Beyond her more recent work in corporate philanthropy -- including as the chief operating officer and founding president of the Global Development Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through 2011 -- Burwell has experience in government.

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The Seattle-based foundation is organized into three program divisions with their own president: Global Health, Global Development, and the U.S. Program.

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The USGBC is a leading non-profit organization known for its development of LEED, a global green building program, and its large diverse community.

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Both of these acquisitions came quickly on the heels of Lenovo's announcement of a global partnership with EMC, forming a server technology development program to help drive innovation and extend Lenovo's capabilities in x86 industry-standard servers.

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Professor Preston Bottger teaches in the Program for Executive Development and the Leading the Global Enterprise and Orchestrating Winning Performance programs at IMD business school.

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Partnerships with national governments and development partners, including, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank Booster Program for Malaria Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UN Envoy for Malaria, which has mobilized thousands of partners with the goal of reaching the universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated bed-nets by the end of this year, have made these successes possible.

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