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Key Staff Guide by Department: Seminars
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 Peter A. Reiling
Executive Vice President, Leadership and Seminar Programs
Executive Director, Henry Crown Fellowship
Contact: peter.reiling@aspeninstitute.org
Areas of Expertise: International economic development; Leadership
Peter A. Reiling is the Aspen Institute's Executive Vice President for Leadership and Seminar Programs, and Executive Director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program. In this role, he oversees the Institute's growing portfolio of leadership initiatives (the Aspen Global Leadership Network) and seminars (including The Aspen Seminar, offered at the Institute since 1950) as well as its flagship leadership program.
Peter is a trustee, officer and senior moderator of the Aspen Institute, a Henry Crown Fellow (Class of 1998), and the founder of the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI), a joint venture between the Aspen Institute and five African business leaders. ALI has since been replicated in Central America as "CALI" and in India as "ILI" with plans to expand into China, the Mideast and Central Europe. Similar programs have also been launched in the fields of politics, education and the environment with plans to expand into health and social entrepreneurship. The goal of all these ventures is to stimulate a new generation of accomplished, entrepreneurial leaders to play a greater role in the social and political development of their communities and countries.
Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, from 1996 to 2004, Peter was President and CEO of TechnoServe, an international organization helping entrepreneurs across Africa, Latin America, and Central Europe to build businesses in their communities (www.tns.org). He is co-founder of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and currently serves as chairman of the board of the CALI Foundation as well as on the boards of ALI/East Africa, ALI/West Africa, ALI/South Africa, Agora Partnerships and the Energy Access Foundation. Peter is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and guest lecturer at the Institute for Developing Economies in Tokyo. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Bretton Woods Committee, and was named "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" by the Schwab Foundation in Geneva. A graduate of Georgetown University (BSFS) and the University of California/Berkeley (MBA), with additional studies at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Peter is married to Denise Byrne and is the father of two children, Dylan and Eva Luna.
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 Todd Breyfogle
Director, Seminars
Contact: todd.breyfogle@aspeninstitute.org
Todd Breyfogle is Director of Seminars for the Aspen Institute, overseeing a number of seminar offerings—including the Aspen Seminar (formerly the Executive Seminar), since 1950 the heart of the Aspen Institute’s neutral forum for enlightened and lively discussion—and their integration with the Institute’s several leadership initiatives and policy programs.
Educated at Colorado College, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought (as a Century Fellow and Javitz Fellow), Todd has served as a moderator for the Aspen Institute and has published and lectured widely on the great books, political philosophy, theology, literature, and liberal education. He serves on several non-profit boards, is a recipient of research and curriculum grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK), and the Templeton Foundation, and edits The American Oxonian, the quarterly publication of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. He is the editor of Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern (University of Chicago Press) and is co-editor of a five-volume commentary on Augustine's City of God for Oxford University Press. Before joining the Aspen Institute, Todd was a Fellow and Program Officer at Liberty Fund (where he gained extensive experience organizing and facilitating great books discussions) and served as Director of the Honors Program at the University of Denver. He also taught graduate courses as an adjunct professor at the Iliff School of Theology and is a visiting lecturer in philosophy and religion at the University of Tulsa for the 2007-2008 academic year.
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 Mark Chichester
Executive Director, Socrates Society
Vice President
Contact: mark.chichester@aspeninstitute.org
Mark is Vice President and Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Socrates Society, a forum where young entrepreneurs, policymakers, journalists, scientists, corporate and nonprofit executives consider values-based solutions to contemporary leadership issues. Mark came to the Institute from UNCF Special Programs Corp. where he served as the Director of the Division of Policy Studies and the Institute for International Public Policy. Mark has been an entrepreneur and principal of a privately held touch-screen technology start-up and was a director of a consulting group that advised recently privatized African news media clients. He served on the Director General’s Policy Coordination Staff at the Department of State and, prior to that, worked as a research associate for General Instrument Corporation. Mark is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and has served on the US Army’s Eisenhower National Security Series Working Group. He serves on the boards of the Forum on Education Abroad and the National Education Association Foundation. Mark was a Shapiro Fellowship in the Republic of Korea. He holds degrees in business and law from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where he attended Sidwell Friends School.
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 Howard Zeiderman
Director, Executive Seminars
Contact: howard.zeiderman@aspeninstitute.org
Howard Zeiderman directs the Executive Seminar Program, collaborates on the development of new offerings such as the Sunday Seminar Series and the Wilderness Seminars, and serves as a resource for the other seminar initiatives of the Institute. Previously, he moderated Executive seminars in Aspen and Wye and at the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Va. He did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth College and at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, where he studied in the seminar based great books program. He did his graduate work in philosophy at Princeton University. Afterward he joined the faculty of St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is currently on the faculty of the Annapolis campus of St. John’s. In 1985, on the basis of his extensive seminar experience, Zeiderman co-founded the non-profit Touchstones Discussion Project of which he is now president. Touchstones introduces a seminar environment in schools and a variety of other institutions to develop various cognitive, leadership, and behavioral skills. He has also developed programs for use in China, Haiti, Gaza, South Africa, and eastern Europe. Zeiderman has designed leadership programs for the National Security Agency and is working on an initiative to introduce seminar approaches in the Middle East.
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 Lu Duong
Program Coordinator, Socrates Society
Contact: lu.duong@aspeninstitute.org
Lu is the Program Coordinator of Socrates Society, a program of the Institute founded by Gary & Laura Lauder. He joins us from the Institute for International Public Policy where he served as Program Coordinator, overseeing the Institute's Fellowship program within the Division of Policy Studies and Analysis at UNCF Special Programs Corporation. Prior, he was a Congressional Liaison for Booz Allen Hamilton on a DoD engagement within the strategic communications team and previously worked for two Silicon Valley startups while in school. He has completed internships with the Offices of Gov. Mark Warner and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. In 2005, 2006 & 2007, he was invited by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government as a panelist at the Public Policy and Leadership Conference. Lu currently serves on the board of directors for Bardoli Global, Inc., in Houston, Texas, on the Social Investment Council of Echoing Green in New York City and is a advisor to an interactive life-casting startup based in Silicon Valley focusing on the Asian-American twenty-something’s market. Lu is also a member of the World Affairs Council in Washington, DC.
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