Lisa Caputo is Chairman and CEO, Women & Company and Chief Marketing, Advertising and Community Relations Officer, Global Consumer Group for Citigroup. She is a member of Citigroup’s Management Committee and the Global Consumer Group Planning Group. Ms. Caputo started Women & Company when she first joined Citigroup. Women & Company is a membership program which provides a host of solutions to address the distinct financial needs of women. She is a board member of WNET Channel 13, The Sesame Workshop, New Visions for Public Schools, The Creative Coalition and The National Partnership for Women and Families. Ms. Caputo graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and received a Master’s degree in Journalism with highest distinction from Northwestern University. 

Ned Cloonan is Vice President of Corporate and International Affairs for American International Group (AIG), where he has worldwide responsibility for political strategies, policy and issues management, external relations and business development. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Presidents Circle of Asia, he is on the Executive Committee of the U.S.-India Business Council and is an Advisory Board Member of the Council of the Americas. Mr. Cloonan is also on the Board of the National Committee on U.S. China Relations, the U.S. Vietnam Trade Council, the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce, the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, the American Turkish Society, the World Press Institute, Project ORBIS and the International Tax and Investment Center.

John Elkins is Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company. He was previously Executive Vice President of Visa International, where he oversaw worldwide strategic brand planning and research for one of the world’s most recognized brands, formulated innovative global strategic marketing partnerships and alliances, coordinated internal and external corporate communications worldwide, and was responsible for managing Visa’s global corporate reputation. Prior to joining Visa International, Mr. Elkins was founder, chairman and CEO of FutureBrand, a leading global brand consulting firm and a division of the InterPublic Group. From 1991 to 1999, he was CEO of the Naisbitt Group, where he led the worldwide expansion of the firm and contributed to its many publications, including Megatrends, published in 32 countries and a number one bestseller in the U.S., Germany and Japan. Mr. Elkins serves on the United Nations Advisory Board for Inclusive Financial Services. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum Executive Committee for Travel and Tourism, as well as the World Travel & Tourism Council Executive Committee. Mr. Elkins has a BEd from the University of Exeter, England and an MSc from the University of Oregon.

Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and the director of SAIS' International Development program. He is also chairman of the editorial board of a new magazine, The American Interest. Dr. Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation from 1979-1980, 1983-89, and 1995-96. In 1981-82 and in 1989 he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State, the first time as a regular member specializing in Middle East affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European political-military affairs. In 1981-82 he was also a member of the U.S. delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Dr. Fukuyama is a member of advisory boards for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Journal of Democracy, and The New America Foundation. As an NED board member, he is responsible for oversight of the Endowment’s Middle East programs. 

Richard L. Plepler is Executive Vice President for Home Box Office, responsible for strategic communications and positioning for the company.  Plepler serves on the boards of Phoenix House, New York Outward Bound and the Nixon Center.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he serves on the Chairman’s Advisory Council, and a member of The Trilateral Commission, a non-government policy-oriented group. He is also on the Corporate Advisory Board of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, on the National Advisory Board of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, and is a member of the Dean’s Council of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Mr. Plepler holds a BA in Government from Franklin and Marshall College. 

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. In 2004 and 2005 he was named among the 100 most influential leaders in the world by Time Magazine. He is author of hundreds of scholarly articles and many books, including New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (Penguin, 2005). Sachs is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining Columbia, he spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University.