2015 Concordia Annual Summit Speakers

H.E. Dr. Abdullah Abdullah

Chief Executive, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Jenny Abramson

Founder & Managing Director of Rethink Impact

Rosa Akbari

Ahmad Alhendawi

United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Tracey Allard

Executive Director, The Resolution Project

Hady Amr

Deputy Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations for Economics, U.S. De...

H.E. Andrés Pastrana Arango

Former President, Republic of Colombia

H.E. José María Aznar Lopez

President, Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis (FAES) | Former President,...

David C. Banks

President & CEO, Eagle Academy Foundation

Alyssa Bereznak

Tech Reporter, Yahoo News

Hon. Joseph Biden, Jr.

Former Vice President of the United States of America

Matthew Bieschke

Managing Partner, NEXA Capital Partners

John P. Bilbrey

President and Chief Executive Officer, The Hershey Company

Hon. Michael Blake

Founder & CEO, Atlas Strategy Group

Sir. Richard Branson*

Founder, Virgin Group

Dr. Ian Bremmer

President, Eurasia Group & GZERO Media

Amb. Nancy G. Brinker

Founder, Susan G. Komen | Co-Founder, Promise Fund of Florida

Neil Britto

Co-Founder & Executive Director, The Intersector Project

H.E. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa

Global Ambassador for Extreme Heat, Atlantic Council | Former President, The Uni...

Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D.

Director of Domestic Policy Studies, Public Policy Program, Stanford University

Rachael Chong

Founder & CEO, Catchafire

Alexis Christoforous

News Anchor, Business Correspondent, Yahoo Finance

Marina Colby

Human RIghts Lawyer

Julie Cordua

CEO, Thorn

Soraya Darabi

Co-Founder, Zady.com

W. Robert de Jongh

Social Impact Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting

Kelly Denson

Director, Education Policy & Government Affairs, Discovery Communications

Amb. Paula J. Dobriansky, Ph.D.

Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Senior Fellow, Harvard Unive...

Shawn Dove

CEO, Campaign for Black Male Achievement

Jeff Dykstra

CEO, Partners in Food Solutions

Barry Eccleston

President, Airbus Americas, Inc.

Hugh Evans

Chief Executive Officer, Global Poverty Project

Gregory B. Fairchild

E. Thayer Bigelow Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of ...

2015 Concordia Annual Summit Speakers

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Benjamin Freakley

Professor of Practice of Leadership for Arizona State University

Dr. Julie Gerberding, M.D., MPH

Executive Vice President, Strategic Communications, Global Public Policy, and Po...

Andres Gluski

President & Chief Executive Officer, The AES Corporation

Jonathan Greenblatt

National Director, Anti-Defamation League

John J. Hamre

President & CEO; and the Pritzker Chair, Center for Strategic and International ...

Scott Heiferman

Co-Founder & CEO, Meetup

Jeremy Heimans

Co-founder & CEO, Purpose

Neil Hicks

Director, Human Rights Promotion, Human Rights First

Hanna Hopko

MP, Head of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Ukrainian Parliament

Federico Hoyos

Congressman, Congress of the Republic of Colombia

Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.

Chairman, Atlantic Council

Ted Iacobuzio

Vice President, Global Insights, MasterCard

Mariia Ionova

People's Deputy of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Michael Isikoff

Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News

Broderick Johnson

Assistant to the President, Cabinet Secretary, and Chair of the My Brother’s K...

Christopher Jurgens

Division Chief, Global Partnerships Division, U.S. Global Development Lab

Erika Karp

Chair of the Board, CEO & Founder, Cornerstone Capital Group

Brian Katulis

Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Cem Kent

Co-Founder, Even

Muhtar Kent

Former Chairman & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company

Special Envoy John Kerry*

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, State Department

Dr. Vanessa Kerry

Co-founder and CEO, Seed Global Health

Eric King

Innovation Specialist, US Agency for International Development

Akhila Kosaraju, M.D.

Vice President, Global Development, SIGA Technologies

John Koudounis

President & Chief Executive Officer, Calamos Investments

H.E. Aleksander Kwaśniewski

Former President, the Republic of Poland

Rob Lederer

Executive Director, Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition

Oliver B. Libby

Chair & Co-Founder, The Resolution Project

Andrew N. Liveris AO

Former Chairman and CEO, Dow Chemical Company

George M. Logothetis

Co-Chair, Concordia Leadership Council & Chairman of the Board, Libra Group

Nicholas Logothetis

Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board, Concordia

Nancy Lublin

Founder & CEO, Crisis Text Line

Dr. Jabulane Mabuza

Former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Telkom SA SOC Limited

Dannel P. Malloy

Governor, State of Connecticut

Hon. Carolyn Maloney

Representative , U.S. House of Representatives

Mary Margaret Frank

Senior Associate Dean, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Senator John McCain*

United States Senate

Tjada McKenna

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Food Security

Sen. George J. Mitchell

Chairman Emeritus, DLA Piper | Former Majority Leader, United States Senate & U....

Kilian Moote

Project Director, KnowTheChain, Humanity United

John Morrison

Executive Director, Institute for Human Rights and Business

Phangisile Mtshali

Director, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Secure the Future Programme

Amb. John D. Negroponte

Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates

Randy Newcomb

President & CEO, Humanity United

Karla Newendorp

Director of Investments, VilCap Investments

Hon. Thomas R. Nides

Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley & Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

Stephen B. Nix

Regional Director, Eurasia, International Republican Institute

Michael J. Nyenhuis

President & CEO, UNICEF USA

Andrew O’Brien

Special Representative for Global Partnerships, US Department of State, Office o...

Dean Obeidallah

The Daily Beast

Dr. Nancy Okail

Executive Director, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

Farah Pandith

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Hon. Richard Parker

Vice President of External Affairs, Food for the Hungry

Ryan Paterson

Founder & CEO, Information Science Technology Research

Camilo Patrignani

EVP, Energy de Libra Group

Kendall Powell

CEO, General Mills

2015 Concordia Annual Summit Speakers

H.E. Jorge-Tuto Fernando Quiroga

Former President, Plurinational State of Bolivia

Carter Roberts

President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund

Dr. Judith Rodin

President, The Rockefeller Foundation

Linda Rodriguez

Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase, Global Philanthropy

Hon. Mike Rogers

Former Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Ed Rollins

Senior Advisor, Teneo Strategy

Harvey Rubin, M.D. PhD

Director of the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response, University...

Hon. Kevin Rudd

Australian Ambassador to the United States | Former Prime Minister, Australia

Michael Santoli

Senior Columnist, Yahoo! Finance

Andy Serwer

Editor-in-Chief, Verizon Media/Yahoo Finance

Shiza Shahid

Co-Founder, The Malala Fund

Dermot Shea

Deputy Commissioner Operations, NYPD

Kate Sheerin

Public Policy and Government Affairs Analyst, Google

Annabel Short

Programme Director, Business & Human Rights Centre

Ben Skinner

Founder & Principal, Transparentem

Amy Sobel

Vice President, Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign and Senior Advisor to the CEO, H...

Jim South

TNC Dow Collaboration Lead, The Nature Conservancy

Margaret Spellings

President, University of North Carolina

William R. Steiger

Interim Chief Executive Officer, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon

H.E. Petar Stoyanov

President, Center for Global Dialogue and Collaboration (CGDC)| Former President...

Matthew Swift

Co-Founder, President & CEO, Concordia

HRH Prince Abdul Aziz bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

Chairman, Arab Gulf Program for Development - AGFUND

Henry Timms

President and CEO, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Mitchell Toomey

Director, Millennium Campaign Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP New ...

Frances F. Townsend

Senior Counsel, Activision Blizzard

George M. Tsiatis

President & Co-Founder, The Resolution Project

HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal

Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Denise Turner Roth

Administrator, U.S. General Services Administration

Elizabeth Uhlhorn

Yasmin Vafa

Co-founder, Director of Law and Policy, Rights4Girls

Paloma Valencia

Senator, Republic of Colombia

Hon. Cyrus Vance, Jr.

District Attorney, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

Ann Veneman

Former Executive Director, UNICEF

H.E. Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga

Former President, Republic of Latvia

Joseph Vittoria

Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Avis

Ambassador Kurt Volker

Executive Director, The McCain Institute

William Warshauer

President & CEO, TechnoServe

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Congresswoman & Chair, Democratic National Committee

Ryan Whalen

Director, Initiatives & Strategy, The Rockefeller Foundation

Anne Williams-Isom

Chief Executive Officer, Harlem Children’s Zone®

Brian Winter

Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, Americas Society/Council of the Americas

Thomas K. Wright

President, Regional Plan Association

Sheryl Wudunn

Author, Half the Sky

Dr. Bassem Youssef

Managing Director, QSB & former Host, AlBernameg

Victor Yushchenko

President of Ukraine (2005-2010), Member of NGIC