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\nIn KRG’s Seventh cabinet in 2012, Talabani was the head of The Coordination and Monitoring Department; it’s main responsibilities being evaluating the Kurdish government’s affairs and facilitating and creating coordination between ministries and institutions of the executive branch.
\nIn 2014, he was appointed the Deputy Prime Minister of the KRG and was involved in reform movements. His first executive actions including implementing biometric registration systems for government employees. His appointment as Deputy Prime Minister in June 2014 overlapped with several crises facing the region. On one hand, a difficult financial crisis had erupted as the federal government ceased to send the Kurdistan Region’s share of budget. In parallel, Qubad immediately focused on the threat of ISIS early in his tenure.
\nAs a result of his successful administrative service within government, Qubad Talabani earned the votes of more than 180,000 voters in the 2018 election. He was elected as Deputy Prime Minister for the second term in the ninth cabinet. Throughout his involvement in politics, Talabani has been an example to unique concept of partisan and governmental work, based on his belief that the government’s job is not the goal of political settlements, but rather serving the people’s demands.
\nOver the past few years, Qubad’s efforts have focused on pivotal social issues, such as his determination to combat violence against women, empowering youth and entrepreneurship and supporting the growth of agricultural and tourism sectors. He has also worked on environmental issues with decision-makers to reduce the impact of climate change in Kurdistan, Iraq and the region.
\nAs a result of these non-traditional visions, Qubad Talabani has become an activist in society, and an influential figure in formulating strategic policies relating to the interests and future of the Kurdistan region.
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\nAwards and Recognitions
\nNobel Peace Prize Nominee, 2021.
\nStudent Peace Prize, 2017.
\nForbes 50 Most Powerful Women in Africa, 2020.
\nAvance Media’s 100 Most Influential African Women, 2020.
The Honorable Mark Dybul, MD, is the CEO of Enochian BioSciences, Executive Chairperson of Platform Life Sciences and a tenured Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University.
\nFrom July 2017 to July 2021 he was the Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact at Georgetown University Medical Center.
\nDr. Dybul has worked on HIV and public health for more than 25 years as a clinician, scientist, teacher, and administrator. He served as the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the US Global Coordinator and Ambassador leading the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at the level of an Assistant Secretary of State.
\nAfter graduating from Georgetown Medical School in Washington D.C., Dr. Dybul joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a research fellow under director Dr. Anthony Fauci, where he conducted basic and clinical studies on HIV virology, immunology and treatment optimization, including the first randomized, controlled trial with combination antiretroviral therapy in Africa.
\nMark was one of the founding architects in the formation of PEPFAR. After serving as Chief Medical officer, Assistant, Deputy and Acting Director, he was appointed as its leader in 2006, becoming U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, with the rank of Ambassador at the level of an Assistant Secretary of State. He served until early 2009.
\nMark has written extensively in scientific and policy literature, he is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received several Honorary Degrees and awards, including a Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, from Georgetown University.
\nTimothy Doner is the world’s youngest hyperpolyglot; the self-taught linguist has spoken nearly 23 languages since the age of 16. Doner is now using his linguistic mastery to analyze and study significant global trends.
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\nThe autobiographical nature of Dynamo’s shows coupled with incredible close-up magic and a Banksy-esque approach to large-scale illusion (the big stunts are never pre-publicised and use well-known landmarks as their backdrop) have allowed him to connect with young people and reenergize the genre in a way not seen for a generation. With over 8 million fans across social media and over a billion online views laying testament to this impact, he has quickly secured himself as the most followed magician in the world and has shared his insights at the Cannes Lions festival, and Adweek alongside Facebook’s European VP Nicola Mendelsohn.
\nIt is this impact that has helped Dynamo transcend the world of magic to become a bona fide cultural icon, with giants from the worlds of music, film and sport enthralled by his performances. Brad Pitt made a surprise visit to watch Dynamo’s live show with his kids as did fashion icon Kate Moss and artist Damien Hirst. Will Smith called Dynamo’s performance “Absolutely astonishing” and Cristiano Ronaldo and Jay-Z have both hired him to perform at private functions.
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\nIn a 2013 Forbes article, Scott said, “One year turned into two, and while I was there, I saw people drinking dirty water from ponds, rivers and swamps–simply born into communities without access. It shocked and angered me, and I began learning more about the world’s 800 million people living without access to clean water. I returned to NYC to help them, and started charity: water.”
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In 2004, I left the streets of New York City for the shores of West Africa. I’d made my living for years in the Big Apple promoting top nightclubs and fashion events, for the most part living selfishly and arrogantly. Desperately unhappy, I needed to change. Faced with spiritual bankruptcy, I wanted desperately to revive a lost Christian faith with action and asked the question: What would the opposite of my life look like?
\nI signed up for volunteer service aboard a floating hospital with a group called Mercy Ships, a humanitarian organization which offered free medical care in the world’s poorest nations. Operating on surgery ships, they’d built a 25-year track record of astonishing results yet I’d never heard of them.
\nTop doctors and surgeons from all over the world left their practices and fancy lives to operate for free on thousands who had no access to medical care. I soon found the organization to be full of remarkable people. The chief medical officer was a surgeon who left Los Angeles to volunteer for two weeks – 23 years ago. He never looked or went back. I took the position of ship photojournalist, and immediately traveled to Africa. At first, being the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court felt strange. I traded my spacious midtown loft for a 150-square-foot cabin with bunk beds, roommates and cockroaches. Fancy restaurants were replaced by a mess hall feeding 400+ Army style. A prince in New York, now I was living in close community with 350 others. I felt like a pauper.
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\nI fell in love with Liberia – a country with no public electricity, running water or sewage – Spending time in a leper colony and many remote villages, I put a face to the world’s 1.2 billion living in poverty. Those living on less than $365 a year – money I used to blow on a bottle of Grey Goose vodka at a fancy club. Before tip.
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\nOver the next eight months, I met patients who taught me the meaning of courage. Many of them had been slowly suffocating to death for years and yet pressing on. Praying, hoping, surviving. It was an honor to photograph them. It was an honor to know them.
\nCharity.
\nFor me, charity is practical. It’s sometimes easy, more often inconvenient, but always necessary. It’s the ability to use one’s position of influence, relative wealth and power to affect lives for the better. charity is singular and achievable.
\nThere’s a biblical parable about a man beaten near death by robbers. He’s stripped naked and lying roadside. Most people pass him by, but one man stops. He picks him up and bandages his wounds. He puts him on his horse and walks alongside until they reach an inn. He checks him in and throws down his Amex. “Whatever he needs until he gets better.”
\nBecause he could.
\nThe dictionary defines charity as simply the act of giving voluntarily to those in need. It’s taken from the word “caritas,” or simply, love. In Colossians 3, the Bible instructs readers to “put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
\nAlthough I’m still not sure what that means, I love the idea. To wear charity.
\nJames Murdoch is the Founder and CEO of LUPA Systems, a private investment company based in New York. Previously, Mr. Murdoch was the Chief Executive Officer of 21st Century Fox, which was one of the world’s leading portfolios of cable, broadcast, film, pay-TV and satellite assets.
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\nHis significant operational experience also includes tenures as CEO of both BSkyB and STAR, India’s number one entertainment broadcaster. During his tenure as BSkyB’s Chief Executive Officer from 2003 to 2007 and its Chairman from 2007 until 2012, the company experienced transformative growth, amassing more than 10 million subscribers, and created a full-service residential media and telecommunications company.
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\nHe has served on the boards of a number of companies and civic organizations. He was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2001, and a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute in 1998. He is also a recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Award from the Congressional Human Rights Foundation as well as the Reebok Human Rights Award. He is featured in the Family of Voices, a part of the ongoing twenty-year Exhibition, starting in 2017, “Many Voices, One Nation” at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
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\nDiamond’s other books include: The Spirit of Democracy (2008), Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999), Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989). He has also edited or co-edited more than 40 books on democratic development around the world. He has served as Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at Bayero University Kano, Nigeria (1982-83) and as a Visiting Scholar at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan (1997-98). He directed the Stanford Program on Democracy in Taiwan for more than ten years and has been a regular visitor to Taiwan since 1995.
\nAt Stanford University, Diamond is also professor by courtesy of political science and sociology, and is a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He also served from 2010-2016 as Faculty Co-Director of the Haas Center for Public Service, where he helped launch the University’s signature public service initiative, Cardinal Service. He teaches courses on comparative democratic development, democracy promotion, and US foreign policy, and advises many Stanford students. In May 2007, the Associated Students of Stanford University named him “Teacher of the Year” for teaching that “transcends political and ideological barriers.”
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\nBorn in India, Parag grew up in the United Arab Emirates, New York, and Germany. He is an accomplished adventurer who has traveled to more than 100 countries on all continents. Some of his lengthy journeys include driving from the Baltic Sea through the Balkans and across Turkey and the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, across the rugged terrain of Tibet and Xinjiang provinces in western China, and eight thousand miles from London to Ulaanbaatar in the Mongolia Charity Rally. He has climbed numerous 20,000-foot plus peaks, and trekked in the Alps, Himalayas, and Tien Shan mountain ranges. Parag is also a competitive tennis player.
\nParag has been honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and currently serves on the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics and advisory board of its Future of Urban Development Initiative. He also serves on the Council of the American Geographical Society, advisory board of Independent Diplomat and board of trustees of the New Cities Foundation. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2002 he was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize. He speaks German, Hindi, French, Spanish and basic Arabic.
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\nChineasy represents a return for ShaoLan to her artistic upbringing and in many ways, a design project. This project is the culmination of her life’s journey through the East and West. Her aim with Chineasy is to help people understand China, Chinese culture, its language and to bridge the gap between the East and West. Her next step is to help Chinese children enjoy and appreciate the beauty of their own language.
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\nAi-jen works to catalyze system change for the 100 million Americans who are directly affected by the need for elder care and childcare. In 2011, she launched Caring Across Generations to unite American families in a campaign to achieve bold solutions to the nation’s crumbling care infrastructure. In 2019 along with Cecile Richards and Alicia Garza, Ai-jen co-founded SuperMajority, a new home for women’s activism dedicated to training and mobilizing a multiracial, intergenerational community to fight for gender equity together. Ai-jen also serves as a Senior Advisor to Care in Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy group dedicated to fighting for a civic voice for millions of women of color voters in the United States.
\nAi-jen and her organization have also pioneered a cultural organizing strategy to build a narrative about the dignity of work and the full humanity of women. She has been an influential voice the #metoo movement, and attended the 2018 Golden Globe Awards with Meryl Streep as part of the launch of #TimesUp. In 2019, NDWA partnered with Participant Media and Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón to shine a spotlight to the over 2.5 million domestic workers in the United States with the film, Roma. These innovative partnerships with cultural leaders have elevated women’s leadership and organizing to a global stage.
\nAi-jen has been recognized among Fortune’s 50 World’s Greatest Leaders and Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. She has been a featured speaker at TEDWomen, Aspen Ideas Festival, and Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, and has made TV appearances on Nightline, MSNBC, and Morning Joe. In 2014, she received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship for “combining a deep understanding of the complex tangle of human relations around domestic work with keen strategic skills.”
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\nPalak Shah is the Social Innovations Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Founding Director of NDWA Labs, the innovation arm of the domestic worker movement. Palak is a leader in the movement for workers’ rights in the new economy, a thought leader on the future of work, and a social entrepreneur. Her groundbreaking work wrestles with the ways in which technology continues to disrupt entire systems, including the way we access work and our livelihoods, and how it can be harnessed for the benefit of workers, placing them at the center of innovation and change.
\nAt NDWA and NDWA Labs, Palak is focused on ensuring the future of work does not leave workers behind. She leads national strategy on engaging private sector companies entering the domestic work industry and organizing workers who are increasingly migrating online to find employment. In 2015, she founded NDWA Labs to experiment with new ways to use technology products to improve job access and job quality for these workers.
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\nAs a sought-after media commentator on the future of work and labor issues in the new economy, she has spoken at TEDx, NPR Boston’s IdeaLab, and Personal Democracy Forum. She currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy, as well as the Institute for the Future’s Equitable Futures Lab. She is currently a Beck Visiting Social Innovator at the Harvard Kennedy School where she is leading an effort to develop a 21st-century policy framework to address the privatization and digitization of the labor markets.
\nPreviously, she has served as an advisor for Blue Ridge Labs and a Board Member of Carina Care. In 2017, Palak was awarded an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellowship, where she was able to collaborate with leaders of other social movements on expanding the availability of quality work throughout the economy.
\nAbout the National Domestic Workers Alliance
\nThe National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is one of the most dynamic and successful social change organizations in the world. Dedicated to bringing quality work, dignity, and fairness to the growing numbers of workers who care and clean in our homes, the majority of whom are immigrants and women of color, NDWA has expanded rights for domestic workers in nine states and brought over 2 million home care workers under minimum wage protections in only 12 short years.
\nThis year, through NDWA Labs, it launched the first technology platform designed to provide benefits such as paid time off and life insurance to domestic workers who have previously been unable to access a safety net. Because domestic work has always existed outside of traditional frameworks of labor organizing, creativity and innovation are embedded into the DNA of NDWA. The experiences and innovation of the National Domestic Workers Alliance are instructive for shaping a dignified future of work for all.
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\nPopkin’s GFRPUNC is equally large-scale. This has included directing initiating longitudinal surveys in China and Russia and other survey work across all regions of the low and middle-income world. He is actively involved at the national and global level in policy formulation for many countries, particularly Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, and several Asian countries. He has played a central role in placing the concerns of global obesity, its determinants, and consequences on the global stage and is now actively involved in work on the program and policy design and evaluation side at the national level, including collaborative SSB/junk food tax evaluation research in Mexico(with the National Institute of Public Health) in evaluating the impact of the Mexican SSB and non-essential food taxes and similar work with the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile in evaluating an SSB tax and marketing/FOP(front-of-the-package) warning message) controls.
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\nAs a methodologist and systems theorist, Professor Morris has gained prominence as an Economist and a social scientist; applying his ideas in operational contexts. He’s become one of the world’s leading thinkers on Financial Centres and gained global prominence as Advisor to Pierre Darier in his capacity as Chairman of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (SPBA), advising on technological developments in the global financial system.
\nIn this context, in 2003, Morris was retained by CITIC/ StarCapital to complete the largest ever study on “Multimodal Distributional Centres in the Caribbean Basin for the facilitation of China-Caribbean Trade” for Madam Wu, then the Vice Premier of China. Morris also served as Chairman of the Turks and Caicos National Investment Agency (then TC Invest, now INVEST TC) in 2009. He served as Senior Economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance of Turks and Caicos Islands (2006-2009), where he advised on five national Budgets with National Economist and PS of Finance, Delton Jones.
\nReturning to the Private Sector in 2012, Morris was selected as Chairman of the TCI Resorts Economic Council (TCREC), representing the 14 largest developers in TCI, negotiating Development Agreements, Tax models and immigration concessions and In 2009, he was appointed Special Envoy from the Office of the Premier to the All Party Committee of the House of Lords, UK. In 2014, Morris was appointed Senior Strategist by TCI Premier The Hon. Dr Rufus Ewing, MP, to the TCI-Canada Working Group with the responsibility of drafting a TCI- Canada Friendship Treaty. Morris also served for 18 years as private economic Advisor to The Hon. Gordon “Butch” Stewart in his capacity as Chairman of SANDALS Corp.
\nCurrently, Professor Morris focuses his research on Cognitive Neuropsychology with emphasis on incentives, rationality and sense-making in political, economic and social systems…with further concentrations on the impacts of scaled technologies.
\nMorris studied at Harvard University Extension School, Mansfield College, Oxford University (IBIS), Oxford Brooks University, Cadmus Law College, The London School of Economics and the University of London. His concentrations were in Law, Social Science and Technology, Econometrics, Logic and Scientific Methodologies and Neuroscience.
\nMorris has written widely on subjects in his areas of work, including a New York Times bestseller: “Rescue America”, which applied paediatric neuroscience to child-development. He’s written dozens of articles on law and finance for the International Financial Centers’ Review Journal. Morris’s forthcoming book, “Friston’s Ontology,” discusses the theories of the world’s leading Neuroscientist Professor Karl Friston, and the application of neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence driven social systems.
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\nCraig started his career in real estate after business school in 1978 at Chemical Bank where he became one of the pioneers of the real estate securitization industry. He left Chemical in 1990 to co-found Victor Capital Group, a leading real estate merchant bank. He was a co-founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee at Capital Trust, a NYSE company, formed in 1996 with financier Sam Zell that became one of the real estate industry’s largest mezzanine lenders. He left Capital Trust in 2000 to pursue his passion for entrepreneurial and creative endeavors focusing on the field of disruptive innovation. He formed Turtle Pond Publications LLC, a private entertainment and media company that successfully invested in a number of start-ups including Tribeca Enterprises and Fillpoint LLC, a leading video game distribution and e-commerce company. Turtle Pond is today a leading publisher of children’s books through Scholastic Books, specializing in children’s non-fiction picture books based on famous animals with remarkable stories that illuminate resilience and emotional learning for grades K-6. Hatkoff has co-authored with his daughters a series of best-selling children’s books, including the New York Times #1 best-seller Owen & Mzee.
\nHe currently serves or has served on the Boards of Tribeca Film Institute, the Child Mind Institute, the Wild Bird Fund and the Borough of Manhattan Community College Foundation. He served on the Board of Capital Trust and is currently a Director of two NYSE public companies, Taubman Centers Inc. and SL Green Realty Corporation.
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\nIn David’s current role as President and CEO of Audubon, he unified a vast, fragmented and distributed network with a shared vision and strategy — the first in more than two decades — and repositioned the brand for modern relevance. David has grown revenue from $73M to $105M, delivered the first balanced budget in 14 years, advanced the organization from a 2-star to 4-star, top charity rating and fueled the member/customer base from 350,000 to 1M+. Through best-in-class communications, digital and social marketing advancements, and cutting-edge technology, David transformed the brand for the modern age while leveraging Audubon’s centrist role to secure a lead market position on climate change, ecosystem restoration, conservation, policy and youth leadership development through STEM and nature-based experience.
\nAmong David’s most notable accomplishments at Audubon is the strengthened governance structure. He upgraded the executive team with many for-profit leaders, implementing best-in-class business and talent management practices and instilling requisite operating discipline. David reshaped the Board of Directors and its committees, recruiting diverse leaders from across the country to elevate the Board’s profile and risk orientation and achieve well-balanced regional representation. He also assembled a new Investment Committee with top private equity and Wall Street leaders, overhauling the organization’s investment strategy and delivering increased returns.
\nPrior to Audubon, David served as Executive Director of the Environmental Defense Fund and Founding President of the organization’s political arm, ED Action Fund and its first PAC. He championed growth of corporate partnerships, including Carlyle Group, Cisco and Walmart, to influence adoption of sustainable business practices, spearheaded operational expansion to Walmart’s HQ city in Arkansas as well as the West Coast, and served as Executive Sponsor for the MBA recruitment program launch. In 5.5 years under David’s leadership, membership increased by 200%, revenue doubled and the organization delivered its $600M campaign ahead of its 5-year plan.
\nEarlier at The Mercury News, David served in an integral leadership role to build editorial operations and transform an under-the-radar regional newspaper into one of the country’s finest and the first online news publication, with revenue nearly tripling from $120M to $330M.
\nDavid’s passion for community building and diversity form the through-line of his career. During his tenure at The Mercury News, he was a driving force behind the transformation of Silicon Valley into a livable, prosperous and just community, leveraging the newspaper as a platform to advance smart growth, sustainable practices and policies. He has also served on numerous boards and association committees. He was the Founding Board Member at ecoAmerica, a member of the Executive Committee and Board at the American Leadership Forum in Silicon Valley, and President and Diversity Committee Chair of two publishing organizations. David currently serves on the Board for the Broadway Training Center, a local theatre company in Hastings on Hudson, NY. David earned his B.A. degree from San Jose University, graduating with honors.
\nEli Pariser has dedicated his career to figuring out how technology can elevate important topics in the world — as an author, an online organizer, and most recently, as a co-founder of Upworthy.
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\nEli joined MoveOn.org in 2001, serving as Executive Director from 2004-2009. During that time, MoveOn revolutionized grassroots political organizing by introducing a small-donor-funded and email-driven model that has since been widely used across the political spectrum. MoveOn.org quickly grew to more than 5 million members, who gave over $120 million to campaigns on topics like climate change and campaign finance reform. During this time he also co-founded Avaaz.org, which is now the largest online advocacy organization in the world totaling over 30 million members. In 2011, as a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, Eli published the New York Times bestseller The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. The book highlights the ways that important content can get lost in the newsfeed era. The TED talk that Eli gave based on The Filter Bubble has generated over 3.5 million views. Insights from The Filter Bubble helped to inspire Upworthy, which Eli founded with longtime collaborator Peter Koechley in March of 2012. The pair set out to prove once and for all that what’s important can be incredibly popular, even if what’s popular isn’t usually important. To date, the Upworthy community has logged more than 1.5 billion minutes of attention on topics ranging from the criminal justice system to advertising’s adverse effects on body image to clean energy.
\nEli is based in Brooklyn. You should follow him on Twitter here.
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\nShrum served as speechwriter to New York Mayor John V. Lindsay from 1970 to 1971, speechwriter to Sen. George McGovern’s 1972 Presidential campaign and speechwriter and press secretary to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy from 1980 to 1984 and political consultant until 2009.
\nInternationally, he was a senior adviser to the campaign of Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and to the British Labour Party in the 2001 Parliamentary campaign.
\nAs a journalist, his work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The New Republic, among other publications. He has been a columnist for Slate and The Huffington Post, and writes a regular column for TheWeek.com.
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\n“We can and must use our combined skills at every opportunity available to address climate change.”
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\nAs founder of Exposure Labs, a production company geared toward socially relevant filmmaking, Orlowski, 34, has served as director and producer of short film projects and online/broadcast commercial work. He has worked with Apple, National Geographic, Netflix, Stanford University, and the Jane Goodall Institute among many others. His work has aired on the National Geographic Channel, CNN and NBC and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, NPR and Popular Mechanics.
\nHe has traveled on tour representing the Sundance Institute, President Obama’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment of the Arts. Orlowski most recently produced the award-winning film Frame by Frame and earlier this year received the inaugural Sundance Institute | Discovery Impact Fellowship for environmental filmmaking. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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\nDuring the 2017 season, Roman will play Mason Bates’s Cello Concerto with four different orchestras: the Portland, Berkeley, Spokane, and Memphis Symphonies. The concerto is dedicated to the cellist, who premiered it with the Seattle Symphony in 2014, and has since played it around the U.S. In the second of two performances with the Omaha Symphony he plays Dreamsongs, a cello concerto written for him by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, after a concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s Pezzo Capriccioso and Variations on a Rococo Theme. He continues to pursue his artistic vision as Artistic Director of TownMusic at Town Hall Seattle, where last season he presented his own song cycle, … we do it to one another, and as Artistic Advisor of Seattle’s Second Inversion.
\nBefore embarking on a solo career, Roman spent two seasons as principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony, a position he won in 2006 at the age of 22. Since that time he has appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Moscow State Symphony and Mariinsky Orchestra, among many others. An active chamber musician, Roman has collaborated with Cho-Liang Lin, Assad Brothers, Christian Zacharias, Yo-Yo Ma, the JACK Quartet, the Enso String Quartet and Talea Ensemble. His YouTube series, “Everyday Bach,” features Roman performing Bach’s cello suites from beautiful settings around the world. He was the only guest artist invited to play an unaccompanied solo during the YouTube Symphony Orchestra’s 2009 debut concert at Carnegie Hall, and has given a solo performance on the TED2015 main stage. Roman is grateful for the loan of an 1899 cello by Giulio Degani of Venice.
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\nThe Los Angeles Times said this about Bob Hertzberg: “He is a high-velocity wonk; he loves BIG ideas and will flesh out every one of them if you give him a chance.” The Daily News has said: Hertzberg “has a relentless dedication and indefatigable energy – he has a reputation for integrity and perseverance.” In 2009, Mr. Hertzberg was named to replace Leon Panetta, as Co- Chair of California Forward, where he served until October 2012. He then went on to be one of the founders of The Think Long Committee of California.
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\nQD3 then moved to New York to pursue his dream to become a music producer in America. After a year and half in New York working with old school legends T LA Rock (1st artist signed to Def Jam records) and Special K (pof the group Treacherous 3 ft. Kool Moe Dee), QD3 deiced to attend the noted Berklee College of Music in Boston to study engineering and music theory. After Berklee QD3 moved to Los Angeles where he immediately connected with Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube. He began producing with a talent group that would include Ice Cube, Tupac, Warren G, Snoop Dogg and many others who would go onto create “West Coast Hip Hop” and change the culture around the world.
\nWith many gold, platinum, and multi-platinum albums and single to his name (over 40 million albums sold), QD3 is a bona fide hit maker in RAP, R&B, and Pop. In addition to his many hits with artists such as Tupac, Ice Cube and LL. Cool J: QD# has remixed singles for artists such as Prince, Robyn, Queen, Lionel Richie, Ronald Isley, Queen Latifah, Coolio, Naughty by Nature , Everlast, Morcheeba among others.
\nQD3 has also been active in film and television composing. Having scored the influential film Menace to Society as songs featured in Training Day and Office Space. ASACP honored QD3 with the 1993 ASCAP Composers award for his work on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air starring Will Smith. Other television work work includes themes and for In The House comedy series starring LL Cool J Grown Ups starring Jaleel “Erkel White”, and Eddie Murphys animated Fox Series The P.Js for which QD3 received an Emmy nomination for best opening theme.
\nIn 1999, QD3 launched a Film and TV production company (QD3 Entertainment) focused on chronicling the many dimensions of youth/urban culture. Begging with the multi-platinum selling DVD Tupac Shakur – Thug Angle” and followed up with the wildly popular selling BEEF trilogy, QD3 entertainment emerged as the industry standard for both commercial success and critical acclaim in the youth/urban DVD market. QD3 entertainment produces and licenses original programming for multiple broadcast outlets including Showtime, VH1, MTV, Fuse, Nickelodeon, and BET. The QD3 film collection has received rave reviews from publications such as Variety, CNN, The Los Angeles Times, MTV, Huffington Post, and Rolling Stone. BEEF won a Vibe Award for “best music DVD” in 2003. The QD3 films are also used as part of courses at UC Berkeley, Georgetown, Penn State, and UCLA among other universities.
\nQD3’s lifelong passion for technology, and digital media inspired him to build QD3 entertainment from the ground up with all things optimized for unrestricted multi-platform exploitation. To that end, QD3 owns and controls all rights to its over 3,000 hour library of high draw content. In June 2006 he went to form QD3 Digital in order to take advantage of the explosion of broadband video, user generated content, video on demand, and mobile. QD3 has been an active member the digital community since 1994 and received a thought leader award from Stanford Technology Ventures Program in November 2009.
\nQD3 continues to make headway in the entertainment industry. In January 2009 he premiered his latest documentary entitled “The Carter” at Sundance film festival wooing audiences and critics with his intimate and personal storytelling about the life and career of international rap artist Lil Wayne.
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\nPrior to joining the faculty at Duke, Brownell was at Yale University where he was the James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. While at Yale he served as Chair of the Department of Psychology and as Master of Silliman College.
\nDr. Brownell has published 15 books and more than 350 scientific articles and chapters. He has served as President of several national organizations, including the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association.
\nDr. Brownell has advised the White House, members of Congress, governors, world health and nutrition organizations, and media leaders on issues of nutrition, obesity, and public policy. He was cited as a “moral entrepreneur” with special influence on public discourse in a history of the obesity field and was cited by Time magazine as a leading “warrior” in the area of nutrition and public policy.
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\nHe started on the UCLA business-school faculty in 1969 at age 25, one year before completing his Ph.D. (University of Illinois, 1970) in the obscure discipline of psychometrics. With a BA in Psychology from UC, Berkeley in 1966, he spent summers during graduate school designing large-scale, man-machine systems.
\nHis major early contributions are to the foundational big-data methods for understanding behavior in competitive markets. With Masao Nakanishi, he won the Award for Outstanding Contribution, Japan Society for Commercial Sciences, for Market Share Analysis, 1988, which synthesized their first 18 years of their collaboration. Nakanishi is a Living National Treasure. Cooper won the Ashton-Tate Achievement Award Grand Prize for the development of CASPER, a multi-competitor brand-planning game with full market simulators based on the real data and the models in the market-share book. Fall, 1987. (Contest judged and co-sponsored by PC Magazine.)
\nAlong the way, he directed the UCLA Management in the Arts program (1976-79), jointly sponsored by the business school and the College of Fine Arts. He was part of a team of authors that won the Design Excellence Award (Research Category) National Endowment for the Arts for Arts in the Economic Life of the City. New York: ACA, Inc., 1979.
\nHe won the Marketing Science Institute — H.Paul Root Award for 2000. Given by the American Marketing Association, this award honors the Journal of Marketing article that has made the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of marketing, for & “Strategic Marketing Planning for Radically New Products.” Intel sponsored his efforts for three years (1996-99). The innovation is mainly in the use of Bayesian networks for dynamic risk analysis in robust strategic-planning frameworks. The methods were used in early 2004 to incubate the transition from rapid prototyping to direct manufacturing in the 3-D printing industry. Cooper directed the Venture Development Project at the UCLA Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (2003-2006).
\nIn 1999, he started Strategic Data Corporation, which developed e-commerce personalization and display-ad optimization for a number of major web portals. The company was based on a rule-generating data mining algorithm he and his co-author and co-founder, Giovanni Giuffrida, published in Management Science (2000), the first data mining article they published. Midlife Crisis Startup (2004) relates the tale and the entrepreneurial lessons from doing startups while still a professor. In 2007, Fox Interactive Media, a News Corp. subsidiary, acquired SDC.
\nCooper’s latest book is Systems Entrepreneurship: My 50-Year Journey at UCLA. An open-access version is available through the link. Most recently, Lee was appointed co-leader of the Research Well Team for the Healthy Campus Initiative, where he will develop technology across the University of California system that will enable action research so students can apply new knowledge to real-world problems, as well as civic engagement. He was also appointed to the Academic Advisory Board for the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
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\nAs founder of Project for Public Spaces, Fred is known throughout the world as a dynamic speaker and prolific ideas man. Traveling over 150,000 miles each year, Fred offers technical assistance to communities and gives major talks across North America and internationally. Each year, he and the PPS staff give presentations or train more than 10,000 people in placemaking techniques. Since 1975, Fred has worked on hundreds of projects, including Bryant Park, Rockefeller Center, and Times Square in New York City; Discovery Green in Houston, TX; Campus Martius in Detroit, MI; Main Street in Littleton, NH; Granville Island in Vancouver, BC, Canada; and a city-wide placemaking campaign in Chicago, IL. In addition to projects, Fred has led trainings across the world for audiences such as the Urban Redevelopment Agency and the National Parks Board in Singapore, representatives from the City of Hong Kong, the Ministry of Environment in Norway, the leading Dutch transportation organization in the Netherlands, Greenspace in Scotland, UK, numerous transportation professionals from US State DOTs, and thousands of community and neighborhood groups across the US.
\nBefore founding PPS, Fred studied with Margaret Mead and worked with William H. Whyte on the Street Life Project, assisting in observations and film analysis of corporate plazas, urban streets, parks and other open spaces in New York City. The research resulted in the now classic, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, published in 1980, which laid out conclusions based on decades of meticulous observation and documentation of human behavior in the urban environment. In 1968, Fred founded the Academy for Black and Latin Education (ABLE), a street academy for high school dropouts. In 1970, and again in 1990, Fred was the coordinator and chairman of New York City’s Earth Day.
\nMost recently, Fred has led some of the largest projects at PPS including Cape Town Waterfront, Crystal City in Alexandria, VA., Museumplein in Amsterdam, Downtown Detroit, Harvard University’s main plaza, and Harvard Square for Cambridge and Harvard. He has also overseen major projects with Southwest Airlines as part of the Heart of the Community campaign. A recent partnership between PPS, UN Habitat, and The Ax:son Johnson Foundation has resulted in a global campaign (The Future of Places) and the establishment of a Placemaking Leadership Council aimed at bringing placemaking to countries around the world. Fred has also been intimately involved with the expansion of placemaking into a global agenda, helping to achieve a level of international engagement that rivals other major international development efforts. With over 150,000 people around the world following the work of PPS through emails, Twitter and Facebook, he has witnessed interest in placemaking grow exponentially.
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