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SPEAKERS & RESOURCE PARTICIPANTS
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARIES
Woraphat Arthayukti
Manager, Cornerstone Thailand, Kenan Institute Asia
Thailand
*Sarah Bouchie
Education Program Officer, Aga Khan Foundation
Jennifer Bremer
Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise – Washington Center
*Susy Cheston
Opportunity International
Jerri Dell
World Bank Institute
*Christine Delport
Chief Executive Officer, Greater Rustenburg Community Foundation
South Africa
Eleanor Fink
Foundations Coordinator, World Bank
Vijay Jagannathan
World Bank
Oman Jiao
Executive Director, Association of Foundations – Philippines
Philippines
Marcos Kisil
President, Institute for the Development of Social Investment (IDIS)
Brazil
Ronald Kopicki
World Bank
Ruben Lamdany
Director, Sector and Thematic Programs, World Bank Institute
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Mario Lanao
Atinchik
Peru
L. Agustin Landa
Founder, Pueblo Community Foundation
Mexico
Sally Scott Marietta
Corporate Community Relations Manager, IBM Corporation
Alison Mathie
Senior Program Officer, Participatory Approaches to Development, Coady International Institute
Canada
Keith McLean
World Bank
Mark McMahon
Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare, Consumer Packing Group, MeadWestvaco
Inviolatta Mpuli Moyo
Director, Community Foundation for the Western Region
Zimbabwe
Sixtus Mulenga
Vice President, Safety, Health and Environment, Konkola Copper Mines
Zambia
Kathleen Mundell
Cultural Resources Inc.
Jane Nelson
Director, Business Leadership & Strategy, International Business Leaders Forum
United Kingdom
Dan Owen
World Bank
*Krishnaswamy Rajivan
Chief Executive Officer, Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund
India
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*Heba Ramzy
Director, Electronic Publishing and Kids Information Highway
Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center (RITSEC)
Egypt
Laurie Regelbrugge
Manager, Unocal Foundation
Vadim Samorodov
Program Manager, Community Foundations, Charities Aid Foundation – Russia
Russia
Lourdes Sanz
Mexican Center for Philanthropy (CEMEFI)
Mexico
*Roy Sheldon
Vice President and Director, Staff Operations for Emerging Markets, ITT Industries
Sita Supomo
Manager, Cornerstone Indonesia, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise - Washington Center
Indonesia
David Valenzuela
President, Inter-American Foundation
Kavwanga Yambayamba
Partnership Forum
Zambia
*George Zarubin
Executive Director for Program Development, Eurasia Foundation
*Bio not available.
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Woraphat Arthayukti
Manager, Cornerstone Thailand, Kenan Institute Asia
Dr. Woraphat manages the implementation of the Cornerstone Project in Thailand. The project
is working toward establishing Community Leadership Groups, a Community Foundation, a
Corporate Volunteering Center, and an Economic Development Partnership.
Dr. Woraphat has been working for over a year on the project. Previous to that, Dr. Woraphat
was an executive at Unocal Thailand, until his retirement in 2000. In that capacity, he was
responsible for managing the company's Public Affairs Group and was involved in innovative
community relations work. Dr. Woraphat has an engineering background and spent 14 years as
a Professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok before becoming a corporate executive.
Woraphat is interested in promoting community service in Thai Society as well as in human
resource development.
Jennifer Bremer
Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise – Washington Center
Dr. Bremer is an economist and policy analyst with more than 27 years of experience in
international trade and development. Her career focuses on expanding U.S. business
opportunities in developing countries and bringing private sector resources to bear on
development challenges. Dr. Bremer currently serves as Director of the Washington Center of
the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, an independent institute within the UNC Kenan-Flagler
Business School. In this role, she is responsible for conceptualizing and implementing
innovative programs to promote development cooperation between U.S. companies and
partners in emerging market countries. She also supervises ongoing institute projects in
Thailand, Egypt, Vietnam, and elsewhere, including the U.S. Secretariat of the U.S.-Thailand
Development Partnership, a program of technical and economic cooperation with Thailand
designed to succeed U.S. bilateral foreign assistance in that country. She directs Kenan’s
participation in the UNC Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER),
focusing on corporate social responsibility, corporate-NGO cooperation, and issues in
globalization. She conceived the concept behind the Cornerstone program and coined the term
“Connective Leadership Structures.”
Dr. Bremer has directed a wide range of academic and applied studies, both in the United
States and overseas, focusing on trade promotion, corporate social responsibility and
development programming. Dr. Bremer’s extensive international experience includes long-term
assignments in Egypt and Mexico and more than 40 short-term assignments in 32 countries,
emphasizing policy reform, international trade, and private enterprise promotion.
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Jerri Dell
World Bank Institute
Jerri Dell manages several learning programs for the World Bank Institute as a member of the
World Bank Institute's Community Empowerment and Social Inclusion team, including the
Investing in Communities program. Over the past several years her primary focus has been to
build capacity for scaling up Community-Driven Development operations in Sub Saharan Africa,
including the training of CDD trainers via the Global Development Learning Network. She has
also taken the lead in strengthening the hand of indigenous and Afro Latina women in the
Andean region as Facilitators of Local Development, now a component of the World Bank's
Indigenous People's Development projects in both Peru and Bolivia. Ms. Dell has worked in the
field of economic and social development for over twenty-five years and has focused her efforts
primarily on working with local partners to enable poor communities, and especially women
within these communities, to plan strategically, design and manage successful projects and
small businesses. Her work with communities has involved her in innovative projects around
the world that have taken her to Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali,
Nigeria, Uganda, India, Bhutan, Romania and Peru. For the most part, this work has centered
on linking the arts and culture, entrepreneurship and sustainable development among lowincome people with little or no formal education.
Eleanor Fink
World Bank
Eleanor E. Fink is the World Bank’s Foundations Coordinator. Eleanor joined the World Bank in
1999 and assumed her current position as in April 2002. She is responsible for managing
Bank/Foundations relations by providing policy, strategic planning, and program guidance to the
Bank’s regions, sectors, and networks on establishing partnerships with foundations and in
advancing an understanding of the work and the organization of the World Bank Group within
the international foundation community. Before her current appointment, she helped to establish
the Development Gateway Foundation, Inc. a 501(c)(3) organization launched with the support
of the World Bank Group. She was also the founding editor of the Gateway’s Culture and
Development Portal, which provides information to practioners and policy makers around the
world about the role of art, culture, and heritage in economic development. Prior to the World
Bank she served as Executive Director of the J. Paul Getty’s Information Institute (GII) where
she led the development of international standards needed to manage, document, and link
cultural information. While director of GII she conceived and launched Object ID – an
internationally recognized information standard that helps recover stolen art objects, and Los
Angeles Culture Net – one of the first working demonstrations of virtual access across archives,
libraries, and art collections. Under her leadership GII also produced the Art and Architecture
Thesaurus, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names, the Museum Educational Site Licensing
Project, and American Strategy. Prior to the Getty she was Chief of Research Support at the
Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art where she initiated SOS (Save Outdoor Sculpture) -- a
nationwide survey and preservation program that records information on the condition and
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history of sculptures and monuments as reported by trained volunteers throughout the United
States.
Vijay Jagannathan
World Bank
Vijay Jagannathan has been with the World Bank since 1988, and is currently Lead Water and
Sanitation Specialist in the East Asia and Pacific Region. He is task team leader for water and
sanitation projects in Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia. Prior to joining the Bank he held
various managerial positions in the Indian Administrative Service in the state of West Bengal.
He has a PhD in Economics from Boston University, and has published several articles on
institutional economics, urban development, water supply and sanitation issues.
Oman Jiao
Executive Director, Association of Foundations – Philippines
The Association of Foundations (AF) is a 31-year old national network of 135 NGOs and
foundations dealing with various programs on education, training, health, environment,
governance, livelihood and micro-finance to name a few. AF just finished documenting the
development of community foundations and CF-like organizations in the country. As Executive
Director of AF, Mr. Jiao is a member of the steering committee overseeing the implementation
of this project. AF’s next steps are: 1) to provide capacity building workshops to organizations
who possess CF elements or who wish to evolve to become one to enhance the growth of
community foundations, and 2) to do advocacy work to promote the concept of community
foundations.
Marcos Kisil
President, Institute for the Development of Social Investment (IDIS)
IDIS – Institute for the Development of Social Investment is a nonprofit organization located in
the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The Institute was established in September 1999 with a grant from
W.K. Kellogg Foundation for institution-building. It was created to promote and disseminate
concepts and best practices of private social investment, and to foster community philanthropy
initiatives in Latin America. One basic principle that oriented the creation of the Institute is that
wealthy individuals and businesses in Latin America should have co-responsibility for investing
in social development, thus promoting philanthropy. Since the creation IDIS has been
responsible for the creation of 10 new Corporate Foundations, 4 family foundations, and 7
CPOs (Community Philanthropy Organizations).
In addition to being President of IDIS, Mr. Kisil is a professor at the University of Sao Paolo, a
board member of the Bank of Brazil Foundation, board vice chairman of the Brazilian
Association for Leadership Development, a member of the coordinating committee of WINGS-
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CF, and a senior fellow of the Synergos Institute. Prior to IDIS, Mr. Kisil was program director
for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Kellogg Foundation for almost fifteen years and a
consultant with the World Health Organization for almost ten years.
Ronald Kopicki
World Bank
Ronald Kopicki is the Supply Chain Advisor within the African Region of the World Bank where
he works primarily on issues and development projects involving agricultural competitiveness
enhancement through organizational reengineering and more specifically through supply chain
development. He has a special interest in the conditioning the private sector supply response to
respond to demand for public services--including supply chain services---induced through CDD
projects. Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Kopicki founded several companies including a
third part logistics company which sold its services to small foreign shipping lines who called on
North American Ports, an employee owned stevedoring company financed through an ESOP
and a transport logistics venture capital fund. He was also a partner in a logistics/ transport
strategy consulting firm Transmode Consultants.
In this capacity he provided strategic
planning, project assessment and competitiveness market assessments to rail, highway and
ocean carriers and their shippers. He also worked for CSX Corporation for fourteen years as
the Director of Strategic Planning and subsequently as VP of Intermodal Services. He was a
Manager is the Rehabilitation Planning Department of Conrail when that company was
restructured for privatization. He has written several books and authored several articles on
transport strategy, privatization, supply chain development and, more generally, private sector
development. Mr. Kopicki has an MBA from Stanford University and both an BA and MA from
Cornell University where he graduated cum laude in Chemistry.
Ruben Lamdany
Director, Sector and Thematic Programs, World Bank Institute
Ruben Lamdany is the Director of the Sector and Thematic Department of the World Bank
Institute, which delivers training and other capacity enhancement programs to developing
countries. Before joining WBI, Mr. Lamdany managed the unit that evaluates the development
and poverty reduction impact of World Bank country assistance programs. Prior Bank
assignments included Lead Economist for the Balkans and Principal Financial Economist in
Russia and Ukraine. While on leave from the Bank he held positions in the International
Monetary Fund and in the Bank of Israel. Before joining the World Bank, he advised the
Planning Institute of Jamaica on Trade and Industrial Policy. Mr. Lamdany holds degrees from
Columbia University and from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has published on Human
Resources, Financial Sector, and Transition Economies.
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Mario Lanao
Atinchik
Mario Lanao is a World Bank Institute consultant and a founding associate of ATINCHIK, a
Peruvian consulting firm specializing in facilitation and training in local development processes.
The focus of his work is participatory strategic planning and project design, participatory
production of models for development processes, organizational strengthening, adult education
methodology and microenterprise business management. Since 1985, he has been working as
a consultant for development projects through International Cooperation Agencies and local
NGOs mainly in Perú, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Ecuador and Colombia. Born in Lima, Perú,
Mario studied Economics and Sociology in Perú and Mexico, and worked in Mexico, and in
California teaching statistics and social research techniques in the School of Sociology in the
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. He also worked in Nicaragua as National Director of
the Microenterprise sector for four years and as an independent consultant for the development
of the fair trade movement for three years.
L. Agustin Landa
Founder, Pueblo Community Foundation
Agustin Landa recently finished his MBA studies at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNCChapel Hill. He pursued this business degree in order to be a bridge between the for-profit and
non-profit sectors and to take back to the Mexican non-profit sector a more market-oriented
focus.
Still a board member, Agustin was the Founder and first chair of the board of the Puebla
Community Foundation and led the foundation’s initial successful fund development strategy.
He became the first representative of the Mexican Community Foundations Network to the
Board of CEMEFI (Mexican Center for Philanthropy).
In the summer of 2002, Agustin worked for the C.S. Mott Foundation. He wrote a case study
about the Charlevoix County Community Foundation as educational resource for newly
emerging community foundations, focusing on board creation, endowment development,
leadership, and community recognition.
Previously, he was also a board member and CEO of IPODERAC (Instituto Poblano de
Readaptacion, AC), a non-profit organization outside Puebla, Mexico, that provides a nurturing
yet disciplined environment for abandoned street children. Harvard Business School wrote a
case study about IPODERAC as an example of a self-sustainable non-profit organization.
IPODERAC has also won numerous awards and recognition from the Mexican government,
universities, and the non-profit sector.
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Sally Scott Marietta
Corporate Community Relations Manager, IBM Corporation
Ms. Marietta is responsible for managing the community relations and public policy programs for
IBM in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland. The community relations programs are focused
primarily on the systemic reform of K-12 education and workforce development issues. Prior to
joining IBM, Ms. Marietta was executive director of the Maryland Economic Development
Commission, where she created and facilitated the private sector advisory board responsible for
economic development policy and marketing of the state; stimulated private investment,
attracted new businesses, expanded markets of existing businesses and diversified Maryland’s
economic base through workforce training and financial assistance; produced the first
comprehensive strategic plan on statewide economic development, which outlined actions and
policies that would benefit Maryland’s economy; and ensured the inclusion of private sector
concerns from specific geographic regions and business sectors in the development of
Executive Branch policies. Also, as vice president for membership of the Greater Washington
Board of Trade, Ms. Marietta oversees member recruitment, retention, services and
communications for the largest regional network of business and non-profit leaders and the only
association representing all industry sectors in greater Washington region.
Alison Mathie
Senior Program Officer, Participatory Approaches to Development, Coady International Institute
Alison Mathie has worked in international development for over 25 years in the fields of
education, rural extension, development sociology, and participatory research and evaluation.
For the last 6 years, she has been working at the Coady International Institute in Nova Scotia,
Canada, which offers post graduate educational programmes in community–based
development, primarily, but not exclusively, for participants from the global south. With her
colleague, Gord Cunningham, and in collaboration with partners overseas in Ethiopia, Kenya,
Egypt and the Philippines, she has been involved in training, application and documentation of
an asset-based approach to community driven development.
Keith McLean
World Bank
Keith McLean is a Social Development Economist and is a member of the Community Driven
Development (CDD) Anchor that supports and promotes the Bank-wide agenda for CDD in all
regions. He has worked extensively on a number of areas including Community Driven
Development, Decentralization, Rural Development, and Governance issues, and as part of his
current CDD Anchor responsibilities is facilitating the internal dialogue on linking CDD and
Decentralization to improve local governance and both scalability and sustainability of CDD. He
is also helping to lead the work that explores the potential for incorporating Community
Foundations into CDD and related Bank operations, a joint initiative between the World Bank
and several major foundations.
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Mark McMahon
Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare, Consumer Packing Group, MeadWestvaco
Mr. McMahon joined MeadWestvaco in 1979 as senior auditor in the internal audit department.
He held several positions within the department and, in 1981, was promoted to manager. He
assumed the position of administrative director of Rigesa, Ltda., in 1987, and accepted
responsibility for its sales and marketing function in 1990. In 1993, he was promoted to
assistant managing director of Rigesa and, in May 1998, was appointed president and
managing director. In November 2000, he was elected vice president of MeadWestvaco. In
November 2001, he assumed the newly created position of chief operating officer for the global
pharmaceutical and healthcare group of the Consumer Packaging group.
Prior to
MeadWestvaco, Mr. McMahon was with Arthur Anderson where he held various auditing and
administrative positions from 1975-1979.
Inviolatta Mpuli Moyo
Director, Community Foundation for the Western Region
Inviolatta Mpuli Moyo is Executive Director of the Community Foundation for the Western
Region of Zimbabwe. Mrs. Moyo has over 14 years experience in administration and teaching
for the Ministry of Education in Zimbabwe. She further spent over four years guiding and
implementing community development projects with the Organisation of Rural Associations for
Progress (ORAP). She holds a BA Degree in International Studies from the School of
International Training, Vermont, USA, a Diploma in Grassroots Development and NGO
Management from Zenzele College and a Certificate in Education from the University of
Zimbabwe. Ms Moyo had been a member of the Preparatory Committee for the UN World
Social Summit, Denmark, 1995 and the Preparatory Committee for the Women’s World
Conference, 1994. She had been a Synergos Senior Fellow, 2002 and is an Inaugural Fellow of
the Emerging Leaders Programme of the Centres for Leadership and Public Values at UCT and
Duke University in the United States.
Sixtus Mulenga
Vice President, Safety, Health and Environment, Konkola Copper Mines
Dr. Mulenga has had 29 years experience in the Mining Industry. He is currently Vice President
for Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) at Konkola Copper Mine plc in Zambia. Since April
2000, he has been a member of the KCM Executive Committee, the management governing
body of the company.
As Vice President SHE, Dr. Mulenga is responsible for developing and managing KCM’s SHE
policy, Environmental & Social Management Plans, Sustainable Development activities,
Strategies, Systems and for ensuring that SHE resources are available so that all departments
in KCM and SmelterCo adhere to and fulfill obligations with respect to the SHE Policy,
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Development Agreements, Final Environmental/Social Management Plans,
Governance, Shareholders Obligations and Government statutory requirements.
Corporate
Dr. Mulenga has undertaken several national duties over the years, including his current role as
Chairman of the Private Sector led National Economic Diversification Task Force (NEDTF),
charged with the responsibility of diversifying the economy of Zambia.
Kathleen Mundell
Cultural Resources Inc.
Kathleen Mundell is the Director of Cultural Resources, Inc., a nonprofit organization
specializing in the documentation, presentation and marketing of traditional arts. A professional
folklorist, Ms. Mundell holds a Masters Degree in Folklore from Indiana University and has over
twenty years experience in the field of public sector folklore. Previous to her tenure at Cultural
Resources, Inc. Ms. Mundell was the Traditional Arts specialist for the Maine Arts Commission.
Her special initiatives included the development of a cultural inventory program called
"Discovery Research" and her collaboration with Maine's Native American basketweavers that
resulted in a multi-tribal effort to preserve the ash basketry tradition and the creation of the
Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance.
Jane Nelson
Director, Business Leadership & Strategy, International Business Leaders Forum
Jane Nelson has worked in the fields of banking, international development and corporate
citizenship. She is Director, Business Leadership and Strategy at the International Business
Leaders Forum (IBLF) and a Fellow at the Center for Business and Government, at Harvard
University. During 2001 she worked in the office of the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan,
preparing a report for the United Nations General Assembly on cooperation between the UN
and the private sector, which supported a General Assembly resolution. Prior to joining the IBLF
in 1993, Jane was a Vice President at Citibank. She has been a lecturer in agricultural
economics at the University of Natal in South Africa, and worked in a consultancy capacity for:
The Business Council for Sustainable Development; FUNDES (Fundación para desarrollo
sostenible) in Latin America; and the United Nations Environment Programme. Jane has
authored a variety of publications on the changing role of business in society, especially in
emerging markets, and serves on a number of national and international advisory bodies for
companies, public sector bodies and non-governmental organisations. She has lived in Europe,
Asia, Africa and North America and has work experience throughout these regions, as well as in
Latin America and the Middle East.
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Dan Owen
World Bank
Daniel Owen is a Senior Social Development Specialist in the World Bank's Social Development
Department and is currently Coordinator of the Bank's anchor unit (corporate secretariat) for
Community-Driven Development. Previously he has worked as a Social Development Specialist
in the Environment and Social unit at the IFC (workplace practices); as Social Development
Consultant to the Ethical Trading Initiative (U.K.) (corporate codes of conduct) and to DFID
(Business Links Initiative for Vietnam). He also worked as a consultant in the Bank's Resident
Mission in Mozambique and the Southern Africa Department (1991-1996). Currently working on
CDD operations in Angola, Sao Tome e Principe and Sierra Leone.
Laurie Regelbrugge
Manager, Unocal Foundation
Early in 2001, Laurie Regelbrugge joined the corporate responsibility team of Unocal
Corporation where she serves as Manager of the Unocal Foundation. Previously she served as
Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen
Participation and as Vice President of The Hitachi Foundation, where she joined the staff in
1990. In the 1980s, Laurie worked in two small companies and several nonprofit organizations
directing domestic and international programs in education, community and economic
development, and management. Early in her career, Laurie taught social studies in U.S. public
high schools.
Laurie is a frequent writer and speaker on the subjects of education, corporate citizenship,
community development, and collaboration. Beyond professional interests, Laurie is an active
volunteer, wife, and mother of two. She has degrees in international studies and education from
Virginia Tech, and completed an executive program at The Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Vadim Samorodov
Program Manager, Community Foundations, Charities Aid Foundation – Russia
A graduate of the Moscow Civil Engineering University, Mr. Samorodov joined the International
Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies as a logistics officer in 1993 and
worked with the Red Cross for seven years. During this time, he worked in Uganda, Central
Africa, and in Russian Siberia. Mr. Samorodov was involved in both the delivery and distribution
of humanitarian aid and in the institutional development of national Red Cross societies. He also
participated in collaborative projects with the United Nations, the European Union and various
international development agencies. In 2001, he enrolled in an MBA course offered by the
California State University Hayward’s branch in Moscow. Shortly thereafter, he joined the
Russian office of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) as a program manager for the
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development of community foundations in Russia. His publications touch upon topics such as
the philanthropic environment and investment climate in contemporary Russia.
Lourdes Sanz
Mexican Center for Philanthropy (CEMEFI)
Currently Community Foundations Coordinator in CEMEFI (Mexican Centre for Philanthropy),
Ms. Sanz’s responsibilities include the promotion and strengthening of Mexican community
foundations, the coordination of group activities, communications and processes, as well as
CEMEFI’s national and international relations. Ms. Sanz is a member of the coordinating
committee of WINGS (Worldwide Initiative for Grant making Support), the WINGS-CF Advisory
Committee, and the Transatlantic Community Foundations Network (TCFN). Her professional
experience includes organizational development, human resources management, organizational
change and design, communications, public relations and service areas as well as 11 years
teaching in two Mexican universities. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources
Management, a Master’s Degree in Institutional Communication, and postgraduate studies in
Mexican Labor Law and Non profit Organizations Management.
Sita Supomo
Manager, Cornerstone Indonesia, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise - Washington Center
Prior to serving as KIW's Indonesia Representative, Ms. Supomo was the Corporate Sector
Program Advisor at the Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia. Collaborating with
other organizations, she contributed to and integrated the efforts of twelve major CEOs in
launching the first CEO Forum in Indonesia for corporate social reponsibility. The forum took
place in July 2002 and over 60 CEOs attended. Ms. Supomo has also served as Country
Director - Indonesia for the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities and as a UNIFEM
National Project Manager. Prior to non-profit involvement, she worked for Johnson & Johnson.
Her involvement in enhancing the knowledge of health care practitioners triggered her interest in
working in the non-profit sector. She realized the potential of leveraging the corporate sector in
building a new Indonesia. Committed to building corporate engagement in the community, Ms.
Supomo is currently active in the Forum for Corporate Governance in Indonesia and the
Community Development Forum. Ms. Supomos holds a "Sarjana" (B.A.) in Japanese Language
from Padjadjaran University in Bandung, Indonesia and an MBA from Marquette University in
Milwaukee, WI.
David Valenzuela
President, Inter-American Foundation
David Valenzuela has been president of the Inter-American Foundation (IAF - www.iaf.gov), an
independent agency of the United States Government, since April 2000. From October 1996,
until the time that he was appointed to the presidency of the IAF, he held the positions at the
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IAF of executive vice-president and vice president for Programs. Mr. Valenzuela first joined the
IAF in 1979, serving at various times as representative for Peru and Bolivia, senior
representative for the Andean Region, regional director for the Southern Cone and Brazil, and
regional director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. From 1990 to 1995, he took a
leave of absence from the IAF to reestablish and direct the United States Peace Corps in Chile.
He had previously served from 1971 to 1976 as deputy director of the Peace Corps for El
Salvador. From 1976 to 1979, he was the Andean regional representative for Church World
Service, based in Peru. From 1968 to 1971 he was the Latin American program officer for the
International Secretariat for Volunteer Service ISVS), based in Geneva, Switzerland. ISVS was
an inter-governmental organization that became the United Nations Volunteer Program in 1973.
Mr. Valenzuela, who was born in Chile, has a BA in Latin American Studies and an MA in
international affairs from American University. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French, and
is conversant in Portuguese.
Kavwanga Yambayamba
Partnership Forum
Dr. Yambayamba works for the Forum for Business Leaders & Social Partners (The Partnership
Forum). Founded in January 1999, the Partnership Forum works with the business community,
government leaders, civil society, youth, and communities to promote corporate social
responsibility, youth enterprise development, and creative engagement of communities to the
main stream of the economy. The ultimate goal is to enhance societal value, with the net result
of sustainable economic and human development.
Considering that the business sector, government, and civil society are the main sectors of the
economy and that each has acquired its own distinctive competences, the Partnership Forum
finds opportunities where these sectors can work together either by themselves or more
importantly with the communities to capacitate the latter and enable them create wealth at
household level. Also, by facilitating training and retraining of youths in skills development,
innovation, business management and creative thinking, the Partnership Forum has helped
young people to develop sustainable projects/enterprises which provide employment for other
young people. Finally, through the promotion of corporate social responsibility, the Partnership
Forum ensures the realization that “business is everybody’s business” and that business forms
the major aspect of economic development.
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