Ruth W. Messinger is president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the world’s leading Jewish organization working to end poverty and realize human rights in the developing world. Ruth came to AJWS in 1998 after a 20-year career in public service in New York City. A tireless advocate and social change visionary, Ruth is known for her leadership of the movement to end the genocide in Darfur,…
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Dr. Woo assumed the position of CEO and president of Catholic Relief Services in January 2012. Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, it has expanded in size to reach more than 100 million people in nearly 100 countries on five continents. Dr. Woo, representing CRS, was featured in Foreign…
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Phyllis Kurlander Costanza is the CEO of the UBS Optimus Foundation. Prior to this, she was with the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and also served as a CIFF board member for eight years. Before joining the non-profit sector, Ms Costanza worked for more than a decade as a management consultant in Washington, DC and Vienna, Austria and also lived and worked in Kiev, Ukraine on a…
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Michael Anderson joined CIFF as Chief Executive Officer in 2013. He was previously Prime Minister David Cameron’s Special Envoy for UN Development Goals, and Director General for Policy and Global Programmes at the UK Department for International Development.
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Jérôme Schmitt started his career in Asia before joining the Group’s Finance Division in 1992. He was in charge of Finance Operations for Exploration & Production projects in Asia and North-Africa and then in South America. Mr. Schmitt continued his career in the Upstream gas sector. He was then in charge of gas projects business development for Middle East and Central Asia and thereafter in…
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Eldar Saetre has been president and chief executive officer of Statoil since 15 October 2014. He joined Statoil in 1980 and has carried out a variety of roles including Executive vice president and CFO from October 2003 until December 2010 and Executive vice president for Marketing, processing & renewable energy from 2011 until 2014. Saetre is a Norwegian citizen and resident, and holds an MA…
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Ben van Beurden became Shell CEO on January 1, 2014. He joined Shell in 1983, after graduating with a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Mr. van Beurden’s career in Shell spans both Upstream and Downstream activities. He has held a number of operational and commercial roles, including some 10 years in the LNG business, and a variety of…
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Tony Salvador, PhD, is a practicing social scientist with Intel Corporation and is currently with their Corporate Strategy Office. He founded the application of social science at Intel and has led various teams of anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists and economists who have worked around the world to understand the lived experience of people in all walks of life and work. His work in…
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