Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

Dr. Larry Brilliant, M.D., Executive Director, Google.org
Dr. Larry Brilliant is the Executive Director of Google.org. In this role, Larry works with 
the company's co-founders to define the mission and strategic goals of Google's 
philanthropic efforts. Google.org, the umbrella organization for these, includes the 

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Google Foundation (home to the company’s own charitable projects that use Google 
talent and technology), as well as partnerships with and contributions to for-profit and 
non-profit entities. 
Brilliant is an M.D. and M.P.H., board -certified in preventive medicine and public health. 
He is a founder and director of The Seva Foundation, which responds to locally defined 
problems with culturally sustainable solutions throughout the world.
In addition to his medical career, Larry co-founded The WELL, a pioneering virtual 
community, with Stewart Brand in 1985. He also holds technology patents and has served 
as CEO of two public companies and other venture backed start ups. 
Brilliant earned a Bachelor’s degree and a Masters in Public Health fro m the University 
of Michigan, and received his M.D. from Wayne State University. In February 2006 he 
received the Sapling Foundation’s TED Prize. 
Julius E. Coles, Ph.D., President, Africare
 
 
 
 
Julius E. Coles is the President of Africare. Before assuming this position, he was the 
Director of Morehouse College’s Andrew Young Center for International Affairs from 
1997 - 2002. He served as the Director of Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche 
International Affairs Center from 1994 - 1997. Most of Mr. Coles’ career of some 
twenty-eight years in the foreign service has been spent as a senior official with the 
United States Agency for International Development (USAID). While with USAID, Mr. 
Coles was Mission Director in Swaziland and Senegal and served in Vietnam, Morocco, 
Liberia, Nepal and Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. from Morehouse College 
(1964) and a Masters of Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson 
School of Public and International Affairs (1966). He has also studied at the University of 
Geneva in Switzerland, the U.S. Department of State Foreign Institute’s Senior Seminar, 
the Federal Executive Institute and Institut de Français. Mr. Coles retired from the U.S. 
Government’s Foreign Service in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister. He received 
numerous awards including the Distinguished Career Service Award (1995), the 
Presidential Meritorious Service Award (1983-1986), and was decorated by President 
Abdou Diouf of Senegal as Commander in the Order of Lion (1994). Mr. Coles is a 
memb er of the Boards of The Mountain Institute, InterAction, L’Alliance Française de 
Washington, DC, Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse College 
and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. In addition, he was elected as a 
member of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Rotary Club of Atlanta, Council on Foreign 
Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee and has been appointed as a member of the 
UNESCO International Commission on the Gorée Memorial.

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