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g l o b a l c o n f e r e n c e p a n e l i s t s p a n e l i s t s Taha Abdul-Basser is Principal and Co-Founder of StraightWay Ethical Advisory LLC, a sharia compliance consulting group, founded and operated by financial ethicists, that offers ethical advisory services to the shariacompliant financial services sector. Abdul-Basser is a consultant, researcher and translator in the field of Islamic ethics and law. The lead researcher and contributor to the “Sharia Database,” the Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program’s electronic database on Islamic financial ethics and jurisprudence, Abdul-Basser is also chaplain of the Harvard Islamic Society and has taught at Harvard University and Boston University. He was educated at Harvard University and the Spectra Institute of Language Studies in Yemen. David Abel is Chairman and Managing Director of the VerdeXchange Institute, an environmental think tank and publisher that informs innovators wishing to employ and deploy green technology. Abel is also president and CEO of ABL Inc., a California-based public policy consulting firm. It publishes The Planning Report, which focuses on land-use issues in Southern California, verdeXchange news and the Metro Investment Report, which covers infrastructure. Abel chairs a number of civic organizations, including the Los Angeles County Economic Develop Corporation’s Green Economy Task Force, New Schools Better Neighborhoods and the University of Southern California’s Masters in Public Policy Advisory Board. He is also on the board of USC’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise and the Trust for Public Land California, among others. He is a lecturer on regionalism at the University of California, San Diego. Peter Adamson is the Chief Investment Officer of the Eli Broad Family Office, an organization he joined in 2001. In this role, he manages the multibillion-dollar investment portfolios of the Broad family and the Broad Foundations. From 1995 to 2001, Adamson was an investment adviser to members of the Bass family in Fort Worth, Texas, where he evaluated and managed direct investments for various family entities. From 1988 to 1994, he was with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company Inc., where he developed and implemented strategy and operating improvements for companies in a variety of industry sectors. Adamson received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Occidental College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. Andre Agassi began his professional tennis career in 1986 at age 16. His performance on the court earned him 60 career men’s singles titles, including eight Grand Slam singles championships. Agassi is the only male player in the world to win all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal. In 1994 he established the Andre Agassi Foundation, which is dedicated to transforming U.S. public education for underserved youth. The foundation drives reform by engaging in practice, policy and partnerships that provide quality education and enrichment opportunities. The centerpiece of its mission is the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a model K-12 charter school located in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged community of Las Vegas. Agassi Prep will celebrate its first graduating class in June 2009. Christopher Ailman is Chief Investment Officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the second-largest pension fund in the nation. He joined CalSTRS in 2000, after managing the Washington State Investment Board and serving as chief investment officer of the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System. In 2006 he became the first Anglo to receive the Distinguished Service Award for the advancement of Latinos in business from the New America Alliance. He was also named the 2000 CIO of the Year by the Institute for Fiduciary Education and received the 2003 Richard L. Stoddard Award for outstanding contributions to the investment of public funds. Ailman received a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. 49
p a n e l i s t s Alice Albright is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Investment Officer of the GAVI Alliance, a publicprivate partnership dedicated to improving health in 72 of the world’s poorest countries by providing life-saving vaccines and strengthening health systems. Throughout her tenure at GAVI, Albright has focused on innovative financing solutions such as the International Finance Facility for Immunization, a capital markets-based funding mechanism launched in 2006 that will raise approximately $4 billion for immunization over the next 10 years. Albright has co-chaired the Center for Global Development’s study “Making Markets for Vaccines,” an early effort to define the parameters of the Advance Market Commitment program. She has held executive positions at The Carlyle Group, J.P. Morgan, Bankers Trust’s Latin American Merchant Bank and Citicorp. Albright graduated from Williams College and received a master’s degree in international finance from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University Naser Abdul Mohsin Al-Marri is Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of the Noor Financial Investment Company, based in Kuwait. Before assuming his current position in 2005, he spent 14 years with the Kuwait Investment Authority as director of its Loans Department and as acting director of its Direct Investment Department. He also served as a member of the government financing team that organized loan financing from the U.S. government for the rebuilding of Kuwait after the Gulf War. He previously spent two years in the United Kingdom working as an associate in the Corporate Finance, Merchant Banking and Emerging Markets division of Bankers Trust. He has served as a director of numerous international businesses and is the vice chairman of Meezan Bank, the largest Islamic investment bank in Pakistan. Al-Marri is a graduate of the University of Kuwait. Martha Amram, a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute, is CEO of HomeZ Inc., which provides homeowners with advice and services for saving energy and water. As a consultant, she has worked with Fortune 500 companies and startups on the value of R&D projects, managing the R&D pipeline, valuation of joint ventures and more. She has served as the interim CEO of Vocomo Software and as chief economist of PLX Systems. Amram co-founded Glaze Creek Partners, a consulting firm, which she sold to Navigant Corporation in 1999. At Navigant, she led the real options practice area. She has also prepared expert testimony on valuation and risk while a vice president at Analysis Group Inc. and served as an assistant professor at Boston University. Amram is a graduate of the University of Washington and received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. G. Chris Andersen is the Founder of G.C. Andersen Partners LLC, a boutique merchant and investment bank based in New York. Previously he served as vice chairman of Paine Webber and head of the Investment Banking Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Andersen is vice chair of the Milken Institute’s SAVE alternative energy and energy independence initiative. He is also the lead director of Terex Corp., the third-largest construction company in the world, and serves on the International Advisory Council of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing and on the Rand Corp.’s Asia Pacific Policy Advisory Board. He is the founder of the Cleantech Venture Challenge at his alma mater, the University of Colorado. Andersen received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Margaret Anderson is Chief Operating Officer of FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, an initiative of the Milken Institute committed to accelerating the medical research process for new treatments and cures for diseases. Anderson previously spent five years with the Academy for Educational Development (AED), as deputy director and a team leader for the Center on AIDS and Community Health. She assisted in the management of a 70-person domestic and international staff, and had responsibility for financial and budget oversight, team projects and strategic planning. She has also served as program director for the Society for Women’s Health Research, a healthscience analyst at the American Public Health Association and an analyst and project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Anderson received a master’s degree in science, technology and public policy from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. 50 p a n e l i s t s Yadin Antebi is Commissioner of Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings at Israel’s Ministry of Finance. Before assuming this position, he served as deputy commissioner, overseeing strategic planning and implementation of recommendations made by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Capital Market Structural Reforms. He specializes in regulation of the private health-insurance market, reform of private nursing insurance and regulation of insurance sold by mortgage banks. He also led reform of Israel’s mandatory car insurance. Antebi holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting and an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Nancy Aossey is President and CEO of International Medical Corps (IMC), a non-governmental organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering by delivering medical relief, health-care training and development programs that build self-reliance. After becoming CEO shortly after IMC’s founding in the mid-1980s, Aossey established the organization as a leader in medical crisis response and recovery, launching humanitarian activities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rwanda, Somalia, southern Sudan, Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Thailand, Honduras and Nicaragua. Her efforts have transformed IMC into one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations, providing more than $120 million in disaster response and recovery programs annually. Today IMC’s 3,500 staff and volunteers work in the world’s most challenging places, including low-income, fragile and post-conflict regions like Darfur, northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Chechnya, Ethiopia and Iraq. David Arfin is Vice President of Customer Finance for SolarCity. He is the creator of the firm’s SolarLease, a first-of-itskind financing option that allows homeowners to pay less for solar power than they currently pay for electricity. Prior to joining SolarCity, Arfin was the founder of FirstEnergyFinance.com, co-founder and CEO of GlooLabs Inc. (later acquired by Cisco Systems), co-founder of Flywheel Communications and founder and CEO of CLE Group (later acquired by Practicing Law Institute). Before he began launching companies, he was a lobbyist for the Association of American Universities, a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in Los Angeles and an intern in the Israeli Knesset. Arfin received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles; a master’s degree from Claremont Graduate University; and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. Gregory Arnold is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CE2 Capital Partners, a U.S.-based investment manager focused on the growing environmental commodities markets. He is also President of CE2 Carbon Capital, a company dedicated to building a portfolio of carbon offsets and other assets focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in North America. Arnold began his career as an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. At Goldman Sachs, he focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions for energy and power companies. Over his career, Arnold has had a number of senior dealmaking roles in large corporations and growth companies, including as President of Passlogix, Inc., a security software company he co-founded. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is on the boards of the UC San Diego Dean’s Council in Physical Sciences and Passlogix, Inc.; he is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Paul Aronzon is the Co-Practice Group Leader of the Financial Restructuring Group and a partner in the Los Angeles Office of the global law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He has more than three decades of experience in restructuring and corporate reorganization, representing debtors and creditors in reorganization cases, including exchange and tender offers, consent solicitations and rights offerings, as well as prepackaged and prearranged reorganizations. Aronzon has also represented private equity funds, hedge funds and others acquiring control positions in financially distressed companies. He advises on corporate governance and fiduciary duty in the restructuring context, and his engagements have spanned a broad range of industries. Aronzon graduated from California State University, Northridge, and received his law degree from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. 51
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