Board of Directors

Hassan Elmasry

Co-Chair; Partner & Lead Portfolio Manager, Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
Robert Kissane

Co-Chair; Chairman, CCS
Michael Fisch

Vice Chair & Treasurer; President & Chief Executive Officer, American Securities, LLC
Oki Matsumoto

Vice Chair; Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Monex Group, Inc.
Amy Rao

Vice Chair; Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Archive Systems
Amy Towers

Vice Chair; Founder, Nduna Foundation
Catherine Zennström

Vice Chair; Chair & Co-Founder, Zennström Philanthropies
Bruce Rabb

Secretary; Legal Adviser to Nonprofit Organizations
Karen Ackman

Landscape Architect
Akwasi Aidoo

Senior Fellow, Humanity United
Jorge Castañeda

Professor, New York University; Former Foreign Minister of Mexico
George Coelho

Founding Partner, Quadia Ventures
Natasha Dolby

Co-Founder, Freedom FWD
Kimberly Marteau Emerson

Principal, KME Consulting
Lawton Fitt

Investment Banker
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

Writer, Lawyer, Human Rights Advocate
Paul Gray

Managing Director, Richard Gray Gallery
Caitlin Heising

Vice Chair, Heising-Simons Foundation
Betsy Karel

Photographer; Chair,Trellis Fund
David Lakhdhir

Partner; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Louisa Lee-Reizes

Berlin Committee Co-Chair
Alicia Miñana

Lawyer
Joan R. Platt

Human Rights Activist
Neil Rimer

Co-Founder & General Partner, Index Ventures
Shelley Rubin

Co-Founder, The Rubin Museum of Art
Ambassador Robin Sanders

(ret) U.S. AMBASSADOR TO Nigeria and ECOWAS, 2007-2010 & Republic of Congo 2002-2005
Sid Sheinberg

Partner, The Bubble Factory; Former Chief Operating Officer, MCA/Universal
Bruce Simpson

Director, McKinsey & Company
Joseph Skrzynski

Co-Founder and Co-Chair, CHAMP Private Equity
Donna Slaight

Human Rights Activist
Siri Stolt-Nielsen

Activist, Artist
Darian Swig

Human Rights Advocate; Founder & President, Article 3 Advisors
Susan Kane Walkush

New York Committee; US Program Advisory Committee
Marie Warburg

Director, American Council on Germany; Director, US and German Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Board Members Emeriti

Joel Motley

Former Board Chair, 2013-2016; Managing Director, Public Capital Advisors, LLC
James F. Hoge Jr.

Former Board Chair, 2010-2013
Jane Olson

Former Board Chair, 2004-2010; Chair, Landmine Survivors Network 1998-2010; Board Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
Jonathan Fanton

Former Board Chair, 1998-2003; Former President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Franklin D. Roosevelt Visiting Fellow, Hunter College, CUNY
Robert Bernstein

Founding Chair, 1978-1998; Former Chairman & President, 1966-1990, Random House
Lisa Anderson

Former President, American University in Cairo
David Brown

Principal, Penobscot Management, LLC.
William D. Carmichael

Human Rights Activist; Retired, Ford Foundation
Michael E. Gellert

General Partner, Windcrest Partners
Vartan Gregorian

President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Alice H. Henkin

Director, Emerita Justice and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Stephen L. Kass

Partner & Co-Director, Environmental Practice Group Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Adjunct Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Wendy Keys

Filmmaker, Former Executive Producer of Programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center
Bruce J. Klatsky

Former Board Chair & Chief Executive Officer, Phillips-Van Heusen
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Author; Vice President, International PEN
Joshua Mailman

Joshua Mailman Foundation
Susan Manilow

Human Rights Activist
Samuel Murumba

Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Peter Osnos

Founder & Editor at Large, PublicAffairs
Kathleen Peratis

Senior Partner, Outten and Golden
Marina Pinto Kaufman

Human Rights Activist
Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Rausing Trust
Victoria Riskin

Human Rights Activist; Writer-Producer; Former President of the Writers Guild of America
Kevin Ryan

Chairman and Founder, MongoDB, Zola, Workframe and Nomad Health
Orville Schell

Director, Center on US-China Relations; Asia Society; Former Dean of Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

Editor & Publisher, CLÉS Magazines
Gary Sick

Senior Research Scholar & Adjunct Professor of Middle East Politics, Columbia University
Malcolm B. Smith

Senior Consultant, General American Investors Company, Inc.
John Studzinski

Global Head, Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P. The Blackstone Group

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