FORUM ATTENDEES

CHAIRMAN, PODER Philanthropy Forum

Emilio Azcárraga – Chairman and CEO, Grupo Televisa

Mr. Azcarraga is the chairman and CEO of Televisa, the largest media company in Latin America. With interests in television, radio, and publishing, Televisa is Mexico’s number-one television broadcaster and holds a majority stake in joint cable venture Cablevision. Its publishing unit, Editorial Televisa, is the lead- ing producer of Spanish-language magazines. Azcarraga is also a shareholder in Univision, a network for which Televisa provides most of the content.

PRESIDENT, PODER Philanthropy Forum

Bill Emmott – former Editor in Chief, The Economist (1993 – 2006)

Bill Emmott is the former long-time Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, the most influential weekly news and international affairs publication in the world. A frequent broadcaster and author of several best- selling books on Japanese economy, Emmott is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, an orga- nization geared toward cooperation between Europe, Japan, and North America.

Muhammad Yunus – Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways to break out of poverty. Micro- credit is one such way. Economics Professor Muhammad Yunus, is a pioneering developer of micro-credit lending schemes for the poor, especially women, in Bangladesh. He originated the concept of Grameen Bank, i.e. banking without collateral for the drastically impoverished. He is the founder and managing direc- tor of Grameen Bank which currently operates 1,781 branches providing credit to 5.6 million poor people residing in 60,815 villages in Bangladesh. Professor Muhammad Yunus studied economics in Vanderbilt University, USA and received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1970. He taught economics in Middle Tennessee University from 1969 to 1972. Returning to Bangladesh in 1972, he joined the University of Chittagong as head of their economics department. He started the Grameen Bank Project in 1976. It was transformed into a formal bank in 1983. Grameen Bank offers small loans for self employment to the rural poor, especially underprivileged women. Yunus’s long-term vision is to eliminate poverty throghout the world. That vision cannot be realized by means of micro-credit alone. But Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that, in the continuing efforts to achieve it, micro-credit must play a major role.

Dr. Lawrence “Larry” Brilliant – Executive Director, Google.org

Dr. Lawrence “Larry” Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author, philanthropist, and the executive director of Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has been CEO of two public companies and other venture-backed start-ups. He is best known as one of the leaders of the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program.

Haim Saban – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Saban Capital Group, Inc.

Haim Saban is a recognized leader in the entertainment industry as founder of Saban Entertainment and Fox Family Worldwide. Mr. Saban is a highly recognized philanthropist and political activist, with a main focus on the U.S./Israeli relationship. Mr. Saban lives in Los Angeles with his wife Cheryl and their four children.

Nicholas Negroponte – Chairman, One Laptop per Child

Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and Jerome B. Wiesner professor of media technology. A graduate of MIT, Negroponte was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985. He is also author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Nicholas serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Wired magazine.

Philip Bennett – The Washington Post

Philip Bennett is managing editor at The Washington Post. As the second-ranking editor at The Post, Bennett supervises more than eight hundred journalists in a newsroom that produces one of the country’s leading daily newspapers and contributes to washingtonpost.com, a website with a large national and international audience. Before his appointment as managing editor in 2005, Bennett was The Post’s assistant managing editor for foreign news. He was responsible for the newspaper’s 20 international bureaus. Under his direction, The Post’s foreign staff won many awards, including two Pulitzer prizes for international reporting, most recently for coverage of the war in Iraq. Bennett joined The Post in 1997 as a deputy national editor for coverage of national security, defense and foreign policy. He came to the paper from The Boston Globe, where he served as foreign correspondent in Latin America and, later, the Globe’s foreign editor. He has also written for numerous magazines. He started in journalism as a reporter for The Lima Times in Peru. His first work for The Washington Post was as a stringer from Peru in 1982. Bennett grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated with a degree in history from Harvard College.

Alberto Ibargüen – President, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Ibargüen is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism. He is chairman of the board of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., a museum dedicated to free speech and free press. He is a member of the board of PepsiCo and of the Council on Foreign Relations and is on the Trustees’ Council of the National Gallery of Art. Over the years, he has served on the boards of arts, education and civic organizations, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Wesleyan University and Smith College. He served as board chair of PBS and of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a former board member of NCL Corporation Ltd. (Norwegian Cruise Line). For his work to protect journalists in Latin America as part of the Inter American Press Association, Ibargüen received a Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University, and George Washington University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters.

Justin Rockefeller – Co-founder, Generation Engage

Justin Aldrich Rockefeller is a political activist and co-founder and National Program Director of the nonprofit nonpartisan organization, Generation Engage. Justin is the youngest son of West Virginia’s Junior Senator, Jay Rockefeller of the Rockefeller family and his wife, Sharon Percy Rockefeller.

Moisés Naím – Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy

As Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy, Moisés Naím directs one of the most highly-respected political and international magazines. Naim is a member of the World Economic Forum’s International Media Council, board member of the National Endowment for Democracy and Population Action International, and chairman of the Group of Fifty. He is also the author of the bestseller “Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy.”

George Church – Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School/Director, Center for Computational Genetics

George Church is professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics. He completed his PhD at Harvard in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology with Walter Gilbert, developing the first direct genomic sequencing method in 1984. In that year he helped initiate the Human Genome Project. Dr. Church later helped found the Stanford, MIT, and Waltham Genome Centers. He invented the broadly applied concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, homologous recombination methods, and array DNA synthesizers. Technology transfer of automated sequencing and annotation software to Genome Therapeutics Corp. resulted in the first genome sequence sold commercially (the human pathogen, H. pylori). He is on numerous advisory boards including those of Caliper Technologies, Genome Pharmaceuticals, Beyond-Genomics and various scientific journals. Dr. Church’s research focuses on integrating biosystems-modeling with high-throughput data for haplotypes, RNA arrays, proteomics, and metabolites. The goal is more accurate and automated genomic biomedical & ecological engineering.

Patrick Soon-Shiong – Chairman and CEO, Abraxis BioScience Inc.

Patrick Soon-Shiong is Chairman and CEO of the global pharmaceutical company Abraxis BioScience Inc. A noted researcher, physician and surgeon, Soon-Shiong developed and co- invented the nanoparticle delivery technology upon which the cremophor-free form of paclitaxel compound known as Abraxane is based. Abraxane won FDA approval in 2005 for treatment of advanced metastatic breast cancer and is being developed for lung, ovarian, prostate, melanoma, and head and neck cancers. His research has been recognized by numerous national awards from such noted organizations as the Association for Academic Surgery, the American College of Surgeons Schering Award and the Royal College Physicians and Surgeons. Soon-Shiong serves on the board of directors for the National Institute of Transplantation and on the Technology Council for the new Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at Northwestern University.

Norman Pearlstine – the Carlyle Group

Norman Pearlstine joined the Carlyle Group in September, 2006. He is a senior advisor to the private equity firm’s telecommunications and media group, based in New York. Prior to joining Carlyle, Pearlstine was a senior advisor to Time Warner Inc. from January 1, 2006. Before that, he served for 11 years as editor-in-chief of the company’s Time Inc. subsidiary. As editor-in-chief, the fifth in the company’s history, Pearlstine oversaw the editorial content of Time Inc.’s 154 magazines, including Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, In Style, Money, People, Real Simple, Sports Illustrated, and Time.

Luis Alberto Moreno – President, Inter-American Development Bank

Prior to joining the IDB, Moreno served as Colombia’s ambassador to the United States for seven years. Ambassador Moreno oversaw a dramatic improvement in Colombian-U.S. relations during his tenure in Washington. His most notable achievement was the successful effort to build strong bipartisan support in the United States Congress for passage of more than US$4 billion in U.S. assistance programs for Colombia. These resources have contributed to a positive transformation of the security and economic situation in Colombia. Prior to his post as ambassador, Moreno served a distinguished career in both the public and private sectors in Colombia.

Anders Gyllenhaal – Executive Editor, The Miami Herald

Anders Gyllenhaal was named executive editor of The Miami Herald in 2007. From 2002 to 2007, Gyllenhaal was editor and senior vice president at the Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Previously, he was executive editor and senior vice president of The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He joined The News & Observer in 1991 and worked as metro editor and managing editor before becoming editor in 1997. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania, Gyllenhaal is a graduate of George Washington University. His first reporting job was at The Daily News Record in Harrisonburg, VA. Following that, he worked at The Press in Atlantic City, and then The Miami Herald, where he spent 12 years as a reporter, editor and head of the paper’s Fort Lauderdale office. He is married to Beverly Mills Gyllenhaal, who writes a weekly cooking column that appears in approximately 115 papers across the U.S. and Canada. A member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he joined the Pulitzer Board in 2001.

Manuel A. Diaz – Mayor, City of Miami

Diaz, now in his second term as mayor of Miami was born in Havana, Cuba and immigrated to the United States in 1961. His studies took him through Miami’s higher education system where he would excel in political science and law; today he is a partner at Diaz & O’Naghten, L.L.P. He serves on the advisory board for the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic Innovation, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research and the Mayors’ Institute on City Design. Applauded for his revitalization efforts during both terms, the Manhattan Institute named him Urban Innovator of the Year in 2004.

Viviane Senna – President, Instituto Ayrton Senna

Viviane Senna is President of Instituto Ayrton Senna. She earned a degree in psychology from PUC/ SP – Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo), and a specialist degree in Jungian Psychology from the Instituto Sedes Sapientiaes of the Catholic University.

Carlos Ott – Ott & Associates Architects

Carlos Ott, is a Fulbright Scholar with a Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Washington University School of Architecture. His unique architecture style has been recognized in many countries through major awards such as: “Arts et Lettres” and the “Legion d’Honneur” awarded in 1986 and 1988, respectively, by Francois Mitterand, president of France. Carlos Ott continues to travel the world and is currently working on prestigious projects in Brazil, Argentina, China, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and Canada.

Monica Manzutto and Jose Kuri – Founders, Galería Kurimanzutto

Even though the Mexico City-based gallery Kurimanzutto has only existed for four years it has already gained considerable recognition in the gallery circuit and the international art world. The quality of the artwork the gallery shows is unquestionably one reason for its success, the gallery owners’ undying enthusiasm another. But most of all, it has to do with the distinctive way the gallery operates. Originally conceived by Gabriel Orozco, Kurimanzutto has no regular and fixed location, no physical space in which they present their exhibitions. This circumstance makes the gallery uncommonly flexible and mobile. Kurimanzutto is a nomadic gallery that sets up the projects and exhibitions of their artists in a diverse range of places, according to their specific needs, indoors and outdoors, in gallery spaces or the urban area of the city of Mexico and elsewhere. This innovative approach has created intense interest in the gallery as well as in the roster of young and talented Mexican artists they represent, many of which have embarked to international careers over the last few years.

Alfonso de Angoitia – Executive Vice President, Grupo Televisa

Alfonso de Angoitia is currently executive vice president of Grupo Televisa, S.A. and has been a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the company since 1997. From 1999 to 2003 he occupied the position of chief financial officer. Prior to joining Grupo Televisa, S.A., he was a founding partner of the law firm of Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, S.C., one of Mexico’s leading law firms. He is also a member of the board of directors of, among other companies, Grupo Modelo, the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, Empresas Cablevision and Sky. He is a member of Fundación Mexicana para la Salud. For the last five years, he has been a member of the board of trustees of the American School Foundation.

Ben Silverman – Co-chairman, NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio

Ben Silverman is co-chairman, NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio, a position to which he was appointed in May 2007. Prior to joining NBC Universal in an executive role, Silverman, in March 2002, launched Reveille, a leading independent production and distribution company focusing on exploiting worldwide intellectual property rights through scripted and alternative television formats. The company leverages its unique relationships with the world’s top broadcasters and producers to acquire, produce and distribute innovative entertainment programming across all television genres. Reveille has been a world leader in creating integrated marketing opportunities for leading advertisers and developing alternative financing paradigms for the television business.

Eduardo Padron – President, Miami Dade College

Dr. Padron is the president of Miami Dade College (MDC), one of the nation’s largest institutions for higher education, and has spent more than 30 years championing higher education opportunities. Under Padron’s leadership, MDC welcomes the largest enrollment of Hispanic students and the second largest enrollment of black non-Hispanic students in the country. The college ranks first nationally in associate’s degrees awarded to minorities and is number one in degrees awarded overall. Padron has served on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans; the boards of directors of The College Board, American Association of Colleges and Universities, American Council on Education, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and was a founding member of the governing board of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Enrique Norten – TEN Arquitectos

Enrique Norten is a Mexican architect and principal of the design firm TEN Arquitectos. He founded TEN Arquitectos [Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos] in 1986, where he is currently principal. The New York office opened in 2001. He has lectured all over the world and has participated in several international juries and award committees such as the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in New York City and the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction. He was recently appointed a member of Deutsche Bank’s board of trustees, and is a founding member of the advisory board of the Holcim Foundation. Enrique Norten currently holds the Miller Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. He has held the O´Neal Ford Chair in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, the Lorch Professor of Architecture Chair at the University of Michigan, and the Elliot Noyes Visiting Design Critic at Harvard University. He was professor of architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City (1980-1990) and has served as a visiting professor at Cornell University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Sci-Arc, Rice University, Columbia University and as Eero Saarinen visiting professor of architectural design at Yale School of Architecture.

Carla Sanger – President and CEO, LA’S BEST

The head of Los Angeles’ BEST, Better Educated Students for Tomorrow, an after-school enrichment program, Carla Sanger has held this post for 17 years. She has also been a teacher, curriculum writer, and supervisor of New Jersey’s day care services, president of California Children’s Council and executive director of Los Angeles Child Care and Development Council.

Cesar L. Alvarez – President and CEO, Greenberg Traurig LLP

Cesar L. Alvarez has been president and CEO of Greenberg Traurig LLP for eight years. The firm has been recognized as the country’s fastest growing over the last five years and is the eighth largest in the nation. Previously, Alvarez practiced securities, corporate, and international law for more than 25 years. He has represented numerous public companies and serves on the board of directors of several publicly-traded corporations and charitable organizations. Alvarez has been recognized nationally and in his community for his professional, business and charitable leadership.

Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo – Piolin por la Mañana

“Piolin por la Manana” is one of the highest-rated Spanish-language radio programs in the country. For the Fall 2005 Arbitron ratings book for Los Angeles, California, “Piolin por la Mañana,” which is broadcast by Univision Radio’s La Nueva 101.9 FM, was ranked number one among Adults 18-34 during morning drive, solidifying its position as the most listened to morning show in the market, regardless of language. Mr. Sotelo got his start in radio in the late 1990s and has quickly become a household name among U.S. Hispanics. He is best known for his creativity, charming personality and dedication to his loyal fans. Mr. Sotelo also makes special guest-appearances regularly on programs airing on the Univision and TeleFutura Television Networks.

German Efromovich – President, Synergy Group

Bolivian-born Efromovich, the owner of Brazil’s Synergy Group, is building up a successful airline business in Latin America by rolling up companies across the region.

Jorge Ramos – Anchor, Noticiero Univision

Jorge Ramos has been called “Star newscaster of Hispanic TV” and “Hispanic TV’s No. 1 correspondent” by The Wall Street Journal. Time magazine included him in their list of “the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States,” as did People magazine in 2007. Latino Leaders magazine chose him as one of “The Ten Most Admired Latinos” and “101 Top Leaders of the Latino Community in the U.S.” Jorge Ramos has been the anchorman for Noticiero Univision since 1986. Among his many recognitions, he received the Maria Moors Cabot award from the University of Columbia and has won 8 Emmy awards for excellence in journalism (including the first one ever presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to honor leaders of Spanish Language Television). He was honored in 2002 with the “Ruben Salazar” award by the National Council of La Raza for his positive portrayal of Latinos.

Enrique Senior – Managing Partner, Allen and Company

A heralded investment banker, Enrique Senior has been asked to work on some of the most notable mergers and transactions in recent history including those of such entities as Telemundo, Televisa, Columbia Pictures, Coca Cola and Sony, among others.

Fabio Villegas – President, Avianca Airlines

Avianca, has moved beyond its base in Colombia to cover more of its home region and the world. The airline flies to about 40 destinations, half in Colombia and half in other countries (mainly in the Americas but also in Europe). It operates a fleet of about 35 aircraft. Brazil-based conglomerate Synergy Group, led by oil magnate German Efromovich, owns a controlling stake in Avianca. (Synergy also owns a Brazilian regional carrier, Ocean Air, and VIP in Ecuador.) Founded in 1919, Avianca is one of the oldest airlines in the world.

Maria Elena Salinas – Anchor, Noticiero Univision

Named “The Voice of Hispanic America” by the New York Times, Emmy-award winning anchor Maria Elena Salinas is the most recognized Hispanic female journalist in the United States. For the past 25 years Salinas has kept millions of Hispanics in the United States and 18 countries in Latin America informed of current events. As co-anchor for the highly rated “Noticiero Univision,” she has handled some of the most challenging assignments in journalism today.

Fher Olvera – Lead Singer, Maná

A decades-long presence in the music industry has made band mates Fher Olvera, Juan Diego Calleros, Sergio Vallín and Alex González household names. The Grammy award-winning band has been hailed as musical and environmental ambassadors. In September 1995, Maná founded the nonprofit ecological organization Fundación Ecológica Selva Negra.

Luis G. Nogales – Managing Partner, Nogales Investors

A former White House fellow, Luis G. Nogales has served in many capacities in business and otherwise. Prior to his current post, he served as president of Nogales Partners, president of Univision, chairman and CEO of United Press International, among many other posts. Nogales is also a director of Edison International.

John S. Clarkeson – Chairman Emeritus, the Boston Consulting Group

Mr. Clarkeson will retire this year as co-chairman of the Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG), an international strategy and general management consulting firm that has helped change the way many corporations approach competition. Clarkeson joined BCG’s Boston office in 1966 and was elected vice president and director in 1975. He transferred to Europe in 1971 to help expand the firm’s practice, serving as a director in Milan and London and opening the Munich office. In 1985, he was elected president and took on the additional duties of CEO in 1986. He became chairman of the board in January 1998.

Juan Luis Guerra – Singer, Songwriter, and Self-producer

A Dominican singer, songwriter, and self-producer, Juan Luis Guerra has sold over ten million records worldwide and has won numerous awards, including ten Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards. He won six Latin Grammy awards in 2007 in the same night and currently holds the record for most Latin Grammys won in a single night. He is one of the most internationally recognized Dominican artists in past decades. His pop style of merengue and bolero and Afro-pop/Latin fusion have garnered him considerable success outside the Dominican Republic. Juan Luis Guerra is sometimes associated with the popular Dominican music called bachata, and while this association is partially true, in reality he uses the basics of bachata rhythm with a bolero feel to the melodies in some of his songs. He does not limit himself to one style of music, so he incorporates diverse rhythms like merengue, bolero-bachata, balada, rock & roll, and gospel. “Ojalá que llueva café” is one of his most critically acclaimed self-written and composed pieces.

Roberto Hernandez – President, Grupo Financiero Banamex

Roberto Hernandez is a former CEO of Banco Nacional de México (Banamex), Mexico’s second largest bank, just after the Spanish BBVA Bancomer. Hernández received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Ibero-American University (1964), co-founded Acciones y Valores de México (Accival) in 1971 and bought Banamex 20 years later. He sold it to Citigroup in 2001 for $12.5 billion and stayed on as board member. He is the chairman of the board of Banco Nacional de Mexico and member of the boards of Citigroup, GRUMA, S.A. de C.V. and Grupo Televisa, S.A.

Timothy Marquez – Chairman and CEO, Venoco, Inc.

Tim Marquez founded Marquez Energy in October 2002. He previously served as co-founder, chairman and CEO of Venoco, Inc., one of the top 50 independent oil companies in the United States, and resumed his position there in June 2004. He and his partner founded Venoco in 1992 to identify, acquire, and operate underdeveloped oil and gas properties throughout the United States and Latin America. Prior to founding Venoco, Tim spent 13 years with Unocal serving as an engineer and manager in both California and the North Sea. He has served on the boards of the Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, and Partners in Education as well as being a member of the Fighting Back Advisory Council, the Hispanic Business Council, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers, and the Gervitz Graduate School of Education Dean’s Council. Tim graduated from the Colorado School of the Mines with a degree in Petroleum Engineering. He and his family currently live in Denver, CO.

Agustín Carstens – Finance and Public Credit Secretariat (SHCP)

Carstens obtained a BA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. In the work sphere, he was linked to the financial sector from 1980 to 2000, holding several posts within Banco de México, such as director of economic research, treasurer and coordinator of the Governor’s advisors. In December 2000, he was appointed Secretary for Finance and Public Credit, a post he held until August 2003, when he joined the International Monetary Fund as assistant managing director. Since October 16 2006, he has served as economic coordinator of the Transition Team of President Elect, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.

Ana Veneman – Executive Director, UNICEF

Born and raised in Modesto, CA Ana Margaret Veneman served as staff attorney for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District in Oakland, CA and Deputy Public Defender in Modesto, CA, before joining the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There, she has served as Associate Administrator for the Foreign Agricultural Service, Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, Deputy Secretary, and was appointed Secretary of Agriculture by President George W. Bush in 2005, becoming the first woman in U.S. history to take this seat. Veneman has received numerous awards and distinctions throughout her career, including the Outstanding Woman in International Trade award, the Food Research and Action Center award, and the Agriculturist of the Year award, to name a few. She is currently a board member of a non-profit organization against malaria, called Malaria No More. Her primary focus as Executive Director for UNICEF are the Millennium Development Goals, eight goals adopted by 189 UN member states which focus on eliminating hunger, poverty, terminal diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, and gender equality.

Claudio X. Gonzalez, Jr. – President, Fundacion Televisa

Claudio X. Gonzalez Jr. studied law at the Escuela Libre del Derecho, one of the most presigious law schools in Mexico, before obtaining a Master’s degree and then a Doctorate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston. Moving back to Mexico, Gonzalez worked for the Department of Agriculture where he contributed to the modification of the article on agricultural law in Mexico’s constitution. Before joining Fundacion Televisa, Gonzalez also worked in the campaigns of such recognized politicians as Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Ernesto Zedillo, and Francisco Labastida Ochoa.

Diego Luna – Actor/Partner, Canana Films

Best known for his role in Mexican soap opera, El abuelo y yo, and for his staring role in Pedro Almodovar’s Y tu mamá también, Diego Luna has evolved from an accomplished actor to part owner of his own production company along with childhood friend and fellow actor, Gael García and Pablo Cruz. Founded in 2005, Canana Films has produced such eclectic and introspective films as El violin, Los Caídos and Ruta 32.

Monica Lozano – Publisher, La Opinion

Her position as publisher of the most widely read Spanish language publication in the U.S. is but one of Monica Lozano’s numerous posts. Lozano currently serves on the board of directors of Bank of America, the California Healthcare Foundation, Disney, Tenet Healthcare, the Weingart Foundation, and the California State Board of Education. She is senior vice president and publisher of ImpreMedia and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Fernando Landeros – President, Teletón Foundation (Mexico)

Ever the consummate humanitarian, in addition to the Teletón Foundation, a yearly, televised fundraiser benefiting physically challenged children, Landeros is the founder and head of the three other most important charitable organizations in Mexico: México Unído, Lazos, and Gente Nueva, among others. The Teletón Foundation, whose televised event features some of the nation’s most recognized media personalities, has consistently surpassed their fundraising goals over the years. As a result, several rehabilitation centers for physically disadvantaged children caused by illness, birth defect, or accident have been built and are up and running. More recently, rehabilitation centers were opened in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotol and Quintana Roo. Due to the unsurpassed success of his various charitable organizations and campaigns, Fernando Landeros is recognized as one of the most prolific philanthropist in Mexico.

Joel Simon – Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists

Having obtained a master’s degree in Latin American studies from Stanford University, Joel Simon has had extensive experience covering a wide range of Latin American issues. Before becoming executive director of CPJ in 2006, Simon worked as a Latin American-based writer, photographer, and editor for several U.S. publications. He mostly covered political and economic issues ranging from Guatemala’s civil war to the debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement to the Mexican peso devaluation. In 1997, Simon wrote a book on Mexico’s diminishing environment titled, Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge. He has held his current position at CPJ since July 2006.

Mario Luis Kreutzberger a.k.a. Don Francisco – Host, Sábado Gigante

Chilean-born Kreutzberger’s artistic name is Don Francisco in the popular variety show, Sábado Gigante. Kreutzberger is the recipient of various industry awards and recognitions; incuding a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Gabriela Mistral Order of Merit awarded by the Chilean government, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004. A recipient of a special Emmy award for his contributions to the advancement of Spanish-language television, Kreutzberger is also considered the second most powerful Latino by TV Guide en Español and has been featured in numerous, highly recognized publications and television programs, including the New York Times, the Miami Herald and “Good Morning America.”

Ricky Martin – President, the Ricky Martin Foundation / Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF

Puerto Rican-born Ricky Martin was poised for stardom since childhood. As part of the wildly popular band Menudo Martin toured The Americas from an early age. Doing so opened his eyes to the reality that many children experience in Latin America, an aspect that has guided his humanitarian work since. Today, with a successful career as a soloist, the five-time Grammy winner remains committed to advocating the rights of children. Towards this goal he established the Ricky Martin Foundation in San Juan, Puerto Rico and has been appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He has also been awarded several other distinctions, including recognition as an outstanding artist philanthropist by the Hispanic Heritage Awards, the International Humanitarian Award, the Person of the Year award by the Latin Grammy Recording Academy, and he was named an international hero by the State Department in 2005, to name a few.

Sharon Fastlicht – Fundacion Televisa

Wife of media tycoon, Emilio Azcarraga, Fastlicht is currently heading Mexico’s “Hazlo ahora, hazlo siempre” (Do it now, do it always) campaign, whose goal is to help handicapped people integrate fully into society. She is the former adjunct editor of Pink magazine and former reporter for a magazine on Mexican cinema. Fastlicht’s family is heavily involved in Mexican cinema. Her brother, Adolfo is one of the founders of the movie multiplex chain, Cinemex, and her sisters Michaelle y Leslie run Cinemania, a magazine on Mexican cinema for which Fastlicht herself once worked for as New York correspondent.

Pat Mitchell – President and CEO, the Paley Center for Media

Under Mitchell’s leadership, the Paley Center (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) has become a major convener for media leaders and enthusiasts, continuing to offer its unrivaled collection of radio, television and advertising content as a lens for exploring the powerful impact of media on our lives, culture and society. Prior to coming to the Paley Center, Mitchell was the president and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the first woman to hold that position. Throughout a three decade career in television, Ms Mitchell’s work, both on camera and as a producer, has focused on media as an agent for positive social change. Her work has received 44 Emmy Awards, five Peabody’s, and two Academy Award nominations. From her various positions as White House correspondent to NBC’s TODAY to President of Ted Turner’s original programming division, Mitchell reported and produced groundbreaking programming that took her from the front lines of war (“Women and War”) to interviewing world leaders for the 24 hour documentary series, “COLD WAR” for which she was also the co Executive Producer. In addition to her accomplishments both on and off the screen, Mitchell serves as a dedicated member of numerous nonprofit boards, among which are the Sundance Institute, the Mayo Clinic Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the corporate boards of Bank of America and Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Teresa Rodríguez – Principal and Co-Host, Aquí y Ahora (Univision)

In addition to hosting Aquí y Ahora, an Emmy-award winning newsmagazine series where she also serves as executive producer, Teresa Rodriguez is also the host of Noticiero Univision’s Primer Plano, a comprehensive news report on noteworthy national or international issues affecting Hispanics. Rodriguez has worked with Univision since 1982 where she became the “first woman ever to host a national primetime Spanish-language newscast.” Impassioned by the welfare of her community, Rodriguez has hosted a series of award-winning specials spotlighting the issues affecting Hispanics in the U.S. today, and has hosted an AIDS awareness special providing helpful information about AIDS in both English and Spanish.

Jorge Hierro – Executive Director, International and Institutional Relations, Banamex

Jorge Hierro is president of the Communications and Marketing Commission of the Association of Banks in Mexico and executive director for International and Institutional Relations of Financial Group Citicorp/ Banamex. Previously, Hierro was financial director for Consumer’s Banking in Latin America for Citibank, and deputy director general of the Financial Group Banamex-Accival responsible for financial planning. He has been professor of economics and finance at the ESADE in Barcelona, Spain, and has taught at both the economics department and business school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Hierro earned his bachelor’s in economics at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), and is a PhD candidate in economics at MIT.

Juan Carlos Botero – Writer/Novelist

Columbia native Juan Carlos Botero studied literature in three prestigious universities: University of the Andes, Harvard University and Javeriana University in Bogota, where he developed a new method of studying a novelist’s formation process. An accomplished writer, Botero won the Premio Juan Rulfo de Cuento award in 1986. In 1990, he was the winner of the 19th Annual Latin-American Story Contest in Mexico. He has written for La Prensa, El Tiempo, and El Espectador. His first book, Las semillas del tiempo: epífanos, was a best-seller in Columbia. His first novel, La sentencia, published in 2002, has been translated into German and will soon be made into a movie.

Pedro Ibañez Santa Maria – Vice President, Adolfo Ibañez University