NETWORK 20/20 - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- BOLD and Entrepreneurial Diplomacy Intern
Anja Radonjic is the BOLD and Entrepreneurial Diplomacy Intern at Network 20/20.
Prior to working for Network 20/20, Anja worked with Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children as a Head of the Main Program, assisting in the facilitation of several plays and creative skills workshops for children. She is pursuing a master's degree in International Relations at Central European University in Vienna. Her interests include digitalisation of politics and international development.
Anja holds a bachelor's degree in History from University College London (UCL). She is also a part-time writer for Journal d' Ambroisie, an online publication.
Anne E. Impellizzeri has wide-ranging experience in both business and nonprofit organizations. After starting her career in teaching, she spent 20 years at Metropolitan Life, rising to Vice-President in charge of Corporate Social Responsibility. She then worked at the New York City Partnership and went on to head two nonprofit organizations-in mental health at the Blanton-Peale Institute and in historic preservation at Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center. In addition, she has served on a number of boards, including Smith College, Nuveen Mutual Funds, Scenic Hudson (Treasurer, Secretary), the Bard Music Festival, the Women's City Club of New York (Vice-President), the Howland Chamber Music Circle, the Village of Cold Spring Code Update Committee and Special Board for a Comprehensive Plan (Vice Chair), the American Association for Gifted Children (Chair), and the Lakeland School Board (President). A graduate of Smith (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa junior year), she has a Master of Arts in Teaching from Yale. She is Treasurer of Network 20/20 and Co-Chairman of their Speakers Committee.
Anne Mai is the current Board Chair and was elected to Network 20/20's Board of Directors in 2007. She is a trained social worker and has worked on issues such as child care, family planning and mental health. She sits on the Board of Directors of Fountain House, which provides services for people with severe and persistent mental illness, and also advocates on their behalf. She is also a member of National Public Radio's Foundation Board.
Anne is married to Vincent Mai, founder and Chairman of Cranemere and former Chairman of AEA Investors. Their philanthropic interests are diverse, though many of the organizations they support and work with use education, defined very broadly, as a tool to benefit society; this includes building bridges across divides within society, helping overcome discrimination and promoting reconciliation. Their work is concentrated in South Africa, Vincent's home country, and the United States. They continue to support "organizations and approaches that work, and make a difference."
In 2011, Anne Mai received Network 20/20's inaugural Visionary Award in recognition of her unswerving and pace-setting commitment to the mission and goals of Network 20/20.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of HyperJar Limited
Expertise
Business-to-business exchanges; online finance
Experience
Arthur Sculley, is co-founder of HyperJar Limited, London, a digital financial services company and a Senior Fellow, Fletcher School, Tufts University.
He is a former banker, technology executive, lecturer and consultant to governments, banks and corporations.
At JP Morgan he held jobs in corporate banking, corporate finance and asset management in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and London, including head of JP Morgan's global private bank and Managing Director. In the mid 1990s as an entrepreneur, he became a leader in B2B technology for financial services, co-founding IntraLinks (NYSE:IL) in New York in 1996 and later CreditTrade (NYSE:ICE) in London.
At the Fletcher School's Institute for Business in the Global Context, he has been doing research on financial technology and Turkey.
He has a BS from the University of Pennsylvania and a MA from Tufts University.
Education
Mr. Sculley is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Program Communication Intern
Cairo Gaona is a Program Communication Intern at Network 20/20.
She is currently pursuing her Bachelor's in Spanish at Binghamton University, minoring in Global Studies and Translation. Her professional interests include translation, the study of decolonization, and indigenous languages. Cairo would like to continue working in the world of foreign affairs and international relations post-graduation, and intends to study abroad for graduate school.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator, Programs & Global Outreach
Casey Craig is a Coordinator, Programs & Global Outreach at Network 20/20 where he was a research intern before. He currently pursuing a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina in Asheville, with a major in international studies and a double minor in management and Asian studies. In the spring, Casey served as project manager for reviving his school's local Rotaract club: a Rotary organization aimed at promoting leadership development and community involvement in young adults internationally.
Prior to COVID-19, Casey was traveling, volunteering, and working around the world, before shifting careers from customer relations and returning to college. Casey wishes to start his own company one day, and he is looking forward to the opportunity to learn much more about geopolitics and non-profits during his time with Network 20/20.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- President of Network 20 / 20
Courtney E. Doggart is the president of Network 20/20. Throughout her career, Ms. Doggart has focused on international affairs with an emphasis on people-to-people diplomacy and cross-cultural communication.
Most recently, she was Deputy Director of Global Communications and Media Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations and focused on communications strategy. Prior to that, she was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service, serving in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, where she managed the U.S. embassy's cultural and educational programming. Ms. Doggart's field experience includes a Fulbright grant to conduct research on civil society development in Turkey and work with a nonprofit in the Republic of Georgia to research comparative energy efficiency laws. She participated in Network 20/20's field research trips to Turkey and Iran, and co-authored one of the resulting reports-Iran's Next Green Revolution: Turning Catastrophe into Cooperation.
For her work, Ms. Doggart has received an individual Superior Honor Award from the U.S. State Department, a group Meritorious Award from the U.S. State Department, and Network 20/20's Ted Sorensen Award.
Ms. Doggart earned her Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where she concurrently received a certificate in Russian and Eurasian Studies from the Harriman Institute. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from New York University. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dario Vasquez is the Program Manager of entrepreneurship at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University. He supports startup activities at Columbia including the NSF I-Corps program, startup bootcamps, and pitch competitions. Dario is an avid supporter of Open Startup, an organization helping entrepreneurs in Tunisia and Morocco thrive using technology to solve global problems and launch startups to support development in their countries. He studied Environmental Studies and Sociology at Dickinson College and interned for a Brooklyn, NY based startup focused on eco friendly cleaning products. Prior to Columbia, he managed grants for the Rockefeller Foundation and other private philanthropic non-profits. Dario Vasquez is currently in the Executive Master of Public Administration program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Education: School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Concentration: Management and Innovation
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Chief Operating Officer of USISPF
Bio
Gaurav Verma is the Chief Operating Officer of USISPF. He supervises day-to-day operations, oversees the revenue, and coordinates the strategic management of the forum's various programs and initiatives. He provides leadership and direct management oversight to the forum's team and engages senior leaders across member companies, government stakeholders, and the forum's Board of Directors.
Prior to this role, Gaurav worked for over a decade to help solve problems for U.S. companies as they did business in India, providing a forum for senior industry and government leaders in both countries to meet their foreign counterparts. He has experience in global business development, growth, strategy, day-to-day management, and digital economy portfolio execution for non-profit organizations, as well as Board of Director relations and oversight. He also created a coalition for jobs and growth to ensure that American businesses have access to international expertise needed to continuously drive economic growth and job creation.
Gaurav is an Advisory Council Member of the Global Institutional Investors Forum in Mauritius, Advisory Council Member of One Globe "Uniting Knowledge Communities" in New Delhi, and a Member of the Board of Women's Education Project (WEP) in New York.
Gaurav holds an MBA in finance and investments from City University New York, as well as a Bachelor's of Commerce degree from Delhi University in India.
Expertise
International Economics and Finance; International Financial Institutions
Experience
Mr. Ruding worked at the Ministry of Finance, The Hague (1965-1970), Amsterdam-Rotterdam Bank (AMRO Bank), Amsterdam (1971-1976) and, later, as a member of the Board of Managing Directors of AMRO. He was Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C. from 1977-1980. From November 1982 until November 1989 he served as the Minister of Finance of The Netherlands, for the Christian Democratic Party (CDA). From 1990 until 1992 Onno Ruding was Chairman of the Netherlands Christian Federation of Employers (NCW). From 1992 till 2003 Mr. Ruding was Vice Chairman of Citicorp/Citibank in New York. In 2002 he became Chairman of the Board of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, the largest independent think-tank in Europe. He is a (nonexecutive) Director of Corning Inc., Corning, RTL Group, Luxemburg and Holcim, Zurich and Chairman of the Board of Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG), The Hague, as well as a member of the International Advisory Board of Citigroup, New York.
In 2002 he became Chairman of the Board of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, the largest independent think-tank in Europe. Dr. Ruding is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Pontifical Council Justice and Peace, Rome. He is Chairman of the Board of the National Museum Palace Het Loo, Apeldoorn.
Education
Leah Moschella is a strategic innovator leading and scaling initiatives at the intersection of
education, workforce development, and community impact. She brings over fifteen years of
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Program Director
- Associate Program Director at Network 20 / 20
Ngoc (Brian) Thang is the Associate Program Director at Network 20/20. He is also the co-founder and advisor of Leaders of The Future Organization, a ten-year-old nonprofit providing leadership and professional development training for high school students in Vietnam, and a member of the Board of Trustee of the Project Incubator for Young Social Entrepreneur, a youth organization that disrupts the opportunity gap in Vietnam by enhancing leadership capacity among disadvantaged youths who are passionate about making a difference in their home regions and Vietnam.
Before Network 20/20, Brian's experience has focused on economic policy initiatives at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and legal advocacy for communities affected by economic investments and corruption during his work at the Law and Policy of Sustainable Development Research Center, a grassroots NGO in Vietnam. His past research covers issues of regional disputes in the South China Sea and the development of global surgery policy in Tanzania.
Brian holds a bachelor's degree in Economic Law from Hanoi Law University and a master's degree in Global Affairs from the University of Notre Dame.
Job Titles:
- Meet Our Tunisia Entrepreneurial Diplomacy Intern
- Tunisia Entrepreneurial Diplomacy Intern
Sebastian Sanchez is a fourth-year student at Columbia University studying Operations Research, Economics, and. Computer Science. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Sebastian has found involvement working at the intersection between technology and diplomacy. Since 2019, he has interned at the Human Rights Foundation, supporting efforts in instilling and maintaining democracy across the world. Additionally, he is a program assistant of entrepreneurship at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia. Through his involvement with entrepreneurship programming, Sebastian has worked with Open Startup, an organization aimed at bringing technological solutions to Tunisia and Morocco in order to support entrepreneurs and regional development.
Steven Mandurano is a leader in association and nonprofit marketing, membership, and communications. For nearly 20 years, he has specialized in omnichannel and direct response marketing, while delivering measurable results for a multitude of small-to-mid size associations. Steven's focus on offer creation and testing, and traditional, digital, inbound, content, multichannel and brand marketing initiatives has led to an increase in lead generation, membership and conference sales, engagement, and brand awareness.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Chairman of Cranemere