Associates

Alexander Baldwin

Marc Perry

Rosario Rodriguez

Amar Shibli

Samantha Young

Alexander Baldwin

Alexander Baldwin, a recent graduate with a MSc in Political Economy of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, is currently a Program Manager at the Public-Private Alliance Foundation. He has worked for the State Department and for several non-profits. He holds a BA from the University of Virginia in History and Economics.

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Marc Perry

Marc Perry created and maintains the PPAF website and is involved in online marketing initiatives. Mr. Perry is the Founder & CEO of Elite Training Partners, which develops and markets fitness programs and services and maintains his personal fitness blog Built Lean | Fitness Tips to Get Lean, Toned, and Lose Fat. He began his career as a hedge fund analyst and received a B.A. in History from Yale University.

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Rosario Rodriguez

Rosario Rodriguez has worked with PPAF since May 2009 and assisted in preparations for three biofuel / bioenergy conferences. As Project Coordinator she helped to organize PPAF's October 2009 conference, 'Gesti�n de Riesgos en Bioenerg�a Innovacion en el Modelo de Negocios' in Santo Domingo. She earned a BA degree from SUNY/Albany with a dual major in Sociology and in Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies, and is pursuing her Master's Degree in the latter. She was formerly an intern at the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations. Currently she is a Field Researcher / Tracker at Fordham University in the Department of Psychology.

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Amar Shibli

Amar Shibli is currently a student at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Prior to starting at Tuck, he was an Associate in the Global Markets and Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch & Co. Amar graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005 with a major in Economics; in 2003 he studied Development Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He began his involvement with the United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development as an Intern in 2003, and continued volunteering with the Public-Private Alliance Foundation when it formed in 2006.

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Samantha Young

Samantha Young is a Senior Economist and Financial Advisor for the Ontario Financing Authority, an agency of the Ministry of Finance at the Government of Ontario. Previously, she was a Policy Intern for the Public-Private Alliance Foundation and the United Nations, as well as a Lead Youth Services Officer for Service Canada. Samantha co-founded and directed the Public Good Initiative, a pro-bono consulting service for non-profit organizations in Toronto. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Toronto.

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"The United Nations can only do its job properly with partners. We will need to forge even closer ties to civil society groups, foundations, academic institutions, the media, labour unions, and the private sector. Each has unique contributions to make."

-Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary-General,
Address to UNA-USA Business Council
for the UN,
New York, 10 January 2007

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