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Maurice Strong - Wikipedia

Maurice Frederick Strong, PC, CC, OM, FRSC, FRAIC (April 29, 1929 – November 27, 2015) was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_S…

In 1976, at the request of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Strong returned to Canada to head the newly created national oil company, Petro-Canada.

Strong first met with a leading UN official in 1947 who arranged for him to have a temporary low-level appointment, to serve as a

junior security officer at the UN headquarters in Lake Success, New York.

Strong was a longtime Foundation Director of the World Economic Forum, a senior advisor to the president of the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund, Resources for the Future and the Eisenhower

Fellowships.

Strong lobbied to change NGO perspectives on the World Bank. He is believed by some to have inspired the works of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on climate change.

In 2005, during investigations into the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Programme, evidence procured by federal investigators and the U.N.-authorized inquiry of Paul Volcker showed that in 1997, while working for Annan, Strong had endorsed a check for $988,885, made out to "Mr. M. Strong,"

issued by a Jordanian bank. It was reported that the check was hand-delivered to Mr. Strong by a South Korean businessman, Tongsun Park, who in 2006 was convicted in New York federal court of conspiring to bribe U.N. officials to rig Oil-for-Food in favor of Saddam Hussein.

Jeffrey Sachs worked with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000–2001 to design and launch The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He also worked with senior officials of the George W. Bush administration to develop the PEPFAR program to fight HIV/AIDS and the

PMI to fight malaria. On behalf of Annan, from 2002 to 2006 he chaired the UN Millennium Project which was tasked with developing a concrete action plan to achieve the MDGs.

Sachs was raised in Oak Park, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, the son of Joan (née Abrams) and Theodore

Sachs, a labor lawyer.

Sachs's classes are taught at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Mailman School of Public Health, and his course "Challenges of Sustainable Development" is taught at the undergraduate level.

Peter Daszak is a British zoologist,

consultant and public expert on disease ecology, in particular on zoonosis. He is the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit non-governmental organization that supports various programs on global health and pandemic prevention. He is also a member of the Center for

Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Walter Ian Lipkin (born November 18, 1952) is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a professor of Neurology and Pathology at

the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

Following their collaboration on The Informant! (2009), Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns discussed a film depicting the rapid spread of a virus, inspired by epidemics such as the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak

and the 2009 flu pandemic. Burns consulted with representatives of the World Health Organization as well as medical experts such as W. Ian Lipkin and Larry Brilliant.

Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant (born May 5, 1944) is an American epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist, and

author, who worked with the World Health Organization from 1973-1976 helping to successfully eradicate smallpox.

Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has been the CEO of public companies and venture backed start-ups. He was the inaugural Executive Director

of Google.org the charitable arm of Google established in 2005, and the first CEO of Skoll Global Threats Fund, established in 2009 by eBay founder Jeff Skoll to address climate change, pandemics, water security, nuclear proliferation, and conflict in the Middle East

Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students on the moon in California.

Then-CEO, and former Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt with cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (left to right) in 2008

Google was initially funded by an August 1998 investment of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, a few weeks prior to September 7, 1998, the day Google was officially incorporated.

Bechtolsheim's advisor was Forest Baskett. In 1980, Vaughan Pratt also

provided leadership to the SUN project. Support was provided by the Computer Science Department and DARPA.

Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet

launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate U.S. military requirements.
The Economist

has called DARPA the agency "that shaped the modern world," and pointed out that "Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine sits alongside weather satellites, GPS, drones, stealth technology, voice interfaces, the personal computer and the internet on the list of innovations for which DARPA can

claim at least partial credit."

From 1956 to 1960, Rockefeller Brothers Fund financed a study conceived by its then president, Nelson Rockefeller, to analyze the challenges facing the United States. Henry Kissinger was recruited to direct the project. Seven panels were

constituted that looked at issues including military strategy, foreign policy, international economic strategy, governmental reorganization, and the nuclear arms race.
The military subpanel's report was rush-released about two months after the USSR launched Sputnik in

October 1957.

The current president of RBF is Stephen Heintz, who was appointed to the post in 2000. Valerie Rockefeller serves as RBF's chairwoman.

Heintz began his professional life in public service for the state of Connecticut, starting as the chief of staff to then-senate

majority leader Joseph Lieberman in 1974.

Heintz served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for the EastWest Institute from 1990-1997.

After returning the United States, Heintz co-founded Dēmos, a public policy organization that works to reduce political

and economic inequality and to broaden citizen engagement in American democracy, and served as its president until 2001.
Heintz was appointed president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 2001.
In 2002, he led the RBF’s joint initiative with the UN Association of the USA to open

a Track II dialogue that helped lay the groundwork for the Iran nuclear deal.

Demos was conceptualized in the late 1990s by Charles Halpern, President of the Nathan Cummings Foundation (1989–2000). Halpern wanted to create a counter-force to the growing influence of the many

right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and establish a multi-issue organization that would focus on progressive policy development and advocacy. David Callahan, a Fellow at the Century Foundation, and Stephen B. Heintz, Vice-President of the EastWest Institute,

joined Halpern in helping to found Demos.
Founding board members included Arnie Miller, of Isaacson Miller, an executive search firm; David Skaggs, a Colorado Congressman; and future President Barack Obama, then an Illinois State Senator.

Amelia Louise Warren Tyagi (born

September 2, 1971) is an American businesswoman, management consultant, and author. She co-founded and is president of the placement firm Business Talent Group, is a trustee emeritus of progressive think tank Demos, and co-founded HealthAllies (now part of UnitedHealth Group).

Her mother Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Shortly after his brain cancer diagnosis, Senator John McCain hiked through Arizona’s Oak Creek Canyon with his daughter Meghan and two of his closest friends -– Senator Lindsey Graham and former Senator Joe Lieberman.
“The three amigos together again!” McCain tweeted at the

time.

Over his time in the Senate, McCain formed a close working relationship with Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, and Graham, the longtime Republican from South Carolina.

McCain and Lieberman, then a Democrat, met in the Senate in the late 1980’s, telling each

other during an encounter on the Senate floor that they hoped to work together in the future.
In the 1990’s, the two senators found themselves sharing the same views on the Bosnian war and traveling to the annual Munich Security Conference.
After the 9/11 attacks, the trio

made routine visits to Afghanistan and Iraq. It was on one of those trips when General David H. Petraeus gave the nickname to the triumvirate, which became vocal proponents of President George W. Bush’s “surge” strategy in Iraq.
“They were the three amigos. They were three

inseparable friends,” Petraeus told ABC News. “At some point, I just started saying we had the three amigos coming in again.”

General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) (New York) is a Partner at KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which he established in May 2013.