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Members of The Vaccine Fund's Board of Directors:
Graça Machel, Chair
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan
Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt
Dwight L. Bush
Michel Camdessus
Jocelyn S. Davis
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Charles J. Lyons, Executive Committee
Mary Robinson
Mstislav Rostropovich
Amartya Sen, PhD
Rita Süssmuth
George W. Wellde
Wayne Berson
Nelson Mandela, Board Chair Emeritus
Nelson Mandela was the first black
president of South Africa and a legendary figure of the African
National Congress (ANC). From 1964 to 1990, Mandela was imprisoned for
opposing South Africa’s white minority government and its policy of
racial separation. In 1993, Mandela and the president who released him,
F.W. de Klerk, shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Mandela was elected
president of the Republic of South Africa in 1994 and served until
1999. He is the founder of The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, which
addresses the needs of marginalized youth.
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Graça Machel, Chair
Graça Machel, former first lady and
minister of education in Mozambique, is widely recognized for her
dedication to education and for her leadership in organizations devoted
to the children of her war-torn country. She currently serves as
chairperson of the Commonwealth Foundation, chancellor of the
University of Cape Town, and president of the Foundation for Community
Development. Machel is also a member of the Advisory Board of
Disarmament Matters at the United Nations, where she has focused on the
impact of armed conflict on children, and serves on the boards of the
UN Foundation, the UN University and the South Centre.
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Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of
Jordan currently serves as President of the Arab Women’s Summit, a
rotating position she will hold until November 2004. Queen Rania’s
activities encompass issues of national concern, such as the
environment, youth, human rights, tourism, and culture among others. In
1995, she established the Jordan River Foundation (JRF), which aims to
assist vulnerable segments of Jordan's population. Working closely with
various international agencies, the Ministry of Social Development and
the Jordan River Foundation, Queen Rania oversaw the launching of the
Child Abuse Prevention Project, the first of its kind in the Arab
region. In addition, Queen Rania sponsors numerous events that promote
economic growth as well as the educational, artistic, and cultural
diversity of Jordan.
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Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt, Vaccine Fund Chief Executive Officer and GAVI Executive Secretary
Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt, who recently took
over from Jacques-François Martin as head of The Vaccine Fund and Dr
Tore Godal as Executive Secretary of the Geneva-based Global Alliance
for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), brings a wealth of experience to
the Alliance—both from his work at the international health policy
level and from his extensive work in developing countries. Until
recently, Dr Lob-Levyt, a UK national, worked for UNAIDS as Senior
Policy Adviser to the Executive Director, Peter Piot. Prior to that
appointment, Dr Lob-Levyt was the Chief Health and Population Adviser
(latterly Chief Human Development and Health Adviser) at the UK
Department for International Development (DFID), with overall policy
responsibility for health, population and HIV. Dr Lob-Levyt, is no
stranger to GAVI as he has represented the UK Government and donor
constituencies as a member of the GAVI Board. He also represented the
UK as a founding board member of the Global Fund to Fight TB, AIDS, and
Malaria and has been involved in the provision of bi-lateral support to
a range of public-private health initiatives such as the International
AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the International Microbicides
Partnership, as well as WHO programmes including Roll Back Malaria,
STOP TB, and the lymphatic filariasis and guinea worm programmes. He
was also closely involved in the work of the WHO Commission on
Macroeconomics and Health, which reported in December 2001. More
recently, he has worked with the UK Treasury and other donor
governments on the development of new innovative financing
instruments—the International Finance Facility (IFF)—aimed at
increasing international development assistance to meet the Millennium
Development Goals. Read Dr Lob-Levyt’s complete biography
here.
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Dwight L. Bush
Mr. Bush has been a Principal of Stuart
Mill Capital, LLC, an Arlington, VA, based investment firm, since 1997.
From 1999 through 2002 Mr. Bush also served as Chief Financial Officer
of SatoTravel Holdings. From 1994 through 1997, Mr. Bush served as Vice
President-Corporate Development of Sallie Mae Corporation, a $60
billion financial service corporation, and the nation’s leading
provider of education credit. At Sallie Mae, Mr. Bush was responsible
for mergers and acquisitions and business development, credit and
investment policy, and investor relations. In addition, Mr. Bush was
part of the senior management team responsible for the successful
re-chartering of Sallie Mae as a fully privatized corporation.
Previously, Mr. Bush worked for Chase Manhattan Bank as Managing
Director, Project Finance and head of the Public Utilities Group.
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Michel Camdessus
Michel Camdessus is currently Honorary
Governor of the Bank of France. He is also President Chirac's Personal
Representative on Africa and has recently been appointed as the French
representative for NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa Development). From
January 1987 to February 2000 Camdessus served as Managing Director and
Chairman of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF). Prior to his position with the Fund, Camdessus was appointed
Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, (August 1984) and then Governor
(November 1984). Camdessus held several positions in the French
government; he started his political career as “Administrateur Civil”
in the French civil service, then joined the Treasury in the Ministry
of Finance and Economic Affairs in 1960. From 1966 to 1968, he served
as financial attaché to the French delegation at the European Economic
Community in Brussels. Camdessus holds a postgraduate degree in
economics from the University of Paris and is also a graduate of the
Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and the Ecole Nationale
d'Administration (ENA).
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Jocelyn S. Davis
Jocelyn Davis is currently head of the
Nelson Hart LLC, a financial services consulting firm with specialized
expertise in not-for-profit organizations, strategy development and
implementation, governance, project management and staff development
especially for senior managers and executives. She is also an
Independent Trustee of the Allmerica Investment Trust and an
Independent Member of Investment Committee for the American
Psychological Association. In 2001, she joined the Washington CPA firm
of Beers & Cutler as Chief Operating Officer and from 1996 to 2001
she was Chief Financial Officer for AARP (“American Association of
Retired Persons”), one of the largest not-for-profit organizations in
the United States. Davis holds a BBA in Accounting and is a certified
Public Accountant.
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Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
The Honorable Uffe Ellemann-Jensen is a
former Minister for Foreign Affairs and a longstanding leader of the
Liberal Party in Denmark and abroad. He was first elected to the Danish
Parliament in 1977 and was the political spokesman of the Liberal Party
from 1978 to 1982 before serving as the Minister for Foreign Affairs
from 1982-1993. Over the course of his political career, he has served
as National Chairman of the Liberal Party ("Venstre"), President of the
European Liberal Party - European Liberal, Democratic and Reform Party,
and Vice-president of Liberal International. He remains very active in
foreign affairs and human rights and is currently the Chairman of the
Foreign Policy Society in Denmark, the Baltic Development Forum,
INTERFORCE Committee, and the Danish Centre for International Studies
and Human Right as well as a trustee of the International Crisis Group.
Mr. Ellemann-Jensen has authored a number of books on economics and
politics and received several international awards, including the
Robert Schuman Prize (1987), the Hansa Prize (1992), and the Ebbe Munk
Prize (2002).
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Charles J. Lyons
Charles J. “Chip” Lyons was appointed
president of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in 1997. In that capacity, Lyons
is responsible for raising American public awareness of children’s
needs around the world and the work of UNICEF. Before assuming this
position, Lyons served in a variety of roles with UNICEF, including
chief of staff to the executive director. Lyons serves on the boards of
Baby-Friendly USA, an organization working to promote breast-feeding as
the optimal care for babies, and Rugmark USA, an organization working
to reduce exploitative child labor in the carpet industry.
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Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson is the Executive Director of
the Ethical Globalization Initiative. She served as United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and as President of
Ireland from 1990-1997. She is a founder member and incoming Chair of
the Council of Women World Leaders. Before her election as President,
Mrs. Robinson served as Senator, holding that office for 20 years. In
1969 she became Reid Professor of Constitutional Law at Trinity
College, Dublin and now serves as Chancellor of Dublin University. She
was called to the bar in 1967, becoming a Senior Counsel in 1980, and a
member of the English Bar (Middle Temple) in 1973. Educated at Trinity
College, Mrs. Robinson also holds law degrees from the King's Inns in
Dublin and from Harvard University.
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Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Rostropovich is the most esteemed
cellist of his generation and a relentless defender of human rights.
Born in Azerbaijan, he studied and later taught at the Moscow
Conservatory. In 1974 Rostropovich and his wife left the USSR, and in
1978 their citizenship was revoked. Having immigrated to the United
States, he became music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in
Washington, D.C., a position he held from 1977 to 1994. Rostropovich
has given benefit concerts to aid earthquake victims, and undertaken
fundraising efforts for the first modern, fully equipped children’s
hospital in Moscow. In 1974 he received the Annual Award of the
International League of Human Rights and in 1985 the Albert Schweitzer
Award.
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Amartya Sen, PhD
Amartya Sen is a Nobel Prize-winning
economist whose contributions to the field of welfare economics have
helped explain the causes of famine, inequality and poverty. Sen taught
at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, Oxford and New
Dehli University before becoming head of Trinity College in Cambridge,
England. He is the author of numerous books, including Poverty and
Famine: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation and Collective Choice
and Social Welfare. Sen is the recipient of the Alan Shaw Feinstein
World Hunger Award, the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, the Indira
Gandhi Gold Medal Award of the Asiatic Society and the Edinburgh Medal.
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Rita Süssmuth
Dr. Rita Süssmuth is a member of the
Global Commission on International Migration. She served for 10 years
(1988-98) as President of the German Bundestag. Prior to this, she was
a Minister in the German Government (1986-88) with the portfolio for
health, youth, family and women. Since 1971 she has been a member of
various federal commissions and advisory committees on social issues.
She received a number of honorary doctorate awards from universities
worldwide, including Hildesheim University, Ruhr University and Johns
Hopkins University. Dr. Süssmuth is currently serving as the
Commissioner of the Global Commission on International Migration.
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George W. Wellde
George W. Wellde, Jr. is the Head of North
American Sales for Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities at Goldman,
Sachs and Co. He has worked in fixed income sales since joining the
Goldman Sachs Group in 1979. Prior to his current responsibilities, Mr.
Wellde was the branch manager of Goldman Sachs’ Tokyo office.
Previously, he worked at the Federal Reserve Board and Union First
National Bank in Washington, D.C.
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Wayne Berson
Wayne Berson is a Partner and National Director of Not-for-Profit Services at BDO Seidman LLP, the fifth largest accounting firm in the world. He also serves as the Assurance Office Business Line Leader of BDO Seidman’s Washington, D.C. metropolitan area office. With more that 22 years experience in professional accounting, Berson is responsible for developing the infrastructure in the department and also expanding the department while preserving and increasing profits. Berson has extensive expertise in the fields of non-profit and governmental auditing and consulting. In addition, Berson serves as the Director of BDO Seidman’s Institute for Nonprofit Excellence based in Bethesda, Maryland. He is an active member in the following professional affiliations: Maryland Association of CPAs, Greater Washington Society of CPAs, American Institute of CPAs, American Society of Association Executives, and National Association of Corporate Directors. Berson is currently serving on the Editorial Advisory Board of CPA Government and Nonprofit Report, a nationally issued newsletter serving the government and nonprofit industry.
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