Keynote Speaker:
LINDA ROTTENBERG
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Endeavor

Linda Rottenberg is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Endeavor, a non-profit that identifies and supports High-Impact Entrepreneurs in emerging markets. In 1997, Linda pioneered a new model for development that engages the private sector in mentoring and advising the most promising-yet-undiscovered entrepreneurs and jumpstarts entrepreneurial support networks in these economies. Headquartered in New York, with established operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Turkey and South Africa, Endeavor is currently launching its model in Egypt, Jordan, and India. After screening 18,000 candidates and selecting 400 emerging-market entrepreneurs, Endeavor has helped its entrepreneurs generate more than 90,000 high-quality jobs and, in 2007 alone, $2.5 billion in revenues.

Prior to co-founding Endeavor, Linda directed the Southern Cone expansion of Ashoka, which broke new ground in the field of Venture Philanthropy by financing social entrepreneurs in over 30 developing countries. Previously, she designed and launched the first interdisciplinary Masters of Law program in Argentina and managed the Yale Law School-U.S. A.I.D. Linkage Programs in Latin America.

Recently named by US News & World Report as one of “America’s Best Leaders,” Linda is the subject of Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business case studies. She has been featured in leading publications including Time, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and a recent profile in The Economist. The paperback edition of Thomas Friedman’s bestseller The World is Flat contains a new chapter featuring Linda, in which Friedman hails Endeavor as “the best anti-poverty program of all.”

Someof her recognition and awards include:

• “Innovator for the 21st Century” - Time Magazine
• “America’s Best Leaders” 2008, US News & World Report
• First female chair of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East (2007)
• “Global Leader for Tomorrow,” “Young Global Leader” &
  “Top Social Entrepreneur”- World Economic Forum

Linda is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, YPO and World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Entrepreneurship. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School and B.A. magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University. She lives in New York with her husband Bruce Feiler, author of Walking the Bible, Abraham, Learning to Bow and other best-selling non-fiction books, and their identical twin daughters.

Priya Haji
Priya Haji is the CEO and co-founder of World of Good, a company dedicated to building ethical shopping experiences with mainstream retail partners, including Whole Foods and eBay. Since the company began in 2004, it has created online and offline distribution channels for thousands of artisan producers in the developing world through more than 1,200 retail locations across the country and a brand new online marketplace, impacting the lives of more than 25,000 individuals in over 70 countries around the world. In 2007, Priya received a Social Innovation Award from the Social Venture Network for her vision to change the way the world does business.

In her 20’s Priya Haji was co-founder and Executive Director of Free at Last in East Palo Alto, a national model program to address substance abuse related issues. With $10 million in special investments and a team of 60 the organization grew to span services reaching 3,000 people per year. For her work with Free at Last, Priya was recognized by the DoSomething Foundation, MTV and Mademoiselle Magazine as one of America’s Ten Most Outstanding Young Leaders. She has an undergraduate degree from Stanford and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Robert Chatwani
Robert is a Director with eBay’s Global Citizenship business unit and serves as General Manager of World of Good.com by eBay. He oversees strategy, operations, marketing and business development for eBay’s new marketplace, designed to harness the power of consumer shopping to create positive social and environmental impact throughout the world.

Formerly on eBay’s Internet Marketing team, Robert was responsible for the company’s search engine optimization relationships with Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. He joined in 2003 to lead eBay’s platform strategy, and helped transform eBay into the world’s largest Web services platform.

Prior to eBay, Robert was the Co-founder and COO of MonkeyBin, the leading software provider to the corporate barter industry. He began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he served Fortune 500 companies and helped start McKinsey’s Globalization Practice. Robert received a B.S in Economics from DePaul University, completed graduate work at the University of Chicago, and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

David T. Ellwood
The Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, has served as Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government since July 1, 2004.

Ellwood joined the Kennedy School faculty in 1980 and served two separate terms as the School's Academic Dean.

In 1993, he was named Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) where he served as co-chair of President Clinton's Working Group on Welfare Reform, Family Support and Independence. At HHS, Ellwood played a key role in the Administration's development and implementation of critical social policy.

Recognized as one of the nation's leading scholars on poverty and welfare, Ellwood's work has been credited with significantly influencing public policy in the United States and abroad. His book, Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family, was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of 1988 and by the Policy Studies Organization as the outstanding book of the year.

Ellwood has received the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management’s David N. Kershaw Award, and the Morris and Edna Zale Award for Outstanding Distinction in Scholarship and Public Service from Stanford University.

Ellwood graduated from Harvard in 1975 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University in 1981.

Bill Drayton
Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur.  As a student at Harvard, Balliol College in Oxford University and Yale Law School, he founded a number of organizations, such as Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an interdisciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences.

In 1970, he graduated from Yale Law School and began his career at McKinsey and Company in New York.  From 1977 to 1981, Mr. Drayton served as Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he launched emissions trading (the basis of Kyoto), among other reforms.

In 1981, while working part-time at McKinsey and Company in New York, he launched both Ashoka and Save EPA and its successor, Environmental Safety.  With the support that he received unexpectedly when elected a MacArthur Fellow in 1984, he was able to devote himself fully to Ashoka. 

Mr. Drayton is currently the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.  He is also chair of Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get America Working! Mr. Drayton has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career.  In 2005, he was selected as one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2006, he was recognized as being one of Harvard University’s 100 “Most Influential Alumni.”  In 2007, he received the Duke University Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship’s (CASE) Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award, the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s 2007 Honorary Fellow Award, and the Goi Peace Foundation’s Peace Award.  In 2008, he has been recognized by Tuft University’s Institute for Global Leadership with the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, and Americans for Informed Democracy’s Social Innovator in Smart Investing Award.

David Gergen
David R. Gergen is a Professor of Public Service and Director of the Center for Public Leadership. Over the past three decades, he has served as a White House advisor to four presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. In the mid-1980s, he began a career in journalism, becoming editor of U.S. News & World Report. He joined the Kennedy School faculty in January 1999, while remaining editor at large for U.S. News and a frequent television analyst. In the fall of 2000 he published a best-seller, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton. He also chairs the National Selection Committee for the Innovations in American Government program. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School and holds 13 honorary degrees. He served three and one-half years in the Navy and is a member of the Washington, DC, Bar.

Clara Miller
Clara Miller is President and CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), the only national financial intermediary exclusively committed to social sector finance.  NFF serves both nonprofits and their funders, offering an integrated package of financial and advisory  services. 

Miller was named among The NonProfit Times “Power and Influence Top 50” in 2006, 2007, and 2008.  She is a board member of GuideStar, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Enterprise Community Loan Fund and is Treasurer of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Board.  She is also a Community Development Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  Miller was a Clinton appointee to the U.S. Treasury’s Community Development Advisory Board, initially as a member and later as its Chair.  She chaired the Opportunity Finance Network board for six years. 

Miller speaks and writes extensively about nonprofit capitalization and finance and has been published recently in The Financial Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Community Wealth Vanguard, Stanford Social Innovation Review; The Nonprofit Quarterly; and Worth Magazine. 

Jonathan Greenblatt
Jonathan Greenblatt is the co-founder of Ethos Water, a former vice president of Starbucks Coffee Company, and an acknowledged thought leader on ethical branding and social entrepreneurship. He teaches social entrepreneurship at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and advises corporations and non-governmental organizations on the intersection between business and sustainability.

A former staffer in the Clinton White House, Greenblatt currently serves as a senior advisor to the United Nations Foundation where he has assisted with the creation and launch of the Global Water Challenge , a coalition of Fortune 500 businesses, foundations and non-governmental organizations developing a global action plan to alleviate the world water crisis. He also serves as Senior Advisor to the X-PRIZE Foundation, leading the design of a $10 million prize competition focused on breaking the cycle of global poverty.

Greenblatt founded Ethos Water in 2002 with his longtime friend, Peter Thum, to achieve a specific mission: create a brand of bottled water to help children around the world get clean water. Ethos was launched in the bedroom of Greenblatt�s son and soon became one of the fastest growing bottled water brands in the U.S. In 2005, Starbucks acquired Ethos Water, making it one of only a handful of non-coffee ventures the company has purchased in its 30-plus year history. Today, Ethos Water is sold in premium retail locations across the country, including more than 5,000 Starbucks stores where the brand has achieved record performance in bottled water sales. As a result of a strategic partnership with Pepsico announced in 2006, Ethos is expected to increase its distribution to more than 100,000 locations by the end of the decade.

As a member of the board of the Starbucks Foundation, Greenblatt was responsible for developing the global investment strategy for Ethos' philanthropic efforts. Ethos currently is projected to invest more than $10 million through 2010 to bring clean water to communities in need throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Ethos also reaches the nearly 40 million consumers visiting Starbucks stores each week, educating them about the world water crisis and thereby planting the seeds for widespread activism and social change.

Before founding Ethos Water, Greenblatt was an executive at REALTOR.com. He joined the company in 1999 during its startup phase and served as a member of the core team through its successful public offering and ascent to the dominant position in the online real estate market. Before his departure, Greenblatt served as vice president and general manager of the company's primary consumer products group, managing a $30 million division.

Prior to REALTOR.com, Greenblatt spent more than five years in the Clinton Administration where he served in the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce. As a government official, Greenblatt developed international economic policy with a focus on emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. This work took him around the world, where he witnessed the economic and social challenges facing a majority of the world's population, including the global scarcity of clean water. Before joining the administration, Greenblatt worked in Little Rock, Arkansas on Gov. Bill Clinton's first successful presidential campaign in 1992.

Greenblatt serves on the boards the African Leadership Foundation and RESTORE Products. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and has been named a Next Generation Fellow by the American Assembly. Greenblatt serves on the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.

A frequent speaker and writer, Greenblatt has been interviewed and profiled in diverse media such as The New York Times, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, and Business 2.0.

Greenblatt holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Tufts University.

He lives with his wife and their two sons in Los Angeles, California.