Global Leadership Summit
On
Philanthropy, Enterprise, and Poverty Alleviation
Lyford Cay Club
Nassau, Bahamas
December 9th –11th, 2005
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The Challenge:
The broad purpose of this gathering is to bring dynamic entrepreneurial leaders together to learn from one another. The specific focus for our gathering is enterprise-based solutions to poverty. We also will engage the challenge of advancing innovations in philanthropy utilizing entrepreneurial strategies, methods and institutions.
Mass poverty remains one of the greatest scandals of our world. It allows millions do die for reasons easily remedied within the wealthier world. It is an affront to human dignity, a catalyst for disease and war, a persistent destabilizing threat the global economy, and a key ingredient facilitating ethnopolitical conflicts everywhere. Great concern and vast resources have been outpoured to “solve global poverty” over many decades. Yet, especially in Africa, the past four decades have seen a worsening of the situation. In comparison, the situation in some parts of Asia has been relatively bright. In the “Tiger economies,” economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of formerly impoverished persons into relative affluence. A lesson of this well-documented success is that whenever business cultures can grow and flourish, mass poverty flees. A potent counter-lesson is that efforts to promote “development” via well-intentioned Aid schemes mostly do not work. Well-intentioned international aid in many cases may have contributed to the entrenchment of poverty. Aid has strengthened dictatorial regimes and padded Swiss bank accounts. Viewing such failures, many have begun to recognize that competitive enterprise, economic freedom, and the culture of innovation are the most practical large-scale well-demonstrated engines for solving mass poverty. Yet entrepreneurial cultures often are strangled in so-called failed states where, in many situations, charitable aid remains the most directly feasible option. What can be done in the context of this dilemma?
The challenge of the 2005 Global Leadership Summit is to discuss most strategic ways of harnessing the power of enterprise and the resources of the philanthropic sector, to engender wealth creation by and for the poor. Private initiatives, often developed on small scales and involving dynamic entrepreneurs, offer valuable insights for the future. Each invited leader will bring a wealth of experience and “vision capital” to the table. This will allow us to consider a “what works” agenda based on real practical expertise around the table.
Key Questions:
The 2005 Summit seeks to address the following key questions:
How can philanthropy accelerate the growth of wealth-creating cultures that benefit the poor?
What types of program and what specific points of strategic investment are most promising?
How can private sector philanthropy inform public policy so that decision makers do not continue the irony of well-intentioned harm?
How can new technologies benefit primary education in the developing world by transferring vision and practical information on how to be an entrepreneur?
How can philanthropists act wisely in the context of “failed states” where the rule-of-law does not exist and where endemic corruption makes it difficult for enterprise to flourish?
How can philanthropy leverage links between certain key spiritual and cultural outlooks and culture transformation towards entrepreneurial wealth creation?
Summit Agenda
Friday, December 9, 2005
4:00 p.m.Arrival/Registration at The Lyford Cay Club
6:30 p.m.Opening Reception – The Main Lounge
7:00 p.m.Dinner – The Main Dining Room
8:30 p.m.Dinner Talk: Free Enterprise and Development-
A Landscape of Opportunity
Speaker: Paul Wolfowitz
10:00 p.m.After-Dinner Drinks
Saturday, December 10, 2005
7:45 a.m.Breakfast – The Atrium
Opening Remarks: Sir John Templeton
8:30 a.m.Roundtables Begin
Theme I: What is working
8:30 a.m.Entrepreneurial Private Sector Education in the Developing World
Introduced by James Tooley
Lead Discussants: Stephanie Bell-Rose, Carl Schramm, Jeff Sandefer, etc.
9:30 a.m.Venture-Capital Approaches to Philanthropy
Introduced by Kim Tan
Lead Discussants: David Kyle, Ken Eldred, Steve Beck, Richard Heckman, etc.
10:30 a.m.Break
11:00 a.m.Micro-enterprise Solutions to Poverty
Introduced by Michael Chu
Lead Discussants: Kurt Hoffman, Michael Murray, etc.
12:00 p.m.Buffet Lunch – The Beach Restaurant
1:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.Afternoon Recreation
3:00 a.m.Roundtables Resume
Theme II: Pathways Forward
3:00 p.m.Cultural Transformation for Competition
Introduced by Michael Fairbanks
Lead Discussants: Paul Wolfowitz, Daniel Little, Jeff Sandefer, Gurcharan Das, etc.
3:45 p.m.The Geneva Global Model
Introduced by Steve Beck
Lead Discussants: Charles Harper, Dennis Whittle, etc.
4:30 p.m.Advancing Frontiers in Free Enterprise Innovation
Introduced by Charles Harper and Gurcharan Das
Lead Discussants: JB Fuqua, Randy Kritkausky, Marc Manashil, etc.
6:30 p.m.Cocktails – The Fort
7:00 p.m.Dinner and Discussion
10:00 p.m.After-Dinner Gathering
Sunday, December 11, 2005
7:30 a.m.Breakfast – The Atrium
8:30 a.m.-NoonRecreation and/or Adjournment
Current Attendees:
Paul Wolfowitz (scheduled but not confirmed)
James Tooley Steve Beck
Michael Chu
Kurt Hoffman
Gurchuran Das (verbal only)
Ken Eldred
JB Fuqua
Charles Maynes
Maya Ajmera
Peter Hero
Randy Kritkausky
David Kyle
Daniel Little
Edward Luttwak
Mark Ross Manashil
Michael Pattison
Dennis Whittle
Invited but No RSVP:
Kim Tan
Need to Be Invited:
Charles Glenn
Michael Fairbanks
Maria Otero
Michael Milken
Mike Murry
The Premji Foundation
Stephanie Bell-Rose
Carl Schram
Uday Khemka
Jeff Sandefer (Acton MBA)
H. Wayne Huizenga (Miami Dolphins, Blockbuster, Waste Management)
Richard J. Heckmann (US Filter, K2)
Paul Merage (Hot Pockets – brother David)
Declined:
Jeff Skoll
Michael Dell
Richard Luftglass
Narayana Murthy
Ted Yost