ORGANIZATION

Founded 1997 by Ted Turner to spend his $1B bequest.

Board members as of October 2006: Ted Turner, Timothy E. Wirth, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Ruth Cardoso, Liang Dan, Graça Machel, N. R. Narayana Murthy, Hisashi Owada, Emma Rothschild, Nafis Sadik, Andrew Young, Muhammad Yunus.

Official Website:
http://www.unfoundation.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Lester R. Brown	Activist	28-Mar-1934		Earth Policy Institute
Charles B. Curtis	Activist	27-Apr-1940		Nuclear Threat Initiative
Geoff Garin	Business	?		Pollster
Ted Turner	Business	19-Nov-1938		Founder of Cable News Network
Timothy E. Wirth	Politician	22-Sep-1939		US Senator from Colorado, 1987-93
Andrew Young	Politician	12-Mar-1932		Second black mayor of Atlanta
Muhammad Yunus	Business	28-Jun-1940		Banker to the Poor

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