Panel | New Public-Private Dynamics | 20th Annual International Development Conference at Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Panel | New Public-Private Dynamics

Panel 1 — Business Innovation for Social and Economic Development

Description

Innovation is one of the key drivers for private companies to live long-term. Innovation can take the shape of new products, new systems or new business models.

With the increased role of Business in the social arena and development, Innovation can also be an amazing tool to address social issues and further countries’ development. A lot of companies have tried to develop Innovations that could for example help address malnutrition, improve health access or increase living standards of populations.

This Panel aims to address what are some of the key Innovation examples (products, distribution, systems…) that businesses or public-private partnerships have put in place and that have allowed to significantly create a social improvement and helped countries’ development.

	Jane Nelson \| Moderator Jane Nelson is Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a senior associate of the Programme for Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University. She was a Director at the International Business Leaders Forum from 1993 to 2009, where she now serves as a senior advisor. In 2001, she worked with the United Nations Global Compact in the office of the UN Secretary-General preparing a report for the General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector. Prior to 1993, Nelson worked for the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Africa, for FUNDES in Latin America, and as a Vice President at Citibank working for the bank’s Financial Institutions Group in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She has co-authored four books and over 70 publications on the role of business in society and five of the World Economic Forum’s Global Corporate Citizenship reports. Nelson serves on the boards of Newmont Mining Corporation, FSG, the World Environment Center, the ImagineNations Group, and the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative, and on advisory committees for the Clinton Global Initiative, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, the Initiative for Global Development, Volans Social Ventures, Instituto Ethosin Brazil, UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Markets program, APCO’s International Advisory Council, ExxonMobil’s External Citizenship Advisory Panel, GE’s Citizenship Advisory Group, and Abbott’s Global Citizenship Advisory Council. She earned a BSc. degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Natal in South Africa and an MA from Oxford University, and is a former Rhodes Scholar and recipient of the Keystone Center’s 2005 Leadership in Education Award.
	Ovidiu Bujorean \| Panelist Ovidiu Bujorean manages and directs the GIST Initiative, an exciting initiative that is a partnership led by the State Department and CRDF Global that is building a unique entrepreneurial ecosystem in 44 countries across the Middle East, Central and South East Asia, and Africa. Previously, Mr. Bujorean was the Senior Associate at Rudyard Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in consumer technologies. Mr. Bujorean serves as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of AIESEC DC. Mr. Bujorean founded LEADERS, an organization that impacted the lives of approximately 10000 young leaders and entrepreneurs in Romania and Southern-Eastern Europe and is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA) and Harvard’s Kennedy School (MPA).
	Franklin Moore \| Panelist A career member of the Senior Executive Service, Franklin C. Moore is the Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Africa, which provided $6.4 billion in assistance to 49 African countries in 2011. Mr. Moore also served in this position from January 2008 to July 2010. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Moore served in Rome as USAID’s Senior Development Counselor and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Rome-based UN organizations from July 2010 to December 2012. Mr. Moore was Director of the Office of Environment and Science Policy within the Agency’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade in 2002-08, and he served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator and Director for the Agency’s Global Center for the Environment. Prior to joining USAID in 1998, Mr. Moore held positions in the areas of agriculture, environment and national resource management with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with Africare resident in Zimbabwe; with Peace Corps and as a Lecturer at Virginia State (College) University and the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Mr. Moore has a bachelor’s degree in Economics with a minor in Art History from Yale University. He received a master’s degree in Agricultural Economics, as well as a certificate in African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Moore studied for a Ph.D. in Development Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Agriculture/Natural Resource Economics, Political Science and Rural Sociology). Mr. Moore has lived and worked in both West and Southern Africa; he has worked in approximately 40 countries overseas.
	Greg Hills \| Panelist Greg Hills is Managing Director at FSG. Greg has nearly 20 years of experience advising corporations, foundations, governments, and nonprofit organizations on strategy, program design, evaluation, and operational improvement. In his ten years at FSG, Greg has led more than 70 client engagements, including three dozen projects advising multinational corporations on innovative shared value and CSR strategies. He leads FSG’s Global Development impact area and has worked professionally in nearly 20 developing countries throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His work focuses on economic development, agriculture, education, health, environment, and social investment. Greg has published numerous influential papers and speaks regularly on topics of shared value, CSR, and philanthropic effectiveness. Prior to joining FSG, Greg worked as a manager with Archstone Consulting and as a senior consultant with Deloitte Consulting. He advised leading corporations in the retail, consumer products manufacturing, and financial services sectors. His prior social sector experience includes serving as Manager of Program Operations for the US-Asia Environmental Partnership, a USAID-funded public-private partnership focused on environmental improvement and sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. Greg holds an MBA from Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business and a BA, cum laude in government from Hamilton College.

Panel 2 — Big Data and Development

Description

The much-hyped advent of ‘Big Data’, an umbrella term for the generation, aggregation, and analysis of real-time digital data in unprecedented quantities, has allowed an unparalleled understanding of individual behavioral trends in countless types of social interactions. The private sector extensively utilizes this data through sophisticated analytic tools, predicting individual consumer buying habits and marketing to micro-targeted demographics household by household. However its potential to revolutionize our approach to social sector challenges in global development and crisis resilience has gone largely untapped.

But a string of recent demonstrated successes in public health, food security, natural disaster and poverty monitoring has stimulated an explosion in interest in utilizing big data to turn imperfect, complex, often unstructured social sector data into actionable information. Workshop participants will be introduced to big data’s analytical methods and frameworks as applied to international development and crisis resilience, along with their application to actual cases like predicting the geospatial spread of cholera after the Haitian earthquake through SMS sentiment analysis, tracking real-time food price inflation in Indonesia with Twitter, and monitoring poverty levels in real time cell phone minutes purchasing trends in Rwanda and Kenya. Attendees will also have the opportunity to play the role of policymakers directing a big data analysis group in a developing country’s government, setting priorities and choosing analytic tools to effectively address their citizens’ most pressing challenges.

Emmanuel Letouzé | Moderator

Emmanuel Letouzé is a regular consultant for the UN and the OECD and a PhD candidate in Demography at U.C. Berkeley, currently serving as a non-resident Fellow at the International Peace Institute and an advisor on Big Data and official statistics for the OECD-Paris21. In 2011–2012 he worked as a development economist on the UN Global Pulse team, where he wrote Global Pulse’s white paper Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities (May 2012), and was the lead author of the OECD 2013 Fragile States report. From 2006 to 2009 he worked for UNDP in New York and from 2000 to 2004 for the French Ministry of Finance in Vietnam. Emmanuel graduated from Sciences Po Paris (Diplôme, 1999, MA in Economic Demography, 2000) and Columbia University (MA in International Affairs, 2006) where he was a Fulbright fellow. He is also a political cartoonist for various media outlet.

Nathan Eagle | Panelist

Nathan Eagle is the co-founder and CEO of Jana, a company that helps global brands connect directly with people in emerging growth markets via mobile phones. Jana rewards consumers with mobile airtime in return for taking market research surveys and trying out new products. Jana’s mobile airtime rewards platform has been integrated into the back-end systems of hundreds of mobile operators, enabling the instant monetary compensation of billions of consumers in 70 local currencies. Today Jana is helping global clients in over 50 countries, including P&G, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Nestle, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, the World Bank, and the United Nations. In addition to being CEO of Jana, Eagle is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Harvard University. His research involves engineering computational tools, designed to explore how the petabytes of data generated about human movements, financial transactions, and communication patterns can be used for social good. In 2012, Wired named Eagle one of the ’50 people who will change the world’ and the Market Research Society awarded him the President’s Medal. Eagle has been elected to MIT’s TR35, a group of the world’s top innovators under 35, and currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Data Driven Development. In recognition of his work with the World Bank on mobile crowdsourcing, Eagle was awarded the prestigious Kiel Global Economy Prize alongside Nobel Laureates Daniel Kahneman and Martti Ahtisaari. Eagle holds a BS and two MS degrees from Stanford’s School of Engineering; his PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory founded the field of ‘Reality Mining’ and was declared one of the ’10 technologies most likely to change the way we live’. Often sought after for his expert commentary, Eagle is regularly featured in publications including the BBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Financial Times, Forbes, and CNN.

William Hoffman | Panelist

William Hoffman heads the World Economic Forum’s Telecommunications Industry Group, where he supports a global community of industry partners in addressing some of the world’s most pressing economic, social and environmental challenges. One of his primary areas of focus is leading a global initiative entitled Rethinking Personal Data. This multi-year project is designed to catalyze action and shared understandings on how to shape a personal data ecosystem that crates opportunities for both social and economic value creation as well as protecting the rights of individuals. Prior to joining the World Economic Forum, William was the Director of Enterprise Marketing at AT&T. With broad experience in the communications industry, he has an extensive background with the adoption of emerging technologies, data analysis and strategic planning. William holds degrees from Syracuse University as well as the University of Pennsylvania.

Panel 3 — U.S. Private Sector and Development

Description

Today more than ever, the future of sustainable development is being linked to the emergence of a vibrant private sector in developing countries. As this aspect of development gains greater and greater attention, governments and development practitioners will be increasingly challenged to look at policies that enable the risk takers of the world, and countries and foreign investors will be benefiting from such a paradigm shift. Taking the example of the US foreign investor, how are they able to be a catalyst for local private sector development and what policies or programs have been put in place to support them? What is the role of the US business as a development actor?

	K. Riva Levinson \| Moderator Riva Levinson is the founder and Principal of KRL International LLC. Ms. Levinson has earned a reputation as an effective, sought-after strategist, with extensive expertise in managing international policy issues. A seasoned internationalist, Ms. Levinson has managed major projects and coordinated the efforts of staff in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, the Far East, South Asia, Central and South-Central Europe, and the Newly Independent States. She has worked in Africa for more than 20 years and has been an advisor to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf since 1996.
	Nadeem Anwar \| Panelist Dr. Nadeem Anwar works for the Chevron Corporation in the Policy, Government and Public Affairs department as the Social Performance Team Lead for Africa and Latin America. He has worked with Chevron since 1993 in positions of increasing responsibility in many parts of the world in many in various management positions in Corporate Social Responsibility, Public health, Community Development, training and education and Government and Public Affairs. Since October of 2010, Nadeem is leading the Corporate Social Responsibility work in Liberia. He led the community development needs assessment for Chevron, development of five years Chevron Liberia Economic Development Initiative and planning and execution of CSR projects in Liberia. Nadeem is also a recipient of the highest Chevron’s performance award, “The Chairman’s Award.” He has a Masters of Science in Public Health with focus on international development from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He also holds a Doctor of Medicine degree and diploma in Disaster Management. Prior to joining Chevron he worked in several capacities as a Physician, Corporate Responsibility Manager, Advisor, consultant, and as a refugee coordinator in countries ranging from Indonesia, Singapore, Gabon, Chad, Thailand, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
	Reg Manhas \| Panelist Reg Manhas is responsible for the management of social and political issues in a manner that enhances Kosmos Energy’s reputation as a leader in responsible oil and gas exploration and development. Included within that mandate is responsibility for the development of strategic relations with government, community and NGO stakeholders and the establishment of leading CSR programs. Prior to joining Kosmos in 2012, Mr. Manhas created the corporate affairs function at Calgary-based Talisman Energy in 2000 and led the development of the Company’s programs in these areas. Prior to 2000, he was legal counsel at Talisman and previous to that practiced law with McCarthy Tetrault. Earlier in his career he worked as an engineer in the upstream energy industry with Petro-Canada. Mr. Manhas earned both his law degree and his chemical engineering degree from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Manhas served on the Advisory Committee appointed by the Government of Canada on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries, and was appointed in 2012 by the Government of Canada to the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Nature.
	Steven Kaufmann \| Panelist Steven M. Kaufmann is the Chief of Staff at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. As Chief of Staff, Mr. Kaufmann serves as the lead advisor to the agency’s Chief Executive Officer, providing guidance and leadership on corporate strategy, operations, and policy matters. The Chief of Staff supports the CEO’s management of the agency’s administrative and program issues and ensures that the CEO’s vision and priorities are implemented in all aspects of MCC’s operations. The Chief of Staff also supervises staff in the Office of the CEO. Prior to joining MCC, Mr. Kaufmann was a litigation partner at the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster, LLP. Mr. Kaufmann practiced law for twenty-five years, focusing on complex commercial disputes and working extensively on class actions, antitrust cases, securities litigation and employment matters. Mr. Kaufmann served as the chair of the firm’s Global Litigation Department for three years, overseeing over 500 attorneys and an extensive support staff in 14 cities around the world. As Litigation Department Chair, Mr. Kaufmann was one of a handful of attorneys at the firm responsible for developing and executing on the overall strategic direction for the enterprise. He also served as managing partner of Morrison & Foerster’s Denver, Colorado office for almost 7 years. Before law school, Mr. Kaufmann worked for the consulting firm of ICF, Inc., where he undertook economic analysis of energy markets and related environmental issues. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Kaufmann served as a law clerk to Hon. John L. Kane of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Mr. Kaufmann received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, with high honors from Wesleyan University in 1980, and received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan in 1984, where he was a member of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Mr. Kaufmann is a fifth-generation Coloradan. He previously served on a number of boards of directors, including the boards of National Jewish Health, the Colorado Lawyer’s Committee, and the Colorado “I Have a Dream” Foundation.
	Eric Chinje \| Panelist Eric Chinje is the Director for Strategic Communications at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, a position he took up at the start of 2012. Prior to that he led the Global Media Program at the World Bank Institute (WBI) and, in that capacity, launched the IMAGE (Independent Media for Accountability, Governance and Empowerment) capacity building program and Network to create a corps of development journalists in the Bank’s client countries (see:www.image-network.org). Mr. Chinje is fluent in English and French, He studied in the universities of Yaounde (Cameroon), Syracuse (New York) and Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He was Editor in Chief of Cameroon Television and a contributing correspondent for CNN World Report, and a stringer for the BBC World Service, Voice of America, and Deutschewelle Radio. Mr. Chinje is an Officer of the Cameroon Order of Merit and an Officer of the Dutch Order of Orange Nassau.
	Ambassador Patricia Moller \| Panelist Ambassador Moller is a career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea and the Republic of Burundi. Following ten years in investment banking, Ambassador Moller joined the Department of State in 1987 as a Foreign Service officer. In the course of her 25-year career she has served in five other overseas locations including in Munich, Germany, Chennai, India, Belgrade, Serbia, Yerevan, Armenia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2000, she received the Leamon R. Hunt Award for Management Excellence for her direction in operations of Embassy Belgrade through its final closure on the eve of the 1999 NATO bombings. In 2011, she was granted the Robert C. Frasure Memorial Award for her central role in preventing the widespread loss of human life and promoting democracy and human rights throughout Guinea’s first ever democratic transition. In August of 2012, Ambassador Moller was invested into the Republic of Guinea’s National Patriotic Legion of Honor with the rank of Commander.

	Jane Nelson \| Moderator Jane Nelson is Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a senior associate of the Programme for Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University. She was a Director at the International Business Leaders Forum from 1993 to 2009, where she now serves as a senior advisor. In 2001, she worked with the United Nations Global Compact in the office of the UN Secretary-General preparing a report for the General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector. Prior to 1993, Nelson worked for the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Africa, for FUNDES in Latin America, and as a Vice President at Citibank working for the bank’s Financial Institutions Group in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She has co-authored four books and over 70 publications on the role of business in society and five of the World Economic Forum’s Global Corporate Citizenship reports. Nelson serves on the boards of Newmont Mining Corporation, FSG, the World Environment Center, the ImagineNations Group, and the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative, and on advisory committees for the Clinton Global Initiative, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, the Initiative for Global Development, Volans Social Ventures, Instituto Ethosin Brazil, UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Markets program, APCO’s International Advisory Council, ExxonMobil’s External Citizenship Advisory Panel, GE’s Citizenship Advisory Group, and Abbott’s Global Citizenship Advisory Council. She earned a BSc. degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Natal in South Africa and an MA from Oxford University, and is a former Rhodes Scholar and recipient of the Keystone Center’s 2005 Leadership in Education Award.
	Ovidiu Bujorean \| Panelist Ovidiu Bujorean manages and directs the GIST Initiative, an exciting initiative that is a partnership led by the State Department and CRDF Global that is building a unique entrepreneurial ecosystem in 44 countries across the Middle East, Central and South East Asia, and Africa. Previously, Mr. Bujorean was the Senior Associate at Rudyard Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in consumer technologies. Mr. Bujorean serves as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of AIESEC DC. Mr. Bujorean founded LEADERS, an organization that impacted the lives of approximately 10000 young leaders and entrepreneurs in Romania and Southern-Eastern Europe and is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA) and Harvard’s Kennedy School (MPA).
	Franklin Moore \| Panelist A career member of the Senior Executive Service, Franklin C. Moore is the Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Africa, which provided $6.4 billion in assistance to 49 African countries in 2011. Mr. Moore also served in this position from January 2008 to July 2010. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Moore served in Rome as USAID’s Senior Development Counselor and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Rome-based UN organizations from July 2010 to December 2012. Mr. Moore was Director of the Office of Environment and Science Policy within the Agency’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade in 2002-08, and he served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator and Director for the Agency’s Global Center for the Environment. Prior to joining USAID in 1998, Mr. Moore held positions in the areas of agriculture, environment and national resource management with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with Africare resident in Zimbabwe; with Peace Corps and as a Lecturer at Virginia State (College) University and the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Mr. Moore has a bachelor’s degree in Economics with a minor in Art History from Yale University. He received a master’s degree in Agricultural Economics, as well as a certificate in African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Moore studied for a Ph.D. in Development Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Agriculture/Natural Resource Economics, Political Science and Rural Sociology). Mr. Moore has lived and worked in both West and Southern Africa; he has worked in approximately 40 countries overseas.
	Greg Hills \| Panelist Greg Hills is Managing Director at FSG. Greg has nearly 20 years of experience advising corporations, foundations, governments, and nonprofit organizations on strategy, program design, evaluation, and operational improvement. In his ten years at FSG, Greg has led more than 70 client engagements, including three dozen projects advising multinational corporations on innovative shared value and CSR strategies. He leads FSG’s Global Development impact area and has worked professionally in nearly 20 developing countries throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His work focuses on economic development, agriculture, education, health, environment, and social investment. Greg has published numerous influential papers and speaks regularly on topics of shared value, CSR, and philanthropic effectiveness. Prior to joining FSG, Greg worked as a manager with Archstone Consulting and as a senior consultant with Deloitte Consulting. He advised leading corporations in the retail, consumer products manufacturing, and financial services sectors. His prior social sector experience includes serving as Manager of Program Operations for the US-Asia Environmental Partnership, a USAID-funded public-private partnership focused on environmental improvement and sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. Greg holds an MBA from Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business and a BA, cum laude in government from Hamilton College.

	K. Riva Levinson \| Moderator Riva Levinson is the founder and Principal of KRL International LLC. Ms. Levinson has earned a reputation as an effective, sought-after strategist, with extensive expertise in managing international policy issues. A seasoned internationalist, Ms. Levinson has managed major projects and coordinated the efforts of staff in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, the Far East, South Asia, Central and South-Central Europe, and the Newly Independent States. She has worked in Africa for more than 20 years and has been an advisor to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf since 1996.
	Nadeem Anwar \| Panelist Dr. Nadeem Anwar works for the Chevron Corporation in the Policy, Government and Public Affairs department as the Social Performance Team Lead for Africa and Latin America. He has worked with Chevron since 1993 in positions of increasing responsibility in many parts of the world in many in various management positions in Corporate Social Responsibility, Public health, Community Development, training and education and Government and Public Affairs. Since October of 2010, Nadeem is leading the Corporate Social Responsibility work in Liberia. He led the community development needs assessment for Chevron, development of five years Chevron Liberia Economic Development Initiative and planning and execution of CSR projects in Liberia. Nadeem is also a recipient of the highest Chevron’s performance award, “The Chairman’s Award.” He has a Masters of Science in Public Health with focus on international development from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He also holds a Doctor of Medicine degree and diploma in Disaster Management. Prior to joining Chevron he worked in several capacities as a Physician, Corporate Responsibility Manager, Advisor, consultant, and as a refugee coordinator in countries ranging from Indonesia, Singapore, Gabon, Chad, Thailand, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
	Reg Manhas \| Panelist Reg Manhas is responsible for the management of social and political issues in a manner that enhances Kosmos Energy’s reputation as a leader in responsible oil and gas exploration and development. Included within that mandate is responsibility for the development of strategic relations with government, community and NGO stakeholders and the establishment of leading CSR programs. Prior to joining Kosmos in 2012, Mr. Manhas created the corporate affairs function at Calgary-based Talisman Energy in 2000 and led the development of the Company’s programs in these areas. Prior to 2000, he was legal counsel at Talisman and previous to that practiced law with McCarthy Tetrault. Earlier in his career he worked as an engineer in the upstream energy industry with Petro-Canada. Mr. Manhas earned both his law degree and his chemical engineering degree from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Manhas served on the Advisory Committee appointed by the Government of Canada on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries, and was appointed in 2012 by the Government of Canada to the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Nature.
	Steven Kaufmann \| Panelist Steven M. Kaufmann is the Chief of Staff at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. As Chief of Staff, Mr. Kaufmann serves as the lead advisor to the agency’s Chief Executive Officer, providing guidance and leadership on corporate strategy, operations, and policy matters. The Chief of Staff supports the CEO’s management of the agency’s administrative and program issues and ensures that the CEO’s vision and priorities are implemented in all aspects of MCC’s operations. The Chief of Staff also supervises staff in the Office of the CEO. Prior to joining MCC, Mr. Kaufmann was a litigation partner at the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster, LLP. Mr. Kaufmann practiced law for twenty-five years, focusing on complex commercial disputes and working extensively on class actions, antitrust cases, securities litigation and employment matters. Mr. Kaufmann served as the chair of the firm’s Global Litigation Department for three years, overseeing over 500 attorneys and an extensive support staff in 14 cities around the world. As Litigation Department Chair, Mr. Kaufmann was one of a handful of attorneys at the firm responsible for developing and executing on the overall strategic direction for the enterprise. He also served as managing partner of Morrison & Foerster’s Denver, Colorado office for almost 7 years. Before law school, Mr. Kaufmann worked for the consulting firm of ICF, Inc., where he undertook economic analysis of energy markets and related environmental issues. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Kaufmann served as a law clerk to Hon. John L. Kane of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Mr. Kaufmann received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, with high honors from Wesleyan University in 1980, and received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan in 1984, where he was a member of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Mr. Kaufmann is a fifth-generation Coloradan. He previously served on a number of boards of directors, including the boards of National Jewish Health, the Colorado Lawyer’s Committee, and the Colorado “I Have a Dream” Foundation.
	Eric Chinje \| Panelist Eric Chinje is the Director for Strategic Communications at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, a position he took up at the start of 2012. Prior to that he led the Global Media Program at the World Bank Institute (WBI) and, in that capacity, launched the IMAGE (Independent Media for Accountability, Governance and Empowerment) capacity building program and Network to create a corps of development journalists in the Bank’s client countries (see:www.image-network.org). Mr. Chinje is fluent in English and French, He studied in the universities of Yaounde (Cameroon), Syracuse (New York) and Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He was Editor in Chief of Cameroon Television and a contributing correspondent for CNN World Report, and a stringer for the BBC World Service, Voice of America, and Deutschewelle Radio. Mr. Chinje is an Officer of the Cameroon Order of Merit and an Officer of the Dutch Order of Orange Nassau.
	Ambassador Patricia Moller \| Panelist Ambassador Moller is a career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea and the Republic of Burundi. Following ten years in investment banking, Ambassador Moller joined the Department of State in 1987 as a Foreign Service officer. In the course of her 25-year career she has served in five other overseas locations including in Munich, Germany, Chennai, India, Belgrade, Serbia, Yerevan, Armenia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2000, she received the Leamon R. Hunt Award for Management Excellence for her direction in operations of Embassy Belgrade through its final closure on the eve of the 1999 NATO bombings. In 2011, she was granted the Robert C. Frasure Memorial Award for her central role in preventing the widespread loss of human life and promoting democracy and human rights throughout Guinea’s first ever democratic transition. In August of 2012, Ambassador Moller was invested into the Republic of Guinea’s National Patriotic Legion of Honor with the rank of Commander.

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