Dr. Kerry Healey
Dr. Kerry Murphy Healey is the Executive Chair of the Forward Party, a national grassroots movement to coalesce and empower independent voters. She also currently co-chairs the Council for Responsible Social Media (CRSM) with former House Leader Dick Gephardt. She is a Lecturer at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, teaching […]
Laura V. Flórez
As Communications Intern, Laura supports Concordia’s team through promoting the organization’s mission, vision, principles, and daily activity through different internal and external communication channels. Born and raised in Colombia, her propensity towards solving socially-relevant issues has led her to be actively involved in ColombiaCrece, an educative foundation in her country, where she participated as teacher, […]
Ria Papadopoulos
Ria joined Concordia in January 2018 as a Strategic Partnerships Intern. In 2014, she worked as an Adviser at the Permanent Mission of Greece to the UN, New York, in charge of the Second Committee of the General Assembly. Her field of interest and research is in corporate social responsibility and international development cooperation. Ria […]
Funlola Otukoya
Funlola is an investment professional with interests that lie at the intersection of technological innovation, climate change and emerging markets. Funlola currently serves as Investment Analyst at the McKnight Foundation where he helps steward the foundation’s $3 billion endowment and $500+ million impact investing portfolio. Funlola also serves as Africa Advisor at Concordia where he […]
Nicole Riggs
Nicole founded Make It Happen to create transformational social change. After a lifetime of working to support a variety of social issues, she is now utilizing her creative talents to engage individuals, policy makers and funders in building effective solutions. Her background in project management and event production allows for multi-dimensional approaches to start the […]
Karen Newman
KAREN NEWMAN has served as a Consultant for the United Nations in various capacities for more than 10 years, working on building partnerships and visibility for the Sustainable Development Goals, most recently as part of UN DOCO to launch the new Joint SDG Fund for the 2030 Agenda and prior to this within UNDP for […]
Jorge Gomez
Jorge Gomez, M.D., Ph.D. is the University of Arizona Health Sciences Assistant Vice President for Translational Research in Special Populations, Associate Director of the Center for Elimination of Border Health Disparities, and the Assistant Director for Cancer Outreach at the UA Cancer Center. He is an Assistant Professor in the Community, Environment and Policy Department at […]
John Danielson
John M. Danielson is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Education Management Corporation. He is an accomplished, internationally-respected executive in the public and private education sector. Early in his 25-year career, Mr. Danielson came to believe that the private sector, along with the public sector, has an important role to play in the creation […]
Joshua Walker
Joshua W. Walker, Ph.D. is President & CEO of Japan Society, the nation’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to fostering deep, meaningful connection and exchange between the United States and Japan. From his base in New York City, Walker oversees a wide array of programs in arts and culture, business, policy, technology, and education to promote greater […]
Daniel Hoffman
Daniel Hoffman had a distinguished career with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was a three-time station chief and a senior executive Clandestine Services officer. Hoffman also led large-scale HUMINT (human intelligence gathering) and technical programs and his assignments included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and war zones in the Middle […]
Prof. George Gyan-Baffour
Professor George Gyan-Baffour is 65 years old, and is currently a Member of Parliament (MP) for Wenchi. From July 2002 to December 2004 he was the Director General of The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) where he oversaw the preparation of the first Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (2003-2005) Paper. He introduced the first Monitoring and […]