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Board of Directors
Jane Olson, Chair [Bio]
Bruce J. Klatsky, Vice-Chair
Sid Sheinberg, Vice-Chair
John J. Studzinski, Vice-Chair
Karen Ackman
Jorge Castañeda
Geoffrey Cowan
Tony Elliott
Hassan Elmasry
Michael G. Fisch
Michael E. Gellert
James F. Hoge, Jr.
Betsy Karel
Wendy Keys
Robert Kissane
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Susan Manilow
Kati Marton
Barry Meyer
Pat Mitchell
Joel Motley
Samuel K. Murumba
Joan R. Platt
Neil Rimer
Victoria Riskin
Amy L. Robbins
Shelley Rubin
Kevin P. Ryan
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
Darian W. Swig
John R. Taylor
Catherine Zennström
Emeritus Board
Lisa Anderson
Robert L. Bernstein
Founding Chair, 1979-1997
David M. Brown
William D. Carmichael
Jonathan F. Fanton
Chair, 1998-2003
Vartan Gregorian
Alice H. Henkin
Stephen L. Kass
Josh Mailman
Samuel K. Murumba
Marina Pinto Kaufman
Peter Osnos
Kathleen Peratis
Bruce Rabb
Sigrid Rausing
Orville Schell
Gary Sick
Malcolm B. Smith
Africa
Linda Mason, Chair
Carole Artigiani
Daniel Bach
Oscar Blayton
William Carmichael
Roberta Cohen
Cheryl "Imani" Countess
Aaron Etra
Jonathan Fanton
Gail M. Gerhart
Nadine Hack
Alice H. Henkin
Robert D. Joffe
Wendy Keys
John A. Marcum
Dan Martin
Linda Mason
Muna Ndulo
James C. N. Paul
Peter Rosenblum
Kim Samuel-Johnson
Lorraine Sheinberg
Gustaf Silfverstolpe
Malcolm Smart
Claude E. Welch Jr
Americas
Lloyd Axworthy, Chair
Marina Pinto Kaufman, Vice-Chair
Julien Studley, Vice-Chair
Roland Algrant
Roberto Alvarez
Cynthia Arnson
Carlos Basombrio
Peter D. Bell
Marcelo Bronstein
Paul Chevigny
Roberto Cuellar
Miguel Diaz
John Dinges
Denise Dresser
Nancy Englander
Tom J. Farer
Muni Figueres
Myles Frechette
Alejandro Garro
Peter Hakim
Ronald G. Hellman
Bianca Jagger
Mark Kaplan
Stephen L. Kass
Andy Kaufman
Susanna Leval
Michael Maggio
Kenneth Maxwell
Jocelyn McCalla
David Nachman
Robert Pastor
Bruce Rabb
Michael Shifter
George Soros
Rose Styron
Javier Timerman
Arturo Valenzuela
Horacio Verbitsky
George Vickers
Tony White
Alex Wilde
Asia
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Chair
Orville Schell, Vice-Chair
Maureen Aung-Thwin
Edward J. Baker
Harry Barnes
Robert L. Bernstein
Jagdish Bhagwati
Jerome Cohen
John Despres
Clarence Dias
Mallika Dutt
Merle Goldman
Jonathan Hecht
Paul Hoffman
Sharon Hom
David Hulse
Rounaq Jahan
Perry Link
Andrew J. Nathan
Yuri Orlov
Bruce Rabb
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Victoria Riskin
Barnett Rubin
James Scott
Frances Seymour
Barbara Shailor
Steven Shapiro
Eric Stover
Ko-Yung Tung
Europe & Central Asia
Alice Henkin, Vice-Chair
Henri Barkey
Gerhart Baum
Rudolf Bindig
Stephen Del Rosso
Felice Gaer
Conor Gearty
Michael Gellert
Jeri Laber
Walter Link
Masha Lipman
Helena Luczywo
Jean-Paul Marthoz
Michael McFaul
Sarah E. Mendelson
Karl Meyer
Jane Olson
Arjan Overwater
Hannah Pakula
Can Paker
Colette Shulman
Leon Sigal
Malcolm Smith
Gerard Stoudmann
Ruti Teitel
Mark von Hagen
Patricia M. Wald
Joanna Weschler
Middle East North Africa
Hassan Elmasry, Co-Chair
Kathleen Peratis, Co-Chair
Bruce Rabb, Vice Chair
Gary G. Sick, Vice Chair
Gamal Abouali
Wajeha Al Huwaider
Ghanim Alnajjar
Lisa Anderson
Shaul Bakhash
Asli Bali
M. Cherif Bassiouni
David Bernstein
Nathan Brown
Paul Chevigny
Helena Cobban
Ahmad Deek
Mansour Farhang
Fadi Ghandour
Aeyal Gross
Amr Hamzawy
Rita E. Hauser
Salah al-Hejailan
Robert James
Mehrangiz Kar
Edy Kaufman
Marina Pinto Kaufman
Samir Khalaf
Ann M. Lesch
Robert Malley
Ahmed Mansoor
Stephen P. Marks
Rolando Matalon
Nader Mousavizadeh
Habib Nassar
Abdelaziz Nouaydi
Nabeel Rajab
Charles Shamas
Sid Sheinberg
Mustapha Tlili
Andrew Whitley
Napoleon B. Williams, Jr.
James Zogby
Ahmed Zuaiter
Catherine Albisa
Preeta Bansal
Ann Beeson
Jeffrey Bleich
Stephen Bright
Tanya Coke
David Cole
Mike Farrell
Vanita Gupta
Lulie Haddad
David Keller
Wendy Patten
Bill Quigley
Bruce Rabb
Steven Shapiro
Alexandra Stanton
Dorothy Thomas
Robin Toone
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
Ellen Chesler, Chair
Mahnaz Afkhami
Helen Bernstein
Cynthia Brown
Beverlee Bruce
Charlotte Bunch
Rebecca J Cook
Joanne Csete
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
Lynn Povich
Bruce Rabb
Cynthia Ryan
Pascaline Servan-Schreiber
Lorraine Sheinberg
Domna Stanton
Rita Wasserstein Warner