Mobile for Good Summit Speaker Biographies

Vittorio Colao Vodafone Group Plc, Chief Executive

Vittorio Colao, aged 51, holds a Business Degree cum Laude from Bocconi University and an MBA with Honours from Harvard Business School.

He spent the early part of his career working for Morgan Stanley in London, for Mondadori, the Italian publisher, and for McKinsey in Italy. He was a Partner with McKinsey until 1996, working in the media, telecommunications and industrial goods sectors and was also responsible for heading the Finance practice and consultant recruitment.

Vittorio joined Omnitel Pronto Italia (now Vodafone Italy) as Chief Operating Officer in 1996. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 1999, and Regional CEO, Southern Europe for Vodafone Group Plc. in 2001, following the acquisition of the business. He became a member of the Board of Directors of Vodafone Group Plc. in 2002 and was subsequently appointed Regional CEO for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2003.

In 2004, he left Vodafone to become Chief Executive Officer of RCS MediaGroup, the leading Italian publishing company. He returned to Vodafone Group Plc in 2006 as Chief Executive Officer, Europe and Deputy Group CEO, and as a member of the Board of Directors. Vittorio was then appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Group Plc in July 2008.

Vittorio has been a non-executive Director and member of the Remuneration Committee of RAS Insurance, then listed on the Milan stock Exchange (now merged with Allianz SE), and was previously a non-executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of Finmeccanica, the Italian listed defence and aerospace conglomerate. During his tenure at RCS, he was also a member of the Board and the Executive Committee of the European Oncology Institute in Milan.

Currently, he is a member of the Board of Fondazione CAF in Milan (a charity active with children under legal protection) and is also a member of the International Advisory Board of Bocconi University.

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Nick Land Chairman, Vodafone Foundation

Nick retired as Executive Chairman of Ernst & Young LLP and Managing Partner of Ernst & Young’s Northern Europe, India, Middle East and Africa Region in 2006 after 36 years with the firm.

He holds positions on a number of boards including as non- executive director and chairman of the audit and risk committees of Vodafone Group plc, Alliance Boots GmbH, BBA Aviation plc and Ashmore Group plc. Nick is Chairman of the board of trustees of both the Vodafone Group Foundation and Farnham Castle and is a member of the National Gallery’s Finance and Audit Committees.

Professor Sir Andrew Likierman Dean, London Business School

Professor Sir Andrew Likierman is Dean of London Business School. He is also non-executive Chairman of the National Audit Office and a non-executive Director of Barclays Bank Plc.

Andrew was Founding Director of the Executive MBA programme and has been a Professor at the School for many years, lecturing on all the major executive and degree programmes.

His career has spanned work in the public and private sectors with experience that includes working as Head of the Government Accountancy Service and as Managing Director of the UK Treasury. He has held many non-executive posts including MORI, the Bank of England and is a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Kamalini Ramdas Professor of Management Science and Operations, London Business School

An internationally regarded teacher and researcher, Kamalini Ramdas is The Deloitte Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School.

Professor Ramdas’ research focuses on creating value through service innovation and operational innovation. She has published widely in the leading business journals and has a forthcoming article on innovation in service delivery in the Harvard Business Review. Her research has received several awards and grants

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including from the US Economic and Social Research Council; Buchanan Fund; Sloan Foundation; and Marketing Science Institute.

Professor Ramdas teaches on the Executive MBA and MBA programmes at London Business School and on a number of its leading executive education programmes. In 2010 and 2011, she was joint organiser of conferences at London Business School on innovation in healthcare delivery, and innovation in operations.

Professor Ramdas received a BSc in Mathematics from St Stephen's College, Delhi; an MSc in Operations Research, from the University of Delaware; and a PhD in Operations Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rajesh Chandy Professor of Marketing at London Business School

Rajesh Chandy holds the Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship and is a Professor of Marketing at London Business School.

Professor Chandy’s agenda-setting research focuses on innovation, technology management, emerging markets, and marketing strategy. Fortune magazine described his findings on innovation as "an unorthodox and bracing set of management principles". He was a member of the US Secretary of Commerce Advisory Committee on Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy, serves on the brain trust of the Global Innovation Forum, and was a member of the American Marketing Association’s Academic Council and its Knowledge Development Coalition.

He has provided advisory and executive education services to Toshiba, St. Jude Medical, 3M, Philips, Commonwealth Microfinance Limited, American Medical Systems, Hutchinson Technology, Microsoft, Mundipharma, Rexam, Wrigley, GfK, Futuredontics, Novo Nordisk, Deutsche Telekom, Bertelsmann, and Telenor, among others. At London Business School, he teaches MBA electives on Managing and Marketing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets, and is faculty director of the executive program on Market Driving Strategies.

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Professor Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Professor Ian Goldin is the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford and the school is the leading centre of interdisciplinary research on key global challenges.

Until 2006 Ian was Vice President of the World Bank and the Bank’s Director of Policy. From 1996 to 2001 Ian was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and adviser to President Nelson Mandela. Previously Goldin was Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, and Program Director at the OECD Development Centre in Paris.

Born in South Africa, Goldin has a BA (Hons) and a BSc from the University of Cape Town, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a MA and Doctorate from the University of Oxford.

He has published 16 books, the most recent of which are "Globalisation for Development: Meeting New Challenges" (Oxford University Press, 2012) and his widely acclaimed "Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future" (Princeton University Press, 2011). Goldin has made wide ranging contributions to development, for which he has been knighted by the French Government and nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He is a Trustee of Comic Relief, the Overseas Development Institute and other institutions.

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John Micklethwait Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

John Micklethwait is Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. After studying history at Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a banker at Chase Manhattan between 1985 and 1987 before joining The Economist as a finance correspondent in 1987. His previous roles at The Economist included being the newspaper's business editor and United States editor. The Economist now has a weekly print circulation of around 1.5 million worldwide, with 100,000 digital subscribers.

John has appeared on radio and television around the world and co- authored with Adrian Wooldridge, also an Economist journalist, five books: "The Witch Doctors", "A Future Perfect", "The Company", "The Right Nation" and "God is Back". He was named Editors' Editor by the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2010. He is a trustee of the British Museum.

Robert Madelin Director-General for DG CONNECT: Communications Networks, Content and Technology

Robert Madelin is the Director-General responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe. Robert was educated in England at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has also studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris.

Born in 1957, a British civil servant since 1979, Robert has served in the Commission since 1993: in his current post since 2010; as Director General for Health and Consumer Policies from 2004 to

2010; on trade and investment policy before that.

Dr Mike Lynch Founder of Autonomy

Dr Mike Lynch, OBE, FREng has long been regarded as a visionary figure within the technology world, described by the Financial Times as “the doyen of European software” and by the Sunday Times as “Britain’s Bill Gates”. He advises the Prime Minister on matters of science policy through the Council on Science and Technology. Dr Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996, the UK’s largest and fastest-growing software company, with a market capitalisation of $11bn, and was its CEO for fifteen years. Dr Lynch has founded or

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advised numerous companies ranging from Neurodynamics to Blinkx.

Dr Lynch is a non-executive director of the BBC, the British Library, and Cambridge Enterprise. He is a council member of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Foundation for Science and Technology, of which he is also a trustee. He is a member of the advisory board of Tech City’s Investment Committee. He is an advisor to the Prince’s Trust technology group and a founding investor of Bridges Venturing, which is a sustainable growth investment firm.

In September 2012 he was inducted into the Digital Hall of Fame, alongside Tim Berners-Lee, Warren East and Stephen Fry. In 2011 he received the Outstanding Contribution award in the UKIT Industry awards and was named Most Influential Person in UK IT by Computer Weekly. Dr Lynch is married and has two daughters.

Dr. Chris Elias President of the Global Development Program

Dr. Chris Elias, President of the Global Development Program, leads the foundation’s efforts in integrated and innovative delivery, finding creative new ways to ensure solutions and products get into the hands of people in developing countries who need them most. Focusing on areas with the potential for high-impact, sustainable solutions that can reach hundreds of millions of people, Dr. Elias oversees Global Development’s portfolio in Agriculture Development; Family Planning; Financial Services for the Poor; Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health; Polio; Vaccine Delivery; and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene.

Dr. Elias’s professional background is in health and medicine, most recently having served as the president and CEO of PATH, an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors. Elias currently serves on various advisory boards, including the Nike Foundation and the Duke Global Health Institute.

Dr. Elias holds an MD from Creighton University, having completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and an MPH from the University of Washington. He was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Creighton University.

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Bruce McNamer President and CEO, Technoserve

Bruce McNamer is President and CEO of TechnoServe (www.technoserve.org), a non-profit economic development organisation that helps entrepreneurial men and women in the developing world to build businesses that provide jobs, income and economic opportunity. Before joining TechnoServe in 2004, Bruce was a senior executive/founder in technology start-ups, an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bruce was also a White House Fellow at the National Economic Council and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay. He has an AB from Harvard and a JD/MBA from Stanford. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Civil Society Leader for the World Economic Forum, and a Montana native.

Serpil Timuray CEO, Vodafone Turkey

Serpil Timuray is the CEO of Vodafone Turkey since January 2009. Timuray joined Vodafone Group’s Europe Leadership Team as of October 2010. In February 2012, she was appointed Chair of the Vodafone Group Global Brand Committee. Since September 2012, she has been nominated Board Member (non-executive Director) to Vodacom Group.

Timuray joined Vodafone from Groupe Danone, where she was the CEO of Danone Turkey during 2002-2008. She began her career in 1991 at Procter & Gamble where she was later on appointed to the Executive Committee of P&G Turkey. Timuray was honoured as “The Professional of the Year” two consecutive years in 2011 and 2010, as a “Young Global Leader” for 2009 by World Economic Forum.

Timuray is currently the Vice-Chairperson of YASED (International Investors Association), Vice-Chairperson of TIIK-DEIK (Turkish British Business Council of Foreign Economic Relations Board), Board Member of the Young Entrepreneurs Council of TOBB (Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey), member of TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen Association) and PNB (Partners for New Beginning) Turkey. She is on the Advisory Councils of Endeavor Turkey, KAGIDER (Women Entrepreneurs Association), Forum Istanbul, Contemporary Istanbul, and Bosphorus University Business & Economy Club. She served as the Vice-Chairperson of SETBIR (Dairy, Beef & Food Producers Association) during 2003-2008.

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Duncan Learmouth Senior Vice President, GlaxoSmithKline

Duncan leads GSK’s Developing Countries and Market Access operating unit. The group was formed in August 2010 and integrates GSK's pharmaceutical and vaccines business in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) into one unit.

Duncan is also a Board member of ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist HIV company established by GSK and Pfizer to deliver advances in treatment and care for people living with HIV. Duncan was previously Senior Vice President, Global Communications where he was the sponsor of GSK's strategic priority of corporate responsibility and was active in supporting the increase in GSK’s ambition and creativity to improve access to medicines for the world’s poorest patients.

Christine Rupp Booz & Company

Christine Rupp is a partner with Booz & Company and a member of the firm’s Communications, Media, and Technology practice. She is primarily serving clients in the telecommunications & technology industry in Europe, focusing on strategy development, large scale cost transformation programs as well as B2B sales topics. In addition to that, Christine is the Recruiting partner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Recently she published the global study “Empowering the Third Billion – Women and the World of Work 2012” as co-author, analyzing the compelling evidence that women can be powerful drivers of economic growth.

Cherie Blair Founder, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

Wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, leading lawyer and committed campaigner for women’s rights, Cherie set up the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in 2008 to help women build small and growing businesses in Africa, Asia and the Middle East so that they can contribute to their economies and have a stronger voice in their societies.

As well as fighting for human rights in her professional career, Cherie is an active campaigner on equality and human rights issues. In addition to founding her own charity, Cherie remains closely involved with charities with a special emphasis on women and

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children. She is a member of ICRW’s leadership council, Ambassador for the GSMA mWomen Programme, Honorary Vice President of Barnados, President of the Loomba Foundation, Ambassador for Scope, Trustee of Africa Justice Foundation and Patron of a number of charities, including Breast Cancer Care and SolarAid. Cherie is also Vice-Chair of the US Secretary of State’s International Council for Women’s Business Leadership and Honorary Chair of the World Justice Project.

Professor Dean Karlan Professor of Economics at Yale University

Dean Karlan is a Professor of Economics at Yale University. Karlan is President of Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organisation that creates and evaluates solutions to social and development problems, and works to scale-up successful ideas through implementation and dissemination to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors.

His research focuses on microeconomic issues of financial decision-making, specifically employing experimental methodologies to examine what works, what does not, and why in interventions in microfinance, health, behavioural economics and charitable giving.

Karlan received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, was named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, is an Affiliate of the M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and is a non-resident fellow of the Center for Global Development. Karlan has a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T., an M.B.A. and an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Virginia.

Lord Malloch Brown Former UN Under-Secretary General

Mark Malloch-Brown is Regional Chairman at FTI Consulting, advising corporates on the risks and opportunities associated with rapid changes in the global political economy. Formerly he was Minister of State in the Foreign Office, covering Africa and Asia, and was a member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet. He had previously served as Deputy Secretary-General and Chief of Staff of the UN under Kofi Annan. For six years he was Administrator of the UNDP, leading the UN’s development efforts around the world. Other positions have included vice-chairman of George Soros’s Investment Funds, as well as his Open Society Institute, a Vice-President at the World Bank

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and the lead international partner in a political consulting firm. He also has served as Vice-Chairman of the World Economic Forum. He began his career as a journalist on The Economist.

Mark is chair of the Royal Africa Society and on a number of non- profit boards, including the International Crisis group, the Open Society Foundation and Save the Children International. He is also on the advisory board of several Private Equity Funds investing in Africa and Asia. He is a member of the House of Lords and was knighted in 2007. He is a graduate of Universities of Cambridge and Michigan, has a number of honorary degrees and is also a Distinguished Practitioner of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.

He is the author of “The Unfinished Global Revolution” which was published in 2012 and speaks, writes and broadcasts extensively in international issues.

Sir Mark Walport Director of the Wellcome Trust

Mark Walport is Director of the Wellcome Trust, which is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds. Before joining the Trust he was Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medicine at Imperial College London.

He has been a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology since 2004. He is also a member of the India UK CEO Forum, the UK India Round Table and the advisory board of Infrastructure UK and a non-executive member of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research. He is a member of a number of international advisory bodies.

He has undertaken independent reviews for the UK Government on the use and sharing of personal information in the public and private sectors.

Mark Walport received a knighthood in the 2009 for services to medical research and was elected as Fellow of The Royal Society in 2011. He will become the Government Chief Scientific Adviser on 1 April 2013.

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Dr Seth Berkley Chief Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance

Seth Berkley joined the GAVI Alliance as CEO in August 2011, as it launched its five year strategy to immunise a quarter of a billion children in the developing world with life-saving vaccines by 2015. Prior to joining the GAVI Alliance, Seth was the founder, president and CEO for 15 years of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI ), the first vaccine product development public-private sector partnership.

Prior to founding IAVI, Seth served as associate director in the Health Sciences Division at The Rockefeller Foundation. He has also worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and for the Carter Center where he served as an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health in Uganda. He has consulted or worked in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Seth sits on a number of international steering committees and corporate and not-for-profit boards, including those of Gilead Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Acumen Fund. He has been featured on the cover of Newsweek, recognised by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” and by Wired Magazine as among “The Wired 25 – a salute to dreamers, inventors, mavericks and leaders.” Seth received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.

Priya Jaisinghani Senior Advisor to the Administrator, Director of Mobile Solutions

Priya Jaisinghani is the Director of Mobile Solutions for the U.S. Agency for International Development. In this role she leads the agency’s efforts to leverage mobile technology to dramatically enhance the agency’s development outcomes. She led the agency’s conceptualisation and realisation of Better than Cash Alliance and other multi-stakholder partnerships.

She overseas programmes across Africa, Asia and Latin America that aim to reduce the cost of mobile broadband, expand access to safe

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and reliable mobile payments platform and to use mobile technology for data collection and smarter development program design. She helped build the agency’s Feed the Future initiative to address under-nutrition and food insecurity around the world. From 2005-2009, she served as Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she helped to launch a $1billion Global Development Program.

Prior to her experience at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Priya served as Development Officer in the South Asia Program of the United Nations Foundation. She started her career at Enron as a Financial Analyst in new commodity markets. Priya received her Bachelor’s in Commerce from the University of Virginia and received her Master’s in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Michael Joseph World Bank Fellow and Director of Mobile Money, Vodafone

Michael Joseph is employed by Vodafone as Group Director of Mobile Money and is responsible for leading the growth and development of its mobile payment service, M-Pesa. Michael is also Vodafone’s Strategic Advisor appointed to the Boards of Vodacom Group South Africa, Vodacom Tanzania, Vodacom Mozambique and Safaricom Limited. He has been the first World Bank Fellow, appointed in March 2011 to advise Governments, Regulators and other institutions on mobile money and other ICT initiatives.

Previously, Michael was the CEO of Safaricom in Kenya, steering the company from a subscriber base of less than 20,000 to over 16.71 million subscribers by November 2010. This phenomenal growth was driven by the launch of many innovative products and services such as M-Pesa. He has extensive international experience in company start-ups, the implementation and operation of large wireless and wire-line networks

Ms. Sun Yafang Chairwoman of the Board Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd

Ms. Sun joined Huawei in 1989, and had served as an engineer of the Marketing & Sales Dept, Director of the Training Center, President of the Procurement Dept, General Manager of Wuhan Office, President of the Marketing & Sales Dept, Chair of the Human Resources Committee, Chair of the Business Transformation Executive Steering Committee (BT-ESC), Chair of the Strategy and Customer Standing Committee, and President of Huawei University.

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Since 1999, Ms. Sun has been the Chairwoman of the Board. Prior to joining Huawei, Ms. Sun worked as a technician at the state- owned Xinxiang Liaoyuan Radio Factory in 1982, a teacher at China

Research Institute of Radio Wave Propagation in 1983, and an engineer at Beijing Research Institute of Information Technology in 1985. Ms. Sun was born in 1955, and graduated in 1982 with a bachelor's degree from Chengdu University of Electronic Science and Technology.

Sir Andrew Witty CEO, GlaxoSmithKline

Andrew became Chief Executive Officer of GlaxoSmithKline plc on 21 May 2008. He is a member of the Board and Corporate Executive Team.

Andrew joined Glaxo in 1985 and has held a variety of Sales and Marketing roles in the UK and abroad including working in the Company’s International New Products groups, both in the Respiratory and HIV/Infectious disease fields. Outside of the UK Andrew has worked in South Africa, The USA and Singapore where he led the Group’s operations as Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific. While in Singapore Andrew was a Board Member of the Singapore Economic Development Board and the Singapore Land Authority. In 2003 he was awarded the Public Service Medal by the Government of Singapore and in August 2012 was also awarded the Public Service Star.

In 2003 Andrew was appointed President of GSK Europe, and joined GSK’s Corporate Executive Team. Andrew has served in numerous advisory roles to Governments around the world including the UK, where he is currently a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group and is the Lead Non-Executive Director for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. He was awarded a Knighthood for services to the economy and to the UK pharmaceutical industry in the 2012 New Year Honours List.

Andrew is President of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) a position he took up on 1 January 2010. Andrew has a Joint Honours BA in Economics from the University of Nottingham. With effect from January 2013 Andrew will take up the post of Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.

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Justin Forsyth Chief Executive, Save the Children

Justin started his career with Oxfam working on South Africa and Namibia during the dying days of apartheid, a cause which had been close to his heart as an activist in the anti-apartheid movement.

He was to spend 15 years at Oxfam, rising through the ranks and in 1995 going out to Washington DC to set up Oxfam International, before returning in 1999 as Policy Director.

In the early 2000s, he added campaigning and communications to his responsibilities and helped build Oxfam as a global force for change through campaigns like Make Trade Fair, Cut the Cost and Drop the Debt.

In late 2004, Justin was recruited to Number 10 by Tony Blair where he led efforts on poverty and climate change in the run up to Gleneagles and was one of the driving forces behind the Make Poverty History campaign. He then worked for PM Gordon Brown first as his adviser on international development focussing on the G20 and causes such as Burma, and then as his Strategic Communications Director, helping pioneer new strategies for engaging the public. Justin joined Save the Children as its Chief Executive in September 2010.

Rt Hon Justine Greening MP Secretary of State for International Development

The Rt Hon Justine Greening is MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields. She was appointed as Secretary of State for International Development on 4 September 2012.

Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Justine attended her local comprehensive school before studying economics at Southampton University.

She has an MBA from the London Business School and was a Finance Manager at Centrica plc before being elected as the Member of Parliament in May 2005.

Following her election Justine was appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for youth. As well as previously being a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, in 2007 Justine became a Shadow Treasury Minister

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and in January 2009 became the Shadow Minister for London.

Justine was Economic Secretary to the Treasury from May 2010 to October 2011 and most recently was the Secretary of State for Transport.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. He has authored three New York Times bestsellers in the past seven years: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011).

Professor Sachs is widely considered to be the world’s leading expert on economic development and the fight against poverty. His work on ending poverty, promoting economic growth, fighting hunger and disease, and promoting sustainable environmental practices, has taken him to more than 125 countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more than a quarter century he has advised dozens of heads of state and governments on economic strategy, in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Sachs is the recipient of many awards and honors, including membership in the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Society of Fellows, and the Fellows of the World Econometric Society. He has received more than 20 honorary degrees, and many awards and honors around the world. His syndicated newspaper column appears in more than 80 countries around the world, and he is a frequent contributor to major publications such as the Financial Times of London, the International Herald Tribune, Scientific American, and Time magazine. Sachs has twice been named among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, “probably the most important economist in the world,” and by Time Magazine “the world’s best known economist.” A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as

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among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade.

Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development and the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard.

Dame Helen Alexander Chairman, UBM Plc

Dame Helen Alexander is chairman of UBM plc, the Port of London Authority (PLA) and Incisive Media. She is also deputy chairman of esure Group Holdings, a non-executive director of Rolls-Royce Group plc, and senior adviser to Bain Capital. Dame Helen was president of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) until June 2011.

Helen is Chancellor of the University of Southampton and is currently involved with other not-for-profit organisations in media, the internet, the arts and education, as a director of the Thomson-Reuters Founders Share Company, the WorldWide Web Foundation, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Said Business School in Oxford and St Paul’s Girls’ School.

Dame Helen was Chief Executive of the Economist Group till 2008, having joined the company in 1985 and been managing director of the Economist Intelligence Unit from 1993 to 1997.

Jimmy Wales Founder, Wikipedia.org

Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for founding Wikipedia.org as well as other wiki-related organizations, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. He received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and his Masters in finance from University of Alabama.

In January 2001, Wales started Wikipedia.org, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and today Wikipedia and its sister projects are among the top-five most visited sites on the web. In 2004, Wales co-founded Wikia, Inc., a for-profit company that

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enables groups of people to share information and opinions that fall outside the scope of an encyclopedia. Wikia’s community- created wikis range from video games and movies to finance and environmental issues.

Wikia, Inc., attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month to its 10,000+ enthusiast communities. In 2007, The World Economic Forum recognized Wales as one of the “Young Global Leaders.” In 2006, he received the “Time 100 Award”, named as one of the world’s most influential people in the “Scientists & Thinkers” category. In 2011, Wales was the recipient of Switzerland's Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize for his cultural contribution to the global community and recently was awarded the Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Award.

Becky Anderson CNN International

Becky Anderson is one of CNN International's highest profile anchors. She hosts the network's flagship news & current affairs programme,'Connect the World', which airs weekdays in the prime- time EMEA line-up at 9pm GMT. Anderson is a skilled interviewer, adept at close questioning and has interviewed many of the world's leading politicians, decision-makers & thought-leaders. She has conducted one-on-one interviews with top world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, South African President Jacob Zuma, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Rousef Gilani and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. She is equally at home with celebrities, quizzing the world's A-listers, including Beyonce, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Lady Gaga, Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt.

Anderson is frequently deployed to report for CNN on breaking news stories. In 2011, she reported from Greece on the anti- austerity riots, Tunisia during the Arab uprisings, and she fronted CNN's coverage of the pivotal G20 meeting in Cannes. In 2011 she also hosted the network's coverage of the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks from Ground Zero in New York. In 2010, Anderson hosted CNN's coverage of the British elections. Her experience also includes anchoring coverage of the Israel-Lebanon conflict from Beirut in 2006, and in 2005, she was at the heart of the earthquake zone in Pakistan, following the devastating quake that hit South Asia.

She also played a lead role in CNN's extensive coverage of both the 7/7 attacks in London and, in 2003 she was part of CNN's

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international team in the Gulf where she played a critical role in the network's continuous coverage of the war in Iraq. Becky has extensive business journalism experience including posts with the UK's ITN, CNBC Europe and Bloomberg. She began her career in journalism as a print reporter with various business publications in Arizona, after gaining a Master of Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University in 1992. She gained her BA (Hons) in Economics at Sussex University in the UK. She was born and lives in Britain.

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