Head of Social Responsibility, National Basketball Association
Barbara Bush ‘04 is the NBA’s Head of Social Responsibility where she leads the league’s social impact efforts. In this role, she works with NBA offices across the globe to utilize the convening power of basketball to execute thoughtful, community-driven strategies focused on sustainability, health equity and wellness, civic engagement, and social justice. Prior to joining the NBA, Barbara was Executive-in-Residence at Schmidt Futures, a venture firm and foundation focused on technology & society, shared prosperity, and scientific benefit. In this role, she supported racial justice, global health, and COVID-19 investments and programs, along with some of the world’s most talented tech and policy problem solvers by leading the International Strategy Forum. Barbara is co-founder and board member of Global Health Corps (GHC), an organization that mobilizes young leaders to solve the world’s most...
Rosa DeLauro is the Congresswoman from Connecticut’s Third Congressional District, which stretches from the Long Island Sound and New Haven, to the Naugatuck Valley and Waterbury. Rosa serves in the Democratic leadership as Co-Chair of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, and she is the Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, where she oversees our nation’s investments in education, health, and job training and worker protection employment. Rosa also serves on the subcommittee responsible for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where she oversees funding for food and drug safety. Soon after earning degrees from Marymount College and Columbia University, Rosa followed her parents’ footsteps into public service, serving as the first Executive Director of EMILY’s...
Dr. Awele Elumelu is the Chairperson of Avon Healthcare Limited, Nigeria’s leading health insurance provider, and the Founder and Chairman of Avon Medical, a network of full-service clinics and onsite facilities with presence across Nigeria. Dr. Elumelu serves as a Director on the Board of Heirs Holdings, a family-owned investment company committed to improving lives and transforming Africa, and is the Co-founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the leading philanthropy empowering entrepreneurs and championing entrepreneurship in Africa. She oversees the healthcare investments in the Heirs Holdings’ portfolio where she focuses on expanding and enhancing access to quality healthcare and achieving universal healthcare coverage in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, and across Africa. She enjoys reading and running in her spare time.
Julie Damgard Frist ’93 currently serves as a director of Liberty Broadband Corporation, a company whose assets include Charter Communications, Inc., one of the largest providers of cable services in the United States. She previously served as vice chair of the board of directors of CapStar Financial Holdings, which she co-founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2008. Frist devotes a substantial amount of time to non-profit board service, most notably the Frist Foundation, the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School, the City of Belle Meade (Finance and Budget Committee) and the Yale Institute for Global Health. Through this work, she has helped address inequities in education and healthcare. Prior board experiences in education include St. Paul’s School, The Ensworth School, and Teach for America–Nashville. She also co-chaired the major gifts committee for Harvard Business...
Jeffrey Koplan, BA
Senior Strategic Advisor, CHAMPS; Principal Investigator, IANPHI
Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan is Senior Strategic Advisor for CHAMPS, Principal Investigator for IANPHI and the Global Health Institute-China Tobacco Control Partnership. Dr. Koplan founded the Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) in 2006. He served as the institute's Director and as Emory University's Vice President for Global Health until 2021. A former Director (1998-2002) and 26-year veteran of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Koplan began his public health career in the early 1970s as a member of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He has worked on virtually every major public health issue, including infectious diseases such as smallpox and HIV/AIDS, environmental issues such as the Bhopal chemical disaster, and the health toll of tobacco and chronic diseases around the globe. From 1994 to 1998, he pursued his interest in enhancing the interactions between...
Executive Chair and Co-Founder, Delta Philanthropies and Higherlife Foundation
Tsitsi Masiyiwa is an African philanthropist, social entrepreneur, and champion for gender equality. In 1996, she co-founded Higherlife Foundation with her husband, Strive. The foundation works across education, health, food security, and disaster preparedness to support African countries to achieve upper-middle income status. In 2017, Tsitsi established Delta Philanthropies as a vehicle for impact investing and grant-making. Mrs Masiyiwa is the Chair of Higherlife Foundation and Delta Philanthropies. Tsitsi is also the Chair of Co-Impact and the Chair of END Fund. As a result of her work and experience establishing and growing Higherlife Foundation over the last twenty-six years, Tsitsi has become an advisor and thought partner to universities, national leaders, and social entrepreneurs on issues of education, health, leadership development, gender, and youth empowerment.
Assistant Professor in the Office of Education at Duke-NUS
Dr Mara McAdams received her Bachelor’s Degree with Distinction in History of Art from Yale University before attending medical school at New York University. She completed medical residency training in Internal Medicine - Primary Care at NYU, developing her clinical acumen alongside knowledge and skills in medical education. After obtaining board certification in Internal Medicine, she moved to Singapore and joined Duke-NUS, a graduate medical school collaboration between Duke University and National University of Singapore, as a founding faculty member. Since joining Duke-NUS in 2007, Dr McAdams has held numerous and varied roles. She co-directed the preclinical doctoring course developing frameworks for teaching and evaluating history taking, interpersonal skills and professionalism. She created and managed the school’s standardized patient programme to facilitate...
Anu Menda
Managing Trustee, RMZ Foundation
Anu Menda, innovator and change-maker, founded and took forward the RMZ Foundation to uplift the communities it serves through leadership, well-conceived collaborations, and creative avantgarde transformations that embody the ‘Being the Change’ maxim. Under her stewardship, the Foundation’s diverse and dynamic public contemporary art programs transform communal venues into riveting, sought-after and accessible community spaces for events sustaining art and ideas, and providing in-depth understanding of art’s role and relevance in society. Accentuate Art, Anu’s key directive for the Foundation, breathes creative life into community spaces with a futuristic focus, beyond home and office walls. Integrating non-profit Galleries and Popup Pavilions in planned Art Centers res into real-estate assets, the Foundation has targeted 500 public art installations in major Indian...
Indra Nooyi ('80, Yale School of Management) served as CEO and Chairman of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2019. In this role, Mrs. Nooyi was the chief architect of Performance with Purpose, PepsiCo’s pledge to do what’s right for the business by being responsive to the needs of the world around us. As part of Performance with Purpose, PepsiCo was focused on delivering sustained growth by making more nutritious products, limiting its environmental footprint and protecting the planet, and empowering its associates and people in the communities it serves. Nooyi currently serves on the boards of Amazon, Philips, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and is an independent director of the International Cricket Council. Additionally, Nooyi was the Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership at West Point, where she helped fulfill the mission of developing leaders of character. In 2021, Nooy...