Board of Directors

Hassan Elmasry

Co-Chair; Partner & Lead Portfolio Manager, Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
Joel Motley

Co-Chair, Managing Director, Public Capital Advisors, LLC
Wendy Keys

Vice Chair ; Filmmaker, Former Executive Producer of Programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

Vice Chair; Editor & Publisher, CLÉS Magazines
Sid Sheinberg

Vice Chair ; Partner, The Bubble Factory; Former Chief Operating Officer, MCA/Universal
John Studzinski

Vice Chair; Global Head, Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P. The Blackstone Group
Michael Fisch

Treasurer; President & Chief Executive Officer, American Securities, LLC
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
Michael E. Gellert

General Partner, Windcrest Partners
Betsy Karel

Photographer; Chair,Trellis Fund
Robert Kissane

President, CCS
David Lakhdhir

Partner; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Kimberly Marteau Emerson

Principal, KME Consulting
Oki Matsumoto

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Monex Group, Inc.
Joan R. Platt

Human Rights Activist
Amy Rao

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Archive Systems
Neil Rimer

Co-Founder & General Partner, Index Ventures
Graham Robeson

Chairman, The 66 Humanitarian Foundation; Chairman, Banque Havilland
Shelley Rubin

Co-Founder, The Rubin Museum of Art
Kevin Ryan

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Gilt Groupe
Ambassador Robin Sanders

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

Director, McKinsey & Company
Donna Slaight
Siri Stolt-Nielsen

Artist
Darian Swig

Human Rights Advocate; Founder & President, Article 3 Advisors
Makoto Takano

Chief Executive Officer, atomixmedia, inc.; Publisher & Editor-In-Chief, Forbes Japan
John R. Taylor

Managing Partner, Wellspring Advisors, LLC
Amy Towers

Founder, Nduna Foundation
Peter Visser

Founder and Managing Partner, Egeria
Marie Warburg

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

Chair & Co-Founder, Zennström Philanthropies

Board Members Emeriti

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
Susan Manilow

Vice Chair, Human Rights Activist
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

President, American University in Cairo
David Brown

Principal, 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 & Co-Director, Environmental Practice Group Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Adjunct Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Marina Pinto Kaufman

Human Rights Activist
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
Samuel Murumba

Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Peter Osnos

Founder & Editor at Large, PublicAffairs
Kathleen Peratis

Senior Partner, Outten and Golden
Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Rausing Trust
Victoria Riskin

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

Board of Directors

Board Members Emeriti

Joshua Mailman

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