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Participanting Members of the Club de Madrid

Other Participants

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Speakers and Facilitators 

• Muna AbuSulayman, Partner, Directions Consultancy LLC, Effective Strategic Philanthropy and CSR. MBC Co-host Kalam Nouam, Partner Glowork, Women Employment Opportunities. Saudi Arabia.
• Manal Al Dowayan, Artist, Saudi Arabia.
• Nada al-Nashif,  Regional Director ILO Regional Office for Arab States
• John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada
• Zainab Bangura, UNSRSG on Sexual Violence
• Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• Jamie Bechtel, Co-Founder, New Course
• Mike Beebe, Governor of Arkansas
• Sharan Burrow, General Secretary International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
• Sylvia Burwell, President, The Walmart Foundation
• Lydia Cacho, Executive Director Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres
• Mayra Buvinic, Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation
• Ann Mei Chang, Senior Advisor for Women and Technology, U.S. Department of State
• Hillary R. Clinton, US Secretary of State
• Luca Dall'Oglio, Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration
• Geena Davis, Founder, Geena Davis Institute of Gender in Media
• Rangita de Silva de Alwis , Director of the Wilson Center’s Global Women’s Leadership Initiative
• Bineta Diop, Director and Founder, Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), Senegal
• Rahma Fathalla, Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress
• Maya Harris, Vice president of the Democracy, Rights and Justice Program, Ford Foundation
• Pierre Ferrari, President and CEO Heifer Project International
• Lili Fournier, Producer, Director and Host, Quest Specials (PBS)
• Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow Institute for Security Studies South Africa
• Lina Hundaileh, Owner, Al-Zaytouni Company, Jordan
• Swanee Hunt, Chair, Hunt Alternatives Fund. Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
• Leila Janah, Founder and CEO, Samasource
• Jerry Jones, SVP and Chief Legal Officer, ACXIOM
• Tawakel Karman, Co-founder of Women Journalists without Chains (WJWC), Yemen.  Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011
• Carol Kidu, Former Member of Parliament and Former Minister for Community Development, Papua New Guinea
• Jeni Klugman, Director, Gender and Development, World Bank
• Carla Koppell, Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Kamila Kuku, G40 Alliance Representative, NuWEDA, Sudan 
• Laura Liswood, Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders
• Frank McCosker, Worldwide General Manager International Organizations Microsoft Corporation
• Cecilia López Montaño, Founder and President, Centro Internacional de Pensamiento Económico y Social (CISOE), Colombia
• Katherine Lucey, Founder and CEO, Solar Sisters
• Mark Muller Stuart QC, Founding Director Beyond Borders Foundation
• Irene Natividad, Chair, Corporate Women Directors International
• Ruth Ojiambo, Isis-Women's International Crossed Cultural Exchange
• Rajendra Pachauri, Director General The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
• Carole Pottenger,  Vice Admiral. Deputy Chief of Staff Capability Development at NATO Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Norfolk, Va.
• Stephen Sackur, Correspondent, BBC
• Theo Sowa, Interim CEO, African Women’s Development Fund, Ghana
• Mark Stodola, Mayor Little Rock
• Stephanie S. Streett, Executive Director William J. Clinton Foundation
• William L. Swing, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• Adimaimalaga Tafuna'i, Executive Director Women in Business Development
• Alimata Traore,  President, COFERSA, Mali (New Field Foundation)
• Richenda Van Leeuwen, Executive Director, Energy and Climate, Energy Access Initiative, United Nations Foundation (UNF)
• Melanie Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large Global Women's Issues, US State Departmen

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Members of the Club de Madrid

• Esko Aho, Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995)
• Abdul-Kareem Al-Eryani, Prime Minister of Yemen (1980-1983; 1998-2001)
• Sadiq Al Mahdi, Prime Minister of Sudan (1966-1967; 1986-1989)
• Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile (2006-2010). Executive Director, UN Women
• Kjell Magne Bonvedivik, Prime Minister of Norway (1997-2000, 2001-2005)
• John Bruton, Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland (1994-1997)
• Jerzy Buzek , Prime Minister of Poland (1997–2001)
• Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada (1993)
• Joachim Chissano, President of Mozambique (1986-2005)
• William J.Clinton, President of the United States of America (1993-2001)
• Eduardo Frei, President of Chile (1994-2000)
• Felipe González, President of the Government of Spain (1982-1996)
• Alfred Gusenbauer, Chancellor of Austria (2007-2008)
• Tarja Halonen , President of Finland (2000-2012)
• Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France (1997-2002)
• Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1994-2002)
• Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005)
• Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera, President of Uruguay (1990-1995)
• Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile (2000-2006)
• Zlatko Lagumdzija, Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina (2001-2002)
• Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, President of Cape Verde (1991-2001)
• Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria (1976-1979, 1999-2007)
• Roza Otunbayeva, President of Kyrgyzstan (2010-2011)
• Andrés Pastrana, President of Colombia (1998-2002)
• Jorge Fernando Quiroga, President of Bolivia (2001-2002)
• Mary Robinson, President of the Republic of Ireland (1990-1997)
• José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, President of the Government of Spain (2004-2012)
• Petre Roman, Prime Minister of Romania (1989-1991)
• Boris Tadic, President of the Republic of Serbia (2004-2012)
• Cassam Uteem, President of Mauritius (1992-2002)
• Vaira Vike-Freiberga , President of Latvia (1999-2007)

 Club de Madrid Advisors

• Rut C. Diamint, Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina
• Alexander Likhotal, President and CEO, Green Cross International
• Tim Phillips, Co-Founder of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition, Harward University
• Theodore Piccone, Senior & Deputy Director for Foreigh Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Members of the Constituent Foundations

• Diego Hidalgo, Founder and Honorary President, Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE)
• T. Anthony Jones, Vice-President and Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America
• George Matthews, Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America
• José Manuel Romero, Vice-President, Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE)

Club de Madrid Secretariat

• Carlos Westendorp, Secretary General. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Spain.
• María Elena Agüero, Deputy Secretary General 
• Agustina Briano, ,Institutional Relations Officer
• Rubén Campos, Programme Coordinator
• Ricardo Hidalgo, Chief Financial Officer
• Luis Pérez, Communications Officer
• María Romero,  Logistics Officer
• Irene Sánchez, Assitant Event Management
• Irene Vergara, Energy/Democracy Program Officer
• Belén Villar, Women, Peace and Security Program Officer

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Other Participants

• Penny Abeywardena, Head of Girls and Women Clinton Global Initiative
• Aileen Adams, Deputy Mayor of the City of Los Angeles for Strategic Partnerships
• Mahnaz Afkhami, President & CEO, Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)
• Najla Alfaraj, Electronics Engineering Departament, CTS, PAAET) KuwaitSamira Alfozan, Saudi Arabia
• Farida Allaghi, Founder and President, Libyan Forum for the support of Civil Society” LFCS” and A Human Rights Activist
• Alaa M. Al Shroogi, Cuadro Fine Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• Joel E.  Anderson, Chancellor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, ,
• Loreen Arbus, President, The Loreen Arbus Foundation
• Kim Azzarelli, Vice President, New Ventures at Newsweek Daily Beast & President of the Women in the World Foundation
• Barbara Barrett, Interim President, Thunderbird School of Global Management
• Daniela Bas, Director of the Division of Social Development, UNDESA
• Doug Becker, Founder, Laureate Education
• Kelly Behrend, Director of Corporate Responsability, The Peacework Development Fund
• Asrul Daniel bin Ahmed, Researcher Global Movement of Moderates Foundation. Malaysia
• Robert "Bob" Bloom, Executive Vice President, CFO and Treasurer, Heifer International
• Elisabeth Broderick Sex Discrimination Commisioner and Commisioner Responsible for Age Discrimination of Australia (World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development)
• Alessio J. Brown, Executive Director GES, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
• Matt Browne , Center for American Progress
• Paula Caldwell St. Onge, Consulate General of Canada (Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas)
• Mildred O. Callear, Executive Vice President and Board Member, Small Enterprise Assistance Funds
• Ángela Camacho, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Latin America and the Caribbean
• Jana Carter, Senior Director International Corporate Affairs, Walmart Stores Inc.
• Christy Carpenter , Chief Executive Officer, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
• Sean Carroll, Senior Director, Creative Associates International
• Jana Carter, Senior Director International Corporate Affairs, Walmart Stores Inc.
• Aaron Cesar, Director Delfina Foundation
• Somali Cerise, Coordinator Gender Project, Social Cohesion Unit, (OECD Development Center)
• Hela Cheikhrouhou, Director Energy, Enviroment and Climate Change, African Development Bank
• Wesley Clark, US Army General
• Sean Cleary, Executive Vice Chair, Future World Foundation
• Geoffrey Cowan , President, The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnyland
• Aart de Geus, Chairman and CEO, Berstelmann Stiftung
• Amitabh Desai, Director of Foreign Policy, Clinton Foundation
• M. Jane Dickey, Rose Law Firm
• Famara Dieudhiou Fahamu, Project Coordinator, New Field Foundation
• Madeline Di Nonno, Executive Director, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
• Pedro Durán, Political Advisor to the Prime Minister of Haiti
• Peter Eigen, Founder Former Chair and Chairman of the Advisory Council, Transparency International
• Dora Flesher, CFO, Positive Atmosphere Reaches KIds Inc.
• Terry Garner, Director, William J. Clinton Presidential Library
• Blair Glencorse, Club de Madrid's Transitional Leadership Project Advisor
• Marc Grobmyer, Chairman, Global Technology Deployment Initiative and Senior Advisor SEAF
• Kristine Hafftert, Principal, Haffert Global
• Gretchen Hall, President and CEO, Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Patrick Hays, Mayor, North Little Rock
• Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation
• Sarah Hobson, Executive Director, New Field Foundation
• Scott Howe, CEO, ACXIOM
• David Jacobson, Kutack Rock LLP
• Shirin Jamshidi, Army Energy Initiatives Task Force
• LaShawn Jefferson, Program Officer on Woman's Human Rights, Ford Foundation
• Cindy Jones-Nyland, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Resource Development, heifer International
• Grant Jones, Candidate, Darwim College, University of Cambridge. Jugde Business School
• Judy Jones, Chair Person Arkansas Tennis Patrons Foundation
• Martha Deacon Jones, Attorney at Law
• Sarah Kambou, President, International Center for Research on Women
• Murat Karimsakov, Chairman of the Executive Body of the "Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists" Association
• Ruth Kavuma, Former Member of Parliament, Uganda
• Stephen Smith
• Patrick Kennedy
• Amy Kennedy
• Surina Khan, Director of Gender Rights and Equality, Ford Foundation
• Elia King de Jordan, Executive Director, Rais Vida
• Jakub Klepal, Executive Director, Forum 2000
• Daniel Korn, Director of Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Latin America and the Caribbean
• Ritva Koukku-Ronde, Ambassador of Finland to the US
• Kate Lappin, Regional Coordinator Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development
• Maria Leissner, Secretary General, Community of Democracies
• Paolo Lembo, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Benjamin Leslie, Founder, Leslie Ventures
• Mariam Mansury, Community of Experts Manager, Institute for Inclusive Security
• Susana A. Markham, Director, Women's Political Participation, National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• John Mayner, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Little Rock Conventions and Visitors Bureau
• Katie McClain, Director, Building Retroit Program, William J. Clinton Foundation
• Dustin McDaniel, Arkansas Attorney General
• Mark McLane, Managing Director, Head of Global Diversity and Inclusion, Barclays PLC
• Thomas (Mack) L. McLarty, CEO, McLarty Companies
• Donna McLarty, Co-Founder and Vice Chair Emeritus, Vital Voices Global Parternship
• Gregory Mevs, Presidential Advisory Council of Economic Growth and Investment Haiti
• Shirley Morgan, Legal Counsel, Mineralogy Pty. Ltd, Australia
• Andrew Morrison, Chief of the Gender and Diversity Unit, Inter-American Development Bank
• Ursula Müller, Director General for Policy issues and Political Governance of Bilateral Development Cooperation and Sectoral Affairs, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany
• Rovshan Muradov, Executive Director Nizami Ganjavi International Center and Founding Member Eurasia Dialogue Center, Azerbaijan
• Shalimi Nataraj, Director, Advocacy and Parternships, Global Fund for Women
• Tabara Ndiaye, Programme Officer, New Field Foundation
• Alyse Nelson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vital Voices
• Serik Nugerbekov, Senator of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Co-chair of the Coordination Council of the "Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists" (Former Head of the socio-economic monitoring department of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan).
• Diego Osorio, Club de Madrid's Transitional Leadership Project. Advisor
• Michele Ozumba, President and CEO, Women’s Funding Network
• Clive Palmer, Director and Owner, Mineralogy Pty. Ltd, Australia
• Michael Palmer, Mineralogy Pty. Ltd, Australia
• Roland Rich, Executive Head of the UN Demcoracy Fundation
• Marty Rhodes, Chairman, Little Rock Chamber of Commerce
• Flor Rojas, Founder, Fundación Educación para los Derechos Humanos. Dominican Republic
• Sophia Said, Senior Policy Advisor, Ingenuity Outcomes, LLC
• Holly Sargent, Founding Director of the Women's Leadership Board Harvard Kennedy School
• Michael Schmitz, Executive Director, ICLEI-USA
• Janice Sharry, Partner, Haynes & Boone, LLP
• Sarah Silver , Executive Director, Alan B. Slifka Foundation
• Alan Sims, Vice President Sales and Services, Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Rodney Slater, Former US Secretary of Transportation
• Geoff Smith, Mineralogy, Pty. Ltd, Australia
• Steven Smith, Mineralogy, Pty. Ltd, Australia
• Susan Stautberg, Co Chair, Women Corporate Directors
• Amy Stewart, Rose Law Firm
• Nada Stirratt , EVP, ACXIOM
• Bill Sweeney, President/CEO, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
• Raymond Tam, Mineralogy, Pty. Ltd, Australia
• Sarah Thorn, Senior Director, Federal Goverment Relations, Walmart Stores Inc.
• Henri Van Eeghen, CEO and Co-Founder, WEConnect
• Elizabeth Vazquez, President, CEO and Co-Founder, WEConnect
• Peter Walkenhorst, Senior Project Manager, Germany and Asia, Bertelsmann Stiftung
• Jackie K. Weatherspoon, Former Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives
• Stanislas Wodjewodzki, Advisor to the Haiti Foreign Affairs Ministry, Goverment of Haiti
• Eugene Yun, Managing Director, P80 Group Foundation

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