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Board of Directors

James F. Hoge, Jr., Chair [Bio]

Former Editor

Foreign Affairs

Susan Manilow, Vice-Chair

Human Rights Activist

Joel Motley, Vice-Chair

Managing Director

Public Capital Advisors LLC

Sid Sheinberg, Vice-Chair

Partner

The Bubble Factory

Former COO of MCA/Universal

John J. Studzinski CBE, Vice-Chair

Global Head, Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P.

The Blackstone Group

Hassan Elmasry, Treasurer

Partner and Lead Portfolio Manager

Independent Franchise Partners, LLP

Bruce Rabb, Secretary

Counsel

PILnet

Karen Herskovitz Ackman

Landscape architect

Jorge Castañeda

Professor

New York University

Former Foreign Minister of Mexico

Tony Elliott

Chairman

Time Out Group

Michael G. Fisch

President and Chief Executive Officer

American Securities, LLC

Michael E. Gellert

General Partner

Windcrest Partners

Hina Jilani

Director  

AGHS Legal Aid Center

Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Human Rights Defenders

Betsy Karel

Photographer

Chair

Trellis Fund

Wendy Keys

Filmmaker

Formerly the Executive Producer of Programming, the Film Society of Lincoln Center

Robert Kissane

President

Community Counseling Service Co., LLC (CCS)

Oki Matsumoto

Chairman and CEO

Monex Group, Inc.

Barry M. Meyer

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Pat Mitchell

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Paley Center for Media

Aoife O’Brien

Human Rights Activist

Writer – Journalist

Joan R. Platt

Human Rights Activist

Neil Rimer

Co-founder and General Partner

Index Ventures

Amy Rao

Founder and CEO 

Integrated Archive Systems

Victoria Riskin

Human Rights Activist

Writer-Producer

Former President of the Writers Guild of America

Amy L. Robbins

Founder

Nduna Foundation

Shelley F. Rubin

Co-Founder

The Rubin Museum of Art

Kevin P. Ryan

Founder and CEO
Gilt Groupe

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

Editor and Publisher

CLÉS Magazines

Javier Solana

President

ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics

Former Secretary General of NATO

Siri Stolt-Nielsen

Artist

Darian W. Swig

Human Rights Advocate

Founder & President

Article 3 Advisors

John R. Taylor

Managing Partner Wellspring Advisors, LLC

Marie Warburg

Director, American Council on Germany

Director, US and German Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Catherine Zennström

Zennström Philanthropies

Emeritus Board

Kathleen Peratis

Senior Partner

Outten and Golden

Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Rausing Trust

Orville Schell

Director

Center on US-China Relations

AsiaSociety

Former Dean of Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley

Gary Sick

Senior Research Scholar & Adjunct

Professor of Middle East Politics

ColumbiaUniversity

Malcolm B. Smith

Senior Consultant

General American Investors Company, Inc.

Africa 

Jonathan Fanton, Chair

Daniel Bach

Suliman Baldo

Fareda Banda

Innocent Chukwuma

Wendy Keys

Samuel Murumba

Muna Ndulo

Randy Newcomb

Louis Marie Nindorera

Peter Rosenblum

John Ryle

Nick Shaxson

Darian Swig

Arnold Tsunga

L. Muthoni Wanyeki

Michela Wrong

Karen Ackman 

 

Americas

Lloyd Axworthy, Chair

Marina Pinto Kaufman, Vice-Chair

Julien Studley, Vice-Chair

Roberto Alvarez

Cynthia Arnson

Carlos Basombrio

Peter D. Bell

Marcelo Bronstein

Paul Chevigny

Roberto Cuellar

John Dinges

Denise Dresser

Nancy Englander

Tom J. Farer

Myles Frechette

Alejandro Garro

Peter Hakim

Ronald G. Hellman

Stephen L. Kass

Andy Kaufman

Susanna Leval

Kenneth Maxwell

Jocelyn McCalla

Robert Pastor

Bruce Rabb

Michael Shifter

George Soros

Rose Styron

Javier Timerman

Horacio Verbitsky

George Vickers

Alex Wilde

Asia

David Lakhdhir, Chair

Orville Schell, Vice Chair

Maureen Aung-Thwin

Edward J. Baker

Harry Barnes

Robbie Barnett

Robert L. Bernstein

Jagdish Bhagwati

Jerome Cohen

Gerald Curtis

John Despres

Jose Manuel Diokno

Mallika Dutt

Kek Galabru

Merle Goldman

Jonathan Hecht

Paul Hoffman

Sharon Hom

Rounaq Jahan

Ayesha Jalal

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Perry Link

Kimberly Marteau-Emerson

Krishen Mehta

Andrew J. Nathan

Yuri Orlov

Xiao Qiang

Bruce Rabb

Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Ahmed Rashid

Victoria Riskin

Barnett Rubin

James Scott

Frances Seymour

Mark Sidel

Eric Stover

Ko-Yung Tung

Francesc Vendrell

Tuong Vu

Europe & Central Asia

Catherine Zennström, Chair

Jean-Paul Marthoz, Vice-Chair

Henri Barkey

Gerhart Baum

Rudolf Bindig

Alexander Cooley

Stephen Del Rosso

Felice Gaer

Michael Gellert

William Gerrity

Miklós Haraszti

Alice H. Henkin

Jeri Laber

Walter Link

Masha Lipman

Helena Luczywo

Jane Olson

Arjan Overwater

László Jakab Orsós

Can Paker

Colette Shulman

Leon Sigal

Malcolm Smith

George Soros

Mark von Hagen

Joanna Weschler

Middle East North Africa

Hassan Elmasry, Co-Chair

Kathleen Peratis, Co-Chair

Asli Bali, Officer

Prince Moulay Hicham, Officer

Bruce Rabb, Officer

Gary G. Sick, Officer

Gamal Abouali

Ghanim Alnajjar

Lisa Anderson

Shaul Bakhash

M. Cherif Bassiouni

David Bernstein

Robert L. Bernstein

Nathan Brown

Paul Chevigny

Ahmad Deek

Hanaa Edwar

Mansour Farhang

Fadi Ghandour

Aeyal Gross

Asos Hardi

Salah al-Hejailan

Wajeha Al Huwaider

Shawan Jabarin

Robert James

Mehrangiz Kar

Edy Kaufman

Marina Pinto Kaufman

Robert Malley

Ahmed Mansoor

Stephen P. Marks

Rolando Matalon

Habib Nassar

Abdelaziz Nouaydi

Nabeel Rajab

Victoria Riskin

Charles Shamas

Sid Sheinberg

Sussan Tahmassebi

Mustapha Tlili

Ferras Zalt

Children's Rights

Robert G. Schwartz, Chair

Bernardine Dohrn, Vice-Chair

Mie Lewis, Vice-Chair

Goldie Alfasi-Siffert

Ishmael Beah

Mark Allen Belsey

Michael Bochenek

Rachel Brett

Pam Bruns

Lucinda Franks

Judy Gaynor

Alice Henkin

Kathleen Hunt

Eugene Isenberg

Janet Kagan

Sheila B. Kamerman

Rhoda Karpatkin

Miriam Lyons

Joy Moser

Elena Nightingale

Valerie Pels

Wendy Smith Meyer

Judith Greenberg Seinfeld

Javier Stauring

Anne Studzinski

Ramona Sunderwirth

Tony Tate

Yodon Thonden

Lisa Woll

Roland Algrant,

Vice-Chair (1998-2008)

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights

Alice M. Miller Co-Chair

Bruce Rabb Co-Chair

Katherine Acey

Faisal Alam

Jeff Anderson

Cynthia Brown

Mauro I. Cabral

Randall Chamberlain

Ken Choe

Paisley Currah

Philip Dale

Julie Dorf,

Marta Drury

Jennifer Gaboury

Hassiba Hadj-Sahraoui

James C. Hormel

Richard Kim

Ronald Lwabaayi

Thom Lynch

Carmelyn Malalis

Michael Marshall

Andrew Park

Kathleen Peratis

Svend Robinson

Alejandra Sardá

Sid Sheinberg

Ann Snitow

Michael Wald

Stephen Whittle

Riki Wilchins

Marcy Wilder

Reid Williams

Zonibel Woods

Terrorism/Counterterrorism

Ann Beeson

David Cole

Anthony Dworkin

Bruce Hoffman

Sidney Jones

Ruti Teitel

Women's Rights

Betsy Karel, Chair

Pat Mitchell, Vice Chair

Karen Ackman

Mahnaz Afkhami

Ellen Stone Belic

Helen Bernstein

Cynthia Brown

David Brown

Charlotte Bunch

Ellen Chesler

Rebecca J Cook

Julie Dorf

Babeth Fribourg

Adrienne Germain

Nancy Hechinger

Marina Pinto Kaufman

Stephen Lewis

Lorraine Loder

Joyce Mends-Cole

Yolanda T. Moses

Samuel K. Murumba

Marysa Navarro-Aranguren

Sylvia Neil

Martha Nussbaum

Susan Osnos

Kathleen Peratis, Chair Emerita

Marina Pisklakova

Joan R. Platt

Lynn Povich

Bruce Rabb

Amy Rao

Pascaline Servan-Schreiber

Lorraine Sheinberg

Domna Stanton

Ellen Susman

Hilary Thomas-Lake

Rita Wasserstein Warner

HRH Princess Sarah Zeid