MainEvent 2002

Kathleen M. Bader
Business Group President; Corporate Vice President, Quality & Business Excellence, The Dow Chemical Company
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The highest-ranking woman at Dow Chemical, and ranked 24th on the 2001 Fortune 50 Most Powerful Women in Business international list, Kathleen Bader oversees a $4 billion business portfolio that includes Cargill Dow Polymers, as well as the company's Six Sigma initiative. Ms. Bader is a member of Dow's Corporate Operating Board, the executive decision-making team. She is also a member of the New Business Growth Board, the Bio Technology Board, and serves on the Members Committee of Cargill Dow Polymers LLC. Ms. Bader currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland.

Charlene Barshefsky
Senior International Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; former U.S. Trade Representative
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Best known for negotiating the historic market opening agreement with China (some say it made the 2004 Summer Olympics in Beijing possible) on its entry into the World Trade Organization, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, formerly the United States Trade Representative, played a principle role in the elimination of regulatory and investment barriers around the world. From 1996 to 2001, Ambassador Barshefsky was the chief trade negotiator and principal trade policy maker for the United States, and a member of President Clinton's Cabinet, negotiating hundreds of complex trade agreements to open foreign markets in virtually every major region, from China, Japan and the European Union to Latin America and the Middle East, as well as historic market opening agreements with Vietnam and Jordan. As the architect of U.S. trade policy, Ambassador Barshefsky is a central figure for international business. The breadth of Ambassador Barshefsky's accomplishments have been widely recognized: Harvard Law School recently honored her with its "Great Negotiator" award, and she was the recipient of Yale Law School's Prieskel-Silverman Fellowship for extraordinary public service. Ambassador Barshefsky serves on the corporate Board of Directors of the American Express Company; The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.; Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.; and is a member of Intel Corporation's Policy Advisory Board.

Charlotte Beers
Under Secretary, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
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The only executive in the advertising industry to have served as Chairman of two of the top 10 worldwide advertising agencies: J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, Ms. Beers has been a pioneer at nearly every step of her career. She was the first female Product Manager for Uncle Ben's Rice, going on to become the first female Senior Vice President for J. Walter Thompson. In 1988, she was the first woman in the 99 year-history of the American Association of Advertising Agencies to be named Chairman. For "Cracking the glass ceiling in advertising," Ms. Beers was named in 1992 by Glamour magazine as one of their "Women of the Year." In 1995, she received one of the Sara Lee Frontrunner Awards for being the only woman to head one of the nation's top 10 advertising agencies. New York Women in Communications awarded her the prestigious Matrix Award for her outstanding accomplishments in advertising, and in 1997, she was on the cover of Fortune Magazine's first issue featuring America's most powerful women.

Myrna Blyth
SVP, Publishing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Ladies Home Journal and More Magazine
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Under Myrna Blyth's stewardship, Ladies' Home Journal has experienced its most profitable years in its 117-year history and won numerous awards for editorial excellence and was the first women's service magazine to be named "Magazine of the Year" by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Personally, Ms. Blyth has received a myriad of awards, including the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications, Inc.; the Headliner Award from Women in Communications, Inc.; and, in 2000, the Magazine Publishers Association's prestigious Henry Johnson Fisher Award, the highest award in the publishing industry. A frequent guest on national radio and television programs, Ms. Blythe has appeared on "Today," "Good Morning America," CNN and MSNBC. Ms. Blyth was a member on the Advisory Board of the Red Cross and is currently on the Advisory Board of ThirdAge Media and Research America!. An official American delegate for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Ms. Blythe served on the host committee that organized the Beijing Plus Five meeting. Currently she serves on the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health.

Maureen Bunyan
Anchor, WJLA-ABC7
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One of the most respected journalists in the Washington, D.C. area, Maureen Bunyan’s distinguished, Emmy Award-winning career as a television news anchor, reporter, producer and writer has spanned 30 years. She currently co-anchors News 7 at 6, and anchors News 7 at 11 on WJLA, ABC’s Washington, D.C. affiliate. Before arriving at Channel 7, Maureen served as an anchor for the local CBS affiliate from 1973 through 1995. The recipient of numerous broadcast journalism awards, Ms. Bunyan has been inducted into "The Silver Circle" of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and was recently inducted into the Dateline “Hall of Fame.” Ms. Bunyan is founder and current Co-Chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, which serves women in the media in 100 countries and was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists. She serves on the boards of the National Commission on Working Women, the Women's Campaign Fund and the National Council for Research on Women.

David Gergen
Professor of Public Service, Kennedy School of Government
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Among his many accolades, David Gergen is one of the country's leading commentators, editors, and educators, a public servant, best-selling author and adviser to presidents. He served for a year as counselor to President Clinton and then for six months as Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State, Warren Christopher. Before that, he spent 8 years in the White House as an advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. From 1984-1993, he worked mostly as a journalist. As a weekly political analyst for PBS and as editor of U.S. News, he became a popular and trusted commentator. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Mr. Gergen is an honors graduate of Yale University (A.B., 1963) and the Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1967), and a member of the D.C. Bar. In addition, he served for three-and-a-half years in the U.S. Navy, where he was posted for two years to a ship home-ported in Japan.

Sally Helgesen
Author, Thriving in 24/7:Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work
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Author of the recently published, Thriving in 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work, Sally Helgesen is a premier thinker about the role of work and leadership in the knowledge economy. With a special (but not exclusive) emphasis upon women, she looks at how profound changes in technology, demographics and the economy are intersecting to create unprecedented opportunities for individuals; and how these opportunities are reshaping organizations, institutions and society as a whole. Her pioneering studies of inclusive leadership and the increasing power of individuals in shaping their own work have influenced the hundreds of organizations in which she has consulted, run workshops, or given keynotes. She is the author of five books, including The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, which was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time.


Sue Herera
Anchor, CNBC
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A pioneer of cable TV business news, and one of CNBC's most recognized journalists, Sue Herera is co-anchor of "Business Center with Ron Insana and Sue Herera," and has been with CNBC since its inception in 1989. Previously, she spent seven years as an anchor and reporter with Financial News Network. Her first book, Women of the Street: Making It On Wall Street - The World's Toughest Business, was published in January 1997. Ms. Herera also hosted a CNBC special entitled "The Great Game: The Story of Wall Street" in March 2000.

Rt. Honorable Patricia Hewitt
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Minister for Women, and e-Minister in Cabinet
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A Member of British Parliament since 1997, Rt. Honorable Patricia Hewitt is currently responsible for the Department of Trade and Industry, the Office of Science and Technology, the Export Credits Guarantee Department, and the Women's Unit. MP for Leicester West, Ms. Hewitt was formerly Minister for Small Business and E-Commerce at the Department of Trade and Industry (1999-2001) and Economic Secretary at the Treasury (1998-1999). Formerly, Ms. Hewitt held the positions of Press and Broadcasting Officer (1983-87) and Policy Coordinator (1987-89) to the then Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. Neil Kinnock; Deputy Director (1989-94) of the Institute for Public Policy Research, and Director of Research for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) (1994-97). An advocate of women's issues, in 1993 Ms Hewitt wrote About Time, a book focusing on changes in work and family life. Prior to her Ministerial post, Ms. Hewitt was Deputy Chair of the Commission for Social Justice (1992-94) and was a member of the Social Security Select Committee before taking up her Ministerial post.

J.C. Herz
Principal, Joystick Nation, Inc, and Author
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Recognized as one of the World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders of Tomorrow," J.C. Herz (jc@joysticknation.com) is the Principal of Joystick Nation Inc., a consultancy that applies the principles of complex systems to the design of products, services, and brands. An acclaimed author and columnist, Ms. Herz has authored two books, Surfing On the Internet: A Nethead's Adventures Online (Little Brown, 1994), and Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds (Little Brown 1997); she also penned more than 100 articles for a weekly New York Times column entitled, "Game Theory," which ran through February 2000. A noted lecturer and educator, Ms. Herz has conducted numerous workshops on game design, networked experience design and brand strategy in networked markets, and has spoken at numerous technology, design, and business conferences. She currently sits on the National Research Council's Committee on Creativity and Information Technology. An upcoming research paper on the social ecology of online games and its implications for technology innovation will be published by the National Defense University later this year.


Sung Joo Kim
CEO, Sung Joo International
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One of Asia's most celebrated businesswomen, Sung Joo Kim is President and CEO of one of South Korea's most prominent and popular retail chains, and the sole importer of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykiel, MCM, and Marks & Spencer in South Korea. Sung Joo International is widely credited with having introduced Western-style retailing practices to Korea, replacing flea market style stores with subtly lit, spacious boutiques in Seoul. The daughter of one of Korea's leading businessmen, Ms. Kim has famously broken many of the rules in her country. Rather than conform to societal and familial customs, she rebelled and went abroad, earning advanced degrees from Amherst College and the London School of Economics. Profiled in such magazines as Forbes, Asiaweek and Newsweek, she was selected as one of the 1997 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum at Davos. Working Woman Magazine selected her as one of the "20 Most Powerful International Businesswomen (New York, 1999)" and Asiaweek called her the "7th most influential woman in Asia (HongKong, July 2001)." Her best-selling self-essay book Beautiful Outcast/Wake-Up Call was released in Korea in 2000. She resides in Seoul, Korea.

Catherine Kopp
Former Group Vice President, LVMH
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In September 2001, Cathy Kopp was named Group Executive Vice President, Human Resources for LVMH, where she oversees Human Resources functions of the world's leading luxury brands group and also serves as a member of the LVMH Executive Committee. Formerly Chairman, IBM France, she first held several sales and management positions there, including leading the Bank and Insurance sales branch before moving from sales to human resources. At IBM France, she held several prominent positions including Director of Employees Managers and Executive Education for Europe, and Director of Human Resources for France where she led the largest restructuring plan of IBM in France. She also served as Vice President Human Resources, Storage System Division and Data Technology; Vice President, Global Employee Relations; Vice President Sales and Development for EMEA; and County General Manager, France before being named Chairman in March 2001. Ms. Kopp resides in Paris, France with her husband and two children.

Debra L. Lee
President and Chief Operating Officer, Black Entertainment Television
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One of the country's most revered business executives, Debra L. Lee's ascent to the highest levels of Black Entertainment Television (BET), the leading media and entertainment company targeted to African Americans, is akin to that of a soaring rocketship - fast, majestic, graceful and awesome to watch. Not only is she the highest ranking African-American woman at BET's parent company Viacom, Lee clearly embodies the prototypical corporate leader of the new millenium. At a time when most cable and broadcast networks are seeing virtually zero growth, Ms. Lee has the BET network on track for its highest-rated season ever - with current season's ratings up 35% versus last season. The recipient of the 2001 Woman of the Year Award from Women in Cable and Telecommunications, the Wonder Woman Award from Cablevision Magazine and one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Washington, D.C. by Washingtonian Magazine, Ms. Lee serves on the Board of Directors of Eastman Kodak Company, Washington Gas & Light Company and Genuity, Inc. She is also a member of the national Board of Directors for Girls, Inc., Kennedy Center's Community & Friends Board, the Telecommunications Development Fund, the National Symphony Orchestra Board, the Executive Campaign Cabinet for the American Red Cross and Trustee Emeritus, Brown University.


Ellen MacArthur
Yachtsman
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A world champion award-winning yachtsman, at age 24 Ellen MacArthur was the youngest woman ever to sail solo around the world. Placing a stunning second place in the 2000-2001 Vendee Globe Race, the premiere 25,000-mile around-the-world sailing event, Ms. MacArthur captured the hearts of nations, and was catapulted to the global scene. Achieving Yachtmaster at age 18 (exceptionally young in the sailing world) she conducted her first solo sail around Great Britain at 19. The following year, she led her first team trans-Atlantic sail: a race from Newport, RI, USA to St. Malo, in which she placed third. At 22, she sailed, and won, her first solo Transatlantic race (the Toute du Rhum,) prompting renowned Yachtsman Yves Parlier to proclaim, "What Ellen has just accomplished is truly fantastic!" Among her many awards and accolades, Ms. MacArthur was recently recognized as the Sunday Times "Woman of the Year," and was runner-up at the "Sports Personality of the Year" Awards. In December 2001, Ms. MacArthur was awarded the distinguished title of M.B.E. (Member of the British Empire,) at Buckingham Palace by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.



Violy McCausland
President & CEO, Violy, Byorum & Partners
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As a banker with more than 20-years experience in Latin America, Ms. McCausland has been providing advisory services, and is a pioneer in restructuring, mergers & acquisitions and raising capital for Latin American corporations. Over the course of her career, Ms. McCausland has led more than $30 billion in successful transactions including mergers, divestitures, acquisitions, spin-offs, public and private capital raisings, restructurings, privatizations and project financings. Prior to founding VB&P, Ms. McCausland joined James D. Wolfensohn, the current President of the World Bank, as a Partner to develop his Latin American practice. She travels and works extensively throughout Latin America, and her success was acclaimed in 1995 by Global Finance, which named her a Latin American "Superstar." Ms. McCausland currently serves on the Investment Committee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is a Board Member for BOMB, a NYC art magazine, and is a Director of the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce's Northeast Chapter.

Pat Mitchell
President & CEO, Public Broadcasting Service
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In February 2000, Pat Mitchell became the first woman and first producer to serve as CEO of the nation's largest and only non-commercial broadcasting service. A former network correspondent, independent producer and Time Warner executive, she now oversees the operations of a $1 billion national enterprise made up of 349 member stations whose mission is to enrich the lives of all Americans while strengthening social capital in the communities they serve. Recognized as a proven business leader and respected executive in the entertainment industry, Forbes magazine recently named her one of the Magnetic 40 corporate executives. She was also included in Electronic Media's "12 to Watch," Hollywood Reporter's "Top 40" Women in Entertainment, and named "Woman of the Year" by Women in Cable and Telecommunications. With a history of activism in her community and in non-profit organizations, Ms. Mitchell serves on the Board of Trustees of the Sundance Institute, the Women's Leadership Advisory Council of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the National Board of Girls, Inc., and the Board of Directors of Bank of America. On February 21, 2002, she was named to the Board of Trustees of the Mayo Foundation Read 'Giving Back to Build Our Future' by Pat Mitchell


Anne Mulcahy
President and CEO, Xerox
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Number six on Fortune magazine's 2001 list of "The Most Powerful Women in Business," Anne Mulcahy was named Chairman of Xerox in January 2002 and CEO in August 2001, Ms. Mulcahy was previously President and Chief Operating Officer of Xerox. Prior to that, she was president of Xerox's General Markets Operations, which created and sold products for reseller, dealer and retail channels. She began her Xerox career as a field sales representative in 1976 and assumed increasingly responsible sales and senior management positions, serving as vice president for human resources, Chief Staff Officer in 1997 and Corporate Senior Vice President. Ms. Mulcahy is a member of the boards of directors of Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., Target Corporation, Axel Johnson Inc., Catalyst and Fannie Mae.


Tom Peters
Author and Lecturer, tompeterscompany!
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Author of the acclaimed business treatise, In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters has single-handedly turned the world of corporate management on its head. A self-described prince of disorder, champion of bold failures, maestro of zest, and professional loudmouth, Peters' profound effect on corporate America has prompted The Los Angeles Times to name him "the father of the post-modern corporation." Fortune called him the "Ur-guru" of management. The Economist says he's the "uber-guru." And his unconventional views led Business Week to describe him as business's "best friend and worst nightmare." Tom is the author of dozens of books, including the category-defining business book In Search of Excellence


Gill Rider
Managing Partner, Accenture
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Heading up Accenture's European and Latin American Energy, Utilities, Chemicals and Natural Resources business, Ms. Rider sits on the worldwide Accenture Global Executive Committee where she is responsible for Accenture's "Great place to Work ... for Women" global initiative. In the past, Ms. Rider has worked in a variety of industries, including financial markets, healthcare and government. For the last ten years she has worked full time with utilities, helping them undertake significant programs of change. Recently, she has sponsored a strategic research project assessing the likely future landscape, over the next five to ten years, for the European Energy industry. She resides in England with her husband, David, a full time farmer, in their a 16th century Farmhouse home.


Joyce RochÈ
President & CEO, Girls, Inc.
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Bringing together a unique combination of sharp business acumen and strong commitment to building girls' confidence and leadership skills, Joyce RochÈ heads up Girls, Inc., a national nonprofit organization dedicated to empowered girls and an equitable society. Before moving into the realm of non-profit, Ms. RochÈ was for 35 years a trailblazer in the corporate world, serving successfully as President and Chief Operating Officer of Carson Products Company, an African American personal care product company, before moving on to Avon. At Avon Products, Inc, she went on to break new ground as the company's first African American Female Vice President, the first African American Vice President of Marketing, and the company's first Vice President of Global Marketing. She has received wide-spread acclaim for numerous achievements in the business world, including her selection in 1998 as one of Business Week's "Top Managers to Watch." The year before, she was featured on the cover of Fortune as one of "21 Women of Power and Influence in Corporate America." In 1991 and 1994, respectively, Black Enterprise named Ms. RochÈ one of the "40 Most Powerful Black Executives." She currently sits on the Board of Directors of SBC Communications Inc., Tupperware Corporation and Anheuser-Busch Companies, and on the Board of Trustees for Dillard University and the Queens College Foundation.

Rayona Sharpnack
President, Institute for Women's Leadership
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With a career spanning education, professional sports, business, and consulting, Rayona Sharpnack has delivered her groundbreaking work on contextual leadership and breakthrough performance throughout the United States, Australia, Brazil, and Canada. She has worked extensively with both Fortune 500 companies and non-profits, achieving acclaim for her work at Stanford Business School, UC Berkeley Business School, Mills College, State of the World Forum, Leadership America and the Professional and Business Women of California. In 1992, Ms. Sharpnack founded the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), which has become a powerful global network of women and men leaders committed to learning, accomplishing, and building communities of commitment. IWL conducts training programs and convenes public dialogues aimed at actualizing the full potential of every member of our society, while promoting partnership and cross-pollination of ideas and resources.

Elizabeth J. Smith
General Manager and Managing Director for General Electric,
IBM Corporation
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Elizabeth J. Smith is the Managing Director for General Electric, one of IBM's largest and most highly valued customers. In this role she works closely with GE's executive teams to discuss strategic business issues, share key business and technology strategies, and ensure high customer satisfaction and loyalty. Ms. Smith also has profit-and-loss management responsibility for the GE account globally, covering all IBM brands, and for extending the share growth of the IBM portfolio. She serves as a member of IBM's Corporate Technology Council, an executive group advising IBM's CEO on the company's key technologies; and on the IBM Women's Council. Ms. Smith is also the IBM relationship executive for Carnegie Mellon University.

John Steele
Group Personal Director, British Telecom (BT)
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A leader in change management including re-structuring, re-engineering, downsizing, organisational learning, and Trade Union relationships/negotiations, John Steele has worked at British Telecom since May 1989. Prior to joining BT, Mr. Steele spent 22-years at IBM, and five years with the Ford Motor Company in Staff and Labour Relations in a number of senior management appointment in the UK, Europe and the USA. Since joining BT, Mr. Steele has been responsible for leading transformation programmes. In his current role, Mr. Steele is responsible for Human Resource excellence across the BT group with functional responsibility for the Human Resource Directors of BT's various lines of business covering the international and UK environments. In addition, he has specific responsibility for organisation development and the executive development of senior management throughout the group, including high potential managers to help build BT's future capability with particular emphasis on inspirational leadership. Mr. Steele is Chairman of 'e'peopleserve-a joint venture between BT and Accenture that provides outsourcing of HR administration to clients in the UK, Ireland and Europe, with plans to expand the service to North America and Asia.

Alastair Stewart
Main Presenter, "London Tonight," London News Network (LNN)
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With a career in television news spanning a quarter of a century, Alastair Stewart is one of the most recognized faces in television news in the UK. He presents London News Network's flagship news and features programme "London Tonight," as well as a number of special programmes including, "Police, Camera, Action!" the top rated factual programme on ITV; the "Carlton Debates" and Carlton's quiz show, "King Of The Castle". Prior to joining LNN, Mr. Stewart was a presenter at ITN News, where he was the first British reporter to be broadcast live from the liberated Kuwait City during the Gulf War, and is one of a small number of people who has presented all of ITN's main news programmes. An active supporter and advocate for various charity works, Mr. Stewart currently serves as Vice President of both NCH Action For Children, and Homestart. He is also a Patron of Lord Mayor Treloar College for disabled students, the mental health charity, SANE, and the medical research charity, HOPE; and a vice Patron of the mental health charities The Zito Trust and The Mental Health Foundation.

Kathleen M. Sullivan
Dean, Stanford Law School
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A highly respected lawyer and educator, Kathleen Sullivan is Dean, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law, and Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. After clerking in 1981-82 for Judge James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, she practiced constitutional and criminal law in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts for two years, working extensively with Laurence H. Tribe. She joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1984 and then the Stanford faculty in 1993. Named to the National Law Journals list of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" in 2000, Dean Sullivan was the first recipient of the Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence at Harvard. She also received the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford. In 1996, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The American Prospect and The New York Review of Books, Dean Sullivan has also been a legal commentator on television news programs, including the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, Crossfire and This Week.

Paula Zahn
Anchor, CNN
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A 23-year, Emmy-award news veteran, Ms. Zahn joined CNN in September 2001, having previously hosted "The Edge with Paula Zahn" and "The Fox Report" on the Fox News Channel. She spent 10 years at CBS News where she co-hosted "CBS Morning News" and anchored the "CBS Evening News Saturday Edition." Prior to that, she was at ABC, serving as co-anchor of "World News This Morning" and anchoring news segments of "Good Morning America." Ms. Zahn has interviewed key newsmakers including four former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford; Cuban President Fidel Castro, former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, H.M. Queen Noor of Jordan, former President of Georgia Edward Shevardnadze, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, former First Lady Betty Ford, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, civil rights leader Stokley Charmichael and human rights activist Winnie Mandela. An experienced cellist who began playing at age 5, Ms. Zahn made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1992 performing with the New York Pops orchestra.

Theodore Zeldin
Scholar, Lecturer and Dean, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
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Touted by London’s Independent on Sunday as one of the “forty world figures whose ideas are likely to have a lasting relevance to the new millennium,” and by the New Guru Guide as one of Britain’s “leading intellects,” Theodore Zeldin graduated from London University at the age of 17. Following two additional degrees from Oxford, he joined its faculty, and at age 30, became Dean of St. Antony's College at Oxford, where he helped to establish the College as the University's new center for international studies. In his forties, he published the 2000-page Oxford History of Modern Europe (reissued as the History of French Passions), prompting Le Point magazine to call him “the most popular Englishman in France,” and Time Magazine to name him "the world's leading authority on Frenchness." A critically acclaimed author, his books: Happiness, An Intimate History of Humanity and Conversation, Future of Work, and Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives, have expanded his research to the art of living on a global scale, and won him an international audience. Mr. Zeldin has lectured in 15 countries, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and USC. He recently founded, and serves as President of, the Oxford Muse, an organization whose purpose is to expand people's experience and abilities with less superficial personal relationships, and to develop ways of working that are more life-enhancing.

Dieter Zetsche
Board of Management DaimlerChrysler; President & CEO Chrysler Group
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An engineer by trade, Dr. Dieter Zetsche has been President and CEO for the Chrysler Group since November 17, 2000, where he is responsible for the worldwide operations of Chrysler, Jeep® and Dodge, as well as Mercedes-Benz USA, Canada and Mexico. He has also served as a member of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler AG since the company was officially formed in November of 1998. Dr. Zetsche joined Daimler-Benz AG in the research division in 1976 and held several domestic and international management positions before becoming the chief engineer for Mercedes-Benz do Brasil in 1987. In 1989 he was named President of Mercedes-Benz Argentina. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, and raised and educated in Frankfurt, Germany, he received his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in 1976 and was awarded his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Paderborn Technical University in 1982.