ICV - Key Persons

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• Co - Founder of the EAF Agrarian Fund

Ave Oit is the chairperson of the supervisory board at the Foundation for Future Education. She is also a long-time chairperson of Lilleoru education hub in Estonia, founded in 1993 by modern wisdom teacher Ingvar Villido. The hub is active in the field of inner growth and sustainable way of life. Since 2018 it is also managing a private school for children. Ave is also one of the founders of the Estonian organic trade company Biomarket and the initiator of the blue economy, permaculture, ecovillage and Native American spirituality movements in Estonia. Her motto is: "To radically renew the human way of living, we need both inner and outer change".

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• Partner, Venrock

Cami earned her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar. In 2002, The Aspen Institute named Camille a Henry Crown Fellow.

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• Co - Founder, the Chaeli Campaign

Chaeli is a typical millennial. She believes she can do anything she puts her mind to. But, unlike most millennials, Chaeli is a quadriplegic. Born with Cerebral Palsy and using a wheelchair, Chaeli sees opportunity where most see limitations.

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• Founder

The founder, Corey Mohn, is a true visionary and someone who deeply cares about doing the right thing for kids. One of their master teachers, Tammy Fry, PhD, is brilliant on educating entrepreneurial minded teachers.

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• Portfolio Manager, Principal, the Royce Funds

David A. Nadel joined The Royce Funds in 2006 and previously was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Neuberger Berman Inc. (2004-2006) and a Senior Analyst at Pequot Capital Management Inc. (2001-2003). He was also named to the 1999 and 2000 Institutional Investor All-American Research Teams. Mr. Nadel started his career at the French advisory firm Lazard Frerès & Co. and also worked in Hong Kong for Value Partners Group Ltd, Asia's largest hedge fund manager. He holds a bachelor's degree from Williams College and a master's degree from Harvard University, as well as a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

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• Founder and CEO, Distilled Identity
• Managing Director of MIT Connection Science

David L. Shrier is the Managing Director of MIT Connection Science. He leads other new initiatives for MIT, advises the European Commission on commercializing innovation and building regional innovation capacity, and counsels leadership at private and public companies on growth strategies. David specializes in unleashing organizational potential, having developed $8.5 billion of growth opportunities globally with companies including GE/NBC Universal, D&B, Wolters Kluwer, The Walt Disney Company, Ernst & Young, and Starwood Hotels & Resorts, as well as leading private equity and VC funds. He has also started and/or led a number of private equity and venture capital-backed companies as CEO, CFO or COO. An accomplished public speaker, he has lectured on entrepreneurial finance and corporate innovation in the MBA programs of USC / Marshall, Columbia Business School, Fordham Business School and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) near Geneva, Switzerland. He previously taught corporate venturing and entrepreneurship for three years in NYU's MBA program, where he was an Adjunct Associate Professor. For MIT, David created and helps to lead "Future Commerce", a highly reviewed fintech innovation course, which he is developing into an online version in spring 2016. He is creating and digitizing courses in "Big Data/Analytics" and "Human Capital Management 2.0". David's "Visionary Investing" workshops, for MIT Sloan, help build investor capacity for social enterprise. He also has a highly successful startup pitch clinic called "Inspiring Change Through Strategic Narrative", and has co-taught "Data Driven Health". His "Data Academy", developed in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, has trained over 80 senior United Nations officials on the uses of data in humanitarian crises. David Shrier was granted an Sc.B. from Brown University in Biology and Theatre.

Dr. Chintamani Yogi is a great scholar of Nepal; he is a thinker, a philosopher , a spiritual master, an educationist and a peace activist. Dr C.M. Yogi has founded several organizations in Nepal. In particular, he is a founding principal of "Hindu VidyaPeeth School" movement consisting of 3 schools supporting underprivileged and orphaned children to receive values/ethics based education on a non profit basis. The children are encouraged to develop human virtues such as peace, harmony and love in the form of international brotherhood. He also established Peace Service Centre, Shanti Sewa Ashram whose objectives are "to promote peace and spirituality at every level of society; to help the poor and disadvantaged children, women, senior citizens. In addition, he founded ‘"Youth Society for Peace"‘ aiming to support young people in understanding the values of peace, tolerance and selfless service; and to involve them for the peace clubs and street-children food program. Similarly, Dr C.M. Yogi runs various other community based programs Children's Peace Home, an orphanage in Dang in th western part of Nepal; Children Study Club, Women's Education/Training Program and "Nepal Interfaith Movement" to reform society in totality. He is a chief patron of "Naimisharanya Gurukul - Banepa" and Bankhandi Gurukul- Saptari. Dr C.M. Yogi is a guest lecturer of "Conflict, Peace and Development Study" at the Tribhuvan University and "Values Based Education and Personal Transformation" at the Kathmandu University. Also, he is known widely as a motivational speaker among the Rotary International, Lions Club, NGOs, INGOs, Government offices, Corporate Sectors. Likewise, Dr C.M. Yogi is actively associated with many international organizations; such as- HVP-UK, PSC-USA, Global Communities for Peace- Australia, Global Network of Religions for Children, and the United Religions Initiative. Dr C.M. Yogi travels frequently to spread the message of Values based education, Peace Education, Yoga, Interfaith, humanity and spirituality all around the world. He has been running special programs in America, Australia, Europe etc for last many years regularly for the promotion of Spirituality, Humanity and Community. He has written several books and composed various songs. Dr C.M. Yogi is a winner of many national and international awards. He conducts camps, classes, workshops, seminars, trainings and Satsang at every level to encourage people to understand deeply "The Art of Life."

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• Senior Managing Member, Great Point Partners

Dr. Jeffrey R. Jay, M.D., serves as Senior Managing Member at Great Point Partners, LLC. Dr. Jay also serves as Managing Director of the private equity funds and Co-Portfolio Manager of the BioMedical Value Fund. Dr. Jay served as General Partner and Head of Health Care of Whitney & Co. LLC. Prior to Whitney & Co., he was a Principal at Canaan Partners and an Associate at Salomon Brothers, Inc. Dr. Jay serves or has served as a Director at AdvancePCS, Biotronic, Concentra Managed Care, Corrona, Cytovance Biologics, Equian, Symbion, and numerous other private companies. Dr. Jay also serves on the Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board of Harvard Business School and the Board of Visitors at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Jay holds a M.D. and a B.A. from Boston University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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• Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson
• Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Jefferson

Dr. Knudsen is the third Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, an NCI-designated Cancer Center since 1995. Dr. Knudsen was appointed in January 2015 after having served as the Deputy Director and the founding member of the prostate cancer program. Prior to taking on the directorship, Dr. Knudsen also served as the Vice Provost of Thomas Jefferson University. In addition to Cancer Center leadership, Dr. Knudsen is Chair of the Department of Cancer Biology for Thomas Jefferson University and holds the Hilary Koprowski Endowed Professorship. Given her translational research, Dr. Knudsen holds joint appointments in the departments of Medical Oncology, Urology, and Radiation Oncology. Dr. Knudsen received her BS in Biology from the George Washington University, and her PhD from the University of California at San Diego, where she focused on cell cycle checkpoint control. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship training with Webster K. Cavenee, studying hormone action and the impact of cell cycle dysregulation on prostate cancer progression. Dr. Knudsen served as tenured faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine prior to recruitment to Thomas Jefferson University in 2007. Dr. Knudsen has a 20-year history of continuous funding from the National Institute of Health and has expertise in elucidating the molecular basis of hormone-dependent cancer development and progression. Dr. Knudsen serves as an editor on several leading oncology journals, including as Editor-in-Chief of AACR's Molecular Cancer Research and as an Associate Editor for Oncogene. Dr. Knudsen has received numerous awards for her accomplishments, including the Richard E. Weitzman Laureate Award from the Endocrine Society, the Sophie Yen Award for Distinguished Training in Translational Research, and the SWIU/ SBUR Award for Excellence in Urologic Research. Dr. Knudsen has longstanding experience in Cancer Center leadership and, based on her expertise, serves on leading review, advisory, and elected panels for the Department of Defense, the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and the NIH, including Parent Committee-A National Cancer Institute. Dr. Knudsen currently leads the Advanced Prostate Cancer Track for the GU-ASCO Steering Committee. In 2012, she was named Editor-in-chief of AACR Journal Molecular Cancer Research. In 2018, Dr. Knudsen was elected Vice President/President-Elect of the Association of American Cancer Institutes' (AACI) Board of Directors.

H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji‘s motto in life is, "In the Service of God and humanity." Selflessly dedicated to the welfare of all, He leads, directs and inspires numerous large-scale initiatives that are touching the lives of countless people across India and around the world. Touched by the hand of God at the tender age of eight, Pujya Swamiji left His home to live a life devoted to God and humanity, spending His youth in silence, meditation and austerities high in the Himalayas. At the age of seventeen, after nine years of unbroken, intense spiritual practice, He returned from the forest under the direction of His guru, and obtained an academic education to parallel His spiritual one. Today, Pujya Swamiji's religion is unity, and he has been a leader in numerous international, interfaith events, summits and parliaments, including at the United Nations, the Vatican, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the House of Commons, the Parliament of World's Religions, Religions for Peace, KAICIID, the Hindu-Jewish Summit in Jerusalem, and countless others. Pujya Swamiji is also the Founder of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA) India, the world's first international initiative which brings together the world's faiths as allies in helping to ensure every person around the world has access to healthy, life-sustaining Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); the India Heritage Research Foundation (IHRF), an international, non-profit foundation which is known for humanitarian activities, as well as intellectual endeavors, such as the publication of the 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism, as well as free education, medical services, ashrams in the sacred land of Mansarovar and Mt. Kailash in Tibet, and morel; the International Yoga Festival at Parmarth Niketan (Rishikesh), which draws countless people every year to Rishikesh, India, the birthplace of yoga; the world's-first Hindu-Jain temple, located in Pittsburgh, and the Minto Shiva temple in Sydney Australia. Pujya Swamiji has also played crucial roles in the founding of innumerable other temples and Indian cultural centres around the world. Pujya Swamiji is also on the Board of Trustees of the India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians (IDF-OI), set up by the Government of India in 2008 as a not-for-profit Trust to facilitate Overseas Indian philanthropy into social and development projects in India. He furthermore serves on the Advisory Board of KAICIID (King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Inter-religious and Intercultural Dialogue), which is an intergovernmental organization whose mandate is to promote globally the use of dialogue to prevent and resolve conflict, and to enhance understanding and cooperation among different cultures and religions. Pujya Swamiji is the recipient of innumerable awards, including: the World Peace Ambassador Award, Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award, Hindu of the Year Award, the Lions Club Prominent Personality Award, Best Citizens of India Award, the Uttaranchal Ratan Award, and many more. However, Pujya Swamiji seems unaffected by this incredible list of accomplishments and remains a pious child of God, owning nothing, draped in saffron robes, living a life of true renunciation. His days in Rishikesh are spent offering service to those around him. Thousands travel from across the globe simply to sit in His presence, to receive His "darshan." He also travels the world, bringing the light of wisdom, inspiration, upliftment and the divine touch to countless souls.

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• Head of the Gender Secretariat at the International Finance Corporation
• Head, Gender Secretariat, International Finance Corporation

Henriette is the Head of the Gender Secretariat at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. She serves as an advocate for gender equality issues in the private sector and leads a team that works with IFC's clients to include both women and men as entrepreneurs, employees, consumers, community stakeholders and leaders. Before joining IFC in September 2013, Henriette was the CEO of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, where she remains involved as a senior advisor. Henriette also serves as a member of Secretary Hillary Clinton's International Council on Women's Business Leadership. Earlier in her career, Henriette was the UN representative in the Middle East Quartet team advising Tony Blair in Jerusalem. She also worked for the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO). She has held positions as governance advisor with the European Commission Delegation to Tanzania, the German Technical Cooperation Agency in Germany, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Tanzania, where she worked on conflict reduction, civic education, and socioeconomic issues in East Africa. Henriette graduated with an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and received her MA from Freiburg University, Germany. Henriette is a Bucerius and Hertie summer school alumna and a frequent contributor to blogs hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, Huffington Post, and Business Fights Poverty.

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• Co - President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Ira Helfand, MD is co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, and he is co-founder and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, IPPNW's US affiliate. He has published studies on the medical consequences of nuclear war in the New England Journal of Medicine, and the British Medical Journal, and has lectured widely in the United States, and in India, China, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Israel, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil, and throughout Europe on the health effects of nuclear weapons. He represented PSR and IPPNW at the Nobel ceremonies in Oslo in December 2009, honoring President Obama, and presented their new report, Nuclear Famine: One Billion People at Risk, at the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in Chicago in April of 2012. A second edition was released in December of 2013. Dr. Helfand was educated at Harvard College and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a former chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and president of the Medical Staff at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and currently practices as an internist and urgent care physician at Family Care Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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• Director of CCARE
• Founder and Director, CCARE, Stanford University

James Doty, MD, is a clinical professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of CA, Irvine and medical school at Tulane University. He trained in neurosurgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and completed fellowships in pediatric neurosurgery at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia (CHOP) and in neuroelectrophysiology focused on the use of evoked potentials to assess the integrity of neurological function. His more recent research interests have focused on the development of technologies using focused beams of radiation in conjunction with robotics and image-guidance techniques to treat solid tumors and other pathologies in the brain and spinal cord. He spent 9 years on active duty service in the U.S. Army Medical Corp. As director of CCARE, Dr. Doty has collaborated on a number of research projects focused on compassion and altruism including the use of neuro-economic models to assess altruism, use of the CCARE-developed compassion cultivation training in individuals and its effect, assessment of compassionate and altruistic judgment utilizing implanted brain electrodes and the use of optogenetic techniques to assess nurturing pathways in rodents. Presently, he is developing collaborative research projects to assess the effect of compassion training on immunologic and other physiologic determinates of health, the use of mentoring as a method of instilling compassion in students and the use of compassion training to decrease pain. Dr. Doty is also an inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist having given support to a number of charitable organizations including Children as the Peacemakers, Global Healing, the Pachamama Alliance and Family & Children Services of Silicon Valley. These charities support a variety of programs throughout the world including those for HIV/AIDS support, blood banks, medical care in third world countries and peace initiatives. Additionally, he has endowed chairs at major universities including Stanford University and his alma mater, Tulane University. He is on the Board of Directors of a number of non-profit foundations including the Dalai Lama Foundation, of which he is chairman and the Charter for Compassion International of which he is vice-chair. He is also on the International Advisory Board of the Council for the Parliament of the World's Religions. Dr. Doty also writes for The Huffington Post. He is the author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart (Penguin, 2016).

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• Investment Banker

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• President of Palo Alto Investors

Joon is the President of Palo Alto Investors, LLC, founded in 1989 with $1.8 billion in assets under management invested in healthcare. He joined the firm in 1998 as a healthcare analyst. Concurrently, Dr. Yun served on the clinical faculty at Stanford from 2000-2006 as a board certified radiologist. Dr. Yun graduated from Harvard College, received his M.D. from Duke, and completed his residency and fellowship at Stanford. He holds over 40 issued or pending patents and has published numerous scientific articles. He is a contributor to Forbes and the health editor of Evolution Magazine. He published a collection of essays entitled, Hiding in Plain Sight. His next book, Depopulation: An Investor's Guide to Value in the Twenty First Century, co-authored with Philip Auerswald, is due out in 2015. He recently launched the $1 million Palo Alto Prize (PaloAltoPrize.org) to help end aging through his family foundation, the Palo Alto Institute.

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• Founder and Executive Chairman, KABR Group
• Founding Limited Partner in the Development of the Belleayre Resort

Currently Ken Pasternak is a founder and Executive Chairman of The KABR Group. In addition, Mr. Pasternak is the managing principle of Chestnut Ridge Capital, which serves as The Pasternak Family Office. The strategies of the family office are threefold; Real Estate, Exchange Traded Assets, and Private Equity. Mr. Pasternak has served on the Board of Directors for NASDAQ, and an the Board of Directors of NASDAQ Europe, and was called to testify before congress to educate committees an issues of market structure and regulation. Separately, Mr. Pasternak served on the NASD's Board of Governors during 2000 and 2001. Mr. Pasternak is a founding limited partner in the development of the Belleayre Resort in upstate New York, a two-hotel, 1,400 acre resort with over 1 million square feet of planned construction. Belleayre is a project that has been undertaken to economically and socially revitalize the communities where Mr. Pasternak grew up.

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• President, Wiener Schiller Productions

BORN IN BROOKLYN IN 1936, LAWRENCE SCHILLER'S work began in junior high school in San Diego, when he received his first camera. Though a childhood accident left him with impaired vision in one eye, he became an obsessive photographer; even while attending Pepperdine College, his pictures had already appeared in Life, Sport, Playboy, Glamour, and the Saturday Evening Post. Schiller's interests and ambitions soon developed into a profession in print journalism, documenting major stories for glossy magazines all over the world, including Life, Look, Newsweek, Time, Paris Match, Stern, and the London Sunday Times. His iconic images of Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, and Madame Nhu, among others are tributes to his doggedness, ingenuity, and charm as well as to his technical proficiency. In November 1963, while on assignment for the Saturday Evening Post, he reached Dallas in time to photograph Lee Harvey Oswald. Later, he landed Jack Ruby's final interview. After extensive interviews with the widow of Lenny Bruce, Schiller and the writer Albert Goldman published Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce(1974); and, with the photographer W. Eugene Smith, he produced Minamata (1975), the epic pictorial chronicle of mercury poisoning in Japan. Schiller moved into motion pictures by directing a portion of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, and Lady Sings the Blues (1972), with Diana Ross. He also directed the Oscar-winning documentary The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1972); The American Dreamer (1971), a film on Dennis Hopper; and, after obtaining extraordinary cooperation from the Kremlin, executive produced and co-directed Peter the Great (1986), the Emmy Award-winning television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, and Laurence Olivier. Perhaps nothing in Schiller's career proved more remarkable, though, than his collaboration with Norman Mailer - a friendship unique in American literary history. For nearly thirty-five years the two worked closely together, on books including Marilyn (1973), The Faith of Graffiti (1974), Oswald's Tale (1995), Into the Mirror(2002), and The Executioner's Song (1979), for which Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize. Schiller, who did much of the legwork, interviews, and research for Executioner's Song, outmaneuvered numerous other reporters to gain exclusive access to the book's subject, Gary Gilmore, and went on to produce and direct the award-winning television miniseries based upon it, starring Tommy Lee Jones. Similarly, Schiller managed to embed himself into the so-called "Dream Team" defending O. J. Simpson, and with his unique insider's perspective on the case, co-wrote (with James Willwerth) the New York Times best-selling American Tragedy (1996). Following the death of Norman Mailer in 2007, Schiller was named senior advisor to the Mailer estate, and is president and co-founder of the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He has been a consultant to NBC News and the Annie Liebovitz Studios and has written for The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, and other publications. He has five children and five grandchildren; and lives in New York and Los Angeles. Marilyn & Me is his eleventh book.

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• Chairman
• Chief Executive Officer
• Co - Founder
• Chairman, Ceo and Co - Founder, Avenue Capital Group

Mr. Lasry is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the firm. Distressed investing has been the focus of his professional career for over 31 years. Prior to co-founding Amroc Investments, LLC as an independent entity, Mr. Lasry managed capital for Amroc Investments, L.P., the predecessor firm associated with Robert Bass Group, Inc. Mr. Lasry and Amroc Investments, L.P. were affiliated with Acadia Partners L.P., an investment partnership whose general partners include Keystone, Inc. (an investment firm that was associated with the Robert Bass Group, Inc.), American Express Company and the Equitable Life Assurance Society of America. Prior to that, Mr. Lasry was Co-Director of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Cowen & Company. Prior to this, he served as Director of the Private Debt Department at Smith Vasiliou Management Company. Mr. Lasry also clerked for the Honorable Edward Ryan, former Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the Southern District of New York. Mr. Lasry is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he also serves on the Board of Directors of The Clinton Global Initiative, and the Board of the 92nd Street Y. He previously served as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Mr. Lasry has served and will continue to serve on various other boards of advisors/directors of both for-profit and not-for-profit private companies that are not affiliated with the firm. Mr. Lasry graduated with a B.A. in History from Clark University (1981) and a J.D. from New York Law School (1984).

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• Crossfit Trainer

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• Executive Director of UNAIDS, under - Secretary - General of the United Nations

A long-standing champion of a people-centred approach to health and development and a strong advocate for social justice, Michel Sidibé became the second Executive Director of UNAIDS on 1 January 2009. He holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Mr Sidibé currently chairs the H6, a partnership that unites and leverages the mandates of six United Nations agencies to deliver on an integrated agenda for the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents. Mr Sidibé's vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths has helped drive recent progress in the AIDS response. The goal of having 15 million people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy by the end of 2015 was achieved nine months ahead of schedule. Access to these life-saving medicines has continued to expand, with 18.2 million people on treatment by mid-2016.

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• Portfolio Manager and Managing Director, RA Capital

Peter Kolchinsky, Ph.D. is a founder, Managing Director, and Portfolio Manager at RA Capital Management, a crossover fund manager dedicated to evidence-based investing in healthcare and life science companies. He is active in both public and private investments in companies developing drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, and research tools, and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Dicerna Pharmaceutics and a number of private companies. Peter also leads the firm's outreach and publishing efforts, which aim to make a positive social impact and spark collaboration among healthcare stakeholders, including patients, physicians, researchers, policy makers, and industry. He authored "The Entrepreneur's Guide to a Biotech Startup" and served on the Board of Global Science and Technology for the National Academies of Sciences. Peter received a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a PhD in Virology from Harvard University.

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• Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at Matthews Asia

Robert Horrocks is Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at Matthews Asia and has been a Matthews Asia Funds Trustee since 2018. He manages the firm's Asian Growth and Income Strategy and co-manages the Asia Dividend and Asia ex Japan Dividend Strategies. As Chief Investment Officer, Robert oversees the firm's investment process and investment professionals and sets the research agenda for the investment team. Before joining Matthews Asia in 2008, Robert was Head of Research at Mirae Asset Management in Hong Kong. From 2003 to 2006, Robert served as Chief Investment Officer for Everbright Pramerica in China, establishing its quantitative investment process. He started his career as a Research Analyst with WI Carr Securities in Hong Kong before moving on to spend eight years working in several different Asian jurisdictions for Schroders, including stints as Country General Manager in Taiwan, Deputy Chief Investment Officer in Korea and Designated Chief Investment Officer in Shanghai. Robert earned his PhD in Chinese Economic History from Leeds University in the United Kingdom, and is fluent in Mandarin. Robert has been a Portfolio Manager of the Matthews Asian Growth and Income Fund since 2009, of the Matthews Asia Dividend Fund since 2013.

Robert Smith entered Wall Street over 20 years ago, following in the footsteps of four generations of family members who worked in the investment industry before him. Early in his career, Robert managed proprietary capital and traders at the world's leading proprietary trading firm and at the world's largest market making firm.

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji was raised in an American family in Hollywood, California and graduated from Stanford University. She was completing her Ph.D. when she left America in 1996 to come and live permanently at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. She has been living there since, engaged in spiritual study, practice, and service. She was officially initiated into the order of Sanyas (monastic renunciation) in the year 2000, by her Guru, His Holiness Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji. Sadhviji is a renowned speaker who gives keynote addresses at large forums, on a wide variety of topics ranging from conscious business to science and spirituality to sustainable development to the keys of happiness and peace in life to all aspects of yoga. She has also been a featured speaker at the United Nations, Parliament of World Religions and many international conferences and summits. Her talks blend the knowledge and logic of the West with the insights, spirituality and wisdom of the East, and she is renowned as a spiritual bridge between the two cultures. At Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, where she lives most of the year, she teaches meditation, gives spiritual discourses and daily satsang, provides counseling and oversees myriad charitable and humanitarian projects and activities. Sadhviji is also: President of Divine Shakti Foundation, a foundation dedicated to bringing education and empowerment to women and children which runs free schools, vocational training programs and empowerment programs. Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, an international interfaith organization dedicated to bringing clean water, sanitation & hygiene to the children of the world. Director of the annual world-famous International Yoga Festival at Parmarth which has been covered in Time Magazine, CNN, New York Times, Le Monde and other prestigious publications. Sadhviji has a Ph.D in Psychology and was the Managing Editor for the monumental project of the 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism.

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• Principal

The principal, Seth Beute, is supportive of any efforts to use funding in innovative and effective ways that goes directly toward supporting the school's students and teachers. Gina Vullo, the teacher who envisioned and co-founded the school is an incredibly brilliant educator and focuses on the students' achieving their lifelong goals.

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• Executive Director of Educate Hearts
• Founder and CEO of the Indigo Education Company

Sheri Smith serves as the Executive Director of Educate Hearts and Minds in the United States. Sheri is the founder and CEO of the Indigo Education Company and the Indigo Impact Initiative 501(c)3. Indigo, established in 2013, has the vision of catalyzing a learner-centered education system that cultivates innovation, entrepreneurship, and empathy. A lifelong entrepreneur, Sheri was integral in starting a metals distributor, coaching and consulting firms, and running a small retail housewares company. In 1998, Sheri designed the first website hosted at the US Department of State for Vital Voices, a global women's rights initiative. Introduced to assessment technology for hiring and employee development in her early 20's, Sheri is an expert in these tools, which are used to build high performing teams, coach leaders, and align human capital to the goals of an organization. Indigo uses these same concepts to engage students, empower educators, and transform schools. Sheri has spoken at various conferences, authored two books, conducts research, and authors papers. She graduated magna cum laude from American University with a B.A. in International Studies, and holds an M.A. from Georgetown University in Communication, Culture and Technology.

William E. Harmon operated the Wood, Harmon & Co., the largest real estate company in the world at the turn of the century, where he developed the "partial payment plan," known today as the mortgage loan. After learning about the New York City subway extension, Harmon invested more than $4 million in Brooklyn, comprising over 20,000 building lots, more than any other, which was sold to New Yorkers on small partial payments after a surge in population. "Land is the gift eternal," said Harmon. "Buildings may crumble, endowments fail, but land is forever available. Fifty generations have used the playgrounds that were left as open spaces in the building of Rome, and these same playgrounds will be used for hundreds of generations. The land we set aside today in American towns and cities will serve the boys and girls not only of this generation, but of unnumbered generations to come" (The New York Times, October 23, 1921). Harmon was fond of saying, "A playground now will be a playground forever, for land is the one thing that does not perish. And children will play!" He established a worldwide park system, including parks in 36 states, that were so named, "Harmon Playgrounds," and often maintained through grants to real estate developers to beautify the parks. As a businessman who believed it was absolutely necessary to change racial relations in the United States to create a situation where blacks could achieve some economic independence, Harmon inaugurated the Harmon Award in 1926 for distinguished achievements among African Americans in eight different fields: literature, music, fine arts, business and industry, science and innovation, education, religious service, and race relations. Harmon's interest to support African Americans reflected "his interest in promoting justice and social commitment." The "deprivation of black Americans, he reasoned, was a national problem, not simply a burden on blacks alone"