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DNA Summit

The Decide Now Act summit was held in London in July 2012 and partnered foreign investors with influential people in the technology industry.<ref name="dna_summit" />

== Members ==

=== Hosts and Organizers ===

The DNA Summit's hosts are listed as:

* The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which at the time was led by Baroness [[Valerie Amos]]
* Row6.com
* The [[International Telecommunications Union]] (ITU) led by [[Hamadan Toure]]
* The [[Global Partnerships Forum]] led by [[Amir Dossal]]
* The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] led by Baron George Weidenfeld of the [[Leonard Blavatnik School of Government]]
* The Centre for Social Justice led by [[Mark Florman]], CEO of the British Venture Capital Association
* GDX Connect

Special thanks are also given to:

* Baroness Siobhan McDonagh
* Mayor Boris Johnson
* Gerry DeVeaux
* Kim Chappell
* Farina Blotski
* Sharon Annafi
* Sofia Foster
* Onstate & Dubit Ltd.
* Nicole Woods
* Matt Coyston

=== Persons of interest ===

==== Government ====

* Kofi Annan, representative of Ghana, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, and advisor to [[One Young World]]
* Sir [[Richard Branson]], director of [[B Team]] and advisor to One Young World
* Prince Maximillion of Liechtenstein
* Farah Pandith, United States Special Representative to Muslim Communities
* Baroness [[Joanna Shields]], CEO of Facebook EMEA
* Sir [[Martin Sorrell]], CEO of WPP Group
* Dame Barbara Stocking, CEO of [[Oxfam]]
* Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson

==== Financing ====

* [[Shai Agassi]]
* Sir James Dyson
* [[Alexander Lebedev]], former KGB agent and the father of Baron Evgeny Lebedev of Hampton and Siberia.<ref name="baron_lebedev" />
* [[Mo Ibrahim]], board member of the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, [[B Team]], [[ONE Campaign]], [[TPG Rise Fund]], and the 21st Century Council of the Berggruen Institute.
* [[Ray Chambers]], board member of the [[Berggruen Institute]] and the [[Global Steering Group for Impact Investment]]
* [[Francois-Henri Pinault]], board member of [[B Team]].
* [[Aliko Dangote]], member of [[ONE Campaign]], [[Breakthrough Energy Coalition]], and New Economy Forum.
* [[Jack Ma]] of China's Alibaba
* [[Jim O'Neill]], CEO of [[Goldman Sachs]]
* [[Christine Lagarde]], head of the International Monetary Fund
* [[Morten Lund]]
* [[Lakshmi Mittal]]
* [[Patrice Motsepe]], founder of African Rainbow Minerals and member of the [[Breakthrough Energy Coalition]]
* [[Dambisa Moyo]] of Barclays and Barrick Gold, and board member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council
* [[Jacqueline Novogratz]], founder of the [[Acumen Fund]]

==== Political ====
* [[Penny Abeywardena], director of Women and Girls at the [[Clinton Global Initiative]]
* Bono, founder of [[ONE Campaign]]
* [[Rosario Dawson]], board member of Voto Latino
* Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of the Women Peace & Security Network Africa
* Sir [[Bob Geldof]], founder of Band-Aid and advisor to One Young World
* [[Wael Ghonim]], who is credited with the Arab Spring uprising against U.S. allies in the Middle East
* [[Majid Nawaz]], founder of the Quilliam Foundation
* [[George Polk]], member of [[TerraMar]]
* [[Ben Rattraty]], founder of [[Change.org]] and advisor to the [[Democracy Fund]]
* [[Geoffrey Robertson]], member of the [[National Critical Lawyers Conference]]
* [[Juliana Rotich]], founder of [[Ushahidi]]

==== Technology ====

* [[Paul Allen]], co-founder of Microsoft
* [[Pete Cashmore]], founder of Mashable
* [[Jack Dorsey]], founder of Twitter and Square
* [[Daniel Ek]], founder of Spotify
* [[Jonathan Ive]], senior vice president of Apple
* [[Megan Smith]], head of Google.org
* [[Yoshikazu Tamaka]], founder of Gree
* [[Jimmy Wales]], founder of Wikipedia
* [[Cher Wang]], founder of HTC Corporation
* [[Anne Wojcicki]], founder of 23andme
* Sir [[Tim Berners-Lee]], creator of the World Wide Web and board member of the [[World Wide Web Foundation]]

==== Media ====

* Matthew Bishop, editor of The Economist
* Piers Morgan
* Gail Rebuck, CEO of Random House
* Charlie Rose

==== Others ====

* Peter Svennilson, a member of the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] which is led by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
* Inge Solheim, a member of [[TerraMar]]

== References ==

<references>
<ref name="dna_summit">Decide Act Now Summit Magazine, July 26 2012 https://issuu.com/dna_summit/docs/dna_summit_magazine/</ref>
<ref name="baron_lebedev">''Yevgeny Lebedev Named ‘Baron of Hampton and Siberia’ in Britain'', The Moscow Times, Nov. 24, 2020 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/11/24/yevgeny-lebedev-named-baron-of-hampton-and-siberia-in-britain-a72129 https://archive.ph/TsaRL</ref>
</references>

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