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Director, Shuraako @ An experienced businessman with over 25 years private sector experience as an entrepreneur, strategist and operations expert, I draw on the lessons learned to lead Shuraako. Shuraako is an implementation project of the One Earth Future Foundation (OEF). Shuraako seeks to promote stability and social cohesion in Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland through facilitating impact investment, private sector development, and addressing the credit gap, with explicit goals on job creation. Through evaluating local small to medium size businesses for viability, then matching them with right sized capital, Shuraako provides impact that directly improves the lives of individual Somali men and women, which in turn improves citizen participation and the governance of Somalia as a whole. Shuraako believes that job creation fosters stability and peace, and is key in rebuilding Somalia. In addition, Shuraako aims to coordinate ongoing efforts that support trade, investment and other economic development efforts in Somalia, including but not limited to: Security and Stabilization, Trade & Investment Regulation, Capacity Building & Training and Remittance & Banking Institutions. Shuraako works with all stakeholders involved in this process. To learn more, visit www.shuraako.org. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) Senior Manager, R2P & Business @ The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was originally formulated in the 2001 report by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), and was later adopted by states through the United Nations World Summit Outcome Document in 2005. R2P declares that states have a responsibility to protect their citizens from mass atrocity crimes. When states are unable or unwilling to protect their populations, the responsibility to protect shifts to the international community. The international community may aid states in protection, or can intervene to enforce the principle. It is important to note that R2P does not exclusively refer to humanitarian or military intervention. R2P actions may also be diplomatic, economic, or legal. One Earth Future’s R2P Program focuses on the role of the business sector in implementing R2P. OEF believes that it is fundamentally in the interest of the business sector to support the development and implementation of R2P. At the most basic level, mass atrocities destabilize economies and businesses by damaging physical infrastructure and human capital, and reducing purchasing power and consumer markets. Ample evidence also points to the significant negative reputational impact for companies associated with mass atrocities. Business not only has a clear incentive to prevent mass atrocities, but it also represents a largely untapped resource to do so. OEF is committing substantial capacity to identifying the incentives for business participation in R2P, and what role business can play implementing practices to prevent, react to, and rebuild from mass atrocity crimes. From April 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) Board Member @ Since 2000, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) has been in the field working with local partners in conflict-affected countries to bring together governments, the military, human rights advocates and civil society, particularly marginalized groups, to address the inequalities that fuel conflict and find paths to sustainable peace. Through dialogue, training, negotiations and advocacy, the Institute includes social justice in peace processes in order to prevent a cycle of violence. As part of the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, the Institute employs best practices in peacebuilding and uses its experience on the ground to inform academics and practitioners on effective peacebuilding strategies and techniques. The Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies will anchor its growth on the strong foundation that has been established at the University of San Diego. USD’s values, tradition and strategic priorities provide a fertile setting for the School. The University community supports the School as a global initiative and an integrated learning opportunity. Students and faculty are attracted to the University’s exceptional commitment to social justice, ethics and leadership, and cultural diversity. The School will draw on the capabilities of its active institutes and programs. http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ From 2009 to Present (6 years) Greater San Diego AreaDirector - US Outreach @ The Institute for Economics and Peace develops new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; provides metrics for measurement; uncovers the relationship between peace, business, and prosperity; and promotes a better understanding of the social, economic, and political factors that drive peacefulness. IEP is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human wellbeing and progress. IEP has offices in Sydney, New York, and Washington, D.C. It works with a wide range of partners internationally and collaborates with intergovernmental organizations on measuring and communicating the economic value of peace. www.economicsandpeace.org US Outreach Presentations o Global Peace Index o Global Terrorism Index o US Peace Index o Violence Containment Spending in the US Strategic Development – Mexico Peace Index o Strategic Partner Development o Raised funding for full project Conference Management Support o “Peace Metrics, Peace Economics, and the Role of Business” American University 2013 From October 2012 to April 2013 (7 months) Sydney, AustraliaBoard Member @ The Center for Peace and Commerce (CPC) is a collaborative effort between the School of Business Administration and the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies to prepare new generations of "change agents" who develop and exercise innovative approaches for achieving the 4 Ps– people, profit, planet and peace. CPC contributes to creating new enterprise paradigms and solutions, that foster peace-building and poverty alleviation, through courses, scholarship, enterprise development, active engagement with multiple stakeholders and the promotion of good governance. http://www.sandiego.edu/cpc/ From September 2012 to April 2013 (8 months) Greater San Diego AreaOwner/Founder - CEO @ From December 2007 to January 2013 (5 years 2 months) Greater San Diego AreaBoard Member @ This initiative partners with Africa's first ladies, supporting their efforts to become champions of change for the health and education of millions of women and children across the continent. As wives of presidents and prime ministers, Africa's first ladies occupy a unique position at the pinnacle of society. Their status and prestige, their role as private counsel to their husbands, as well as their ready access to national policy makers, make them one of their country's most influential figures, and a largely untapped resource for change. Since early 2009, RAND has partnered with Africa's first ladies to support their efforts to become champions for change in health and education across the continent. http://www.prgs.edu/policymaker-education-training-programs/african-first-ladies.html From September 2010 to 2013 (3 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaDirector of Strategic Development @ From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) Owner/Founder @ From the very first office of Plum Healthcare Group in the guest bedroom of my home in San Juan Capistrano, partners Paul and Mark and I set forward the intention to dream big and set a solid foundation to become the premier provider of Skilled Care services to the elderly. Starting from scratch with small amounts of capital, I led the establishment of our corporate structure, recruitment of key management, facility acquisition and operational integration. At that time, we named the company "PLUM", because tongue in cheek, I joked with my partners, "When our team asks what PLUM stands for, we can say it's Paul, Lee, U, and Mark." That was the initial philosophy of PLUM. Inclusion, building on strengths, team building over profiteering, a solid foundation built on solid quality resident care. We knew then it would be a challenge to maintain measured growth and not give in to the all too common allure to expand rapidly when success brings financial rewards. The toughest years of most companies are the initial startup years. The years that test commitment, hard work, and skill. PLUM Healthcare from day one was a passion, and a very hard earned success. • Strategic Business Planning • Corporate Structure Management • Acquisition Strategy • Acquisition Integration • Management Recruitment Strategy • Operations Management From 1999 to 2005 (6 years) Founding Member/Director of Western Operations @ From 1994 to 1999 (5 years) VP/ Director @ From 1987 to 1993 (6 years)

Masters Peace and Justice Studies @ University of San DiegoBA, Psychology @ University of Utah Lee C. Sorensen is skilled in: Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Leadership, Policy, Program Management, Human Rights, Training, Strategic Planning, Research, Strategy, Government, Peacebuilding, Politics, Teaching, Public Speaking