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Dorit Inbar is General Manager of Israel’s New Foundation for Cinema & Television. She is also vice chairperson and a
member of the Executive Committee of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. She sits on the board of directors of the Israeli
Opera and of the Israel Electricity Company. Inbar was previously the CEO of the Tel-Ad Jerusalem Studios Ltd. (2004)
and chairperson of the Council for Cable TV and Satellite broadcasting, the Israeli regulatory bodies of commercial and
multi-channel television (2000). She represented Israel in the European Platform of Broadcasting Regulatory Authorities
and in the Mediterranean Broadcasting Regulatory Authorities Association. Inbar is a lecturer at the Tel Aviv University
Faculty of Laws, as well as in the Department of Communication within the Faculty of Social Science.
Michael Intriligator is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and Professor of Economics, Political Science and
Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. His recent work has concerned health-care reform, nuclear
proliferation, global security and terrorism. Intriligator has authored or edited more than 200 articles and scholarly
texts, including his seminal book, Mathematical Optimization and Economic Theory. He is a fellow of the Econometric
Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the
Russian Academy of Sciences. He was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Yale University. From 1982
to 1992, he directed the UCLA Center for International and Strategic Affairs, predecessor of the Burkle Center for
International Relations. Intriligator received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ray Irani is Chairman and CEO of Occidental Petroleum Corp. He joined the company in 1983 as chairman and CEO
of Occidental Chemical Corp. Irani has numerous affiliations, including director of the American Petroleum Institute
and member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemists, the Council on Foreign Relations,
the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the National
Petroleum Council and the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council. He is a trustee of the University of Southern California
(USC), a vice chair of the board of the American University of Beirut, serves on the advisory board of Rand’s Center for
Middle East Public Policy and is a member of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Author of the book Particle Size, Irani
holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from USC.
Afgan Isayev is the Executive Director of the Azerbaijan Investment Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He was
previously deputy chairman and head of the risk and law departments at the Bank of Baku. His banking career started
at American Express, where he focused on Central and Western Europe, risk management and portfolio analysis. He has
also worked as a strategic management consultant to the technical support program at Rutgers University. He received
a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. from Rutgers.
Mike Italiano is President and CEO of the Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) and the Capital Markets
Partnership. He founded these organizations, along with the U.S. Green Building Council, the Risk-Based Corrective
Action (RBCA) Leadership Council and the American Society of Testing & Materials (ASTM) Committee E50 on
Environmental Assessment. His more than 35 years of environmental experience include serving as a senior analyst
in the White House Science Office and as assistant to the director of the National Commission on Water Quality. He
co-originated the RBCA standard adopted by the EPA, which has saved billions of dollars in waste site response while
protecting public health and the environment. Italiano received a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University, a
master’s degree from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a J.D. from
George Mason University.
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Russ Jackson is Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Safeway Inc., a major food retailer with total sales of
$44.1 billion in 2008. He is responsible for employee relations, compensation, benefits, training, talent management,
leadership development, recruiting, health and wellness, and diversity inclusion programs. Before joining Safeway,
Jackson was at Pacific Gas and Electric Corp., where he served as senior vice president of human resources. He received
a bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University, an M.B.A. from St. Mary’s College, a master’s degree in human
resources and organizational development from the University of San Francisco and a certificate in human resources
management from the University of California, Berkeley.
Rick Jacobus manages NCB Capital Impact’s Shared Equity Homeownership Initiative, a national effort funded by the
Ford Foundation to promote housing tenure options between traditional homeownership and renting. He is also a partner
in Burlington Associates in Community Development and a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. Jacobus
is an expert in affordable homeownership and the community land trust model. His recent publications include Affordable
by Choice, Trends in California Inclusionary Housing Programs, published by the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern
California; Delivering on the Promise of Inclusionary Housing: Best Practices in Administration and Monitoring, published by
PolicyLink; and Shared Equity, Transformative Wealth, published by the Center for Housing Policy. He was previously director
of Neighborhood Economic Development for the East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. Jacobus received a bachelor’s
degree from Oberlin College and a master’s degree in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ken Jaffe is President and Executive Director of the International Child Resource Institute (ICRI), which he founded in
1981. A nonprofit organization, ICRI is committed to improving the lives of children and families throughout the world.
Jaffe oversees eight ICRI offices in the United States as well as offices in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nepal, Malaysia,
India, Norway and Sweden. He is the author of numerous articles on international child care, child advocacy, child
health and children’s rights issues. For nine years, Jaffe chaired the California Governor’s Advisory Committee on
Child Development. He has been involved in the planning, development and implementation of more than 200 early
childhood programs in 35 countries and advised numerous governments on child-care development, health and childabuse-prevention
policies and worked with more than 100 companies on the development of work-related child-care
programs and family-friendly business policies and practices.
Benjamin Jealous is President and CEO of the NAACP. He has previously served as president of the Rosenberg
Foundation; director of the U.S. Human Rights Program at Amnesty International; and executive director of the
National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of black community newspapers. While a student at Columbia
University, he worked in Harlem as a community organizer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and led campus
movements for homeless rights, environmental justice, full-need financial aid and need-blind admissions. When these
protests led to his suspension, he headed off to work as a field organizer in Mississippi. He remained there to become
an investigative reporter for the Jackson Advocate, where he later served as managing editor. Jealous later completed
his bachelor’s degree at Columbia University and received a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, where he
was a Rhodes Scholar.
Kevin Johnson is the Mayor of Sacramento. In May 2000, he retired from the National Basketball Association after
12 seasons with the Phoenix Suns. He returned to his hometown of Sacramento to serve as the CEO of St. HOPE, a
nonprofit community development corporation he founded in 1989 to revitalize inner-city communities through
public education, economic development, civic leadership and arts enrichment. The organization currently operates
St. HOPE Public Schools, a system serving more than 1,500 students from pre-K through grade 12. St. HOPE has
dramatically improved the community of Oak Park through its holistic community development approach, creating
new businesses, jobs and a cultural center. Johnson has been inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of
Fame and the Pac-10 Hall of Fame.
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