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Sponsorship Group

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: The SEED Initiative (a joint initiative of UNEP, UNDP, IUCN, and others) genanet Ecoagriculture Partners
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