U.K. Faces Of The Week: June 26-30 - Forbes.com

U.K. Faces Of The Week: June 26-30 - Forbes.com: "U.K. Faces Of The Week: June 26-30
Chris Noon and Parmy Olson 07.01.06, 12:01 AM ET

Blair Joins Gates-Funded Supergroup To Monitor Africa Aid

Whither Bono? Grizzled Irish singer and political activist Sir Bob Geldof, Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan and Nigeria's President Obasanjo are the merry men enlisted by British Prime Minister and sometime-axeman Tony Blair into a supergroup that will track aid promises made to Africa. The Ghanaian UN wallah will chair the panel--to be funded by billionaire Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) founder Bill Gates--that will keep an eye on debt and trade. It is believed that Peter Eigen, founder of global anticorruption watchdog Transparency International, will also sit on the Africa Progress Panel to be unveiled at a speech at Kings College London on Monday."