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Participant Bios: The White House Summit on Malaria
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For Immediate Release
Office of the First Lady
December 14, 2006

Participant Bios: The White House Summit on Malaria


˙˙˙˙˙ The White House Summit on Malaria

George W. Bush, President of the United States

Mrs. Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States

Isaiah Washington, Master of Ceremonies and Star of ABC's Grey's Anatomy

Isaiah Washington stars as Dr. Preston Burke on ABC's Grey's Anatomy and
has appeared in over thirty films. Having traced his maternal ancestry to
the Mendé people of Sierra Leone, Mr. Washington visited the country in May
and was inducted as >Chief Gondobay Manga._ He established The Gondobay
Manga Foundation to help the country and its people. The foundation
advocates cooperative planning, one village at a time, to achieve immediate
improvements in the lives of the people. This singular approach tailors
initiatives to the needs of the village, while drawing the attention of the
international community to specific and distinct goals.

Dr. Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State

Dr. Condoleezza Rice is Secretary of State of the United States. Prior to
this appointment, she was Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs. In June 1999, she completed a six-year tenure as Stanford
University's Provost, the institution's chief budget and academic officer.
Dr. Rice was a professor of political science at Stanford, a member of
Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control and a Senior
Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and has written numerous
books and articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy.
Among many other philanthropic efforts, Dr. Rice was a founding board
member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for
schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice
President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula.

Yvonne Chaka Chaka, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Malaria

Yvonne Chaka Chaka is a South African singer, businesswoman and
motivational speaker with a passion for supporting women in business and
development. Yvonne was first appointed a UNICEF Regional Spokesperson on
Malaria in 2005, following the death of her backing vocalist from malaria
in 2004. In November 2006, she was formally designated a Regional Goodwill
Ambassador with a mandate to speak on a wider range of issues affecting
children, including malaria. In 2003, she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador
for the University of South Africa along with Nobel Laureate Bishop Desmond
Tutu. Since her appointment with UNICEF, Yvonne has been a tireless
campaigner for children, traveling to several countries in Africa and
abroad and calling attention to the terrible impact of malaria on children.

Admiral R. Timothy Ziemer, United States Malaria Coordinator

Admiral R. Timothy Ziemer was appointed in June 2006 to lead the
President's Malaria Initiative. He previously served as Executive Director
of World Relief, which provides disaster response, community development,
child/maternal health, HIV/AIDS, agricultural assistance, and microcredit
programs in over 30 countries. Prior to that he was Vice President of the
Arlington Institute, a nonprofit research institute that specializes in
strategic planning and seeks to influence change by applying emerging
technology. Born in Iowa but raised in Asia, the son of missionary parents
serving in Vietnam, Admiral Zeimer had an outstanding career in the US
Navy. His last duty assignment was as Commander of the Navy's Mid-Atlantic
Region, responsible for the 11 bases providing support to the world's
largest naval complex.

Mohamed Saleh Jiddawi, M.D, Zanzibar Principal Secretary, Ministry of
Health and Social Welfare

Dr. Mohamed Jiddawi became Permanent Secretary in the Zanzibar Ministry of
Health in April 2006. Prior to his appointment, he practiced general
surgery and urology in Zanzibar. Dr. Jiddawi earned his M.D. at the
Institute of Medicine in Cluj, Romania, in 1979, and his masters in General
Surgery in Dar es Salaam in 1989. A native of Zanzibar, he did his urology
training in Brighton, U.K.

Steven C. Phillips, M.D., Medical Director for Global Issues and Projects,
Exxon Mobil Corporation

Dr. Steven C. Phillips is the Medical Director for Global Issues and
Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation, where his responsibilities include
overseeing the Corporation's "outside-the-fenceline" community and public
health programs throughout its global operations. In this capacity, he has
worked closely with governments, NGO's, U.N. agencies, multilateral
organizations, and the private sector in fostering public-private
partnerships as a development platform to address urgent global health
priorities. Prior to joining Exxon in 1981, Dr. Phillips served in the U.S.
Public Health Service and was assigned to the Centers for Disease Control
in Atlanta to conduct epidemic investigations. Dr. Phillips currently
serves as a representative of the private sector on the Board of the Roll
Back Malaria Partnership and is part of the private sector delegation to
the Board of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Richard G. A. Feachem, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Dr. Richard Feachem has worked in international health and development for
30 years and has published extensively on public health and health policy.
He was appointed in April 1999 to be the Founding Director of the Institute
for Global Health at the University of California in San Francisco. From
1995 to 1999, Dr. Feachem held the positions of Director and Senior Advisor
for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Prior to this, he
was Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for six
years. In 2002, he was appointed Executive Director of the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is on an extended leave of absence
from his duties at the University of California, while he serves at the
Global Fund in Geneva.

Ann Veneman, Executive Director, UNICEF

Ann M. Veneman assumed the leadership of UNICEF in 2005, becoming the fifth
Executive Director in its 60-year history. At UNICEF Ms. Veneman directs a
global agency of nearly 10,000 staff and annual total resources of about $3
billion, funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of governments,
businesses, foundations and individuals. Before UNICEF she served as
Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture. Having earned a
law degree from the University of California, much of her career has been
focused on child nutrition, public health, international trade and
development, and alleviating hunger, including major initiatives to help
fight undernutrition around the world.

Dr. Paul Wolfowitz, President, The World Bank

Dr. Paul Wolfowitz became the tenth President of the World Bank Group in
2005. Prior to this appointment, he spent more than three decades as a
public servant, ambassador and educator, including 24 years in government
service under seven U.S. presidents. His practical experience in the
developing world includes three years in Indonesia as U.S. Ambassador, and
his Washington-based policy work on East Asian affairs. From 1994-2001, Dr.
Wolfowitz served as Dean and Professor of International Relations at the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins
University. Earlier, he taught political science at Yale University. He has
written widely on foreign policy, diplomacy and national security.

Margaret Chan, M.D., Director General-Elect, World Health Organization

Dr. Margaret Chan is Director-General Elect of the World Health
Organization. Previously, Dr Chan was WHO Assistant Director-General for
Communicable Diseases and Representative of the Director-General for
Pandemic Influenza. Prior to joining WHO, she was Director of Health in
Hong Kong, where she confronted the first human outbreak of H5N1 avian
influenza in 1997 and successfully defeated Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong in 2003. She also launched new services to
prevent disease and promote better health.

Eyitayo Lambo, Ph.D., Minister of Health, Nigeria

Dr. Eyitayo Lambo, Minister of Health of Nigeria, holds a master's degree
in economics and a doctorate in operations research applied to health
systems. He taught at universities in Nigeria for many years and was a
consultant to the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria, the Nigerian
Industrial Development Bank and the African Development Bank. He was also
external examiner to several universities, including the City University of
London. Between 1990 and 1999, Dr. Lambo was the World Health
Organization's Regional Adviser in Africa for health sector reforms, health
care financing and health in socioeconomic development. He has published
over sixty papers, articles and books in the areas of quantitative
economics, modeling, operations research applied to health, strategic
management, and health economics.

Melinda French Gates, Co-Chair, The Bill _

Melinda French Gates was a unit manager at Microsoft before her marriage to
Bill Gates, the company's founder and current Chairman. Ms. Gates holds an
MBA from Duke University, was a member of Duke's Board of Trustees from
1996-2003, and is currently on the board of Directors of The Washington
Post. She and her husband have given the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
more than US $24 billion to help relieve worldwide suffering. They recently
received Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in
recognition of their world impact through philanthropy.

Ray Chambers, Chairman of the Board, Malaria No More

Raymond G. Chambers, a philanthropist and humanitarian who has directed
most of his efforts toward at-risk youth, is the Founding Chairman of the
Points of Light Foundation and co-founder, with General Colin Powell, of
America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth. Mr. Chambers is also co-founder
of the National Mentoring Partnership and Chairman of the Millennium
Promise Alliance. In helping to lead the revitalization of the city of
Newark, New Jersey, he was the Founding Chairman of the New Jersey
Performing Arts Center. He is former Chairman of Wesray Capital
Corporation, which he co-founded with William Simon.

Roxanne Spillett, President, Boys _

Roxanne Spillett heads Boys _s fastest-growing youth development
organization with a primary focus on young people from disadvantaged
backgrounds. BGCA now serves more than 4.6 million girls and boys through
some 3,900 affiliates in the United States, and on military bases in Europe
and Asia. Ms. Spillett's particular emphasis is on serving children in
nontraditional environments, including public housing and Native American
lands. One of her most noteworthy achievements is the initiation of a
unique partnership with the Department of Defense to charter Boys _

Kathleen Behrens, Senior Vice President, Community and Player Programs,
National Basketball Association

Kathleen Behrens is currently the National Basketball Association's Senior
Vice President of Community and Player Programs, where she is responsible
for overseeing the NBA's programs that promote player social and community
responsibility, growth and development.

Brian A. Gallagher, President and Chief Executive Officer, United Way of
America

Brian Gallagher, a career veteran of the United Way system, became
President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of America in 2002. He
has led the transformation of the organization to its current focus on
community impact _ improving lives by mobilizing the caring power of
communities. Today, United Way serves communities through 1,300 local
affiliates in the United States, and in 45 countries around the globe.

Angelina Wapakabulo, Executive Director, United Way of Uganda Executive
Committee

Mrs. Angelina Wapakabulo, co-founder and Vice Chair of United Way Uganda,
is one of Uganda's most celebrated community activists, leaders, and social
workers. She has dedicated her life to fighting HIV/AIDS and caring for
orphans and vulnerable children in her country. Ms. Wapakabulo is Program
Coordinator for the >Market Vendors AIDS Project,_ a one-stop location for
vendors and customers to shop and check their HIV status.

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Chairman, American Red Cross

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Chairman of the American Red Cross, was formerly
CEO and owner of Pace Communications, Inc., the largest private custom
publishing company in the US. As U.S. Ambassador to Finland, she led
several successful initiatives to help Finnish and Russian charities assist
children at risk for drugs, crime, HIV/AIDS and trafficking. Known as a
generous philanthropist and extraordinary fundraiser, she has served as a
member of the International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity.

Shimelis Adugna, President, Ethiopian Red Cross Society

Shimelis Adugna has been president of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society since
April 2000 and currently serves as the Vice President of the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for Africa. He also
serves as national coordinator for Jobs for Africa, an employment
generation and poverty reduction program of the International Labor
Organization and United Nations Development Program. In the past, Adugna
served as minister of labour and social affairs; ambassador to the Republic
of India; and vice-minister of the Interior in charge of correctional
institutions. Mr. Adugna has worked as an independent consultant and
government advisor on issues of famine, demobilized soldiers, and orphans.

Robert Radtke, D.Phil., President, Episcopal Relief and Development

Dr. Robert Radtke is the President of Episcopal Relief and Development. He
was previously Senior Vice President for Programs at the Asia Society and
Vice President of the Business Council for the United Nations. He earned
his bachelor's degree in East Asian languages and cultures from Columbia
University and holds a doctorate in modern history from University of
Oxford. Dr. Radtke is a member of the Association of American Rhodes
Scholars and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Richard D. >Rick_ Warren, D.Min., Senior Pastor, Saddleback Church

Pastor Richard D. "Rick" Warren is the founding and senior pastor of
Saddleback Church in California and the author of many Christian books,
including The Purpose Driven Life. As part of his quest to attack what he
calls the five >Global Goliaths_ _ spiritual emptiness, egocentric
leadership, extreme poverty, pandemic disease, and illiteracy/poor
education -- he leads the Purpose Driven Network of churches, a global
coalition of congregations in 162 countries. He earned a bachelor of arts
degree from California Baptist College and a doctor of ministry degree from
Fuller Theological Seminary.

Rev. Straton Gataha, Senior Pastor, The Living Church, Rwanda

Reverend Straton Gataha is the senior pastor at The Living Church of Jesus
Christ in Kigali, Rwanda. He was born into a Roman Catholic family in
Rwanda. During his childhood, he and his parents went into exile in Congo.
Rev. Gataha moved back to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, to bring hope to
the people there. He has a degree in sociology and a master's degree in
divinity.

Rita Githiaka, Student, Mount Kenya Academy, Nyeri, Kenya

Rita Githiaka is 16 years old and is from Nairobi, Kenya. She is a 10th
grade boarding student at Mount Kenya Academy in Nyeri, Kenya.

Margaret Spellings, U.S. Secretary of Education

Margaret Spellings is the U.S. Secretary of Education. Prior to her
appointment, she served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy,
where she helped create the No Child Left Behind Act and crafted policies
on education, immigration, health care, labor, transportation, justice,
housing, and other elements of the President's domestic agenda. Previously,
Sec. Spellings worked for six years as Senior Advisor to Governor George W.
Bush with responsibility for developing and implementing the Governor's
education reforms and policies. From the White House and the Statehouse to
the school board and college campus, Spellings has been involved with
education policy at every level.

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