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elissa is co-founder and CEO of Filligent Limited, a global biotech business that addresses health gaps in developing nations. She provides the company's vision, while also focusing on strategic, policy and regulatory matters. Prior to founding Filligent, Melissa worked as a corporate lawyer at Skadden Arps in the U.S. and Asia, as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in Asia, and as a private equity investor at GE Equity (Asia). She also co-founded Maven International, an ethical investment fund. In 2007, she co-founded PathFinders Limited, a Hong Kong-based organization that helps undocumented migrant women and their children find safe and legal homes. Melissa also serves as a hands-on board member of Mother's Choice Limited, a community organization helping pregnant women and babies in Asia Pacific. In response to the unmet needs in Haiti following the earthquake in January 2010, Melissa conducted interviews of quake survivors, government officials, local corporations, and other disaster relief teams at their headquarters outside Haiti and helped to develop Project BackBone-which utilizes small but highly?effective NGOs and corporations as "backbone organizations" to amplify the scale of assistance and improve coordination. Melissa completed a Juris Doctorate from New York University, School of Law. She is a member of the 2010 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.

LEADERSHIP PROJECT: WORK WITH JOHNS HOPKINS TO HELP IT ACHIEVE SCALE IN SAVING LIVES

Johns Hopkins Center for Refugees & Disaster Response (CRDR) plays a unique role in disaster response (man-made & natural), making the world better at responding to and preventing disasters, in particular avoiding the repetition of common mistakes in disaster response through being one of the few organizations to provided independent, evidence-based analyses and reports on the efficacy of disaster relief. Its challenge is to achieve scale sustainably. But few people outside disaster response know about CRDR. Lack of leadership has narrowed CRDR's audience, stifled strategic changes, and impacted its ability to structure and obtain sustainable long-term funding. By addressing these shortfalls, including re-defining CRDRs strategic directive, CRDR has the potential to play a key role in world affairs (as an independent watchdog on relief efforts), save lives on a massive scale, and have a seat at the table of disaster response planning, implementation and evaluation. Melissa Mowbray d'Arbela's project has been to work with Johns Hopkins to help them achieve scale in saving lives- in part by (i) conducting a full SWOT [strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats] analysis (interviewing top-down key stakeholders from the Dean to students), (ii) leading the refinement of the SWOT analysis with the Dean of the School of Public Health and the Advisory Committee, (iii) co-leading the redefinition of the Center's strategy (including its role as a watchdog, which requires significant political strength and will), (iii) convincing stakeholders - including the current leader - that a change is required, and initiating a leadership search, (iv) coordinating between staff and senior levels and the Advisory Board, (v) structuring funding alternatives (including to extract value from assets it currently has but is blind to), and (iv) assisting the Center

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