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Leonard Abramson
Consultant and Member of the Board of Directors of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins University
Net Worth: $800 mil
Mr. Abramson retired on July 19, 1996 as a
director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Healthcare, Inc.
(managed health care company), positions he had held since 1982. Mr.
Abramson is the founder of U.S. Healthcare, Inc., which became a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company on July 19, 1996 and is now known
as Aetna U.S. Healthcare Inc. Mr. Abramson currently is self- employed
as a consultant and private investor and is Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of The Maine Merchant Bank, LLC. He also is a trustee of the Brookings Institution, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and serves on the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Abramson is the author of Healing Our Health Care System.
With his wife, he runs the The Abramson Family Foundation, which works with PEJE (The Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education) and The Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life.
He is Vice Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition. (my page on the Republican Jewish Coalition)
“The Hebrew word emet means truth. And truth was
the guiding principle behind a three-week International Hillel program
at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel called EMET, designed to bring
the facts about the current Middle East crisis to students.
"The whole idea was to come back with a proactive,
instead of a reactive agenda," said Michal Kedem, 22, one of only two
Canadians - both in their final year at McGill University - to take part
in the summer think-tank program.
Florida philanthropist Leonard Abramson conceived
of EMET after talking with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.They were
both concerned about the lack of effective Israeli hasbarah and intent
on doing something about it. Other Jewish philanthropists connected to
Hillel who came forward to support the project included Bernard Marcus,
Edgar “
http://www.cjnews.com/pastissues/01/sept20-01/campus/campus.htm (also: http://www.jafi.org.il/agenda/2001/english/wk28/5.asp )
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Rex J. Bates
Mr. Bates has served as a director of Ventana
since April of 1996. From August 1991 to May 1995, Mr. Bates served on
the Board of Directors of Twentieth Century Industries and was a member
of its compensation committee. Prior to Twentieth Century Industries,
Mr. Bates served as the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. Mr. Bates also served as
State Farm's Chief Investment Officer. In March of 1991, Mr. Bates
retired from State Farm. Prior to Mr. Bates' employment with State Farm,
he was a partner in the investment firm of Stein, Roe & Farnham in
Chicago. Mr. Bates received a B.S. and an M.S. from the University of
Chicago.
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Louis W. Cabot
Chairman, Cabot-Wellington LLC
Louis Wellington Cabot has been with the Cabot
Corporation since 1948, serving as President (1950-1969), Chairman of
the Board (1969-1986), and director emeritus (1986-present). In
addition, Cabot was Chairman of the Brookings Institution (1986-1992)
and a director of the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
(1975-1978), New England Telephone and Telegraph, Owens-Corning
Fiberglass Corporation, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Wang Laboratories,
Inc., Penn Central R.R., and Arthur D. Little, Inc. He is currently
Chairman of Cabot- Wellington LLC, a Director of Conservation International, and a trustee of Northeastern University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Cabot Family Charitable Trust.
A veteran of World War II, Cabot was a member of the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management
(1985). In addition, he chaired both the President’s Circle of the
National Academy of Sciences (1992-1995) and the Sloan Commission on
Government and Higher Education (1977-1980).
He is Vice President of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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A W. Clausen
Retired Chairman and CEO, Bank of America Corporation
As a child in Hamilton, Illinois, Tom Clausen
aspired to become a “transnational citizen.” He has achieved that goal,
visiting 119 nations during his banking and public service career, and
exercising his leadership skills to improve the lives of countless
individuals around the world.
After graduating from Carthage in 1944, Mr. Clausen earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota.
He entered Bank of America’s executive training
program in 1949, and in 1970 was elected president and chief executive
officer of BankAmerica Corporation. He led the bank through dramatic
growth from 1970 through 1981, then served during the Reagan
administration as President of the World Bank. In 1986, he returned to
BankAmerica as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, retiring in 1990.
Mr. Clausen is a graduate of the Advanced
Management Program of the Harvard Business School and a recipient of the
Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award, the Outstanding
Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota, the Carthage
Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the California Industrialist of the
Year Award. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from Carthage,
Gonzaga University, Lewis and Clark College, the University of Notre
Dame, the University of the Pacific, and the University of Santa Clara.
He has been awarded the prestigious University of California–San
Francisco Medal and the Carthage Flame.Mr. Clausen has been a trustee or
director of numerous educational, foreign policy, or economic
organizations—including Carthage; the Walter A. Haas School of Business
at the University of California–Berkeley; the University of
California–San Francisco Foundation; the Asia Foundation; the Committee for Economic Development; Population Action International; and the International Center for Economic Growth.
Mr. Clausen is immediate past Chairman of the World
Affairs Council of Northern California. He is a member of the Bretton
Woods Committee and the Korea–U.S. Wiseman Council. He is advisor to the
Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership. He has received
awards from the governments of Italy, Japan, Senegal, South Korea,
Spain, and Venezuela.
Mr. Clausen resides in Hillsborough, California. He has grown sons, Eric and Mark.
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William T. Coleman Jr.
Senior Partner and Senior Counsellor, O'Melveny & Myers
William T. Coleman, Jr., became the nation's fourth
Secretary of Transportation on March 7, 1975, when he was administered
the oath of office at a ceremony conducted by President Gerald R. Ford
at the White House. President Ford nominated Secretary Coleman to the
cabinet position on January 14, 1975. The Senate confirmed his
nomination on March.3, 1975.
Secretary Coleman entered office following a
distinguished career in law, business and public service that included
advisory or consultant positions to four former Presidents.
At the time of his nomination, he was the senior
partner in the law firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy & Coleman
of Philadelphia and special counsel to the Southeastern Pennsylvania
Transportation Authority. Additionally, he was a director of Pan
American World Airways, Inc., Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, First
Pennsylvania Corporation, Philadelphia Electric Company and Western
Saving Fund Society. He was also a member of the board of governors of
the American Stock Exchange and a trustee of both the Rand Corporation
and The Brookings Institution,
Born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia,
Secretary Coleman attended local public schools and was graduated summa
cum laude in 1941 from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a 1946
magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was a member of
the board of editors of the Harvard Law Review and recipient of the
Joseph E. Beale Prize.
Secretary Coleman began his law career in 1947 as
law secretary to Judge Herbert F. Goodrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit. The next year he became a U.S. Supreme Court law
clerk, serving on the staff of the late Justice Felix Frankfurter.
Secretary Coleman has held several national-level
public service positions. In 1969 he was a member of the U.S. delegation
to the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly; in
1971-1972, a member of the National Commission on Productivity; from
1963 to 1975, consultant to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency; in 1964 senior consultant and assistant counsel to the
President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy; and
from 1959 through 1961, a member of President Eisenhower's Committee on
Government Employment Policy.
An ardent defender of civil rights, Secretary
Coleman was one of the authors of the legal brief that persuaded the
Supreme Court in 1954 to outlaw segregation in public schools. In 1965,
he was retained by former Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania to assist in
removing racial restrictions at Girard College in Philadelphia. He has
served as a member of the national legal committee, director, member of
the executive committee and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund. He has also served as a board member and president of
the Earl Warren Legal Training Program,
Among the professional organizations with which
Secretary Coleman is or has been associated are the American College of
Trial Lawyers, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law
Institute, the American Bar Association and the American Arbitration
Association.
Education
Harvard University, LL.B., 1946: magna cum laude; Editor, Harvard Law Review
University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1941: summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Gamma Mu; The American Academy of Arts and Science
Professional Activities
Law Clerk, Honorable Herbert F. Goodrich, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; Honorable Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court
Admitted, Washington, D.C.
Member
Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations
Former Member
Board of Overseers of Harvard University; Boards of
Directors of: AMAX, Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Chase Manhattan
Corporation, CIGNA Corporation, IBM Corporation, Pan American World
Airways, PepsiCo., Inc., Philadelphia Electric Company, and New American
Holdings
Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation during the Ford Administration
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
Council, American Law Institute
Board of Trustees, Carnegie Institution of
Washington; Brookings Institution; Philadelphia Museum of Art (Vice
President); New York City Ballet, Inc.; Board of Directors of the
National Symphony Orchestra; Trustee Council, National Gallery of Art
Advisory Director, Metropolitan Opera
Officer, the French Legion of Honor; Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Lloyd N. Cutler
Senior Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Lloyd Cutler, one of the firm's founding partners,
maintains an active practice in several fields, including international
arbitration and dispute resolution, constitutional law, appellate
advocacy, and public policy advice.
Mr. Cutler served as Counsel to President Clinton
and Counsel to President Carter. He also served as Special Counsel to
the President on Ratification of the Salt II Treaty (1970-1980);
President's Special Representative for Maritime Resource and Boundary
Negotiations with Canada (1977-1979); and Senior Consultant, President's
Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission, 1983-1984). He
was a member and former Chairman of the Quadrennial Commission on
Legislative, Executive and Judicial Salaries, and was a member of the
President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989).
Mr. Cutler is a graduate of Yale University (B.A.
1936; LL.B. 1939) and was awarded a Yale honorary degree as Doctor of
Laws in 1983. He also was awarded an honorary degree as Doctor of Laws
from Princeton University in 1994; the Jefferson Medal in Law at the
University of Virginia in 1995; the Fordham-Stein Prize, Fordham
University School of Law, 1995; and the Marshall-Wythe medal of the Law
School of William and Mary.
Mr. Cutler was a founder and Co-Chairman of the
Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights Under Law. He has served as Chairman
of the Board of the Salzburg Seminar; Co-Chairman of the Committee on
the Constitutional System; a member of the Council of the American Law
Institute; a trustee emeritus of The Brookings Institution and a member
of its Executive Committee; and an Honorary Bencher of the Middle
Temple. He also has served as a director of a number of national
business corporations. In and out of government, he has written
frequently and appeared often on television as a commentator and
advocate in connection with a wide range of public policy matters.
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D. Ronald Daniel
Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
D. Ronald Daniel is an employee of McKinsey & Company.
He joined McKinsey & Company in 1957 and held various positions
with the firm, including Managing Partner from 1976 to 1988. He has
served as a director of McKinsey & Company since 1968. Mr. Daniel is
a member of the Harvard Corporation, the Harvard Board of Overseers, and is the Treasurer of Harvard University. Mr. Daniel is also a member of the boards of WNET/Thirteen, New York’s public television station, the Brookings Institution and Rockefeller University. He was elected a Director of Yum! Brands
effective October 7, 1997, and is a member of the Executive/Finance
Committee, Nominating Committee and the Compensation Committee. He is
also the Chairman of Ripplewood Holdings (a New York based Private Equity firm).
“D. Ronald Daniel, for instance, was Jeffrey
Skilling's boss at McKinsey during the 1980s, when Skilling consulted
with Enron to design the energy giant's unsustainable business model.
Because of the work of Daniel and Skilling, McKinsey is now a defendant
in the largest suit against Enron. Moreover, it is remarkably telling
that just as the university prepares to bid farewell to one of the Enron
club, it has already announced the entry of another one. Robert Rubin,
the Corporation's latest addition, is a director of Citigroup, Enron's
largest creditor. Rubin attempted to obtain a Federal bailout for Enron
as it approached collapse-while its top executives cashed in on Enron's
falling stock and drained the pension funds of thousands of their
employees.” (more)
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Bruce B. Dayton
Wayzata, Minnesota
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Douglas Dillon
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C. Douglas Dillon was nominated by President John
F. Kennedy to be the 57th Secretary of the Treasury. He served from
January 21, 1961 to April 1, 1965.
He served as Under Secretary of State for President
Eisenhower from June 12, 1959 until January 4, 1961, at the time of his
appointment by President Kennedy to head the Treasury Department. In
his position at the State Department, he was responsible for the
economic policies and programs of the Department of State and for
coordinating the Mutual Security Program, both in its military and
nonmilitary aspects. These duties were in addition to the Under
Secretary's traditional responsibilities. He directed the State
Department's economic activities from March 1957, when he was appointed
Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, a position that was
elevated to the Under Secretary level by the Congress in 1958. While in
the State Department, he attended several Foreign Ministers meetings and
headed a number of U.S. delegations to international conferences. The
latter include the meeting of the Committee of 21 of the Organization of
American States which, in September 1960, concluded the Act of Bogota,
and the Ministerial Meeting in Paris in December 1960, which put into
final form the Convention for the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development.
Dillon was not only well versed in the economic
programs of the Government, but was one of the founders of the
Inter-American Development Bank in 1959. It was established to promote
the economic development of Latin America.
As Secretary of the Treasury, Dillon was the United
States spokesman for the Kennedy Administration's program of aid for
the economic development of Latin America under the Alliance for
Progress Program in 1961. The work continued under President Johnson,
who had pledged his support for continuing aid for the Alliance for
Progress.
Mr. Dillon had a long career in the international
field as an investment banker prior to entering Government Service. He
was a member of the New York Stock Exchange from 1931 to 1936, and in
1936 became a Director and subsequently President of the United States
and Foreign Securities Corporation. In 1938, he became a Vice President
and Director of Dillon, Read and Company, being elected Chairman of the
Board in 1946.
Mr. Dillion saw active service in the navy during
World War II, receiving decorations for combat actions. In 1953,
President Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to France. He served in
that position from February 27, 1953, until the President appointed him
Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in 1959.
Dillon was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on August
21, 1909, the son of Clarence and Ann Douglass Dillon. He gratuated from
Groton in 1927 and Harvard in 1931 magna cum laude. He served both his
schools, as a trustee of Groton School, and a member of the Board of
Overseers of Harvard University from 1952 until 1958. Mr. Dillon
received many honors for achievement in public affairs, government
service, and creativity in banking. He was awarded Honorary Degrees by
Harvard, Columbia, New York University, Lafayette College, Williams
College, Hartford College, Rutgers University, Princeton University, and
the University of Pennsylvania. In 1959, he was named "Outstanding
Citizen of New Jersey." He also received the Lafayette Fellowship
Foundation Gold Medal.
Mr. Dillon married the former Phyllis Ellsworth. They had two daughters, Phyllis Ellsworth Colins and Joan Dillon Moseley.
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Charles W. Duncan Jr.
Chairman, Duncan Interests
Charles W. Duncan, Jr., serves as chairman of the Business Coalition for Clean Air.
Duncan served as deputy secretary of the U.S.
Department of Defense from January 1977 to August 1979 and as secretary
of the Department of Energy from August 1979 until January 1981.
He has been involved in private investments since
1981. Duncan is a native Houstonian and a chemical engineering graduate
of Rice University. He also completed two years of management study at
The University of Texas.
Following graduation from Rice, Duncan worked as a chemical engineer for Humble Oil & Refining Company (now ExxonMobil).
Duncan joined Duncan Foods Company in 1947 and was
elected president in 1958. When Duncan Foods merged into The Coca-Cola
Company in 1964, Duncan was elected to that company’s board, where he
served, except while in government service, until 1997.
He was elected president of The Coca-Cola Company in 1971.
Duncan serves on numerous boards, including director of Newfield Exploration Company, Inc., and Vice-Chairman and Director of The Welch Foundation.
He also serves as a director for the Greater Houston Partnership. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He was a director of American Express until he retired in 1998.
His son is John H Duncan.
**
Walter Y. Elisha
Retired Chairman and CEO, Springs Industries, Inc.
Elisha's service to the industry began soon after he joined Springs Industries
in 1980. He has served as ATMI president and a member of ATMI's board
of directors, as chairman and a member of its Executive Committee, its
Budget, Finance and Membership Committee, and its Government Relations
Committee.
He served as president of ATMI from 1995 to 1996
and chaired ATMI's Quest for the Best in Safety and Health program from
1996 to 1998.
Elisha joined Springs in 1980 as president and
chief operating officer and as a member of its board of directors. In
1981, he was named chief executive officer, and in 1983, he was named
chairman of the board. In 1998, he was succeeded as chief executive
officer of the company by Crandall C. Bowles and remains chairman of the
board and chairman of the executive committee. Before joining Springs,
Elisha was vice chairman and a member of the board of directors of Jewel
Companies, Inc., a diversified national retailing business in Chicago.
Elisha is a director of AT&T, Carolina Power & Light Company and director of Cummins Engine Company. He is a member of the American Society of Corporate Executives and the Business Council. In addition, he is a member of The Business Roundtable,
serving on its Policy Committee; a trustee for the Committee for
Economic Development; a member of the President's Advisory Committee for
Trade Policy and Negotiations; and an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Associates of Harvard Business School.
A native of Gary, Ind., Elisha is a graduate of Wabash College and the Harvard Business School.
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Robert F. Erburu
Chairman of the Board (Retired), Times Mirror
Mr. Erburu is the former Chair of the Board of the
Times Mirror Company, a position he held from 1986 to 1991. He has been
with the company for more than thirty years, and served as Chief
Executive Officer (1981-1995) and President (1974-1986 and 1994-1995).
He practiced law before joining Times Mirror in 1961. Among his
business, civic, cultural and educational involvements, Mr. Erburu is
director of Cox Communications and Tejon Ranch Company (publicly-held
companies), the Tomas Rivera Center. He is a member of the boards of
seven charitable foundations. He is director or member of the Business
Council, the Business Roundtable, the California Business Roundtable,
and director of Marsh & McLennan Co. Inc.
and, formerly, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States (1974-1984)
and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce (1975-1981).
He is Chairman of the Boards of the National Gallery of Art, the Pacific Council on International Policy
and the Board of Councilors of the College of Letters, Arts and Science
of the University of Southern California. He is also Chairman Emeritus
of the Huntington Library and the J. Paul Getty Trust and a trustee of
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Ahmanson Foundation, the
Ralph M. Parson Foundation, the Fletcher Jones Foundation and the Carrie
Estelle Doheny Foundation.
Ex-Director – Council on Foreign Relations (retired 1998)
**
Stephen Friedman
Senior Principal, MMC Capital Inc. (Marsh & McLennan)
Friedman is currently a senior principal at Marsh
& McLennan Capital, Inc., and a limited partner of Goldman, Sachs
& Co. New York. He was senior chairman of Goldman, Sachs from 1994
to 1997, co-chairman or sole Chairman from 1990 to 1994, and co-chief
operating officer from 1987 to 1990. He joined Goldman, Sachs in 1966
after serving as a law clerk to a Federal District Judge and as an
attorney in New York. He attended Cornell University and Columbia Law
School.
Friedman is the chairman of the board of trustees
of Columbia University, the chairman of the executive committee of The
Brookings Institution, and a member of the National Bureau of Economic
Research and the Concord Coalition. He also serves on the executive
committee of the board of managers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The
Trilateral Commission. In addition, Friedman is a director of FannieMae,
Wal-Mart and Risk Capitol Holdings.
He is also a member of Bush’s Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB).
**
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the most prominent
and well- known academics in the United States today. He has drawn the
world's attention to Harvard's Afro-American Studies program since he
took over as its chair, and his reputation has been solidly built on
several fronts as well. As a critic and editor, Gates contributed to
broadening the discourse on African American literature with books like
Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self (1987) and The
Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
(1988), which offer refreshing critical approaches that consider
cultural traditions in African American literature. Gates has been
instrumental in changing the literary canon in U.S. education and
bringing literary history to light through the numerous critical texts
and republished works he has edited, as well as lost manuscripts he has
discovered. Beyond this, Gates has narrated a major PBS documentary on
Africa and co-edited a huge Pan- African encyclopedia on CD-ROM for
Microsoft.
Managing Director, Harvard Square Netcasting
Fletcher Foundation Advisory Board
Director, Educational Netcasting Foundation
Managing Director, Africana.com
Board of Trustees. Judge Baker Children's Center
Board of Directors, Afropaedia LLC
Board of Directors, Denham Management Ltd.
Board of Directors, Pulitzer Prize Board (1997-)
Board of Directors, Perseus Book Group
Board of Trustees, Bates College
Board of Directors, Library of America
Board of Trustees, Lawrence University
Board of Directors, Concord Academy
Board of Directors, Brookings Institute
Board of Directors, European Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies
Board of Editors, Prometheus,
Board of Directors, Museum of Afro-American
History, African Meeting House
Consultant, The James Weldon Johnson Papers Project
Board of Directors, African-American Newspapers and
Periodicals: A National Bibliography and Union List
Board of Directors, Studio Museum in Harlem
Board of Directors, Phillips Brooks House Association
Board of Directors, Museum of Afro-American History
Board of Directors, Lincoln Center Theater Project
Board of Directors, Studio Museum
Advisory Board, National Coalition Against Censorship
Board of Directors, Rabbi Tanenbaum Foundation
Executive Board, Pen American Center
Board of Directors, Whitney Museum
Board of Trustees, Core Knowledge Foundation
Board of Trustees, Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Board of Directors, The Amistad Research Center
Honorary Director, Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc.
Advisory Board, The National Duke Ellington Awards
Advisory Board, Montgomery College Humanities Institute
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
**
Robert D. Haas
Chairman of the Board, Levi Strauss & Co.
Bob Haas is the Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
(LS&CO.) and the great-great-grandnephew of the company's founder,
Levi Strauss.
Haas was named Chairman in 1989 and served as Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) from 1984 to 1999. As CEO, Haas was
instrumental in leading the company through a business turnaround that
resulted in more than a decade of rapid sales growth and profit
expansion. He led the successful effort to take the company private
through a leveraged buyout in 1985. In addition, he oversaw the creation
of the Dockers® and Slates® brands, and spearheaded the company's
substantial international development.
Haas joined LS&CO. in 1973. He has served as
Marketing Director and Group Vice President of Levi Strauss
International, Director of Corporate Marketing Development, Senior Vice
President of Corporate Planning and Policy, President of the Operating
Groups, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the
company.
Haas' involvement outside of LS&CO. is
extensive. He is currently a Trustee of the Evelyn & Walter Haas,
Jr. Fund, a Berkeley Fellow and Director of the [San Francisco] Bay Area
Council. Haas is a member of the North American Executive Committee of
the Trilateral Commission, The Conference Board, the Council on Foreign
Relations, the California Business Roundtable and the Ron Brown Award
for Corporate Leadership. He is also a member of the League of Women
Voters Education Fund's National Advisory Committee and serves on the
Advisory Board of the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
Additionally, Haas is president of the Levi Strauss Foundation, member
and Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution, Honorary Director of
the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, former Trustee of the Ford Foundation
and former Director of the American Apparel Association.
Haas graduated as class valedictorian from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1964. He was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa that same year. He served in the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast
from 1964 to 1966 and was a White House Fellow from 1968 to 1969. He
received his masters of business administration from the Harvard
Graduate School of Business in 1968 where he was a Baker Scholar. He was
an associate with the management consulting firm of McKinsey and
Company from 1969 to 1972.
**
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell is a Chairman Emeritus of the New
York Public Library. In 1942, Mr. Heiskell became the General Manager of
LIFE, and was later elected a Vice President of Time Inc. In 1959, he
joined the Board of Directors at Time Inc. He subsequently became
Chairman of the Board and eventually, Chief Executive Officer. Mr.
Heiskell has also been closely involved with a large number of civic,
cultural and educational organizations. He was a founder and Co-Chair of
the National Urban Coalition, a member of the Board of Directors of the
New York Urban Coalition, and former Chairman of the President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Currently, Mr. Heiskell is an
Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution, a member of the Board of
Directors of the Enterprise Foundation, and Vice Chairman of the Lincoln
Center Theater; he is also affiliated with a number of other
organizations.
Mr. Heiskell was born in Naples, Italy, and
educated in Germany, Switzerland and France. He has been a Trustee of
the Institute of International Education since 1990 and is a member of
the Executive Committee.
**
F. Warren Hellman
Chairman, Hellman and Friedman LLC
Warren Hellman is chairman of Hellman & Friedman LLC.
He co-founded the San Francisco-based private equity firm in 1984 and
is currently investing its fourth fund with $2.2 billion of committed
capital. Prior to serving as chairman at Hellman & Friedman, Mr.
Hellman was a general partner at Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, a
Boston-based venture capital firm, and later a general partner at
Matrix Partners, Hellman, Ferri's successor. Prior to Hellman, Ferri,
Mr. Hellman served as president and director at Lehman Brothers and
headed their Investment Banking Division.
Mr. Hellman is director of Levi Strauss & Co., The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., D.N.& E. Walter & Co., and WPP Group plc. He serves as chairman of The San Francisco Foundation, and is a member of the advisory board of the Walter A. Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation, and trustee emeritus of The Brookings Institution. He is a director of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
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Robert A. Helman
Senior Partner, Mayer, Brown & Platt
Employment
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, Partner,
1967 to date; Senior Partner, 1998; Chairman, Mayer, Brown, Rowe &
Maw management committee, 1984-1998 • Isham, Lincoln & Beale, Chicago, 1956-1966
Education
Northwestern University, LL.B., 1956; Order of the
Coif; Associate Editor, Northwestern University Law Review •
Northwestern University, B.S.L., 1954 • University of Illinois,
1951-1953
Professional Activities
Director of Northern Trust Corporation and The Northern Trust Company • Brambles USA, Inc. • Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. • TC PipeLines GP, Inc. • Chicago Stock Exchange, 1993-2000 • Zenith Electronics Corporation, 1995-1999 • The Horsham Corporation, 1990-1996 • Alberta Natural Gas Company, 1993-1996 • Southern Pacific Transportation Co., 1987-1988
Civic Activities
The Brookings Institution, Emeritus Trustee • Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Trustee • Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago • Financial Research and Advisory Committee of the City of Chicago • Museum of Contemporary Art, Trustee • University of Chicago Law School Visiting Committee • Aspen Institute, Trustee, 1986-1992 • Citizens Committee on the Juvenile Court of Cook County, Chairman, 1968-1983 • Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Director, 1991-1992 • The Learned Hand Human Relations Award of the American Jewish Committee, Recipient, 1989 • Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, President, 1973-1975 • Northwestern University Law School Visiting Committee, Chairman, 1989-1992 • United Charities of Chicago, Director, 1967-1972 • University of Chicago Hospitals, Trustee, 1982-1988
Memberships
American Bar Association, Chairman, Section of Public Utility Law, 1983-1984 • American Law Institute • Chicago Bar Association • Chicago Council of Lawyers
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Roy M. Huffington
Chairman and CEO, Roy M. Huffington, Inc.
Roy M. Huffington is Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer of Roy M. Huffington, Inc., an independent,
international oil and gas company located in Houston, Texas.
He received a B.S. degree from Southern Mathodist
University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology from Harvard
University. He subsequently served from Ensign to Lt. Commander with the
United States Navy from 1942 to 1945, receiving a Bronze Star with
Combat V, and Presidential Unit Citation for his participation with Task
Force 58 in the Pacific.
In 1946, he joined Humble Oil & Refining
Company as a field geologist, leaving in 1956 to set up his own oil and
gas exploration company.
Roy M. Huffington, Inc., as an independent, worked
mostly in Texas and Louisiana until 1968, when Mr. Huffington secured a
production-sharing contract with the Government of Indonesia.
Discoveries in East Kalimantan led to the development of a multi-billion
dollar LNG export project between Indonesia and Japan. In 1985, he
received the Gold Medallion Oil Pioneer Award from the Government of
Indonesia for meritorious services to the oil and gas industry in that
country. In 1990, the overseas properties of the company were sold to
the Chinese Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan.
After setting up his own company, he decided to
expand his business abroad, especially in Iran, Japan, and Indonesia.
His company was most successful in Indonesia and opened up the country
to foreign investors. He commended the Indonesian government for having
the foresight to invite foreign companies to invest in their country by
negotiating and honoring the contracts. His advice to all countries
seeking foreign investors was to first negotiate the best possible deal
for both parties, as a business agreement is successful only when both
parties benefit equally. The second step towards seeking economic influx
is to draw up contracts and honor them.
From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Huffington served as the
U.S. Ambassador to Austria, where he worked to open up business
opportunities between the newly-accessible Eastern Block countries and
their Western counterparts. He sponsered two annual, highly-successful
business seminars in Vienna and was awarded the 1992 Ambassador of the
Year award form the Diplomatic Club of Vienna. In 1997, he was awarded
the "Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeichen" ("Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold")
for services to the Republic of Austria.
Among the honors and awards Mr. Huffington has
received from business, civic, professional and academic groups, are the
Alumni Achievment Award from the Harward Business School and the
Distinguished Alumnus Award and a Doctorate of Humane Letters from
Southern Methodist University. He has also been elected into the Texas
Business Hall of Fame.
Mr. Huffington has published geological articles in
various professional journals. He has also been a director or trustee
of numerous professional, civic, cultural, medical and educational
institutions troughout the United States and in several other parts of
the world.
He and his wife, Phyllis, live in Houston.
He is a member of the Indonesian American Business Association.
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Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Of Counsel, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
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Breene M. Kerr
President, Brookside Company
He
is President of Brookside Company, Easton, Maryland. In 1969, Mr. Kerr
founded Kerr Consolidated, Inc., which was sold in 1996. In 1969, Mr.
Kerr co-founded the Resource Analysis and Management Group and remained
its senior partner until 1982. From 1967 to 1969, he was Vice President
of Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation. From 1951 through 1967, Mr. Kerr
worked for Kerr-McGee Corporation as a geologist and land manager. Mr.
Kerr has served as chairman of the Investment Committee for the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a life member of the
Corporation (Board of Trustees) of that university. He served as a
director of Kerr-McGee Corporation from 1957 to 1981. Mr. Kerr currently
is a trustee of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and has
been an associate director since 1987 of Aven Gas & Oil, Inc., an
oil and gas property management company located in Oklahoma City. He is
also a director of CheapSake Energy. Mr. Kerr
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951.
He is a member of the MIT Corporation and serves on the board of the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma.
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James T. Lynn
Retired CEO, Aetna Life & Casualty Co.
1927 - Born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1945 - Joins the Navy.
1948 - Graduates from Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, summa cum laude.
1951 - Graduates Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, and joins Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, a Cleveland law firm.
1969 - Is named general counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce.
1971 - Becomes undersecretary, U.S. Department of Commerce.
1973 - Is appointed the counsellor to president for Community Development; becomes secretary, Housing & Urban Development.
1975 - Is named director, Office of Management and Budget.
1977 - Rejoins Jones, Day, Reavies & Pogue; joins Aetna's board of directors.
1979 - Serves as general counsel to the Republican National Committee.
1984 - Becomes Aetna's chairman.
1992 - Retires from Aetna.
1997 - Senior advisor at Lazard Freres & Co., LLC.
Selected by Clinton for The President's Commission to Study Capital Budgeting
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Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is President of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international research
organization founded in 1910, with offices in Washington, D.C., and
Moscow. Her career includes posts in the executive and legislative
branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit
arena and in journalism.
From 1977-79, she was Director of the Office of
Global Issues on the staff of the National Security Council in the White
House. Her responsibilities included nuclear proliferation,
conventional arms sales policy, chemical and biological warfare and
human rights. In 1993, she returned to government as Deputy to the
Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs.
From 1980-82, she was a member of the Editorial
Board of The Washington Post, where she covered energy, environment,
science, technology, arms control, health and other issues.
From 1982-93, she served as founding Vice President
and Director of Research ('82-'89) for the World Resources Institute,
an internationally known center for policy research on domestic and
international environmental and natural resource management issues. From
1993-1997, she was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,
also serving as Acting Director of the Council's Washington program.
From 1991-1997, she authored a weekly column for
the Washington Post which appeared nationwide and in the International
Herald Tribune. She has also written for the New York Times, Foreign
Affairs, and other scientific and foreign policy journals. She co-edited
The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes
in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years (1990) and co-authored and
edited Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared
Leadership (1991). Her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, "Power
Shift," was chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the
journal's 75 years.
Dr. Mathews came to Washington in 1973 as a
Congressional Science Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS). She continued in Congress on the staff of
the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on
Interior and Insular Affairs. In 1975-76, she served as National Issues
Director in Congressman Morris Udall’s presidential campaign, the
highest ranking woman in any presidential campaign that year.
She is currently a trustee of the Brookings
Institution; the Rockefeller Foundation; The Century Foundation; the
Inter-American Dialogue; and the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a
national coalition of groups working on domestic transportation issues,
of which she was a co-founder. She has previously served on the boards
of Radcliffe College, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Joyce
Foundation among others. She is a member of the Environmental Advisory
Committee of Air Products Corporation, a Fortune 200 company, the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the
International Advisory Board of the Center for International Development
at Harvard University.
She graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe
College in 1967, and received a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the
California Institute of Technology in 1973. She appears regularly on
radio and television and was the subject of one of the most heavily
watched of Bill Moyers' World of Ideas series. Mathews was born in New
York City in 1946 and raised there, graduating from the Brearley School.
She has two children
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David O. Maxwell
Retired Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae
Mr. Maxwell was Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Federal National Mortgage Association from 1981 until his
retirement in 1991. Mr. Maxwell is a Director of Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd., Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), SunAmerica Inc. and Corporate Partners, L.P.
He is a life trustee of the Urban Institute, serves on the board for The Council for Excellence in Government
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Donald F. McHenry
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Donald F. McHenry served as Ambassador and U.S.
Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 1979 until
January 20, 1981. As chief United States representative to the United
Nations, he also served as a member of President Carter's Cabinet. At
the time of his appointment, Ambassador McHenry was Ambassador and U.S.
Deputy Representative to the U.N. Security Council, a position to which
he was appointed in March 1977.
Ambassador McHenry is currently University Research
Professor of Diplomacy and International Affairs at Georgetown
University and president of the IRC Group, an international consulting firm.
Ambassador McHenry has studied, taught and worked
primarily in the fields of foreign policy and international law and
organizations. He joined the U.S. Department of State in 1963 and served
eight years in various positions related to U.S. foreign policy. In
1966 he received the Department's Superior Honor Award. In 1971, while
on leave from the Department, he was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings
Institution, Washington, D.C. and an International Affairs Fellow of the
Council on Foreign Relations, New York. In 1973, after leaving the
State Department, he joined the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace in Washington, D.C. as a project director in Humanitarian Policy
Studies. In 1976 he served as a member of President Carter's transition
staff at the State Department before joining the U.S. Mission to the
U.N.
During his career, Ambassador McHenry represented
the United States in a number of international fora and as the U.S.
negotiator on the question of Namibia.
Ambassador McHenry has taught at Southern Illinois,
Howard, American and Georgetown Universities. He is the author of
Micronesia: Trust Betrayed (Carnegie Endowment, 1975) and numerous
articles published in professional journals and newspapers.
Ambassador McHenry is a Director of the International Paper Company, the Coca-Cola Company, FleetBoston Corporation, SmithKline Beecham p.l.c., and AT&T. He is on the Board of Directors of a number of non- governmental organizations, including the Institute for International Economics and the American Ditchley Foundation. He serves as a Trustee of the Mayo Foundation, the Brookings Institution and Columbia University, and as Chairman of the Board of Africare. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the United Nations Association of the United States of America and the Middle East Institute, and he is an Editorial Board member of Foreign Policy magazine. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ambassador McHenry is a former member of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange, the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations (where he is a member),
and the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation, the Johnson
Foundation, the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Mount Holyoke
College and the World Peace Foundation.
Ambassador McHenry was born in St. Louis, Missouri
in 1936 and grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois. He graduated in 1957
from Illinois State University and two years later received a Master's
Degree from Southern Illinois University with majors in International
affairs and in rhetoric and public address. He has done post- graduate
work at Georgetown University. He is the father of one son and two
daughters.
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Robert S. McNamara
Former President
The World Bank
In 1943 Mr. McNamara was commissioned a Captain in
the Air Force and served in the UK, India, China and the Pacific. He was
awarded the Legion of Merit and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel before
going on inactive duty in April 1946. Upon his discharge from the Air
Force, Mr. McNamara joined the Ford Motor Company. In 1957 he was
elected as Director of the company. On November 9, 1960 he was elected
President. One year later, he began his service with the Kennedy
administration.
During the Cuban Missile, Robert S. McNamara served
as Secretary of Defense of the United States under President John F.
Kennedy. He took the oath of office on January 21, 1961 and served as
Secretary of Defense until March 1968.
In his new memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (selected extracts),
he says that the Vietnam War was a mistake and that he knew it all
along. We should have gotten out in 1963, when fewer than 100 Americans
had been killed. When he and other US policymakers took us to war, they
"had not truly investigated what was essentially at stake."
Following his service as U.S. Defense Secretary,
Mr. McNamara became President of the World Bank Group of Institutions in
April 1968, retiring June 30, 1981. Since his retirement as President
of the World Bank Group, Mr. McNamara has served on the boards of Royal
Dutch Petroleum, the Bank of America, the Washington Post Company and
Corning Incorporated, among others. He was a member of the International
Advisory Committee of Goldman Sachs.
Mr. McNamara is associated with a number of non-profit associations: the Brookings Institution,
the World Resources Institute, the Trilateral Commission, the Overseas
Development Council, the Aspen Institute, the Global Coalition for
Africa, World Food Prize Advisory Committee, the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, the United States-Japan Foundation, the National Council for Science and the Environment,
the National Committee on United States China Relations, the
International Irrigation Management Institute, focusing on the issues of
population and development, world hunger, the environment, East-West
relations and nuclear arms. He writes and speaks on these subjects as
well as his vision of the United States in the 21st century.
Mr. McNamara is the recipient of honorary degrees
from colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. He has received
the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the Albert Einstein
Peace Prize, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Want Medal, the
American Assembly's Service to Democracy Award, the Dag Hammarskjold
Honorary Medal, the Medal for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the Yale
School of Organization and Management, the 1987 Olive Branch Award for
the Outstanding Book on the Subject of World Peace, and the Onassis
Foundation's Athinai Prize for Man and Mankind. He is the author of The
Essence of Security; One Hundred Countries, Two Billion People; The
McNamara Years at The World Bank; Blundering Into Disaster; Out of the
Cold; and In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
Born in San Francisco, on June 9, 1916, Mr.
McNamara graduated from the University of California in 1937 where he
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the end of his sophomore year. In 1939
he received an MBA degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business
Administration. In 1940 he returned to Harvard to become an instructor
and later an Assistant Professor of Business Administration. Mr.
McNamara married the former Margaret Craig on August 13, 1940 and has
three children.
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Mary Patterson McPherson
Vice President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Pat McPherson began her career at Bryn Mawr
as a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, where she earned
her Ph.D. She was appointed Assistant Dean of the College, after which
she became the Associate Dean and Lecturer in Philosophy. A year later,
she was named Dean of the Undergraduate College, Deputy to the
President, and Associate Professor of Philosophy. She became Bryn Mawr's
sixth President in 1978. Pat continues her service to higher education and liberal arts colleges with her association at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as vice president. She also serves on the board for the Clarke Center at Dickinson College.
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Arjay Miller
Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
The son of a midwestern farmer,
Arjay Miller’s unusual name came from the initials of his father’s
first and middle names, Rawley John. He graduated from UCLA in 1937 and
spent three years in graduate school working part-time as a teaching
assistant at UC Berkeley, before becoming an economist for the Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco. After three years in the Air Force Miller
joined Ford Motor Co. in 1946.
BS, University of California, Los Angeles, 1937;
LLD (Hon.): University of California, Los Angeles, Whitman College,
University of Nebraska, Ripon College, Washington University (St.
Louis). Teaching Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1938-41;
economist, Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, 1941-43; Army Air Force,
1943-46; Ford Motor Co., 1947-69, various assignments, primarily in
finance, before assuming presidency in 1963; Chairman: Automobile
Manufacturers Association, 1968-69; Urban Institute, 1968-73 (of which he is a life trustee).
At Stanford since 1969. Emeritus since 1979. As Dean of the Business
School, former Ford Motor Company president Arjay Miller oversaw a
period of enormous change. "Private business has been able to satisfy
quite well the private demand for goods such as automobiles and
television sets," Miller said in his first visit to the School in 1969.
"The problems facing our society today are what I call public goods."
Miller quickly set about to establish a program that would train
managers for the public sector as well as teach potential private sector
managers about public needs. The Public Management Program produced its
first graduates in 1973. Under Miller, the first women and ethnic
minorities were appointed to the faculty. Faculty grew from 73 to 84 and
MBA enrollment was held to a modest increase from 550 to 600. During
the 10 years of Miller's deanship, the endowment rose from $6.4 million
to $24 million. Since retirement, Miller has remained close to the
Business School. He presents certificates to the top 10 percent of the
graduating MBA class (the "Arjay Miller Scholars") at commencement. Each
year, the man who once described himself as "just an old bookkeeper,"
hosts the Arjay Miller Lecture traditionally the chief financial officer
of a major corporation. Miller's contribution to the School is a
lasting one.
Along with William R. Hewlett and
Roger W. Heyns, he was a co-founder of PPIC, served as the chairman of
its board of directors from 1995 to 1998, and remains a member of the
board. He is an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution; a former
board member of the Mellon Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, and SRI International; and a former chairman of the Bay Area
Council. Over the years, Miller served on the boards of 10
corporations, including Ford, the Washington Post Company, Wells Fargo
Bank, Levi Strauss & Company, and Burlington Northern.
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Constance Berry Newman
Partner, Upstart Partners
Constance Berry Newman was sworn in on Nov. 27, 2001, as assistant administrator for Africa of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID is the government agency that administers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide.
Newman has extensive experience managing public and
private organizations as well as international experience throughout
the world. Before joining USAID, Newman served from 1998 to 2001 as a
board member of the International Republican Institute,
which conducts programs that promote democracy and strengthen free
markets and rule of law. In that capacity, she participated in election
and other monitoring activities in Nigeria, Ukraine, Russia and China.
She also has served as a private consultant to South African leaders on
affirmative action and diversity and to the World Bank as liaison to
representatives of the South African National Congress, Pan-Africanist
Congress, Inkatha, and the National Union of Mineworkers. In 1987 and
1988 she served as a Cooperative Housing Foundation consultant on a
World Bank project in Lesotho to merge existing housing corporations
into one that was structured to receive World Bank funding.
From 1992 to 2000, Newman was under secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. She was director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 1989 to 1992. She also served from 1994 to 2000 as board member and vice chair of the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority.
Newman's previous government service also includes
assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
commissioner and vice chairman of the Consumer Product Safety
Commission; and VISTA director. In the private sector, she was president
of the Institute for American Business and co-founder and president of
the Newman and Hermanson Company.
Among her awards are the Smithsonian Institution
Joseph Henry Medal (2000); Washingtonian of the Year (1998); Secretary
of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service (1985); and Doctor of
Laws, Bates College (1972), Amherst College (1980), and Central State
University (1991).
She has a bachelor's degree in political science
from Bates College in Maine and a bachelor's in law from the University
of Minnesota School of Law.
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Maconda Brown O'Connor Ph.D.
President, The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Houston based “philantropist” who sits on the boards of many charitable organisations as well as acting as President of The Brown Foundation.
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Samuel Pisar Ph.D.
International Lawyer
International lawyer, Paris, London and New York Bars; Trustee, Brookings Institution,
Washington; President, Yad Vashem, France; Formerly: member, John F.
Kennedy's Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy; Advisor to the State
Department and various Congressional Committees; Author: Coexistence and
Commerce; Of Blood and Hope. Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board
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J. Woodward Redmond
President, J.W. Redmond & Company
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Charles W. Robinson
President, Robinson & Associates, Inc., DYNA YACHT, Inc., and MANGIA ONDA Co.
Charles W. Robinson is president of Robinson &
Associates, Inc., a venture capital company formed in 1980 in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, for real estate development. He also is president of Dyna Yacht Inc., a company that is developing new technology for competitive sailboats; and of Mangia Onda Co., which is developing innovative designs for powerboat hulls to suppress wave generation. Both Dyna Yacht and Mangia Onda are based in San Diego.
He served for five years in the U.S. Navy during WW
II as an engineering officer. Later, as president of an international
iron ore shipping and mining company, he sought to reduce the cost of
ocean transportation as a means of expanding his markets for iron ore in
Japan and Europe. He pioneered the design and construction of the
largest bulk cargo ships as well as the development of combination
ore-oil carriers. He also designed and constructed the “Panamax”, the
largest ship to transit the Panama Canal--and the first mineral tankers
to transport iron ore in slurry form.
Mr. Robinson began his business career in 1952 with
Marcona Corporation, an inter-national mining and ocean shipping
company. As president, he pioneered the design and construction of the
largest and most efficient ocean carriers for economical transport of
the company's iron ore production.
In 1974, Mr. Robinson became Under Secretary of
State for Economic Affairs and later served as Deputy Secretary of State
with Henry Kissinger. In 1977, he became senior managing partner of
Kuhn Loeb, investment bankers. From 1978 until 1980, Mr. Robinson served
as vice chairman of Blyth Eastman Dillon.
Mr. Robinson is a trustee of the Brookings Institution
and of the President's Circle of the National Academy of Science. He
also is a director of two public companies. He sits on the advisory council of Stanford Business School.
A native of California, he obtained his AB in
economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MBA from
the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Robinson and his wife, Mara, have three children and five grandchildren.
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James D. Robinson III
General Partner, RRE Ventures
James D. Robinson III is a director of Claxson. Mr. Robinson is co-founder, chairman and CEO of RRE Investors, LLC and general partner of RRE Ventures GP II,LLC, private information technology venture investment firms, and chairman of Violy, Byorum &Partners Holdings. Mr. Robinson served as chairman and chief executive officer of American Express Company from 1977 to 1993.
Prior to that, Mr. Robinson held several executive
positions within American Express, was a general partner with White Weld
&Co. and served as assistant to the chairman and president of
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company.
Mr. Robinson is a director of the Coca-Cola Company, a director of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, a director of First Data Corporation, a director of Novell, a director of Cambridge Technology Partners, a director of Sunbeam Corporation, a director of Screaming Media Inc and a director of ViaFone. Mr. Robinson is a limited partner and advisor to International Equity Partners and serves as a director of Ibero-American Media Partners, director of Qpass, director of NetVendor Systems, Inc., director of Returns OnLine, Inc., director of Apriva, Achex, Inc., director of e- Duction,Inc., director of eOneGlobal and director of ViaFone as well as an advisor to IntraLinks.
Mr. Robinson is a member of the Business Council and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr.Robinson also is Honorary Co- Chairman of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, an Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution and Chairman Emeritus of the World Travel and Tourism Council.
Mr.Robinson served as Co- Chairman of the Business Roundtable and as
Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations.
Mr.Robinson holds a Bachelor of Science degree from
the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Business
Administration degree from Harvard University
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B. Francis Saul II
President and Chairman, B.F. Saul Company
Company: B.F. Saul Real Estate Investment Trust
Position: Chairman and CEO Salary: $1,562,320 Bonus: $1,550,000 Options:
$0 Total Compensation: $3,497,051
Net Worth: $800 mil
Career Highlights: Saul has been president and
chairman of the board of directors since 1969. He has also been chairman
of the board of trustees of the B.F. Saul Real Estate Investment Trust
since 1969 and a trustee since 1964. Saul has been the chairman of the
board and chief executive officer of Chevy Chase Bank since 1969. He is Chairman & CEO of Saul Centers. He is a member of National Gallery of Art trustees council. Saul is a trustee of the National Geographic Society, as well as of the Johns Hopkins Medicine board and an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution.
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Ralph S. Saul
Former Chairman, CIGNA Corporation
During his distinguished career, Ralph S. Saul
served as CEO of the INA Corp. from 1975 to 1982. After the merger of
INA and Connecticut General, Mr. Saul was Co-CEO and Chairman of the
Board of CIGNA Corp. from March, 1982 until April, 1984. He served as a
member of the Board of Directors of CIGNA Corp. until April, 1989. Prior
to joining INA, he was Co-CEO and Chairman of the Management Committee
of the First Boston Corporation, a post he assumed in 1971. Until
recently he was also Chairman of the Board of Horace Mann.
He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Knox & Co. He currently serves as a trustee of the Brookings Institute, a director of Philidelphia Academies Inc, an honorary trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, the Regulatory Advisory Committee to The New York Stock Exchange Board of Directors, and the Advisory Board of the Wharton Entrepreneurial Center.
Mr. Saul was of CIGNA Corp. from 1982 to 1985 and was President of the
American Stock Exchange from 1966 to 1971. During his career, Mr. Saul
has served on the boards of, among others, AMF Inc., the New York Times,
Fidelity Group of Funds, the New York Stock Exchange, Paine Webber
& Co., Pennwalt Corp., Saint Gobain Corp., Sun Company and the Suez
Group.
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Henry B. Schacht
Chairman and CEO, Lucent Technologies
Henry Schacht is chairman of Lucent Technologies.
He returned to Lucent in October 2000 as chairman
and CEO, having most recently served as chairman of the Lucent spinoff,
Avaya since March. Schacht stepped down as chairman of Lucent
Technologies in February 1998 and had served as the company's first
chairman and CEO from October 1995 to October 1997, during its launch
and first year as an independent company. He also served as a consultant
to Lucent from February 1998 until February 1999, and has been a
Managing Director and Senior Advisor of Warburg Pincus since February
1999.
He began his business career at the American Brake
Shoe Company in 1956. Following service in the U.S. Navy and graduate
school, he joined the Irwin Management Company, an investment firm in
Columbus, Indiana in 1962.
In 1964, Schacht joined Cummins Engine Company,
Inc., in Columbus as vice president -- Finance. He moved up the ranks at
Cummins, holding key positions in Cummins International and later
domestic operations before he assumed duties as president in 1969, when
he was elected to the board of directors. In 1973, he became president
and chief executive officer, and four years later became chairman and
chief executive officer. He retired from Cummins in 1995, and was named
chairman and CEO-designate of Lucent Technologies later that year.
Schacht currently serves on the board of directors of Agere Systems, director of Avaya, director of Johnson & Johnson Corp., director of Alcoa Inc., The New York Times Company and Knoll Inc. He is an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution and a trustee emeritus of the Culver Educational Foundation. He is a member of The Business Council, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Management Executives' Society, and the U.S.-Japan Business Council.
In addition, he is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a
Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American
Philosophical Society.
Schacht served on the AT&T board of directors
for 15 years until 1995 and on the CBS board of directors for 25 years
until 1996. He was a trustee of the Ford Foundation from 1986-2000
serving as its Chairman from 1993-2000 as well as a trustee of the
Rockefeller Foundation and the Urban Institute. He also served as a
member of the President's Commission for National Agenda for the 80s,
and of the Advisory Board - Yale School of Organization and Management.
He was a founder of the Health Effects Institute and was a director of
Clean Sites, Inc., a board member of the National Executive Service
Corps and chairman of The Associates, Harvard Business School and a
member of the Business Roundtable.
Schacht graduated from Yale University with a B.S.
in 1956 and from Harvard University with an M.B.A. in 1962. In addition,
he holds honorary degrees from DePauw University, Trinity College and
Yale University.
He and his wife, Nancy, reside in New York City.
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Michael P. Schulhof
Private Investor
Appointed a director of CBS Sportsline in November 1997 and a director of j2 Global Comminications
in the same year, Schulhof is a private investor. From June 1974 to
January 1996, Mr. Schulhof held various positions at Sony Corporation of
America, Inc. and most recently served as President and Chief Executive
Officer from June 1993 to January 1996. Mr. Schulhof is a trustee a Brandeis University, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc ., New York University Medical Center and the Brookings Institute, serves on the Board of Directors of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Investment and Services Policy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Trade Representative.
**
Robert Brookings Smith
Robert Brookings Smith, a descendant of
Robert S. Brookings, who continues the tradition of his ancestors:
giving generously to local institutions that advance the environment,
the arts, and education. In addition to his career in investment
banking, he served as a director for a variety of firms and nonprofit
organizations. During the 1950s and 1960s, he helped lead the charge for
the eradication of smog from downtown St. Louis. He has served on the
board of trustees for the family-named think-tank, the Brookings
Institution in Washington, D.C., for nearly a half-century and remains
the sole family member associated with the institution.
He supports a number of civic, educational, and
charitable causes, including Washington University scholarships, visual
and performing arts programs, and neurological research. He is a
University emeritus trustee, and he and his wife are Life Eliot Patrons
of the Eliot Society.
**
John C. Whitehead
John C. Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois,
on April 2, 1922, the son of Eugene C. and Winifred K. Whitehead. In
1924, his family moved to New Jersey, where he resided until 1985. He
grew up in Montclair, attended public schools there and graduated from
Montclair High School in 1939.
Mr. Whitehead graduated from Haverford College in
1943 and served in the U.S. Navy, participating in the invasions of
Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. While still in the
Navy, he was assigned as an instructor at the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Whitehead received his M.B.A. degree, with distinction, from Harvard
in 1947 and holds honorary degrees from Haverford College, Pace
University, Rutgers University, Amherst College and Harvard University.
John began his professional career in 1947 at
Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he remained for 38 years, retiring in
1984 as Co-Chairman and Senior Partner. He rose quickly
within the company and was named Partner in 1956, and Senior Partner and
Co-Chairman in 1976. During this time, Goldman Sachs became one of the
world's preeminent investment banking and brokerage firms. In late 1984,
Mr. Whitehead retired from Goldman Sachs as Co-Chairman and Senior
Partner. He has served on the boards of numerous companies and as a
Director of the New York Stock Exchange and Chairman of the Securities
Industry Association.
In 1985, he was asked to become Deputy Secretary of State, number two to George Schultz. He was sworn into office in July, 1985,
and served until January, 1989. During this period, he was Acting
Secretary of State when Mr. Shultz was away from Washington and took a
special interest in relations with Eastern Europe, the United Nations,
and with various administrative reforms in the State Department.
Following his four years of service, he was awarded the Presidential
Citizens Medal by President Reagan.
Since returning from Washington in 1989, he has
been active in a number of educational, civic and charitable
organizations. He is Chairman of the Board of the International Rescue
Committee, the United Nations Association of the U.S.A., the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, The Asia Society, International House and is Co-
Chairman of the Greater New York Councils/Boy Scouts of America. He is a
Director of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Rockefeller University, Lincoln
Center Theater, Outward Bound and a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Trilateral Commission. In Washington, Mr. Whitehead is
Chairman Emeritus of The Brookings Institution and Chairman of Youth
for Understanding and a Trustee of the Trustees Council of the National
Gallery of Art.
Effective December 31, 1997, Mr. Whitehead retired as Chairman of AEA Investors Inc., a special situation investment company.
Mr. Whitehead currently serves as Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation,
the entity charged with rebuilding Lower Manhattan following the
terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Mr. Whitehead co-founded FSVC with the late Cyrus R. Vance in 1990 and he serves as Co-Chairman.
John accepted the Honorary Degree for his wife
Nancy at the 1998 Convocation Ceremony and, joined President Catherine
Dunn, BVM in presenting the inaugural Nancy Dickerson Whitehead
Medallion of Excellence in the Field of Mass Communication.
**
James D. Wolfensohn
President, The World Bank
James D. Wolfensohn, the World Bank Group's ninth
president since 1946, established his career as an international
investment banker with a parallel involvement in development issues and
the global environment. On September 27, 1999, Mr. Wolfensohn was
unanimously reappointed by the Bank's Board of Executive Directors to a
second five-year term as president beginning June 1, 2000. This will
make him the third president in World Bank history to serve a second
term.
Since becoming president on June 1, 1995, he has
traveled to more than 100 countries to gain first-hand experience of the
challenges facing the World Bank, and its 184 member countries. During
his travels, Mr. Wolfensohn has not only visited development projects
supported by the World Bank, but he has also met with the Bank's
government clients as well as with representatives from business, labor,
media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), religious and women's
groups, students and teachers. In the process he has taken the
initiative in forming new strategic partnerships between the Bank and
the governments it serves, the private sector, civil society, regional
development banks and the UN.
In 1996, together with the International Monetary
Fund (IMF), Mr. Wolfensohn initiated the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Initiative (HIPC) as the first comprehensive debt reduction program to
address the needs of the world's poorest, most heavily indebted
countries. Two years later, he led a global review of the HIPC
Initiative, involving church groups, NGOs and representatives from
creditor and HIPC countries, to assess its progress and identify ways to
make the Initiative deeper, broader and faster. This review, and
proposals by donor countries, culminated in September 1999 with an
official endorsement at the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings to double the
amount of relief, make more countries eligible for assistance, and
speed up the process.
In January 1999, Mr. Wolfensohn introduced the
Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), drawing on the lessons of
development experience and putting into action the key concepts laid out
in his Annual Meetings speeches of 1997 and 1998. Together with the
Bank's partners, the CDF is now being piloted in 13 countries.
The CDF is meant to be a compass - not a blueprint.
It is an approach that places the country front and center and focusing
on building stronger partnerships to reduce poverty. It has been
discussed with a wide variety of audiences including ministers and
senior officials of both developed and developing countries, academics,
civil society and the private sector, and other stakeholders. Also, a
network of CDF focal points within multilateral, bilateral and UN
agencies have been meeting regularly on various aspects of
implementation.
The CDF is also meant to enhance the Strategic
Compact, a major reform program in the Bank which Mr. Wolfensohn
launched to improve the institution's effectiveness in fighting poverty,
and to meet the needs of a rapidly changing global economy. A central
feature of Mr. Wolfensohn's Strategic Compact is to incorporate key
aspects of the information revolution into the Bank's work by
transforming the institution into a Knowledge Bank.
Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Wolfensohn was an
international investment banker. His last position was as President and
Chief Executive Officer of James D. Wolfensohn Inc, his own investment
firm set up in 1981 to advise major US and international corporations.
He relinquished his interests in the firm upon joining the World Bank.
Before setting up his own company, Mr. Wolfensohn
held a series of senior positions in finance. He was Executive Partner
of Salomon Brothers in New York and head of its investment banking
department. He was Executive Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of
Schroders Ltd in London, President of J. Henry Schroders Banking
Corporation in New York, and Managing Director, Darling & Co of
Australia.
Throughout his career, Mr. Wolfensohn has also
closely involved himself in a wide range of cultural and volunteer
activities, especially in the performing arts. In 1970, Mr. Wolfensohn
became involved in New York's Carnegie Hall, first as a board member and
later, from 1980 to 1991, as Chairman of the Board, during which time
he led its successful effort to restore the landmark New York building.
He is now Chairman Emeritus of Carnegie Hall. In 1990, Mr. Wolfensohn
became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. On January 1, 1996, he was
elected Chairman Emeritus.
Mr. Wolfensohn has been President of the
International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, Director of
the Business Council for Sustainable Development, and served both as
Chairman of the Finance Committee and as Director of the Rockefeller
Foundation and of the Population Council, and as member of the Board of
Rockefeller University.
Currently, in addition to serving as President of
the World Bank Group, he is Chairman of the Board of the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton. Mr. Wolfensohn is also an Honorary Trustee
of the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Century Association in New York.
Born in Australia in December 1933, Mr. Wolfensohn
is a naturalized US citizen. He holds a BA and LLB from the University
of Sydney and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.
Before attending Harvard, he was a lawyer in the
Australian law firm of Allen Allen & Hemsley. Mr. Wolfensohn served
as an Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, and was a member of the
1956 Australian Olympic Fencing Team. Mr. Wolfensohn is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American
Philosophical Society. He has been the recipient of many awards for his
volunteer work, including the first David Rockefeller Prize of the
Museum of Modern Art in New York for his work for culture and the arts.
In May 1995 he was awarded an Honorary Knighthood
by Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to the arts. Mr. Wolfensohn
has also been decorated by the Governments of Australia, France,
Germany, Morocco, and Norway.
He and his wife, Elaine, an education specialist
and a graduate of Wellesley, BA, and Columbia University, MA and MEd,
have three children-Sara, Naomi, and Adam.
**
Ezra K. Zilkha
President, Zilkha & Sons, Inc.
75 years old
Mr. Zilkha is Director of Heartland Partners LP:
HTI (Class II) (since October, 1988); Chairman of the Board of the
Company; Member of the executive committee and chairman of the
compensation committee of HTI; President and Director (since 1956),
Zilkha & Sons, Inc. (private investments), New York, New York. Mr.
Zilkha also serves as a director of the Newhall Land and Farming Company.
Since 1956, Mr. Zilkha has been President of Zilkha
& Sons, Inc., a private investment company. From 1991 to 1993 he
was Chairman of Union Holdings, Inc., an industrial holding company. He
is a director of the International Center for the Disabled and Heartland
Technology, Inc. Mr. Zilkha is a trustee of The American Society of the
French Legion of Honor, trustee emeritus of Wesleyan University and an
honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
“He is a senior Iraqi Jew in the States and a
descendant of one of the most financially respected families in the
Middle East, Geneva, USA and elsewhere.”
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