Catastrophic Risk and Threats to the Global Commons
Speakers
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President and Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post
Arianna Huffington is the President and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked-to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. Originally from Greece, she graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Economics.
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President and CEO, CARE
Helene Gayle is President and CEO of CARE USA. Dr. Gayle previously held positions with the CDC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and serves on several boards, including the Rockefeller Foundation and the US Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Helene earned a BA from Barnard College, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
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Director, Oxford Martin School
Professor Ian Goldin is Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University. Ian was previously Vice President of the World Bank and its Director of Development Policy after serving as advisor to President Mandela and Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. He has a BSc and BA(Hons) from UCT, MSc from LSE and Doctorate from Oxford University. He has published 19 books, his most recent being The Butterfly Defect (Princeton) and Is the Planet Full? (Oxford) and has been knighted by the French Government. See: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/director/
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President, Ploughshares Fund
Joe Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. He previously served as Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress and Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Joe is the author of the books Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and is the author or editor of five other books on nuclear weapons and national security policy.
Joe serves on the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches at the graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the professional staff of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations.
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Senior Counselor, Skoll Foundation
Larry Brilliant, MD MPH: Chair, Ending Pandemics; CEO, Pandefense; former Chair, National Bio-Surveillance Advisory Subcommittee; former Prof Epidemiology, UMich, Head of Google.org, CEO Skoll Global Threats, smallpox eradication program WHO, CDC, Senior Counselor Skoll Foundation, Salesforce.org founder, Seva Foundation, co-founder The Well and author of Sometimes Brilliant and The Management of Smallpox Eradication. TIME100 and Ted Prize; multiple honorary doctorates, CNN on-air analyst @larrybrilliant. info@larrybrilliant.com
