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Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace
Reasons for Hope
Sunday, September 25, 2005, 7:45 PM
Jane Goodall began her landmark study of chimpanzees in Tanzania in June 1960, under the mentorship of anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey. Her work at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve would become the foundation of future primatological research and redefine the relationship between humans and animals. In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. The Institute also is widely recognized for establishing innovative, community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa, and the Roots & Shoots education program that has 6,000 groups in more than 87 countries. Dr. Goodall travels an average 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems it has imposed on the earth. She continually urges her audiences to recognize their personal responsibility and ability to effect change through consumer action, lifestyle change and activism. Dr. Goodall's scores of honors include the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal, Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2003, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence. In April 2002 Secretary-General Annan named Dr. Goodall a United Nations "Messenger of Peace." In 2004, at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, Prince Charles invested Dr. Goodall as a Dame of the British Empire, the female equivalent of knighthood. Her list of publications includes the best-selling autobiography Reason for Hope and many children's books. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior is the culmination of Jane Goodall's scientific career and the definitive scientific work on chimpanzees.
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Gar Alperovitz PhD, Professor of Political Economics, University of Maryland; author, "America Beyond Capitalism"
The Radical Challenge of the New Era: New Political Economic Strategies for the 21st Century
Monday, September 26, 2005, 8:30 AM
Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland. He has been a Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University, the Institute of Politics at Harvard, the Institute for Policy Studies, and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is "America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy" (John Wiley & Sons, November 2004.) Both a political economist and a historian, Prefessor Alperovitz lectures widely and has testified before numerous Congressional Committees. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic, and other popular and academic publications. He has been profiled by The New York Times, The Associated Press, People Magazine, UPI, and Mother Jones. He has appeared on numerous network television news programs including (among many others): "Meet the Press," "Larry King Live," "The Charlie Rose Show," "Cross-Fire," and "The O'Reilly Factor." Professor Alperovitz received his PhD in Political Economy as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, a Masters degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin. He has served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and a Special Assistant concerned with United Nations issues in the Department of State. He is recognized as the architect of the first modern steel industry attempt at worker-ownership (at Youngstown, Ohio), and was a Council of Economic Advisers' nominee of national consumer, labor, and environmental organizations. He is a founding Principal of The Democracy Collaborative, an institution sponsored by leading universities and citizens organizations located on the campus of the University of Maryland.
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Maria Otero, President and CEO, ACCION International
International Microfinance: Investing for a Changing World
Monday, September 26, 2005, 9:15 AM
Maria Otero is President & CEO of ACCION International. ACCION is a leading global microfinance institution that seeks to open the financial systems in developing countries to reach the poor. ACCION provides technical assistance, equity investment and financial services to 27 of the most advanced microfinance institutions in the world, which ACCION helped start and/or grow. Together, these microfinance institutions reach 1.5 million borrowers with a portfolio of over $950 million. Ms. Otero chairs the board of ACCION Investments, a US$20 million investment company for microfinance. Ms. Otero joined ACCION in 1986 as director of its lending program in Honduras. She became president of the organization in 2000. A leading voice on sustainable microfinance, she is co-editor of The New World of Microfinance, published by Kumarian Press. Ms. Otero serves as a director of three regulated microfinance institutions in Latin America: Mibanco in Peru, BancoSol in Bolivia and Compartamos in Mexico. She also serves as the chair of the MicroFinance Network, a global association of 30 leading microfinance institutions, and is coordinator of the Council of Microfinance Equity Funds. Ms. Otero is a director of the Calvert Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace. She chaired the board of Bread for the World from 1992-1997. In 1994, President Clinton appointed Ms. Otero to serve as chair of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, a position she held until January 2000. Since 1997, Ms. Otero has been an adjunct professor at the John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In 2000, she received Hispanic Magazine's "Latina Excellence Award." She has an MA in Literature from the University of Maryland and an MA in International/Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS. She was born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia, and resides in Washington, DC with her husband and three children.
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Marc Gunther, Senior Writer, FORTUNE Magazine; Author, "Faith and Fortune: The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Business"
Fixing Corporate America: A How-To Guide
Monday, September 26, 2005, 5:00 PM
Marc Gunther is a senior writer at FORTUNE magazine who covers the media industry and writes about the impact of business on society. He is the author of Faith and Fortune: The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Business (Crown Business, 2004). Mr. Gunther has written cover stories for FORTUNE about Rupert Murdoch, Steve Case, Time Warner and spirituality in the workplace. He has also written about corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, globalization, green investing, AIDS and environmental activism. In 2004, he wrote about General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt's efforts to reshape the values of GE. Before joining FORTUNE in 1996, Marc worked for newspapers including The Paterson (N.J.) News, The Hartford Courant, The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press. He spent five years from 1991 to 1996 as a media writer in the Knight Ridder Newspapers Washington bureau. He is the author or co-author of three previous books, including Monday Night Mayhem (William Morrow, 1988) with Bill Carter, which became a TNT cable movie starring John Turturro as Howard Cosell. Mr. Gunther has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has appeared on NBC's Nightly News and Today, ABC's Good Morning America, PBS's Newshour, CNN's Moneyline and NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation. He speaks at conferences, corporate events and colleges on values and business. A graduate of Yale, Marc lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Karen Schneider, who is director of communications for Amnesty International USA, and their two daughters.
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Randy Hayes, Sustainability Director, Oakland, CA; Founder, Rainforest Action Network
Can We Ecologize Capitalism: A 100 Year Plan
Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 8:30 AM
Randy Hayes works for Mayor Jerry Brown as Oakland, California's Sustainability Director. He is developing plans to make Oakland a national leader in solar leader with the goal of achieving 100% renewable generated electricity within 25 years. He also envisions Oakland doubling mass transit and becoming a zero waste city by 2020. Not satisfied with short-term plans, his "500 Year Forest Plan" spells out a vision of a sustainable society and how to get there. As the founder and Board President of Rainforest Action Network, Hayes is a leader in efforts to halt the destruction of rainforests and to promote the rights of indigenous peoples. He is spearheading a national campaign to replace fossil fuel use with wind and hydrogen and to reduce over-consumption of wood in the U.S. Mr. Hayes is a graduate of Bowling Green University and has a Master's degree in Environmental Planning from San Francisco State University. His masters thesis was the award-winning film The Four Corners, A National Sacrifice Area which won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award for "Best Student Documentary" in 1983. This epic film documents the tragic effects of uranium and coal mining on Hopi and Navajo Indian lands in the American Southwest. Mr. Hayes has been described in the Wall Street Journal as "an environmental pit bull." He has traveled, lectured, written and demonstrated extensively on tropical rainforests and on social activism. His positive approach shows how a worldwide network of active people can protect much of our planet's life-giving rainforest.
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Diana Propper de Callejon, General Partner, Expansion Capital Partners
Emerging Opportunities in SRI Private Equity: The Clean Technology Megatrend
Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 9:20 AM
Diana Propper de Callejon is a General Partner at Expansion Capital Partners, a venture capital firm whose Clean Technology Fund II, LP, is backed exclusively by families of wealth and Foundations. Expansion Capital invests in expansion stage, Clean Technology enterprises in energy, water, advanced materials, transportation, and manufacturing and industrial processes. Clean Technology companies offer dramatic improvements in resource efficiency and productivity, and create more economic value with less energy, materials, waste or toxicity. Prior to Expansion Capital, Ms. Propper de Callejon was a co-founder and Managing Director of EA Capital, where she worked with Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, high net-worth clients, and Foundations to identify new business and investment opportunities related to resource efficiency and productivity. Clients included the International Finance Corporation, Ted Turner, Duke Energy, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Earlier in her career, she worked at McKinsey & Co. Ms. Proper de Callejon's expertise is in private equity investments that deliver significant environmental benefits. She has written and spoken extensively on the linkages between investments and achieving environmental and social objectives. She also has a background in sustainable development in emerging markets, having worked for five years in Africa and South America, with both Save the Children and CS Enterprises. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA, summa cum laude, from Duke University. Ms. de Callejon has been a frequent conference speaker and has written extensively on the Clean Technology venture capital sector for such publications as Morgan Stanley's Investor Outlook, the Sustainable Business Investor and the LOHAS Journal. She is also one of the two editors of the recent landmark report: "Cleantech Venture Investing: Patterns & Performance," which evaluates more than 700 private equity investments and the financial returns in Clean Technology over the last fifteen years.
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David Blood, Managing Partner, Generation Investment Management, former CEO, Goldman Sachs
Why Long-Term Investors Should Integrate Sustainability Into their Investment Process
Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 5:00 PM
David Blood is the Managing Partner of Generation Investment Management. Generation is a new investment management firm integrating rigorous traditional fundamental equity analysis with cutting edge sustainability research to create a new approach to long-term investing. Mr. Blood served as the co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management from 1999 to 2003. His responsibilities included all aspects of the global business including portfolio management, sales and client service, risk management and infrastructure (approximately 1,600 people and $325 billion in assets under management). From 1985 to 1999, Mr. Bloods served in various positions at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. including Head of European Asset Management, Head of International Operations, Technology and Finance, Treasurer of the Goldman Sachs Group, L.P. and Head of Global Private Capital Markets. He was also a member of the Partnership Committee and the European Management Committee. He was the first recipient of the John L. Weinberg Award in 1990, an award given to a professional in the investment banking division who best typifies Goldman Sachs' core values. Mr. Blood earned a BAfrom Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College, New Philanthropy Capital, and SHINE. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of Greystone Investment Management and is a member of investment or advisory committees for four family offices or endowments with approximately $3 billion of assets under management.
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