Kimmie Weeks to speak at Global Philanthropy Forum
New York, United States: Internationally acclaimed Liberian child rights activist Kimmie Weeks has been named a speaker at the 2008 7th Annual Global Philanthropy Forum Conference, which will be held April 9th-11th, 2008 at the Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, in Redwood City, CA. The 2008 conference entitled, “Human Security, Human Rights and the Shared Responsibility to Protect: A conversation between elders and emerging leaders,” is dedicated to a conversation among elders and the next generation of philanthropists and outstanding emerging leaders from throughout the developing world.
Speakers at prior conferences have included: Former President Bill Clinton; Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Co-founders of Google; Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation; Angélique Kidjo, Singer, Songwriter, Founder of the Batonga Foundation and UNICEF Good Will Ambassador; Steve and Jean Case, Co-founders of the Case Foundation; Fola Adeola, Chairman and Founder of FATE Foundation and Co-Founder of Guaranty Trust Bank (Nigeria); Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS; Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations Development Program; Sally Osberg, CEO of the Skoll Foundation; Ted Turner of the UN Foundation; Sam Nunn of the Nuclear Threat Initiative; Ashok Khosla of Development Alternatives (India); Carol Larson, President and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Karen Tse of International Bridges to Justice; Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Sterling Speirn, President of the Kellogg Foundation; Wangari Maathai of Kenya’s Greenbelt Movement and Nobel Laureate; Ernesto Zedillo of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; William Gates, Sr. of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Teresa Heinz Kerry of the Heinz Family Philanthropies; James Wolfensohn then President of the World Bank; Gordon Conway then President of the Rockefeller Foundation; Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health; George Soros of the Open Society Institute; Jeffery Sachs of the Earth Institute; Graça Machel of the Foundation of Community Development; Hernando de Soto of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru; Sakeena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning; Tim Wirth of the United Nations Foundation; Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and Nobel Laureate; Paul Brest and Esther Hewlett of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Ed Penhoet of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; and Thoraya Obaid, of the UN Population Fund, among others.
You can listen to highlights from previous conferences on streaming video at www.philanthropyforum.org. Some of the proceedings from the 2008 conference will also be syndicated on National Public Radio throughout the United States and featured in the conference transcripts.�
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