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.[1]
Contents
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.[2]
- 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
- ↑ Decide Act Now Summit Magazine, July 26 2012 https://issuu.com/dna_summit/docs/dna_summit_magazine/
- ↑ 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