Conversation Changers: Peace Through Power

Lukas Haynes is a charitable and political donor advisor to families and a visiting distinguished fellow at Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. From 2015-22, he led the David Rockefeller Fund, a family grantmaking foundation in the United States where he focused on justice system transformation, climate change solutions and protecting U.S. democracy. He is also a distinguished fellow at The Stimson Center in Washington D.C. Previously, Haynes was New York director of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. During the Clinton Administration, he served at the U.S. State Department as a speechwriter for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He has also held positions at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the International Crisis Group and Oxfam GB. In 1993, Lukas had the pleasure of returning to the city where he was born and serving as a summer intern of Salzburg Global Seminar. He is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar. Lukas sits on the governing boards of the Clara Lionel Foundation and Just Detention International, a health and human rights organization that seeks to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention.

Eric is the Editor-in-Chief of The China-Global South Project, bringing over 30 years of journalism experience across global newsrooms, including CNN, FRANCE 24, and the BBC World Service. His career spans reporting, production, and newsroom leadership in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He notably served as General Director of FBNC, Vietnam's largest all-business cable TV channel, becoming the first foreigner to lead a national Vietnamese media company. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in East African history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's in International Public Affairs with a focus on Chinese foreign policy from the University of Hong Kong. Eric is a Salzburg Global Fellow.