Dr. Vanessa Kerry
Dr. Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health (Seed), a non-profit organization focused on health systems strengthening and transformation through long-term investments and training of the health workforce. Under her leadership, Seed has helped educate more than 42,000 doctors, nurses, and midwives in seven countries, helping to improve health care for more […]
Hady Amr
Hady Amr joined the State Department in 2013 and serves as U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations for Economics and Gaza. From 2010 until joining the State Department, he was USAID’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Middle East, deputy head of a 600 person bureau that managed $1.6 billion in United States foreign assistance […]
Akhila Kosaraju, M.D.
Dr. Kosaraju is the Vice President for Global Development of SIGA Technologies, a company that specializes in small molecule drugs for emerging disease threats and biological warfare defense. She received her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and her B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University. Dr. Kosaraju was a White House […]
Stephen B. Nix
Stephen Nix joined IRI in October 2000, as regional program director for Eurasia. In that position, he oversees programs in Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. Nix joined IRI after serving for two years as senior democracy specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Nix is a specialist in political party development, […]
Julie Cordua
Julie came to Thorn from (RED) where she was VP of Marketing/Communications and helped establish the brand as one most successful cause marketing initiatives in history, delivering more than $160 million to fight AIDS in Africa. Prior to joining (RED), Julie spent nearly a decade in the wireless industry helping to launch HELIO, a mobile […]
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. is Chairman of the Atlantic Council Board of Directors. He began his career in public service as a Staff Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. He has served each of the four US presidents since then in critical roles around the world, including as Ambassador to Singapore, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce […]
H.E. Andrés Pastrana Arango
Born in 1954, Andrés Pastrana Arango was President of the Republic of Colombia from 1998 to 2002. Mr Pastrana began his political career in 1982, by gaining a seat on the local Bogotá council. Before becoming President in 1998, he was also President of the City Council of Bogotá; he was the first elected Mayor […]
Ambassador Kurt Volker
Ambassador Kurt Volker is Executive Director of The McCain Institute for International Leadership, part of Arizona State University based in Washington, DC. Ambassador Volker served as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in 2008-2009, and was a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, with almost 30 years of experience working on European political and security […]
Barry Eccleston
Barry joined Airbus in August 2005. Prior to Airbus, he was VP and General Manager for Honeywell’s Propulsion Systems business, and earlier served as Honeywell’s VP of Commercial Aerospace for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has worked for Fairchild Dornier Corporation, Rolls-Royce and International Aero Engines. He holds a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering […]
Dr. Bassem Youssef
Bassem Youssef, dubbed the Jon Stewart of the Arab World, was the host of popular TV show AlBernameg – which was the first of its kind political satire show in the Middle East. Originally a 5-minute show on YouTube, AlBernameg became the first online to TV conversion in the Middle East and the most watched […]
Dannel P. Malloy
Dannel P. Malloy is serving the people of Connecticut for a second term as Governor. Since 2011, his administration’s top agenda items have included creating jobs, improving public education, stabilizing the state’s finances, making long-overdue investments in the state’s transportation infrastructure, and protecting the environment.danie Inheriting an economy that had essentially no net job growth […]