GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS FORUM - Key Persons

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• CEO
• Chairman
• Founder
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Management Team
• President
• Co - Founder of the Pearl Initiative
• UK Chartered Accountant

Amir Dossal is Founder and President of the Global Partnerships Forum - a not-for-profit knowledge platform to provide changemakers with tools to build innovative partnerships to address economic and social challenges. Amir is co-founder of the Pearl Initiative, and the Ocean Sanctuary Alliance. He is a founding Commissioner of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. Amir is also co-founder of the Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development and serves as Executive Vice Chair. Amir is a UK Chartered Accountant (FCA) and has lived and worked in five continents. He serves on the board of several non-profits and regularly undertakes speaking engagements and frequently serves as moderator for high-level panels, engaging Heads of State and Ministers. Amir is married to Tas, Senior Advisor and Co-Founder of the Global Partnerships Forum. They have one son, Zecki, who is a Senior Vice President at GLG, overseeing the Private Equity group. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Business School.

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• Member of the Management Team
• Technical Advisor
• Technical Advisor at the Global Partnerships Institute

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• Member of the Management Team
• Research Assistant

Audrey Nadler is a Research Assistant at the Global Partnerships Forum. She is also a full time student at Hamilton College, studying World Politics and Hispanic Studies. Audrey manages GPF website updates, which include writing and uploading articles for the Newsroom and updating GPF staff information. She is also responsible for social media updates on the GPF Facebook and Instagram. Audrey has participated in a number of meetings at the United Nations, across a range of sectors including protection of oceans and seas, women's empowerment, investing in Africa, etc. She has also developed proposals to support programs and projects for various United Nations organizations. Audrey now has a deep understanding of the goals and objectives of the United Nations, including its inner functions. She is very familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals. Audrey assisted in the planning and organization of several events, including the ECOSOC Partnerships Forum and the One Ocean Symposium at the United Nations. She has also undertaken extensive research on organizations to participate in the GPF's upcoming event in London. In addition, Audrey writes and edits outreach materials for the GPF.

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• Member of the Young
• President of Crescent Petroleum

"A problem shared is a problem halved. Applying this idiom to our global challenges today would provide a wealth of opportunities for greater progress in achieving our goals." Mr. Jafar is President of Crescent Petroleum, the region's first independent and privately-owned petroleum company in the Middle East and Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Enterprises, a diversified global businesses across six industry sectors. He is Managing Director of Crescent Group, which has been operating from the UAE as a family business group since 1972 and is the parent company of Crescent Enterprises and Crescent Petroleum. Mr. Jafar is Chairman of Gas Cities LLC, a joint venture between Crescent Petroleum and Dana Gas PJSC and Chairman of Pearl Petroleum, a partnership between Crescent Petroleum, Dana Gas, OMV of Austria, MOL of Hungary and RWEST of Germany. Additionally, Mr. Jafar is active in a variety of other industries, including ports and logistics, serving as Chair of the Executive Board for Gulftainer (the world's largest private container port operator). He also plays an active role in private equity ventures, serving as a board member of GrowthGate Capital (Bahrain). Mr. Jafar is an active member of the Young President's Organisation, serving as Ex-Officio of the YPO Emirates Chapter. He was honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011 and is Co-chair of their Family Business Community and is a member of the Stewardship Board of the System Initiative on Economic Progress. In 2010, Mr. Jafar co-founded Pearl Initiative, a non-profit venture in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Partnerships to promote a corporate culture of transparency and accountability across the Gulf Region of the Middle East. As part of his efforts advocating social entrepreneurship, Badr is Chairman of Endeavor UAE; an initiative encouraging high-impact entrepreneurship, is a member of the Synergos Arab World Social Innovators (AWSI) Program Board of Governors and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre (Sheraa) and Gaza Sky Geeks. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the American University of Sharjah, Cambridge University Judge Business School and American University of Beirut.

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• Chairman, Ruder Finn
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts

Mr. Finn was formerly chairman of the board of Cedar Crest College and is Director Emeritus of the Business Committee for the Arts. He currently serves on the boards of the Academy of American Poets; The New Hope Foundation; and MUSE Film and Television. He is a former editor-in-chief of Sculpture Review magazine. Mr. Finn is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served during the Clinton Administration as a member of the Advisory Council for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mr. Finn has had an outstanding career spanning more than fifty years as a key executive in the field of public rela¬tions and as a widely published author. As co-founder and chairman of Ruder.Finn, Inc., one of the largest independent public relations firms in the world, he has been a leader in exploring the ethical and philosophical dimen¬sions of public relations as well as in creating innovative approaches that have enhanced its effectiveness and broadened its contributions. He is also an accomplished photographer of sculpture, a painter and a writer on art, with more than 100 books to his credit. Clients of Ruder.Finn have included many Fortune 500 corpora¬tions as well as privately-held companies, trade associa¬tions, foreign governments and agencies, colleges and universities and not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Finn has played a major role in the work the firm has done for international clients in France, Greece, Japan, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and other countries. He has been an advisor to the World Bank, and in the United States has been involved in programs for the White House, the United Nations and various government agencies including the Federal Reserve Board. He has written a periodic column for Roll Call, the newspaper of the Congress, and articles by him have been pub¬lished in Forbes, Fortune, Harper's, the Saturday Review, the Harvard Business Review, the California Business Review, Across the Board, Management Review, and Reader's Digest. He produced a series of public service ads on "The Art of Leadership" for Forbes magazine. His book, Public Relations and Management, published by Reinhold, has been translated into several languages including Japanese, Spanish and Arabic. The

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• Co - Founder of the Rubin Museum of Art

Donald Rubin is Co-Founder of the Rubin Museum of Art and Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees. He also serves as the museum's CEO. Shelley and Donald Rubin started collecting Himalayan art in the early 1970s and amassed a large and significant collection, a major portion of which was given to the museum to seed its nascent collection. He was the founder of MultiPlan, Inc., a major general service PPO health provider. He serves on the board of The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and is a member of the Global Philanthropists Circle.

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• CEO & Chairman, Royal DSM

Feike Sijbesma (Dutch) studied Medical Biology at the University of Utrecht and Business Administration at Erasmus University in Rotterdam (both in the Netherlands). In 1987, he joined the Industrial Pharmaceuticals division of Gist-brocades, where he was responsible for strategic planning and business development. From 1990 to 1993, he was the division's Marketing and Sales Director. Thereafter he was given leadership of Savoury Ingredients, later on a business unit of Gist-brocades' Food Specialties Division. In 1995, he was made director of that division and joined Gist-brocades' Executive Committee. Following the acquisition by Royal DSM N.V. in 1998 he became Director of the business group DSM Food Specialties. In 2000, Feike joined DSM's Managing Board of Directors. He became CEO and Chairman of the Managing Board of Royal DSM N.V. on 1 May 2007.

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• Director, Boehm Family Foundation

Geoff Boehm is a practicing attorney admitted in New York and New Jersey. He has a diverse legal practice providing counsel to tax-exempt organizations regarding incorporation, corporate governance, labor and employment issues, applications for and maintenance of tax-exempt status, public policy strategy, permissible political activities, and advocacy. Geoff has over two decades of experience working in the public interest, including non-profit management, legislative drafting, litigation and community organizing in support of non-profit organizations, consumers, people in poverty, and victims of domestic violence. He has served as program director and senior attorney to the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), was the founding executive director and board member of A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center and has taught as an adjunct professor in the Political Science department at Yeshiva University. Geoff was also the legal director of the Center for Justice and Democracy, a consumer-rights organization; staff attorney for NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund/Legal Momentum, and began his legal career as a staff attorney at Legal Aid Society's Brooklyn Office for the Aging. Geoff is a 1996 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and received his B.A in Sociology from Wesleyan University in 1988.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Lecturer
• Chairman / Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Howard W. Buffett is a lecturer in international and public affairs at Columbia University, where he teaches graduate courses on public sector innovation, partnerships, and social value investing. He also serves on the Management Advisory Board for Columbia's Earth Institute. Mr. Buffett serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Global Partnerships Forum. Before joining Columbia's faculty, Mr. Buffett was the executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, which distributes over $150 million annually to strengthen food security for vulnerable populations throughout the world. While at the foundation, Mr. Buffett coauthored the New York Times bestselling book 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World, which examines global agriculture and food systems challenges, drawing from his and his father's experiences traveling in more than seventy countries across six continents. He currently serves as a trustee of the foundation. Mr. Buffett previously served in the U.S. Department of Defense, overseeing agriculture-based economic stabilization and redevelopment programs in Iraq and Afghanistan. For his work, he received the highest-ranking civilian honor presented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff requiring the request and approval of a Combatant Commander. Prior to the Defense Department, Mr. Buffett was a policy advisor for the White House Domestic Policy Council. He coauthored the President's cross-sector partnerships strategy, and managed the White House Partnerships In Innovation Interagency Working Group across 14 departments and agencies. Mr. Buffett earned his BA from Northwestern University and his MPA in Advanced Management and Finance from Columbia University. He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he has served in advisory capacities for the Aspen Institute, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the United Nations Office for Partnerships. He also sits on a number of corporate advisory boards, including Toyota Motor North America Inc.

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Founding Member and President of the IDP Foundation, Inc
• Managing Director of the IML Group
• President, IDP Foundation

Irene Pritzker became a founding member and President of the IDP Foundation, Inc. in 2008. The mission of the IDP Foundation is to develop and support innovative programs devoted to improving the quality of life for people and organizations in need particularly as it relates to poverty alleviation. Irene Pritzker has presented this work within the United Nations at events sponsored by the UN Office for Partnerships, UN Development Program, UN Economic and Social Council and the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in addition to frequently appearing as a featured panelist in other forums. In creating the IDP Foundation, Inc., Irene Pritzker hopes to embrace and facilitate the creation of truly groundbreaking programs that address the world's most menacing dilemmas. Mrs. Pritzker is a Trustee of the Foreign Policy Association as well as being actively involved in many Chicago community initiatives. Mrs. Pritzker is also a Managing Director of the IML Group, LLC, a Chicago based family investment office. She was trained as a teacher at The University of Western Australia and also holds a Master of Arts Degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago.

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• Director of the GW Center for the Study
• Director of the GW Center for the Study of Globalization

John Forrer is Director of the GW Center for the Study of Globalization (GWCSG) and associate faculty member of the GW School of Public Policy and Public Administration. He is Administrative Director of the GW Institute for Corporate Responsibility and an associate research professor at the GW School of Business. Professor Forrer's current research activities include privatization and public private partnerships, the economic consequences of U.S. economic sanctions and global citizenship. He teaches courses on public private partnerships, global corporate responsibility and global governance. Recent publications include:

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• Member of the Management Team
• Programme Officer

Laura Cienkowski is a Programme Officer at the Global Partnerships Forum. She is well-versed in managing complex diplomatic events and has an in-depth understanding of the United Nations. She is an accomplished administrative professional, having worked in a range of roles in both the private and non-profit sectors. Laura Cienkowski is a Programme Officer at the Global Partnerships Forum. She is a highly driven and accomplished professional with experience in international development issues, including a thorough understanding of the United Nations. Laura is very well versed with managing complex diplomatic events, having led the planning and execution of the High-Level Symposium on Coastal Resilience which was held in the margins of the 69 th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. This included the participation of the First Lady of Japan, leaders from international organizations, business and civil society to focus on challenges faced by communities impacted by natural disasters. In addition, she assisted in hosting the 2014 Women Leaders Forum, which brought together First Ladies, leaders from international organizations, businesses and civil society, to focus on enhancing opportunities for women in society. In addition, Laura has very good knowledge of the inner workings of the United Nations, including its 193 Member States. Laura also worked on the Launch of the Global STEM Alliance, and managed the Gala Dinner, which was co-hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences, the Global Sustainable Development Foundation and the GPF. She also assisted in the Healthy Oceans and Seas Forum, which was co-hosted by the governments of Italy, Monaco, and Palau. Laura Cienkowski is an accomplished administrative professional, having worked in a range of roles with tremendous responsibility. Aside from her experience in the private sector, Laura also brought with her a knowledge of the non-profit realm that she received while working with a prominent Women's Leadership Organization. She has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and co-manages the GPF social media presence.

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• CEO and Founder of Captive Minds
• Chairman of Trustees for Commando 999

Marcus Chidgey is the CEO and founder of Captive Minds, a strategic communications agency based in London and New York. After graduating from the University of Exeter, Marcus lived and taught English in Japan for a year on the JET Programme before returning to work for Apple in 2001 where he helped to launch the iPod and Mac OSX as a marketing assistant. Inspired by his time at Apple, Marcus sought out other creative opportunities and became involved in successfully marketing a film which premiered at BAFTA and the Cannes Film Festival. With demand from potential clients, Marcus teamed up with business partner Alex Rayner and established Captive Minds in Battersea, London in July 2003.

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• President, World BPO Forum
• Senior Advisor to the United Nations Office for Partnerships

Mr. Babu Lal Jain, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) advises the UN on forging key partnerships and alliances with the private sector to promote the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to which all the member countries are signatories. He lends his immense experience to help achieve the MDGs. "Information technology and enabling services", he says, "will be the tools that we need to accelerate the process of reaching the MDGs. Mr. Babu Lal Jain has enjoyed an extensive career in international business, consultancy and entrepreneurship. He has run, guided and nurtured world-class businesses. As part of his career as a business consultant, he has conducted risk management seminars for various public sector and private sector banks and officials of the Finance Ministry of India. His reputable consultancy services in the field of Information technology, fashion, gem and jewellery, pharmaceutical, healthcare have added value to clients in Europe, the United Arab Emirates and the US. Some of the positions he currently holds in the private sector are:

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• Senior Vice President at GLG

Zecki Dossal is a Senior Vice President at GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group), where he leads the private equity and venture capital engagement team and is responsible for overseeing strategy and service delivery. He helped to launch the company's social impact initiatives, to deploy expertise across the spectrum between the non-profit and private equity ecosystems. Zecki has extensive experience working across sectors, and has helped developed GLG's business with a number of corporations, strategy consulting firms, start-ups and non-profit organizations. Until the end of 2007, he was responsible for managing the global research team for the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice. He joined the firm in 2002 as a Research Analyst, responsible for recruiting and development of GLG's global TMT network. Zecki earned a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University, after initially starting undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins, and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. He serves on the boards of United Hatzalah and the Columbia College Young Leadership Council, advisory board of the Resolution Project, and the junior board of CITYArts.