Navigating a Shifting Global Landscape

Welcome to WorldAffairs 2012, the
Bay Area’s annual community event
devoted to global issues presented by
the World Affairs Council.

Whether it is evidenced in the Arab Spring or the financial meltdown,
civil conflict or weather extremes, we are experiencing rapid and
sometimes wrenching change that no single state, sector or citizen can
manage alone. It requires us all.

WorldAffairs 2012 is an opportunity for each of us to teach and to
learn—together. We can equip ourselves with the knowledge we need as a
society to navigate this fast-changing global landscape, to capture its benefits
and to mitigate its dangers. Through conversations with one another and

“… a state-of-the-world
an impressive list of esteemed speakers, we will gain deeper insight and
understanding of the critical issues that confront us as citizens. These issues
will command the attention of our next president and will pose hard

perspective
choices for a growing number of decision-makers around the world.

We know that globalization—the combination of the information
revolution and economic integration—has both offered up new

equal to none.” challenges and been the source of remarkable opportunity at home in
California and abroad. As a result, according to the World Bank’s recent

report, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty is on the
decline, and the number of children completing a primary education is on
– WorldAffairs conference participant the rise. But as the Occupy Wall Street movement suggests, the benefits
are not felt by all. And so we will explore the ways in which globalization
has expanded the reach of individuals. We will consider the remarkable
advances that can improve the human condition, including economic,
social and technological innovations that carry the promise of access to
capital, to global markets, to education, to safe food and water, and to
health care in the most remote regions of the world.

We are grateful to our trustees, donors and members who are dedicated
to the exploration of critical global issues and who ensure the depth and
engagement that are the hallmarks of the WorldAffairs annual event and
all that we do. We thank our sponsors whose generous support makes
this year’s conference possible. And, we thank you for your commitment
to knowledge and to the future we share.

Sincerely yours,

Peter Robertson Jane Wales
Chairman of the Board President and CEO

Navigating in a Shifting 3:30-4:30 PM Discussions in Depth

Global Landscape Conservatory Global Security
After the Arab Spring: Prospects for Change
We face numerous challenges around the globe in 2012—from critical
foreign policy debates, to the dynamics of the global economy, to long Ellen Laipson, President and CEO, Stimson Center
term developmental and environmental trends. What are the major Robin Wright, Senior Fellow, US Institute of Peace; Distinguished
issues that impact the way that the United States maintains its place Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
in the world? How has the world changed in 2012 and how is it likely Moderator: Suzanne Siskel, Executive Vice President and Chief
Operating Officer, The Asia Foundation
to change in the longer term? Over the course of a day and a half, the
WorldAffairs 2012 conference will examine key shifts in the global
Impressionist Global Economy
landscape and how the US and the international community may
From Bailouts to Brussels: Rethinking the Future of the European Union
respond to them.
Megan Greene, Head of European Economics, Roubini Global
Economics
Agenda Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Research Fellow, Peterson Institute for
International Economics
FRIDAY, MARCH 30 Moderator: Reuven Glick, Group Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank
of San Francisco
1:00 PM Registration Opens
Sculpture Modernist Global Future
The Arctic: New Frontier for Navigation, Exploration, and Exploitation
2:00-3:15 PM Welcome
John Bellinger, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National
Gallery Ballroom Peter Robertson, Chairman, Board of Trustees, World Affairs Council
Security Law, Council on Foreign Relations
Melissa Bert, Council on Foreign Relations Military Fellow, US
Keynote Conversations Coast Guard
The End of War in Afghanistan: A Turning Point in US Foreign Policy Lawson Brigham, Distinguished Professor of Geography and Arctic
Policy, University of Alaska Fairbanks
The Transition to Afghanistan Sovereignty: Progress and Challenges
Moderator: Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, Natural
Karl Eikenberry, Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for Resources Defense Council
International Studies, Stanford University; Former US Ambassador to
Afghanistan
4:30 PM Coffee Break
Obama’s Reluctant Realism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Beyond Sculpture
Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, The Brookings
Institution

Moderator: Anja Manuel, Principal, The RiceHadley Group LLC

3:15 PM Break

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FRIDAY, MARCH 30 CONTINUED SATURDAY, MARCH 31 CONTINUED

5:00-6:00 PM Keynote Conversation 11:00-Noon Discussions in Depth
Gallery Ballroom Shifting Political and Economic Landscapes: How Can the US Adapt
Conservatory Global Security
Richard & Judith Guggenhime Speaker
After bin Laden: Where is the Terrorist Threat
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and
How We Can Come Back Michael Nacht, Professor of Public Policy and former Dean, Goldman
Michael Mandelbaum, Professor and Director of the American Foreign School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley
Policy Program, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Barbara Sude, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
Moderator: Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council Moderator: Nancy Jarvis, Attorney, Farrand Cooper, PC

6:00-7:00 PM Take Action Reception Modernist Global Economy
Yerba Buena Terrace Network and engage with a group of nonprofit organizations The Building BRICs: A New Economic Paradigm
nominated as our Take Action partners for their innovative solutions to
global problems. Rafiq Dossani, Director, South Asia Initiative, Stanford University
Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars
SATURDAY, MARCH 31 Andrew Weiss, Director, Center for Russia and Eurasia, RAND
Corporation
8:30 AM Registration Opens Moderator: Bruce Pickering, Executive Director, Asia Society
Sculpture Northern California

8:30-9:15 AM Take Action Breakfast Impressionist Global Future
Gallery Ballroom Join a conversation over breakfast with senior representatives from our Food and Water: Sustaining Life on a Crowded Planet
Take Action partner organizations and other moderators on one of Gawain Kripke, Director of Policy and Research, Oxfam America
three themes: Global Future, Global Economy, or Global Security. Peter Lochery, Director, Water Team, CARE
Moderator: Juliet Christian-Smith, Senior Research Associate,
9:15 AM Break Pacific Institute

9:30-10:45 AM Keynote Conversation 12:15 PM Luncheon
Gallery Ballroom The World in 2050: Global Innovation and Solutions to the Energy Yerba Buena Terrace
Challenge or
Need, Speed, Greed: The Innovation Economy Collections Education Scholars and Donors Luncheon
Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Shanghai Bureau Chief and China Business Editor,
The Economist
In conversation with
Rhonda Zygocki, Executive Vice President, Policy and Planning,
Chevron Corporation
Moderator: Peter Robertson, Chairman, Board of Trustees, World
Affairs Council

10:45 AM Break
Sculpture

SATURDAY, MARCH 31 CONTINUED

1:30-2:45 PM Keynote Conversation Impressionist Global Future
Gallery Ballroom Understanding the Shifting Global Economic Landscape How Will We Power the World in 2050

America in the Age of Decline Lisa Margonelli, Director, Energy Policy Initiative, New America
Edward Luce, Chief US Commentator, Financial Times Foundation
Meghan O’Sullivan, Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of
Competing Capitalisms: The Battle of Ideas that May Signal the End of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
American Dominance Harvard University
David Rothkopf, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for Moderator: Dickon Pinner, Principal, McKinsey & Co
International Peace
4:00 PM Break
Moderator: Terry Kramer, Entrepreneur in Residence, Harvard
Business School Sculpture

2:45 PM Break 4:15-5:30 PM Keynote Conversation
Gallery Ballroom The World in 2050: The Next Big Idea
3:00-4:00 PM Discussions in Depth NASA in a Dynamic International Environment
Charles Bolden, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Conservatory Global Security Administration
What’s Next for Israel in a Turbulent Middle East
Developing the Developed World
Martin Indyk, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Peter Thiel, Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist
Brookings Institution; Former US Ambassador to Israel
In conversation with Moderator: Margit Wennmachers, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council
Closing Remarks
Modernist Global Economy Peter Robertson, Chairman, Board of Trustees, World Affairs Council
From Longitudes to Latitudes: The Rise of a South-South
Economic Zone 5:30-6:00 PM Closing Reception, Adjournment
Sculpture
Uri Dadush, Senior Associate and Director, International Economics
Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Moderator: Kausik Rajgopal, Principal, McKinsey & Co


2012 Speaker Biographies
*Moderator

John Bellinger Lawson Brigham
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law, Distinguished Professor of Geography and Arctic Policy, University of
Council on Foreign Relations Alaska Fairbanks
John B. Bellinger III is also a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP and a Lawson Brigham is also a senior fellow at the Institute of the North
member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague. He has in Anchorage. Previously, he was chair of the Arctic Council’s Arctic
represented the US before the International Court of Justice and the Marine Shipping Assessment, chief of strategic planning at Coast Guard
Iran-US Claims Tribunal. Bellinger has served as legal adviser for the Headquarters, and a career US Coast Guard officer. Brigham has been
US Department of State and the National Security Council, counsel to a research fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, faculty
the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, and special counsel at the US Coast Guard Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School,
to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Bellinger received his and deputy director of the US Arctic Research Commission. He is
AB from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and a graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy and the US Naval War
International Affairs, his JD from Harvard Law School, and an MA in College, and holds an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an
foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Melissa Bert Juliet Christian-Smith*
Council on Foreign Relations Military Fellow, US Coast Guard Senior Research Associate, Pacific Institute
Captain Melissa Bert, USCG, is also vice chair on the board of the Dr. Juliet Christian-Smith is also a frontiers of science fellow for
Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association. She has served as the National Academy of Sciences. Christian-Smith is a recipient
commander of Coast Guard Sector Juneau and special assistant to the of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Award for Outstanding
commandant of the Coast Guard. As a judge advocate, she served as Achievement and serves on the executive board of the Agricultural
deputy staff judge advocate, military judge in special courts-martial, Water Management Council. Prior to coming to the Pacific Institute,
and former prosecutor. Her honors include the United Way American Christian-Smith was in Portugal on a Fulbright Fellowship studying the
Values Award, three Meritorious Service Medals and the Judge implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive and examining
Advocates Association Outstanding Career Armed Services Attorney agricultural water usage in the Alentejo region. Christian-Smith holds
Award. Bert is a graduate of the Coast Guard Academy, the Naval War a PhD in environmental science, policy and management from the
College, and George Washington University Law School. University of California, Berkeley and a BA in biology from Smith College.

Charles Bolden Uri Dadush
Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Senior Associate and Director, International Economics Program,
Nominated by President Barack Obama, retired Marine Corps Maj. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is the former CEO of JACKandPANTHER Uri Dadush is also the editor of the Carnegie International Economic
LLC, and he first joined NASA in 1980. He traveled to orbit four times, Bulletin. Dadush previously served as the World Bank’s director of
commanding two of the missions, and after his final space shuttle flight international trade, director of economic policy, and director of the Bank’s
in 1994 Bolden returned to active duty with the Marine Corps as the world economy group. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was president
deputy commandant of midshipmen at the US Naval Academy. Bolden’s and CEO of the Economist Intelligence Unit and Business International,
many military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal part of the Economist Group, group vice president, international, for Data
and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Bolden earned a BS in electrical Resources, Inc., and a consultant with McKinsey & Co in Europe. Dadush
science and an MA in systems management from the University of is the co-author of Paradigm Lost: The Euro in Crisis; Currency Wars; and
Southern California. He was inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Juggernaut: How Emerging Markets Are Reshaping Globalization.
Fame in 2006.
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Shantayanan Devarajan Reuven Glick*
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Group Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Shantayanan Devarajan has served as a principal economist and Reuven Glick has also served as director of the Bank’s Center for Pacific
research manager for public economics in the Development Research Basin Monetary and Economic Studies and chief of the international
Group, and chief economist of the Human Development Network Research Section. Glick was a professor of economics and international
and the South Asia Region at the World Bank. He was the director business in New York University’s Graduate School of Business. He taught
of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for at the University of California, Berkeley, served as a consultant to the
Poor People. Previously, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s World Bank, and worked as an economist in the research department at
John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or co-author of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He co-edited Asia and the Global
over 100 publications, Devarajan’s research covers public economics, Financial Crisis and Financial Crises in Emerging Markets, among others.
trade policy, and natural resources and the environment. Devarajan Glick received a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a BA in
received his BA in mathematics from Princeton University and his PhD economics from the University of Chicago.
in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Rafiq Dossani Megan Greene
Director, South Asia Initiative, Stanford University Head of European Economics, Roubini Global Economics
Rafiq Dossani is also a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Megan Greene is one of the leading voices in interpreting developments
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Dossani chairs FOCUS USA in the eurozone crisis. At RGE, Greene conducts and coordinates
and serves on the board of the Industry Studies Association. He has macroeconomic forecasts on the eurozone’s most significant economies
served as a trustee of Hidden Villa, chairman and CEO of a stockbroking and responds to policy decisions at the national and EU level. She
firm on the OTCEI stock exchange in India, deputy editor of Business regularly appears in broadcast and print media, including the Financial
India Weekly, and professor of finance at Pennsylvania State University. Times and Newsnight. Greene has worked as the eurozone crisis expert
Dossani is author or co-author of several books, including Higher at the Economist Intelligence Unit, as an investment banking analyst at
Education in India and Does South Asia Exist?. Dossani holds a BA in JP Morgan Chase, and as an advisor to the Liechtenstein royal family.
economics from St. Stephen’s College; an MBA from the Indian Institute Greene received a BA in political economy from Princeton University and
of Management; and a PhD in finance from Northwestern University. an MSc in European studies from Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Karl Eikenberry
Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Martin Indyk
Studies, Stanford University Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Karl Eikenberry is also an affiliated faculty member with the Center Martin S. Indyk is also a former US ambassador to Israel. He was founding
for International Security and Cooperation and an affiliated researcher director of the Saban Centre for Middle East Policy at The Brookings
with the Europe Center. He served as US ambassador to Afghanistan Institution, founding executive director of the Washington Institute for
from 2009 to 2011. He is a trustee for the International Institute for Near East Policy, and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University
Strategic Studies and former president of the Foreign Area Officers School of Advanced International Studies. He has served as assistant
Association. He also had a thirty-five year career in the US Army. secretary of state for Near East Affairs and senior director for Near East
He has received many awards, including the Department of State and South Asia in the US National Security Council. He is the author of
Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards. Eikenberry Innocent Abroad and co-author of Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign
graduated from the US Military Academy, received MAs from Harvard Policy. Indyk holds a PhD from the Australian National University.
University and Stanford University, and was a National Security Fellow
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Nancy Jarvis* Gawain Kripke
Attorney, Farrand Cooper, PC Director of Policy and Research, Oxfam America
Nancy Jarvis has practiced law since 1981 with Farrand Cooper, PC, a Gawain Kripke is the Director of Policy and Research at Oxfam
forty-year-old San Francisco law firm that represents commercial clients America, and has more than 20 years of experience working on
and nonprofit institutions. Prior to her legal career, she was the foreign public policy and advocacy issues. His department conducts research
policy editor at MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She served as and policy advocacy, focusing on the effectiveness of foreign aid and
chairman of the World Affairs Council from 1993 to 1995. She is a development, climate change, trade and agriculture, humanitarian
member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, the issues and extractive industries. At Oxfam, Kripke previously served as
Council on Foreign Relations, New York, and the Pacific Council on senior policy advisor on Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair campaign, which aims
International Policy, Los Angeles. to reform unfair trade rules so that international trade can become a
powerful force for reducing global poverty.

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard Ellen Laipson
Research Fellow, Peterson Institute of International Economics President and CEO, Stimson Center
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard is also a senior associate at the Rhodium Group. Ellen Laipson also directs the Middle East/Southwest Asia program
Before joining the Institute, he worked with the Danish Ministry at the Stimson Center. Previously, she served as vice chair of the
of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial National Intelligence Council and special assistant to the US permanent
sector. He is author of The Accelerating Decline in America’s High- representative to the UN. Laipson was director for Near East and
Skilled Workforce, co-author of US Pension Reform and Transforming South Asian Affairs for the National Security Council, national
the European Economy, and assisted with Accelerating the Globalization intelligence officer for Near and South Asia, and a specialist in Middle
of America. His current research topics include European economies East affairs for the Congressional Research Service. Laipson has been
and reform, demographics, and high-skilled immigration. Kirkegaard named to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the US
is a graduate of the Danish Army’s Special School of Intelligence and Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. She has an MA
Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant, the University of Aarhus, from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins
and Columbia University. University, and a BA from Cornell University.

Peter Lochery
Terry Kramer* Director, Water Team, CARE
Entrepreneur in Residence, Harvard Business School Peter Lochery, an environmental engineer, has worked with the World
Terry Kramer is also former regional president of Vodafone Americas. Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program, and latterly with CARE. At
He sat on the board of Verizon Wireless and was a member of the CARE, he is responsible for providing leadership to CARE’s relief and
Verizon Wireless HR Committee. Kramer was also chairman of development programming. He has supported CARE’s participation
Vodafone Ventures. In 2008, he was named Vodafone’s group strategy in international, regional and in-country partnerships and led CARE’s
and business improvement director. Prior to this, Kramer was CEO of advocacy for increased awareness of and support for water, sanitation
Q Comm International and worked for twelve years at PacTel/AirTouch and hygiene in developing countries. He has worked with major
Communications. He began his career in marketing at the Harris US foundations to develop long-term programs, and has facilitated
Corporation and was an associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton. He relationships with the private sector to extend corporate social
holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics responsibility. He is a board member of three nonprofits: Building
from the University of California, Los Angeles. Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation, the Millennium
Water Alliance, and Water Advocates.

Edward Luce Lisa Margonelli
Chief US Commentator, Financial Times Director, Energy Policy Initiative, New America Foundation
Edward Luce writes a weekly column on US politics, economy and Lisa Margonelli writes about the global culture and economy of
foreign policy for the Financial Times. Previously, Luce served as FT’s energy and is the author of Oil On the Brain: Petroleum’s Long Strange
Washington bureau chief, FT’s South Asia bureau chief in New Delhi, Trip to Your Tank. Margonelli has been published in The Atlantic, The
capital markets editor in London, and as the Philippines correspondent. New York Times online, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San
Between December 1999 and January 2001, Luce was the speechwriter Francisco Chronicle, and Wired, among other publications. Her column,
for Lawrence H. Summers, secretary of the treasury during the Clinton “Money Tales,” which combined economics and oral history in the San
administration. In 2006, he authored In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Francisco Chronicle online, won an Excellence in Journalism award from
Rise of Modern India. Luce graduated with degrees in politics, philosophy the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists in 2003. In
and economics from Oxford University and completed a post-graduate 1999 to 2000, she was awarded a Sundance Fellowship. Margonelli is a
degree in journalism from City University in London. graduate of Yale University.

Leila Monroe*
Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Michael Mandelbaum
Leila Monroe works at the state, national and international levels
Professor and Director of the American Foreign Policy Program,
Johns Hopkins University, SAIS on issues including: ocean governance, coastal and marine spatial
Michael Mandelbaum is a former faculty member at Harvard University, planning, offshore oil and gas exploration and extraction, siting of
Columbia University and The United States Naval Academy. From 1986 ocean renewable energy, marine protected areas, and ocean pollution.
to 2004, he was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining NRDC, she worked for T.C. Hoffmann & Associates,
Mandelbaum is the author or co-author of 13 books, including The the Environmental Integrity Project, and the National Oceanic
Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of General Counsel for
and That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented International Law. Monroe received a JD from Georgetown University
and How We Can Come Back. Mandelbaum has been a guest on such Law Center with a focus on international and environmental law and a
programs as Charlie Rose, All Things Considered, and The Daily Show with BS in foreign service with a focus on international politics and security
Jon Stewart. He currently is working on a book on the global economy. studies from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.

Michael Nacht
Professor of Public Policy and former Dean, Goldman School of Public
Anja Manuel* Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Principal, The RiceHadley Group LLC Michael Nacht also chairs Berkeley’s International Strategy Task Force
Anja Manuel is also a lecturer in Stanford’s International Policy and is the policy head for the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium.
Program and a Visiting Scholar at CISAC. Manuel has served as special He served as assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs
assistant to Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns at in the Obama Administration, where he chaired the NATO High Level
the US Department of State. Manuel was also an attorney at the law Group. He co-authored two chapters in WMD Terrorism: Science and
firm of WilmerHale and worked in the investment banking division of Policy Choices, and has published numerous articles. His books include
Salomon Brothers. She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, the The Age of Vulnerability: Threats to the Nuclear Stalemate and Missing the
Center for a New American Security’s India Policy Group, and serves Boat: The Failure to Internationalize American Higher Education. Nacht
on the board of the San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative. holds a BS in aeronautics and astronautics and an MS in operations
Manuel graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, and holds a research from New York University and a PhD in political science from
BA and an MA with distinction from Stanford University. Columbia University.

Michael O’Hanlon Dickon Pinner*
Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution Principal, McKinsey & Co
Michael O’Hanlon is also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University Dickon Pinner also leads McKinsey’s North America Cleantech and
and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. O’Hanlon has Global Solar Practices. He co-founded McKinsey’s Global Cleantech
worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses and as an analyst at the Practice. Pinner has served many of the world’s leading semiconductor
Congressional Budget Office. His recent books include Toughing It Out in companies on strategy, capital productivity and company turnarounds.
Afghanistan and The Wounded Giant, and Bending History (co-authored). Previously, Pinner worked at Shell as a reservoir engineer, where he was
O’Hanlon has written several hundred op-eds and he has contributed responsible for the drilling of some of the earliest multi-lateral horizontal
to the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other papers. wells. He holds a PhD in the physics of organic semiconductor devices
O’Hanlon holds a PhD in public and international affairs, and a BA and from Cambridge University, an MSc in physics from the University of
MA in the physical sciences, all from Princeton University. California, Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a BA in
physics from Cambridge University.

Meghan O’Sullivan
Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, John F. Kausik Rajgopal*
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Principal, McKinsey & Co
Meghan L. O’Sullivan is also an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on
Kausik Rajgopal is also the founder and leader of McKinsey’s global
Foreign Relations and a consultant to the National Intelligence Council.
Digital Financial Services and Payments Practice. Rajgopal joined
She is a foreign affairs columnist for Bloomberg View and a member of
McKinsey in 1997, and has served a range of corporate, foundation and
the Trilateral Commission and the Aspen Strategy Group. O’Sullivan
public sector clients. He serves on the board and executive committee
serves on the board of TechnoServe and the Belfer Center for Science
of the Bay Area Council and the Advisory Board of Stanford
and International Affairs. O’Sullivan was special assistant to President
University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
George W. Bush and a fellow at The Brookings Institution. She was
Rajgopal was born and raised in Chennai, India. He received a BA with
awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal, and three times
distinction in industrial engineering and political science from Stanford
received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award. O’Sullivan
University and his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business,
received a BA from Georgetown University, an MS and DPhil from
where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Oxford University.

Bruce Pickering* Peter Robertson*
Executive Director, Asia Society Northern California Chairman, Board of Trustees, World Affairs Council
Bruce Pickering is also a member of the board of the ChinaSF Advisory Peter Robertson is retired vice chairman of the board of Chevron
Board and the advisory council of USC’s Center for International Business Corporation. He spent 35 years at Chevron, serving in a variety of
Education and Research. He has served as director of public affairs and leadership positions. He is currently an independent advisor to Deloitte
development at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, program LLP, a director of Jacobs Engineering and Universal Pegasus International
director of the World Affairs Council, and executive director of the US- and an advisory director of Campbell-Lutyens. He is co-chairman of the
Japan 21st Century Project. Pickering was a foreign service officer with US-Saudi Arabian Business Council, vice chairman of the board of the
the US Department of State and was deputy political counsel on the US International House at Berkeley, a director of the Washington, DC-
Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Vienna. based Resources for the Future and an advisor to Scottish Enterprise.
He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA
from Stanford University.

David Rothkopf Barbara Sude
Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
David Rothkopf is also the president and chief executive of Garten Barbara Sude is a senior political scientist specializing in counter-
Rothkopf, an international advisory firm, and CEO and editor-at- terrorism and counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation. During
large of the FP Group. Rothkopf writes daily on national security and her 33-year career at CIA, she was part of the small cadre of pre-9/11
international economic policy for Foreign Policy. He chairs the Carnegie analysts specializing in al Qaeda and followed the group as a senior
Economic Strategy Roundtable and is chairman of the National Strategic analyst at both CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and the National
Investment Forum Dialogue. Previously, Rothkopf has served as Counterterrorism Center. She also served as an analyst of political
chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Intellibridge Corporation, managing Islam, the Near East, and Africa. She is co-author of An Economic
director of Kissinger Associates, and acting US under secretary of Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa‘ida in Iraq. Sude holds a PhD
commerce for international trade for the Clinton Administration. in near eastern studies from Princeton and a BA in Arabic from
Rothkopf is the author of Superclass and Running the World. Georgetown University.

Suzanne Siskel*
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, The Asia Peter Thiel
Foundation
Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist
Suzanne E. Siskel oversees the operations of the Asia Foundation in San
In 1998, Peter Thiel co-founded and led PayPal. In 2002, he sold
Francisco, Washington, DC and its 17 field offices in Asia. She served at
PayPal to eBay and founded a global macro fund, Clarium. Thiel co-
the Ford Foundation in various leadership positions in Southeast Asia
founded and manages Founders Fund, which pioneers new methods
and New York, including as director of social justice philanthropy. Siskel
of venture financing that benefit founders. Through Founders Fund,
is past president of the Fulbright Association, and also served on the
as well as through his private investing, he has helped the next
Governing Council of the European Foundation Centre. Currently she
generation of tech companies, such as SpaceX, LinkedIn, Yelp, Causes,
is a member of the Global Philanthropy Committee of the Council on
RoboteX and Spotify. In 2010, he created the 20 Under 20 Thiel
Foundations and serves on the board of the Youth Orchestra of the
Fellowship, which nurtures the tech visionaries of tomorrow. He
Americas. Siskel studied social anthropology at Harvard University and
earned a BA in philosophy from Stanford University and a JD from
Johns Hopkins University.
Stanford Law School.
Paulo Sotero
Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Paulo Sotero is also a contributing columnist to O Estado de S. Paulo Shanghai Bureau Chief and China Business Editor, The Economist
and an adjunct professor of the Elliot School of International Affairs Vijay Vaitheeswaran is also a life member at the Council on Foreign
at George Washington University. Sotero has testified before the US Relations, an advisor to the World Economic Forum, and a regular
House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on issues speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative. He teaches at New York
of US-Brazil relations and energy security. He received the Abril University’s Stern Business School, and his commentaries have appeared
Award of Investigative Journalism and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize– in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and The New York Times. He
Special Citation from the Columbia University’s Graduate School of is chairman of The Economist’s series of conferences on innovation, The
Journalism. He is a member of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize Board Ideas Economy, and author of several books, including Need, Speed and
and of GACINT. He has an MA in journalism and public affairs from Greed and Power to the People. Vaitheeswaran is an engineering graduate
American University and a BA in history from Catholic University of of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was named a
Pernambuco, Recife. Harry S. Truman Presidential Scholar by the US Congress.

Jane Wales* Robin Wright
President and CEO, World Affairs Council Senior Fellow, US Institute of Peace; Distinguished Scholar, Woodrow
Jane Wales is also president and CEO of the Global Philanthropy Wilson International Center for Scholars
Forum and vice president of the Aspen Institute. She is host of the Robin Wright is a journalist, author and foreign policy analyst. She is the
nationally syndicated weekly National Public Radio interview show author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
It’s Your World. In 2008, Wales also chaired the Poverty Alleviation and The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy. She has also written
Track for the Clinton Global Initiative. Previously, she served in the for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Foreign Affairs
Clinton Administration as special assistant to the President, senior and many others. She most recently covered US foreign policy for
director of the National Security Council and associate director of the The Washington Post. Wright has also been a fellow at The Brookings
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She chaired Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yale
the international security programs at the Carnegie Corporation and University, Duke University, Stanford University, the University of
served as acting CEO of The Elders from 2007 to 2008. California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California.
Wright received her MA and BA from the University of Michigan.

Andrew Weiss
Director, Center for Russia and Eurasia, RAND Corporation Rhonda Zygocki
Andrew Weiss is also executive director of the RAND Business Executive Vice President, Policy and Planning, Chevron Corporation
Leaders Forum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Rhonda I. Zygocki has worked for Chevron Corporation since 1999.
He has served as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian She has served as vice president of Policy, Government, and Public
Affairs at the National Security Council; a member of the State Affairs, vice president of Health, Environment and Safety, manager
Department’s Policy Planning Staff; a policy assistant in the Office of of strategic planning, and managing director of Chevron Australia.
the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and a budget analyst in the Additionally, she has been general manager and chief financial officer
Department of the Army. Weiss was also a vice president at American for Chevron Canada Resources. Zygocki serves on the boards of
International Group, Inc. Weiss received a BA in Russian regional directors of GBC Health and the United States Energy Association; the
studies from Columbia University and an MA from Columbia’s School board of trustees of the San Francisco Ballet; and the advisory board
of International and Public Affairs. of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Canada
Institute. Zygocki earned a BA in civil engineering from Memorial
University of Newfoundland.
Margit Wennmachers*
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Margit Wennmachers manages Andreessen Horowitz’s overall brand
and marketing strategy and advises portfolio entrepreneurs on their
communications strategies. She also participates in the firm’s deal flow,
evaluating entrepreneurs and their companies’ potential. Wennmachers
co-founded and ran The OutCast Agency, an award-winning
communications firm with offices in New York City and San Francisco.
Before founding OutCast she served as a member of the executive
management team at Hill & Knowlton/WPP-owned Blanc & Otus. She
has lived and worked in Germany, Spain and the US. She is fluent in
English, German, Spanish, and French. Wennmachers is on the board of
the World Affairs Council and Next Fifteen.

Take Action
What Can You Do? International Rescue Committee
www.rescue.org
Take Action presents Bay Area-based innovative nonprofit organizations The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is among the world’s largest
who are working to address global challenges along the themes of our annual non-sectarian, voluntary agencies providing relief, protection, and
conference. For WorldAffairs 2012, we are pleased to partner with the resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent
following organizations. Please take advantage of this opportunity to learn how conflict. The mission of the IRC in Northern California is to help refugees
to get involved locally to affect change globally. and asylees start a new life of self-reliance in this country through a
well-conceived resettlement plan. By providing compassionate support,
TAKE ACTION PARTNERS resources, and information, the IRC enables these courageous individuals
to rebuild their lives and regain their sense of dignity.
Asylum Access
www.asylumaccess.org Kiva
Asylum Access is an innovative international nonprofit dedicated to www.kiva.org
making refugee rights a reality. Asylum Access empowers refugees in Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people
Africa, Asia and Latin America to live safely, work, send children to through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a
school and rebuild their lives. worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals
lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.
CARE
www.care.org Oxfam America
Founded in 1945 with the creation of the CARE Package, CARE is a www.oxfamamerica.org
leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization
special focus on working alongside poor girls and women because, that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. Together
equipped with the proper resources, they have the power to lift with individuals and local groups in more than 90 countries, Oxfam saves
whole families and entire communities out of poverty. Last year CARE lives, helps people overcome poverty and fights for social justice. We are
worked in 84 countries and reached 122 million people around the one of the 15 affiliates in the international confederation, Oxfam.
world.

EARN Every year, World Affairs Council Student Ambassadors participate in Take
www.earn.org Action by presenting progress on their projects geared toward spreading
EARN is a nonprofit that gives low-income working families the awareness and inspiring participation on matters of global importance. At
power to create prosperity for generations. As the nation’s leading WorldAffairs 2012, the Student Ambassador projects focus on:
microsavings provider, EARN gives families the tools to build wealth • Human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
and achieve life-changing goals such as saving for college, buying a first • Economic development in East Asia
home, or starting a small business. Since 2001, we have helped tens of • Community development in South America
thousands of low-wage families through innovative financial products • Education in South East Asia
including matched savings accounts, checking accounts for • Water in Africa
the unbanked, and financial coaching.
Thank you to the International Forum, a globally minded multicultural volunteer
group of the Council, for their help organizing the Take Action events of
WorldAffairs 2012.

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2012 World Affairs Council of Northern
California Scholarship Recipients
Education Program
STUDENTS Daniela Leyva, Dominican University of
Jacqueline Alas, UC Berkeley California
Devyani Bhadkamkar, Henry M. Gunn Yingshi Liang, Mission High School
High School Ryan Lim, Mills High School
Varun Bhadkamkar, Henry M. Gunn Yizhuang (John) Liu, De Anza College
High School Sara Menges, University of the Pacific
Karen Camacho, Henry M. Gunn Isvari Mohan, Abraham Lincoln High School
High School
Vaishali Mullapudi, Mira Loma High School
Shannon Chien, De Anza College
Adrienne Ou, Mills High School
Kaela Connors, UC Berkeley
Eli Pollock, Lowell High School
Theresa Diederich, UC Berkeley
Anupama Rajan, Henry M. Gunn High School
Melina Dunham, International High School
Alisa Ratorgueva, Lowell High School
Yujing (Jean) Fan, San Mateo High School
Emilie Robert Wong, Lycée Français
Erfan Faridmoayer, De Anza College La Pérouse
Dawn Fleming, University of the Pacific Rachel Siegman, Menlo School
Hayley (Paisley) Frost, San Lorenzo Valley Morgan Smith, San Lorenzo Valley
High School High School
Students at WorldAffairs 2011, photographer Julie Brookman Jessie Hernandez, UC Berkeley Mariana Sosa Cordero, College of Marin
Karen Hernandez, UC Berkeley Ian Sugar, San Lorenzo Valley High School
Inspiring our youth to be the global citizens and international leaders of tomorrow
Hyllery Hershberger, San Lorenzo Valley William Swain, San Rafael High School
is critical to our mission. For the past 40 years, our Education Program has engaged
High School
the younger generation in the most critical global issues of the day by providing Camilo Vilaseca, Berkeley High School
Andrea Jao, UC Davis
opportunities to meet with international experts, to participate in in-depth Ajna Weaver, San Lorenzo Valley High School
institutes, to attend our WorldAffairs conference and to study abroad through our Adrian Jaycox, Mission San Jose High School
Wentao Xu, Lowell High School
scholarship program. Sandhya Jetty, Mira Loma High School
Valeria Yermakova, Mills High School
Elena Kempf, UC Berkeley
The Education Program focuses on building global awareness and promoting critical Bailin (Lucy) Zhang, St. Bernard School
David Latt, Mills High School
thinking, communication, leadership and civic engagement. In 2007, we founded
Seward Lee, UC Berkeley
the Youth Outreach Initiative, a program that extends this powerful program to
urban high schools and students in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in
the Bay Area. Since launching this project, we have served over 900 students in San
Francisco and Oakland schools. The program is flourishing from one year to the EDUCATORS
next, and this year we will continue to expand our reach into more high schools Paul Joy, St. Bernard School
around the Bay Area. Cynthia Martinez, San Lorenzo Valley
High School
This year, 47 students and teachers have received scholarships to attend
WorldAffairs 2012. They are part of a long tradition of student and educator Julia Salido, San Lorenzo Valley High School
participation. We welcome and applaud the accomplishments and intellectual
curiosity of this year’s scholarship recipients.

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2012 World Affairs Council Our Sponsors
of Northern California
Endowed Scholarships
Each student and educator is uniquely matched with the scholarship The World Affairs Council thanks WorldAffairs 2012 sponsors for
they receive based on their extraordinary interest and commitment to making this event possible.
foreign affairs.

GEORGE & JOANNA BALLOU MEMORIAL AWARD
Cynthia Martinez, San Lorenzo Valley High School
Leadership Sponsors
RICHARD CASTILE AWARD
Emilie Robert Wong, Lycée Français La Pérouse

EDITH COLIVER MEMORIAL AWARD
Theresa Diederich, UC Berkeley
William Swain, San Rafael High School

CARLTON DUDLEY MEMORIAL AWARD
Ryan Lim, Mills High School

PHILIP HABIB MEMORIAL AWARD
Seward Lee, UC Berkeley

CAROL MARQUIS MEMORIAL AWARD
Julia Salido, San Lorenzo Valley High School

JEFFERSON PEYSER MEMORIAL AWARD
Andrea Jao, UC Davis
GERALDINE H. READ MEMORIAL AWARD
Wentao Xu, Lowell High School

WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AFFILIATE SCHOLARSHIPS

MARIN CHAPTER / College of Marin
Mariana Sosa Cordero

PENINSULA CHAPTER / Henry M. Gunn High School Community Sponsors
Devyani Bhadkamkar
Varun Bhadkamkar
Karen Camacho
Anupama Rajan

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY / University of the Pacific
Dawn Fleming
Sara Menges

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In Memorium

Committee for the Future
Malcolm Read

Malcolm Read, long-time supporter and member of the World Affairs
Council, passed away on December 30, 2011. Active with the Council
for over thirty years, Malcolm and his wife Geraldine Hansen Read
(Gerri) participated in many of the Council’s travel programs and
together served on the Council’s Scholarship Committee. When Gerri
passed away in 2005, Malcolm made a contribution to the Council to
establish the Geraldine H. Read Memorial Scholarship Endowment in
her honor and to celebrate her commitment to encouraging student
engagement in international affairs. Malcolm was part of the World
Affairs Council Legacy Circle and upon his passing made an additional
bequest to the Council.

The Council and generations of students will always be grateful for
Malcolm and Gerri’s support of our mission to engage and inspire the
global citizens and international leaders of tomorrow.

Geraldine H. Read Memorial Scholarship Recipients

2008: Amanda Brown, Foothill College
LEGACY CIRCLE
Ensuring the Future of the World Affairs Council of 2009: Lani Amaro, Albany High School
Northern California
2010: Gier Hernandez, Phillip & Sala Burton Academic High School
For more than six decades the World Affairs Council has been the preeminent 2011: Amanda Zerbe, San Francisco University High School
organization in Northern California dedicated to informing, engaging and
connecting a community of global citizens to the critical issues of the day. The 2012: Wentao Xu, Lowell High School
landscape of increasingly pressing political, economic and social challenges we face
at home and abroad demands international understanding and cooperation. Our
mission of engaging global citizens in the exploration of issues and opportunities
that transcend borders is needed now more than ever.

You can help ensure the continued and future vitality of the Council through
a renewed and lasting commitment in the form of bequests, charitable gift
annuities and other life-income gifts. Consider joining our Legacy Circle to
preserve the mission of the Council for generations to come.

Call: Susana Rodriguez at 415.293.4665
Email: plannedgiving@worldaffairs.org
Visit: worldaffairs.org/support
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Council Leadership

About the Council
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Kerry King* Hon. Rebecca Westerfield
Peter J. Robertson, Chairman* Amanda Hayne Kirkwood Mason Willrich
Jane Wales, President and CEO* Terry D. Kramer John D. Wilson*
Steve Krausz Kimberly Wright-Violich
Sara Abbasi* Ralph A. Kuiper Patricia Young
Manpreet Singh Anand Gregory Maged Harold Zlot
Sigurd Anderson James Manyika Katie J. Zoglin
David D. Arnold Clark W. Maser
Louis deK. Belden Paul Matteucci ADVISORY
Charlyn Belluzzo Linda McKenzie COMMITTEE
W. Richard Bingham* Linda R. Meier William J. Perry, Co-Chair
Maureen Blanc* Judith A. Miller George P. Shultz, Co-Chair
John Boland Lori Mirek
J. Dennis Bonney Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Michael H. Armacost
A.W. Clausen R. Douglas Norby Willie L. Brown Jr.
Maggie Marlette Cox Betty A. Overhoff Gerhard Casper
Timothy D. Dattels Lawrence L. Pippin John Chambers
Duke Dayal Joan Platt Bruce Chizen
David deWilde Kevin M. Pursglove Elizabeth F. Farnsworth
Sedge Dienst Harriet Meyer Quarré James C. Gaither
The World Affairs Council of Northern California believes that informed Elliott Donnelley II Frank Rettenberg Chong-Moon Lee
citizens can make a difference in the world. Founded in 1947 following the William H. Draper III Elizabeth Rindskopf-Parker George Lucas
San Francisco conference that established the United Nations, we are a non- Nancy Richards Farese Nayla Rizk Michael McCurry
partisan, membership organization whose mission is to explore global issues and Elizabeth F. Farnsworth Rosemary Roach Kanwal Rekhi
opportunities that transcend borders. Through our speaker events, education Charles L. Frankel George M. Scalise Arun Sarin
program and annual conference, we engage the globally minded with ideas William P. Fuller* Maria W. Starr* Orville Schell
that stimulate, issues that matter and leaders who inspire. We are all about William G. Gaede Brewer S. Stone Charles Schwab
making connections —to others who share our hopes for a better world and to Ira D. Glick, M.D. Jackson Stromberg Roselyne C. Swig
solutions that can help get us there. Kenneth Guernsey Max Thelen Jr.
Richard Guggenhime Terry Thygesen
Learn more: worldaffairs.org Phil Halperin Jonathan Turner
Martha S. Hertelendy* Jonathan Visbal
Follow us: Twitter: @world_affairs or Facebook.com: worldaffairscouncil
Morris W. Hirsch* John S. Wadsworth Jr.
Join us: worldaffairs.org/membership George B. James II* Margit Wennmachers
Nancy A. Jarvis David Weber
Support us: worldaffairs.org/support Jan H. Kalicki* Randy Wells

*Indicates member of the Executive Committee

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