Shaping the Future - Milken Institute

panelists
Liam Kennedy is Editor of Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE), a leading European institutional investment journal.
Launched in 1997, IPE provides information, reporting, data and analysis for and about the world of institutional
investment and pension funds. The first IPE Awards for pension funds took place in 2001. Since then, they have become
the largest annual gathering of European pension plan representatives. Kennedy has 11 years’ experience as a financial
journalist and editor, specializing in institutional investment and pension funds. In that time, he has met, interviewed
and profiled countless senior executives at European and global pension plans, asset management companies and
consultancies, as well as many other influential figures. Prior to joining IPE in 2007, Kennedy spent nearly seven years at
the Financial Times group in London, where he launched four specialist European pension and investment publications.
He holds an M.A. from the University of Glasgow.
Hannah Kettler is Senior Program Officer and Economist for the Global Health Policy and Finance team at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. She is responsible for a portfolio of grants and projects that aim to secure adequate financing
and a supportive policy environment for global health product innovation. Much of her work is focused on reducing
risks and designing financial incentives and business models to encourage greater private-sector engagement. Before
joining the Gates Foundation, Kettler led a two-year project on biotechnology and global health at the Institute for
Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco, that motivated the Biotechnology Industry Organization
and the Gates Foundation to establish the nonprofit BIO Ventures for Global Health. Previously, she was the senior
industrial economist for the Office of Health Economics in London. Kettler received a Ph.D. in industrial economics from
the University of Notre Dame.
Lesetja Kganyago is Director-General of South Africa’s National Treasury, responsible for producing a sound and
sustainable national budget; managing the government’s financial assets and liabilities; overseeing accounting policies and
standards; developing appropriate fiscal policy and financial management; and improving financial management throughout
government. He joined the Treasury in 1996 as director of international commercial financing. Previously he worked at the African
National Congress, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and First National Bank. His honors include the International
Financing Review’s “Eurobond Deal of the Year” and “Yankee Bond Deal of the Year.” Kganyago received a bachelor’s degree
from the University of South Africa and a master’s degree in economics from London University. He has also trained in fixed
income analysis, external reserve management, U.S. money and capital markets, financial programming and macroeconomic
management, and attended senior executive programs at Harvard and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Parag Khanna is Director of the Global Governance Initiative at the New America Foundation. He is the author
of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, which has been translated into more than a dozen
languages. In 2007 he was a senior geopolitical advisor to U.S. special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. From
2002 to 2005, Khanna was the global governance fellow at the Brookings Institution. He also served in the foreign
policy advisory group to the Barack Obama for President campaign. Khanna is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Explorers Club. In 2009 he was honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
Khanna holds a bachelor’s degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and
a master’s degree from Georgetown’s Security Studies Program.
Desmond King is President of Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV). CTV is a division of Chevron that champions
innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies and business models within the corporation.
Its business units include biofuels, emerging energy, venture capital and hydrogen. King joined Chevron in 1981, working
at Chevron Research Company; then as technical and maintenance manager at Chevron’s refinery in Burnaby, British
Columbia; and as general manager of Alberta (Canada) Envirofuels. He returned to the United States as a managing
director for Chevron Downstream and was named general manager of corporate strategic planning and, later, general
manager of Chevron’s refinery in Pembroke, Wales. For three years prior to joining CTV, King served as CEO of Caltex
Australia, a leading oil refiner and fuel marketer there. King received a bachelor’s degree from Imperial College of Science
and Technology, University of London, and a doctorate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge.
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