Malaria No More: Who We Are

Who We Are

Board of Directors | Science and Health Advisory Board

Founding Members | Network Members

Board of Directors

Raymond G. Chambers, Founder

Biography

Mr. Chambers is a philanthropist and humanitarian who has directed most of his efforts toward at-risk youth. He is the Founding Chairman of the Points of Light Foundation and Co-Founder, with Colin Powell, of America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth. Mr. Chambers is the Co-Founder of the National Mentoring Partnership. He is the Chairman of the Millennium Promise Alliance and the MCJ and Amelior Foundations. In helping to lead the revitalization of the city of Newark, New Jersey, he was the Founding Chairman of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Mr. Chambers is a member of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. Some of his additional board memberships include Communities in Schools, Drew University, University of Notre Dame, WNET/Thirteen New York, and the American Museum of Natural History. He is the former Chairman of Wesray Capital Corporation, which he co-founded with William E. Simon.
Peter Chernin, Chairman
President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation

Biography

As President and Chief Operating Officer of one of the world's largest media companies, Peter Chernin oversees diversified global operations spanning five continents, including the production and distribution of film and television programming; television, satellite and cable broadcasting; and expansion into the digital media and Internet space. Since joining News Corp. in 1989, Mr. Chernin has gained a reputation as an executive with a unique mastery of both the creative and corporate sides of the entertainment business. Prior to becoming News Corp.'s President and COO in 1996, Mr. Chernin headed Twentieth Century Fox Filmed Entertainment and earlier, served as President of Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. He has also had oversight of Fox's tremendous growth in sports, cable and general entertainment television programming and distribution in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Chernin joined Fox from Lorimar Film Entertainment, where he was president and COO. Earlier, he was executive vice president, Programming and Marketing for Showtime/The Movie Channel Inc., vice president of development and production at the David Gerber Company, an editor for Warner Books and associate publicity director of St. Martin's Press.
John Bridgeland, Vice Chairman

Biography

John Bridgeland is also President & CEO of Civic Enterprises. He was a Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he offered a class on Presidential Decision Making. Most recently, Mr. Bridgeland served as Assistant to the President of the United States and the first Director of the USA Freedom Corps. In that role, he coordinated more than $1 billion in domestic and international service initiatives and worked with non-profits, corporations and schools to foster a culture of service in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Prior to that, Bridgeland served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House. Bridgeland graduated with honors in government from Harvard University and received his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Omar S. Amanat
Founder, Tradescape Corporation

Biography

Omar S. Amanat is a U.S. businessman and entrepreneur. Named one of Wall Street's "Top Ten Most Influential Technologists," Mr. Amanat was a pioneer in the electronic brokerage industry. He began his entrepreneurial career at Datek Online, which was sold to Ameritrade for $1.3 billion. He then co-founded CyberBlock, the predecessor of CyberTrader Inc., which was acquired by Charles Schwab in 2000 for $488 million. Most recently he was the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of Tradescape Corporation, a brokerage and technology firm that processed over 10% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume and was one of the largest U.S. electronic brokerage firms in 2002 when he sold it to E*Trade for $280 million, becoming one of E*Trade's largest shareholders.
Mr. Amanat attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business and was the recipient of the Albert P. Einstein Technology award for outstanding corporate citizenship. He sits on the boards of Harlem Youth Development Foundation, Human Rights Watch, is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was the Vice Chairman of the Acumen Fund.
Nancy Brinker
Founder, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

Biography

Ms. Brinker is founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, today recognized as a global leader in the fight against breast cancer through its support of innovative research and community-based outreach programs. Ms. Brinker also founded the Komen Foundation's signature program – the Komen Race for the Cure®, the largest series of 5K run/fitness walks in the world.
In 2001, President Bush appointed Ms. Brinker to serve as US Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary. Prior to assuming her position as Ambassador, Ms. Brinker served on the boards of Manpower, Inc. and US Oncology. In addition, Ms. Brinker served on the national advisory boards of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, Women's Health Resource Center, Women's Health Initiative, the National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship and the National Cancer Institute.
Ms. Brinker is the recipient of numerous national awards including the 2005 Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, and she was inducted into the Cancer Research and Treatment Fund, Inc. Cancer Survivors Hall of Fame.
Kathy Bushkin
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, United Nations Foundation

Biography

Kathy Bushkin is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation, created in 1998 with businessman and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic gift to support UN causes. Prior to joining the UN Foundation, Ms. Bushkin served as President of the AOL Time Warner Foundation and was the chief architect of the company's corporate responsibility initiatives. Ms. Bushkin joined America Online in 1997 as Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer. Immediately prior to joining AOL, she was a Senior Managing Director at Hill and Knowlton, a global public relations company and, for 12 years before that, was the Director of Editorial Administration for U.S. News & World Report. From 1976 through 1984, Ms. Bushkin served as Senator Gary Hart's press secretary. Ms. Bushkin currently serves on the boards of City Year, the International Women's Media Foundation, Internews, Share Our Strength, the National Women's Law Center, and the United Nations Association of the United States of America. In 1999 she and Art Bushkin founded the Stargazer Foundation, which provides free online tools for nonprofits through the web platform StargazerNET.net. Ms. Bushkin is a graduate of Purdue University and the recipient of numerous awards for leadership and philanthropy.
Jean Case
Co-Founder, Case Foundation

Biography

An actively engaged philanthropist and a pioneer in the world of interactive technologies, Jean Case's career as a technology executive in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997.
Prior to the founding of the Case Foundation, Mrs. Case's role as a senior executive at America Online, Inc. (AOL) contributed to an online revolution that changed the way millions of people learn, communicate, and do business. At AOL, Mrs. Case directed the marketing and branding effort that launched the AOL service, directed the communications strategy for taking the company public, and helped establish AOL as not just a household name, but a household utility. Mrs. Case's passion for all things digital didn't begin at AOL. Before joining AOL when it was a small startup, she held strategic marketing positions at GE's Information Services Division and at The Source, the nation's first online service.

Mrs. Case has been honored for her philanthropic work by City Year, Habitat for Humanity, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, which recognizes leaders who use their assets and resources to improve American lives and institutions. In addition, King Abdullah II of Jordan personally recognized Mrs. Case for her efforts to bridge the global digital divide.

In addition to serving as chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, she serves on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, ePals (formerly in2Books), Millennium Promise, PlayPumps, and the Potomac School in McLean, Va., as well as the advisory council of the National Geographic Society and the advisory board to the National Conference on Citizenship.
Sir Richard Feachem
Professor of Global Health
University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley

Biography

Since 1999, Richard G A Feachem has been Professor of Global Health at both the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley and the founding director of the Institute for Global Health. He is also a Visiting Professor at London University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland.
From 2002 to 2007, Sir Richard served as founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. During this time, the Global Fund became the world's largest health financing institution for developing countries, with assets of over US $10.5 billion, supporting 450 programmes in 136 countries.

From 1995 until 1999 Dr Feachem was Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Previously (1989-1995), he was Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Feachem served as Chairman of the Foundation Council of the Global Forum for Health Research; Treasurer of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; Council Member of Voluntary Service Overseas; and on numerous other boards and committees. He was a member of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, and the Commission on HIV and Governance in Africa. He has worked in international health and development for 35 years and has published extensively on public health and health policy.

Professor Feachem holds a Doctor of Science degree in Medicine from the University of London, and a PhD in Environmental Health from the University of New South Wales. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering by the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2002 he was elected to membership of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences. Sir Richard was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2007.
The Honourable Belinda Stronach
Member of Parliament, Newmarket-Aurora
Executive Vice-Chairman, Magna International Inc. and Co-Founder, Spread the Net

Biography

Belinda Stronach is a business and public leader who cares deeply about issues of quality of life both in Canada and abroad. In 2002, she was ranked #2 by Fortune Magazine in its list of the world's most powerful women in business. In 2004, TIME Magazine ranked Belinda as one of the world's 100 most influential people and in 2005 the World Economic Forum named her a member of its network of Young Global Leaders.
Belinda is Member of Parliament for Newmarket-Aurora (Ontario), representing the community where she has lived most of her life. She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2004 general election and then re-elected in the 2006 general election. In 2005 at the invitation of the Prime Minister, she joined the Cabinet and assumed responsibility for two separate and senior portfolios as Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal. She is currently the elected Chair of the Women's Caucus of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons.

Belinda is also Executive Vice-Chairman of Magna International Inc., one of the largest global suppliers of automotive systems and components in the world with 83,000 employees in 23 countries. Under her earlier corporate leadership as the former President and CEO of Magna, the company had record sales and profits in each year and its stock price nearly doubled in value.

In 2006, Belinda co-founded Spread the Net, a Canadian campaign with Rick Mercer, an award-winning satirist, playwright and television personality. Inspired by the devastating effects of malaria observed on a trip to Africa in 2005, Belinda and Rick launched Spread the Net in partnership with UNICEF Canada to raise awareness and funds to combat death from malaria.

Belinda is a Director of the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. and a Director of Millennium Promise Canada, where she is involved in supporting the work of Professor Jeffrey Sachs with Millennium Villages as a model of integrated international development. Based on her personal experience with breast cancer in spring 2007, she is also patron of the Belinda Stronach Chair in Breast Cancer Reconstructive Surgery at the Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation. The Chair provides guaranteed funding for a program to ensure that the important option of reconstructive surgery for women who have undergone mastectomies is more widely available.
Jeff Weiner
Executive Vice President, Network Division, Yahoo! Inc.

Biography

Jeff Weiner is the Executive Vice President of Yahoo's Network Division. In this role, Weiner oversees the company's consumer web products, including Yahoo.com and My Yahoo; Communication and Community products including Mail, Messenger, Groups, and Flickr; Search products including Web Search, Answers, and Marketplaces; and Media including News & Information and Entertainment. From 2000 to 2001, Weiner was the Sr. Vice President of Corporate Development at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for overseeing the development and modification of the company's strategy as well as M&A. Prior to Yahoo!, Weiner was the co-founder of Windsor Digital, a private equity firm focused on digital and media investments. From 1994 to 2000, he worked at Warner Bros. where he helped conceive the initial plan for Warner Bros. Online and played a key role in overseeing the division. Weiner holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the Board of DonorsChoose.org, a web site designed to improve public education by engaging citizens in an online marketplace where teachers describe and individuals can fund specific student projects.
Timothy Scott Case
Chair, Network for Good

Biography

Timothy "Scott" Case is a technologist, entrepreneur and inventor and was co-founder of priceline.com, the "Name Your Own Price" Internet service. As Chief Technology Officer, he was responsible for building the technology that enabled priceline.com's hyper-growth. Moving beyond technology he successfully launched several priceline.com businesses. These included Priceline for Gasoline, by far the firm's fastest growing business. At the Walker Digital Invention Laboratory, Scott helped build a portfolio of intellectual property, and is a named inventor on dozens of U.S. patents including the underlying portfolio for priceline.com. Previously, Scott co-founded Precision Training Software, a software company that developed the world's first PC-based simulated flight instructor and photo-realistic flight simulator.
In 2006, Scott joined the Malaria No More team to inspire individuals and institutions in the private sector to end deaths cause by malaria. He also serves as the Chairman of Network for Good (www.NetworkForGood.org), a national nonprofit that has distributed more than $100 million to 20,000 nonprofits. Network for Good provides online fundraising and communications services to over 5,000 nonprofit organizations. Scott continues to build social enterprises that use technology, commercial processes, and incentives to create sustainable, scalable solutions to improve people's lives.
Reginald E. Davis
Eastern Banking Group Executive, Wachovia

Biography

Reggie Davis is the Eastern Banking Group Executive for Wachovia. In this capacity he is responsible for all General Bank operations including retail and wholesale activities, such as branch delivery, commercial banking, business banking and corporate customer service excellence in the states of Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Davis has held numerous leadership positions during his twenty-two year tenure with Wachovia, including Northern Banking Group Executive; CEO for Wachovia's Atlantic region, which includes New York, New Jersey and Connecticut; and president for its Georgia West region.

He serves on the board of the American Cancer Society and chairs the Dean's Advisory Board for Business Administration and Economics for Morehouse College, his alma mater. He is the recipient of numerous leadership awards and has been named one of the "75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America."
Jeffrey Flug
CEO and Executive Director, Millennium Promise

Biography

Jeffrey Flug is the first Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc. Before joining Millennium Promise, Jeff was Managing Director and Head of North American Institutional Sales at JP Morgan's Investment Bank. Prior, Jeff served as Managing Director for Goldman Sachs & Co. in its Fixed Income Division for 12 years. He has worked successfully in the financial sector for the last 20 years and has extensive managerial and leadership experience. Jeff is leading Millennium Promise, in collaboration with its key partners, the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the UN Millennium Project, in the work to end extreme global poverty and achieve the World's Millennium Development Goals. Jeff has a B.B.A in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University. He is married to Sheryl Flug and they have three children. Jeff and his family reside in New York City.
Helene D. Gayle
President and CEO, CARE USA

Biography

Helene D. Gayle is President and CEO of CARE USA, one of the world's premier international relief and development organizations. With programs in some 70 countries, CARE helps people in poor communities expand the control they have over their own lives to advance positive, enduring social change. CARE helps millions of people recover from natural disasters and other acute emergencies, prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and gain access to healthcare, nutrition, education, economic opportunity, safe water and improved sanitation. CARE advocates for polices that defend the dignity of all people and promote the eradication of poverty. Dr. Gayle's accomplishments in public health and dedication to social service make her ideally suited to lead CARE. She is currently on the boards of the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations. She worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 20 years in a variety of positions, from staff epidemiologist to director for the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. Prior to assuming her current position, she was director of the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Gayle received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and master's in public health from John Hopkins University, and is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University.
Richard Holbrooke
President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Biography

Ambassador Holbrooke is the President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Formerly, he was the US Ambassador to the UN, where he was a member of President Clinton's cabinet. As A/S of State for Europe, he was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. He later served as President Clinton's Special Envoy to Bosnia and Kosovo and Special Envoy to Cyprus; and as US Ambassador to Germany. During the Carter Administration, he served as the A/S of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and was in charge of US relations with China. He worked on Vietnam at the Johnson White House, wrote one volume of the Pentagon Papers, and was a member of the American delegation to the Vietnam Peace Talks in Paris. He wrote two best-selling books: To End a War, a memoir of the Dayton negotiations, and Counsel to the President, Clark Clifford's memoir, which he co-authored. Ambassador Holbrooke has received several Nobel Peace Prize nominations. He is Vice Chairman of Perseus LLC, Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, and Chairman of the Asia Society.
Marguerite W. Kondracke
President and CEO, America's Promise Alliance

Biography

Marguerite (Sallee) Kondracke has served as President and CEO of America's Promise Alliance. America's Promise was founded in 1997 by General Colin L. Powell to make children and youth a national priority, mobilizing all Americans to fulfill five promises for our nation's young people: caring adults; safe places; a healthy start; an effective education; and opportunities to help others.

During her 40-year career, Mrs. Kondracke has been both an entrepreneur and a public servant, focusing on the needs of children and parents. Prior to joining America's Promise, she served as Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander as well as Staff Director for the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families. She also served in the cabinet of then Tennessee Governor Alexander as Commissioner of the Department of Human Services. Previously, Mrs. Kondracke was co-founder, CEO, and currently serves on the board of Bright Horizons Family Solutions (Nasdaq: BFAM), the nation's largest provider of employer-sponsored child care and one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For."

Mrs. Kondracke has received numerous awards and honors, including being named a Purpose Prize Fellow, awarded by Civic Ventures to those over 60 taking on society's biggest challenges. An undergraduate alumna of Duke University, she also holds a masters degree in psychology from Austin Peay State University. Mrs. Kondracke has two sons, both married, and two step-daughters. She is married to award-winning journalist Morton Kondracke; they enjoy golf, travel and hiking.
Dr. Charles F. "Charlie" MacCormack
President and CEO, Save the Children

Biography

Dr. Charles F. "Charlie" MacCormack has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Save the Children since January, 1993.
Dr. MacCormack was President of World Learning (formerly known as The Experiment in International Living), in Brattleboro, Vermont from 1977 through 1992. Prior to becoming President of World Learning, he served as an International Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Assistant to the Dean of the International Fellows Program at Columbia University and lecturer at the University of New Hampshire.
Dr. MacCormack serves as Board Chair of InterAction, and previously served on InterAction's Executive Committee. He has served on the Food Security Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was selected by the United Nations Secretary General to participate in the founding of the United Nations University, served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the World Food Summit and the United States Delegation to the Preparatory Committee for the 2001 General Assembly Special Session on the Children.
He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Education by Middlebury College, an honorary Doctor of Laws by Clark University and was made a member of the Grand Cordon of the Order of Al-Istiolal by King Hussein of Jordan.
Dr. MacCormack received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Columbia University. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. He received his B.A. from Middlebury College.
Fred Matser
Founder of Malaria No More! Netherlands

Biography

Fred Matser is an inspiring humanitarian who, like many others, cares deeply about the future of the planet. He has made it his life's work to contribute towards creating a more functional society by means of inspiration and empowerment. Towards this end he has been a (co-)initiator, (co-)creator and (co-)financer on a wide range of projects and foundations, including Peace Child, Child Alive Program for Red Cross, The Fred Foundation, Peace Flame and The Twinkling Eyes Club. The projects as well as the foundations cover the fields of healthcare, environment, conservation, peace and global transformation.
For his work, Fred Matser has received several awards including the first international Caring Award, which was later awarded to individuals such as Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall. Throughout his work, Matser has had the privilege of working in close association with inspiring individuals, such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Ruud Lubbers, Jane Goodall, Patch Adams and Jerry Jampolsky. He has also participated in various international events for global transformation including the State of the World Forum and, in September '06, the table of free voices in Berlin, an initiative of Dropping Knowledge.

Matser currently is Chairman of Malaria no More! Netherlands, in addition to his inspired work with his other projects and foundations.
Bonnie McElveen-Hunter
Chairman, American Red Cross

Biography

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter is Chairman of the American Red Cross. McElveen-Hunter is the former US Ambassador to Finland (2001-2003) and the CEO and owner of Pace Communications, Inc., the largest private custom publishing company in the United States. The company's clients include such Fortune 500 companies as United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, AT&T, Carlson Hotels, and Toyota.
As US Ambassador to Finland, Mrs. McElveen-Hunter was awarded by the President of Finland one of that country's highest honors – the Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion.
Mrs. McElveen-Hunter has served as a member of the International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity, and a board member of Habitat's First Ladies Build. She has also chaired the Alexis de Tocqueville Society, United Way of Greater Greensboro, North Carolina, and served as a board member and National Leadership Council member for the United Way of America. She is the found er of the Women's Initiative of Greensboro.
Steven C. Phillips, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Director - Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation

Biography

Dr. Steven C. Phillips is the Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation, where his responsibilities include overseeing the Corporation's "outside-the-fenceline" community and public health programs throughout its global operations. In this capacity, he has worked closely with governments, NGO's, U.N. agencies, multilateral, faith-based, and community organizations, and the private sector in fostering "public-private partnerships" as a development platform to address urgent global health priorities.
Dr. Phillips received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Stanford University. He did his post-graduate training in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco, received a Master of Public Health from UCLA, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine.
Prior to joining Exxon, Dr. Phillips served in the U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Dr. Phillips is a member of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He currently serves on the Boards of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Malaria No More, and the World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative. He is also a member of the Harvard School of Public Health's Leadership Council and the advisory panels of Medicines for Malaria Ventures and the Episcopal Relief and Development's "NetsforLife" Initiative.
Ian V. Rowe
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Public Affairs, MTV

Biography

Ian V. Rowe is the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Public Affairs for MTV: Music Television. His department oversees MTV's on-air, off-air, online and on-demand "pro-social" campaigns that engage, educate and empower young people to take action on the issues that impact their lives, their community and their world. This includes Choose or Lose, a Presidential election campaign which in 2004 helped inspire nearly 22 million 18-30-year-olds to vote. Mr. Rowe's team also launched think MTV and think.mtv.com, a new pro-social approach that aims to inform and empower young people on domestic and global issues such as education, the environment, and the fight against extreme poverty, malaria and HIV/AIDS. Prior to MTV, Mr. Rowe was the White House Director of Strategy and Performance Measurement for USA Freedom Corps. He was also founder and President of Third Millennium Media, a media consulting business, and was a Senior Engagement Manager at Andersen Consulting. Mr. Rowe worked at Teach For America and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Cornell University. He is an Echoing Green Fellow and a Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Fellow.
Edward W. Scott, Jr.
Founder and Chairman, Center for Global Development

Biography

Ed Scott is a founder of the Center for Global Development, DATA and Friends of the Global Fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for International Economics. In 1995, Ed Scott founded BEA Systems, Inc, where he served both as President and Executive Vice President for World Wide Field Operations, supervising BEA's sales, marketing and service operations.
Prior to founding BEA, Mr. Scott was executive vice president in charge of worldwide sales and marketing at Pyramid Technology. Mr. Scott also was one of the founders of Sun Microsystems Federal Division, Sun Federal. Mr. Scott was an executive in the US government for 17 years, where he served under seven Attorneys General and three Secretaries of Transportation. In his last government assignment, he was an Assistant Secretary in the US Department of Transportation. He holds a B.A. and Masters degrees from Michigan State University, and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.
Timothy P. Shriver
Chairman, Special Olympics, Inc.

Biography

Timothy Shriver is the Chairman of Special Olympics, Inc. In this capacity, he serves more than 2.25 million Special Olympics athletes and their families in over 160 countries, and has helped transform Special Olympics into a movement that focuses on acceptance, inclusion and respect for individuals with intellectual disabilities in all corners of the globe. Within his nine years as Chair, he has overseen a massive expansion of the organization, extending programs to developing and war-torn countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Iraq, Macedonia, and Serbia. He has also created new initiatives to enhance the lives of millions with intellectual disabilities, such as the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® and the Special Olympics Unified Sports®. Shriver earned his B.A. from Yale University, a Master's degree in Religion and Religious Education from Catholic University, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Connecticut. He currently serves on the Board of the Education Commission of the States' Compact for Learning and Citizenship, chairs the Board of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Stamos
Partner, Sterling Stamos Capital Management, L.P.

Biography

Christopher Stamos is a Partner and the former COO of Sterling Stamos Capital Management, L.P. Currently, Mr. Stamos is the President of Sterling Stamos Corporate Philanthropy and the Sterling Stamos Global Institute. Mr. Stamos worked for the Environmental Protection Agency's Air and Toxics Division as an Environmental Protection Specialist, and, more recently, for Saatchi & Saatchi in Taiwan. Mr. Stamos spent 10 years studying and working in China, Japan, and Taiwan. Mr. Stamos earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University, where he was awarded a Stanford Golden Grant and a Newton Tatum Scholarship towards a M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University, graduating with Honors. After attaining fluency in Mandarin at the Cultural University of Beijing, Mr. Stamos received a Mombusho Scholarship towards a M.A. in East Asian International Relations from the International University of Japan, graduating valedictorian. Mr. Stamos is the Vice Chairman of Friends Without A Border, a 501(c)3 which supports the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He is also an active supporter and advocate for the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation's HIV-AIDS Initiative, Partners In Health, the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, and the Cambodian Children's Fund.
Ann Veneman
Executive Director, UNICEF

Biography

Ann Veneman is the Executive Director of UNICEF. Prior to joining UNICEF, Veneman served as the 27th Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture from 2001 to 2005. Within Veneman's tenure at UNICEF, she has worked tirelessly to advance the Millennium Development Goals by supporting child health and nutrition, quality basic education for all boys and girls, access to clean water and sanitation, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation and AIDS. Under her leadership, major, new partnerships have been launched, including the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; and the global "Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS" campaign. Veneman currently chairs the United Nations' Standing Committee on Nutrition and the board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. She is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions including the 2001 Outstanding Woman in International Trade Award, and, most recently, the Richard E. Lyng Award for Public Service (2005) and Sesame Workshop's Leadership Award for Children (2006). Veneman holds a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Davis, a M.A. in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Senator Harris Wofford
Former CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service

Biography

Harris Wofford has been a central figure in the nation's public service movement, serving as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1995 and, more recently, as CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. An early supporter of the civil rights movement, Wofford was an unofficial advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. and held the posts of special assistant to President John F. Kennedy and chairman of the Sub-Cabinet Group on Civil Rights. While in the White House, Wofford helped form the Peace Corps in 1961. After serving as special representative to Africa and director of operations in Ethiopia, Wofford was named associate director of the Peace Corps, a position he held from 1962 to 1966. Senator Wofford is also author of Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties (1980) and co-writer, with his late wife Clare, of India Afire, a report on India's first year of independence and recommendation to the civil rights movement to adopt Gandhi's strategy of non-violent direct action. The former president of Bryn Mawr College and State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, Wofford is chairman of America's Promise and serves on the boards of Youth Service America and the Points of Light Foundation.

Science and Health Advisory Board

Dr. Ogobara Doumbo
Director, Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Mali

Biography

Dr. Ogobara Doumbo is the Director of the Malaria Research and Training Center and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases at the University of Mali. From 1996 to 2001, he directed the Mali-Tulane Tropical Medical Research Center Program under a NIH grant; since 1994, he has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Tulane School of Public Health. An accomplished researcher and clinician, Dr. Doumbo has acted as primary investigator for numerous malarial drug trials, and worked on the WHO-sponsored Multilateral Initiative on Malaria/Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (MIM/TDR) task force on malaria research in Africa. Dr. Doumbo is the recipient of numerous scientific and teaching accolades, including the CIWARA PRICE in Biomedical Research, the Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mali, the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur Francaise, and, most recently, the Research Award on Malaria in Africa at the 6ème Forum International in Bamako. Dr. Doumbo received his MD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Mali and his PhD from the University of Montpellier, France in Parisitology. He has also received certificates in Epidemiology and Bioethics from Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities.
Dr. Brian Greenwood
Director, Gates Malaria Partnership, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Biography

After attending the University of Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School Brian Greenwood qualified in medicine in 1962. Following house-officer appointments in London, he spent three years in Western Nigeria at University College Hospital, Ibadan as a medical registrar and research fellow. This period in Nigeria was followed by three years in the U.K. training in clinical immunology. In 1970, he returned to Nigeria to help establish a new medical school at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he developed his research interests in malaria and meningococcal disease whilst continuing to teach and practice clinical medicine.
In 1980, Dr. Greenwood moved to the U.K. Medical Research Council Laboratories in The Gambia which he directed for the next 15 years. In The Gambia, he helped to establish a multi-disciplinary research program which focused on some of the most important infectious diseases prevalent in The Gambia and neighboring countries; these diseases include malaria, pneumonia, measles, meningitis, hepatitis and HIV2.
In 1996, Dr. Greenwood was appointed to the staff of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he is now Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine and Director of the Gates Malaria Partnership which supports a program of research and capacity development in many countries in Africa directed at improving treatment and prevention of malaria.
Dr. Louis Miller
Malaria Research Scientist, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

Biography

Dr. Miller is the lead Malaria Research Scientist at the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Miller has focused his scientific life on malaria research and its control and treatment. He has made important discoveries about the factors malaria parasites use to infect and survive in humans and mosquitoes, researched how genetic engineering could be used to neutralize mosquitoes that act as carriers of malaria, and led a program to develop vaccines against the malarial parasite.
A graduate of Haverford College, Columbia University and the medical school at Washington University, Dr. Miller began working on malaria in 1965. In 1971, he joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to head the malaria section of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases.
Dr. Miller is a recipient of many awards and honors, including the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research; election to the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine; the Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize; and the Humanitarian award of Haverford College.
Dr. Laurence Slutsker
Chief, Malaria Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Biography

Laurence Slutsker, MD, MPH, is currently Chief of the Malaria Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has an appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Slutsker received his B.S. from the University of Michigan and his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, he also holds a Masters degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Slutsker is board certified in both internal medicine and preventive medicine. In 1987, Dr. Slutsker joined CDC. He has conducted and supervised epidemiologic research in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Sudan, South Africa, Japan and the United States on a variety of topics including malaria, HIV/AIDS, diarrheal diseases and general tropical public health. He has lectured widely in the U.S. and abroad on his research and on general public health issues. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 scientific journal articles, book chapters, and other publications. His current work is focused on prevention and treatment of malaria in infants and pregnant women, anti-malarial drug resistance, interactions between HIV and malaria, and evaluations of malaria control programs.