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(Sept 18-19, 2008)
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from the
Table?" (Sept
21-22, 06)
Sarah Smith Memorial Conferences on Moral Leadership
Schedule 
Speakers
"Crumbs from the Table?" Third Annual Sarah Smith Conference
September 21-22, 2006 | Yale University
Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut.
Ambassador Tony P. Hall
Three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ambassador Tony P.
Hall is a leading advocate for hunger relief programs and improving human
rights conditions in the world. In February 2002, President George W.
Bush asked him to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United
Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. He was confirmed by the U.S.
Senate and sworn in by Secretary of State Colin Powell in September 2002.
Prior to entering the diplomatic corps the Dayton, Ohio native represented
the Third District of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives for almost
twenty-four years. During his tenure, he was chairman of the House Select
Committee on Hunger and the Democratic Caucus Task Force on Hunger. In
his efforts to witness the plight of the poor and hungry first-hand,
he has visited poverty-stricken and war-torn regions in more than 100
countries.
Rev’d Dr. Vinay K. Samuel
Rev. Dr. Vinay Samuel, an Indian by nationality is a graduate of Union
Biblical Seminary, Yavatmal, India, and holds a doctorate in Economics
from Cambridge University, England, which he attended as the first scholar
of the Langham Trust. Rev. Samuel is recognized internationally as a development
economist and theologian. In 1977 Dr. Samuel founded a program to equip
development workers for the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission
on Relief (EFICOR). In its 27-years of innovative training, this three-month
program has prepared hundreds of community development workers who now
provide leadership to community-based development throughout India and
South Asia. Dr. Samuel's commitment to equipping leadership in the field
of development has grown into the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS),
a training center for mission practitioners form the Global South. At present
he is the Director of this Center, located at Oxford, in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Collin R. Timms
He is the founder and Chairman of the Guardian Bank Formed in Bangalore,
India, in1998. The bank has a clear objective to serve the poor and marginalized
by providing timely credit, encouraging savings and other financial services
available at reasonable and affordable cost. He has been a leader in the
technology and finance sector in India and serves the board of The Bridge
Foundation, Habitat for Humanity and many other financial Institutions
in Bangalore.
Theodore R. Malloch
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is Chairman and CEO of The Roosevelt Group,
which conceptualizes and executes some of today's most dynamic intellectual
projects. Dr. Malloch earned his Ph.D. in international political economy
from the University of Toronto. Dr. Malloch pioneers global markets. His
work with CEOs, business and government leaders to conceptualize projects
and partnerships, provides critical information to understand and manage
rapidly changing markets, government transformations, emerging trading
blocs and strategic business relationships. Dr. Malloch was President of
the World Economic Development Congress sponsored by CNN, "the common
frame of reference for the world's power elite", which focused on "Building
the Integrated Global Economy". He has served on the executive board
of the World Economic Forum, which hosts the renowned Davos meeting in
Switzerland. He was Senior Fellow and Vice President for all Executive
Programs of The Aspen Institute, internationally acclaimed for its programs
on leadership. He has held an ambassadorial-level position in the United
Nations; he headed consulting at Wharton-Chase Econometrics; worked in
capital markets at the investment bank, Salomon Brothers, Inc.; and served
in senior policy positions in the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
and in the U.S. State Department.
Susy Cheston
Susy Cheston is senior vice president for policy for Opportunity International,
advocating for greater access to microfinance and AIDS programs to help
the poor. She also is co-chair of the Microenterprise Coalition, executive
director emeritus of the Women's Opportunity Fund and a member of the Opportunity
Network. Susy is a recognized voice in microfinance advocacy, recently
testifying before the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House
of Representatives at a hearing on microfinance. Her testimony focused
on galvanizing Congress and the U.S. Agency for International Development
to "finish the job" by ensuring that all of the world's poor
have access to microfinance services that can transform their lives. Susy
has been active in the development of Opportunity International. She previously
served as senior vice president for policy and research for the Opportunity
International Network, overseeing cutting edge research and policy development
on client impact and transformation, increasing outreach and financial
sustainability. She joined Opportunity in 1991 as field director of its
newly formed Women's Opportunity Fund pilot project in El Salvador. In
1993, Susy moved back to the U.S. to serve as the founding executive director
of the Women's Opportunity Fund, where she oversaw the development of Opportunity's
signature Trust Bank model.
Gary Moore
Founder, The Financial Seminary. Gary Moore has a degree in political science
and was a senior vice president of investments at Paine Webber before founding
his own investment firm as “counsel to ethical and spiritual investors.” He
has since advised some of America’s well-known ministries, churches,
banks, and individual investors. He is the author of five other books about
integrating religion/spirituality with personal financial management, including
Spiritual Investments, also published by Templeton. He has served as a
trustee of the Crystal Cathedral, a trustee of Messiah College, a board
member of the John Templeton Foundation, a board advisor to Bill Bennett’s
Empower America, the lay leader of both a Lutheran and an Episcopal church,
and a financial commentator for UPI Radio and the Skylight Radio Network.
He lives in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife and teenage son.
Dale Hanson Bourke
President, PDI. Dale Hanson Bourke is president of PDI, a marketing and
strategy consulting firm specializing in work with nonprofit organizations.
She is also founder of The AIDS Orphan Bracelet Project and author of The
Skeptic’s
Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis as well as Second Calling—Finding
Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life. Her next book, The Skeptic’s
Guide to Global Poverty, will be released in early 2007. A graduate of
Wheaton College (Ill.), she earned an MBA from the University of Maryland.
She served as editor of Today’s Christian Woman, publisher of Religion
News Service, and was vice president of International Marketing Group.
As president of Publishing Directions, she helped create, edit and publish
more than a dozen national and international publications and provided
marketing strategy to a number of international organizations. She also
served as Senior Vice President/Marketing of World Relief. She has served
on the boards of World Vision US and International, International Justice
Mission, and currently serves on the boards of Opportunity International
and ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). She lives
just outside Washington, DC, and is a member of National Presbyterian Church.
Married for 28 years to Tom Bourke, they are the parents of two sons.
Miroslav Volf
Director of Yale Center for Faith & Culture and
Henry
B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology
Biography