Liam Brody
America's Campaign Director, Oxfam

Liam is Oxfam America's new head of private sector advocacy and collaborations. While new to the position, he is not new to the agency. Liam first joined Oxfam in 2000 to develop the organization's fair trade coffee program. As world coffee prices fell to historic lows, Liam led Oxfam International's campaign to find solutions to the global coffee crisis. This highly successful campaign drove the U.S. to rejoin the International Coffee Organization and secured the introduction of Fair Trade Certified coffees by some of world's largest coffee sellers, including Procter & Gamble, Marks & Spencer and Dunkin' Donuts. After the campaign, Liam left Oxfam and spent two years improving the social and environmental impact of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) as their Director of Sustainable Coffee. During his tenure, Liam worked to develop Green Mountain's triple-bottom line—integrating new social and environmental bottom lines that are aligned with the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Liam returned to Oxfam in 2006 to direct a hard fought campaign to reform the U.S. Farm Bill. Liam holds a BSc in Agricultural & Extension Education from Cornell University and a Master of Education in Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Ana De La O
Assistant Professor, Yale University

Ana L. De La O, Assistant Professor of Political Science, is also affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 2007. Her research interests include causes and consequences of redistribution, politics of public goods provision, effects of anti-poverty programs on the political behavior of recipients in developing countries, particularly Latin America, and the use of field experimental research methods. In 2007-2008 Ana taught courses on political economy and politics of poverty alleviation.

Seth Green
Founder and Board Member, Americans for Informed Democracy

Seth Green is the Founder of Americans for Informed Democracy and served as the organization's chief executive from September of 2002 through July of 2007. During his time with Americans for Informed Democracy, Green built a network that includes more than 23,000 members, created partnerships with leading think tanks, NGOs, businesses and foundations, and raised over one million dollars for the organization's programming. Prior to founding AID, Green worked at The American Prospect, The Brookings Institution, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and Lazard Freres. Green has been a featured speaker on international affairs and youth activism at the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, World Bank, United Nations, Associated Press, and other leading institutions. For his leadership on global affairs, he received Search for Common Ground's award for International Understanding. A Marshall scholar, Green graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and earned masters degrees in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and in Women's Studies from Oxford University. He recently completed a JD degree at Yale Law School, where he was named an Olin Fellow by the Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy.

Sarah Lynch
Northeast Regional Field coordinator, CARE USA

Sarah Lynch is the CARE Action Network Field Coordinator for the Northeast Region based in CARE’s New York office. Before joining CARE she worked for Americans for UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) as National Outreach Coordinator where she was responsible for building bases of support in key legislative districts throughout the country.

She began her career as a journalist for news outlets including Reuters Television and People Magazine. Her segue into advocacy came while writing content for the website of a trade organization, The Risk & Insurance Management Society, where she subsequently joined the public affairs staff and was responsible for media relations, member mobilization and written communications. She left to serve as rural press secretary in Iowa for the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign where she created media strategy, managed events and wrote speeches. Ms. Hemingway was granted a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University.

Angela Mason
Special Advocate for Women and Children, World Vision

Angela has devoted her life to being a voice for suffering children and travels the world on humanitarian missions. She joined World Vision in 1993; over the years, Angela has convinced TV news crews in the Bay Area to join her on many trips to make documentaries bringing attention to injustices such as the genocide in Rwanda, which won the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award for CBS. She has produced award-winning documentaries about Bosnia, Romania, the Asia Tsunami, the sexual exploitation of children in Thailand, child soldiers in Northern Uganda and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. She received the Soroptimist International Award for "Women Helping Women," the CBS/San Francisco Chronicle "Jefferson Award" and the ABC/Johnson & Johnson "Remarkable Woman Award" presented on the morning show The View.

John McArthur
Deputy Director and Manager, The United Nations Millennium Project
Co-Director, Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

John McArthur is Co-Director of the Millennium Villages Project, a collaboration between the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Millennium Promise, and the UN Development Program to promote community-level achievement of the Millennium Development Goals throughout rural Africa. He also co-chairs, with Jeffrey Sachs, the Commission on Education for International Development Professionals, an initiative sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation to identify the cross-disciplinary training requirements for the next generation of sustainable development practitioners. Previously Mr. McArthur served as Deputy Director and Manager of the UN Millennium Project. In this capacity he coordinated a global network of nearly 300 experts who served on ten thematic Task Forces and he was lead editor of the Project's final report to the Secretary-General, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Mr. McArthur also serves on the Board of Directors of Millennium Promise. Previously he was a Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, where he coauthored the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report with Michael Porter and Jeffrey Sachs. Mr. McArthur has an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar; a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government; and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of British Columbia.

Gordon McCord
Assistant to the Director, the Earth Institute at Columbia University

Gordon McCord is a third-year student in the Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development. Gordon has varied interests, including economic growth and poverty reduction, the role of geography in economic dynamics, and the interaction of epidemiology and poverty (particularly in the case of malaria). Before beginning the program, he worked as a special assistant to Jeffrey Sachs at the Columbia Earth Institute and at the UN Millennium Project. During those years, Gordon had the opportunity to travel all over the world supporting Prof. Sachs both in research and in working with country governments and international organizations. Gordon grew up in Latin America and received his B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, where he focused on economic development and Latin American studies, and wrote an undergraduate thesis on the effects of rural road improvement on family incomes in rural Peru.

Mary Beth Powers
Senior Reproductive Health Advisor, Save the Children

Mary Beth Powers plays a key role in the agency's women's health and development programs especially before, during and after pregnancy and childbirth. Powers oversees a team of clinicians and professionals in more than 20 countries and leads the agency's policy and planning efforts on women's health.

Graeme Reid
Visiting Professor, Yale University

Graeme Reid is a recent graduate of the University of Amsterdam. His thesis entitled "How to be a 'real' gay: Emerging gay spaces in small-town South Africa" is concerned with the interplay between transnational and local understandings of sexuality and gender in the wake of sweeping social and political change in contemporary South Africa. Prior to joining Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale, Graeme was a sexuality researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) in Johannesburg. His research interests included systemic violence, HIV/AIDS, masculinities and gay self-identification and cultural expression in post-apartheid South Africa. Graeme has been actively involved in various gay and lesbian organizations in South Africa including the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality, which lobbied for the inclusion of 'sexual orientation' in the South African Constitution. In 1997 he established the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa which are housed at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the co-director of a video documentary entitled 'Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free', which is set in South African and follows a network of gay hairstylists working in small-towns. He is a co-editor of Refiguring the Archives; Sex and Politics in South Africa and Men Behaving Differently. And co-author of Waiting to Happen: HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. He is the author of the forthcoming book Above the Skyline which explores the emergence of a black, gay Pentecostal-style church community coinciding with South Africa's transition to democracy. He is currently working on public contestations around same-sex marriage in South Africa.