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George Ayittey, PhD

Dr. Ayittey is a prominent Ghanaian economist, activist, and author of Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa’s Future. He is the president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC.  He is a Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University, and Associate Scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. 

2007 TED Lecture by Dr. Ayittey :
Economist George Ayittey sees Africa's future as a fight between Hippos
-- complacent, greedy bureaucrats wallowing in the muck -- and
Cheetahs, the fast-moving, entrepreneurial leaders and citizens who
will rebuild Africa.
[video on TED website]

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Daniella Ballou-Aares

Daniella Ballou-Aares is a partner at Dalberg Global Development Advisors,   management consulting firm focused on international development and globalization issues.  She leads the firm’s Global Health Practice and advises foundations, multilateral organizations, NGOs and companies on strategy, multi-sector partnerships and operational innovation. Her engagements with leading global health organizations include the design of new financing mechanisms, strategic positioning and organizational change efforts, plus initiatives to improve supply chains for pharmaceutical products in least developed countries.  Before Dalberg, she was a consultant for Bain&Company in the US, UK and South Africa, where she gained experience developing financial, marketing and organizational strategies for private sector firms.   Daniella has also worked for the International Rescue Committee in Liberia and is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations in the US.   

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Alexander Preker, PhD

Dr. Preker is the Lead Economist at the World Bank for West Africa. He has published and taught extensively on topics related to health systems development. He is responsible for overseeing the Word Bank's analytical
work on public policy in the health sector, market dynamics, health
financing, service delivery, pharmaceuticals and health labor markets,
with a particular focus on ways to help developing countries accelerate
progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the year
2015. He is a member of a team of researcher that are currently
undertaking a major review of Disease Control Priorities in developing
countries, with support from the Gates Foundation and the Fogarthy
International Center of the National Institute for Health. Recently he
has worked closely on a number of projects with the World Health
Organization, the International Labor Organization, the Rockefeller
Foundation, the International Pharmaceutical Manufactures Association,
the International Hospital Federation, the International Federation of
Health Plans and several leading academic centers involved in health
and financial protection in developing countries.

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David Rieff

David Rieff is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Insitute, The New School .  He is a frequent contributor to The New Republic,The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The National Post (Canada),and the Times Literary Supplement.  Selected publications include: Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West; The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami; Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World; Going to Miami: Tourists, Exiles and Refugees in the New America.  His areas of expertise include American foreign policy, immigration policy, European policy, Balkan policy, particularly Bosnia and Kosovo, and humanitarian aid issues.  He is a Contributing Editor, The New Republic Magazine; Board Member, the Arms Project of Human Rights Watch; Columnist, Salmagundi Magazine; Fellow, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.

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Ronald Waldman, MD MPH

Dr. Waldman is currently technical advisor at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and founder and former director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.  Dr. Waldman began his career with the World Health Organization's successful Global Smallpox Eradication Program. After receiving a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and worked at CDC for more than twenty years. During that time he and colleagues contributed to the development of the epidemiology of refugee health and provided assistance to numerous international humanitarian emergencies. In addition, he served as Director of the Technical Support Division of CDC's International Health Program Office.

On assignment from the CDC, Dr. Waldman was coordinator of WHO's Task Force on Cholera Control from 1992-94, Technical Director of USAID's BASICS Project, a large, world-wide effort to reduce infant and child mortality, from 1994-1998. Dr. Waldman is currently working to assist developing countries prepare to deliver humanitarian assistance in the event of a pandemic or other global disasters.

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