PrintBoard of Directors
IYF welcomes to its Board of Directors five talented and dedicated leaders from the business, government and NGO sectors.
The following new Directors began their service officially in March 2009. Individually and collectively, they will guide IYF into new territory while increasing its impact around the world.
| Bernise Ang | (Singapore) is a social entrepreneur and founder of Syinc—a youth-led nonprofit aimed at building the capacity of Singapore youth and youth organizations to be effective social change agents. She is also actively involved in the coordination of global youth in climate change and sustainable development work. Today, Ms. Ang is a Business Planning Manager for Pacific Start Holdings. |
| Bill Conn | (Australia) is an investment banker and former Board Chair of the Foundation for Young Australians. Mr. Conn also served as a Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria and Chair of its Business Council as well as a Director of the Australian National Academy of Music. He has years of experience in the private sector that includes serving as Chairman and Chief Executive of Potter Warburg Limited and Executive Vice Chair of McIntosh Securities Limited. He is currently a consultant to Merrill Lynch International (Australia) Limited. |
| Olivier Fleurot | (France) is Executive Chairman of Publicis Worldwide and former CEO of the Financial Times Group. He has a strong media background, having served as the Chief Executive of Pearson’s Les Echos Group—France’s leading business publisher—and Managing Director of the Financial Times newspaper. Mr. Fleurot began his career as an engineer on construction sites internationally. |
| Veli Sundbäck | (Finland) is the former Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations and Responsibility at Nokia. Before his corporate work, Mr. Sundbäck was a career diplomat serving in Helsinki, Brussels and Geneva, in positions that included Under-Secretary of State for External Economic Relations and Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Nokia (Deutschland) GmbH, Board Member of Finnair and Chairman of the Finland-China Trade Association. |
| Connie Wong | (United States) is the CEO and Founder of Vidiator and President of Hutchison Whampoa Americas. Ms. Wong was formerly VP of AOL Mobile Asia and Vice President of Business Development for Nextel International, where she served on the boards of Nextel Japan and Philippines. She currently serves on the advisory boards of the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University and the Visiting Committee for Technology at the College of Engineering at The University of Washington. (Joined December 2008) |