Forces of Change

Keynote Speaker

President Bill Clinton, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation, 42nd President of the United States of America

Embracing our Common Humanity
Thursday, June 10, 2010
11:45 am – 1:15 pm

William Jefferson Clinton was the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice – first in 1992 and then in 1996. Under his leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs.

After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. Today the Foundation has staff and volunteers around the world working to improve lives through several initiatives, including the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (now the Clinton Health Access Initiative, a separate nonprofit organization) which is helping 2 million people living with HIV/AIDS access lifesaving drugs. Other initiatives -- including the Clinton Climate Initiative, the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative, and the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative -- are applying a business-oriented approach worldwide to fight climate change and develop sustainable economic growth in Africa and Latin America. As a project of the Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative brings together global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues. In the U.S., the Foundation is working to combat the alarming rise in childhood obesity through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and is helping individuals and families succeed and small businesses grow.

In addition his Foundation work, President Clinton has joined with former President George H.W. Bush three times – after the 2004 tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Ike in 2008 – to help raise money for recovery efforts. He also served as the U.N. Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, and was recently named U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti to assist its people and government as they “build back better” from recent storm damages and implement their economic vision for the future.

President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New York.

General Speakers

	David A. Shore, PhD Associate Dean and Director, Forces of Change Program Founding Director, Project Management in Health Care Certificate Program, Harvard School of Public Health David A. Shore, PhD, is the founding director of both the Forces of Change Program and the Trust Initiative at Harvard University, School of Public Health. Dr. Shore serves as Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Center for Continuing Professional Education. He teaches the popular Harvard graduate courses on Strategic Marketing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Positioning, Branding, and Building Trust and Forces of Change: Market Dynamics and Strategies for a Shifting Healthcare Marketplace. He is the author of the monograph The Current State of Trust in the American Healthcare Enterprise: Physicians and Managed Care in Changing Times (2004), and The Trust Prescription for Healthcare: Building Your Reputation with Consumers (Health Administration Press, 2005). Shore is also the editor of The Trust Crisis in Healthcare: Causes, Consequences, and Cures (Oxford University Press, 2007). His forthcoming book on stakeholders in healthcare will be published by Oxford University Press.
	Vishal Agrawal, MD Principal in McKinsey & Company’s Washington DC Office and a leader of the Firm’s Healthcare Payors and Providers Practice Over his 10 years with the Firm, he has focused on strategy development and business building for a variety of health care clients. He actively supports leading health insurers, hospital networks, and private equity firms on a range of topics including strategy, operations, and mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience working across international health systems. Vishal has spearheaded McKinsey’s proprietary knowledge development on U.S. comprehensive federal healthcare reform. He is an active speaker and thought leader on the implications of health reform on stakeholders across the sector. Prior to McKinsey, Vishal helped start TurboWorx, Inc., a Connecticut-based bio-informatics company focused on creating distributed computing applications to mine the human genome. He holds an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine with thesis work on the impact of federal funding on the growth and evolution of regional biotechnology clusters. Vishal also has a B.S. and M.S. in molecular biophysics from Yale where he graduated summa cum laude. He has published his basic science research on protein structural biology in several leading scientific journals.
	David Cutler, PhD Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University David Cutler has developed an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public sector. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the department of economics and Kennedy School of Government and recently completed a five-year term as associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences at Harvard University. Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Among other affiliations, Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Cutler is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine. He is also the author of Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, published by Oxford University Press
	Vinod K. Sahney, PhD Adjunct Professor, Health Policy and Management, Harvard University and Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Care Improvement Vinod Sahney, PhD retired on February 1, 2010 from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. Sahney is also a founding member and serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) based in Cambridge, MA. IHI works to improve patient care through a variety of strategies. He has spoken extensively on health care quality with a particular emphasis on how health care delivery can be improved significantly by focusing on systems of care and improving reliability. Sahney is an elected member of both the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering and has been a Visiting Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University for the past 32 years.