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Board of Directors
James F. Hoge, Jr., Chair [Bio]
Former Editor
Foreign Affairs
Susan Manilow, Vice Chair [Bio]
Human Rights Activist
Joel Motley, Vice Chair [Bio]
Managing Director
Public Capital Advisors LLC
Sid Sheinberg, Vice Chair [Bio]
Partner
The Bubble Factory
Former COO of MCA/Universal
John J. Studzinski CBE, Vice Chair [Bio]
Global Head, Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P.
The Blackstone Group
Hassan Elmasry, Treasurer [Bio]
Partner and Lead Portfolio Manager
Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
Bruce Rabb, Secretary [Bio]
Legal Advisor to Non-Profit Organizations
Karen Herskovitz Ackman
Landscape Architect
Jorge Castañeda
Professor
New YorkUniversity
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
Former Executive Producer of Programming
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Robert Kissane
President
CCS
Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Principal
KME Consulting
Oki Matsumoto
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Monex Group, Inc.
Barry M. Meyer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Aoife O’Brien
Human Rights Activist
Writer and Journalist
Joan R. Platt
Human Rights Activist
Neil Rimer
Co-Founder and General Partner
Index Ventures
Amy Rao
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Integrated Archive Systems
Victoria Riskin
Human Rights Activist
Writer-Producer
Former President of the Writers Guild of America
Graham Robeson
Chairman, The 66 Humanitarian Foundation
Chairman, Banque Havilland
Shelley F. Rubin
Co-Founder
The Rubin Museum of Art
Kevin P. Ryan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Gilt Groupe
Ambassador Robin Sanders
FE3DS, LLC
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
Amy Towers
Founder
Nduna Foundation
Marie Warburg
Director
American Council on Germany
Director
US and German Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Catherine Zennström
Zennström Philanthropies
Board Members Emeriti
Jane Olson, Former Board Chair, 2004-2010
Chair, Landmine Survivors Network (1998-2010)
Board Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
Jonathan F. Fanton, Former Board Chair, 1998-2003
Former President
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Franklin D. Roosevelt Visiting Fellow
Hunter College, CUNY
Robert L. Bernstein,Founding Chair, 1978-1998
Former Chairman and President, 1966-1990
Random House
Lisa Anderson
President
American University in Cairo
David M. Brown
Penobscot Management, LLC
William D. Carmichael
Human Rights Activist
Retired, Ford Foundation
Vartan Gregorian
President
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Alice H. Henkin
Director Emerita
Justice and Society Program
The Aspen Institute
Stephen L. Kass
Partner and Co-Director
Environmental Practice Group
Carter, Ledyard & Milburn
Adjunct Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Bruce J. Klatsky
Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Phillips-Van Heusen
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Author
Vice President
International PEN
Former International Secretary of International PEN
Joshua Mailman
Joshua Mailman Foundation
Samuel K. Murumba
Professor of Law
BrooklynLaw School
Marina Pinto Kaufman
Human Rights Activist
Peter L.W. Osnos
Founder and Editor at Large
PublicAffairs
Kathleen Peratis
Senior Partner
Outten and Golden
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing Trust
Orville Schell
Director
Center on US-China Relations
Asia Society
Former Dean of Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Gary Sick
Senior Research Scholar & Adjunct
Professor of Middle East Politics
Columbia University
Malcolm B. Smith
Senior Consultant
General American Investors Company, Inc.








