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demonstrated commitment to cross-cultural understanding will enhance the
Foundation‘s mission of forging alliances in the service of creating a more peaceful,
prosperous, and just world,‖ said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations
Foundation.
The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted
Turner‘s historic billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The UN Foundation
builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world‘s most
pressing problems, and also works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy
and public outreach.
The UN Foundation is a public charity. Its partnerships and campaigns have global
reach, and cut across diverse issue areas, including: protecting biodiversity and
promoting sustainable development; providing insecticide-treated bed nets to
prevent the spread of malaria in Africa; and increasing access to technology for
international humanitarian relief and public health workers.
The United Nations Foundation is governed by a small and cohesive Board of
Directors who share a commitment to the goals and objectives of the UN Charter and
the UN's work on behalf of economic, social, environmental and humanitarian
causes. The members of the foundation‘s Board of Directors represent 10
nationalities and an equal number of men and women. Members are: Her Majesty
Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan; Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General
Emeritus, World Health Organization; Ruth Cardoso, Chair, Comunidade Solidaria;
Graça Machel, Chair, Foundation for Community Development; N.R.
Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited;
Hisashi Owada, Judge, International Court of Justice; Emma Rothschild, Director of
the Centre for History and Economics - King's College, University of Cambridge;
Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General; Ted Turner (Chairman),
Chairman, Turner Enterprises; Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations
Foundation and Better World Fund; Andrew Young, Chairman, Good Works
International; Yuan Ming, Director of the Institute of International Relations at Beijing
University; and Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.
About Professor Yuan Ming:
Professor Yuan Ming was originally trained as a student of western language and
literature at Peking University. Prior to her graduate work, she spent eight years in
the rural areas in Northwest China. China‘s Reform and Open Door policy opens the
opportunities for her to accomplish the graduate work in the Law Department of
Peking University and then to visit these distinguished institutions abroad. She was a
visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley from 1983 to 1985; a Senior Associate Member at
the St. Antony‘s College in Oxford University from 1989 to 1990. Since 1995, she
was invited and did research at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia; the Carnegie
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