In 1987, Mr. Altman joined The Blackstone Group as Vice Chairman, head of the Firm’s merger and acquisition advisory business and a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Altman also had primary responsibility for Blackstone’s international business, including cross-border joint ventures in four foreign markets, Germany, France, the UK, and Japan.

Beginning in January 1993, Mr. Altman returned to Washington to serve as Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury for two years. In mid-1995, he returned to private life, and formed Evercore Partners. The firm subsequently raised a $500 million banking fund for leveraged acquisitions. In its other role, as advisor, it has handled $23 billion of merger and acquisition transactions since inception.

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She had been with Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1983-90, serving as Chief Strategist in the last two years of her tenure. Earlier, she was Economist and Quantitative Research Director for T. Rowe Price Associates. Ms. Cohen began her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC.

Ms. Cohen holds degrees in economics from Cornell University and the George Washington University. She is a Trustee Fellow of Cornell University and serves on the Board of Overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College. She recently served as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (ICFA). She is a member of the Investment Committee of the Museum of Modern Art.

Ms. Cohen has made numerous television appearances and is frequently quoted in the financial press. Ms. Cohen was the 1997 inductee into the Wall $treet Week Hall of Fame. She is ranked first in U.S. Portfolio Strategy by Institutional Investor Magazine and by Greenwich Associates.

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Galbraith served as Chief Technical Adviser to the State Planning Commission, P.R. China, on a project on macroeconomic reform from 1994 to 1997. He has co-authored two textbooks, The Economic Problem with Robert L. Heilbroner and Macroeconomics with William Darity, Jr., as well as Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future.

Galbraith's book, Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay, was published by the Free Press in August 1998. His new book, Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2000), is co-edited with Maureen Berner and features contributions from six LBJ School Ph.D. students.

Galbraith maintains several outside connections, including serving as a Senior Scholar of the Jerome Levy Economics Institute and as chair of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR). He also writes a column on economic and political issues for the Texas Observer.

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From 1977 to 1979, he was a Member of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers. From 1986 to1988 he served as the Provost of Yale University, and from 1992 to 1993 he was the Vice President for Finance and Administration at the university. He is a member and senior advisor of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, DC and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Nordhaus is current or past editor of a number of scientific journals and has served on the executive committees of the American Economic Association and the Eastern Economic Association.

He is the author of many books, among them Invention, Growth and Welfare, Is Growth Obsolete?; The Efficient Use of Energy Resources; Reforming Federal Regulation; Managing the Global Commons; and (joint with Paul Samuelson) the classic textbook, Economics, now in its sixteenth edition. His research has focused on economic growth and natural resources, as well as the question of the extent to which resources constrain economic growth, with pioneering work beginning in the 1970s on the economics of global warming. Professor Nordhaus has also undertaken studies in wage and price behavior, augmented national accounting, the political business cycle, productivity, and the costs and benefits of regulation. Recently, his work has focussed on the economics of global warming, including the construction of integrated and scientific models to determine the efficient path for coping with climate change.

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Prior to co-founding Marimba, Ms. Polese spent more than seven years at Sun Microsystems and was the original product manager for Java. During her tenure at Sun, she played a pivotal role in the strategic definition, direction and launch of Java. Prior to joining Sun, Ms. Polese worked for IntelliCorp Inc., consulting with companies in the development of expert system application frameworks.

She holds a Bachelors degree in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. A noted and respected industry speaker, Ms. Polese has been named one of Time Magazine's Top 25 Most Influential People in America, one of Red Herring's Top 20 Entrepreneurs, and one of Computer Reseller News' Top 25 Executives.

Ms. Polese is a member of the Board of Directors of TechNet, a bipartisan coalition of digital-economy executives focused on strengthening America's leadership in the new economy. She is also an Advisory Board member of W.I.T.I. (Women in Technology International), the premier association dedicated to advancing women in technology, and GirlGeeks, the career and training community for aspiring young women in computing. In addition, Ms. Polese is on the board of Do Something, a non-profit organization that inspires, trains, funds and mobilizes young people to become leaders in their communities.

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Formed in 1972, SEWA’s purpose is to organize and improve the income and social status of poor self-employed women. SEWA has three primary activities: a trade union with a membership of 220,000 women working in the informal sector; a cooperative; and support services for women. SEWA also runs a bank that provides credit services to union members and has about 75,000 depositors and borrowers. A SEWA affiliate, the Gujarat Mahila Housing SEWA trust, provides a range of services on housing including technical assistance, market information, information on accessing municipal services, and advocacy for women’s access to and ownership of shelter. Also, SEWA’s slum Networking Project provided water, toilets, and access-ways to slum settlements.

About 40 percent of the city’s population lives in slums and squatter settlements that are undeserved or lack infrastructure services like water, toilets, and drainage which results in grave health consequences. Currently, USAID is supporting SEWA on improving the accessibility of poor urban households to basic services such as primary health services, water, drainage, and sanitation facilities.

From 1978-1982, Ms. Chatterjee attended Harvard University. 1983-1985, she attended the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

Ms. Chatterjee participated in a meeting with President Clinton during his visit to Mumbai. She eloquently articulated how the new economy and globalization are affecting the lives of common people in India. Also, Mrs. Clinton visited SEWA headquarters during her visit to India in 1995.

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As a member of the President’s Cabinet, Secretary Cisneros was assigned America’s housing and community development portfolio. Prior to joining the cabinet, he was Chairman of Cisneros Asset Management Company, a national fixed income money management firm.

In 1981, Mr. Cisneros became the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city when he was elected Mayor of San Antonio, the nation’s 10th largest city. As a four-term mayor--from 1981 to 1989--Mr. Cisneros rebuilt the city’s economic base and created jobs through massive infrastructure and downtown improvements in San Antonio.

Mr. Cisneros has served as President of the National League of Cities, Chairman of the National Civic League, Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and as a board member of the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively involved in key management and strategic decisions at Microsoft, and plays an important role in the technical development of new products. A significant portion of his time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in contact with Microsoft employees around the world through e-mail.

Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its investment of more than $3 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year.

In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how digital processes can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. Co-authored by Collins Hemingway, the book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim and was listed on the best-seller lists the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, was published in 1995.

In addition to his passion for computers, Gates is interested in biotechnology. He sits on the board of the Icos Corporation and is a shareholder in Darwin Molecular, a subsidiary of British-based Chiroscience. He also founded Corbis Corporation, which is developing one of the largest resources of visual information in the world – a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe. Gates also has invested with cellular telephone pioneer Craig McCaw in Teledesic, a company that is working on an ambitious plan to launch hundreds of low-orbit satellites around the globe to provide worldwide two-way broadband telecommunications service.

Bill and Melinda Gates have endowed a foundation with more than $17 billion to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that as we move into the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. To date, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than $300 million to organizations working in global health; and more than $300 million to improve learning opportunities, including the Gates Library Initiative to bring computers, Internet Access and training to public libraries in low-income communities in the United States and Canada.

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On September 27, 1999, Mr. Wolfensohn was unanimously reappointed by the Bank's Board of Executive Directors to a second five-year term as president beginning June 1, 2000. This will make him the third president in World Bank history to serve a second term.

During his travels, Mr. Wolfensohn has not only visited development projects supported by the World Bank, but he has also met with the Bank's government clients as well as with representatives from business, labor, media, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), religious and women's groups, students and teachers. In the process he has taken the initiative in forming new strategic partnerships between the Bank and the governments it serves, the private sector, civil society, regional development banks and the UN.

Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Wolfensohn was an international investment banker. His last position was as President and Chief Executive Officer of James D. Wolfensohn Inc., his own investment firm set up in 1981 to advise major U.S. and international corporations.

Before setting up his own company, Mr. Wolfensohn held a series of senior positions in finance. He was Executive Partner of Salomon Brothers in New York and head of its investment banking department. He was Executive Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Schroders Ltd. in London, President of J. Henry Schroders Banking Corporation in New York, and Managing Director, Darling & Co. of Australia.

In 1990, Mr. Wolfensohn became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and on January 1, 1996, he was elected Chairman Emeritus.

Born in Australia in December 1933, Mr. Wolfensohn is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He holds B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Sydney and a M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

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Dyson is the chairman of EDventure Holdings which publishes the influential monthly computer-industry newsletter, Release 1.0, and sponsors two of the industry's premier conferences, PC Forum in the US and EDventure's High-Tech Forum in Europe. As chairman, she leads ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, a new international agency charged with setting policy for the Internet's core infrastructure independent of government control.

After graduating from Harvard in economics, Dyson began her serious career in 1974 as a fact-checker for Forbes and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977 she joined New Court Securities as "the research department", following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, and renamed it EDventure Holdings.

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In his capacity as govWorks CEO, he has been successful in developing strong client relationships with government entities across the country, raising significant capital, forging high-level corporate partnerships, securing a top-notch management team, and establishing a well-respected Board of Directors and Board of Advisors. Mr. Isaza Tuzman’s personal relationships and experience in the financial world have been instrumental in securing funding for the company. He directed the company’s successful second round financing effort, which was completed in November 1999, raising over $18 million from investors including the Mayfield Fund, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., the New York City Investment Fund, Sapient, Vignette and Hearst New Media. In early 2000, Mr. Isaza Tuzman structured broad strategic relationships with American Management Systems and Arthur Andersen, and raised an additional $39 million for govWorks expansion. In addition, he has provided strategic direction for the Company, developed an aggressive international strategy and formed relationships with other best-of-breed technology companies that support the company’s business model in both the US and abroad.

Prior to founding govWorks, Mr. Isaza Tuzman worked as an Associate in the Risk Arbitrage Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in Government and a certificate in Latin American Studies. In addition, he serves on several start-up technology company Boards, the Alumni Steering Committees of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a not-for-profit organization that places minority college students in corporate summer internships, and is on the Board of Junior Achievement.

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Past President of the American Sociological Association, Wilson has received 32 honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, and the University of Amsterdam in Holland. A MacArthur Prize fellow from 1987 to 1992, Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society. Finally, he is a recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor in the United States.

He is the author of numerous publications, including The Declining Significance of Race, winner of the American Sociological Association’s Sydney Spivack Award; The Truly Disadvantaged, which received The Washington Monthly Annual Book Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problems’ C. Wright Mills Award; and When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. His latest book is The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics.

Other honors granted to Wilson include the Seidman Award in Political Economy (the first and only noneconomist to receive the Award); the Golden Plate Achievement Award; the Distinguished Alumnus Award, Washington State University; the American Sociological Association’s Award for Public Understanding of Sociology; Burton Gordon Feldman Award ("for outstanding contributions in the field of public policy") Brandeis University; and the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Award (granted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Los Angeles).

Professor Wilson is a member of numerous national boards and commissions, including the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and The Century Foundation.

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