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Board of Directors and Advisory Council

IGE Board of Directors

IGE Advisory Council

IGE Board of Directors

David Adams is a trustee of the Gordon Cook Foundation in Scotland, former principal of Northern College of Education, and former member of the General Teaching Council of Scotland, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, and the Open University Validation Board.

David J. Anable, is the recently-retired president of the International Center for Journalists, a Washington-based nonprofit organization working with professional journalists worldwide; former managing editor of The Christian Science Monitor; and former professor of journalism at Boston University.

Edes P. Gilbert, president of Resource Group 175, is widely hailed as a leading figure in education who has held teaching and administrative positions at several public and independent secondary schools. She spent 13 years as a member of the TIAA-CREF board, where she chaired and served on several committees, and was president of the board of Lesley University, where she earned her M.Ed.

David F. Hurwitt, a marketing and management expert who spent 26 years at General Foods Corporation, is president of Renaissance Executive Forums in Connecticut and serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations.

Rushworth M. Kidder is an award-winning former columnist for The Christian Science Monitor; author of Moral Courage, Shared Values for a Troubled World: Conversations with Men and Women of Conscience, and How Good People Make Tough Choices; frequent writer and lecturer on ethics.

Paul McAuliffe, formerly chief ethics officer at BD (Becton, Dickinson & Co.), is executive director of the Federal Reserve Employee Benefits System, where he oversees employee benefits and related compensation programs for 24,000 employees and 10,000 retirees of the Federal Reserve System.

Diane B. Neimann is president of Family Philanthropy Advisors, Inc., executive director of the James Ford Bell Foundation and the George Family Foundation, and senior counsel to leading family offices and family foundations nationwide.

Yve Newbold, is currently a member of the Policy Committee of FTSE4Good and chairs the Institute for Global Ethics UK Trust. She qualified as a solicitor in the UK, serving as international counsel (Xerox Corporation) in the US and European Counsel (Walt Disney) and Company Secretary (Hanson plc) in the UK, where she has also held non-executive directorships of BT plc and Coutts & Co and been a Governor of the London Business School, among many other appointments. 

Charles S. Rainwater, is a government relations attorney and public interest and environmental advocate. His previous experience includes arts management and work as a field biologist and outdoors educator; his background is in conservation biology and mass communications.

George W. Reid is COO of Porter Educational & Communications, Inc.; former president of Kentucky State University; historian (Ph.D. Howard University), speaker, writer, fund raiser; former member of Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management.

Philip L. Smith, is the managing partner of Riven Rock Holding, in Penn Valley, California, with holdings in several companies. His previous experience includes work in the aerospace and electrical products industries, among others.

Jennifer C. Smucker helped to found the Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster, Ohio and has served on the boards of the Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club, the Orrville Area YMCA, and the Wayne County Community Foundation. She is also a founding member of the Heartland Education Community, Inc., an initiative to improve schools that focused on, among other things, the development of good character.

Deborah S. Steckler is a former associate staff for the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and currently serves on the board of the Long Ridge School in Connecticut as well as that of Creative Connections, a non-profit international cultural exchange organization founded and headed by her husband, Alan.

Peter Stickler has held positions at Ford Motor Company and Visteon, and is currently vice president of Human Resources at Ballard Power Systems, a world leader in the production of zero-emission fuel cells, where he is responsible for leading the company's global human resources function.

Colburn S. Wilbur is a trustee and past president of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Previous experience includes CEO of the Sierra Club Foundation, international banking, and computer service.

Marcia L. Worthing is executive vice president of Mullin & Associates, an outplacement and executive coaching firm located in New York City, and was formerly the senior vice president of human resources and corporate affairs for Avon Products.

IGE Board of Directors: Emeritus

Theodore J. Gordon is founder and chairman of The Futures Group, a large management consulting firm, and a senior research fellow of the Millennium Project for the American Council of the United Nations University. He is also former chief engineer for the Saturn program at McDonnell Douglas.

Elizabeth Hart, former chair of the board of trustees of the Institute for Global Ethics U.K. Trust, represented U.S. organizations in the United Kingdom through advertising and public relations and coordinated student groups in European universities.

Anne E. D. Kidder is a former academic counselor with a long career of ministerial work, writing, child-raising, and volunteer leadership activities for community, church, arts, and environmental nonprofits

Robert W. Pratt, Jr., former executive vice president at Avon Products, Inc., and past president of the Association for Consumer Research, was recently on the faculty of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and is currently at the Michael Allen Company.

Advisory Council

James K. Baker (Columbus, Indiana), retired vice chairman of Arvin Industries, Inc., and chairman (1991) of U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

Wendell Bell (Bethany, Connecticut), Yale University futurist-sociologist, coauthor of The Sociology of the Future and numerous publications on social change, values, and the future

Rodrigo Botero (Cambridge, Massachusetts), founder of the Foundation for Higher Education and Development in Bogota, former finance minister of Colombia, and former Ford Foundation trustee

William F. Carl (Raleigh, North Carolina), president of Multifoods Corporation and cofounder and director of Investors Management Corporation/Golden Corral Family Steak Houses

Harlan Cleveland (Sterling, Virginia), former dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, former assistant secretary of state, and author of The Knowledge Executive: Leadership in an Information Society

Richard A. Goldsby (Amherst, Massachusetts), Simpson Professor of Biology at Amherst College and author of several books on cells, immunology, and race

Willard M. Hanzlik (Austin, Texas), president of The Membery Foundation and former president of The Sterling Group, an investment banking firm in Houston

Mónica Jiménez de Barros (Santiago, Chile), executive director of PARTICIPA, professor of human rights at the Catholic University of Chile, and former member of the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace

The Hon. James A. Joseph (Durham, North Carolina), former U.S. ambassador to South Africa, former president and CEO of the Council on Foundations, former president of the Cummins Engine Foundation, and former under secretary of the Department of the Interior in the Carter administration, now at Duke University and the University of South Africa

Martha Minow (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Harvard Law School professor and author of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion and American Law, chosen as an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States

George D. Moffett (Elsah, Illinois), president, Principia College, former diplomatic correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and author of the book Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge

Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo (Abeokuta, Nigeria) is the president of Nigeria, who turned over his military government to civilian rule in 1979 and was democratically elected in 1999, and former chair of the Advisory Council of Transparency International. He is founder and publisher of Africa Forum magazine.

Randa M. Slim, manager of Middle East Programs for RESOLVE in Washington, DC; associate at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation; visiting adjunct professor at American University of Beirut, Lebanon; and former director of the National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution.

Timothy P. Smucker (Orrville, Ohio) is the CEO of The J. M. Smucker Company.

Theodore B. Taylor (Wellsville, New York), retired Princeton University physicist with long experience studying weapons systems, the ethics of weapons proliferation, and the principles governing international behavior

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Weatherill, DL (London, England), former speaker of the House of Commons

Katharine Whitehorn (London, England), long-time columnist for the Observer and author of several books on children and medicine

Daniel Yankelovich (La Jolla, CA), chairman of DYG, Inc., president and cofounder (with Cyrus Vance) of The Public Agenda Foundation, and author of Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World