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- JAN LESCHLY
(CDAP Chairman)
Before founding Care
Capital, Mr. Jan Leschly was Chief Executive of SmithKline Beecham
PLC ("SB") from 1994 to 2000. He joined SB as Chairman of
the Worldwide Pharmaceutical business in 1990 and was elected to the
Board of Directors in 1990.
Before joining SB, Mr.
Leschly served as President and COO, Squibb Corporation. He joined
Squibb in 1979 as Vice President, Commercial Development and in 1984
he was elected Group Vice President and a Member of the Board of Directors
with responsibility for the Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Products Group.
Prior to this he worked for seven years with Novo Nordisk, where he
served as Executive Vice President and President of the Pharmaceutical
Division.
Mr. Leschly is a member
of the Boards of Directors of the American Express Company, Viacom
Inc. and the Maersk Group and serves on the International Advisory
Board of DaimlerChrysler AG. He is a Member of the Business Council
and the Emory University Goizueta Business School Dean's Advisory
Council.
Born in Denmark, Mr.
Leschly received a Master of Science in Pharmacy from the Copenhagen
College of Pharmacy and a B.S. in Business Administration from the
Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration.
- STUART EIZENSTAT
Mr. Stuart Eizenstat
served as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996.
He also has served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Under
Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs
and Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade. He received
the highest departmental awards for his service from Secretary of
State Warren Christopher, Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and
Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers. From 1977 to 1981 he was
President Jimmy Carters Chief Domestic Policy Adviser and Executive
Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. Mr. Eizenstat has
practiced law for twenty years in Atlanta and Washington, and he joined
the law firm Covington & Burling as a partner in 2001.
During the Clinton Administration, Mr. Eizenstat had a prominent role
in the development of key international initiatives, including the
negotiation of the Transatlantic Agenda with the European Union, the
development of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue among European
and U.S. CEOs, the negotiation of agreements with the European Union
regarding the Helms-Burton Act and the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, the
negotiation of the Japan Port Agreement, and the negotiation of the
Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Mr. Eizenstat also was the Administrations
leader on Holocaust-era issues as Special Representative of the President
and Secretary of State, and he successfully helped negotiate major
agreements with the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, and French.
He received his J.D. from Harvard University. Prior to entering law
school, he earned an A.B., cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in political
science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- JIM MACNEILL
Mr. Jim MacNeill enjoys
nearly four decades of experience as a policy advisor to leaders of
governments, industry and international organizations in the fields
of energy, natural resources, management, environment and sustainable
development. Until recently Chairman of the World Banks Independent
Inspection Panel in Washington, D.C., he is a member of several boards
including the Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Mass., the Wuppertal
Institute on Climate and Energy Policy, Germany, and as Chairman Emeritus,
the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada.
He also serves on the Jury of the Volvo Environment Prize, Sweden.
From 1983-87, Mr. MacNeill
was Secretary General of the World Commission on Environment and Development
(the Brundtland Commission) and lead author of the Commission's world-acclaimed
report, "Our Common Future." He served for seven years as
Director of Environment for the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development and was the Canadian Ambassador and Commissioner General
responsible for the UN Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver
in 1976. He was a founding member of the Japanese Institute for Global
Environmental Strategies and the China Council. Earlier, he was a
Deputy Minister (Permanent Secretary) in the Government of Canada.
Mr. MacNeill holds a
graduate diploma in economics and political science from the University
of Stockholm and bachelor degrees in science (math and physics) and
mechanical engineering from Saskatchewan University. He is the author
of many books and articles and the recipient of a number of honorary
degrees and awards, national and international, including the Order
of Canada, his country's highest honor.
- MOHAMED SAHNOUN
On 20 January 2003,
Secretary-General Kofi Annan extended the appointment of Mr. Mohamed
Sahnoun, a national of Algeria, as his Special Adviser to follow developments
in the Horn of Africa region. Previously, Mr. Sahnoun served as: Special
Adviser to the Director-General of the United Nations Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the Culture of Peace Programme;
Special envoy of the Secretary General on the Ethiopian/Eritrean conflict
(1998-1999); and Joint Representative of the UN and the OAU in the
Great Lakes region (1997). He is also a member of the Board of the
University for Peace, member of the Special Advisory Group of the
War-torn Societies Project, member of the Board of International Crisis
Group, and Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention
and State Sovereignty.
Mr. Sahnoun was Special
Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Somalia
in 1992. In 1993, he was appointed Special Representative of the OAU
in the Congo. In 1994 he was first a fellow at the U.S. Institute
of Peace in Washington, D.C. and then a Pearson fellow with the International
Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. He was a member of
the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland
Commission) in the 1980s, as well as Senior Adviser to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
During his career, Mr.
Sahnoun has been Adviser to the President of Algeria on diplomatic
affairs. From 1964 to 1973, Mr. Sahnoun was Deputy Secretary-General
of the OAU, and in 1973, he was appointed Deputy Secretary-General
of the League of Arab States in charge of the Arab-Africa dialogue.
He served as Algeria's Ambassador to Morocco and Secretary to the
Maghreb Union (1989-1990); Ambassador to the United States (1984-1989);
Chief of Algeria's Mission to the United Nations (1982-1984); Ambassador
to France (1979-1982); and Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
(1975-1979).
Mr. Sahnoun studied
first at the Sorbonne University, in Paris, and then at New York University,
where he received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees
in political science.
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