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How Businesses Can Develop Trust on a

Global Scale Through Corporate Service

Panel Speaker Biographies

Augustine Mahiga, Ph.D.
Permanent Representative of the United
Republic of Tanzania to the United Nations

Ambassador Mahiga is the Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania to the United Nations. He led the Tanzania delegation as a Non-permanent Member of the Security Council from 2005-2006 and served as President of the Council in January 2006.

Prior to his appointment as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in May 2003, Dr. Mahiga worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva as Deputy Director for Africa and Representative in Liberia, India and Italy. Previous positions include teaching at the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Director in the President's Office, and serving as a Diplomat in Ottawa and Geneva.

Ambassador Mahiga received a B.A., with honors, from the University of East Africa, Dar-es-Salaam, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Toronto. Dr. Mahiga has researched and written on regional cooperation, conflict resolution, peace building and related humanitarian issues, and the challenges of development Africa.

Harris Wofford
Former US Senator (D-PA)

Harris Wofford represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate from 1991-1994. He was president of Bryn Mawr College from 1970 to 1978. Wofford became an advisor to Martin Luther King starting in the 1950s and in the 1960s served as President Kennedy`s Special Assistant for Civil Rights.

Wofford was instrumental in founding the Peace Corps, for which he served as Special Representative to Africa and its Associate Director. In 1994, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton as CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, the Senior Corps, Service-Learning and other national service programs.

Wofford currently serves as the spokesperson for the Experience Wave, which works to expand opportunities for older, experienced citizens to volunteer in public service or work in encore careers that contribute to their community. Wofford is on the boards of America�s Promise (which he chaired after founding chairman General Colin Powell became Secretary of State), Youth Service America, the Points of Light Institute-HandsOn Network, and serves on the Leadership Council of Service Nation. He is the author five books, including Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties.

Stanley Litow
Vice President, Corporate Affairs and
Corporate Responsibility, IBM

Stanley S. Litow is president of the IBM Foundation and IBM's vice president for global community relations. Under Mr. Litow's leadership, IBM launched Reinventing Education, a program serving over 80,000 teachers and 8 million children worldwide. Reinventing Education was so successful in raising achievement that it won the Ron Brown Award, which is presented by the president of the United States to recognize outstanding corporate achievement. Before joining IBM, Mr. Litow served as the deputy chancellor of schools for New York City, the nation's largest school system. He previously founded and ran Interface, a nonprofit think tank, and served as an aide to both the mayor and governor of New York. Mr. Litow is the 2000 recipient of the Council on Foundation's Scrivner Award for creative philanthropy, and serves on the boards of the Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise, the Council on Foundations, and the Citizen's Budget Commission.

Sally Susnowitz
Assistant Dean, Student Life
Director, MIT Public Service Center

Sally Susnowitz joined MIT in 1999 as a lecturer in MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, specializing in technical writing. She has served as Director of the MIT Public Service Center (PSC) since 2000, and has worked with her colleagues to transform the PSC into an innovative asset that matches MIT's stature, culture and student potential. She envisions her job as a chance to develop opportunities that enrich MIT students' educational experiences through new models of experiential learning as they also create sustainable benefits for communities across the US and around the world. With this in mind, she co-founded Service Learning at MIT and the MIT IDEAS Competition, and works collaboratively with other staff within and outside the PSC to create and sustain other programs that support applied education, collaboration, entrepreneurship, innovation, and reflection that in turn feeds understanding and intentional decision-making.

Bruce Bachenheimer
Chapter Chair, MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City

In addition to his volunteer role as the Chair of the NYC Chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, Bruce Bachenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Management, the Director of Entrepreneurship@Lubin, and a Faculty Fellow of the Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Pace University. Last March, he led a group of MBA students on a field study course to Tanzania to study commercial and social entrepreneurship.

Mr. Bachenheimer has spoken on entrepreneurship at numerous conferences, including the Congressional Student Leadership Conference on Global Business and Entrepreneurship and the annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations. His earlier career includes having served as an officer in foreign and domestic corporations, as well as the founder of entrepreneurial ventures in the US and overseas. In those positions, he conducted business in over twenty countries.

Mr. Bachenheimer holds a BBA, summa cum laude, from Pace University. He studied at Tsukuba National University in Japan as an undergraduate and received the McKinsey & Company Leadership Scholarship to pursue an MBA degree, which he earned from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

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