WorldAffairs 2009 Conference Program

1. Global Priorities:
Critical Choices for the
Obama Administration
63 rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 2-3, 2009

2. GLOBAL Welcome to the 63rd Annual
PRIORITIES Conference of the World Affairs
Council of Northern California
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We stand at a moment when global affairs are rapidly shifting, requiring that
shared solutions tap all sources of innovation. Changes made today will have
a lasting effect on our future, our nation and our world — demanding we
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understand the challenges we face and the opportunities for creative solutions.
In that spirit, we are proud to be hosting our Annual Conference in San
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Francisco for the first time. The Northern California community has long
been deeply engaged in international issues, with a wealth of intellectual,
entrepreneurial and community-based resources that enable us to have a
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We extend our gratitude to our trustees, donors and members whose on-
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possible. We also thank those local corporations whose generous support has
helped make this conference possible.
LISTENING We hope each of you will, together with us, learn, engage and celebrate the
richness and diversity of knowledge, ideas and experience that create a strong
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CLIMATE Sincerely yours,
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3. Global Priorities: Critical Choices
for the Obama Administration
63 rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Conference Co-Chairmen
Agenda The Honorable George P. Shultz, 60 th US Secretary of State
The Honorable William J. Perry, 19 th US Secretary of Defense
Thursday, April 2nd
5:30 – 7:00 PM General Registration 10:00 – 10:15 AM Coffee Break
Georgian Italian
6:00 – 7:00 PM Welcome Reception with Campbell’s Jazz Soup 10:15 – 11:30 AM Morning Breakouts
Colonial
Borgia I. Developing Clean and Efficient Alternative Energy Strategies
7:00 – 8:00 PM Dinner With the development of a comprehensive energy and climate change
Grand Ballroom plan, the Obama administration promises to invest in renewable energy
and low-carbon emission technologies, improve energy efficiency, decrease
7:00 PM Co-Chairman’s Opening Remarks reliance on foreign oil, and create new American jobs. What will this clean
The Honorable George P. Shultz, 60 th US Secretary of State energy future look like? Which renewable energy sources are the best
targets for investment? What innovations and courses of action are critical
8:00 PM Leadership Challenges in the Global Economic Turmoil for this new strategy?
Sir Andrew Crockett, President, JPMorgan Chase International
Moderator: Mason Willrich, Director, California Clean Energy Fund
Jan Hamrin, CEO, HMW International
Friday, April 3rd John Melo, CEO, Amyris Biotechnologies
R. James Woolsey, Venture Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners
7:15 – 8:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
Italian Georgian II. The Impact of a Global Recession: Globalization, Trade and
Protectionism
8:00 – 8:45 AM Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil and Proliferation During the toughest economic climate since World War II, how will turmoil
Grand Ballroom Amory Lovins, Chairman & Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute in the international financial markets impact the Obama administration’s fiscal
and monetary policy? How can the government encourage business growth
8:45 – 10:00 AM Plenary I: Three Challenges in One: The Economy, and to what degree is intervention needed to revive the nation’s financial
Grand Ballroom Energy and the Environment system? What will be the effects on global trade and can the US avoid
protectionism?
Moderator: Elizabeth Farnsworth, Special Correspondent, The NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer Moderator: John Wilson, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
A Tangled Web of Crises: Crafting Serious Solutions to Serious Problems Barry Eichengreen, Professor, Economics and Political Science,
Jane C.S. Long, Associate Director, Energy and Environment, Lawrence University of California, Berkeley
Livermore National Laboratory Kenneth Juster, Executive Vice President, Salesforce.com
Innovative Climate and Energy Strategies Edgard Habib, Chief Economist, Chevron Corporation
Dan Reicher, Director, Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Google.org
Engaging China
David Victor, Director, Program on Energy & Sustainable Development,
Stanford University
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4. Elizabethan D III. Addressing Global Poverty: Economic Development, Health, 1:00 – 2:15 PM Plenary II: Strategies for the Greater Middle East:
Hunger and Education Grand Ballroom Where to From Here?
What is the future of foreign assistance spending and efforts to
combat global poverty under the Obama administration? What might Moderator: Nancy A. Jarvis, Attorney, Farrand Cooper, P.C.
reduced spending mean for US commitments to economic development An Update on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
and global health, as well as humanitarian relief? Moreover, should the Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
strategy for allocating US foreign aid be reformed to be more responsive Architecture for Peace: A Comprehensive Approach to End the Conflict
to the needs of donor nations, as well as to respond to global health and Toni Verstandig, Senior Policy Advisor, Center for Middle East Peace
humanitarian emergencies? and Economic Cooperation
An Update on the Conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Pakistan
Moderator: Sara Abbasi, Chairman of the Board, Developments Vali Nasr, Professor, International Politics, Tufts University
in Literacy
Edward Miguel, Associate Professor, Economics, University of California, 2:15 – 2:30 PM Coffee Break
Berkeley Italian
Jennifer Kates, Vice President and Director, HIV Policy, Kaiser Family
Foundation 2:30 – 3:45 PM Afternoon Breakouts
David Roland-Holst, Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics,
University of California, Berkeley Elizabethan D V. Responding to Humanitarian Emergencies: Zimbabwe, Sudan,
Congo, Gaza
Colonial Room IV. State Failures? A Fragile Pakistan and Afghanistan As recent events in Africa and the Middle East have shown, regional
In today’s interconnected world, weak and failed states pose a significant and political conflicts can quickly escalate into humanitarian crises. What
risk to both US and global security. Looking at Afghanistan and Pakistan, mechanisms need to be in place for international institutions to respond
only the most recent examples of failed or failing states, how can we most effectively? What are the best steps toward prevention? How can
better anticipate, avert or respond to conflicts and avoid state failure? we respond more rapidly to avoid emergencies escalating to crises?
Moderator: Anne Kenner, Adjunct Professor, Hastings College of the Moderator: Nayla Rizk, Partner, Spencer Stuart
Law, University of California Fabienne Hara, Vice President, Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group
Stephen Krasner, Professor, International Relations, Stanford Randy Newcomb, President & CEO, Humanity United
University Christine Covey, Member, Board of Directors, Seeds of Peace
Neil Joeck, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Security Research,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
William Cole, Senior Director, Governance, Law and Civil Society
Programs, The Asia Foundation
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch
Grand Ballroom US Strategic Power in the 21st Century
Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
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5. Colonial VI. New Tapestry of Economic Players: The United States, Emerging Georgian VIII. The Middle East Regional Crises: Israel-Palestine and Iran
Economies, China, India and Sovereign Wealth Funds Recent events in Israel and Gaza have sparked energy to reboot the peace
The turmoil in the world’s financial markets along with the growth of process. Yet, democratic elections in the Palestinian territories have made
sovereign wealth funds has significant geo-political implications. How negotiations for a two-state solution more complex. While in Iran, upcoming
have these relatively recent developments changed the playing field for elections scheduled for June raise new challenges for US efforts to prevent
both the world’s major economic players and emerging economies? Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilities. What impact do these recent
developments have on the new US administration’s policies for these two
Moderator: Doug Bereuter, President, The Asia Foundation critical regions on opposite ends of the Middle East?
Rafiq Dossani, Senior Research Scholar, APARC, Stanford University
Daniel Rosen, Principal, Rhodium Group, LLC Moderator: Ralph Kuiper, Chairman, Peninsula Chapter, World Affairs
Jack Wadsworth, Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley Council of Northern California
Abbas Milani, Director, Iranian Studies, Stanford University
Borgia VII. Russia, Europe, NATO and the Near Abroad Omar Dajani, Assistant Professor, McGeorge School of Law,
The Russian incursion into Georgia, deployment of missile defense University of the Pacific
systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, NATO membership for
Ukraine and Georgia, and the latest crisis over natural gas flows 3:45 – 4:00 PM Break
through Ukraine into Europe have placed considerable pressures on
US-Russian relations. With a new tone in Washington toward Europe, 4:00 – 5:00 PM Roundtable: The First 70 Days:
is there also a window of opportunity to improve relations with Russia? Grand Ballroom Has the Obama Administration Got it Right?
How might the new US administration and NATO refocus the agenda
with Russia? Jane Wales, President & CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California
James Goldgeier, Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign
Moderator: Jan Kalicki, Counselor for International Strategy, Relations
Chevron Corporation Fabienne Hara, Vice President, Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group
Pavel Podvig, Acting Associate Director for Research, Center for Dan Reicher, Director, Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Google.org
International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University Daniel Rosen, Principal, Rhodium Group, LLC
James Goldgeier, Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Relations, Council on
Foreign Relations 5:00 PM Conference Concludes
Ambassador Steven Pifer, Visiting Fellow, Center on the United States
and Europe, The Brookings Institution
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6. 2009 Annual Conference
Speaker Biographies
* Moderator
Sara Abbasi* William Cole
Sara Abbasi is chairman of the board of Developments in Literacy (DIL). William Cole serves as senior director for governance, law and
In 2001, Ms. Abbasi established DIL’s San Francisco chapter. DIL is a US civil society programs and concurrently as senior director for program
based non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of female strategy and development for The Asia Foundation. Mr. Cole spent
literacy in the remote areas of Pakistan. She serves on the boards of 2002 in Afghanistan reestablishing the Foundation in that country and
One Nation, the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Stanford has traveled frequently to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the years since.
University’s Islamic Studies Program and Menlo School. With her board He plays a central role in strategic planning and program development
affiliations, she has been actively involved in several initiatives with a at the country level for the Foundation’s seventeen field offices. Prior
particular focus on education and cross cultural understanding. She holds to joining the Foundation, he held a range of foreign aid and policy
a BA in business administration from Santa Clara University and an MA research-related positions focused on democracy and governance
in international relations. reform, economic policy reform, social change, strategic planning and
management, and project design and evaluation. He is a frequent writer
Doug Bereuter * and speaker on topics related to Asian development, Afghanistan and
Doug Bereuter is the president & chief executive officer of The Asia Pakistan, democracy and governance, and the political economy of social
Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco. Previously, Mr. Bereuter and economic reform.
served for 26 years as a member of Congress from Nebraska. During his
congressional career, he was a leading member of the House International Christine Covey
Relations Committee, where he served as vice chairman, chaired the Christine Covey is a founding board member of Seeds of Peace and
Asia-Pacific Subcommittee, chaired the Europe Subcommittee, was ranking served as its first vice president. For 30 years, Ms. Covey lived and
minority member of the Human Rights Subcommittee, and had a long worked in divided areas of the Middle East, Central Europe and the
tenure on its Subcommittee on Economic Policy & Trade. He served as Balkans with her diplomat family, serving as chair and board member
an infantry and intelligence officer in the US Army, practiced and taught of bi-national schools and organizations in Jerusalem, Cairo and Berlin.
graduate courses in urban and regional planning, and led various agencies She was a CPA with Arthur Anderson and Thompson Greenspon,
and programs in Nebraska state government. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa co-founded the CPA review course at American University in
from the University of Nebraska and has two MAs in city planning and Cairo and taught accounting at Bethlehem University and American
public administration from Harvard University. University in Cairo. She served as Washington representative of
the American University in Cairo and Jerusalem correspondent of
Biblical Archaeology Review. She is also a board member of the Paul
Taylor Dance Foundation and co-director of a San Francisco Bay Area
scholarship fund. She studied at Michigan State University and The
George Washington University.
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7. Andrew Crockett Rafiq Dossani
Andrew Crockett is president of JPMorgan Chase International and a Rafiq Dossani is a senior research scholar at Shorenstein APARC,
member of the executive committee of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Before responsible for developing and directing the South Asia Initiative. Dr.
joining JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Crockett had been general manager of the Dossani’s research interests include South Asian security, and financial,
Bank for International Settlements, serving two five-year terms. At the technology and energy sector reform in India. He is currently undertaking
request of the G-7 finance ministers, he also served as the first chairman projects on regional integration, innovation in outsourcing, engineering
of the Financial Stability Forum, a group of senior financial officials from education, access to capital and entrepreneurship in information
the major economies that monitors the health of the international financial technology on the South Asian subcontinent. He earlier worked for
system. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions at the Bank of the Robert Fleming Investment Banking Group, first as chief executive
England and the International Monetary Fund. He has received Honorary officer of its India operations and later as head of its San Francisco
LLD from the University of Birmingham, European Banker of the year operations. He has also been the chairman and chief executive officer of
and Knight Bachelor. He is the author of several books on economic and a stockbroking firm on the OTCEI exchange in India, the deputy editor
financial subjects, as well as numerous articles in scholarly publications. of Business India Weekly, and a professor of finance at Pennsylvania State
He was educated at Cambridge University and Yale University. University. He holds a BA in economics from St. Stephen’s College, New
Delhi, India, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta,
Omar Dajani India, and a PhD in finance from Northwestern University.
Omar Dajani is an associate professor of law at the McGeorge School
of Law, University of the Pacific. Previously, Mr. Dajani was based in Barry Eichengreen
the Palestinian territories, where he served first as legal adviser to the Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee
Palestinian negotiating team in peace talks with Israel and, subsequently, as professor of economics and professor of political science at the University
a political adviser to United Nations special envoy Terje Rød-Larsen. Prior of California, Berkeley. Dr. Eichengreen is also research associate of the
to working in the Middle East, he clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and
the US Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit and was a litigation associate research fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.
at the Washington office of Sidley & Austin. He has written extensively From 1997 to 1998, he was senior policy advisor at the International
in the fields of international law and negotiations theory, focusing on the Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
legal aspects of the conflict in the Middle East. Sciences. He is the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and
economic officials. He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships
and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences in Palo Alto, California, and the Institute for Advanced Study in
Berlin. He was awarded the Economic History Association’s Jonathan R.T.
Hughes Prize for excellence in teaching in 2002 and the University of
California, Berkeley, Social Science Division’s Distinguished Teaching
Award in 2004. He is also the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from
the American University in Paris.
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8. Elizabeth Farnsworth* James Goldgeier
Elizabeth Farnsworth is a freelance journalist for The NewsHour with James Goldgeier is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow for
Jim Lehrer and produces documentaries. Ms. Farnsworth was chief transatlantic relations at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor
correspondent and principal substitute anchor of The NewsHour with Jim of political science and international affairs at The George Washington
Lehrer. She then became a senior correspondent, reporting mostly from University. Dr. Goldgeier was previously an adjunct senior fellow at
overseas. In recent years, she has reported from Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Henry A. Kissinger scholar
Turkey, Egypt, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Chile, Haiti and Vietnam. Her 2001 in foreign policy and international relations at the Library of Congress.
four-part series on the AIDS crisis in Botswana and Malawi received the From 2001 to 2005, he directed the Institute for European, Russian
2001 Silver World Medal from the New York Festivals and a national Emmy and Eurasian Studies at The George Washington University and prior
nomination. Her documentary, Thanh’s War, garnered a CINE Golden Eagle to that was an assistant professor at Cornell University. He has been a
and a San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Award. Her visiting scholar at Stanford University, The Brookings Institution and the
writings have appeared in numerous publications and she co-produced The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 1995 to 1996,
Judge and the General, a feature-length documentary about the legal pursuit he was a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow serving
of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. She received her MA in Latin at the US State Department and on the National Security Council staff.
American history from Stanford University. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his
PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Leslie H. Gelb
Leslie Gelb is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. Edgard Habib
Dr. Gelb writes, speaks and consults on foreign policy and politics and Edgard Habib is chief economist at Chevron Corporation. In 1988, Dr.
served in the three worlds of journalism, government and think tanks: as Habib joined Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA) in
a columnist and correspondent for The New York Times, where he won a Washington, DC, as the vice president for the Middle East and Africa. He
Pulitzer Prize; as a senior official in the departments of Defense and State; was later named senior vice president and managing director for WEFA’s
and as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He entered Washington operations. He later became a senior advisor for Mitsubishi
government service in 1966 as an executive assistant to Senator Jacob Corporation, based in Tokyo, on global petroleum markets and country
Javits. From 1967 to 1969, he served in the Department of Defense. He risk assessment. In 1997, he joined the International Energy Agency of
was also a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and then joined The the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, based
New York Times as a diplomatic correspondent and has since worked in in Paris, as manager of their Middle East and Africa affairs. He earned
various positions. He returned to government in 1977 as the assistant his BA in political science and international finance from the University
secretary of state for politico-military affairs in the Carter administration. of San Francisco. He also holds an MPA in development economics and
He has authored five books and countless articles. He earned his BA public finance, and a PhD in economics from the American University in
from Tufts University and his PhD from Harvard University. Washington, DC.
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9. Jan Hamrin Nancy A. Jarvis*
Jan Hamrin is chief executive officer of HMW International, a consulting Nancy Jarvis is a former chair of the World Affairs Council of Northern
firm specializing in the implementation of sustainable energy policies. California. Ms. Jarvis is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Hamrin also serves as secretary general of the Environmental in New York, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London,
Tracking Network of North America. She recently retired as the and the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. She
president of the Center for Resource Solutions that she founded and has practiced law with Farrand Cooper, P.C., of San Francisco since
headed for 11 years. She has been part of the renewable energy team 1981. Prior to her legal career, she was foreign policy editor for MIT
for the China Sustainable Energy Program since 1999 and has been Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
working in Europe, Canada, India, Mexico, Thailand, Brazil, and several
other countries. Previously, she founded and served as executive Neil Joeck
director of the Independent Energy Producers Association and served Neil Joeck is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Security
as manager of solar programs for the California Energy Commission. Research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
She has co-authored numerous publications. She received her BS in and a research associate at the Center for South Asian Studies at the
home economics from the University of New Mexico, her MS in University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Joeck served as director for
consumer science and her PhD in ecology both from the University counterproliferation strategy at the National Security Council, and
of California, Davis. he was a member of the policy planning staff at the Department of
State. He also worked on India and Pakistan as a political analyst and
Fabienne Hara group leader at LLNL/Z Division. He worked on nuclear proliferation
Fabienne Hara is the vice president of multilateral affairs for the issues in India and Pakistan and wrote numerous classified reports
International Crisis Group. Ms. Hara oversees the International Crisis and articles for the US government. He also was a consultant to the
Group’s advocacy at the United Nations and the Security Council in Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government
New York and directs the International Crisis Group’s New York office. to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. He
She has over 15 years of experience in African conflict management received a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an
and resolution issues. Her areas of expertise include mediation, MA from the Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton
peacekeeping, transitional justice, the Great Lakes region, Sudan and University in Canada, and an MA and PhD in political science from
the Horn of Africa. Before becoming vice president of the International the University of California, Los Angeles.
Crisis Group, she was the acting chief and deputy chief of the political
affairs division of the United Nations Mission in Sudan. Additionally,
she has served as a senior political officer for the United Nations
Department of Political Affairs and a fellow at the Carr Center for
Human Rights at Harvard University. She earned MAs in international
relations, political science and German studies.
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10. Kenneth Juster Jennifer Kates
Kenneth Juster is executive vice president at Salesforce.com. Mr. Juster Jennifer Kates directs the Kaiser Family Foundation’s HIV-related policy
previously served as under secretary of commerce from 2001 to 2005. projects, conducts policy research and analysis, and provides HIV/AIDS
He also served as US chair of the US-India High Technology Cooperation expertise to the Foundation’s public health information campaigns and
Group and was one of the key architects of the Next Steps in Strategic media partnerships. Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Kates was
Partnership initiative between the United States and India. In addition, a senior associate with The Lewin Group. She provided consulting
he was responsible for concluding and signing the End-Use Visit services to clients such as the US Department of Health and Human
Understanding between the US and China. He was a senior partner at Services, the New York State AIDS Institute, the Texas Department of
Arnold & Porter, where he practiced international law. He was also the Health, the New York City Department of Public Health, the Whitman
counselor of the US State Department and deputy and senior adviser to Walker Clinic and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Before
Lawrence S. Eagleburger, deputy secretary of state. He earned his BA in that, she was the director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
government, MS in public policy, and his JD all from Harvard University. Concerns at Princeton University. She earned her BA in political science
and women’s studies from Dartmouth College, an MA in political
Jan Kalicki* science from the University of Massachusetts, and an MA in public affairs
Jan Kalicki is counselor for international strategy at Chevron Corporation from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,
where he advises Chevron’s chairman, vice chairman and other senior Princeton University.
executives on global energy issues, regional strategies, international business
opportunities and negotiations and government relations. Dr. Kalicki is also Anne Kenner *
a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Anne Kenner served for thirteen years as an assistant US Attorney
He served previously in the Clinton administration as counselor to the US (AUSA) in the US Department of Justice. Ms. Kenner worked as an
Department of Commerce and comes from an extensive background in the AUSA in the Eastern District of New York, specializing in organized
government, financial and academic worlds. In government, he previously crime, racketeering and narcotics prosecutions. She then served for
served as a US foreign service officer, a member of the State Department’s nine years as an AUSA in San Francisco, focusing on white collar crime
policy planning staff under Secretaries Kissinger and Vance, and chief foreign and serving as the chief of appeals. She has prosecuted numerous jury
policy adviser to Senator Edward Kennedy. In finance, he served as vice and bench trials, and has represented the Department of Justice before
president and then senior vice president at Lehman Brothers in New York. the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal. In 2003, she joined the
In academia, he has taught at the London School of Economics and Political adjunct faculty at Hastings College of the Law, University of California,
Science, Harvard, Georgetown, Princeton, and Brown University. He earned teaching criminal law and procedure. In 2005, she became a trustee
his AB with honors from Columbia College and his PhD from the London of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. She is a former
School of Economics and Political Science. trustee of the Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco and of
the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. She obtained her AB
from Harvard University and her JD from Boalt Hall School of Law,
University of California, Berkeley.
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11. Stephen Krasner Jane C.S. Long
Stephen Krasner is the Graham H. Stuart professor of international Jane Long is the principal associate director at large for the Lawrence
relations at Stanford University, and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Long is also a fellow in the Lawrence
Institute for International Studies, the Stanford Institute for Economic Livermore National Laboratory Center for Global Strategic Research.
Policy Research, and the Hoover Institution. Dr. Krasner taught as an Her current interests are in reinvention of the energy system and
assistant professor at Harvard University and as an associate professor adaptation in response to climate change. She is the former dean of
at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2001 and 2002, he served the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno, former
as a member of the policy planning staff at the US Department of director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, and former
State and the National Security Council as director for governance and chairman of the Nevada State Task Force on Energy Efficiency and
development. From 2005 to 2007, he served as director of the policy Renewable Energy. She also worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National
planning staff at the US Department of State. At Stanford University, he Laboratory where she served as department chair for the departments
has served as chair of the political science department, deputy director of energy resources technology and environmental research.
of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and director
of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He Amory Lovins
earned degrees from Cornell University and Columbia University and Amory Lovins is chairman and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain
his PhD from Harvard University. Institute and chairman emeritus of Fiberforge, Inc. Published in 29
books and hundreds of papers, Mr. Lovin’s work has been recognized
Ralph Kuiper * by the Blue Planet, Volvo, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and he has been
Ralph Kuiper is the chairman for the Peninsula Chapter of the World awarded Mitchell Prizes, a MacArthur fellowship, the Benjamin Franklin
Affairs Council of Northern California. Dr. Kuiper is retired from 35 and Happold Medals, 10 honorary doctorates, an Honorary AIA
years in the aerospace industry. He was the director of research at the and FRSA, foreign membership of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center and served in a variety Engineering Sciences, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, and
of management positions as a program manager, system engineering World Technology Awards. He advises governments and major firms
manager and engineering design director. After retiring, he worked in the worldwide on advanced energy and resource efficiency, and has led
microelectronic manufacturing sector and consulted for several satellite the technical redesign of more than $30 billion worth of facilities in
communications companies. He serves on the board of the Bus Barn 29 sectors to achieve very large energy savings at typically lower
Stage Company Community Theater. In addition to organizing World capital cost.
Affairs Council events on the Peninsula, he has worked as a member of
the League of Women Voters to collaborate in organizing and bringing
in resource speakers for the Great Decisions Discussion Group series.
He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from
Stanford University.
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12. John Melo Abbas Milani
John Melo is the chief executive officer of Amyris. Mr. Melo has been Abbas Milani is The Hamid and Christina Moghadam director of Iranian
instrumental in transforming Amyris to become the leader in the studies at Stanford University and visiting professor in the political science
race to find solutions to the world’s growing demand for low carbon, department. In addition, Dr. Milani is co-director of the Iran Democracy
cleaner burning transportation fuels and specialty chemicals. Prior to Project and research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is
Amyris, he was president of United States Fuels Operations for BP Plc, US-Iran relations and Iranian cultural, political and security issues. He
formerly British Petroleum (BP), where he successfully led programs was formerly a professor of history and political science and chair of the
to increase marketing volumes, reduce costs and significantly improve department at Notre Dame de Namur University, research fellow at the
financial returns. During his nine years with BP, he also served as chief Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,
information officer of the refining and marketing segment, senior advisor assistant professor in the faculty of law and political science at Tehran
for e-business strategy to Lord Browne, BP Group chief executive, and University and a member of the board of directors of the Center for
director of global brand development. In this last role, he helped develop International Studies, Tehran University. He was research fellow at the
the “Helios” re-branding effort. Before joining BP, he was with Ernst Iranian Center for Social Research and assistant professor at the National
& Young and a member of the management teams for several startup University of Iran. He received his BA in political science and economics
companies, including Computer Aided Services and Alldata Corporation. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD in political science
from the University of Hawaii.
Edward Miguel
Edward Miguel is associate professor of economics and director of the Vali Nasr
Center of Evaluation for Global Action at the University of California, Vali Nasr is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of
Berkeley. Dr. Miguel is a faculty research associate of the National Bureau Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, an adjunct senior fellow at the
of Economic Research, associate editor for the Quarterly Journal of Council on Foreign Relations and senior fellow at the Belfer Center of
Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Review of Economics and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Nasr
Statistics. He is the recipient of the 2005 Alfred P. Sloan fellowship and is a member of the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
winner of the 2005 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize. He earned two BS degrees and has been the recipient of grants from the John D. and Catherine
in economics and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of T. MacArthur Foundation, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation,
Technology, and his PhD in economics from Harvard University where and the Social Science Research Council. He was a Carnegie Scholar in
he was a National Science Foundation fellow. 2006. He received his BA from Tufts University in international relations
summa cum laude and was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his
MA in international economics and Middle East studies from the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy and his PhD in political science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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13. Randy Newcomb William J. Perry
Randy Newcomb is president and chief executive officer of Humanity Conference Co-Chairman
United. Prior to Humanity United, Dr. Newcomb served in senior William J. Perry is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the
management positions at Omidyar Network and the Omidyar Foundation. Michael and Barbara Berberian professor at Stanford University, with
He also served as chief executive officer of Golden Gate Community Inc., a joint appointment in the School of Engineering and the Institute
a community-based social enterprise located in San Francisco. He was for International Studies. Dr. Perry is co-director of the Preventive
an inaugural fellow of the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Defense Project, a research collaboration of Stanford and Harvard
University Graduate School of Business. He earned MA degrees in Universities. He was the nineteenth US secretary of defense. His
cross-cultural studies and development economics from the University previous government experience was as deputy secretary of defense
of Bath, England, and his PhD from the University of San Francisco. from 1993 to 1994, and under secretary of defense for research and
engineering from 1977 to 1981. He has received numerous awards,
Michael O’Hanlon including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His business experience
Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy at The Brookings includes serving as a laboratory director for General Telephone and
Institution, where he specializes in US defense strategy, the use of military Electronics, founding and serving as the president of ESL, executive
force, homeland security and American foreign policy. Dr. O’Hanlon is a vice-president of Hambrecht & Quist, and founding and serving as
visiting lecturer at Princeton University and a member of the International the chairman of Technology Strategies and Alliances. He earned his
Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. He BS and MS from Stanford University and his PhD from Pennsylvania
is also the creator and senior scholar responsible for The Brookings State all in mathematics.
Institution’s Iraq Index. He was an analyst at the Congressional Budget
Office and previously worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He Steven Pifer
served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kinshasa, Congo, where he taught Steven Pifer is a visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution, where
college and high school physics in French. He earned his BS and MS he focuses on Russia and Ukraine. Ambassador Pifer is also a senior
degrees in physical sciences and his PhD in public and international adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He
affairs all from Princeton University. has provided commentary on Ukraine, Russia and arms control for
numerous media organizations. A retired foreign service officer, his
more than 25 years with the US Department of State focused on
US relations with Europe, the former Soviet Union, arms control and
security issues. His assignments included deputy assistant secretary
of state, with responsibility for Russia and Ukraine, ambassador to
Ukraine, and special assistant to the president and National Security
Council senior director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia. He also
served at the US embassies in London, Moscow and Warsaw as well
as in Geneva at the negotiation on intermediate-range nuclear forces.
He earned his BA from Stanford University.
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14. Pavel Podvig Nayla Rizk *
Pavel Podvig is research associate and acting associate director for Nayla Rizk is a member of Spencer Stuart’s Technology, Communications
research at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at & Media Practice in North America and is a leader in the firm’s board
Stanford University. Dr. Podvig worked at the Center for Arms Control services practice on the West Coast. Ms. Rizk has placed key executives at
Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, dedicated to Fortune 100 through start-up companies in the communications systems
the analysis of technical issues related to arms control and disarmament. and services, hardware, software, professional services and digital media
In Moscow, he was the leader of a major research project and the editor sectors. She previously ran the Technology, Communications & Media
of the book Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. He was awarded the Leo Practice in North America and led the firm’s nominations committee. She
Szilard Lectureship Award of 2008. From 2000 to 2004, he worked with is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on
the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, and International Policy, a trustee of the World Affairs Council of Northern
earlier with the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of California, a board member of the Harvard Business School Alumni
Technology. His current research focuses on the Russian strategic forces Association, and former board chair of the Harvard Business School
and nuclear weapons complex, as well as technical and political aspects of Club of Northern California. She earned her BS in operations research
nuclear nonproliferation, disarmament, missile defense, and US-Russian and industrial engineering from Cornell University and her MBA from
arms control process. Harvard Business School.
Dan Reicher David Roland-Holst
Dan Reicher is the director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives David Roland-Holst is a professor in the Department of Agricultural
for Google.org. Prior to his position at Google, Mr. Reicher served as and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr.
president and co-founder of New Energy Capital Corp., a private equity Roland-Holst is one of the world’s leading authorities on economic,
firm funded by the California State Teachers Retirement System and energy and climate policy modeling. He has extensive research
VantagePoint Venture Partners to invest in clean energy projects. He also experience in economics related to environment, development,
served as executive vice president of Northern Power Systems, one of agriculture and international trade. He has served in several academic
the nation’s oldest renewable energy companies. He was also an adjunct posts in the US, Europe and Asia. He also conducted research in
professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental over 40 countries, working with many public institutions including a
Studies and Vermont Law School. From 1997 to 2001, he was assistant variety of federal and state agencies, such as the Asian Development
secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Organization for Economic
US Department of Energy. Prior to this, he was the chief of staff, assistant Cooperation and Development, World Bank, and several United
secretary of energy for policy, and deputy chief of staff and counselor to Nations agencies. Most recently, his research has been central to
the secretary. Prior to his roles at the Department of Energy and in the the passage, design and implementation of California’s path breaking
business community, he was a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Global Warming Solutions Act. He holds a PhD in economics from the
Defense Council. He holds a BA in biology from Dartmouth College and University of California, Berkeley.
a JD from Stanford Law School.
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15. Daniel Rosen Toni Verstandig
Daniel Rosen is the principal of Rhodium Group, LLC, a specialized Toni Verstandig is currently a senior policy advisor at the Center for Middle
practice helping decision-makers in the public and private sectors East Peace and Economic Cooperation and a senior policy advisor to the
analyze and understand commercial, economic and policy trends in Aspen Institute Middle East Strategy Group. From 1994 until 2001, Ms.
greater China. Mr. Rosen is an economic advisor specializing in China’s Verstandig served as deputy assistant secretary of Near Eastern Affairs at
commercial development, and writes and speaks extensively on US- the US Department of State. She worked directly with the secretary of
China economic relations. He is also an adjunct associate professor at state and the special Middle East coordinator as a member of the peace
Columbia University and a visiting fellow with the Peterson Institute team where she participated in bilateral and multilateral Middle East peace
for International Economics in Washington, DC. He has directed negotiations. Prior to joining the peace team, she served as deputy assistant
research for an investment venture in Beijing and Shanghai focused secretary of state for Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula. She also served
on the value chain partners of American multinationals. He was for 17 years as senior staff to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
senior advisor for international economic policy at the White House Affairs in the US House of Representatives. She is a graduate of Boston
National Economic Council. He earned his BS in Asian studies at the University and Stephens College and also holds an honorary JD from
University of Texas, Austin, and his MS in foreign service from the Seton Hill College.
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
David Victor
George P. Shultz David Victor is professor of law at Stanford Law School and director of
Conference Co-Chairman the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development. Dr. Victor’s current
George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford distinguished research focuses on the role of state-controlled oil companies in the oil
fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 1982, Dr. Shultz was sworn in market, on the design of effective strategies for protecting the global
as the sixtieth US secretary of state and served until 1989. He then climate and the emerging global market for coal. He is also adjunct senior
rejoined Stanford University as the Jack Steele Parker professor of fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was senior advisor
international economics at the Graduate School of Business and as to the Council’s task force on climate change and leads study groups on
a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 1981 until his improving management of the nation’s $50 billion strategic oil reserve
appointment as US secretary of state, he was chairman of President and on devising a foreign policy strategy for regulation of geoengineering.
Ronald Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board. He became He is author or editor of seven books and numerous articles on energy
secretary of the treasury in 1972. In 1974, he left government and environmental policy. He earned his BA in history and science from
service to become president and director of Bechtel Group. He Harvard University and his PhD in political science and international
served in the administration of Richard Nixon as secretary of labor relations from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
for eighteen months. Additionally, he was a professor of industrial
relations and later the dean of the University of Chicago, Graduate
School of Business. He also taught in the department of economics
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his BA
in economics from Princeton University and a PhD in industrial
economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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16. Jack Wadsworth Mason Willrich*
Jack Wadsworth is honorary chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and Mason Willrich is an independent consultant, advising clients on energy
advisory director of Morgan Stanley globally. Mr. Wadsworth joined matters. Mr. Willrich is board chairman of the California Independent
Morgan Stanley as a managing director in 1978. In 1987, he moved to System Operator, senior advisor of the Massachusetts Institute of
Japan as president of Morgan Stanley Japan, chairman of its executive Technology Energy Innovation Project, director of the California Clean
and operating committees and head of the firm’s investment banking Energy Fund, trustee and past chairman of the World Affairs Council of
business in Asia. In 1992, he moved to Hong Kong as chairman of Northern California, member of the advisory councils of the Goldman
Morgan Stanley Asia. After retiring from Morgan Stanley he moved School of Public Policy and of the Center for Energy, Environment and
from Hong Kong to San Francisco. He began his investment banking Law, the Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and
career with the First Boston Corporation. When he left, he was member of the administrative board of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin,
executive vice president, a member of the management committee Yale University. Formerly, he was partner of Nth Power, director of
and the board of directors and co-head of the investment banking Evergreen Solar, Inc., founder and chairman of EnergyWorks LLC, and
department. He earned a BA from Williams College and an MBA chief executive officer of PG&E Enterprises. Prior to this, he was director
from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. for international relations at The Rockefeller Foundation, professor of law
at the University of Virginia, assistant general counsel at the US Arms
Jane Wales* Control and Disarmament Agency, law associate at Pillsbury, Madison
Jane Wales is the president and chief executive officer of the World & Sutro, and pilot for the US Air Force, including service in Strategic Air
Affairs Council of Northern California and the Global Philanthropy Command. He earned his BA from Yale University and JD from
Forum, vice president of Philanthropy and Society and director of the the University of California, Berkeley.
Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation at the Aspen Institute.
Ms. Wales is host of the nationally syndicated weekly National Public John Wilson*
Radio interview show It’s Your World. From 2007 to 2008, she served John Wilson is a corporate lawyer who has advised companies and their
as acting chief executive officer of The Elders, chaired by Archbishop financial advisors around the world for many years and a trustee of the
Desmond Tutu. Previously, she served in the Clinton administration World Affairs Council of Northern California. Mr. Wilson is currently
as special assistant to the president, senior director of the National the managing partner for Shearman & Sterling’s San Francisco and Menlo
Security Council and associate director of the White House Office of Park offices and an elected member of the firm’s policy committee. Prior
Science and Technology Policy. She chaired the international security to moving to San Francisco, he spent nine years in the firm’s Paris and
programs at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the W. Alton London offices, where he participated in transactions and advisory work
Jones Foundation, and directed the Project on World Security at the throughout Europe for such companies as Nokia, STMicroelectronics,
Rockefeller Brothers Fund. During her tenure as national executive Daimler-Benz, RyanAir, Dassault Systemes, Mediaset, and various private
director of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, the organization equity firms including Soros Private Equity Partners and Morgan Stanley
was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Capital Partners. More recently, he has advised sovereign wealth funds
from the UAE in connection with transactions and investments in the
United States. Prior to attending law school, he was a legislative staff
member for Congressman John B. Anderson of Illinois.
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17. R. James Woolsey 2009 World Affairs Council Scholarship
James Woolsey is a venture partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners Donors as of March 20, 2009
of San Bruno, California. Mr. Woolsey previously served in the US government
A special thank you to our Annual Conference student and teacher
on five different occasions, where he held presidential appointments in two
scholarship donors
Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently as director
of Central Intelligence. He serves on a range of government, corporate and
non-profit advisory boards and chairs several, including that of the Washington Sara Abbasi* Gregory Maged*
firm, ExecutiveAction LLC. He serves on the National Commission on Energy Joanna Ballou * Harvey & Eve Masonek
Policy and is currently co-chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger. Louis Belden* Jeanne A. McHugh
Previously, he served as chairman of the executive committee of the Board of Igor R. Blake* Linda R. Meier*
Regents of The Smithsonian Institution and as a trustee of Stanford University. Dick Castile Mrs. Albert Moorman*
He has also been a member of the National Commission on Terrorism, the Richard Chong* Carl & Gwaltney Mountford*
Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, and the Helen & Tom Clausen* Virginia S. Mueller
president’s commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform. He received his BA Pamela Cook Ruediger Naumann-Etienne*
from Stanford University, an MA from Oxford University, and an LLB from Maggie Cox* Wayne R. Phillips*
Yale Law School. Roger S. Dong Joan Platt*
Elliott Donnelley* Harriet Meyer Quarré
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. Betty A. Reddell
Margee Ensign* Frank & Sharon Rettenberg*
William P. Fuller & Jennifer L. Beckett* Richard & Jean Ringe
Beverly Gaines Rosemary Roach*
Mr. & Mrs. Louis C. Haughney Robert A. Scalapino
William Alston Hayne David Schmidt*
Richard & Bea Heggie William Schwarzer
Irwin & Agatha Hoff Maria W. Starr*
Claudia & Keith Kennedy* Carol & Noel Stevens
Dave Kenny Jackson & Elizabeth Stromberg*
Richard & Elizabeth Kinyon & Edward L. Taylor
Zachary Kinyon* Jean Louise Thacher
J. Burke Knapp* Richard & Sally Tuttle
Carol & Ralph Kuiper* Nancy van Ravenswaay
Frank Littler Dennis Welch & Cynthia Anderson*
Donald & Alice Loughry* Wendy Willrich*
*Denotes Full Scholarship Donor
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18. 2009 World Affairs Council of Northern
California Endowed Scholarships
Each student and teacher is uniquely matched with the scholarship
they receive based on their interest and commitment to foreign affairs.
GEORGE BALLOU MEMORIAL AWARD PHILIP HABIB MEMORIAL AWARD
Sarah Jean Harrison, San Francisco Natalia Li, Foothill College
State University David-Joseph Goteiner, Lick-Wilmerding
Paul Joy, University of San Francisco High School
RICHARD CASTILE AWARD CAROL MARQUIS MEMORIAL AWARD
Diana Liao, Mills High School Sarah Snow, Stanford University
Jonathan Trinh, Skyline High School
JEFFERSON PEYSER MEMORIAL AWARD
EDITH COLIVER MEMORIAL AWARD Greg Livingston, Foothill College
Joanna Kim, University of California, Berkeley
Shaydanay Mellon, Mills High School GERALDINE H. READ MEMORIAL AWARD
Lani Amaro, Albany High School
CARLTON DUDLEY MEMORIAL AWARD
Eric Fischer, University of San Francisco
Schools Program Melia Ungson, Albany High School
Building the global citizens of This year, 50 students and teachers
World Affairs Council Chapter Scholarships
tomorrow is critical to our mission. have received scholarships to attend
For the past 38 years, our Schools the 63rd Annual World Affairs San Joaquin Chapter Marin Chapter
Program has enabled thousands of Council Conference. The Youth Debbie Yee, University of the Pacific Brandon Ernst, Dominican University
students to engage with international Outreach Initiative has sponsored Zhipan Ren, University of the Pacific Megan Healy, Montgomery High School
leaders, participate in in-depth 20% of these scholarship recipients. Nabeel Cajee, University of the Pacific
institutes, attend our Annual Students and educators are part
Conference, and study abroad of a long tradition of participants Peninsula Chapter
through our scholarship program. who have attended our Annual Scott Zhuge, Palo Alto High School
Conference, many of whom
In 2007, we founded the Youth have gone on to careers with an
Outreach Initiative, extending these international focus. We invite you to
powerful opportunities to students talk with students during receptions
at under-resourced high schools in and meals, continuing to build
the Bay Area. relationships between generations.
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19. 2009 World Affairs Council of Northern
California Scholarship Recipients
Students
Nahila Ahsan, University of the Pacific Sulaiman Mohamed, Skyline High School
Joelle Appenrodt, San Rafael High School Ahmed Mostafa, Foothill College
James Bonnie, California State University East Bay Tiffany Phu, Skyline High School
Mameet Chahal, Foothill College Jamieson Prevoznak, San Francisco State University
Kevin Chen, Mills High School Nima Shahidimia, Santa Clara University
Chi Hin Chim, De Anza College Velecity Simmons, Skyline High School
Kaela Connors, Sonoma Valley High School Danielle Spencer, Street Academy High School
Priscilla Cortez, Skyline College Emmeline Sun, University of California, Berkeley
Faisal Hamid, Mills High School Sze Man Tai, University of California, Berkeley
Abroo Khan, San Francisco State University Daniel Lao Talens, University of San Francisco
Rowena Kuang, Skyline High School Boryana Vasileva, San Francisco State University
Christine Lam, Skyline High School Richard Walker, Burlingame High School
Simone Lang, University of California, Berkeley Andrew Wang, De Anza College
George Liang, University of California, Berkeley Mikias Wondyfraw, International Studies Academy
Allison Light, Miramonte High School Nancy Xie, Lowell High School
Raissa Dina Mbassa, Foothill College Yuzhe Zhao, California State University East Bay
Teachers Our Community
Matthew Furey, John O’Connell High School
Darrah Hallowitz, Terra Linda High School Community forms the heart of everything we do at the Council. It is in
Evonne Morici, Skyline High School community that we learn, embracing at a deeper level the diversity of the
Rebecca Robinson, Los Gatos School District global environment. And it is through engaged community that conversations
Jessica Worchel, College Track take root and evolve into actions that lead to change.
To this end, we are deeply grateful to our community, a community that
continues to grow and thrive with each passing year. We thank our members,
our trustees and our corporate members. We thank our sponsors. And
we thank our passport partners and our community partners. Without the
support of each of you, this event would not be possible.
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21. The Marines’ Memorial Association is a non-profit Veterans
Organization, chartered to honor the memory and
commemorate the valor of members of the United States
Armed Forces who were killed, lost or died in military
service for their country. The association provides a “Living
Memorial” in San Francisco’s Marines’ Memorial Club, and
facilities for forums and educational lectures to promote
the literary interests of members and guests. Membership
is open to Veterans who served honorably in any branch of
the US Military, as well as Americans currently serving.
Community Partners
The Asia Foundation San Francisco Center for Economic Development
Asia Society of Northern California San Francisco Film Society
Center for Resource Solutions United Nations Association East Bay
Foundation for Sustainable Development United Nations Association San Francisco
Human Rights Center Berkeley
Net Impact
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