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Civil Society Communities As of 12 January 2015 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015 List of Participants from the Civil Society communities As of 12 January 2015 Davos-Klosters, Switzerland 21-24 January Inger Andersen Director-General International Union for Conservation Switzerland of Nature (IUCN) Mohamed Ashmawey Chief Executive Officer Islamic Relief Worldwide United Kingdom Peter Bakker President and Chief Executive World Business Council for Switzerland Officer Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Abdallah bin Bayyah President Forum for Promoting Peace in United Arab Muslim Societies Emirates Seth F. Berkley Chief Executive Officer GAVI Alliance Switzerland Jeanne Bourgault President Internews USA Kathryn Brown Chief Executive Officer The Internet Society (ISOC) Switzerland Sharan Burrow General Secretary International Trade Union Belgium Confederation (ITUC) Winnie Byanyima Executive Director Oxfam International United Kingdom Nigel Chapman Chief Executive Officer Plan International United Kingdom Stephen Cotton General Secretary International Transport Workers' United Kingdom Federation Aron Cramer President and Chief Executive Business for Social Responsibility USA Officer (BSR) Steve Davis President and Chief Executive PATH USA Officer Bani Dugal Principal Representative Bahá'í International Community USA Michael J. Elliott President and Chief Executive ONE USA Officer John Evans General Secretary Trade Union Advisory Committee to France the OECD Brian A. Gallagher President and Chief Executive United Way Worldwide USA Officer Helene D. Gayle President and Chief Executive CARE USA USA Officer Hartmut Richard Executive Secretary Brazilian Internet Steering Brazil Glaser Committee Blair Glencorse Founder and Executive Director The Accountability Lab USA Pinchas Goldschmidt Chief Rabbi and President Conference of European Rabbis Russian Federation Jean-Marie President and Chief Executive International Crisis Group (ICG) Belgium Guéhenno Officer Gary A. Haugen President and Chief Executive International Justice Mission (IJM) USA Officer Reiner Hoffman President Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Germany (DGB) Karl Hofmann President and Chief Executive Population Services International USA Officer (PSI) Ahmad Iravani President and Executive Director Center for the Study of Islam and USA the Middle East, (CSIME) Philip J. Jennings General Secretary UNI Global Union Switzerland Neal Keny-Guyer Chief Executive Officer Mercy Corps USA Fred Krupp President Environmental Defense Fund USA World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Marco Lambertini Director-General WWF International Switzerland Fred van Leeuwen General Secretary Education International Belgium Laura Liswood Secretary-General Council of Women World Leaders USA Thabo Cecil Makgoba Archbishop and Metropolitan of the South Africa Anglican Church of Southern Africa Diarmuid Martin Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland Jamie McAuliffe President and Chief Executive Education For Employment (EFE) USA Officer Oliver McTernan Co-Founder and Director Forward Thinking United Kingdom Michael Meehan Chief Executive Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Netherlands Frances O'Grady General Secretary Trades Union Congress (TUC) United Kingdom Ricken Patel Executive Director Avaaz.org USA Estrella Penunia Secretary-General Asian Farmers' Association for Philippines Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) Toby Porter Chief Executive Officer HelpAge International United Kingdom Jyrki Raina General Secretary IndustriAll Global Union Switzerland Ben Rattray Founder and Chief Executive Officer Change.org USA Jonathan Reckford Chief Executive Officer Habitat for Humanity International USA (HFH) Matthieu Ricard President and Co-Founder Karuna-Shechen France David Rosen Rabbi and International Director, American Jewish Committee (AJC) Israel Interreligious Affairs Kenneth Roth Executive Director Human Rights Watch USA Sean C. Rush President and Chief Executive JA Worldwide USA Officer Bernadette Ségol General Secretary European Trade Union Belgium Confederation (ETUC) Chris Seiple President Institute for Global Engagement USA Salil Shetty Secretary-General Amnesty International United Kingdom Dhananjayan Secretary-General Civicus: World Alliance for Citizen South Africa Sriskandarajah Participation Andrew Steer President and Chief Executive World Resources Institute USA Officer Cobus de Swardt Managing Director Transparency International Germany Elhadj As Sy Secretary-General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Geneva Mark Tercek President and Chief Executive The Nature Conservancy USA Officer Karl-Petter President The Swedish Trade Union Sweden Thorwaldsson Confederation Richard L. Trumka President American Federation of Labor and USA Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Olav Fykse Tveit General Secretary World Council of Churches (WCC) Switzerland Karen Tse Chief Executive Officer International Bridges to Justice Switzerland Tim Unwin Secretary-General Commonwealth United Kingdom Telecommunications Organisation Mark Viso President and Chief Executive Pact USA Officer Jim Wallis President and Founder Sojourners USA Stewart Wallis Executive Director New Economics Foundation United Kingdom Jasmine Whitbread Chief Executive Officer Save the Children International United Kingdom Lauren Woodman Chief Executive Officer NetHope Inc. USA Albert Emilio Yuson General Secretary Building and Wood Workers' Switzerland International (BWI) Hamza Yusuf Hanson Co-Founder and President Zaytuna College USA World Economic Forum Annual Meeting .
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