• 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 Carter’s 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 Administration’s 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 Bank’s 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.