Helen Clark (Patron)
Administrator - UNDP
Helen Clark became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme on 17 April 2009, and is the first woman to lead the organization. She is also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues. Prior to her appointment with UNDP, Helen Clark served for nine years as Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving three successive terms from 1999–2008. Throughout her tenure as Prime Minister, Helen Clark engaged widely in policy development and advocacy across the international, economic, social and cultural spheres.

Under her leadership, New Zealand achieved significant economic growth, low levels of unemployment, and high levels of investment in education and health, and in the well-being of families and older citizens. She and her government prioritized reconciliation and the settlement of historical grievances with New Zealand’s indigenous people and the development of an inclusive multicultural and multi-faith society. Helen Clark advocated strongly for NZ’s comprehensive programme on sustainability and for tackling the problems of climate change. Her objectives have been to establish New Zealand as being among the world’s leading nations in dealing with these challenges. Helen Clark was also an active leader of her country’s foreign relations and policies, engaging in a wide range of international issues.

As Prime Minister, Helen Clark was a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development. Helen Clark held ministerial responsibility during her nine years as PM for NZ’s intelligence agencies and for the portfolio of arts, culture and heritage. She has seen the promotion of this latter portfolio as important in expressing the unique identity of her nation in a positive way.

Prior to entering the New Zealand Parliament, Helen Clark taught in the Political Studies Department of the University of Auckland. She graduated with a BA in 1971 and an MA with First Class Honours in 1974. She is married to Peter Davis, a Professor at Auckland University.

Hon. David Caygill (Convenor – Hillary Summit)
Born and educated in Christchurch, David graduated B.A., LL.B (Hons) from the University of Canterbury. He was first elected to public office at age 22 and served three terms on the Christchurch City Council (1971–80). In 1978 David was elected to Parliament, representing his home district of St Albans in Christchurch. He served as a Member of Parliament for the following 18 years, including six years (1984–90) as a Minister of the Crown. From 1993–96 David served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

Following his retirement from elected politics in 1996 he returned to his former profession as a lawyer, joining the national firm of Buddle Findlay as a partner specialising in public law. In December 2003 David was appointed as Deputy Chair of the Commerce Commission and in 2007 Chair of the Electricity Commission. David also serves or has served on a number of outside bodies, including as chair of the Accident Compensation Corporation. In 2000 he chaired the Ministerial Inquiry into the Electricity Industry. He recently chaired the review of NZ’s Emissions Trading Scheme and is currently a Commissioner of Environment Canterbury.

Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author. His work includes starting ecological businesses, writing about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He has appeared on numerous media including the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Business Week, Esquire, and US News and World Report. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgence, New Statesman, Inc, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Orion, and many other publications.

He authors articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and has written seven books including four national bestsellers, The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), and The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993) and Blessed Unrest (Viking, 2007). The Ecology of Commerce was voted in 1998 as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little Brown, September 1999) co-authored with Amory Lovins, has been read and referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton who called it one of the five most important books in the world today. His books have been published in over 50 countries in 27 languages. Growing a Business became the basis of a 17-part PBS series, which Mr. Hawken hosted and produced. The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsive companies, was shown on television in 115 countries and watched by over 100 million people.

Paul has founded several companies including some of the first natural food companies in the U.S. that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He presently heads OneSun, LLC, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimcry; and Highwater Global, a social impact fund that employs the highest standards of corporate social, ethical and environmental behavior. Paul also founded the Natural Capital Institute, a research whose main project is the creation of the first open source platform for global social change, WiserEarth. He has seven honorary PhDs and a clutch of awards on a shelf somewhere.

Manfred Kets de Vries
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries holds the Raoul de Vitry d’Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD. In addition, he is the Founding Director of INSEAD’s Global Leadership Centre. Furthermore, he is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership Development Research at the European Institute of Management and Technology in Berlin (ESMT).

The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche and The Economist have rated Kets de Vries as one of world’s leading leadership theoreticians. His books and articles have been translated into 31 languages.Kets de Vries is listed among the world’s top fifty leading management thinkers and among the most influential contributors to human resource management. He is the author of more than 35 books and 350 articles.

Kets de Vries is a member of seventeen editorial boards and has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He is also a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO) of which (in 2009) he became a Lifetime Distinguished Member. He has also been the recipient the “Harry and Miriam Levinson Award” from the American Psychological Association and the “Freud Memorial Award” from the Dutch Psychoanalytic Institute. In addition, Kets de Vries is also the recipient of the International Leadership Association “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his contributions to leadership research and development. The Dutch government has made him an Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau.

Kets de Vries is a consultant and educator on organizational change and leadership development to leading European, US, Canadian, Australian, African, and Asian companies. In that capacity he has worked in more than forty countries. In addition, he is the Chairman and principal owner of the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI), a global leadership development consultancy firm.

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Dr. Rajendra Pachauri
Dr. R. K. Pachauri has been the Chief Executive of TERI since 1981, designated initially as diretor and since April 2001 as Director General. In April 2002, he was elected Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was established by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988. IPCC along with former Vice President Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2007. He has been appointed Director, Yale Climate and Energy Institute from July 2009.Dr. Pachauri has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Economics and has authored 26 books and several papers and articles.

He has been on several international and national committees including membership of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, the Advisory Board on Energy(ABE) which reported directly to the Prime Minister of India, a Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the UN Development Programme and several others. He has been President (1988) and Chairman (1989-90) of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). He has been President of the Asian Energy Institute since 1992. In April 1999, he was appointed Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan and continues to hold this appointment.

Dr. Pachauri was awarded the “Padma Bhushan” in 2001 by the President of India and he was also bestowed the “Officer de la Legion D’Honneur” by the Government of France in 2006. He was conferred with the “Padma Vibushan”, second highest civilian award, for his services in the field of science and engineering in January 2008 by the President of India. In November 2009, he received the “Order of The Rising Sun – Gold and Silver Star” in recognition of his contribution to the enhancement of Japan’s policy towards climate change and was bestowed with the Order of The White Rose of Finland from the Prime Minister of Finland.

Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts is the New York-based CEO Worldwide of Ideas Company Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world’s leading creative organizations with a team of 7000 people across 83 countries. Under his leadership, Saatchi & Saatchi has grown revenue year by year and achieved record creative awards. Clients include Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Lexus, General Mills, Visa International, JC Penney, Novartis, Kraft and Lenovo.

Roberts started his business career in the 1960s with the influential fashion house of Mary Quant. He then held senior leadership positions at Gillette, Procter & Gamble and Pepsi-Cola in Europe, the Middle East and Canada. In 1989, Roberts moved with his family to Auckland to become Chief Operating Officer with Lion Nathan, a position he held for seven years.

Roberts is the author of three books (Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands; The Lovemarks Effect: Winning in the Consumer Revolution; and sisomo: the future on screen and is co-author of Peak Performance – Business Lessons From the World’s Top Sports Organizations.

Renowned for his vision and acumen, Roberts’ pursuits span business, sports, art, mentoring and education. He is a professor in Creative Leadership and Innovation at Lancaster University in the UK and the University of Auckland in NZ. He is trustee of the Turn Your Life Round Trust, an Auckland charity that mentors at-risk teenagers, and is a Sponsor Governor of Lancaster Royal Grammar School in the UK.

In 2004, Roberts was awarded the New Yorker for New York Award by The Citizens for NYC, and was appointed ambassador for the New Zealand United States Council in the US, to complement government-to-government relationships. A former director of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, he is Chairman of USA Rugby and a board member of NZ Telecom.

Joan Shapiro
Joan Shapiro is Chair of Seer Analytics, LLC, a consumer research firm she co-founded in 2001. Seer’s research programs apply state-of-the-art analytics, such as predictive modeling, data mining, demographics and geo-spatial analysis, to solve business problems. Clients include school districts, YMCAs around the country and health care companies. Ms. Shapiro was Executive Vice President of ShoreBank Corporation where, for 20 years, she built its franchise as the leading development bank in the country. She developed a national clientele, helped to shape the field of community-based investment and communicated these strategies abroad. She was a founding member and later president of the Social Investment Forum and is recognized as one of the pioneers of socially responsible investing in the United States.

Ms. Shapiro consulted on social enterprise investment and community development for several years. Clients included the Global Environmental Facility of the United Nations, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Chicago Humanities Festival. She has given academic lectures on community development and social investment at leading graduate schools of business, professional institutes and international forums and contributed to numerous books and other publications on these subjects.

Ms. Shapiro has served on public and private boards for over 30 years. She was an original member of the UK Social Investment Task Force, a group of business and civic leaders who advised government beginning in 2000 on private sector investment in urban regeneration. She has been on the boards of numerous cultural non-profit organizations as well as CERES and the Environmental Law & Policy Center, served as North American Vice President of the New Israel Fund and currently is a director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Mark Solomon (Kaiwhakahaere/Chair Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, New Zealand)
Mark Solomon is of Ngai Tahu and Ngāti Kuri descent, and is from Kaikoura on the east coast of Te Waipounamu. He is the elected Kaiwhakahaere (chair) of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, a position he has held since 1998.

Mark has represented his Kaikoura Runanga since 1988 and has contributed to his community in many capacities, ranging from roles as a trustee of Takahanga Marae, the local school board and on the board of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, a position he held from 2001-07.

Mark currently holds directorships with Te Hapai Mauri Ltd, Te Pataka o Tangaroa and Te Pataka o Rauru. He is also a Summit Governor of the Hillary Institute and a member of Te Kawai Taumata.

Mark believes a true rangatira is a servant of the people and reflects this in his role in helping establish the Iwi Chairs Forum and his ambition of kotahitanga for Māori.

Simon Walker
Simon Walker is Director General of the Institute of Directors in London. From 2007-2010 he was Chief Executive of the BVCA – The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association and between 2003 and 2007 he worked at Reuters, first as Director of Corporate Communications, and subsequently becoming Director of Corporate Communications and Marketing. Before joining Reuters, Simon was Communications Secretary to HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace. He was previously Director of Corporate Affairs at British Airways and a non-executive director of Comair Ltd (South Africa). He was a special adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street (1996–97).

Simon was previously a partner at Brunswick, the public relations group, and Director of European Public Affairs for Hill & Knowlton in Brussels. He was born in South Africa, and has worked as a journalist and consultant in New Zealand, Belgium and the UK. He was a member of the Better Regulation Commission, a member of the UK-Jamestown Committee and a Trustee of the New Zealand-UK Link Foundation. He read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Simon is married with two children.

Ray Anderson (Founding Summit Governor, In Memoriam)
Chairman and Founder, Interface, Inc.
The story is now legend; the “spear in the chest” epiphany Ray Anderson experienced when he first read Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce seeking inspiration for a speech to an Interface task force on the company’s environmental vision. Twelve years and a sea change later, Interface, Inc., is approximately 40 percent up “Mount Sustainability,” the journey towards a vision that no one would have imagined for the company, or the petroleum-intensive industry of carpet manufacturing which has been forever changed by Anderson’s vision. The once captain of industry has eschewed a luxury car for a Prius and built an off-the-grid home, authored a book chronicling his journey, Mid-Course Correction, and become an unlikely screen hero in the 2004 Canadian documentary, The Corporation. He was a sought after speaker and advisor on all issues eco, including a stint as co-chairman of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, and as a confidante of Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott as the company becomes more aware of its environmental impact and opportunities.

Some 11 years after his first book Mid Course Correction, Ray’s new book, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist debunks the myth that financial success and environmental success are mutually exclusive and tells the Interface story, as only he can tell it. Ray was the recipient of a number of life-time achievement awards. He passed away in August 2011.

“The Hillary Institute honours the memory of Ray Anderson who passed away August 8th, 2011, at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. As a founding governor Ray brought his leadership and inspiration to the development and governance of our work enabling and inspiring all he had contact with. He was forever thanking others ‘for the work that they do’. The debt we owe Ray for the work that he did, is enormous. May you rest in well-earned peace Ray.”

Bridget Cullerton (Founding Summit Governor, In Memoriam)
Bridget Cullerton was Chief Executive Officer of the Belize Citrus Growers Association, Chairperson of the Caribbean Citrus Association, and Belize representative to the Inter-American Citrus Network.

She capped 30 years of professional employment in the United States as Washington State’s Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction and adjunct professor at several universities before returning to her native Belize in 1992. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Education Administration while in the U.S. She represented U.S. and Belizean associations in delegations to the former Soviet Union, Germany, United Kingdom, Cuba and several other countries.

She was honored as Belize’s “Business Woman of the Year”, was invested with an MBE (Member of the British Empire) as part of the Queen’s Honors in 2000, and currently serves as a Justice of the Peace, member of the Regional Educational Council, and President-elect of the local Rotary Club. As a two-time cancer survivor, she was an organizing member of the Belize Cancer Society.

She was a popular and inspirational public speaker whose largely extemporaneous talks inspired audiences at numerous public events. She lived with her husband and three adopted children in Dangriga, a Garifuna community of 10,000 persons on the Caribbean Seacoast. Most of her seven adult children and 10 grandchildren reside in the United States. She was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and grew up as the oldest of 10 children on the cayes of Belize.

“The Hillary Institute honours the memory Bridget Garbutt Lambert Cullerton – who passed away 8:40 P.M. Thursday, September 10, 2009, at her home in Dangriga, Belize. From 2006 on, Bridget brought her very special blend of wholly unique world-view and deeply compassionate leadership to the development and governance of our work internationally, enriching us all. She will be deeply missed."