Kim K. Azzarelli is Vice President, New Business Ventures & Managing Director, Women in the World at Newsweek Daily Beast. Ms. Azzarelli has held senior legal, public affairs and philanthropic roles in U.S. public companies, including Goldman Sachs, the Hain Celestial Group and Avon Products, seeking to combine her experience in law, business and philanthropy with her passion for women's legal and economic empowerment. She is the co-founder and Chair of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School and serves on the Board of the Avon Foundation for Women.
Kim Azzarelli is a graduate of Cornell Law School, Cornell University and Friends Seminary in NYC where she was born and raised.
Samuel Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He is the director of Cornell's New York City-based Institute for Workplace Studies and director of Cornell's New York City master's degree program for practitioners. He is past chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior and the author and editor of over twenty books on management, organizational behavior, and industrial relations.
Professor Bacharach teaches the discipline of proactive leadership to undergraduate and graduate students at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In addition, he develops and conducts workshops and engages in individual consulting and coaching of executives, politicians, managers, and students around the world.
Professor Bacharach earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Kleber Bacili is the CTO at Digital Assets in Brazil. He is responsible for product development and operations at DigitalAssets and has more than 10 years of experience working with the IT industry in Brazil.
Bacili worked for more than seven years for large corporations such as Motorola, Natura, SKY, BankBoston and Petrobras, and then joined Ci&T's expert team on service oriented architecture (SOA) and software reuse. Bacili is a SOA expert with published articles in various international events. He is also a visiting lecturer on SOA and component based development at renowned Brazilian universities.
Kleber Bacili has a BS in Computer Engineering from UNICAMP and a MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), both in Brazil.
Caroline Baillie is the Dupont Canada Chair of Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her role is to enhance the learning experience of engineering students across the Faculty whilst maintaining her research and teaching interests in materials science and engineering. She is cross-appointed into the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Sociology and Women's Studies.
Baillie is also a member of Critical Stage Company, which is "committed to new writing, or tackling established pieces in a new way..." Through Critical Stage and the Integrated Learning Centre at Queen's University, she has put on several productions using student and members of the Kingston community that link to the themes of engineering and society.
In popular culture, Baillie is best known as the host of "Building the Impossible", a four part documentary commissioned by the BBC in which a team of experts undertook the challenge of building historical inventions to their original specification to see if they really worked.
Baillie was formerly deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at Liverpool University, Liverpool, United Kingdom. She was also formerly a lecturer at the Dept. of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and at Imperial College London.
Baillie has over 100 publications in materials science and education and is the author of four books on teaching and learning. Her recent publications include, 'Travelling facts: the Social Construction, Distribution and Accumulation of Knowledge', Campus Press and 'Effective Learning and Teaching in Engineering', Routledge.
Caroline Baillie obtained her PhD from the University of Surrey, Department of Materials, in 1991 and her Master of Higher Education at the University of New South Wales in 1995.
Oliver Bajracharya is a Partner at the Intellectual Property Law Firm of CPH (Christie, Parker, Hale LLP). He has worked extensively with domestic and international companies specializing in various areas of technology, including medical devices, consumer electronics, sporting equipment, and apparel. Oliver Bajracharya received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Cornell University and his law degree from Tulane Law School.
Lois Baldassari-Mather is a systems engineering manager at Lockheed Martin.
Prior to her position at Lockheed Martin, she worked for 21 years at Hewlett-Packard and one of HPs spinoff companies, Agilant.
Lois Baldassari-Mather recieved her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and her Master's degree in Engineering from Cornell University.
Ritu Banga is a cofounder of Zoomdojo, a New York City–based college to career readiness startup. The company works with educational institutions, NGOs, and student organizations around the world. Banga is a trustee of the Marymount School of New York. She is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Kirsten Johnston Barker is President and Co-Founder of digital media company, Prendismo. In addition, she is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at KensaGroup,a conception-stage development group.
Barker has aggressively lead the operational and tactical efforts of Prendismo as it has transitioned from a ten-year academic research initiative within Cornell University called eClips to a high growth commercial enterprise.
Previously, Barker served as Chief Information Officer at NSF International, Senior Director at Solucient (a healthcare software company) and as a consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).
Kirsten Barker received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a M.S. in Business and Information Technology from Johns Hopkins University.
Erin Barnes is an Executive Director at ioby.org. ioby connects donors and volunteers to environmental projects in their neighborhoods to inspire new environmental knowledge and action in New York City.
Erin Barnes has an undergraduate degree from University of Virginia and a Master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Christopher B. Barrett is the David J. Nolan Director and the Stephen B. & Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and an International Professor of Agriculture in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, and a Fellow in the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University.
There are three basic, interrelated thrusts to Professor Barrett's research program. The first concerns poverty, hunger, food security, economic policy, and the structural transformation of low-income societies. The second considers issues of individual and market behavior under risk and uncertainty. The third revolves around the interrelationship between poverty, food security, and environmental stress in developing areas.
Chris Barrett received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. He received his Master's degree from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stacy Barrows is the owner of Savage Creek Aveda Concept salon in Ithaca, NY.