Dr. Helene Gayle - As president and CEO of CARE, Helene D. Gayle is responsible for providing overall leadership, management, and direction to one of the world's premier international relief and development organizations.
With programs in some seventy countries, CARE helps people in poor communities expand the control they have over their own lives to advance positive, enduring social change. CARE helps millions of people recover from natural disasters and other acute emergencies, prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and gain access to healthcare, nutrition, education, safe water, and improved sanitation.
Dr. Gayle also served as the AIDS coordinator and chief of the HIV/AIDS division for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). She has served as a health consultant to international agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the World Bank and UNAIDS and has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. She also served as the director of CDC's Washington Office.
Prior to assuming her current position, Gayle was the director of the HIV, TB, and Reproductive Health Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Gayle has published numerous articles on public health, especially related to HIV/AIDS, and has received many awards for her scientific and public health contributions.
Robert Hormats - Robert D. Hormats is vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a managing director of Goldman Sachs & Co. Hormats has served as US assistant secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, ambassador and deputy US Trade Representative, and senior deputy assistant secretary for Economic and Business Affairs at the US Department of State.
He was a senior staff member on the National Security Council and senior economic advisor to National Security Advisors Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Hormats has received the French Legion of Honor and Arthur Fleming Award.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Visitors of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Dean's Council of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Jacqueline Novogratz - Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund. Prior to starting Acumen, she worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she created and directed the Philanthropy Workshop and the Next Generation Leadership program.
Novogratz has also worked at the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and has served as a consultant to UNICEF and the World Bank in various African countries. She helped found a micro-finance institution for women in Rwanda and began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank.
Novogratz holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from the University of Virginia.
C. Ford Runge - C. Ford Runge is the distinguished McKnight University professor of applied economics and law at the University of Minnesota, where he also holds appointments in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Department of Forest Resources.
He has served on the staff of the House Committee on Agriculture, and as a science and diplomacy fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He continues as subdirector in charge of Commodities and Trade Policy of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Minnesota.
A panel consisting of Jacqueline Novogratz, Helene Gayle, and Robert Hormats discuss Confronting the Food Crisis: Elements of the Strategy to End Hunger at the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival. The event was moderated by C. Ford Runge.
