Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Prize recipient, gives the keynote address at the opening of the Global Philanthropy Forum's 2008 Conference in Redwood City, California.
Bio
Reverend Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
In 1984, Tutu became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu was elected and ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is currently the chairman of The Elders. Tutu is vocal in his defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed.
Tutu also campaigns to fight AIDS, poverty and racism. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007.
Jane Wales
Jane Wales is vice president of philanthropy and society at the Aspen Institute, president and CEO of the World Affairs Council, and founder of the Global Philanthropy Forum.
Previously, Wales was a special assistant to President Clinton, senior director of the National Security Council, and associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
She also chaired the international security programs at the Carnegie Corporation and the W. Alton Jones Foundation and directed the Project on World Security at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Wales is the former national executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
In light of the atrocities in Darfur and Zimbabwe, Archbishop Desmond Tutu marvels at the "exhilarating" resilience of the impoverished, famished, and oppressed people who still retain the ability to laugh.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu cites the dedication of humanitarian workers as evidence of the fundamental goodness of people.
It is not only those like the Dali Lama, Tutu says, whose essential goodness shines through the world's evil, but all those committed to forming a better world.