served on boards and advisory boards including the American Council on Renewable Energy, EKO Asset Management Partners, the US Homeland Security Department’s Sustainability and Efficiency Task Force, and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. Aimée negotiated the first US bilateral climate change accord (with Costa Rica) and wrote and successfully advocated for the adoption of the first university endowment investment policy on climate change (Stanford University in 1999). She was the 2011 Hillary Laureate, graduated from Smith College, and has a JD from Stanford Law School. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Catto Fellowship of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. ARJUN GUPTA Henry Crown Fellowship Program Trustee of the Aspen Institute Founder and Chief Believer, TeleSoft Partners UNITED STATES Arjun Gupta is the founder and chief believer at TeleSoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm. Over the last two decades, he has overseen investing in and helping build over 60 technology companies, resulting in over 40 acquisitions and IPOs to date. Arjun is also a member of the new ownership group of the Sacramento Kings NBA team and helps revitalize downtown Sacramento. He serves on the boards of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), and the AG Family Foundation, which has provided partial funding for over 90 projects in the US, India, and Africa. Earlier in his career, Arjun was a strategy consultant for high-tech clients with McKinsey & Company and a software engineer with Tektronix, Inc. He has an MBA from Stanford University, an MS and BS (phi beta kappa) in computer science from Washington State University, and a BA (honors) in economics from St. Stephen’s College (India). Arjun is a passionate outdoorsman and among his many adventures, he was a member of the 100th anniversary ski expeditions to both the North and South poles. He is an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University, a 2001 Henry Crown Fellow, a trustee of the Aspen Institute, as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

102 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org JIGAR SHAH Catto Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, Jigar Shah Consulting UNITED STATES Jigar Shah is the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy. He unlocked the multi-billion-dollar worldwide solar industry with a business-model innovation, the Power Purchase Agreement. This model created SunEdison, the largest solar services company worldwide. Jigar has shown that business-model innovation applied to the biggest challenge of our lifetime – climate change – will unlock a $10 trillion new economy. After a successful exit at SunEdison, Jigar served as the first CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global nonprofit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change. Today, as CEO of Jigar Shah Consulting, he works to bring “pay as you save” money to other resource-efficiency sectors from his offices in New York City. Jigar sits on the boards of Empower Energies, KMR Infrastructure, and SolarNexus. He is a Fellow of the second class of the Catto Fellowship of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR JAMES ABRAHAM India Leadership Initiative Founder & Director, SolarArise INDIA James Abraham is the founder and director of SolarArise, which will own and operate one of the largest portfolio of solar-power plants in India. Prior to this, he was the managing director of SunBorne Energy, which focuses on making solar energy as low-cost as other sources of power in India. James and the team led the development of solar policy in India and launched the largest public-private partnership in solar R&D with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. James is currently a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Renewable Energy Council, the US-India Track 2 Dialogue on Climate Change, and serves on several boards. Prior to SunBorne, James was a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group in India. He started his career with BCG in Toronto before moving to India in 1998, and then founded BCG’s New Delhi office. James has a degree in electrical engineering from the Univeristy of Waterloo, an MBA (Baker Scholar) from the Wharton School, and an MA (international relations) from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He is a Fellow of the third class of the India Leadership Initiative as well as a moderator for and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 103 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Knowing When to Hold Them … and When to Fold Them JULY 31 THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER DOME

As leaders, making tough decisions comes with the territory. How do you know when to stay the course and when to shift gears? Have you had to soldier on in the face of heavy resistance? Have you had to let go and cut your losses? What are the leadership lessons you learned in the process? What was the tipping point in your decision making? What values guided you in your decision?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS FAN BAO China Fellowship Program Chairman and CEO, China Renaissance CHINA Fan Bao is the chairman and CEO of China Renaissance, a leading independent investment bank based in China. Fan founded China Renaissance in 2004 to advise fast-growing Chinese entrepreneurs on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions strategy. Today, China Renaissance has grown to become the largest privately held investment bank in China and its clients include most of the leading technology, health care, and consumer companies in China, such as Tencent, Baidu and 360buy. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Fan worked four years at AsiaInfo, a leading Chinese software company, as its chief strategy officer. Fan spent his formative years on Wall Street with Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. A native of Shanghai, Fan is among a rare group of Chinese that have studied in Scandinavia, though skiing still doesn’t come naturally for him. On the other hand, Fan is an avid practitioner of all sorts of auto sports and mixed martial arts and a self-admitted adrenaline junkie. Fan is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the China Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

HILDEGARD VASQUEZ Central America Leadership Initiative Co-Founder and Head Architect, Hache Uve, S.A. PANAMA Hildegard Vasquez has led the architectural office Hache Uve, which she created, since 1998, concentrating mostly on preservation and renovation of historic sites such as San Felipe, Panama´s historic district, and the city of Granada, Nicaragua. Her office has worked on major restoration projects such as the National Theater of Panama, Santo Domingo Convent, Las Clementinas Hotel, Benedetti Building (recognized with the Architectural Restoration First Prize of the Society of Panamanian Architects, November 9, 2011) and the American Trade Hotel and Hall. She is a founding member and president of Fundación Calicanto, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring and conserving the historic and human heritage of Casco Antiguo (San Felipe). Fundación Calicanto projects include the re-socialization of local gangs, educational programs for single mothers, a leadership in the arts program for kids, multi-cultural events, and many direct battles for the conservation of historical heritage. She also serves on the board of the Interoceanic Canal Museum since its inception in 1997 and was part of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Arts from 2001 to 2005. Hildegard has a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of fine arts from Rhode Island School of Design and a master of architecture in historic restoration from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She was a finalist for Avon Woman of the Year in 2011, Hero for Panama in 2011, and recognized as a Light in the Community by the Association of Women Entrepreneurs in Panama in 2011. Hildegard is a 2011 finalist for the McNulty Prize, winner of the 2013 Latin America FT/Citibank Urban Ingenuity Award, recipient of the 2014 RISD Professional Achievement Award, Fellow of the second class of the Central America Leadership Initiative, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

104 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org ELIE WURTMAN Middle East Leadership Initiative Executive Chairman, NJOY ISRAEL Elie Wurtman is a serial entrepreneur, venture investor, and technology-company executive. He has played an active role in several high profile start-ups. He currently serves as the executive chairman of NJOY, the US market leader in electronic cigarettes. Between 2006 and 2012, he served as a general partner of Benchmark Capital Israel. Previously, he served as CEO of JVP Studio, a Jerusalem-based venture capital firm, where he focused on early stage consumer and media investments. He also served as interim CEO at several of the firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining the venture capital community, he co-founded and took public deltathree. com, a leader in IP telephony. As CEO, Elie took the company from its founding to 60 points of presence globally with operations in 35 countries. Some of his other start-ups and investments include Ambient, TTR Technologies, Back Bay Scientific, Double Fusion, FilesX, Daz3D, GreenRoad, Ctera, IronSource, GigaWatt Global, Fulcrum Materials, and Bat Shlomo Vineyards. In addition to personal entrepreneurship, Elie is active in several social initiatives, including a co- working space to revitalize the creative start-up scene in Jerusalem and an innovative high school program, Regavim, integrating agricultural work with academic studies. Elie resides in Jerusalem and Caesarea with his wife Naomi and their three children Sammy, Odelia, and Liam. He is a Fellow of the third class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR HARRY STRACHAN Managing Director, Mesoamerica Investments COSTA RICA Harry Strachan is managing director of Mesoamerica Investments. He was a partner of Bain & Company from 1979 to 1998 and continues part time with Bain and Bain Capital in their new partner training efforts. Harry was a business school professor at INCAE and the Harvard Business School from 1970 to 1979 and rector of INCAE in the 1981-1982 transition. He is president of the Strachan Foundation, which he established in honor of his parents and grandparents. He also serves on the boards of the Mesoamerica Foundation, INCAE, Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios, Hospital Clínica Bíblica, Adelante, and in AmCham, Caribbean Central America Action, and the Business Council of Latin America. He received his DBA from Harvard Business School, his JD from Harvard Law School, and his BA from Wheaton College. Harry was born in Costa Rica of missionary parents. He is married and has two children and several grandchildren. His hobbies are golf, poker, and reading. Harry is a moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 105 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Parenting: Leadership Lessons from Your Kids JULY 31 KOCH BUILDING: STRANAHAN ROOM

As parents, we think a lot about teaching our children the values we hold most dear. But what have your children taught you?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS PAULINE BROWN Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chairman of North America, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. UNITED STATES For more than 25 years, Pauline Brown has helped to acquire, grow, and lead premium global brands. She currently is the chairman of North America for LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A., the world’s leading luxury goods company, where she provides regional leadership for 70 brands in five sectors, including fashion and leather goods, perfumes and cosmetics, watches and jewelry, wines and spirits, and selective retailing. She also serves on the board of L Capital, a private equity fund backed by LVMH. Earlier in her career, Pauline was a managing director at The Carlyle Group, where she led investments in the consumer and retail sectors. Prior to Carlyle, she was the senior vice president of corporate strategy and global business development at Avon Products, responsible for developing the company’s long-term growth strategy and driving key components of a major restructuring plan. Pauline joined Avon from The Estee Lauder Companies, where she was the vice president of corporate strategy and new business development in charge of all mergers, acquisitions, and licensing efforts. Pauline began her career as a management consultant at Bain & Company. She currently sits on the boards of the Parsons School of Design, Wharton Alumni Council, Columbia University’s Maison Français, French-American Chamber of Commerce, NYC Partnership Fund’s Retail Group, and Cosmetic Executive Women. Pauline earned an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Dartmouth College. She is 2008 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, a member of the Fellowship’s Board of Overseers, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. BART HOULAHAN Henry Crown Fellowship Program Co-Founder and President, B Lab/B Corporation UNITED STATES Bart Houlahan co-founded B Lab, a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems, in 2006. B Lab drives systemic change through three interrelated initiatives: building a community of certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between good companies and those with good marketing; accelerating the growth of the impact- investing asset class through use of B Lab’s Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS); and promoting legislation in creating a new corporate form: the Benefit Corporation. B Lab won the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to B Lab, Bart was CFO, COO, and president of AND 1, a $250 million basketball footwear and apparel company with distribution in 80 countries. Before AND 1, Bart was an investment banker with Stonebridge Associates, BNY Associates, and Prudential-Bache Securities and was specifically focused on providing corporate finance and merger and acquisition services to small-cap businesses. Bart serves on several business and civic boards, including Hives for Lives, a kid-run charitable business which educates high school students about the power of social entrepreneurship. Hives for Lives, started by Bart’s two daughters, raises bees, sells the honey, and donates all the profits to cancer research (the honey can now be found nationwide in Whole Foods Market). Bart is a graduate of Stanford University with a BS in human biology. He is a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

106 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org ISAAC SHONGWE Henry Crown Fellowship Program Trustee of the Aspen Institute Former Executive Director, Barloworld Limited SOUTH AFRICA Isaac Shongwe is the former executive director of Barloworld Limited, where his portfolios included strategy, human capital, innovation, solutions development, sustainability, and stakeholder management. He is a member of several boards, including the Wits Business School; Endeavor, an NGO focusing on entrepreneurship development in South Africa; the Aspen Institute, and the Ragon Institute. Before starting Letsema in 1995, Isaac worked for various companies owned by Barloworld Limited from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, he joined Monitor Consulting Company, a business strategy outfit headquartered in Boston. As a strategy consultant, Isaac has worked on various strategy-formulation projects, both for blue-chip private sector clients and various public sector clients. In addition to his business interests, Isaac is heavily involved in social and community upliftment projects. He has created Letsema Foundation, through which he funds most of his social interests. The foundation focuses on leadership development, entrepreneurship, and education. He is chairman and founder of the Africa Leadership Foundation in South Africa. In 1988, Isaac was named 21st Century Trust Fellow, in recognition of his potential as a future leader in his country, and in 1996 was named Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. In 1987, Isaac graduated with honors from Wesleyan University (USA). In 1989, he received a degree in marketing from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 1991, he also obtained an MPhil in management studies from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Isaac is married to Khumo and they have six children. He is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. JAIME ZABLAH-SIRI Central America Leadership Initiative Executive Director, Fundasalva EL SALVADOR Jaime Zablah-Siri is the CEO of FUNDASALVA, an anti-drug foundation in El Salvador that strives for research, prevention, training, and rehabilitation from drugs and violence. A member of the International Task Force for the Drug Free America Foundation, he is a national and international speaker and has lectured on various topics such as crime prevention and rehabilitation, drug prevention and rehabilitation, gang prevention and rehabilitation, and child-abuse prevention. He has given lectures in El Salvador, the United States, Guatemala, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile and for the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities, CHIPRED/Drug Free America Foundation, and the XVIII Iberoamerican Summit in Mexico, among other venues. He is the former vice president for Latin America of Hartsook Companies, a fundraising counsel company. He has been an art history teacher at a local high school as well as a blogger for a local Web page of a radio station (Radio 102.nueve) with his anti-drug blog. His experience includes work in the private and political areas. He is a Fellow of the eighth class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. MODERATOR MARGOT PRITZKER Trustee of the Aspen Institute President & Founder, WomenOnCall.org UNITED STATES Margot Pritzker launched the WomenOnCall.org organization in February 2006 to provide women and nonprofits with an online meeting place to forge productive and efficient connections that make a difference in people’s lives. The WomenOnCall.org website, which went national in scope in May 2010, now has over 4,000 members and is growing across the country. Margot is chair of the Zohar Education Project Inc., which she established in 1995. This is a 15-year project to translate the Zohar, the canonical work of Jewish mysticism, into English. Margot is involved in a number of initiatives that affect women and children in the developed and developing world. She has overseen the initiation and progress of schools in remote areas of the Himalayas and Afghanistan. Furthering cultivation of leadership amongst young people has led her to support and become involved with Ashesi University in Ghana and the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. Through the Aspen Institute, where she is a trustee, she participates in leadership-development initiatives throughout the world. She continues her involvement in international issues as a member of the board of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, as a trustee of the International Board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and as a member of the advisory board of America Abroad Media. Margot currently serves as a trustee of the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, where she was chair of the board from 1993 to 2001. She serves as a director of the Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation. She is also the chair of the University of Chicago Charter School Governing Board, which is a part of the university’s Urban Education Institute. Born in England, Margot became a United States citizen in 1994. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband, Thomas J. Pritzker. They have three sons. Their extensive travel and knowledge of South Asia has resulted in one of the foremost collections of South Asian art. Margot holds a BA from Northwestern University and an AM from the University of Chicago.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 107 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Positioning Kids for Success: Aligning Skills and Jobs JULY 31 BOETTCHER BUILDING: DINGMAN ROOM

We all want kids to succeed both in and after their formal schooling. But too often they aren’t developing the skills they need — either for the jobs that are available in their communities or for more advanced roles in the 21st century. How can the gap between skills and opportunities be narrowed? What’s working? What can you do to provide training and learning opportunities to students where you live and operate so that they are positioned for success?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS ERIC BARBA Senior Director, College and Career Partnerships, Roll Global UNITED STATES Dr. Eric Barba leads the K-12, college, and career partnership work in the Central Valley for Roll Global LLC. He brings to his position 16 years of educational experience as a teacher, middle and high school principal, and district-level administrator of high schools and math/science magnet centers. While serving as principal of Duarte High School in 2009, Eric launched an early college program in partnership with Citrus Community College. The Duarte High School Early College program opened the path for students to graduate with both a high school diploma and one to two years’ worth of college coursework. In addition, as a high school principal, Eric developed multiple career pathways connecting career technical education at the high school to degree and certificate programs at the community college. These experiences led him to his work at Roll Global, where he blends career technical education, early college, and authentic work-based learning experiences to provide opportunities for students in California’s Central Valley to graduate high school with a high school diploma and an AA degree or certification in an agriculture-based course of study. Eric received his doctorate in education from the University of Southern California. He resides in Bakersfield, California with his wife Laura and son Matthew.

AMIT BHATIA India Leadership Initiative Founder and Chairman, Aspire INDIA Amit Bhatia, an award-winning social entrepreneur is founder and chairman of Aspire, an employability education firm in India. Since 2007, Aspire has trained over 62,000 students across 100 institutions in 16 states. Amit has been recognized as an Education Czar in 2008 by Mint (a WSJ-affiliated publication), was a finalist for the John P. McNulty Prize in 2010 and winner in 2012, was featured in Fast Company in 2011, was recognized as a Young Turk by CNBC-TV18,and was featured by Business Today as one of 66 Reasons to Keep Your Faith in India in 2013. Amit has 22 years of management experience and until 2007 served as CEO of WNS Knowledge Services, successfully listing WNS on the New York Stock Exchange with a $1 billion IPO. Prior to WNS, Amit was the founding country manager for FreeMarkets, Inc. Most notably, Amit conceived, founded, and led the McKinsey Knowledge Centre in India, the consulting firm’s global research center. He has also held business and financial analysis positions at American Express. Amit has a bachelor’s degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, master’s degree from Delhi School of Economics with a University Gold Medal, and is a qualified cost and works accountant. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the India Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

108 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org DEEMA BIBI Middle East Leadership Initiative Chief Executive Officer, INJAZ JORDAN Deema Bibi is the CEO of INJAZ, an independent nonprofit organization established in 2001 with a mission to inspire and prepare youth to become productive members of their society and accelerate the development of the national economy. Today, INJAZ graduates over 130,000 students per year through a network of 4,000 qualified volunteers from the private sector and with the support of around 300 corporations, public sector and civil society organizations, and USAID. Prior to INJAZ, Deema worked at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (2000-2005) as the Information and Communications Technology program manager. Before joining the UN, Deema worked at the private sector (1991-2000), where she was responsible for the development and management of several ICT projects with a focus on phone banking and e-commerce. Deema sits on several international and local boards, including the Global Thinkers Forum, Eisenhower Fellows Association, Tamweelcom – Jordan Micro Credit Company, Development and Employment Fund, and Run Jordan. She is a founding member of the Arab Foundations Forum, a member of the International Women’s Forum, on the technical committee of the Economic Empowerment program, and has served as a city council member for the term 2007 to 2011. Deema was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2008 and the Synergos Senior Fellowship in 2010. She is the receiver of the Mosaic Global Social Leadership Award (2008), the NYIT Leadership Distinction Award (2009), the Global Thinkers Forum Excellence in Positive Change Award (2012), and The International Alliance for Women World of Difference Award (2012). Deema is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

RYAN RUSKIN Henry Crown Fellowship Program President and Chief Operations Officer, The Ruskin Group UNITED STATES Ryan Ruskin is president and COO of The Ruskin Group in Chicago. He is responsible for business development and general management for The Ruskin Group, a 122-year-old family packaging company founded by his great-grandfather. The Ruskin Group is recognized as a world leader in sustainability and consists of three business units that supply a wide range of packaging and shipping supplies. Previously, he was a management consultant with A.T. Kearney, where his practice focused on supply chain and manufacturing strategies with many Fortune 100 companies. Ryan currently serves on the executive committees of the Alumni Council of Princeton University, the President’s Leadership Council of the Field Museum, and Chicago Botanic Garden. He is also a member of the boards of Heartland Alliance, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Humanities Festival, Princeton Club of Chicago, and Shady Side Academy. He was chosen by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs as a member of the 2010-2012 Emerging Leaders Program. Ryan was a member of the speechwriting team for the 1988 Republican National Convention and continues to be active in local and national politics. He earned a BA in history and American Studies from Princeton University, an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and an MEM from its McCormick School of Engineering. Ryan is an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. He is a 2013 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR ANITA ANTENUCCI Henry Crown Fellowship Program Senior Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey UNITED STATES Anita Antenucci is a senior managing director at Houlihan Lokey, where she leads the aerospace defense government and transportation and logistics investment banking groups and is a member of the board of directors. She was previously co-president and managing director of Quarterdeck Investment Partners. In 2005, she was named Woman Dealmaker of the Year by the M&A Advisor and was recognized in both 2008 and 2010 by Investment Dealers’ Digest and in 2007 by Corporate Board Member magazine. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the corporate advisory board of the National Guard Youth Challenge Foundation, and the board of directors of the Space Foundation. She is also an active competitor in equestrian sports. Anita holds degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Northwestern University, and she studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques. Anita is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 109 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Project Workshop: Pitching My Project JULY 31 PAEPCKE BUILDING: PAEPCKE LIBRARY

Do you have an elevator pitch or need to work on one for your Fellowship Project or Action Pledge? Join this workshop to learn how to hone your pitch with an expert communications specialist brought to you by The John P. McNulty Prize.

MODERATOR RICHARD GREENE Communications Consultant UNITED STATES An attorney by trade from University of Southern California Law School, Richard left the practice of law to share his communication breakthroughs with presidents, prime ministers, cabinet ministers, senators, congresspersons, first ladies, political candidates, CEOs and CFOs of Fortune 500 companies, attorneys, judges, Hollywood celebrities, and marketing professionals, among others, in over 40 countries on six continents. The work includes branding and message development, media training, speech writing, and speech coaching. The work also extends to helping clients overcome their fear of public speaking, a service he provided to Princess Diana and continues to provide to major politicians, business leaders, and professional speakers today. One of his current significant business clients is the Young Presidents Organization, the leading association of CEOs in the world. As many of the networks’ political speech analyst, Richard covered the 1996 through 2012 Republican and Democratic national conventions and has analyzed presidential debates for USA Today. Richard has also been on the other side of the microphone as a talk show host, interviewing senators, congresspersons, and other major news personalities and providing commentary for ABC Radio networks and others. Richard has conducted over 100 international lecture tours, leading workshops and doing consulting for the United Nations, World Health Organization, US Chamber of Commerce, Wharton Business School, The Young Presidents Organization, the House of Lords, and such worldwide corporate clients as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bridgewater Associates, SAP, Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin, Kirkland & Ellis, KLM Airlines, NBC, ESPN, the Chicago Cubs, The Hollywood Reporter, Village Road Show, Starwood and Sheraton hotels, Leading Hotels of the World, and The Walt Disney Company. Impressed by the relevance of his work to and for attorneys and judges, Richard was invited to conduct workshops for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Conference and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, where his presentation followed a keynote by Justice Samuel Alito. In July and August of 2006, Richard himself served as a judge — the senior judge on the TLC (The Learning Channel) series, “The Messengers,” dedicated to finding America’s next great motivational speaker. Richard shares his work in private sessions, small group trainings, large group trainings, and in online courses and created and conducted the first ever virtual educational course in the history of YPO in 2012. His passion for sharing his new definition of public speaking and his revolutionary approach that allows anyone — regardless of their fear — to become confident and competent presenters in a very short time led him to establish a 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to helping high school students learn to find and contribute their voice, which has given away over $200,000 in scholarships with the participation of celebrities like James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Sting, Noah Wyle, and Jason Mraz.

110 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.

Elon Musk INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE The Challenges of Going to Scale JULY 31 BOETTCHER BUILDING: HUDSON ROOM

“Take it to scale” is the mantra of Silicon Valley. But this mindset has permeated other sectors as well. Even in the nonprofit space, donors are increasingly pushing for wider, broader impact. What are the challenges of taking a business, organization, or project to scale? Is scale always desirable? Is anything lost along the way to scale? Does it matter?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS BILL BYNUM Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, HOPE UNITED STATES For three decades, Bill Bynum has worked to advance economic opportunity for disenfranchised populations. He began his professional career by helping to establish Self-Help, a pioneer in the development finance industry, and later built nationally recognized programs at the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center. He moved to Jackson in 1994 to become the founding CEO of the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta and in 1995 organized Hope Credit Union. Today HOPE (Hope Enterprise Corporation/Hope Credit Union) is a regional community development financial institution, intermediary, and policy center that provides and promotes responsible financial services and related assistance for entrepreneurs, home buyers, and community development projects in distressed communities across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Bill has advised Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama on community development, small business, and financial service matters, serving for ten years as a presidential appointee and chairman of the Treasury Department’s Community Development Advisory Board. In 2012, he was named vice chairman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s inaugural Consumer Advisory Board. A Salzburg Seminar Fellow, Bill is a recipient of the University of North Carolina Distinguished Alumnus Award, Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year Award, National Rural Assembly Rural Hero Award, and National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Helping Hands Award. His board/ trustee service includes Millsaps College, Jackson State University Development Foundation, University of Mississippi MIND Center, Mississippi Children’s Museum, Corporation for Enterprise Development, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. Bill is the 2013 winner of the John P. McNulty Prize. Bill is a 1998 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

AIMÉE EUBANKS DAVIS Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Executive Vice President, Teach For America UNITED STATES Aimée Eubanks Davis joined Teach For America’s staff in 2002 as vice president of new site development, helping to grow the organization’s presence into Miami and Philadelphia, as well as doubling Teach For America’s presence in New York City. In 2003, Aimée moved to the regional operations team, where she managed Teach For America’s executive directors and helped ensure maximum impact in each of the organization’s 22 regions. In 2005, Aimée became the chief people officer and oversaw the organization’s growth from 200 to over 1,500 staff members. Additionally, she worked on the development of a comprehensive competency model for staff recruitment, selection, performance management, and learning and development and ensured that the human assets team is positioned to fuel the growth and success of Teach For America through being a strategic business partner to organizational leaders and teams. In 2011, Aimée took on the expanded role of executive vice president of people, community, and diversity, leading TFA’s work to uphold its commitment to diversity and to build an organization that is a model of fairness and equality. Her role expanded again, in January of 2013, and she now also oversees the public affairs and communications teams. Before joining Teach For America’s staff, Aimée was a program officer at The Breakthrough Collaborative (formerly Summerbridge National) and, prior to that position, she led the Summerbridge New Orleans site to become one of the most successful sites in The Breakthrough Collaborative. Aimée is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, was a 1995 Teach For America corps member, and taught sixth grade social studies and language arts in New Orleans. She is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

112 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org KIM POLESE Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chairman, ClearStreet UNITED STATES A leading Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Kim Polese currently serves as the chairman of ClearStreet, a financial services startup, and also advises numerous early-stage technology companies. Kim began her career at AI software company IntelliCorp in technical support and application engineering. After joining Sun Microsystems, she became the founding product manager of Java and led Java’s launch in 1995. Kim went on to co-found Marimba, serving as president, CEO and chairman and leading the company to profitability, a successful IPO, and ultimately acquisition by BMC. She subsequently served as CEO of SpikeSource, later acquired by Black Duck, which created software to automate the management of open source software for businesses. Kim is active in advocating public policy to drive innovation and serves on the boards of TechNet, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the Public Policy Institute of California, and President Obama’s Innovation Advisory Board. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley and studied computer science at the University of Washington. In 2011, Kim was awarded an honorary doctorate in business and economics from California State University. She serves on the University of California President’s Board on Science and Innovation and the boards of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, Reinventors Network, the Global Security Institute and the Long Now Foundation. She lectures annually at Oxford University. Kim is the recipient of the numerous awards and recognition, including the National Center for Women and Information Technology Innovator Award, InformationWeek’s Top Technology Executives, and TIME magazine’s 25 Most Influential Americans. She is a Fellow of the 2001 class of the Henry Crown Fellowship at the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR JORDAN KASSALOW Henry Crown Fellowship Program Founder and Co-Chairman, VisionSpring Inc. UNITED STATES Jordan Kassalow is founder and co-chairman of the board at VisionSpring. He is also the founder of the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he served as an Adjunct Senior Fellow from 1999 to 2004, and co-founder of Scojo New York. He has served as director of the Onchocerciasis (Riverblindness) Division at Helen Keller International. He serves on the board of directors for the Jerusalem Foundation. Jordan is a Draper Richards Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow, the recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the inaugural winner of the John P. McNulty Prize. He was also named one of the Schwab Foundation’s 2012 Social Entrepreneurs. Jordan received his doctorate of optometry from the New England College of Optometry and completed his fellowship in preventive ophthalmology and his master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins. Jordan is also a practicing optometrist and senior partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, PC. He and his wife, Erica, and their three children live in New York City. He is a 2005 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 113 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Why Is It So Hard to Talk about Race? JULY 31 RESNICK-MALEK HEALTH CENTER

America prides itself on being a great melting pot. And, with the election of President Obama in 2008, many proclaimed that the country had moved into a post-racial era. And yet, racial tensions clearly persist throughout the country. Why is it so difficult to talk about race? Do you? If so, what have you learned? If not, what do you fear? How can the barriers to discussing race best be lowered?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS LATOYA CANTRELL Henry Crown Fellowship Program Councilmember, City of New Orleans UNITED STATES LaToya Cantrell was elected as District B council member of the City of New Orleans in December 2012 and was re-elected without opposition in February 2014. Before joining the City Council, LaToya was a nonprofit management executive for over ten years, where she gained valuable experience in education reform, strategic planning, neighborhood revitalization, financial management, economic development, and grass roots organizing. Post-Katrina, she led the citizens’ fight to save Broadmoor after it was flooded due to levee failures. Today, Broadmoor is considered a national and global model in post-disaster recovery. LaToya has served as the president of the Broadmoor Improvement Association and as a board member of the Salvation Army of Greater New Orleans and the Arts Council Committee of Greater New Orleans. She was also the founding president of the Broadmoor Development Board, Broadmoor Charter School Board, and South Broad Community Health Center Board. After her post-Katrina recovery efforts, LaToya was recognized as a Restore America Hero by the National Trust of Historic Preservation, a Young Leadership Council Role Model, was named as one of New Orleans Magazine’s People to Watch, one of Gambit Weekly’s 40 under 40, and received a Wisdom of Women Award by Planned Parenthood. She is also a member of the New Orleans Citizens’ Diplomacy Council Advisory Board, Canal Street Development Corporation, Broadmoor Education Corridor, French Market Corporation Board of Directors, and New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation Board of Directors. As a community leader and elected official, LaToya is committed to always lending an ear to neighborhood concerns. She currently chairs the New Orleans City Council’s Committee on Community Development and sits on the Budget and Audit Committee, Governmental Affairs Committee, Criminal Justice Committee, and Public Works Committee. LaToya is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana, where she earned a BA degree in sociology, and completed executive management training at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. While serving on the City Council, she has been recognized as Best Neighborhood Councilperson by Neighborhoods Partnership Network and received the Mondale-Brooke Award for Fair Housing Leadership and Civic Participation and the LGBT Community Center of New Orleans’ 2013 Allies Award. She is a 2014 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. NEIL PHILLIPS Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Founder and Executive Director, Visible Men UNITED STATES Neil Phillips is the founder and executive director of Visible Men and Visible Men Academy. Visible Men is a success network that celebrates accomplished black men and elevates black boys to new heights of achievement, fulfillment, and societal contribution. Visible Men Academy is a charter K-8 school for boys from low-income family backgrounds in Bradenton, Florida. Previously Neil was the head of the upper school at The Out-of-Door Academy, an independent day school in Sarasota, Florida. Neil served as the assistant headmaster of Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, where he taught English and public speaking. He also held positions at Landon as head of the upper school and athletic director. In 2002 and 2003, Neil served as a consultant for Team Up for Youth, an Oakland, California-based foundation that supports youth sports initiatives in lower-income communities. He is the founder of One on One Basketball, and he served as coaching education manager for the Positive Coaching Alliance. Neil received his bachelor’s degree in English and American literature from Harvard University in 1989. He lives in Sarasota with his wife Shannon and their sons, Reece and Blair. Neil is a Fellow of the Echoing Green/Open Society Foundation inaugural class of Black Male Achievement Fellows. He is a Fellow of the fourth class of Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

114 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org REF RODRIGUEZ Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship President and Chief Executive Officer, Partners for Developing Futures UNITED STATES Dr. Ref Rodriguez is president and CEO of Partners for Developing Futures (Partners). Partners’ mission is to efficiently identify, recruit, train, and mentor leaders of color in leading and growing high-quality charter schools and charter school networks and leading transformation efforts in underperforming schools serving traditionally underserved communities. Partners seeks to build a pipeline of high- quality leaders of color with deep roots in the communities served. Prior to joining Partners, Ref founded and served as co-CEO of Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC), a charter school management organization serving communities in the northeast San Fernando Valley and northeast Los Angeles. During his tenure, PUC developed ten schools and became a well-regarded charter-management organization in California. Ref’s original inspiration for starting a charter school was to offer high-quality learning experiences for youth in the predominantly Latino working-class community where he grew up. His outrage for being considered “fortunate” for having graduated from college because of his socio- economic background is what drives him to create and support schools where college graduation is an expectation for all. Before joining the charter schools movement, Ref worked in the business sector and as a teacher and administrator in Catholic parochial schools. He is the first of five children of Mexican immigrants to graduate from college. Ref is an adjunct professor in the School of Education at his alma mater, Loyola Marymount University, where he developed a master’s and administrative credential program for aspiring leaders in charter schools. He was appointed to the California Commission for Teacher Credentialing by Governor Jerry Brown in 2013. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. MODERATOR JEAN-CLAUDE BRIZARD Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship President, UpSpring Education Group UNITED STATES Jean-Claude Brizard is president of UpSpring Education Group, a network of highly experienced education practitioners and not-for-profit leaders who work to develop proof points in education and whose goal is to support the strategic, instructional, and operational work of school superintendents, public charter leaders, and education organizations across the United States and abroad. Jean-Claude spent the 2013 calendar year as an advisor to the leadership of College Board, developing the organization’s career readiness initiative. This engagement culminated in a strategic plan for integrating career readiness into the College Board’s mission and a special supplement that was published as part of the 45th edition of the PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes toward the Public Schools. He is the former chief executive of Chicago Public Schools. Prior to his appointment in Chicago, he was superintendent of schools for the Rochester City (NY) School District. Under Jean-Claude’s leadership, both the Chicago Public Schools and the Rochester City School District saw substantial improvements in student performance. He introduced a comprehensive change agenda across the Chicago Public Schools, including closing a significant budget gap of more than $1.3 billion over two fiscal years while preserving core reforms and investing in classrooms. He developed a new framework for teaching, and the system saw record increases in student achievement, graduation rates, and on college-readiness benchmarks. He created a blueprint for reform that will continue to serve as a roadmap for years to come. Jean-Claude’s experience also includes a 21-year career as an educator and administrator with the New York City Department of Education. He served as a regional superintendent, supervising more than 100 schools in the Borough of Brooklyn, and as the system’s executive director for secondary schools. Jean-Claude is a Fellow of the Broad Center, a Fellow of the third class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 115 CONCURRENT ACTION WORKSHOPS JULY 31

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ACTION WORKSHOPS

Integrating Social Impact into a Global Corporation’s Performance Metrics PRESENTER Stephen Kehoe Senior Vice President of Global Financial Inclusion, Visa Inc. UNITED STATES

Branding and Partnership Strategy for U.S. Women’s Career Management Platform PRESENTER Lisa Skeete Tatum Henry Crown Fellowship Program Entrepreneur UNITED STATES

Scaling and Updating an Online Health Platform for Teens in Costa Rica PRESENTER Leonor Gutierrez Central America Leadership Initiative Board Member and Consultant, TeenSmart International COSTA RICA

Refocusing Society on the Important Role of Mothers in Early Childhood Development PRESENTER Erica Komisar Psychoanalyst, Child Guidance Expert in Private Practice in New York UNITED STATES

Increasing Participation by U.S. School Superintendents in Peer-Learning Group PRESENTER Gary Cohen Henry Crown Fellowship Program Managing Partner, CO2 Partners UNITED STATES

116 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org Measuring the Impact of an Early Childhood Literacy Program in the Sanger School District of Central California PRESENTER Matt Navo Resnick Leadership Fellow Superintendent, Sanger Unified School District UNITED STATES

Expanding a Foster Youth Program to Ensure a Successful Transition to Society in Panama PRESENTER Patricia Planells Central America Leadership Initiative Facilitator, PR Consulting Panama Corp PANAMA

Applying African Know-how to Developing the Continent PRESENTER Teddy Warria Africa Leadership Initiative-East Africa Director, Africa 2.0 KENYA

Scaling U.S. “Children’s Savings Accounts” in a Sustainable Way PRESENTER Andrea Levere Aspen Ascend Fellow President, Corporation for Enterprise Development UNITED STATES

PROJECT WORKSHOPS

Digital and Sustainability: Disruptive Trends. Strategic Opportunities. PRESENTER Ryan McManus Director, Global Digital Business Strategy, Accenture UNITED STATES

Designing an Effective System of Metrics for a Business or Project PRESENTER Ehren Reed Research and Evaluation Officer, The Skoll Foundation UNITED STATES

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 117 THE LEADERSHIP IN ACTION SERIES PART 2 GREENWALD PAVILION THE LEADERSHIP IN ACTION SERIES offers an opportunity to take a deep dive with leaders at the Aspen Action Forum on what we might learn about leaders and leadership, from leaders of today and the past.

See the current agenda at AspenActionForum.org/Public Never confuse movement with action.

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#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 121 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE “As One”: Mobilizing for Collective Action AUGUST 1 RESNICK-MALEK HEALTH CENTER

How can we galvanize our individual actions into a collective effort? Participate in a discussion with leaders who have done just that. How can you mobilize others around a common vision? How do you manage the tension between coordination and innovation?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS KC HARDIN Central America Leadership Initiative Chief Executive Officer, Conservatorio SA PANAMA Keyes Christopher “KC” Hardin is co-founder and president of Conservatorio SA, a company dedicated to the revitalization of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Panama City. Conservatorio was winner of Travel & Leisure magazine’s Global Vision Award for its responsible approach to its work developing historic hotels, condominiums, affordable housing, and social projects. Prior to moving to Panama, KC was a corporate lawyer in New York and Tokyo with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. He graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 1998 and from the University of Miami in 1994 with majors in motion pictures and political science. He is a Fellow of the seventh class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

FUNMI IYANDA Africa Leadership Initiative–West Africa Chief Executive Officer, Ignite Media NIGERIA Funmi Iyanda is CEO of Ignite Media, a content-driven media organization operating out of Lagos, Nigeria, and a partner of Creation Television, as well as an award-winning TV anchor, broadcaster, producer, and journalist. She is the executive producer and host of the television show “Talk with Funmi.” Funmi also produced and hosted Nigeria’s most popular television show, “New Dawn with Funmi,” which aired on the national network for over eight years. Her Change-A-Life project, comprising scholarship, health care, counseling, and microfinance intervention programs, supports 98 children and 320 families. She recently completed production on “My Country: Nigeria,” a three-part documentary on Nigeria celebrating the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence. The production aired on the BBC World Service in 2010 and is nominated for best news documentary of 2011 at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. Funmi has recently been honored as a 2011 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–West Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. ADAM LOWRY Catto Fellowship Program Chief Greenskeeper and Co-Founder, Method UNITED STATES Adam Lowry is an entrepreneur, scientist, designer, and author. He believes that design has the power to change our world and that business is our greatest vehicle for positive social and environmental benefit. It is at the intersection of these beliefs that Adam has focused his work. In 2000, Adam co- founded Method Products, the leading innovator in stylish and sustainable cleaning and home-care products. Method has been ranked No. 7 on the Inc. 500, and No. 16 on Fast Company’s list of the 50 most innovative companies in the

122 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org world. As chief greenskeeper at Method, Adam’s focus is bringing sustainable innovations to the Method business. He also directs the sustainability aspects of product design, sourcing, production, and marketing. Prior to founding Method, Adam worked as a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science Department of Global Ecology, where he developed software products for the modeling of climate change. That public sector experience, combined with his earlier experience designing environmentally preferred automotive products, formed the nucleus of his unique approach of commercial environmentalism. Adam has been honored as one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and is a Clinton Global Citizen Award recipient from the Clinton Global Initiative for his pioneering work on sustainable business and product design. Adam is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum and a contributor to the Huffington Post and Treehugger.com. In 2011, Adam and his co-founder Eric Ryan published their second book, The Method Method, which reveals their secrets to outcompeting the giants of the consumer products industry. He holds a BS in chemical engineering from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the second class of the Catto Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR KEITH BERWICK Senior Moderator, The Aspen Global Leadership Network Trustee of the Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Keith Berwick is a senior fellow of the Aspen Institute and inaugural holder of the Keith Berwick Chair of Leadership. As such, he moderates seminars for the India Leadership Initiative, the Africa Leadership Initiative, the Catto Fellowship in Environmental Leadership, and other programs of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). From 1996 to 2007, he served as executive director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program and from 2003 to 2004 was executive vice president for seminars of the Aspen Institute. A native Canadian, Keith has had a long and varied career as a historian, educator, television broadcaster, newspaper publisher, and editor. He was educated at Syracuse University and the University of Chicago, where he earned his PhD in US history. He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Claremont Graduate School; Pepperdine University; and the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, and he has lectured extensively at colleges and universities around the world. He is a four-time Emmy Award-winning television broadcaster and principal of Berwick Communication, Inc., a newspaper and communication consulting company. He was founding president of Barry Ambrosetti & Associates, an Italian-American joint venture in global strategic planning; associate editor of Pacific Historical Review; and editor of New Management magazine. From 1990 to 1996, he and his wife Sheena were publishers of the Country News, a weekly newspaper on California’s Central Coast. Keith has served as member of the board of the Santa Barbara Foundation and the Eleos Foundation and is a Lifetime Trustee of the Aspen Institute. He is author of The American Revolutionary Experience, 1776-1976 and The Federal Age, 1789-1829: America in the Process of Becoming, among other historical works. He and his wife make their home in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 123 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Big Data AUGUST 1 BOETTCHER BUILDING: HUDSON ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. Big data is all the craze. What is it? Can it really provide breakthrough solutions in education, public safety, cracking corruption, and more? How might big data be used to address the issues you face in your community?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS JAMES BELDOCK Henry Crown Fellowship Program SVP, Products, ShotSpotter, Inc. UNITED STATES James Beldock is an experienced turn-around and growth entrepreneur, having joined the ShotSpotter team in early 2003. As the company’s first CEO, James developed and executed ShotSpotter’s market- entry strategy and led the company from deployments in four cities to over 50, increased annual sales more than 50-fold, and led the company’s 2005 acquisition of Centurist Systems and its 2009 acquisition of the SECURES business unit of Planning Systems, Inc. He has now turned his energies toward global market penetration as president of the company’s international efforts. ShotSpotter is his third venture-funded or private equity-backed company, and he has raised in excess of $65 million for companies he has led. Previously, he was chairman and CTO of WebPutty, an enterprise software company subsequently acquired by Charles River, of which he had previously served as the company’s president and CEO. Prior to joining WebPutty, James was entrepreneur in residence at SAC Capital, where he performed turn-around and portfolio operations work at other portfolio companies. Previously, as president and CEO of Cogito Software, a company he founded in 1994, James delivered software and managed technology projects for well-known institutions including Princeton University and New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. He has also served as vice president for R&D and CTO at Primavera Laboratories. He holds patents in the fields of computer- memory hardware, Internet business methods, and information security and has published peer review articles in fields ranging from medical informatics to user-interface design. James is a cum laude graduate of Yale University and studied computer science at Columbia University. In 2001, he was recognized as one of America’s leading executives under the age of 45. He sits on the board of directors of PAX, the nation’s largest anti-gun violence nonprofit organization and creator of the life-saving Ask and Speak Up! campaigns, and is a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and the steering committee of the Aspen Institute Socrates Society. James is a 2001 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

GOVINDRAJ ETHIRAJ India Leadership Initiative Founder-Editor, IndiaSpend INDIA Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist and founder-editor of www.indiaspend.org, India’s first data journalism initiative and a social entrepreneurship venture. He is also the founder of Ping Digital Broadcast, a Google multi-channel network (MCN) for knowledge, news, and utility programming for digital audiences. He also writes for newspapers like Business Standard on mostly business issues and anchors seasonal shows on channels like Headlines Today and Rajya Sabha Television. Previously, Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist and founder-editor of www.indiaspend.org, India’s first data journalism initiative and a social entrepreneurship venture. He is also the founder of Ping Digital Broadcast, a Google multi-channel network (MCN) for knowledge, news, and utility programming for digital audiences. He also writes for newspapers like Business Standard on mostly business issues and anchors seasonal shows on channels like Headlines Today and Rajya Sabha Television. Previously, Govindraj was founder and editor in chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hour business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008 and a partnership between Bloomberg LLP and the UTV Group in India. Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV India, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as editor, with a specific mandate of integrating the newspaper’s news operations with its digital or Web platform. Before that, Govindraj spent five years with television

124 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org channel CNBC-TV18, where he drove most of the channel’s programming growth and expansion initiatives. He also worked with the Economic Times newspaper, Business World, and Business India magazines. His awards include: British Chevening Scholarships For Young Indian Print Journalists at The University of Westminster in 1998; Selected as one of 25 most influential personalities in media and advertising in Bombay by Mid-Day on its 25th Anniversary (2004); Nominated for Distinction in Communication at the Teacher’s Achievement Awards 2004; Award For Outstanding Contribution To Media; Indira Award For Marketing Excellence 2006. In 2014, he was a recipient of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Award. He graduated from Elphinstone College, Mumbai. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the India Leadership Initiative as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

RYAN MCMANUS Director, Global Digital Business Strategy, Accenture UNITED STATES Ryan McManus is the founder and one of the global leaders of Accenture’s Digital Business Strategy Practice. He previously served as the Accenture Strategy COO and a leader of the firm’s International Expansion, Corporate Strategy and M&A practices. He is a regular speaker on digital and global strategy topics internationally. Ryan is a member of the Aspen Institute Society of Fellows, has worked in over 40 countries and earned his MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the author of several publications on digital business, corporate strategy and M&A which have been featured on CNBC, BBC Asia, ChannelNews Asia and other Tier 1 media including: including: “Growth Strategies for a Digital World” (February 2014),“Hypergrowth and M&A Success in Asia” (October 2013), “The Evolving Role of the Integration Manager” (January 2013), “The New Competitive Reality: Product Development and Innovation in Emerging Markets” (May 2012), “Who Says M&A Doesn’t Create Value”( March 2012), “Emerging Market Entry Candidates: Where to Invest in India” (November 2011), “Emerging Market Entry—Keys to Success” (July 2011) SARA MENKER Africa Leadership Initiative-East Africa Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gro Ventures KENYA Sara Menker is the founder and CEO of Nairobi- and New York-based Gro Intelligence and a founding partner of Gro Energy. Gro Intelligence cultivates opportunities. It gathers, aggregates, and processes data to unlock crucial insights into weather patterns, trade flows, pricing dynamics, and production, providing users with actionable agricultural data to drive higher productivity and greater access to capital. Gro Energy is an advisory firm focused on African oil and gas. It provides highly customized services to government and private sector clients in areas including energy law and regulation, finance, upstream and downstream services, power generation, business development strategy, and fiscal policy development strategy. Prior to founding Gro in 2012, Sara was a vice president in Morgan Stanley’s commodities group. She began her career in commodities risk management, where she covered all commodity markets, and subsequently moved to trading, where she managed an options trading portfolio. She is chair of the board for Truth Aid, a trustee of the Mandela Institute For Development Studies, and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Africa at the World Economic Forum. Sara was named a Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014. Sara is an Ethiopian national, yet today she lives on planes while calling Nairobi and New York home. Sara is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-East Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR DAVID LANGSTAFF Senior Moderator, The Aspen Global Leadership Network UNITED STATES David Langstaff, from 2010 to 2013, was chairman and then president and CEO of TASC, a $1.5 billion company offering advanced enterprise engineering, integration, and decision-support and other technical services across the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and civilian agencies of the federal government. Previously, he was founder, president, CEO, and director of Veridian Corporation, from its formation in 1995 until its sale to General Dynamics in August 2003. David chairs the advisory board of the Aspen Institute Business and Society policy program, is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, and is a director of The Hitachi Foundation. He serves on the Defense Business Board, which provides independent advice to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense. David is also a musician, and he is currently putting together a PBS special on the history of recorded music, with Sir George Martin, to be aired in late 2015 or early 2016. David is a senior moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 125 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Higher Education AUGUST 1 PAEPCKE BUILDING: PAEPCKE GALLERY

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. A quality four-year undergraduate degree can cost well over $100,000 in the United States and abroad. Traditional applications limit students from painting a real picture of who they are and what they dream to be. Too many of those admitted end up dropping out or graduate without the skills they need to succeed. Does higher education need a rethink? How would you redesign the system? What disruptions are in the works? What more are needed? What’s stopping them from happening?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS SANDRA CALDWELL President, Reedley College UNITED STATES Dr. Sandra Caldwell began serving as the president of Reedley College on July 1, 2013. She previously served as the associate vice president for planning and improvement at Western Wyoming Community College (WWCC), beginning in 2011, having been promoted from her position of associate vice president for student learning, where she served for six years. Sandra also served as a college and university accreditation peer reviewer and site visitor for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. Furthermore, she has served in numerous volunteer capacities, including past president of the Wyoming Women’s Foundation. Prior to WWCC, Sandra worked for ten years at Paris (Texas) Junior College as quality assurance and institutional effectiveness chairperson, mathematics chair, and mathematics faculty. She also served as curriculum coordinator for the Academy for Part-Time Teachers in a consortium among Paris Junior College (PJC), Northeast Texas Community College, and Texarkana College. Prior to working at PJC, Sandra served as a senior agriculturist for the Wes Watkins Agricultural Research and Extension Center of Oklahoma State University. She has also worked in private, small business and has operated a cow-calf ranching operation. Sandra earned a doctoral degree in supervision, curriculum, and instruction in higher education with emphasis in community colleges from Texas A&M University–Commerce, a master’s degree in statistics from Oklahoma State University, and a bachelor’s in mathematics education from Oklahoma State University. ARTURO CONDO Central America Leadership Initiative President, INCAE Business School COSTA RICA Arturo Condo is president of INCAE Business School, where he is also a full professor. He also works as an independent consultant in strategic planning and global strategy. He was previously a director of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development. Arturo has a doctorate in business administration from Harvard Business School and a MBA with high honors from INCAE Business School. He serves as senior institute associate of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. He is an author and co-author of articles, books, and teaching cases in his areas of expertise. Arturo was recognized as a 2008 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He is a member of the global advisory board of the Oath Project and Fundación Paniamor. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Central American Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. LILA IBRAHIM Henry Crown Fellowship Program Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers UNITED STATES Lila Ibrahim is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), president of Coursera, and co- founder of Team4Tech. After earning a BS EE from Purdue University, Lila spent 18 years at Intel, first as a microprocessor designer and later as the point person for Intel’s role in establishing DVD

126 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org standards for PCs, driving Intel’s developer program and growing its global education business. During her time at Intel, she also served as the chief of staff to the CEO and chairman and was responsible for running the education platform team that focused on K-12 education platforms. Lila joined KPCB in 2010, where she led KPCB’s business development efforts, key partnerships, and strategic initiatives. Lila also serves as the co-founder of Team4Tech, a nonprofit organization that partners with NGOs and tech company employees to deliver K-12 education technology in developing countries. Team4Tech was born from Lila’s experience in building a computer program at the orphanage where her father was raised in Lebanon. Lila also regularly speaks at universities supporting women in STEM and has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Through her work, Lila has lived and worked in the US, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai and has traveled to over 75 countries. She is a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. J.B. SCHRAMM Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Co-Chair, College Success Initiative UNITED STATES J.B. Schramm co-chairs the New Profit / College Success Initiative, an effort of funders and college success innovators to increase college attainment in America. In 1995, J.B. founded College Summit while directing a teen center in the basement of a low-income housing project in Washington, DC. College Summit transforms the lives of low-income youth by developing a corps of influential high school students who lead their peers to and through college. The organization works with 50,000 students at 175 high schools in 14 states across the country. For his work with College Summit, J.B. was recognized at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as the 2008 United States Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation. He is co-author of three white papers on helping high schools drive student success, including “The Promise of Proficiency” and “Smart Shoppers: The End of the College-for-All Debate?” and op-eds featured in The New York Times and Washington Post. Forbes magazine named J.B. to their 2012 Impact 30 list of top global social entrepreneurs. President Obama saluted College Summit with a portion of his Nobel Prize Award in 2009; and in 2010, the US Chamber of Commerce recognized College Summit for developing the finest corporate-nonprofit partnership in the country. J.B. has received awards from Ashoka, Echoing Green, The Manhattan Institute, New Profit, Harvard Divinity School, Echoing Green, The Skoll Foundation, and Yale University. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates of public service from Regis University and the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); is a graduate of Denver Public Schools, Yale University, and Harvard Divinity School; and lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Lauren, and three children. He is a Fellow of the third class the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. MODERATOR BETSY FLEMING Liberty Fellowship President, Converse College UNITED STATES Elizabeth (Betsy) Fleming is president of Converse College. She was formerly the executive director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston. She has worked at The Frick Collection in New York City, Yale University Art Gallery, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Department of Decorative Arts and Sculpture at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. She interned with The J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles and served as a Whitney Fellow at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Betsy has also taught at Yale and the Parsons School of Design. She is chairman of the College Town Consortium, comprised of Spartanburg’s six institutions of higher education, and serves on the board of the Women’s College Coalition, The ETV Endowment of South Carolina, United Way of the Piedmont, and Brevard Music Center. Betsy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a BA in fine arts and received an MA in history of design from the Royal College of Art in London. She earned a PhD in the history of art from Yale University. She grew up in Spartanburg. She is a Fellow of the inaugural class of Liberty Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 127 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Medical Care AUGUST 1 DOERR-HOSIER CENTER: CATTO ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. Devices on our wrists, apps on our smartphones, sensors on our walls — medical technology is revolutionizing how we manage our health and care for the sick and the aging. What’s new and on the horizon? Can these innovations be applied everywhere and become accessible to all?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS SHEILA MARCELO Henry Crown Fellowship Program Founder and CEO, Care.com UNITED STATES Sheila founded Care.com in 2006 after enduring frequent struggles to find quality caregivers for her two boys and ailing parent. As a working mother, she acutely recognized the lack of resources available to help families address their care needs. Since then, the site has paired hundreds of thousands of families throughout the United States with quality caregivers — including child care, senior care, pet care, and housekeeping — establishing Care.com as the largest and fastest-growing solution for care services on the Web. In March 2012, Care.com will kick off its global expansion with its United Kingdom launch. In 2011, Sheila was awarded a Marshall Memorial Fellowship and named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Prior to founding Care. com, Sheila served as an executive at several successful Internet companies, including Upromise, a site helping families save for college, and TheLadders.com, an executive job search engine. Sheila is an active alumna of Harvard Business School, serving annually as a finalist judge for the business plan competition and an advisor to the Rock Entrepreneurial Center. She also serves as a board trustee and member of the strategic committee of the Philippine Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization that regularly works with the Philippine government, academe, and industry to pursue sustainable economic development of the Philippines through initiatives in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Sheila graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in economics. She also holds both a MBA and a JD from Harvard University. She is a 2012 Class of Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. AUDREY MARSHALL Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief, Division of Invasive Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston UNITED STATES Audrey Marshall has been a practicing physician for the past 14 years, completing her training in pediatric cardiology in 2000. Her clinical role is based in the cardiac catheterization lab, where she performs nearly 200 therapeutic interventional procedures each year on children with congenital heart disease. She is also one of the founding members of the Boston Fetal Cardiac Interventional Program. Her current research activity is focused in two areas: the use of implantable devices in structural heart disease and the development of equipment and techniques for fetal cardiac interventions. Her responsibilities also involve teaching individual trainees at all levels, from medical students to fellows in interventional pediatric catheterization. She regularly presents in hospital and department-based courses in cardiology and lectures internationally on fetal cardiac catheterization. Audrey is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, serves on the American College of Cardiology’s Women in Cardiology Committee, and is on the board of directors of the Boston Children’s Heart Foundation, the Ali Fund, and ACS Telescada. She has received numerous awards, including the CIMIT Johnson & Johnson Young Clinician Research Award, the NIH National Research Scholarship Award, and the American Medical Women’s Association Scholarship Citation. Audrey has an MD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA summa cum laude from Yale University. She is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

128 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org MICHELLE WILVER Henry Crown Fellowship Program Former President, DynaVox, Inc. UNITED STATES Michelle Wilver is the former president and CEO of DynaVox, where she successfully led the business through substantial negative technology disruption. Prior to her chief executive role, she also served as the company’s president and COO. Prior to serving six years in her executive roles at DynaVox, Michelle served as vice president and general manager for the Thermo Fisher Scientific radiation measurement division. In this position, she expanded the company’s reach into new markets and created the company’s first government program for the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, Michelle spent 15 years with General Electric Healthcare. She began her career with GE in 1991 as part of its Information Systems Leadership Program and was quickly promoted to positions of increasing responsibility in IT and sales before moving into management. In her last six years with GE, Michelle sequentially ran the global mammography, global nuclear medicine, and America’s X-ray divisions — leading each to success despite difficult business landscapes. Michelle holds an executive MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in business administration. She is a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR MICHAEL FERRO Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chairman and CEO, Merrick Venture Management, LLC UNITED STATES Michael W. Ferro, Jr., is chairman of Merge Healthcare, a medical technology company. He is also chairman and CEO of Merrick Ventures. Michael is the past chairman, CEO, and founder of Click Commerce, Inc. In addition, he is the co-founder and vice chairman of Health Green. Michael is a director with the RAND Health Board of Advisors. He serves on the boards of Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Foundation, and the Chicago Community Trust. Michael is a director on the board of trustees of Northwestern University, the Joffrey Ballet, and the Economic Club of Chicago. He has received the KPMG Illinois High- Tech Award, the Holocaust Memorial Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology Award, and the CEO National Young Entrepreneur of the Year, among others. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois. He is a 2006 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 129 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Be Disruptive: Steve Jobs AUGUST 1 KOCH BUILDING: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON ROOM

The Be Disruptive series focuses on leaders who think differently about how things might be done. They use their creative talents to turn existing solutions to societal challenges on their heads. We call these leaders “disruptors.” Their actions impact their industries, their communities, and the very way we live. Steve Jobs’s mission to “Think Different” disrupted entire industries and continues to do so today. What are the key leadership lessons he left us? Could he have done things differently and still made a dent in the universe?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS JOHN HAMM CEO, Pono Music UNITED STATES John Hamm is the CEO of PonoMusic, an initiative and company founded by Neil Young in 2012, dedicated to the consumer experience of the world’s best quality and best sounding digital music. PonoMusic.com is an online music store offering digital music files from the world’s largest music labels and from independent labels across all genres. The PonoPlayer is the world’s best portable consumer portable digital music player, offering consumers the opportunity to experience audiophile-grade digital music in a handheld device. PonoMusic is based in San Francisco, with offices in Santa Monica and New York. Prior to PonoMusic, John was a strategic advisor to leaders of all types of organizations worldwide — he has a diverse background as an operating executive, a start-up CEO, a venture investor, a leadership coach, and an advisor/board member. He has served on the boards of IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco), Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD), SiliconStor (acquired by LSI Logic), Documentum (acquired by EMC), Truveo (acquired by AOL), and many others. John was named a Top 100 Venture Capitalist in the USA by AlwaysON.com. From March 2010 to November 2011, John served as CEO of Accept Software in Santa Clara, California, which was acquired by Versata. Previously, John was a managing director and partner at VSP Capital in San Francisco, a technology venture capital firm. Prior to that, he was a partner at TCG Advisors. John was also a venture partner at Redpoint Ventures, where he evaluated venture investment opportunities and provided leadership coaching to portfolio technology CEOs. He has also held senior operating roles at Whistle Communications (acquired by IBM), Adaptec, Western Digital, and Hewlett-Packard, both in the United States and Europe. John serves on the faculty at The Leavy School of Business at Santa Clara University, teaching an MBA class in business leadership. In addition to his current book release, Unusually Excellent (Wiley, Josey-Bass, 2011), John has been published in The Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Business 2.0, Business Week, Fortune, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. John’s timeless article, “The Five Messages Leaders Must Manage,” was the lead feature in the May 2006 issue of The Harvard Business Review. He also wrote “Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Scale,” which appeared in the Review in December 2002 and is used in over 20 MBA programs worldwide. John holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Purdue University (engineering physics/acoustics and engineering management).

ALICE RAY Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Chief Executive Officer, Ripple Effects UNITED STATES Alice Ray is a social entrepreneur who has worked for three decades to help schools address nonacademic factors in school success. In 1982, Alice brought the Talking about Touching curriculum to market as the first executive director of Committee for Children (CfC), and in 1986 conceived and supervised development of Second Step, a violence-prevention curriculum now used in more than 26,000 schools. In the process of bringing Second Step to market, she nearly grew CfC bankrupt, leading to her foundation-sponsored entrance in business school. Alice received an executive MBA from the University of Washington in 1987. For most of the next decade, she provided consulting to nonprofits on making good works and good business. Since 1997, when she co-founded Ripple Effects, Alice has focused on the use of technology to provide personalized skill building, problem solving, and personal guidance to students whose behavior puts them at risk of school failure and to teachers who need further development of their own social-emotional competencies and their ability to manage diverse learners. Ripple Effects software is listed on the National Registry of Evidence Proven Practices (NREPP) as a children’s mental health and substance abuse intervention, with documented positive impact on resiliency assets and academic achievement.

130 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org Alice is the recipient of numerous awards for social leadership on child safety, entrepreneurial success as a woman business owner, and creative excellence — including eight Emmys, a dozen national film and video awards, and more than two dozen software awards from the education, health, and communications industries. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. CHAD TROUTWINE Henry Crown Fellowship Program Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Veritas Prep UNITED STATES Chad is the founder of three successful companies and a decorated film producer. He is co-founder and CEO of Veritas Prep, the largest GMAT preparation and graduate school admissions consulting company in the world, which employs more than 500 people in 22 countries. Chad also co-founded Freakonomics Media, a digital partnership with author Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt. In addition, Chad co-founded and owns Spectrum Station, the largest early learning education center in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Spectrum Station provides early education for hundreds of children from infancy through private kindergarten and pioneered a fresh foods initiative. Over the past decade, Chad has also produced ten feature films, each of which earned a theatrical release and premiered at one of the world’s preeminent film festivals: Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, or Cannes. His films have earned two Emmy and three Academy Award nominations. He currently serves on the boards of directors at Veritas Prep, Freakonomics Media, Spectrum Station, the Fishing River Community Improvement District, the Yale School of Management Alumni Association, and the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership. Chad earned a BA from Arizona State University, a JD from the University of Missouri, an MBA from the Yale University School of Management, and an MPA from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he served on the admissions committee. Chad is a 2013 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR WALTER ISAACSON President and Chief Executive Officer, The Aspen Institute Trustee of the Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. Isaacson’s upcoming book, The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (October 2014) is a biographical tale of the people who invented the computer, Internet and the other great innovations of our time and will be a must-read from Wall Street to Silicon Valley to Main Street. He is the author of Steve Jobs (2011), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of new media before becoming the magazine’s 14th editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003. He is chair emeritus of Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities. He was appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States, a position he held until 2012. He is vice-chair of Partners for a New Beginning, a public-private group tasked with forging ties between the United States and the Muslim world. He is on the board of United Airlines, Tulane University, and the Overseers of Harvard University. From 2005-2007, after Hurricane Katrina, he was the vice-chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 131 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE China: Mao’s Revolution at 65 AUGUST 1 DOERR-HOSIER CENTER: KAUFMAN ROOM

Chairman Mao was indisputably one of the most impactful figures of the 20th Century. Modern-day China, with its extraordinary growth, would look little like it does were it not for him. Revolutionary. Visionary. But then there was the dark side of his rule... What’s the proper legacy of this controversial leader? How does his revolution look 65 years later? Did the ends justify his means? Can anything be learned from Mao’s leadership? What might that be? And to whom might those lessons be relevant?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS ERIC LI Henry Crown Fellowship Program Managing Director, Chengwei Capital CHINA Eric Li founded Chengwei Capital in 1999. With an investment portfolio of over $500 million, Chengwei primarily invests in industrial companies that have scalable business opportunities in the global Chinese economy. Eric’s effort to transform Chinese enterprises — by bringing modern management and leadership combined with the requisite capital to help them grow, modernize, and create in an era of the “new China” — has become the subject of a best-selling book by David Sheff called China Dawn: Culture and Conflict in China’s Business Revolution. Prior to starting Chengwei, Eric was a partner of Orchid Asia Holdings, a private equity investment firm, and made significant investments in various industries in China and the rest of the Asia Pacific region. From 1989 to 1993, he worked for Perot Systems Corporation in Texas, and he also worked in investment banking with JP Morgan. Eric serves on the board of directors of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai and is vice chairman of CEIBS Publishing Group, its publishing arm. He also serves on the board of CEIBS Ghana, the school’s branch in Africa. Eric is a director of Chunqiu Institute in Shanghai and a trustee of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive of the University of California, Berkeley. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, Huffington Post, and the Global Times. Eric received his BA from University of California, Berkeley and his MB.A from Stanford Business School. He is a 2008 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

ANGELA WANG China Fellowship Program Senior Vice President and Board Secretary, Neusoft Corporation CHINA Dr. Angela Wang is senior vice president and board secretary of Neusoft Corporation, the leading IT solution and service provider in China. She is in charge of corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, international business development, and corporate branding and marketing. Having started as a software engineer at Neusoft, Angela has accumulated extensive experience in a wide variety of fields such as technology, business development, and corporate management in the past 16 years. She was promoted to vice president of Neusoft Corporation in 2009 and senior vice president in 2011. In 2007, she was appointed general manager of the International Business Development Division, dedicated to international business development to build alliances and partnerships as well as to explore overseas markets, especially in North America and Europe. Since 2000, she has successively served as deputy general manager of Neusoft Middleware Technologies, director of Mobile Internet Division, and deputy director of Advanced Automotive Electronic Technology Research Center. Angela studied at Northeastern University in China and received her PhD in computer application. Angela is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the China Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

132 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org LI YUAN China Fellowship Program Editor in Chief, The Wall Street Journal China CHINA Li Yuan is editor in chief of cn.wsj.com, the Chinese online edition of The Wall Street Journal. She joined the Journal in New York in 2004, working as a reporter covering the US telecom industry, then as a columnist with WSJ.com. She moved back to Beijing to head the Chinese WSJ website in 2008. Before joining the Journal, Li was a reporter with Xinhua News Agency, covering events in Thailand, Laos, and Afghanistan and an international news editor with Xinhua in Beijing. A native of Ningxia, China, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s in international policy and practice from George Washington University. Li is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the China Fellowship Program of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR TOM PRITZKER Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Pritzker Organization UNITED STATES Thomas J. Pritzker is chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization, a family merchant bank. He is also executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) and chairman of the Marmon Group, Inc., a manufacturing conglomerate. Tom is on the board of directors of Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD (NYSE: RCL) and Triton Containers, the world’s largest container-leasing company. Outside of business, he is a trustee of the Pritzker Foundation, chairman of the board of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a member of the boards of trustees of the University of Chicago and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has also organized the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium, a collaborative research effort into the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. Tom is also an honorary professor of history at Sichuan University in China. He holds a BA from Claremont Men’s College and MBA and JD degrees from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 133 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Diversity: Good Optics or Smart Investment? AUGUST 1 THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER DOME

It’s hard to find a company or organization without a diversity committee. Yet statistics are not encouraging, whether looking at diversity in the boardroom or upper management. Why is this? What biases are at play? Is diversity a matter of good public relations or is it a strategic advantage? What advantages have you seen in building diverse boards and management teams? How good are you at pushing for greater diversity in the companies and organizations you lead?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS CINDY KENT Henry Crown Fellowship Program President and General Manager, Drug Delivery Systems, 3M Corporation UNITED STATES Cindy Kent is a health care veteran with 20-plus years in the industry. She is currently the president and general manager for the drug delivery systems division of 3M’s $30 billion diversified technology company known worldwide for its innovation. Cindy is a member of the company’s executive leadership conference and sits on the health care business group’s senior leadership team. Prior to joining 3M in October 2013, Cindy was the vice president and general manager of the gastro/urology therapies business unit and chaired the Global Women’s Leadership Network for Medtronic. She is a 2007 German Marshall Fellow. Cindy sits on the Metropolitan Economic Development Association’s (MEDA) Board of Directors and until recently was the fund development chair. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, The Links, and the Executive Leadership Council. Cindy holds an MBA in marketing as well as a master of divinity, both from Vanderbilt University. In addition, Cindy has a BS in industrial engineering from Northwestern University and is an ordained minister. She is a 2013 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MICHELLE KYDD LEE Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Innovation Officer, Creative Artists Agency UNITED STATES Michelle Kydd Lee is the chief innovation officer for Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the world’s leading entertainment and sports agency, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Nashville, and Beijing. In this role, she provides strategic leadership that builds upon the agency’s renowned culture of collaboration, excellence, and client service and crafts state-of-the-art approaches to empower, develop, and inspire employees across the company. This includes creating growth opportunities for CAA’s people and culture, inside and outside the agency. Until this year, Michelle directed the CAA Foundation since helping to found it in 1995. The CAA Foundation uses the resources of the entertainment and sports community to create positive social change. In addition to having led the Foundation, Michelle personally serves as a consultant to clients, executives, and corporations on their philanthropic and pro-social initiatives. She has served on numerous charitable organization boards and currently sits on the board for Communities In Schools of Los Angeles, as well as the advisory boards for the MIT Media Lab, FEED and IDEO.org. She is 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a moderator for and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

134 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org CARMITA VAUGHAN Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Founder, The Surge Institute UNITED STATES Carmita Vaughan is in the early stages of launching a novel leadership institute for emerging leaders of color in education reform. She plans to strengthen the pipeline of diverse talent and ensure a next wave of leaders that represent the populations that education reform and equity efforts seek to serve. She’s a proud product of Birmingham, Alabama – a city that has greatly shaped who she is, what she values, and what she believes her life’s work is destined to be. Carmita most recently served as CEO of CURE: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy. Prior to joining CURE, her nonprofit leadership was engaged in addressing the needs of the country’s most underserved young people and providing pathways to excellence through education and holistic supports. She served as chief strategy officer for America’s Promise Alliance, a youth development organization founded by General Colin Powell and currently led by Alma J. Powell. Previously, she served as the chief of staff of the Chicago Public Schools Office of High Schools under the leadership of US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Prior to transitioning into the nonprofit sector, Carmita served in global marketing, strategic planning, and engineering/operations management roles in several Fortune 500 companies, including Procter & Gamble and Danaher Corporation. She holds a master’s in business administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. She was selected as a 2013 Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund. Carmita was also previously recognized as a 2009 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and is a graduate of the Broad Residency of Urban Education. She resides in Chicago. She has tremendous passion for urban education and the arts and dedicates significant time to both efforts. She is a member of the boards of directors for Marwen (a Chicago arts education organization), Academy for Urban School Leadership, and America’s Promise Alliance. Carmita is a Fellow of the third class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN Henry Crown Fellowship Program Deputy Editor in Chief, The Wall Street Journal UNITED STATES Rebecca Blumenstein is deputy editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, a role she assumed in January 2013. Previously, she was the page-one editor, appointed in September 2011, and a deputy managing editor and international editor since December 2009. Rebecca has also served as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal online and as the China bureau chief, overseeing China coverage for the Journal. Prior to moving to China in the summer of 2005, Rebecca served as chief of the Journal’s New York Technology Group, which covered the historic mergers and changes in technology that recast the telecommunications industry. Before that, she was the group’s deputy chief and a reporter covering AT&T Corp. and WorldCom Inc. Rebecca joined the Journal in 1995 as a reporter in the Detroit bureau, where she covered General Motors. She began her journalism career at the Tampa Tribune and then later moved to Gannett Newspapers and Newsday, where she covered breaking news and the New York State Legislature. She received a 1993 New York Newswomen’s Award for best deadline writing for her coverage of the aftermath of the Long Island Rail Road shootings. In 2003, she was part of a team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for deadline writing for coverage of WorldCom. She oversaw the China team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007. Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and social science from the University of Michigan, where she was editor in chief of the Michigan Daily. She is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 135 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Education: It Takes a Village? AUGUST 1 KOCH BUILDING: LAUDER ROOM

We want all kids to get a great education and to succeed. But teachers can’t make all this happen on their own. Parents and others in the community also have a key role to play. What is that role? How can busy parents ensure that their kids can succeed in school? How can they be advocates for their children? Who else in the community needs to be mobilized?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS BEN AUSTIN Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Chief Executive Officer, Parent Revolution UNITED STATES Ben has served as the executive director of Parent Revolution since its founding in April 2008. In his role at Parent Revolution, Ben invented, implemented, and scaled California’s historic parent-trigger law. He has dedicated much of his career to fighting for a California where every child can get a great public education. Prior to founding Parent Revolution, from 2006 to 2008, he helped run the successful campaign to transform Locke High School from the most violent and lowest-performing high school in Los Angeles into a college preparatory model of reform today. Ben has also served as a deputy mayor of Los Angeles under Mayor Richard Riordan from 2000 to 2001, where he helped craft the mayor’s education reform policy; as well as senior advisor to Rob Reiner and First 5 California from 2002 to 2006, where he invented and launched LAUP (Los Angeles Universal Preschool), a $600 million first-of-its-kind high quality preschool program serving over 10,000 low-income children every year. Ben was also appointed to the California State Board of Education in 2010. Ben worked on five different Democratic presidential campaigns from 1992 to 2008 and served as the communications director for the 2000 Democratic National Convention host committee. Ben served in the Clinton White House in a variety of roles, advising the president and first lady on politics as well as traveling with them to over a dozen countries around the world. He was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village and Venice Beach, California. He graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in 1991 and graduated cum laude and on law review from Georgetown Law School in 1998. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Tracy, and their two daughters, Fiona and Eloise, who attend their neighborhood public school. Ben is a Fellow of the tenth class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

SAUL GONZALEZ General Manager, Paramount Academy College and Career Prep UNITED STATES Saul Gonzalez currently serves as the chief executive director of the Paramount Academy College and Career Prep in the City of Delano, located in the Central Valley of California. Saul was born to migrant farm worker parents who modeled and instilled an appreciation for and the value of faith, family, education, and hard work. He has been in the educational field for over 20 years, 12 of which have been in senior leadership positions where his cultural background and educational experiences have been instrumental in meeting the needs of Central Valley students. During his seven years as principal at Cesar E. Chavez High School, the school earned a number of state and national academic accolades and awards, such as the prestigious California Distinguished School and National Title I Distinguished School awards. Saul has a passion for education and seeks to inspire creative ideas and build a vibrant culture of high expectations, innovation, and success. He lives in Bakersfield, California with the love of his life, his wife Linda, and their three children.

BILL JACKSON Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Founder and Chief Executive Officer, GreatSchools UNITED STATES Bill Jackson is the founder and CEO of GreatSchools, a leading United States nonprofit working at the intersection of parenting and education. The organization’s flagship www.GreatSchools.org website reaches one-third of American parents with content and tools that help them choose schools and bolster their children’s PK-12 education. The GreatSchools College Bound program helps low-income parents build

136 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org the knowledge and skills they need to raise college-ready high school graduates. College Bound partners include KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program), the Miami-Dade Public Schools, and Univision. The organization also operates local programs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC. Previously, Bill spent five years managing engineering development and directing marketing for two computer networking firms, including Whistle Communications, which was later sold to IBM. He graduated from the Coro Foundation Fellows program in San Francisco, where he worked with then-superintendent Ramon Cortines. Bill spent three years teaching, two in China and one in the United States. He has been a member of the California P-16 Council and has served as a director of the San Francisco Education Fund and as treasurer for two San Francisco school financing measures. He also serves on the boards of the Yale-China Association and the Mandarin Institute. He received his BS in mechanical engineering from Yale University. Bill is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

JON SCHNUR Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Executive Chairman, America Achieves UNITED STATES Jon Schnur is executive chairman of America Achieves, which he helped found and where he helps shape the organization’s overall strategy and work. Jon co-founded New Leaders for New Schools – a national nonprofit organization ensuring high academic achievement for every student by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead at scale – and served as its CEO from 2000 until 2011. He also advises philanthropists seeking to improve education, including Michael Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Jon served as a senior advisor to President Obama’s presidential transition team and to US Secretary Arne Duncan. He has also served as President Clinton’s White House associate director for educational policy, senior policy advisor on education to former vice president Gore, and special assistant to then US secretary of education Dick Riley. Jon is currently serving on the visiting committee to the Harvard Graduate School of Education and on the Aspen Institute’s jury for their Prize for Community College Excellence. He is a board member of New Leaders as well as of Be the Change and its Opportunity Nation initiative to increase economic mobility in America. Jon is also an active member of the Parent-Teacher Association at the Edgemont School in Montclair, New Jersey. Jon and his wife Elisa have three young children. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR DIANE ROBINSON Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship President and Chief Executive Operator, Great Schools CT UNITED STATES Diane Robinson is currently starting a new statewide education organization in Connecticut to increase the number of high-quality seats for students in low-income communities. Most recently, she worked as a Senior Director at Teach For All coaching entrepreneurs around the world to build public and private sector support to launch national movements to end educational inequity. Prior to that, Diane was the national director of recruitment and selection for the KIPP Foundation. In that role, she helped to grow the KIPP network from just over 60 schools to almost 100 schools. Before joining KIPP, Diane worked for almost a decade in regional and national leadership roles on the Teach For America staff to help build and expand the organization across the country. During her tenure with Teach For America, she fundraised close to $10 million from public and private sectors, managed the Los Angeles region for five years, the Hawaii region for one year and started the Connecticut, Hawaii, and Memphis regions. Robinson began her career in education as a teacher through the Teach For America program in Los Angeles. She has a BA in political science from Vassar College, an MA in multicultural education from California State University at Dominguez Hills and a Doctor of Education Leadership from Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 137 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Filling Big Shoes… Following a Founder AUGUST 1 BOETTCHER BUILDING: HARRIS ROOM

Succeeding the founder of an organization can be daunting. How do you define yourself as the new leader of a team that’s used to someone else? When is it more important to put your personal brand on the organization than to keep the company’s direction intact? What are the keys to success — or the surest routes to failure?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS HUSSEIN HACHEM Middle East Leadership Initiative Chief Executive Officer, Aramex International UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Hussein Hachem is the global CEO of Aramex, having replaced founder Fadi Ghandour at the end of 2012. He was previously CEO in the Middle East and Africa for Aramex, one of the leading global providers of total transportation solutions, currently listed on the Dubai Financial Market. At Aramex, he has been CEO for the GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE), vice president for Oman and the UAE, and general manager in Kuwait and Sri Lanka. He began his career with Aramex in 1991 as a management trainee. He is an active member of the company’s global management team and offers a wide knowledge of the logistics and transportation industry and in-depth understanding of current and future markets trends. Hussein also sits on several boards related to the logistics and transportation industry. He holds a BA from the American University of Beirut and has completed an executive development and management program from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Fellow of the second class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MEREDITH SIEGFRIED Henry Crown Fellowship Program Chief Executive Officer, NORDAM Group, Inc. UNITED STATES As CEO of The NORDAM Group, Inc. (the largest privately held FAA-approved repair station in the world for composite, aircraft structures), Meredith Siegfried is responsible for strategic planning, as well as sales, marketing, manufacturing, and repair operations worldwide. At NORDAM since 1999, Meredith has held several domestic and international operating positions, which have utilized her extensive background in financial consulting and strategic planning. She has served as vice president of NORDAM International, vice president of global sales and North American operations, and most recently as COO of NORDAM’s Repair Group, which is comprised of facilities on three continents. Meredith joined the company from Arthur Andersen’s global corporate finance division, where she served as a senior consultant on corporate recovery services, mergers and acquisitions, seller services, and financial advisory. In addition to her leadership role at NORDAM, she serves as chairman of the board of trustees for the Tulsa Airport Authority. She is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and serves on the boards of Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated and World Travel Services, LLC. She has been involved with Habitat for Humanity, United Way, and participated as a delegate for the governor of Oklahoma’s delegation to China in 2004. Meredith is a graduate of Notre Dame with a business administration degree in finance and holds a master of business administration from the University of Chicago. She is a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

138 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org PRESTON SMITH Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship President and Chief Executive Officer, Rocketship Education UNITED STATES Preston Smith is president and CEO of Rocketship Education. Formerly, he served as Rocketship Education’s chief achievement officer. Before co-founding Rocketship, he was the principal of L.U.C.H.A. Elementary School, a small school within the Alum Rock Unified School District in San Jose, California. He founded L.U.C.H.A in collaboration with neighborhood families in 2004 to provide parents with an excellent school focused on high academic achievement and parental involvement. In 2007, after three years of operation, L.U.C.H.A. received an API score of 881 and was the highest-ranked elementary school in the district and county of Santa Clara. Before founding L.U.C.H.A, Preston taught first grade for three years at Clyde Arbuckle Elementary School, the first two as a member of Teach for America. In 2003, Preston was named Teacher of the Year at Arbuckle and was also nominated as one of six finalists for TFA’s Sue Lehmann award, given to TFA corps members with the highest classroom academic gains in the nation. Preston graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the third class the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR BILL MAYER Trustee of the Aspen Institute Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners UNITED STATES In 1999, William E. Mayer formed Park Avenue Equity Partners, a private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies. From the fall of 1992 until December 1996, Bill was a professor and dean of the College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland. During his tenure at the University of Maryland, he organized and led an effort that significantly improved the school’s programs and made it one of the top 25-ranked business schools in the country. From 1991 to 1992, he served as a professor and dean of the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester. Bill worked for The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse), a major investment bank, for 23 years. During his career at First Boston, he held numerous management positions including president and CEO. Bill is currently a board member of the following public companies: DynaVox, BlackRock Kelso, and Lee Enterprises and is a trustee of the Columbia Group of Mutual Funds. Over the past 40 years, he has been a board member of numerous other public and private companies. Bill was chairman of the Aspen Institute from 2000 to 2008 and is currently on its executive committee and chairman of the Henry Crown Fellowship Board of Directors. He is also past chairman of the board of the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a board member of Miller Buckfire, the Acumen Fund, and the Atlantic Council. He is also a member of the board of governors at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the US–Vietnam Dialogue Group, and vice chairman of the Middle East Investment Initiative. Bill was a First Lieutenant in the US Air Force. He holds a BS and an MBA from the University of Maryland.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 139 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Financial Reform: Overreaction or Underestimation AUGUST 1 BOETTCHER BUILDING: DINGMAN ROOM

Following the economic meltdown of 2008, much has been said and written both for and against tightening regulation of the financial services sector. Some support greater scrutiny and control; others insist that too many rules will limit growth and innovation. What do you believe? How essential is an unfettered financial sector to economic growth? Is the financial system self-correcting? Should capital be expected to have a conscience? Can capital be more inclusive? Should this be an aspiration — or a requirement?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS FAN BAO China Fellowship Program Chairman and CEO, China Renaissance CHINA Fan Bao is the chairman and CEO of China Renaissance, a leading independent investment bank based in China. Fan founded China Renaissance in 2004 to advise fast-growing Chinese entrepreneurs on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions strategy. Today, China Renaissance has grown to become the largest privately held investment bank in China and its clients include most of the leading technology, health care, and consumer companies in China, such as Tencent, Baidu and 360buy. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Fan worked four years at AsiaInfo, a leading Chinese software company, as its chief strategy officer. Fan spent his formative years on Wall Street with Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. A native of Shanghai, Fan is among a rare group of Chinese that have studied in Scandinavia, though skiing still doesn’t come naturally for him. On the other hand, Fan is an avid practitioner of all sorts of auto sports and mixed martial arts and a self-admitted adrenaline junkie. Fan is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the China Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. GISELA ALVAREZ DE PORRAS Central America Leadership Initiative Managing Partner, Arias & Muñoz PANAMA Gisela Alvarez de Porras is a managing partner with Arias & Muñoz, Panama. She has just finished launching Albacrome, a large commercial printing company, in Panama. She is the former minister of commerce and industry in Panama. In government, she has been director general of Panama’s Internal Revenue Service and vice minister of finance. She has represented Panama before the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations and has been the head negotiator of the International Treaties to Avoid Double Taxation. She specialized in tax and estate planning as a partner in the firm of Patton, Moreno & Asvat and was managing director of Assets Trust & Corporate Services. From 2004 to 2005, she was a member of the Presidential Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering, representing the private sector. She studied at the London School of Economics (LLM) and has a postgraduate degree from Stetson University in real estate and a master of science from the Swiss Business School (SBS). She completed her MBA in 2009. Gisela is certified as a trust and estate practitioner by The Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (London) and is founding partner of the Panama branch. She is president of Vital Voices Panama and a member of the Panamanian Association of Executives, where she was a member of the board. She is a member of the board of directors of the Panamanian Stock Exchange and Special Olympics. She is a Fellow of the third class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

140 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org CHRISTOPHER VARELAS Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Riverwood Capital UNITED STATES Christopher Varelas is a founding partner and chief investment officer of Riverwood Capital. Riverwood makes private equity investments in high-growth global technology and technology- enabled businesses. Prior to establishing Riverwood, Christopher was the global head of technology, media, and telecom investment banking at Citigroup Global Markets as well as head of Citi’s National Investment Bank. During his 20-year Wall Street career, he was one of the top-rated TMT bankers responsible for many of the largest transactions in the sector, as evidenced by his leadership on landmark transactions such as Compaq/ HP, Lucent Fiber, PeopleSoft/Oracle, IBM/PWC, and Flextronics/Solectron. Christopher was a senior member of Citi Investment Bank’s Operating Committee and head of Citi’s Culture Management Board. He was named to the list of the top 100 dealmakers by The New York Times and was named top technology Rainmaker by DealMakers magazine. Christopher earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he serves on the board of trustees. Christopher is a moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. MODERATOR RANJI NAGASWAMI Henry Crown Fellowship Program Former Chief Investment Advisor to Mayor Bloomberg UNITED STATES A 27-year investment industry veteran, Ranji Nagaswami is working to champion sound investment policy and public pension governance reform in the United States. She is a seminar moderator for the Aspen Institute and is launching the Finance Fellows Program within the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Ranji is a visiting executive fellow at Yale School of Management, working with MBA students on a research project related to the pension and investment industry. She most recently worked at Bridgewater Associates, the $130 billion-plus global macro-hedge fund and risk-parity strategy pioneer. From 2010 through 2012, she served as chief investment advisor to the administration of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for the City’s $150 billion-plus employee retirement systems. Prior to joining the public sector, Ranji held executive and portfolio management positions at two world-class asset management firms, AllianceBernstein LP and UBS Asset Management. During her tenure, she served as chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager within the firms’ fixed-income, value equity, global mutual fund (retail client), and multi-asset (asset allocation) portfolio units. Ranji is currently a member of the $60 billion UAW VEBA Medical Benefits Trust Investment Advisory Council and the CFA Institute’s Asset Manager Code of Conduct Advisory Committee. She was previously a member of the Yale University Investments Committee, the Yale School of Management Advisory Board, a trustee of Greenwich Academy, trustee and chair of the Investment Committee of the Wallace Foundation, and on the North American Council of Ashoka, a global fellowship of social entrepreneurs. Ranji earned a bachelor of commerce degree from Bombay University in India and her MBA from the Yale School of Management and is a chartered financial analyst. She is a 2005 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 141 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Free Speech Under Siege: Survival Strategies AUGUST 1 KOCH BUILDING: STRANAHAN ROOM

Many consider unfettered freedom of expression essential to maintaining an open society and to keeping both government and the business sector in check. And yet, Fellows in media around the world find themselves under siege from those who attempt to suppress news, discussion, and scrutiny. How important is a free press? An unrestricted Internet? Are there times when the press or a website should legitimately be limited in what can be disseminated? How should journalists and social media sites respond to pressure to self-censor? What, if anything, can you do to protect free speech?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS YAN MEI Senior Partner, Brunswick Group CHINA After a distinguished career serving major international media companies for more than 20 years, Yan Mei joined Brunswick Group in 2013. As senior partner, she oversees Brunswick’s China business and acts as a counselor to senior executives. Yan joined Brunswick from Viacom International Media Networks, where she was managing director of MTV Networks Greater China and chief representative of Viacom Asia. Previously, Yan held a series of senior positions at Turner International Asia Pacific, News Corp., and its STAR Group. Yan advises major global corporations with a particular focus on public affairs, government engagement, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reputation management, and crisis and issues management. She provides counsel to senior management of foreign companies as they position their organizations in China and leaders of Chinese companies going global. Yan worked as a journalist for ITN and CNN for more than a decade, winning three Emmy Awards in that time. Today, she is a regular speaker at preeminent events, most recently at the Horasis Global China Business Meeting. She is a vice chair of the board of The Golden Bridges Foundation and a member of the 2005 Committee, the China Women’s Club, and the Western Returned Scholars Association. Born in Beijing, Yan holds two master’s degrees in international relations and political science from Columbia University, USA and a master in advanced Russian-area studies from Hunter College at the City University of New York.

DELE OLOJEDE Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, Timbuktu Media SOUTH AFRICA Dele Olojede is publisher and CEO of NEXT, NextOnSunday, and 234NEXT.com, which provide news and informed opinion primarily for a Nigerian audience to further the common good. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former foreign editor at New York Newsday, he is chairman of the Global Network Initiative International Advisory Council and a member of the governing board of The Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa. In 2010, the Global Forum for Ethics in Business honored him as an exemplar of ethical business leadership, and Fast Company named him the same year as one of the 100 Most Creative People. A frequent public speaker on the good society, Dele earlier in his journalism career reported from more than 50 countries, as bureau chief for New York Newsday in Johannesburg, in Beijing, and at the United Nations. He was educated at the University of Lagos and Columbia University in New York, though all he ever needed to know he learned at Modakeke High. He persists at golf despite very little hope of ever getting very good at it. Dele is a Fellow of the second class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa, a moderator for and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and the 2011 winner of the John P. McNulty Prize.

142 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU India Leadership Initiative Editor, Vijay Karnataka (Times of India Group) INDIA Sugata Srinivasaraju is an award-winning journalist, writer, and translator. He is currently the editor in chief of Vijay Karnataka, the largest-selling newspaper in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The Kannada-language newspaper, which is wholly owned by the Times of India Group, has a daily readership of four million. Sugata, who was in English-language newsrooms across India for close to two decades, crossed over to a regional language publication a couple of years ago. He was earlier senior associate editor (South India) with Outlook, India’s premier newsmagazine, and news editor with the Hindustan Times. He has also worked for the Deccan Herald on the features desk and as an associate professor with the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, besides contributing to the Irish Times in Dublin. For excellence in print journalism, Sugata was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship in 2000. Sugata is essentially a student of English and comparative literatures. He has a postgraduate degree in English literature from the Central University of Hyderabad and was a research scholar in comparative literature at the same university. Sugata has published five books; the latest one is titled Pickles from Home: The Worlds of a Bilingual. He won the translation prize of the Karnataka Academy of Letters in 2005 for his book Phoenix and Four Other Mime Plays. Sugata lives in Bangalore with his wife and son. He is a Fellow of second class of India Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR JOANNA REES Henry Crown Fellowship Program Managing Director, Soda Rock Partners UNITED STATES Joanna Rees is a managing director at Soda Rock Partners LLC, supporting entrepreneurs to build leading high-growth companies and organizations. She is also leading the formation and capital raise for Endeavor Catalyst, an impact investment fund supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Joanna was a candidate for mayor of San Francisco in November 2011. Previously, she founded VSP Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. Joanna has served on the boards of more than 25 venture-backed companies across a broad range of industries. She also served on the boards of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the Coppola Companies (Francis Ford Coppola), and as chairman of the USA for Madrid-based FON. She is an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University, where she teaches leadership in the Leavey School of Business. Joanna was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and an Entrepreneur of the Year by NAWBO. She serves on the board of New Schools Venture Fund and on the global board of Endeavor. She earned her MBA from Columbia University (beta gamma sigma) and a BS from Duke University. She is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 143 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Keeping Kids Out of the Bubble AUGUST 1 PAEPCKE BUILDING: PAEPCKE LIBRARY

Sometimes it feels like giving your children the best means insulating them from the problems of the world. How do you keep your kids grounded? What are you doing to develop a future generation of adults that will be both resilient and sensitive to others?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS SCOTT COCHRAN Liberty Fellowship Dean, The Mungo Center, Wofford College UNITED STATES Scott Cochran is dean of the Mungo Center at Wofford College where he directs programs in leadership, career-passion discovery, consulting, and entrepreneurship. Previously, Scott was vice president of marketing, technology, and credit card services for UPS Capital Corporation and worked with GMAC Financial Services in a variety of senior executive roles in the United States and Germany. Scott has developed several programs for students that help them discover their strengths and design career strategies that align with their passions. His expertise is in exploring the relationship between the academic preparation students receive at the undergraduate and graduate levels and the realities of the marketplace and the professions for which students are being prepared. Scott earned his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he was a GM Fellow, and his BA in economics cum laude from Wofford College. He lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He is a Fellow of the eighth class of the Liberty Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

AIMÉE EUBANKS DAVIS Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship Executive Vice President, Teach For America UNITED STATES Aimée Eubanks Davis joined Teach For America’s staff in 2002 as vice president of new site development, helping to grow the organization’s presence into Miami and Philadelphia, as well as doubling Teach For America’s presence in New York City. In 2003, Aimée moved to the regional operations team, where she managed Teach For America’s executive directors and helped ensure maximum impact in each of the organization’s 22 regions. In 2005, Aimée became the chief people officer and oversaw the organization’s growth from 200 to over 1,500 staff members. Additionally, she worked on the development of a comprehensive competency model for staff recruitment, selection, performance management, and learning and development and ensured that the human assets team is positioned to fuel the growth and success of Teach For America through being a strategic business partner to organizational leaders and teams. In 2011, Aimée took on the expanded role of executive vice president of people, community, and diversity, leading TFA’s work to uphold its commitment to diversity and to build an organization that is a model of fairness and equality. Her role expanded again, in January of 2013, and she now also oversees the public affairs and communications teams. Before joining Teach For America’s staff, Aimée was a program officer at The Breakthrough Collaborative (formerly Summerbridge National) and, prior to that position, she led the Summerbridge New Orleans site to become one of the most successful sites in The Breakthrough Collaborative. Aimée is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, was a 1995 Teach For America corps member, and taught sixth grade social studies and language arts in New Orleans. She is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

144 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org CHRISTY ORRIS Henry Crown Fellowship Program Entrepreneur, Peak to Peak Holdings UNITED STATES Christy Bieber Orris is an active investor and entrepreneur. Her newest venture is called Building Creative Kids, a building-toy company that empowers and challenges our next generation of engineers and architects. From 2001 to 2011, Christy was the CEO of the ATEK Companies, a privately owned management company that owned and ran various outsource and product-based companies. Employing over 700 people, ATEK Companies has six manufacturing facilities with revenues exceeding $140 million. Their anchor company, ATEK Medical, was purchased from Medtronic’s cardiac surgery business in 2003. Christy and her team developed ATEK Medical into one of the leading finished-device medical outsource suppliers in the world. Its customer base included Medtronic, Boston Scientific, J&J, Smith & Nephew, and other leading OEMs. They specialized in sole-source production of complex disposable and implantable medical devices. ATEK Medical and its sister company, ATEK Plastics, were sold to Vention Medical/KRG in November 2011. Before ATEK, Christy was president of Regent Aviation, worked in operations at Baxter Healthcare, and was in brand management at General Mills. She received her MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth and BS at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 2008 to 2011, Christy chaired the board of the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business and later transitioned onto the dean’s CEO Cabinet. She was awarded the Alumni Service Award at the university and frequently speaks on campus and mentors students. Christy is a previous board member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), and a member of YPO Women’s International Network and the Committee of 200. She was one of Boulder’s 40 Under 40 in 2010. After selling her companies, Christy travelled around the world for a year with her family and is now restoring a historic ranch, investing, and building a toy company. She is an avid bike racer, skier, and ex-Hawaii Ironman competitor. Christy resides in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two sons. She is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR HILDEGARD VASQUEZ Central America Leadership Initiative Co-Founder and Head Architect, Hache Uve, S.A. PANAMA Hildegard Vasquez has led the architectural office Hache Uve, which she created, since 1998, concentrating mostly on preservation and renovation of historic sites such as San Felipe, Panama´s historic district, and the city of Granada, Nicaragua. Her office has worked on major restoration projects such as the National Theater of Panama, Santo Domingo Convent, Las Clementinas Hotel, Benedetti Building (recognized with the Architectural Restoration First Prize of the Society of Panamanian Architects, November 9, 2011) and the American Trade Hotel and Hall. She is a founding member and president of Fundación Calicanto, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring and conserving the historic and human heritage of Casco Antiguo (San Felipe). Fundación Calicanto projects include the re-socialization of local gangs, educational programs for single mothers, a leadership in the arts program for kids, multi-cultural events, and many direct battles for the conservation of historical heritage. She also serves on the board of the Interoceanic Canal Museum since its inception in 1997 and was part of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Arts from 2001 to 2005. Hildegard has a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of fine arts from Rhode Island School of Design and a master of architecture in historic restoration from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She was a finalist for Avon Woman of the Year in 2011, Hero for Panama in 2011, and recognized as a Light in the Community by the Association of Women Entrepreneurs in Panama in 2011. Hildegard is a 2011 finalist for the McNulty Prize, winner of the 2013 Latin America FT/Citibank Urban Ingenuity Award, recipient of the 2014 RISD Professional Achievement Award, Fellow of the second class of the Central America Leadership Initiative, as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 145 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Leading from the Eye of the Storm AUGUST 1 KRESGE BUILDING: HINES ROOM

Leading through a crisis is exhausting, not to mention disorienting. Have you led through a storm? How did you keep your cool? Were your core values challenged? What leadership lessons did you learn? Looking back, could you have prepared in advance? Can anyone? How?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS LINUS GITAHI Africa Leadership Initiative–East Africa Chief Executive Officer, Nation Media Group KENYA Linus W. Gitahi is group CEO of Nation Media Group, the biggest media firm in East and Central Africa. It comprises both print and electronic platforms. He joined NMG after a long career as a senior executive with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in East and West Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Linus graduated with a bachelor of commerce (accounting major) from the University of Nairobi and earned a diploma in management from the Kenya Institute of Management. He also holds an MBA from the United States International University. Linus is chairman of the Federation of Kenya Employers, chairman of Sol Pajte Institute of Media at Rhodes University, chairman of Afrika Investment Bank, a board member of International Press Institute (IPI), board member of USIU, board member of the Media Council, Fellow of the Kenya Institute of Management (KIM), and a holder of the Moran of the Burning Spear from the Government of Kenya. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leadership Initiative–East Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

ANTON GUNN Liberty Fellowship Program President, 937 Strategy Group UNITED STATES Anton J. Gunn is the founder and president of the 937 Strategy Group, a national consulting firm that equips the next generation of social and political entrepreneurs in the health and human services industries. Previously, he served as a senior official in the Obama administration as the director of external affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services, where he advised President Barack Obama and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on public engagement strategies to introduce Main Street to the Affordable Care Act. Anton is also a certified John Maxwell coach, speaker, and trainer, focusing his services on those leaders in the helping professions of health care and public service. From health care executives and start-up CEOs to nonprofit leaders and elected officials, Anton helps leaders increase their influence with intentionality. Anton has a distinguished 18-year career of service in health care and human services as a chief executive, organizational development trainer, thought leader, and social and political strategist. Anton also previously served as an elected leader in the South Carolina House of Representatives, becoming the first African American in history to represent his district in 2008. He also is the former political director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in South Carolina. Anton’s years of political leadership has garnered him the recognition as one of the Top 50 Progressive Activists who are Changing America. He is the recipient of the 2014 Congressmen Clyburn and Spratt Public Service Award for health care; 2012 James E. Clyburn Health Care Leadership Award; 2012 Young Alumni of the Year, University of South Carolina; 2008 Community Change Champion Award, Center for Community Change; and the 2007 Consumer Health Advocate of the Year, Families USA. Anton earned a master of social work degree with a concentration in communities and organizations from the University of South Carolina in addition to a BA degree in history from USC. Anton is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is a Fellow of the sixth class of the Liberty Fellowship, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

146 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org MARK HOPLAMAZIAN Henry Crown Fellowship Program Trustee of the Aspen Institute President and Chief Executive Officer, Hyatt Hotels Corporation UNITED STATES Mark Hoplamazian was appointed to the board of directors in November 2006 and named president and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corporation in December 2006. Prior to being appointed to his present position, Mark served as president of The Pritzker Organization, LLC (TPO), the principal financial and investment advisor for Pritzker family business interests. During his 17-year tenure with TPO, he served as advisor to various Pritzker family-owned companies, including Hyatt Hotels Corporation and its predecessors. Mark has served on the boards of directors of a number of privately held companies and participated on behalf of Pritzker family business interests in the formation of a number of companies. He previously worked in international mergers and acquisitions at The First Boston Corporation in New York. Mark is the current chairman of the National Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise. He serves on the advisory board of Facing History and Ourselves, the council of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the board of directors of New Schools for Chicago, the executive committee of the board of directors of World Business Chicago, and the Henry Crown Fellowship Program Board of Overseers. He is a member of the World Travel and Tourism Council and the Commercial Club of Chicago. Mark graduated from Harvard College in 1985 and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1989. He is 2003 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR KITTY BOONE Vice President, Public Programs, The Aspen Institute UNITED STATES Kitty Boone is the primary executive responsible for managing the Aspen Ideas Festival, a weeklong conference that is hosted by the Institute and The Atlantic magazine each summer in Aspen. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, where she also had responsibilities for seminar programs, Kitty served as vice president of marketing and sales at Aspen Skiing Company, where she worked for 11 years. A native of San Francisco and a graduate of Stanford University, Kitty began her career in Washington, DC as an intern for a national environmental group, ultimately coming to Aspen in 1989 after stints in the public and private sectors and earning her masters in public and private management at Yale School of Management. She is the proud mom of teenage twins, sits on two boards in Aspen, and is passionate about education.

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 147 INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE Stepping Out Gracefully … Without Stepping In It AUGUST 1 MEADOWS RECEPTION CENTER: BERNHARD ROOM

Leaving a leadership position voluntarily is rarely easy. It can jeopardize your relationships with colleagues, board members, even family. Have you stepped out of a leadership role? Did you trip over hurdles during your departure? What did you learn about how to avoid them? If you’re thinking about stepping out, what might you learn from those in this session who already have?

LEAD DISCUSSANTS JEAN-CLAUDE BRIZARD Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship President, UpSpring Education Group UNITED STATES Jean-Claude Brizard is president of UpSpring Education Group, a network of highly experienced education practitioners and not-for-profit leaders who work to develop proof points in education and whose goal is to support the strategic, instructional, and operational work of school superintendents, public charter leaders, and education organizations across the United States and abroad. Jean-Claude spent the 2013 calendar year as an advisor to the leadership of College Board, developing the organization’s career readiness initiative. This engagement culminated in a strategic plan for integrating career readiness into the College Board’s mission and a special supplement that was published as part of the 45th edition of the PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes toward the Public Schools. He is the former chief executive of Chicago Public Schools. Prior to his appointment in Chicago, he was superintendent of schools for the Rochester City (NY) School District. Under Jean-Claude’s leadership, both the Chicago Public Schools and the Rochester City School District saw substantial improvements in student performance. He introduced a comprehensive change agenda across the Chicago Public Schools, including closing a significant budget gap of more than $1.3 billion over two fiscal years while preserving core reforms and investing in classrooms. He developed a new framework for teaching, and the system saw record increases in student achievement, graduation rates, and on college-readiness benchmarks. He created a blueprint for reform that will continue to serve as a roadmap for years to come. Jean-Claude’s experience also includes a 21-year career as an educator and administrator with the New York City Department of Education. He served as a regional superintendent, supervising more than 100 schools in the Borough of Brooklyn, and as the system’s executive director for secondary schools. Jean-Claude is a Fellow of the Broad Center, a Fellow of the third class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

PAUL GAFFNEY Henry Crown Fellowship Program President & Chief Executive Officer, After I Go, Inc. UNITED STATES Paul Gaffney is the president and CEO of After I Go, a seed-stage venture providing peace of mind through software for estate planning. Paul has a broad background in consumer services, retailing, and software. Most recently, he was president and CEO of the Northern California, Nevada, and Utah chapter of AAA, a 112-year old auto club that provides services to over four million members. He has held executive positions at Charles Schwab, Staples, and Office Depot, where he played a key role in bringing internet technology to consumer financial services and to traditional retailing. Paul has been an early-stage executive at two start-ups. He was the initial CEO of Website Pros, now web.com, and he was the COO of Desktone, recently acquired by VMWare. Paul was inducted into the Chief Information Officer Hall of Fame by CIO magazine. He lives in Diablo, California with his wife Kate; their two children are in college. He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

148 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org ANNMARIE HIGGINS Liberty Fellowship Former Vice President, Human Resources, BMW Group UNITED STATES Annmarie Higgins is the former vice president of corporate human resources Americas for BMW. Previously, she was vice president of HR for the manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Prior to joining BMW, she worked for Mitsubishi Polyester Film (formerly Hoechst Celanese), where she served as the company’s human resources director at their facility in Greer. She led the development of Mitsubishi Polyester Film’s Global Leadership Program as well as the creation of a new health care initiative that achieved national recognition as a result of implementing a number of innovative solutions and best practices. Annmarie has been involved in the start-up of the South Carolina Business Coalition on Health, where she currently serves as chair. She is a graduate of The Riley Institute Diversity Leaders Initiative and formerly held a number of board positions, including United Way Young Philanthropist Society, United Way Healthy Community Impact Council, Leadership Greenville, and Opportunity Greenville. Annmarie earned her bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia. She is a Fellow of the ninth class of the Liberty Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

MODERATOR TOM MCCLOSKEY Chairman, Cornerstone Holdings UNITED STATES Tom McCloskey is chairman of Cornerstone Holdings (Colorado) and of Urban Green Investments (San Francisco). He served as chairman of Horizon Organic Holdings (HCOW), the world’s largest organic dairy company, and a director of Summit Energy Corporation (Louisville, Kentucky). He is the largest shareholder in Magna Energy and Pegasus Tower Corp. Tom founded Notre Dame’s McCloskey Business Plan Competition. He was past vice president of the board of the Thacher School of Ojai, California. He currently volunteers with the Aspen Institute, and serves on the board of the Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI), as well as Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, where he has lectured on business ethics. Tom holds a BA from Notre Dame and a MBA from the Wharton School. He lives in Aspen and San Francisco with his wife, Bonnie.

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THE “LEADING IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION” SEMINAR SERIES

This seminar series explores the ways globalization is influencing our world — economically, politically, scientifically, culturally, and ethically — and more importantly how it impacts us as leaders. Fellows from Central America, the United States, China, East Africa, and South Africa will be attending the upcoming cycle of seminars. Two to three seats are available in each of the seminars below for guest participants or Fellows who did not take this seminar during their Fellowship program.

■■ December 9-14, 2014: Aspen, Colorado, USA ■■ January 8-13, 2015: Antigua, Guatemala ■■ January 20-25, 2015: Stellenbosch, South Africa (two concurrent seminars) ■■ February 3-8, 2015: Sanya, China ■■ March 1-6, 2015: Charleston, South Carolina, USA Seminar tuition is $6,650 and includes all expenses except air travel (accommodations, meals, ground transportation, materials, etc.).

CONTACT US Caitlin Colegrove, [email protected]

The Dead Sea, Jordan Aspen, Colorado

152 ASPEN ACTION FORUM www.AspenActionForum.org ALUMNI SEMINAR – SPRING 2015 “PURSUING THE GOOD LIFE” A Deeply Interpersonal inquiry into the Component Parts of the Good Life Well Lived, including:

■■ Life’s Journey: Is there a common trajectory of life. If so, what are the stages, and what is the essential task of each stage?

■■ Work and Wealth Creation: How much wealth is needed to live a good life? Is good work necessary for identity and self-esteem?

■■ Family and Friends: What role do mentors and friends play in life? How do family and love contribute to the pursuit of happiness?

■■ Self & Community: How do we discover the authentic self and how can we prepare ourselves to live bravely in the face of adversity? What role does physical fitness play in the good life?

■■ Nature, Art and Creativity: How do we exercise creativity? How do nature and our environment impact feelings and thoughts?

■■ Legacy: The Meaning of life: What can we pass on to the next generation? Why do we resist doing what will make us happy? In order to be happy what should we do that we’re not doing now?

CONTACT US Tom Loper, [email protected]

MODERATED BY Keith Berwick and Heather Sonn

Antigua, Guatemala Stellenbosch, South Africa

#MyAspenAction July 29 - August 1, 2014 153 CUSTOM SEMINARS

The Aspen Global Leadership Network is pleased to announce a new offering for alumni leading large organizations: The Aspen Leadership Experience Custom Seminars.

These seminars are co-designed with you to bring the magic of your Fellowship experience into your company. Think of it as two parts Aspen inspiration combined with one part company specific work. It is an opportunity for you to have a professionally designed and delivered seminar to bring your senior leadership team together in a safe space to address the challenges they face in leading your organization more effectively.

We have been piloting this offering for the past few years with several companies to great effect and are now pleased to announce our ability to offer it to our alumni around the world.

CONTACT US Stace Lindsay, [email protected] Dancey Glover, [email protected]

VISA employees at a custom seminar in Aspen, Colorado

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