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Building on CED's domestic success with early child education programs, CED is bringing the importance of early child development to the forefront of international economic debates.
On December 4, 2008, at the Brookings Institution headquarters in Washington, D.C., CED hosted a conference with the Wolfensohn Center for Development: Business Champions for Early Child Development. This event highlighted the many benefits of early care and education and provided a model for business leaders to become engaged in early child development advocacy. The conference was attended by nearly 100 American and Canadian business leaders, international early child development experts, aid agency representatives, and policy advocates.
We believe that business leaders who publicly support early child development have an opportunity to be key stakeholders for economic growth in emerging markets. This project seeks to build a business constituency for reform that can support developing countries in growing early child development programs toward a healthy citizenry and vibrant economy.
Notable speakers at the conference included:
- Charles S. Coffey, Former Executive Vice President, RBC Financial Group
- Ambassador John J. Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
- Clyde Hertzman, Ph.D., Director, Human Learning Partnership, Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human, Development, University of British Columbia
- Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO, LEGO Group
- Charles E.M. Kolb, President, Committee for Economic Development
- Ruth Levine, Ph.D., Vice President for Programs and Operations, and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
- Stanley S. Litow, President, IBM International Foundation
- Joan Lombardi, Ph.D., Research Professor, Georgetown University
- Sally McCrady, Vice President, The PNC Financial Services Group
- Chloe O'Gara, Associate Vice President, Save the Children Federation US
- Rodrigo R.A. Pinto, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Economic Research Center, University of Chicago
- Jack Shonkoff, MD, Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
- Ted Smyth, Chief Administrative Officer & Senior Vice President, Corporate & Government Affairs, Heinz
- Gene B. Sperling, Director, Center for Universal Education, Council on Foreign Relations
- Jacques van der Gaag, Ph.D., Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Global Health Initiative, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings
- Ann Veneman, Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Elaine Wolfensohn, Founder, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings, Wolfensohn Family Foundation
- James Wolfensohn, Founder, Wolfensohn Center for Development & Former President, World Bank
- Mary Eming Young, M.D., Ph.D., Child Development Knowledge Lead Specialist, Human Development Network, World Bank
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