In 2002, Whoopi Goldberg became one of a very elite group of artists who have won a Grammy , an Academy Award , a Golden Globe, the Emmy and a Tony. She is equally well-known for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of children, the homeless, human rights, education, substance abuse and the battle against AIDS, as well as many other causes and charities.

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Sir Richard Branson is Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group. Virgin is one of the world’s most recognized and respected brands and has expanded into many diverse sectors from air and ground travel to telecommunications, health, space travel and renewable energy through more than 200 companies worldwide, employing approximately 50,000 people in 30 countries.

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George Soros has been a prominent international supporter of democratic ideals and causes for more than 30 years. Soros's philanthropy has spawned a network of foundations dedicated to promoting development of open societies in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

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Throughout his career, Ted Turner has won recognition for his entrepreneurial acumen; sharp business skills; a vision that transformed television; leadership qualities that won sports championships; and his unprecedented philanthropy. Since the early 1970's, Ted Turner has stepped into the international spotlight with one accomplishment after another.

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Born in Scotland, Gordon Brown first joined the British Parliament as an MP in the 1983 General Election and shared his first office in the House of Commons with Tony Blair. As Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown presided over the longest ever period of growth.

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After spending part of her early life in Tanzania, Sarah Brown has had a life-long commitment to international development. For several years, Sarah has been an international voice in the campaign to meet the Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal mortality by two thirds by 2015.

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso was President of Brazil for two terms from 1995 -2002, building upon a successful political career that included the posts of Minister of Foreign Relations, Minister of Finance and Senator. Cardoso has been acclaimed for his leadership in strengthening Brazil’s democracy and fostering its emergence into the international market.

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For more than 25 years, Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been a respected celebrity, humanitarian and role model throughout Africa. As the Goodwill Ambassador for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, she brings the voices of Africa's poor to World Economic Forums, United Nations General Assemblies, African Union Summits and the White House Summit on Malaria, to name a few.

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As a renowned American designer and humanitarian, Kenneth Cole believes that "It is great to be known for your shoes. It is even better to be recognized for your soul." A business that began over 25 years ago out of the back of a 40-foot trailer, Kenneth Cole Productions has risen to the top of American fashion. Cole is famed for uniting his fashion instincts and business acumen with his philanthropic convictions.

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Tal Dehtiar has worked on numerous international projects and co-founded MBAs Without Borders. MBAs Without Borders has engaged hundreds of business professionals from around the world to help build small and social businesses in over 25 developing countries, including Haiti, Liberia,  Pakistan, and Nicaragua.

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In addition to his role as a Co-Director at The O’Neill Institute, Mark Dybul is an inaugural fellow of the George W. Bush Institute. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Dybul served as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, leading the implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

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Ambassador Eric Goosby serves as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, leading all of the U.S. Government's international HIV/AIDS efforts. In this role, Ambassador Goosby oversees implementation of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), as well as engagement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Beloved actress and UNICEF Ambassador Sarah Jessica Parker will join GBC on June 2nd to tell us about an innovative new UNICEF program—in partnership with GBC—whose aim is to accelerate the fight against HIV/AIDS. Don't miss out!

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In his role as Executive Director, Michel Sidibé is committed to transforming UNAIDS into a results-oriented organization and to supporting countries in achieving their universal access targets and Millennium Development Goals. An outspoken advocate with a people-centered approach, Sidibé has called for the elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission and reducing TB-related death among people living with HIV by half by 2015.

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Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is Managing Director and CEO of Access Bank, one of Nigeria's largest and fastest-growing financial institutions with an extensive network of branches and subsidiary businesses in nine countries across Africa and the United Kingdom. Aigboje is widely recognized as a successful business leader and proponent of corporate social responsibility in the African business community.

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Christoph Benn joined the Global Fund in 2003 and currently serves as the Director of the External Relations & Partnerships Cluster. He has been responsible for mobilizing resources for the Global Fund and building and maintaining good relations with all Global Fund partners, almost since its creation in 2002.

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Seth Berkley is President, CEO and Founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a not-for-profit organization operational in 25 countries, working to ensure the development of safe, effective, accessible and preventive HIV vaccines. He is a medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international health.

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Jorge Bermudez was appointed Executive Secretary of UNITAID in July 2007. Since then, he has successfully led UNITAID forward by advocating for UNITAID with top government officials, leaders of the pharmaceutical industry, scientific bodies and civil society.

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Cynthia Carroll became Chief Executive of Anglo American plc in March 2007. The company is a leader in the global mining industry, ranking in the top 20 companies on the London Stock Exchange's FTSE 100 Index. It is the world's biggest producer of platinum and, through its associate De Beers, diamonds.

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Sherwin Charles is a Senior Executive at Nando's, where he has worked for five years. He is responsible for Nando's Treasury as well as the Group's financial services.

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Gary Cohen is Executive Vice President of BD, a global medical technology company. Cohen and the BD team are extensively engaged in collaborations across the public, private and nonprofit sectors to address health needs in developing and emerging countries.

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Isobel Coleman is a Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. She is also the Director of the CFR's Civil Society, Markets and Democracy Initiative and the Council's Women and Foreign Policy Program.

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Bob Corcoran is Vice President of Corporate Citizenship at General Electric (GE), leading the Company's CSR function globally. He also serves as President and Chairman of the GE Foundation.

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Aron Cramer is recognized globally as an authority on corporate social responsibility by business leaders, NGOs and his peers in the field. He advises senior executives at BSR's 250 member companies and other global businesses, and is regularly featured as a speaker at major events and in a range of media outlets.

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Prior to joining DNA Genotek in 2004, Curry spent nine years as a key leader of Entrust, Inc. He joined the company in its startup phase and played an instrumental role in creating a new market in Internet security software, ultimately growing Entrust into a global leader with a revenue of over $200 million ($Cdn) in 2000.

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Michael T. Dan is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Brink's Company, the world’s premier provider of secure transportation and cash management services. Dan joined Brink’s in 1982 as Director-Automotive Design and later served as Regional Vice President and then Executive Vice President, North America.

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Janis Davis-Street manages the Health and Productivity group in Chevron's Corporate Health and Medical Department. The group provides targeted interventions for identified health risks and designs health education and health promotion programming for employees, with a focus on injury and disease prevention.

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Rick Echevarria is Vice President of the Intel Architecture Group and General Manager of the Business Client Platform division. He currently oversees the desktop and notebook platform business for products specifically targeted at the corporate and government sectors, including the telecommunications and education segments and small and medium-sized businesses.

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David Ferreira is the Managing Director for Innovative Finance and Head of the Washington DC Office at GAVI Alliance, a public-private global health partnership. GAVI is committed to saving children's lives and protecting people's health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries.

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Yashashree Gurjar is the Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Avantha Group & the Chief Executive of Avantha Foundation. She has more than 22 years of diverse experience in the area of social development that has included working with government, NGOs, and the corporate sector.

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John Jackson is Vice President of Social Responsibility for MTV Networks International, developing partnerships and strategy across MTV's channels worldwide. He began working at MTV in 2005, coordinating the Global Media AIDS Initiative during MTV's chairmanship of the UN-backed project.

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Ann Keeling joined the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) as Chief Executive Officer in November 2008. Currently, she chairs the Steering Committee of the four federations (IDF, WHF, UICC and The Union) that comprise the NCD Alliance.

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Howard K. Koh is the Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He oversees 14 core public health offices — including the Office of the Surgeon General and the US Public Health Service Corps — as well as 10 regional health offices across the nation and 10 Presidential and Secretarial advisory committees.

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Mark Kramer is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of FSG and the author of influential publications on shared value, corporate social responsibility (CSR), catalytic philanthropy, strategic evaluation, impact investing and adaptive leadership.

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As the Vice President of Strategy and Regional Affairs, Jimmy Lee leads strategy development and planning for GBC, and manages the efforts of the organization's regional offices in Johannesburg, Beijing, Nairobi and Moscow. Lee directs GBC's planning and decision-making processes, focusing on the creation and execution of high-impact strategies.

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Alison Lewis is President of Odwalla Inc, a wholly owned natural beverage and food subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company. She has over 20 years of experience within the packaged goods industry. Lewis joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1996 as Senior Brand Manager of Diet Coke.

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Chris Librie is the Director of Global Sustainability at SC Johnson. In this role, he provides global leadership to facilitate the development and implementation of environmental and safety policies, strategies and actions.

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A former adviser to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Litovchenko has been the Executive Director of the Russian Managers Association since 2000. Under his governing, the Association became one of the leading national business unions, whose membership base unites over 2,500 executives of the foremost Russian and multinational companies.

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David Martin is a Principal in Deloitte Consulting's strategy practice, focusing on growth and innovation in the life sciences sector. He is the emerging markets leader for the life sciences practice and serves as the markets leader for corporate and business unit strategy.

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Born in Hungary, Kati Marton has combined a career as a reporter and writer with human rights advocacy. She has published seven books and contributed as a reporter to ABC News, Public Broadcasting Services, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Vanity Fair and The New Republic.

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Keith Mitchelson is Vice President of International Business Development at CapitalBio Corporation. He joined CapitalBio Corporation in 2006, when he relocated to Beijing, China. At the same time, he assumed the position of Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University's Medical Systems Biology Research Centre.

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Anne M. Mulcahy is the former CEO and Chairman of the Board at Xerox Corporation where she began her career in 1976. Mulcahy held multiple leadership positions at Xerox during her tenure, from Vice President for Human Resources to Chief Staff Officer, and then Corporate Senior Vice President.

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Lydia Murimi acquired most of her 19-year work experience in the private sector, focusing on strategy and operations. She has held a number of senior marketing and commercial roles with blue-chip FMCG multi-nationals including Colgate-Palmolive, SABMiller and Coca-Cola.

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Kathy O'Brien has worked at Unilever in Customer Development, Marketing and Shopper Marketing. Prior to assuming her most current role, she was Marketing Director for Dove, the leading personal wash brand in the United States. Kathy was responsible for building brand quity and executing brand activation plans in the US.

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Clifford Panter is the Health and Safety Advisor to Mercedes-Benz South Africa—a subsidiary of Daimler AG, Germany. Panter manages employee health, safety and wellbeing strategies and programs for the Mercedes-Benz Group of Companies in South Africa—including the benchmark HIV/AIDS workplace program.

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Sonak Pastakia serves as an Assistant Professor for the Purdue University College of Pharmacy and works full-time in Western Kenya helping develop various programs with the USAID-AMPATH partnership. He has helped develop comprehensive diabetes care services in rural resource-constrained settings where none had previously existed.

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Kathy Pickus is Divisional Vice President of Global Citizenship and Policy at Abbott, overseeing the strategic direction of the company's citizenship initiatives and reporting. She also serves as Vice President of the Abbott Fund, the company's philanthropic foundation, managing and developing programs with not-for-profit organizations.

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Since her election as City Council Speaker, Christine C. Quinn has established herself as a champion for working families, fighting for policies and services that are critical to the lives of real New Yorkers. She has worked to make the Council more responsive to the needs of all New Yorkers, and dramatically increased transparency and accountability.

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British A. Robinson is the Director of Private Sector Engagement in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator at the U. S. Department of State. She provides leadership and guidance on the development, implementation and evaluation of public-private partnerships.

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Prior to his role as Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks International, William Roedy was President of MTV Networks, overseeing all of MTV Networks' growing international multimedia business operations. Under his leadership, MTV Networks has continued to develop and launched more uniquely programmed networks and websites around the world than any other entertainment company.

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Since becoming the first Chief Executive Officer of Find in 2003, Giorgio Roscigno has overseen the development of 5 new WHO-approved diagnostic tools, the distribution of these tools to 27 countries and the establishment of ambitious programs in malaria and sleeping sickness.

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Doris Rouse manages a program to develop technologies addressing critical global health needs. Since 2000, she has contributed to the formation and activities of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), an international public-private consortium to develop new drugs for tuberculosis.

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Peter Sands was appointed Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC in 2006, following four years as Group Finance Director, where he had responsibilities for Finance, Risk and Technology, Strategy and Operations. Prior to this, Peter was a director and senior partner with consultants McKinsey & Co. Peter had been with McKinsey since 1988 where he worked extensively in the banking and technology sectors in a wide range of international markets.

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Michael Schreiber is GBC's Senior Vice President of Membership and Chief Development Officer. Schreiber's previous positions include President & CEO of United eWay, and President of Truist. Schreiber's position at GBC focuses on developing innovations to speed progress and support performance improvements in corporate disease-fighting.

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As Senior Vice President of Worldwide Education at Redken and Pureology (a division of L’Oréal USA), Christine Schuster leads both brands’ efforts and innovation in continued education programs including National Field Training, International Event Strategy and the Redken Exchange education facilities.  

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Jeff Seabright is Chief Environmental Officer at The Coca-Cola Company, where he is responsible for environmental governance and leadership across Coca-Cola's global operations. Under Seabright's leadership, Coca-Cola has set a global goal to return to nature and communities an amount of water equal to what is used in all of its beverages and their production.

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Peter A. Seligmann has been a leader in creating conservation solutions for the past 34 years. In 1987, Seligmann founded Conservation International (CI). Since then, CI has earned a reputation as an organization on the cutting edge, creating innovative and lasting solutions to the threats facing humanity, biodiversity and the natural systems that sustain us all.

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Albert J. Siemens, PhD, is Chairman and CEO of FHI, a health and development organization working in 125 countries. FHI has 1,400 partners, including governments, other non-governmental organizations, the private sector, foundations, research institutions, clinical facilities, internationally-recognized scientists and local communities.

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Rebecca heads Public Affairs for Novartis' Malaria Initiatives, the company's largest corporate social responsibility program, which provides the fixed-dosed combination ACT Coartem at cost to over 45 malaria endemic countries worldwide. Since the start of the initiative in 2001, Novartis has supplied close to 250 million ACTs to patients in need and contributed to saving thousands of lives.

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Roberto Tapia-Conyer
Director-General, Carlos Slim Health Insititute

Roberto Tapia-Conyer currently serves as the Director-General of the Carlos Slim Health Institute, a non-profit organization, funded by the Carlos Slim Foundation to invest resources for the development of public and social health projects in Mexico and the rest of Latin-America.

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John E. Tedstrom
President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

John Tedstrom is President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Tedstrom joined GBC in August, 2006, and since that time has focused on leveraging the many gains made by GBC in its earlier years—a strong membership base, technical programs, and partnerships.

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Thomas Teuscher is a public health physician with over 20 years of professional experience in public-private partnerships and project management in developing countries. Teuscher currently serves as Deputy Executive Director and Senior Advisor on Policy, Strategy and Governance to the Executive Director at the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership.

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Nancy Mensch Turett
Global President of Health, Edelman

Nancy Mensch Turett is Global President for Health at Edelman, the world's leading independent public relations and public engagement firm. A member of the Edelman Executive Committee, Turett chairs the team forming an Edelman Institute that will serve as the publisher, catalyst and convener of pioneer thinking and collaboration to advance the shared interests of enterprise and global society.

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Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen is the CEO of the Group, Vestergaard Frandsen, a company focused on achieving the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme poverty, combating infectious disease and reducing global warming.

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Gabi Zedlmayer drives a global team of experts focused on enriching society, promoting economic growth and solving social issues with HP talent and technology. Zedlmayer's team provides individuals and businesses with innovative tools to be creative, productive and successful in using the power of information.

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Rhonda I. Zygocki is Executive Vice President of Policy and Planning for Chevron Corporation, a position she assumed in March 2011. Her responsibilities include Strategy and Planning; Policy, Government and Public Affairs; and Health, Environment and Safety.

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