Let’s celebrate leadership that gets to root causes, strengthens local capacity, and builds trust for collective action. 

The 2022 Bridging Leadership Award honorees are:

André Hoffmann
Vice Chairman
Roche Holding

Alyse Nelson
President, CEO &
Co-Founder
Vital Voices Global Partnership

Darren Walker
President
Ford Foundation

Bridging leadership represents a movement away from less-inclusive forms of decision-making that have dominated much of human history. It’s the form of leadership needed to address the challenges we all face together.

Just over 200 philanthropists, social investors, and business, government, activists, and nonprofit leaders from around the world gathered in community to explore this form of leadership.

We heard from our honorees  and shared our own ideas and stories about creating positive change on issues of climate and sustainability, social justice, poverty, peace, and inclusion.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2022
GOTHAM HALL • 1356 BROADWAY •  NEW YORK CITY

PROGRAM

6:00PM      Opening Reception
7:00PM Welcome
7:15PM Presentation of Bridging Leadership Award to Darren Walker
  Presentation of Bridging Leadership Award to Alyse Nelson by Zainab Salbi
  Alyse Nelson and Darren Walker in Conversation with Peggy Dulany
8:20PM Presentation of Bridging Leadership Award to André Hofffmann by Paul Polman and Eddie Ndopu
  Andre Hoffmann remarks and Q&A
8:45PM Table Conversations
9:05PM Musical Performance by Jazzmeia Horn & Event Closing

OTHER SPEAKERS/PERFORMERS

Michael R. Bloomberg
Founder
Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Peggy Dulany
Founder and Chair
Synergos 

Jazzmeia Horn
Multi-Grammy-Award-nominated musician 

Paul Polman
Business leader and author

Eddie Ndopu
Humanitarian, activist, and UN SDG Advocate

Zainab Salbi 
Humanitarian, author, and media commentator 

BRIDGING LEADERSHIP AWARD SPONSORS

Trustbuilders

Peggy Dulany
The Rockefeller Foundation 

          

Carlos and Gabriela Rodríguez-Pastor
Kim Samuel


Champions

Jeannie Blaustein and Peter Bokor
Bloomberg Philanthropies
William H. Donner Foundation
Genentech

   

Mo Ibrahim
Lunt Foundation
David and Susan Rockefeller
Anonymous


Leaders

Marcos de Moraes
Endless Network
Agnes Gund
Mayra Hernández González/Instituto Xilonen
Sonia and Paul T. Jones
Patricia Kahane

   

David Rockefeller Fund
Maeve Rockefeller
Adele Simmons
Sarah Timpson
Anonymous


Collaborator

Barbara Papitto

   

 

 

AWARD JURY

Peggy Dulany, Founder and Chair, Synergos
Serge Dumont, business leader and philanthropist
Mo Ibrahim, Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Paul Polman, business leader and author
Valerie Rockefeller, Chair, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor, Founder, Innova Schools
Zainab Salbi, humanitarian, author, and media commentator