Board of Directors

Office of the Chairman

Chairman

Ross Perot, Jr.

Ross Perot, Jr. serves as Chairman of The Perot Group, which manages the various Perot family interests that include real estate, oil and gas and financial investments.

Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors

Armen Sarkissian

Dr. Armen Sarkissian was Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia (1996-1997), now serves as founding president of Eurasia House International.

Officers

Founder, President and CEO

John Edwin Mroz is President and Chief Executive Officer of the EastWest Institute. From its roots as a European-American initiative to bridge the divisions between Europe and Eurasia, John built EWI into one of the world’s pre-eminent non-governmental change-agent institutions.

Board of Directors, Chair of the Executive Committee

R. William Ide III

R. William Ide III, chairs the McKenna Long & Aldridge Corporate Governance Center.

Board of Directors

Leo Schenker

Leo Schenker is Senior Advisor at Central-National Gottesman Inc., one of the largest privately owned worldwide sales organizations in the pulp and paper industry.

Members

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Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Ahtisaari is the former President of Finland, an internationally recognized mediator and peacebuilder, and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Tewodros Ashenafi

Chairman and CEO, Southwest Energy (HK) Ltd.

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Jerald T. Baldridge

Jerald T. Baldridge is the founder and Chairman of Republic Energy Inc., a privately owned company in Dallas specializing in drilling and producing natural gas wells.

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Sir Peter Bonfield

Chairman, NXP Semiconductors

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Bob Campbell

Bob began his career with Deloitte LLP, the world’s largest leading professional services firm in 1973 and progressed quickly to the status of Partner in 1980.

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Peter Castenfelt

Mr. Castenfelt is Chairman of Archipelago Enterprises, a loan, credit, and finance company based in London.

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Maria Livanos Cattaui

Maria Livanos Cattaui is former secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce.

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Angela Chen

Angela Chen’s career spans three decades of global corporate finance and cross-cultural management. She is the Founder of Global Alliance Associates and is a Partner of Epoch Fund, a pioneer private equity fund with sizeable equity investments in Chinese companies.

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Michael Chertoff

Co-founder and Managing Principal, Chertoff Group

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David Cohen

Chairman, F&C REIT Property Management India

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Joel H. Cowan

Joel Cowan is a Professor of the Practice at the Earnest Scheller, Jr. College of Business at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Addison Fischer

Chairman and Co-Founder, Planet Heritage Foundation

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Adel Ghazzawi

Adel is the founder of CONEKTAS, which assists multinationals in developing synergistic relationships with credible partners to successfully penetrate and establish solid businesses in the Middle East Region.

Board of Directors

Stephen B. Heintz

Stephen Heintz joined the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in February 2001 as its sixth president. Before joining the RBF, Mr. Heintz held top leadership positions in both the nonprofit and public sectors.

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Emil Hubinak

Dr. Hubinak is Chairman and CEO of the Logomotion Group, which provide financial services in Central and Eastern Europe, and information services to media markets in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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John Hurley

Managing Partner, Cavalry Asset Management

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Wolfgang Ischinger

Ambassador Ischinger is the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. He is also Global Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE, Munich.

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Anurag Jain

Anurag Jain is the founder of Avano Global and Chairman of Laurus Edutech.

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James L. Jones

General James Jones (USMC ret.) served as the national security adviser to President Barack Obama from January 2009 to October 2010.

Founder and Chairman, Arab International Women's Forum

Haifa Al Kaylani

Haifa Al Kaylani is founder and chairman of the Arab International Women's Forum

Board of Directors

Zuhal Kurt

Zuhal Kurt is the Chief Executive Officer of privately held Kurt Enterprises

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Mark Maletz

Mark C. Maletz is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in the areas of leadership development and organizational transformation.

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General (ret.) T. Michael "Buzz" Moseley

In 2008, General Moseley completed a distinguished 40+ year military career as the 18th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.

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Francis Najafi

F. Francis Najafi is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pivotal Group, a twenty-five year old investment firm with extensive experience in private equity investments, operating technology companies, and all major real estate product types.

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Ambassador Tsuneo Nishida

Ambassador Nishida serves as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and as Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations

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Ronald P. O'Hanley, III

Ronald P. O’Hanley is president, Asset Management and Corporate Services, for Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries. Mr. O’Hanley is also a member of Fidelity’s Executive Committee.

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Yousef Al Otaiba

Yousef Al Otaiba is Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States

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Admiral William A. Owens

Admiral William Owens is the managing director of AEA Investors in Hong Kong.

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Sarah Perot

Director and Vice-Chair, The Global Fund for Children, Washington DC

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Louise Richardson

Louise Richardson is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews.

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John Rogers

John F.W. Rogers is the Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board at Goldman Sachs. He has previously served at the White House for more than 10 years.

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George F. Russell, Jr.

George F. Russel, Jr. is an international philanthropist focusing on the promotion of globalization, the destruction of nuclear waste, strengthened U.S.-Russian relations, humanitarian aid, and bridging divides between Muslims and non-Muslims in America.

Board of Directors

Ramzi Sanbar

Ramzi Sanbar is Founder and Chairman of The SDC Group, an international conglomerate spanning engineering, energy, real estate and telecoms, with operations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and China.

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Ikram Sehgal

Ikram Sehgal is the Chairman of PATHFINDER GROUP, comprising two of the largest private security Pakistani companies, with 15,000 employees in over 50 cities and towns in Pakistan, supported independently by electronics security and facility services companies.

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Kanwal Sibal

Dr. Kanwal Sibal joined the Indian Foreign Service in July 1966, eventually serving as the Foreign Secretary of India from July 2002 to November 2003.

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Pierre Vimont

Ambassador Pierre Vimont was appointed Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service on October 25, 2010.

Alexander Voloshin

Alexander Voloshin is Chairman of the Board of Directors of MMC Norilsk Nickel, and former Chief of Staff of the President of the Russian Federation.

Board of Directors

Zhou Wenzhong

Secretary-General, Boao Forum for Asia

Non-Board Committee Members

Non-Board Committee Member

Marshall Bennett

Marshall Bennett is President of Marshall Bennett Enterprises.

Board of Directors

Laurent M. Roux

Laurent Roux is the Founder and President of Gallatin Wealth Management, LLC.

Board of Directors

Hilton C. Smith, Jr.

Hilton Smith is the President and CEO of East Bay Co., LTD, a commercial real estate development company in Charleston, South Carolina. He is also President and CEO of various real estate developments and home building companies in Maryland, West Virginia and South Carolina.

Chairmen Emeriti

Chairman Emeritus

Berthold Beitz

Berthold Beitz was born on September 26, 1913, in Zemmin near Demmin in West Pomerania, Germany.

Chairman Emeritus

Ivan T. Berend

Professor Berend teaches modern European economic history and complex history of Central and Eastern Europe at UCLA.

Chairman Emeritus

Francis Finlay

Francis Finlay is currently a director of several international investment companies and Chairman or a member of a number of institutional endowment investment committees in the U.S. and the U.K.

Chairman Emeritus

Hans-Dietrich Genscher

Hans-Dietrich Genscher is one of Europe's foremost statesmen, serving as German Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Chairman Emeritus

Donald M. Kendall

Donald M. Kendall is co-founder of PepsiCo and was its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for 21 years before his retirement in May 1986.

Chairman Emeritus

Whitney MacMillan

Whitney MacMillan is the retired Chairman and CEO of Cargill, Incorporated

Co-Founder (1909-2007)

Ira D. Wallach

Mr. Wallach has held numerous positions including director of the International Peace Academy and the People For the American Way Foundation.

Directors Emeriti

Director Emeritus

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