Invitations were sent to the members of The Vaccine Fund. If all accept the
invitations, we will have a considerable international presence during the event
in Tromsø. The board's members are:
Graça Machel, Chair
Nelson Mandela, Board Chair Emeritus
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan
Rick Klausner
Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt, Vaccine Fund Chief Executive Officer and GAVI
Executive Secretary
Dwight L. Bush
Michel Camdessus
Jocelyn S. Davis
Charles J. Lyons
Mary Robinson
Mstislav Rostropovich
Amartya Sen, PhD
Jens Stoltenberg
Rita Süssmuth
George W. Wellde
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Some facts about the mebers:
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.
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.
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 Allianceboth 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 instrumentsthe International Finance Facility (IFF)aimed at
increasing international development assistance to meet the Millennium
Development Goals.
To Read Dr Lob-Levyt's complete
biography please visit the GAVI website.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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
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.
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.
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.
Jens Stoltenberg
Mr. Stoltenberg
started his political career in 1979 with the Norwegian Labour Youth League. He
became chairman of the Labour Youth League in 1985, a position he held until 1989.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1991 and became Deputy-Chairman of
the Norwegian Labour Party a year later. Throughout the 1990's, he held key
portfolios in the Norwegian government, ranging from State Secretary for the
Environment to Minister of Finance, before becoming Norway's Prime Minister in
2000. Mr. Stoltenberg is currently Chairman of the Labour Party parliamentary
group.
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.
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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