BROOKINGS BLUM ROUNDTABLE THE TANGLED WEB: THE POVERTY‐ INSECURITY NEXUS
The Brookings Institution Aspen, Colorado August 2‐4, 2006
Participant List
Co‐Chairs Madeleine K. Albright Richard C. Blum 64th Secretary of State; Chairman and President Principal Blum Capital Partners, LP The Albright Group, LLC
Lael Brainard Robert A. Annibale Vice President and Director Global Director Global Economy and Development Program Citigroup Microfinance Group The Brookings Institution Rye Barcott Strobe Talbott Founder and President President Carolina for Kibera, Inc. The Brookings Institution Carol Bellamy Honorary Co‐Chairs President and CEO Walter Isaacson World Learning President and CEO The Aspen Institute Mary K. Bush President Mary Robinson Bush International LLC; Executive Director Chairman Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of Initiative People around the Globe Commission
Participants Derek Chollet Ehaab Abdou Non‐Resident Fellow President The Brookings Institution; Nahdet El Mahrousa NGO & Federation of Fellow Egyptian Youth NGOs Center for Strategic and International Studies
1 David Croft Colin Kahl Director Assistant Professor of Political Science Ethical Sourcing and Sustainability University of Minnesota Cadbury Schweppes Nancy Lindborg Kenneth W. Dam President Senior Fellow Mercy Corps The Brookings Institution Johannes F. Linn Kemal Dervis Executive Director Administrator Wolfensohn Center United Nations Development Programme The Brookings Institution
Dianne Feinstein Jane Holl Lute Senator Assistant Secretary‐General United States Senate Peacekeeping Operations United Nations Andrew Fiddaman Director Richard Lyons Youth Business International Professor and Executive Associate Dean International Business Leaders Forum Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley Al Gore 45th Vice President of the United States Ketumile Masire Former President of Botswana John Hewko Vice President of Operations Sylvia Mathews Millennium Challenge Corporation President Global Development Program Mohamed Ibrahim The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Chairman Celtel International Edward Miguel Associate Professor Steen Jorgensen Department of Economics Director University of California, Berkeley Sustainable Development Network World Bank Robert Mosbacher, Jr. President and CEO John William Kachamila Overseas Private Investment Corporation Former Minister Office of the Former President of Marc B. Nathanson Mozambique Chairman Mapleton Investments, LLC Lewis B. Kaden Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer Citigroup 2 Jane Nelson Smita Singh Senior Fellow and Director Special Advisor for Global Affairs Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative The William and Flora Hewlett Kennedy School of Government Foundation Harvard University Marc Sommers A. Richard Newton Associate Research Professor Dean Humanitarian Studies College of Engineering The Fletcher School University of California, Berkeley Tufts University
Anthony Nyong George Soros Associate Professor and Director Founder and Chairman Centre for Environmental Resources and Open Society Institute Hazards Research University of Jos, Nigeria James Steinberg Dean Raymond C. Offenheiser Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public President Affairs Oxfam America University of Texas at Austin
Carlos Pascual Michael Stewart Vice President and Director Director of External Relations Foreign Policy Studies McKinsey & Company The Brookings Institution Erica Stone Alan Patricof President Founder and Managing Director American Himalayan Foundation Greycroft, LLC Bhekh B. Thapa Susan E. Rice Chairman Senior Fellow Institute for Integrated Development The Brookings Institution Studies
Robert I. Rotberg Henrik Urdal Director Research Fellow Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Centre for the Study of Civil War Resolution The International Peace Research Kennedy School of Government Institute, Oslo Harvard University; President Jennifer Windsor The World Peace Foundation Executive Director Freedom House Khalid Sheikh Senior Vice President and Chief Economist ABN AMRO Bank NV
3 James D. Wolfensohn Brooke Shearer Chairman Senior Advisor Citigroup International Advisory Board; Global Health Strategies Former President World Bank Rapporteur Vinca LaFleur Philip D. Zelikow President Counselor Vinca LaFleur Communications United States Department of State
Special Guests Peggy Clark Managing Director Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
Melissa S. Dann Executive Director Wallace Global Fund
Jamieson Davies Special Assistant to the President Catholic Relief Services
Hemanta Mishra Executive Director Newpeak Foundation; Senior Advisor American Himalayan Foundation
Thomas O’Gara Founder Kroll‐O’Gara Company
Peter A. Reiling Executive Vice President for Leadership and Policy Programs The Aspen Institute
Susan Sechler Director United States Trade & Development Program The German Marshall Fund
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