Actors and Advisers.

The Advisory Board of the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships is chaired by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette and includes Dr. Lincoln C. Chen, Vice-President, the Rockefeller Foundation; Mr. Joseph E. Connor, Under-Secretary-General for Management, United Nations; Mr. Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations; Ambassador Francecso Paolo Fulci, President of the Economic and Social Council; Mr. Richard Jolly, Special Adviser to the Administrator of UNDP; Ms. Mary Oakes Smith, Manager, Africa Region, the World Bank; Ambassador Roble Olhaye, Chairman of the Second Committee of the General Assembly; Mr. Franklin A. Thomas, Head of the Ford Foundation Study Group; Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations; and Mr. Amir Dossal (ex-officio), Executive Director of UNFIP.

The Board of Directors of the United Nations "" is chaired by Mr. Ted Turner and includes Ms. Ruch Cardoso, Chair of the Comunidade Solidaria Program. Ms. Graca Machel, former Education Minister of Nozambique. Ms. Emma Rothschild, Director of the Centre for History and Economics and Fellow of King's College, United Kingdom, Mr. Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Earth Counal (who served as the Executive Coordinator for United Nations reform Mr. Timothy Wirth, President of the Foundation and for"" United States Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs Mr. Andrew young, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mr. Muhammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Movement in Bangladesh, which has been the pioneer of micro credit programmers throughout the world.