With 27 years of experience in higher education advancement, David Lively has directed successful development strategies across five comprehensive fundraising campaigns. Lively joined Northwestern University in January 2012 and in his current role manages "We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern," a $5 billion University-wide fundraising campaign. Additionally, he oversees a team of 60 development professionals responsible for principal gifts, regional and international major gifts (including offices in New York and San Francisco), and gift planning.

Lively earned a bachelor's degree in history from Southern Methodist University, a master's degree in history from Colorado State University, an MBA from the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business, and a certificate from the Management Development Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. In April 2017, he authored Managing Major Gift Fundraisers: A Contrarian's Guide (published by CASE).

Kate McSweeney is the Director of Communications, Alumni and Development at University College Cork (UCC), where she has worked for the last five years.  She has overall responsibility for Communications, Alumni Engagement, Regular Giving and the UCC Alumni Fund.  Along with her team she manages relationships across the globe with UCC’s 230,000+ alumni.

Her career at UCC spans 21 years, where she has successfully led transformational change in brand development, internal and external communications, public relations, stakeholder engagement and marketing strategy.  More recently, she has led Regular Giving and the UCC Alumni Fund.  Prior to Alumni and Development at UCC, Kate worked for the College of Medicine and Health and the Tyndall National Institute, both at UCC. 

Kate received her Executive MBA from Henley Business School, her Master’s Degree in Management and Marketing from University College Cork and her Hons Degree in Business (Management and Marketing) from Munster Technological University.  In addition, Kate is a Graduate Member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland.

In her senior volunteering roles she was the inaugural Vice-Chair of CASE UK and Ireland Cabinet and played an active part with CASE Directors in shaping the remit of the newly formed Cabinet.  She is now the Chair and along with her Cabinet members, she looks forward to implementing the new and exciting strategies to enhance engagement with UK & Ireland member Institutions, and to the CASE mission of advancing education to transform lives and society.

Kate is a CASE Laureate and a CASE Circle of Excellence Award winner.

Salma Dannawi Oueida is associate vice president for development, alumni relations, and university events at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and an AUB alumna with both an Executive MBA and a bachelor of electrical and communication engineering.

She began her career at AUB in 2003 as associate director of development. Since then, she has been steadily promoted and taken on additional responsibilities. She was appointed senior director of development in 2015; associate vice president for development and alumni relations in 2016; and, most recently, associate vice president for development, alumni relations, and university events in 2022. She has extensive experience in organizational management, fundraising, business development, alumni relations, and event planning and a proven track record at establishing and building relationships with high-net-worth individuals, corporations and foundations, alumni, and volunteer groups.

During her career, Ms. Oueida has set records in fundraising and alumni engagement and launched new fundraising and alumni engagement programs and initiatives for AUB’s seven faculties and the AUB Medical Center (AUBMC). She manages the university’s relationship with its alumni community outside North America and works closely with some of AUB’s most successful volunteer groups to develop valuable and mutually rewarding partnerships. Oueida played an instrumental role in both AUB’s Campaign for Excellence (2002-07) and in AUB’s current $650 million fundraising campaign: BOLDLY AUB: The Campaign to Lead, Innovate, and Serve.

Oueida has consulted about establishing offices of development and alumni relations with many educational institutions in the Gulf and MENA region including Ahfad University in Sudan and Mohammed Al-Mana College for Medical Sciences in Saudi Arabia.

She is a two-time member of the Planning Committee for the CASE Advancement Committee in Middle East that took place in Dubai in February 2020 and the upcoming conference in Abu Dhabi in February 2024. Oueida is on the board of several NGOs including “Nusaned” and is a member of “the Lebanese League for Women in Business”. She is also a member of the 2023 Takreem Selection Board and a member of the Lebanese Order of Engineers and Architects.

In 2010, Ms. Oueida received the President’s Service Excellence Award, a prestigious distinction which is given to a select number of AUB staff members each year “who have shown continuous outstanding performance over a long period of time and have gone beyond the call of duty in helping students, patients, and fellow employees.”

Birgitta has been working with alumni relations and fundraising at Chalmers since 2014. Over the last few years, Birgitta has developed a focus on stewardship and alumni fundraising, working on building a bottom-up fundraising model, including international alumni fundraising. Previously, Birgitta has worked with international university collaboration with a special focus on student exchange with North America and Australia.

Birgitta holds a BSc in International Business from Johnson & Wales University, USA and an MSc in International Management from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Experienced advancement professional (domestic and international) with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Strong community and social services professional skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy, Fundraising, Sports Management, and Strategic Planning.

Dr. Staples’ role as Executive Director of International Development at Princeton punctuates a 25-year career in higher education. He leads a team of frontline major gift officers focused on raising philanthropic gifts for university priorities.

Prior to serving in this role, he was the Director of Leadership Gifts at Princeton. Prior to arriving at Princeton in 2006, Dr. Staples served in a variety of external relations positions at Harvard University and the University of Illinois, his graduate alma mater. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky.

Ellen Sullivan is director of international advancement at Phillips Academy and a longtime CASE volunteer. She’s a previous chair and faculty member of CASE’s International Advancement conference.

As director of international programs in the Johns Hopkins University’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Hugh Sullivan leads the university and medical institutions’ international fundraising and external affairs. Hugh brings over a decade in professional and volunteer roles related to business development and education, with seven years at Johns Hopkins in progressive fundraising roles. Previously, he was Director of Advancement for Asia at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Hugh worked before that as an engineer in New Orleans and supported the international expansion of a private U.S. engineering company in Africa and the Middle East. He also spent two years teaching English in Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China, as a fellow with the Yale-China Association. Hugh holds a Master of International Public Policy degree in economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics (Latin) from Yale University. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

As senior director of Michigan’s Office of University Development (OUD) and the Alumni Association (AAUM), Eun Ja Yu travels the world — from Hong Kong to Mumbai — engaging international alumni with the university.

She collaborates with colleagues and University of Michigan’s 19 schools, colleges and units to plan, manage and coordinate all aspects of the University's international alumni relations and alumni communications efforts. She is the primary representative of the university outside the United States. She contributes to the growth of U-M’s international alumni engagement and fundraising program building strong relationships in Greater China, India, and Europe, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore, among other countries. Now in her role she engages with friends and supporters around the world who are eager to reconnect with U-M, building communities and a culture of philanthropy.

Prior to joining the university, Eun Ja spent time in the private sector working for J.D. Power, Millward Brown, and Fifth Third Bank. Since then, she has been at the university for 21 years and began her U-M career at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the Executive Education Center managing executive development programs in Ann Arbor, Hong Kong, Brazil, Singapore and India. She also managed the Industry Relations Team at the Ross Career Development Office developing and maintaining relationships with financial services companies and created and executed strategic planning and outreach processes. For the final seven years at Ross, Eun Ja served as an Associate Director of the Full-Time MBA Admissions developing and targeting recruiting strategies in Asia, Africa, Oceana, and all over the U.S., eventually finding her true passion working with international alumni. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Psychology