The President s Global Development Council

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1 The President s Global Development Council Our U.S. Global Development Policy the first of its kind by an American administration is rooted in America s enduring commitment to the dignity and potential of every human being. It outlines our new approach and the new thinking that will guide our overall development efforts. Put simply, the United States is changing the way we do business. -- President Barack Obama, September 2010 Consistent with the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, the Global Development Council was created to provide advice to the President and other senior U.S. officials on issues including: U.S. global development policies and practices, supporting new and existing public-private partnerships, and increasing awareness and action in support of development. About the Council The President's Global Development Council was created to provide advice to the President and other senior U.S. officials on issues including: U.S. global development policies and practices, supporting new and existing public-private partnerships, and increasing awareness and action in support of development by soliciting public input on current and emerging issues in the field of global development. The Global Development Council is made up of members appointed by the President from a variety of sectors outside the Federal Government, including, among others, institutions of higher education, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, civil society, and private industry. In addition, the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Defense, the USAID Administrator, the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the United States Trade Representative serve on the Council as non-voting members. The Global Development Council is tasked to advise and support the President, through the National Security Council and the National Economic Council staff, toward the fulfillment of these goals. The Council is tasked to inform the policy and practice of U.S. global development policy and programs by providing advice to the President and other senior officials on issues including: 1. Innovative, scalable approaches to development with proven demonstrable impact, particularly on sustainable economic growth and good governance; 2. Areas for enhanced collaboration between the Federal Government and public and private sectors to advance development policy; 3. Best practices for and effectiveness of research and development in low and middle income economies; and 4. Long-term solutions to issues central to strategic planning for U.S. development efforts. The Council is also tasked to support new and existing public-private partnerships by: 1. Identifying key areas for enhanced collaboration and any barriers to collaboration; 2. Recommending concrete efforts that the private and public sectors together can take to promote economic development priorities and initiatives; and 3. Increasing awareness and action in support of development by soliciting public input on current and emerging issues in the field of global development as well as bringing to the President's attention concerns and ideas that would inform policy options. Upcoming Meeting

2 On Monday, April 14, 2014, the President s Global Development Council will hold a public meeting at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., chaired by Council member and chair Mohamed El-Erian, and facilitated by Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council, Gayle Smith. The purpose of this meeting is to solicit public input on key global development issues. The meeting will begin with opening remarks, followed by a panel presentation from Council members on initial recommendations for U.S. development policies and practices, and will provide an opportunity for public comment. The full meeting agenda will be forthcoming on Members The Global Development Council is made up of no more than 12 individuals appointed by the President from a variety of sectors outside the Federal Government, including, among others, institutions of higher education, non-profit and philanthropic organizations, civil society, and private industry. In addition to these individuals, the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Defense, the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the United States Trade Representative and the President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) serve on the Council as non-voting members. The Council is administered by USAID. President Obama has appointed the following individuals to the Council: Richard C. Blum Richard C. Blum is Chairman and President of Richard C. Blum & Associates, Inc., the general partner of Blum Capital Partners, L.P., a long-term strategic equity investment management firm which acts as general partner for various investment partnerships and provides investment advisory services. He is also Chairman of Montgomery Street Partners, Blum Capital s exclusive vehicle to continue its investment strategy in real estate and real estate related assets. Mr. Blum currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., a global market leader in real estate services and is also a director of the Pacific Alliance Group Holdings, Ltd., a leading Asian alternative asset investment management firm. Mr. Blum is Chairman Emeritus of the University of California Board of Regents and continues to serve as a Regent. Mr. Blum is also former Chairman of the Board for the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank Economic Advisory Council and the National Democratic Institute s Board of Directors. Mr. Blum was appointed to President Obama s Global Development Council and is also a founding member of National Geographic s International Council of Advisors. He founded the American Himalayan Foundation and the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Honorary Consul of Nepal. Additionally, Mr. Blum serves on the board of trustees of the following not-for-profits: The Brookings Institution, California Academy of Sciences, The Carter Center, The Glide Foundation, The Wilderness Society and Central European University. Mr. Blum earned both his B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2006 he received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of San Francisco s McLaren College of Business. Most recently, he was awarded the Haas School of Business Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Esther Duflo Dr. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. In addition, Dr. Duflo is the Director of the development economics program at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and also serves as the editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied

3 Economics. She co-authored Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, which won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in She was awarded a Fellowship from the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2009 and the John Bates Clark Medal in She holds an undergraduate degree from L Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, a Master s degree from EHSEES in Paris, and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian is member of the Allianz International Executive Board, Chief Economic Advisor to its Management Board, and former CEO and co-cio of PIMCO. Dr. El-Erian also served as President and CEO of the Harvard Management Company, Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London, and Deputy Director at the IMF. Having been on the boards of the U.S. Treasury s Borrowing Advisory Committee, Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the International Center for Research on Women, he currently sits on the boards of Cambridge in America, the Carnegie Foundation, and the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER). He is a Financial Times contributing editor and, since 2007, chair of Microsoft s Investment Advisory Committee. Dr. El-Erian received a B.A. and an M.A. from Cambridge University, and an M.Phil and Ph.D. from Oxford University. He was named to Foreign Policy s list of Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2009, 2010, 2011 and His first book, When Markets Collide, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, won the 2008 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year and was named a book of the year by The Economist and one of the best business books of all time by the Independent (UK). Gargee Ghosh Gargee Ghosh, Director of Development Policy and Finance (DPAF), leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation s engagement with the international development financing system. The team s work includes policy research and grant-making in the areas of aid policy and country financing, and strategic partnerships with international financial institutions. Prior to taking on this role in 2012, Gargee held senior positions at Google.org as well as in the International Development practice of McKinsey & Company. Gargee worked in the Global Health group of the Gates Foundation from on innovative finance, helping to launch significant efforts in immunization financing and in impact investing. Prior to this, Gargee worked at the Center for Global Development. Gargee holds graduate degrees in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford and in International Relations from Georgetown, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Victoria in Canada. Sarah Degnan Kambou Dr. Sarah Degnan Kambou is President of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), a position she has held since She joined ICRW in 2002 and held numerous leadership roles prior to becoming President, including serving as Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to 2010, and Vice President of Health and Development from 2006 to Prior to joining ICRW, Dr. Kambou spent more than a decade in sub-saharan Africa managing programs and operations for CARE. In 1985, she co-founded the Center for International Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. In 2009, she was appointed as a Commissioner on the United States National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and in 2012 President Bill Clinton tapped Sarah to serve as an Advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative. Sarah is a recipient of the Perdita Huston Human Rights Award, conferred in 2013 by the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area in recognition of her commitment to improving the status of women everywhere. She has also been recognized with the Distinguished Alumni

4 Award by the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Kambou received a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, and an M.P.H. and Ph.D. from Boston University. Dr. James M. Manyika Dr. James M. Manyika is the Director of the McKinsey Global Institute and a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. Prior to joining McKinsey, Dr. Manyika served on the Engineering Faculty at Oxford University and was an elected Research Fellow at Balliol College at Oxford University. In 2011, Dr. Manyika was appointed to the Innovation Advisory Board at the Department of Commerce. He is a Trustee at the Aspen Institute and the World Affairs Council of California, and serves on the Advisory Boards of the University of California at Berkeley s School of Information and Harvard University s Hutchin's Center and Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is a Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Manyika was a Rhodes Scholar and received a B.S. from the University of Zimbabwe and an M.A., M.S., and D.Phil. from Oxford University. Alan J. Patricof Alan J. Patricof is Managing Director of Greycroft, LLC, a venture capital firm he founded in Previously, he served as Chairman of Patricof & Co. Ventures, which later became Apax Partners, Inc., a company he founded in 1970 which is now one of the world s leading private equity firms. Mr. Patricof served two terms as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation from 2007 to From 1993 to 1995, he also served as Chairman of the White House Conference on Small Business Commission. He was a board member of TechnoServe, Trickle Up Program, the Global Advisory Board of Endeavor, and the Initiative for Global Development Leadership Council. He currently sits on the board of Boston Properties, Inc. (NYSE:BXP). Mr. Patricof received a B.S. in Finance from Ohio State University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. William K. Reilly William K. Reilly is a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, LP, an international investment partnership. During his tenure with TPG, he was the Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners ( ) a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies in the water sector. Mr. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University ( ), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( ), president of World Wildlife Fund ( ), president of The Conservation Foundation ( ), and a senior staff member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality ( ). He headed the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, and served as one of the seven original Trustees appointed by President Clinton to manage the Presidio National Park in San Francisco. In May 2010, he was appointed by President Obama to co-chair the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and in late 2012 to the President s Global Development Council. Mr. Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of World Wildlife Fund and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the ClimateWorks Foundation. He served as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy. He recently rotated off the boards of directors of ConocoPhillips, DuPont, and the National Geographic Society, and he currently serves on the boards of Royal Caribbean International and Energy Future Holdings. In 2007 Mr. Reilly was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served in the U.S. Army to the rank of Captain, and holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard, and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University. Steven Schwager Steven Schwager worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc. for 23 years, rising to the level of Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President before retiring at the end of During

5 his tenure, Mr. Schwager held various positions including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Previously, he was a Chief Business Official of the New York City Board of Education from 1983 to 1989, and from 1976 to 1983, he was the Chief Auditor of the New York City Comptroller s Office. He received a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York. Mr Schwager holds Certified Public Accountant licenses in New York and New Jersey. Smita Singh Smita Singh was the Special Advisor for Global Affairs and the founding Director of the Global Development Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she worked from 2001 to From 1998 to 2001, she was a scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Previously, Ms. Singh consulted for the World Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission on Africa. She was the first Program Officer for Higher Education Innovative Projects at the Commission on National and Community Service, now known as the Corporation for National and Community Service. Before joining the Commission, Ms. Singh worked at ABC News Nightline. She is on the governing boards of Oxfam America, Revenue Watch Institute, and the Center for Global Development, and is a Member of the Aspen Strategy Group. Ms. Singh received a B.A. from Stanford University and an A.M. from Harvard University.