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2010 World Fellows

Abel, Eliot

Associate, Renewable Energy Leadership Program, GE Energy
Eliot Abel is an Associate in GE's Renewable Energy Leadership Program. Prior to attending the Yale School of Management, he was the Sustainability Programs Manager at G24 Innovations, a start-up thin film solar manufacturer based in Cardiff, Wales. While at G24i, he led the design and implementation of a company-wide energy efficiency program as well as the development of a 2MW wind turbine at company headquarters. Prior to this, Abel worked as a market analyst at Renewable Capital, a clean tech venture capital firm. He was a fellow at Green Corps, the premier leadership program for grassroots environmental organizing, and is a member of the organization's Alumni Advisory Committee.

Akl, May Tony

Foreign Press Secretary, Office of MP Michel Aoun
Akl, a founding member of the Free Patriotic Movement, advises former Prime Minister and current Member of Parliament Michel Aoun on a wide range of political and media issues and is a lecturer at the Université Saint-Joseph. She is a member of the Media and Communication Committee of the Free Patriotic Movement and served on the party's Central Committee in 2007. Earlier in her career, Akl worked as a reporter at An-Nahar newspaper and as a press officer in the office of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

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Why the Syrian Case is Different, Foreign Policy, April 19, 2011

Christians of the Levant on the Brink of Extinction, YaleGlobal Online, December 10, 2010.

Netcast: Lebanon: Politics & Peace, December 6, 2010. Click here to listen>>

Chandran, Subhashini

CEO, Woodbriar Group; Managing Director, Tea Estates India Ltd.
Chandran is a business and social entrepreneur who owns and manages the largest privately owned tea plantation business in India, with diversified interests in insurance services and real estate. She has implemented a number of pioneering women empowerment programs for employees, including microfinance and skill enhancement schemes. Chandran is also an active member of two regional biodiversity councils and has launched an eco-tourism venture. Early in her career, she worked in the renewable energy and manufacturing sectors.

2010 Glenn H. Greenberg Fellow

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Learning in Action, Beyond Profit E-Magazine, January 14, 2011

Netcast: Tea and Sympathy: A Plantation in India, November 30, 2010. Click here to listen>>

Di-Aping, Lumumba

Representative, Republic of South Sudan to United Nations
Di-Aping, who holds the rank of Ambassador, has served in the Sudan Mission to the United Nations since 2008. He is a chief negotiator on financial and economic issues, and represented developing countries as Chairman of the Group of 77 and China at the December 2009 Copenhagen climate change conference. He is a member of the National Liberation Council of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, a group that helped end 20 years of civil war when it signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005.

Hernández, Ana Paula

Program Officer for Latin America, Fund for Global Human Rights

As Program Officer for Latin America at the Fund for Global Human Rights, Hernández works on a portfolio that supports over 50 human rights organizations in Mexico and Guatemala, and promotes a broader initiative across Mesoamerica to defend land and resource rights and increase corporate accountability, particularly in extractive industries. As a leading human rights advocate in Mexico, Hernández has supported drug policy reform that aimed for a more balanced approach, integrating scientific evidence and public health perspectives, and emphasizing prevention, treatment, and human rights rather than enforcement and criminalization. She is the former deputy director of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center in Guerrero, a mostly indigenous region and one of the poorest in Mexico. She has been a consultant to the Angelica Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, and the Mexico office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Netcast: Drug Violence and Human Rights in Mexico, November 30, 2010. Click here to listen>>

Hostetler, Courtney

Hostetler graduated from Yale Law School in 2011 and is currently clerking for Judge James Dennis of the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. While at Yale, she participated in human rights fact-finding missions in Tanzania and Senegal and worked on U.S. prison reform projects. Prior to attending to law school, she managed the Close Up Foundation's national youth voting program and worked as a research analyst for the Genocide Intervention Network. She has researched or worked with peace-building and human rights initiatives in Ireland, Uganda, and Sierra Leone.

Lagodinsky, Sergey

Head for EU/North America, Heinrich Boell Foundation
Apart from his previous work as a lawyer specializing in corporate and real estate law, Lagodinsky is an expert on German foreign policy, transatlantic relations, the politics of integration and immigration, and constitutional and international law. He founded the first Jewish working group within a German political party, the Social Democrats, and is vice-speaker of the parliament of the Berlin Jewish Community. Lagodinsky is now an active memher of the Green Party. He wrote his PhD on German constitutional law, with an emphasis on issues of freedom of speech and commemoration.

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(Video):Freedom of speech, commemoration and protection against Anti-Semitism in Germany, IAJLJ Berlin Conference, November 17, 2011.

Germania za Nedelyu, RTV International, January 17, 2011.

Cultural Dialogue: Translation from German (in Russian), Vedomosti, November 2, 2010.

Listen to Sergey Lagodinsky interviewed on Die German Stunde on KBOO, September 24, 2010. Topic: Immigration to Germany.

Mabrouk, Fares

Co-Founder, Arab Policy Institute; Founder, Viamobile
Mabrouk, a successful Tunis-based business entrepreneur, has run a number of companies based in North Africa focused on mobile banking and oil logistics, including Viamobile, OLOG Group, Global Project Service, and SSTC. He is also co-founder of the Arab Policy Institute, a "think and action tank" dedicated to developing and promoting innovative policy solutions and reforms in the Middle East and North Africa region.

2010 Duncan Greenberg Fellow

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Some Taboos Vanish In Tunisia, Replaced by Others, Capital Public Radio, June 5, 2012.

TEDx Talk: Tunisia: It is now time for the rest of the dream, TEDxCarthage, April 2011

Video: This house believes that Arab revolutions will just produce different dictators, The Doha Debates, February 22, 2011

Interview with Fares Mabrouk, Tunisian activist and World Fellow 2010, Yale Arab Alumni Association Newsletter, February 2011

Hotting up, The Economist online, January 11, 2011

Mulqueeny, Kala

Senior Counsel, Asian Development Bank
Mulqueeny is an environmental and energy lawyer who, at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), leads the law, policy and development program relating to the environment, energy, climate change, and legal empowerment. She leads ADB's Asia Pacific Dialogue on Clean Energy Governance and Regulation among energy policy-makers and regulators in Asia, and USAID, the International Energy Agency, and World Resources Institute and has initiated the establishment of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) Energy Regulators Network. She was the lawyer on the first Integrated Gas and Combined Cycle (IGCC) Project in China (and the developing world) and is responsible for ADB's work on the regulation of the important Carbon Capture and Storage technology. Mulqueeny has been recognized for her work as a 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, an Asia 21 Young Leader of the Asia Society, and Queensland University’s Young Alumnus of the Year for 2011. Australasian Legal Business: Legal News named her one of the Top 40 Lawyers in 2010.

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UQ alumnus and lawyer honoured for outstanding global regulatory work, UQ News, September 27, 2011

UQ law graduate named World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, UQ News, March 30, 2011

World Economic Forum Announces Young Global Leaders 2011 (East Asia), March 9, 2011

Netcast: Promoting Justice & Protecting the Environment, December 2, 2010. Click here to listen>>

ALB Hot 40: The Hottest Lawyers of 2010, Australasian Legal Business Issue 8.9, ALB Legal News, October 11, 2010

Navalny, Alexey

Founder, Minority Shareholders Association

Navalny spearheads legal challenges on behalf of minority shareholders in large Russian companies, including Gazprom, Bank VTB, Sberbank, Rosneft, Transneft, and Surgutneftegaz, through the Union of Minority Shareholders. He has successfully forced companies to disclose more information to their shareholders and has sued individual managers at several major corporations for allegedly corrupt practices. Navalny is also co-founder of the Democratic Alternative movement and was vice-chairman of the Moscow branch of the political party YABLOKO. In 2010, he launched RosPil, a public project funded by unprecedented fundraising in Russia. In 2011, Navalny started RosYama, which combats fraud in the road construction sector.

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Time 100: The 100 most influential people in the world, Time, April 18, 2012

A Putin nemesis gains ground, CNN - Fortune, March 26, 2012

The Man Vladimir Putin Fears Most, Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2012

Russian Spring: 'iPads have replaced rifles,' says blogger (Video), MSNBC, February 29, 2012

Ghosts of Gadhafi are Haunting Putin (Video), PBS, February 29, 2012

Alexei Navalny: Scourge of Russia's Elite, BBC News, February 12, 2012

Navalny Released from Jail, Looks to Uncertain Future, Yale Daily News, December 22, 2011

Confronting Corruption in the Developing World, The Politic, December 20, 2011

World Fellow Awaits Release as Russian Protests Continue, Yale Daily News, December 17, 2011

Man Credited With Galvanizing Russians to Protest is Yale World Fellow, WNPR, December 12, 2011

In Russia, Words Then Deeds, The Washington Post, December 12, 2011

Rally Defying Putin's Party Draws Tens of Thousands, The New York Times, December 10, 2011

Rousing Russia With a Phrase, The New York Times, December 9, 2011

Intrepid Blogger Putin's Worst Nightmare, The Globe and Mail, December 8, 2011

All the Wrong Moves: Putin Plots His Strategy Against the Protesters, TIMES World, December 9, 2011

Kremlin Cracks Down, Arrests Prominent Critic, NPR: All Things Considered, December 8, 2011

Putin's Big Mistake? The New Yorker, December 6, 2011

The Only Electable Russian is Alexei Navalny, The Moscow Times, November 30, 2011

The NavalnyLeaks Smear Campaign, The Moscow Times, November 7, 2011

Navalny says it's theatre, but personal, The Moscow Times, September 27, 2011

Officials in Russian tax fraud case stashed millions offshore, The Washington Post, April 18, 2011

Net Impact: One Man's Cyber Crusade Against Russian Corruption, The New Yorker, April 4, 2011

Russian Site Aims to Expose State Corruption, The New York Times, March 27, 2011

Foreigners Fight Putin's Asia Oil Pipe, Bloomberg Businessweek, January 19, 2011

World Fellow faces investigationYale Daily News, January 19, 2011.

Extreme World Corruption, BBC World TV, December 9, 2010.

After months of inaction, Russia opens inquiry into Mercedes bribery case, The Washington Post, November 12, 2010.

Blogger Navalny Tries to Prove that Fighting Regime is Fun, Global Voices, October 27, 2010.

Proissl, Wolfgang

Chief Spokesperson, European Stability Mechanism

Proissl is head of communications and chief spokesperson for the ESM, an international organization founded by the 17 euro area member states whose purpose is to provide financial assistance to euro area countries in difficulty. Previously, he reported and wrote on monetary policy, international finance and the financial crisis for the Financial Times Deutschland. As a journalist, he worked to promote European integration and was responsible for defining the editorial line on European affairs and global governance for the Financial Times Deutschland and its affiliated news magazines. Through the FTD, he advocated for a stronger European Union, less energy dependence on Russia, EU membership for Turkey, and strong transatlantic ties. He was previously Foreign Editor for the FTD and European Editor for Die Zeit.

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Video: Will Merkel transform the Eurozone into a German Europe? February 22, 2011. Click here to watch

Netcast: The Financial Times Deutschland, November 30, 2010. Click here to listen>>

Rees, Marvin

Programme Manager, Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health

Rees is a prominent social justice activist in the UK. Currently the Programme Manager for Race Equality in Mental Health with NHS Bristol, he is a former journalist and BBC Radio presenter. He is currently developing two projects: The City Leadership Programme, which targets and equips high potential young people from lower socioeconomic groups for global leadership, and Blood Across Boundaries, which tests the idea that people of mixed heritage have unique contributions to make in the development of politics around identity, conflict, peace and reconciliation. Rees is a graduate of Operation Black Vote, part of the British Labour Party's Future Candidates Programme, and is currently seeking the party's nomination to run for office as Bristol's first elected mayor.

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Former journalist launches campaign to become Bristol Mayor, ITV News, May 1, 2012

Netcast: Black and White: Race Relations in the UK, December 2, 2010. Click here to listen>>

Listen to Marvin Rees interviewed on the BBC, August 2010. Click here>>

Royesh, Azizullah

Founder, Marefat High School
Royesh, a leading advocate for equal access to primary and secondary education in Afghanistan, founded a school for Afghan refugees in Pakistan in 1994. With a focus on critical thinking and human rights, the school flourished and eventually moved to Afghanistan, where it now teaches 2,500 Afghan students, about half of whom are girls. Royesh has written textbooks on humanism, human rights, democracy, social studies, and Quranic interpretation, and is a frequent speaker on the idea of a tolerant community. Marefat High School has become a highly respected and well-known model for a new approach to community building in Afghanistan.

2010 Linda Vester Fellow

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Investing in Women's Education in Afghanistan, Yale Journal of International Affairs, April 2011

Marefat in Progress (slide presentation), 2010.

Terán, Ricardo

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Agora Partnerships
A successful entrepreneur, Terán devotes himself to combating poverty by helping socially responsible small business entrepreneurs start and grow companies that create wealth through job creation and make positive social impacts in their communities. He has also founded three businesses, including international retail clothing franchise LOLITA in Nicaragua and El Salvador, an internet satellite company, and a socially responsible alternative-media company. He is a member of the Central America Leadership Initiative, is the co-founder of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Nicaragua, and is a board member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Terán is working to make Central America a hub for innovative, entrepreneur-led economic policy and social business models.

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Unleashing the potential of impact entrepreneurs (Video), Wake Forest University School of Business, April 12, 2012

World Economic Forum Announces Young Global Leaders 2011 (East Asia), March 9, 2011

Tsui, Diana

Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, KPMG; CEO, KPMG Foundation

As a corporate social responsibility expert in Asia and an advocate of the civil society movement in China, Tsui has created KPMG China’s corporate social responsibility strategy. In 2008, Tsui oversaw the establishment of the KPMG Foundation. She leads firm initiatives with a special focus on education and sustainable development to address issues such as poverty, diversity and climate change. Her previous positions include working as managing director of Mercy Corps East Asia and heading up Community Affairs for Nike’s Asia Pacific region. She has also worked closely with multinationals, governments and international organizations such as the European Commission and The World Bank, focusing on poverty alleviation, microfinance and humanitarian assistance. She has been a board member for the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation since 2005 and was named one of the 2011 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum.

2010 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. S. Ng Fellow

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World Economic Forum Announces Young Global Leaders 2011 (East Asia), March 9, 2011

Netcast: Corporate Social Responsibility in China, November 30, 2010. Click here to listen>>

Wittenstein, Edward

Wittenstein has pursued a career in national security through a succession of U.S. Government jobs at the Department of Defense, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of State. His work focuses primarily on intelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and U.S. foreign policy regarding South and Central Asia, as well as the Middle East. As Special Assistant to Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, Wittenstein advised on intelligence matters pertaining to key foreign policy priorities, including stability in Iraq and Afghanistan, counterterrorism and political transition in Pakistan, and nuclear negotiations with Iran and North Korea.

Xulu, Thembi

Clinical Director, Right to Care
A medical doctor, Xulu leads technical operations and provides strategic direction for Right to Care, one of the largest PEPFAR-funded treatment NGOs in South Africa. RTC partners with the government, the private sector and other NGOs in improving access to safe, effective and affordable treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS and TB. The organization operates at more than 170 sites providing comprehensive HIV services, and supports more than 105,000 patients who are actively on antiretroviral therapy. A rising leader in South Africa's public health sector, Xulu has focused her career on health care management and health policy development.

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If you believe AIDS won't affect you, think again. Times Live, November 27, 2011

Netcast: Battling HIV/AIDS in South Africa, December 2, 2010. Click here to listen>>

Turning the Tide on South Africa's HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Yale Daily Bulletin, November 2, 2010.

Zamhari, Arif

Advisor, Nahdlatul Ulama
As one of the top activists in the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia (with some 40 million members), Zamhari promotes moderate and progressive Islam and is committed to engaging civil society in countering terrorism and promoting tolerance through dialogue and education. He is devoted to interfaith discourse and is involved in Track II diplomacy through leadership of the International Conference of Islamic Scholars Forum. Zamhari is also a lecturer in theology and psychology at the State Islamic University in Jakarta and the State Islamic Institute in Surabaya.

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Netcast: Islam in Indonesia, December 2, 2010. Click here to listen>>