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Core Group

Sponsorship Group

Support Team

GDP Community

The wider GDP community is made of a growing number of people around the world who are committed to the mission of the GDP. It comprises the following groups:

  • The community stewards:  the Core Team, the Coordinating Team and staff as described below; 
  • Those who attended the October, 2006 founding meeting in New York;  and
  • A broader circle of people GDP aims to engage. 

* denotes Core Group member

Name/Nationality

Field

Institutional Affiliations

Andy Alm

U.S.

Education and Communication IUCN (World Conservation Union)

Ragnar Ängeby*
Sweden

Conflict Prevention

Folke Bernadotte Academy

Swedish Foreign Ministry

Patrice Barrat

France

Globalization Bridge Initiative International

Juanita Brown

U.S.

Corporate Social Responsibility/ Multistakeholder Processes World Café

Tom Callanan*

U.S.

Societal change Fetzer Institute

Thais Corral*

Brazil

Women's empowerment Network for Human Development

Elena Díez Pinto
Guatemala

Democratic Dialogue

UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean

Democratic Dialogue Project

John Drexhage

Canada

Climate change/ Sustainable development International Institute for Sustainable Development

Peggy Dulany

U.S.

Poverty Synergos

Mari Fitzduff*
Ireland

Conflict Prevention

Brandeis University

Coexistence International

Marc-Andre Franche*

Canada

Conflict prevention UNDP

Katherine Fulton

U.S.

Future of philanthropy and nonprofits

Global Business Network

Monitor Institute

Ernesto Garilao*

Philippines

Leadership development Asian Institute of Management

Glennifer Gillespie

South Africa/U.S.

Dialogue Dialogos

John Heller

U.S.

Social philanthropy and multi-stakeholder dialogue Synergos

Minu Hemmati*
Germany

Multi-stakeholder Processes

Independent Advisor, working with for example:

Amar Inamdar

U.K./India/U.S.

Development World Bank

Adam Kahane
U.S.

Tri-sector dialogue and action for large-scale systemic change

Generon Consulting

The Global Leadership Initiative

Katrin Kaeufer

U.S./Germany

   

Uday Khemka

India

Climate change Vesta Capital

Walter Link*
U.S.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Sustainable Management

The Global Academy

Presidio School of Management MBA Program in Sustainable Mangement

Social Venture Network, Europe

EMPRESA

Arun Maira

India

Civil Society: Development and Change; and
Multi-Sector Corporate Engagement

Boston Consulting Group

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

Partnership for Child Nutrition

Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz

Switzerland

Trade

International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development

Cecile Molinier

Mauritania

Development UNDP

Dumisani Nyoni*

Zimbabwe

Youth Pioneers of Change

Dominique Peccoud

Switzerland

Labour International Labour Organization

Theresa Ratnam Thong*

Malaysia

Agenda 21 Asian Management Research Consultancy

Tom Rautenberg

U.S.

Multi-stakeholder dialogue Generon Consulting

Oscar Rojas

Colombia

Truth & Reconciliation; Development AlvarAlice Foundation

Alioune Sall

South Africa

Development African Futures (UNDP)

Bill Snyder

U.S.

Communities of Practice  

Marco Stoffel

Switzerland/U.S.

Tolerance Third Millennium Foundation

Larry Susskind

U.S.

Multistakeholder negotiation

MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Program on Negotiation (in collaboration with Harvard)

Consensus Building Institute

Ralph Taylor*

U.S.

Social Philanthropy Metanoia Fund

A'yen Tran

U.S.

Youth Chat the Planet

Andre van Heemstra*

The Netherlands

Business Unilever

Pierre Vuarin

France

Sustainable food and social leader training

Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l’Homme

Jim Woodhill*
The Netherlands

Multi-stakeholder Dialogue

Participatory Rural Appraisal

International Agriculture Center, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands