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Board of Directors

Advisory Board

Paige Alexander CEO of The Carter Center and Former USAID Senior Leader
Ambassador Brooke Anderson President at Pivotal Ventures, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and former Chief of Staff and Counselor, White House National Security Council
Nazanin Ash CEO of Welcome.US and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
Shawna Bader-Blau Executive Director of the Solidarity Center
Ambassador Dan Baer Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
John B. Bellinger III Co-Chair of the FP4A Policy Committee, Partner at Arnold & Porter and former State Department Legal Adviser, Senior Associate Counsel to the President, and National Security Council Legal Adviser
Jason Bordoff Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia SIPA, and Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School
Louis Caldera Former Secretary of the Army and co-founder The Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration
Dr. Rebecca Bill Chavez President and CEO of the Inter-America Dialogue and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense
Joseph Cirincione Former President of Ploughshares Fund and previously the Vice President for national security at the Center for American Progress
Ambassador Ivo H. Daalder CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Suzanne Dimaggio Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Cathy Feingold Director of the AFL-CIO International Department
Dr. Helene Gayle President of Spelman College and former President and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust
Rose Gottemoeller Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO and former Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security
Dr. Naima Green-Riley Assistant Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and Nonresident Fellow with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab
Nayyera Haq Chief Executive Officer at Avicenna Strategy and former Senior Director at the White House
Dr. Colin Kahl Senior Fellow at Stanford University and Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense
Mara Karlin Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities
Ambassador Laura Kennedy Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan and former U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva
Ambassador Mark Lagon Chief Policy Officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and former Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Carmen Lomellin Principal at Lomellin Global Partners, LLC and former U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States
Gina McCarthy First White House National Climate Advisor and former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
Tjada D'Oyen Mckenna CEO, Mercy Corps, and former Deputy Coordinator of Development for Feed the Future and Assistant to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security
Senator Carol Moseley Braun Former U.S. Senator and Former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa
Suzanne Nossel CEO of PEN America and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations
Christopher Preble Senior Fellow and Director at the Stimson Center, Reimagining US Grand Strategy
Dan Restrepo Founder and Managing Director of Restrepo Strategies and former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the National Security Council
Ben Rhodes Advisor to Former President Barack Obama and Former Deputy National Security Advisor
Ambassador Jim Rosapepe Former Ambassador to Bulgaria
Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman The 21st U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Ganesh Sitaraman New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School and the Director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation
Ambassador Nancy Soderberg President and CEO of Soderberg Global Solutions and former Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board
David Wade Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Barry White Former CEO of Foley Hoag, LLP and former U.S. Ambassador to Norway
Robert B. Zoellick Senior Counselor at Brunswick Geopolitical Group and former World Bank president, U.S. Trade Representative, and Deputy Secretary of State

Staff

Members of the Board of Directors and Advisory Board serve in their personal capacities. Titles are listed for identification only.