Olusoji Adeyi, Coordinator, Public Health Programs, Human Development Network- World Bank

Dr. Adeyi is the Sector Manager for Health, Nutrition and Population (Eastern and Southern Africa) at the World Bank in Washington, DC. He is responsible for the World Bank’s support for country-led policies, strategies, operations and partnerships in the sub-region.  The Bank’s work in Africa emphasizes improved governance, improved competitiveness of human capital and reduction of vulnerabilities from short- and long-term effects of poor health.

Dr. Adeyi was founding Director of the Affordable Medicines Facility-Malaria (AMFm) at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.  An innovation in the architecture of financing medicines for malaria through the commercial private sector, NGOs and the public sector, AMFm combines a global buyer subsidy with support for implementation at the country level.

Peggy Clark, Vice President of Policy Program, Executive Director,
Aspen Global Health and Development, Aspen Institute

Peggy Clark is the Vice President of Policy Programs, Executive Director of Aspen Global Health and Development, and Director of Artisan Partners @Aspen.  As Vice President of Policy Programs, Peggy provides strategic oversight and guidance to the Institute’s 28 policy programs.  As Executive Director of Aspen Global Health and Development, Peggy leads programs promoting breakthrough solutions to global development. Previously, Peggy helped to found Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative with Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and served as Managing Director.
 
Peggy has been a leader in founding and shaping the microfinance field internationally, and in 1995 received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Microenterprise Development from President Bill Clinton.

John Donnelly, Communications Advisor, Office of the President, World Bank

John is the communications advisor for World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. He was vice president and senior editor at Burness Communications and founder of Long Tail Media.
 
Prior to that, John was a journalist for 25 years, winning many awards in the past decade for his coverage of global development issues. He worked for the Boston Globe, covering foreign affairs from Washington and global health and development issues based in South Africa. He was the Middle East correspondent for the Miami Herald, where he also extensively covered Haiti. Mr. Donnelly is the author of A Twist of Faith: An American Christian's Quest to Help Orphans in Africa, an also has written and produced books for Harvard University, the World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University, Management Sciences for Health, and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research.

Dan Green, Deputy Director, Strategic Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dan manages the media and information grants at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He leads a diverse, international team with experience in education, global health and development, advocacy and journalism.

Prior to joining the foundation in January of 2011, Dan was Senior Vice President at Home Front Communications, a media and digital consulting firm based in Washington, DC, and spent 17 years with ABC News, 12 of those with Nightline as a producer and senior producer. Dan’s career at ABC started at its southern Africa bureau where he covered the final years of apartheid, famine in Somalia and the burgeoning AIDS epidemic in Zambia. His work earned him a Columbia DuPont Award, three Emmy’s, NABJ’s top honors, RTNDA Unity Award and a Peabody.

Musimbi Kanyoro, President & CEO, Global Fund for Women

Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro is President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, a public foundation which seeds, strengthens links and supports the capacity building of women’s rights organizations in every part of the world. The Global Fund for Women’s grants help expand the choices available to women and ensure that women’s voices are heard at local, national and international levels.

Dr. Kanyoro serves on the Global Committee of the Council on Foundations, and is a member of the Aspen Institute Leaders Council, the UNFPA/IPPF High level taskforce for Reproductive Health. She also serves on the boards of Intra Health, CHANGE, and CARE and between 1998-2007 served as the General Secretary (CEO) of the World YWCA, whose national member association in 120 countries have an outreach to 25 million women and girls.

Courtney Martin, Founding Director, Solutions Journalism Network

Courtney E. Martin is the Founding Director of the Solutions Journalism Network, along with New York Times columnists David Bornstein and Tina Rosenberg. In addition, she is the leader of the Op-Ed Project’s Public Voices Fellowship Program at Yale University–coaching minority academics to become thought leaders.

She is also a founding partner in Valenti Martin Media, a communications consulting firm focused on making social justice organizations more effective in movement building and making change  Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, The American Prospect, The Nation, Glamour, Mother Jones, Utne, and a variety of anthologies, among other publications.

Dele Olojede, publisher, NEXT

Dele Olojede is the publisher of NEXT, which provides news and informed opinion for Africans to further the common good.  A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former foreign editor at New York Newsday, he is also is a frequent public speaker on the good society, a moderator of the Aspen leadership seminars, and serves on the board of the Africa Leadership Initiative.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Dele in 2010 was honored as an exemplar of ethical business leadership by the Global Forum for Ethics in Business. Fast Company has named him to its list of the 100 Most Creative People. He is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Anna Deavere Smith, Board of Trustees, Aspen Institute

Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. Currently, she teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and serves on the board of the Aspen Institute. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University.

Smith is best known for her "documentary theatre" style in plays such as Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, both of which featured Smith as the sole performer of multiple and diverse characters. Fires in the Mirror dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot. Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 dealt with the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Both of these plays were constructed using material solely from interviews and other pieces of the archive. In 1993, Newsweek declared her "[t]he most exciting individual in American theater."