Rodrigo Arenas Echeverria
Rodrigo Arenas was born in Guatemala in 1975. He has his Bachelors degree in business administration. Additionally, he is an entrepreneur, the founder of Habitare Desarrollos, and a civic entrepreneur and activist.He is the co-founder and president of the Movimiento Civico Nacional (National Civic Movement) in Guatemala, which started in 2009. The National Civic Movement, […]
Seth Miller Gabriel
Seth W. Miller Gabriel is the first Director of the Office of Public-Private Partnerships for the District of Columbia. Prior to this appointment he was a P3 adviser and Director of Operations for the Institute for Public-Private Partnerships (IP3). Before joining the IP3 team, Seth was with the Jacobs’ National Transportation Consultancy team. As an […]
EmmyLou Harris
Emmylou Harris is a true American music icon of the highest order, wining 13 Grammys over a solo career spanning more than four decades. As a performer Ms. Harris’s earnest and captivating interpretations of traditional songs, her collaborations with an endless array of musical legends and her own innovative, highly personal original compositions have won […]
Ria Sawhney
Ria is Concordia’s first high school intern. She previously interned at Concordia during the summer and fall of 2016.Ria is completing her senior year at The Hewitt School, an all-girls private school in Manhattan. She is an avid journalist and leads various service initiatives as the head of the Student Service Board. She also founded […]
Nadya Chinoy Dabby
Nadya Chinoy Dabby is the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, overseeing over 25 grant programs that include the arts; community development; early learning; education innovation; personalized learning technology; school choice; science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education; teacher preparation and development; and teacher and principal quality. In addition, Dabby serves as a leading […]
Dr. Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of […]
Dr. Darryl S. Adams
Dr. Darryl Adams has spent 26 years as an educator with the goal of preparing students for College, Career and Citizenship. He has served as music teacher, band director, middle school assistant principal, high school assistant principal, high school principal, director of human resources, assistant superintendent of human resources and superintendent. Dr. Adams has recently […]
Corey Adwar
Corey Adwar is serving as an intern with Concordia for the summer of 2016 and is primarily responsible for assisting with the development of Concordia’s 2016 Partnership Index. Corey is currently a graduate student at New York University, where he is pursuing a Master’s of Science in Global Affairs degree with a concentration in global […]
Mae Espinosa
Mae Espinosa is an intern at Concordia, focusing on social media and coordinating Private Meetings for the 2016 Summit. She is a sophomore at Florida State University, studying Political Science, English Literature, and International Affairs. She is a part of the Presidential Scholars and Honors Legal Scholars programs at her university and intends to attend […]
Madame Monica Geingos
Monica Geingos is a qualified lawyer with extensive corporate experience. Before assuming the First Lady role in 2015, she was a co-shareholder and Managing Director of Namibia’s largest private equity fund for over a decade served on the Boards of large public and private sector companies as either Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson. Mrs. Geingos was […]
Chris Canavan
Chris Canavan is Director, Global Policy Development, at Soros Fund Management, where he works on a variety of initiatives for the firm’s founder. Before that Chris worked for Goldman Sachs, serving in several capacities during his 13 years at the firm, including Chief Risk Officer of Goldman Sachs Bank USA, credit trader in the commodities […]