Global Meeting 2011
Speakers

Graduated from George Mason University, Virginia, USA with a B.A. and M.S. in English Literature. Muna Abusulayman started her career as a Lecturer in King Saud University then moved to Kingdom Holding company where she held the position Executive Manager of Strategic Studies and was promoted to Funding Executive Director.

Currently serves as the Secretary General of The Alwaleed Bin Talal Kingdo...

Jeremy Adam Smith is a 2010-11 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and author of The Daddy Shift (Beacon Press, 2009), which the San Francisco Chronicle calls "amazing" and the New York Times praises as "a chronicle of a time... we will look back upon as the start of permanent change." Jeremy is also the co-editor of three anthologies, mostly recently Are We Born Racist? New In...

Gretchen Addi is an Associate Partner and currently co-leads the IDEO San Francisco location as well as providing leadership and guidance to the Human Factors discipline. She is passionate about the power of empathy and design, and the people who make it happen. Since joining IDEO in 2000, she has participated in such diverse projects as future work environment scenarios; an exploration into the f...

Philippe Aigrain is a computer scientist and an analyst of the political, economic and cultural stakes of information technology and knowledge governance. He is the CEO of Sopinspace, a company developing free software tools and services for collaboration and participatory democracy. From 1996 to 2003, Dr. Aigrain joined the European Commission services, where he was head of sector for Software Te...

Nadwa Al-Dawsari is a local Conflict expert in Yemen and a Conflict Management trainer who has overseen numerous US, EC, Dutch government-funded projects to mitigate conflict in remote and difficult tribal areas in Yemen. During the last 6 years, Nadwa intensively led programs in tribal areas where she worked directly with tribal leaders, local CSOs, CBOs, women, youth, religious leaders as well a...

James Allen, Bain Partner: Co-head Global Strategy Practice, member of European Consumer Products Practice

Harvard Business School (MBA, highest distinction, Baker Scholar)

Johns Hopkins (MA, International Economics & Soviet Studies, summa cum laude)

James joined Bain Boston 1989, transferring to Moscow 1991 to lead Bain’s emerging Russian practice. Relocated to London 1995.  Ov...