Senior Mentors - Aspen Institute

Senior Mentors

Madeleine K. Albright
Principal
The Albright Group, LLC

Charles F. Allison, III
Partner of Counsel
Booz· Allen & Hamilton Inc.

Paul F. Anderson
Senior Advisor
Booz· Allen & Hamilton Inc.

A. George Battle
Senior Fellow
The Aspen Institute

Keith Berwick
Executive Director
Henry Crown Fellowship Program
The Aspen Institute

Stuart N. Brotman
President
Stuart N. Brotman Communications
Research Fellow
Harvard Law School

William Budinger
Founder
Rodel, Inc.

Lee T. Bycel
Senior Fellow
Skirball Cultural Center

Joanne B. Ciulla
Professor and Coston Family Chair in Leadership & Ethics
Jepson School of Leadership Studies
University of Richmond

Lester Crown
Chairman
Henry Crown & Company

Susan Crown
Vice President
Henry Crown and Company

F. Peter Cundill
Chief Investment Officer
Mackenzie Cundill Investment Mgmt LTD

Andrea Cunningham
Chief Executive Officer
CXO Communication

John Danner
Senior Fellow, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley

Richard J. Danzig
Nunn Prize Fellow
Center for International Security

Benjamin Dunlap
President
Wofford College

James L. Ferguson
Former Chairman and CEO
General Foods Corporation

John C. Fontaine
Counsel
Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLC

Gerald Greenwald
Managing Partner
Greenbriar Equity Group

Patrick W. Gross
Chairman
The Lovell Group

Arjun Gupta
Founder and Managing Partner
TeleSoft Parnters

Sidney Harman
Executive Chairman
Harman International Industries, Inc.

Jay T. Harris
Wallis Annenberg Chair and Dir., Center for t he Study of Journalism and Democracy
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Southern California

Gary Hart
Strategic and Legal Adviser
Coudert Brothers LLP

Mellody Hobson
President
Ariel Capital Management, Inc.

Henrietta Holsman Fore
Administrator of USAID and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance

Walter Isaacson
President and CEO
The Aspen Institute

Carol S. Larson
President and CEO
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Gerald M. Levin
Retired Chairman
Time Warner, Inc.

Frederic V. Malek
Chairman
Thayer Capital Partners

James Manyika
Director
McKinsey & Co.

John P. Mascotte
Former President and CEO
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City

William E. Mayer
Chairman
The Aspen Institute
Partner
Park Avenue Equity Partners

John W. McCarter, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Field Museum

Thomas D. McCloskey
Chairman
Cornerstone Holdings

Ann McLaughlin Korologos
Chairman Emeritus
The Aspen Institute

Clare Muñana
President
Ancora Associates, Inc.

Margot L. Pritzker

Peter A. Reiling
Executive Vice President for Leadership & Policy Programs
The Aspen Institute

Michel de Rosen
Chairman, CEO and President
ViroPharma, Inc.

Carol Saal
Founding Board Member
Center for Clinical Immunology at the Stanford Medical Center

Dr. Harry J. Saal
President
Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley

Robert J. Saldich
Chief Executive Officer (Retired)
Raychem Corporation

Beth Seidenberg
Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Peter L. Thigpen
Senior Fellow
The Aspen Institute

Don C. Watters
Director (Retired)
McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Carroll R. Wetzel, Jr.
Chairman
Safety Components International

Roger M. Widmann
Principal
Cutwater Associates

Harold M. Williams
President Emeritus
The J. Paul Getty Trust

Madeleine K. Albright	Madeleine Albright currently serves as a principal of The Albright Group, LLC, a global strategy firm. She previously served as the 64^th Secretary of State of the United States, and as such was the first woman Secretary of State and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States government. As Secretary, Dr. Albright reinforced America’s alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business, labor and environmental standards abroad. Serving as a member of the President’s Cabinet and National Security Council for eight years, Dr. Albright was the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997. She is also the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the first Distinguished Scholar of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School. She serves as chairman of The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and also serves on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange.
Charles Allison	Charles Allison is partner of counsel at Booz·Allen Hamilton Joining the firm in 1958, Allison has been a member of Booz·Allen's senior leadership since the mid-1960's. He has served as chairman of Booz·Allen's Operating Council, senior vice president, a member of the firm's board of directors, and a managing partner of two major offices - London (six years) and Chicago (ten years). Mr. Allison has served for many years on the boards of the Chicago Urban League, Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is a member of The Chicago Club, The Economic Club of Chicago, The Commercial Club of Chicago, the Society of Fellows of the Aspen Institute, the Barrington Hills Country Club and is a former director of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
Paul F. Anderson	Paul F. Anderson currently serves as a senior advisor to Booz·Allen Hamilton. During his Booz·Allen career, which began in 1963, Anderson participated in a broad range of consulting assignments, principally in the automotive and related industries. From 1975 to 1983, he was managing partner of Booz·Allen’s activities in Europe and then subsequently led the firm’s Automotive Practice for several years. He is currently playing a lead role in the development of the firm’s presence in North Asia. A trustee of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Lyric Opera of Chicago, Mr. Anderson holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Carnegie-Mellon University and served from 1968-69 as a White House Fellow.
A. George Battle	Skip Battle is a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute and former CEO of Ask Jeeves Online Business Services. He is also a seminar moderator for the Aspen Institute, and has lectured at Stanford Business School, University of California-Berkeley Business School and American University. Mr. Battle retired from Andersen Consulting in 1995, having joined the firm in 1968 and serving as a partner since 1978. From 1982 he held a series of management positions in the firm including Worldwide Managing Partner Market Development and Managing Partner U.S. Operations and Planning. Mr. Battle was also a member of the firm's Executive Committee, Global Management Council and Partner Income Committee. Mr. Battle is a member of the Board of Directors of PeopleSoft, Inc., Barra, Inc. and Fair Isaac and Company, Inc., as well as a director of Masters Select Equity Fund and Masters Select International, registered investment companies.
Keith Berwick	Keith Berwick is a senior fellow of the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program. A native Canadian, Mr. Berwick has had a long and varied career as a historian, educator, television broadcaster, newspaper publisher and editor. He was educated at Syracuse University and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in U.S. history in 1959. He has taught at the University of California Los Angeles, the Claremont Graduate School, Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business. He has won four Emmy awards for his public affairs television programs. He was founding president of Barry Ambrosetti & Associates, an Italian-American joint venture in global strategic planning and was associate editor of Pacific Historical Review and editor of New Management magazine. Mr. Berwick is author of The American Revolutionary Experience, 1776-1976, among other historical works. He is currently at work on The Search for an American Hero, a book about the American presidency.
Stuart N. Brotman	Stuart N. Brotman is president of Stuart N. Brotman Communications, a worldwide management consulting firm for communications, information and entertainment industry clients. He also teaches at Harvard Law School, where he serves as a Research Fellow. He served as Chairman of the American Bar Association's International Communications Committee and as special assistant to President Carter's principal communications policy adviser at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in Washington, DC. Brotman has written over 300 articles on a wide range of communications law, policy and management issues. He also is the author of four books, including Communications Law and Practice, the leading comprehensive treatise on electronic mass media and common carrier regulation. His undergraduate, graduate and law degrees are from, respectively, Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall).
William Budinger	Bill Budinger is an inventor holding over three dozen patents and is founder of Rodel Inc., having served for 33 years as chairman and CEO. Rodel, Inc. is the current global leader in high-precision planarization technology for semiconductors, silicon wafers, and storage media substrates. Mr. Budinger has served on the executive committee for the Delaware Public Policy Institute and the Education Improvement Commission and chaired the General Motors Task Force for Revitalizing Manufacturing. He is a founding board member of the Delaware Innovation Fund and the Rodel Foundations, and served on the board of Philadelphia’s WHYY public radio and television. As co-founder of the project to protect and restore Thomas Edison’s New Jersey laboratories and workshops, Mr. Budinger also helped found the National Small Business Technology Council to assist entrepreneurial technology companies working with the federal government. He serves as a trustee for the Democratic Leadership Council and as a board member for the Progressive Policy Institute. He was an elected delegate and chair of the White House Conference on Small Business and a panelist for Mikhail Gorbachev’s first State of the World Forum. Currently he spends most of his time helping the Rodel Foundations in their mission to improve public education. He continues to serve on numerous boards, including those of the Grand Canyon Trust, the DLC, and the Public Policy Institute.
Lee T. Bycel	Dr. Lee Bycel is currently a senior fellow at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and the former president of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. Dr. Bycels leadership experiences have led him to his current work with organizations and leaders. He has moderated seminars on leadership and organizational change at the Aspen Institute and with several other private corporations. Since 2001, he has addressed the US Presidential Scholars in Washington, DC on the subject of leadership and ethics. Dr. Bycel is an active member of the Los Angeles community where he is involved in a variety of interfaith, social justice and educational organizations and activities. He served as president of the County of Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations, and has a number of publications and awards to his credit, including the National Conference of Community and Justice (NCCJ) Humanitarian Award.
Joanne B. Ciulla, Ph.D.	Joanne B. Ciulla is Professor and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. She is one of the founding faculty of the Jepson school, which is the only school in the world that offers a bachelors degree in leadership studies. Dr. Ciulla has also held the UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy, and academic appointments at La Salle University, the Harvard Busniess School, The Wharton School, and Oxford University. Professor Ciulla’s books include Ethics, The Heart of Leadership (1998), The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (2000), and The Ethics of Leadership (2002). She is also co-author of Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader and co-editor of The Quest for Ethical Leaders: Essays in Leadership Ethics. Dr. Ciulla lectures and consults on ethics and leadership and business ethics in the U.S. and around the world, and has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs including Bill Moyers’ World of Ideas II TV series. Dr. Ciulla is on the board of directors of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation. She has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in philosophy.
Lester Crown	Lester Crown is chairman of Material Service Corporation and chairman of Henry Crown and Company. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. Mr. Crown serves on the boards of General Dynamics (where he previously served as chairman of the Executive Committee), Maytag Corporation, Northwestern University, The Jerusalem Foundation, Inc., Children's Memorial Medical Center, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Jewish Theological Seminary, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a member of the Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program.
Susan Crown	Susan Crown is a Vice President at Henry Crown and Company, a family-owned and operated company, which includes diversified manufacturing operations, cellular phone, home furnishings and real estate. She also serves as President of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, a private foundation established in 1947. In addition, she serves on the boards of Baxter International, Illinois Tool Works, and The Northern Trust Corporation, and as a trustee of The Yale Corporation, the Executive Committee of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, The Chicago Network, The Juvenile Protective Association, The Aspen Valley Community Foundation, The Covenant Foundation and the Shoah Visual History Foundation, where she co-chairs the Partners in History and the Future Development Board. She has received the Deborah Award from the American Jewish Congress, the McCormick Distinguished Service Award from the Yale Club of Chicago, and the Civic Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee. Born in Chicago, Ms. Crown received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her graduate degree from New York University.
F. Peter Cundill	Peter Cundill is currently chief investment officer for Mackenzie Cundill Investment Mgmt. LTD. He was previously principal and founder of the Cundill Group, where he was synonymous with value investing for over 30 years. Holding the designations of both Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst, he has managed the Cundill Family of Funds since 1975. Mr. Cundill was featured in the Spring 2002 edition of the Mutual Fund Review where he was named the "Best Fund Manager of All Time". He graduated from McGill University in 1960 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. A native of Quebec, Canada, he has resided in London, England for the past two decades.
Andrea Cunningham	Andrea (Andy) Cunningham is chairman, president and chief executive officer of CXO Communication, a privately-held strategic communication consultancy focused entirely on matters critical to corporate officers and their teams. She was previously non-executive chairman and chief executive officer of Citigate Cunningham, the public relations agency she founded in 1985. She currently sits on the for-profit boards of InMomentum, Inc. and 1185 Design; and the following non-profit boards: The Aspen Institute, The Computer History Museum, ZeroOne - the Art and Technology Network. Ms. Cunningham is also a member of the advisory boards of Specialized Bicycle Components, the Foundation for Student Communication at Princeton University and the Journal of Integrated Communications at Northwestern University and is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society. As part of her Henry Crown Fellowship community leadership project, she founded ZeroOne—the Art and Technology Network, a charitable organization that is dedicated to fostering the collaboration between artists and technologists. She also serves on the Henry Crown Fellowship Board of Overseers. Ms. Cunningham has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the YPO International Board of Directors for three years, on the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) Pacific Regional Board and as the 1998/99 chapter chairman for the YPO Northern California Chapter. She received a B.A. in English from Northwestern University and currently lives in Palo Alto with her husband, Rand Siegfried, and their two children.
John Danner	John Danner has over 30 years of professional experience advising and managing both large, complex organizations and emerging start-up ventures. As a management consultant, he worked in a diverse array of industry settings, from energy and healthcare to consumer products and multimedia. He currently teaches two MBA courses in venture development at the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley. He also conducts seminars for the school’s international Executive Education program and serves as a senior moderator of the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar. In addition to his consulting and teaching activities, his professional career includes experience as an entrepreneur, corporate lawyer and senior policy advisor at both the state and federal government levels. In the 1970’s he served as an aide to then-Governor Bill Clinton and to U.S. Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler. Mr. Danner holds J.D., M.P.H. and M.A.Ed. degrees from U.C. Berkeley and received his A.B. cum laude in government and economics from Harvard College. He has been married for 34 years and has three sons.
Richard J. Danzig	Richard Danzig currently serves as the Nunn Prize Fellow at the Center for International Security and is a consultant to the Department of Defense and other government agencies on terrorism, with a focus on bioterrorism. Dr. Danzig is a director of Human Genome Sciences Corporation, National Semiconductor Corporation, and Saffron Hill Ventures, a European venture capital fund. He previously served as the 71^st Secretary of the Navy from 1998 to 2001 and was the Undersecretary of the Navy between 1993 and 1997. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Danzig served in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary and then as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics. In 1981, he was awarded the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award. He received that same honor, the highest Department of Defense civilian award, twice more in 1997 and 2001 for his work with the Navy and Marine Corps. Between 1981 and 1993, he was a partner in the law firm of Latham and Watkins. Dr. Danzig was also a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White. He received a B.A. from Reed College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and Bachelor in Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Benjamin Dunlap	Benjamin Dunlap is President of Wofford College in South Carolina. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of the South and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and Harvard University as a graduate student in English language and literature, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967. Since that time he has held academic appointments at Harvard, the University of South Carolina and Wofford College, where he previously served as Chapman Family Professor in the Humanities. A frequent moderator for the Aspen Institute's Executive and CEO Seminars, as well as the Institute's Executive Seminar Asia, he has lectured widely in this country and abroad, including time as a Fulbright Professor in Thailand and as a Japan Society Leadership Fellow in Japan. His many publications include poems, essays, fiction, and opera libretti. As a writer-producer for public television, he has been responsible for more than 200 programs, for which he has won numerous national and international awards. Recognized also for his teaching and research, he has recently completed his first novel, Famous Dogs of the Civil War.
James L. Ferguson	James L. Ferguson is the former chairman and CEO of General Foods Corporation. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Ferguson serves as director of ICOS Corporation and VION Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He is chairman of the South Carolina Aquarium and a board director for the Hollings Cancer Center. Ferguson is a member of The Business Council, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a life trustee of Hamilton College as well as a trustee of the Aspen Institute.
John C. Fontaine	John C. Fontaine is a partner in the New York law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, and former president of Knight-Ridder, Inc. He is also a director of Century Aluminum Company, chairman of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and a member of the Trustees' Council of the National Gallery of Art. Mr. Fontaine is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School.
Gerald Greenwald	Gerald Greenwald is a founding principal of the Greenbriar Equity Group, which makes investments in the global transportation industry. In July 1999, he retired as chairman and CEO of UAL Corporation and United Airlines, its principal subsidiary, having served in those positions since July 1994. He was chairman emeritus of UAL Corporation from 1999 to 2002. Mr. Greenwald held various executive positions with Chrysler Corporation from 1979 to 1990, serving as vice chairman of the board from 1989 to May 1990 and as chairman of Chrysler Motors from 1985 to 1988. In 1990, he was selected to serve as CEO of United Employee Acquisition Corporation in connection with the proposed 1990 employee acquisition of UAL. From 1991 to 1992, he was a managing director of Dillon Read & Co., Inc. (investment banking) and, from 1992 to 1993, he was president and deputy chief executive officer of Olympia & York Developments Ltd. (Canadian real estate company). Mr. Greenwald then served as chairman and managing director of Tatra Truck Company (truck manufacturer in the Czech Republic) from 1993 to 1994. He is currently a director of Calpine Corporation (power company) and Sentigen Holding Corp. (provides goods and services in the domestic biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries), and is also is a trustee of the Aspen Institute. Mr. Greenwald graduated cum laude from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and received a masters in economics fromWayne State University.
Patrick W. Gross	Patrick (Pat) Gross is chairman of The Lovell Group, a business and technology advisory and investment firm he established upon stepping down as executive committee chairman of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) in 2002. In addition, Mr. Gross has served as chairman of several companies owned by the private equity firms Carlyle Group, Thayer Capital, and Questor Partners. He is the presiding/lead director of two public companies: Capital One Financial Corporation, and Computer Network Technology Corporation. He is also a director of Mobius Management Systems, Inc., as well as a director of a number of private companies, including The Sarnoff Corporation and Liquidity Services, Inc. Prior to founding AMS, Mr. Gross served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Office of Systems Analysis. Before that he worked at the General Electric Company. Among his professional activities, Mr. Gross is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and co-chairman of its research and policy committee; is vice chairman of the Council for Excellence in Government; and co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Technology Leadership Consortium. He is a member of the advisory board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a member of the Council on Competitiveness. He is also a director of the Aspen Institute, the Jamestown Foundation, and the All Kinds of Minds Institute. In addition, he is a co-founder and past chairman of the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C. and a director of the Foreign Policy Association. He is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and International Institute for Strategic Studies. Mr. Gross has been involved with healthcare and educational affairs, having been active in the charter school movement in Washington, DC. Mr. Gross attended Cornell University and received a BES from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well as an MSE from the University of Michigan, and an MBA in 1968 from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He and his wife, Sheila Proby Gross, live in suburban Washington, DC and Whidbey Island, WA, and have a son and daughter.
Arjun Gupta	Arjun Gupta is the Managing Partner and Founder of TeleSoft Partners, an international venture capital firm focused on high-tech startups. Over the last decade, he has overseen investing in and helping build 60+ private companies, resulting in 32 acquisitions and IPOs to date. At TeleSoft, he manages capital commitments of $625+ million and has established Corporate Partnerships in the US,Europe, and Israel with Alltel, Bechtel, Deutsche Telekom and Comverse respectively. He serves on the Board of Directors of Calient, Education.com, Knowledge Adventure, LiteScape, LogLogic, Nexant, Validity, and VoiceObjects. He is also founder of Arjun Gupta Community Foundation, which supports community projects in education, medical research and the arts. Earlier in his career, Arjun was a Strategy Consultant for hightech clients with McKinsey & Company, and a Software Engineer with Tektronix, Inc. He is a Henry Crown Fellow, holds a BA (honors) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College India, an MS and BS, Phi Beta Kappa, in Computer Science from Washington State University, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Sidney Harman	Dr. Sidney Harman is executive chairman of Harman International Industries, Inc, a leading manufacturer of high-quality, high fidelity audio and video products for the consumer, professional, automotive and computer markets. He has served as president of Friends World College, a world-wide experimental Quaker college, and was founder of the Program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1977 to 1979 he served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce. Dr. Harman has written extensively on productivity, quality of working life and economic policy in publications ranging from Newsweek magazine, The Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor, and along with Daniel Yankelovich, co-authored Starting With The People. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Chairman of the Program Strategy Committee of the Aspen Institute, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a member of the Board of Trustees of The Carter Center, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Public Agenda Foundation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre.
Jay T. Harris	Jay T. Harris is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair and Director of The Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy at the Annenberg School for Communications at USC. He is also president of Deep River Associates, a management consulting firm. Mr. Harris was formerly chairman and publisher of the San Jose Mercury News and has over 30 years of experience in journalism and newspapers. He has worked as a reporter and editor, as an educator at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and as a corporate newspaper executive. He serves on the boards of several local groups including Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, the Bay Area Council, The American Leadership Form, the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank Board and the Santa Clara County Manufacturing Group. He serves as well on two national boards – the Pacific Council on International Policy and the American Press Institute – and is an advisor to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Pacific Coast Center of the Freedom Forum. Mr. Harris is a graduate of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
Gary Hart	Gary Hart is a former U.S. Senator from Colorado and is currently senior counsel at Coudert Brothers, a multinational law firm with offices around the world. He was co‑chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, and was president of Global Green, the U.S. affiliate of Mikhail Gorbachev's environmental foundation, Green Cross International. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fun-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> d; a former member of the Defense Policy Board; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was co-chair of the Council task force that produced the report: “America Unprepared—America Still at Risk”, in October, 2002. During his 12 years in the Senate, he served on the Armed Services Committee, where he specialized in nuclear arms control and was an original founder of the military reform caucus. He also served on the Senate Environment Committee, Budget Committee, and Intelligence Oversight Committee. In 1984 and 1988, he was a candidate for his party's nomination for President. Sen. Hart has been visiting fellow at All Souls College, Chatham Lecturer, and McCallum Memorial Lecturer at Oxford University, Global Fund Lecturer at Yale University, and Regents Lecturer at the University of California. He earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Oxford University and graduate law and divinity degrees fromYale University.
Mellody Hobson	Mellody Hobson is president of Ariel Capital Management, LLC, a Chicago-based investment management firm, and is responsible for firm wide management and strategic planning, overseeing virtually all operations of the firm's business outside of research and portfolio management. Ms. Hobson has worked at Ariel since 1991 after earning her Bachelor of Arts degree fromPrinceton University's Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations and Public Policy. She is actively involved with a variety of civic and professional institutions, including serving as a board member for the Chicago Public Library as well as its foundation, The Field Museum, The Chicago Public Education Fund and Sundance Institute. She is also a director of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. and Starbucks Corporation. Ms. Hobson also serves as a Trustee of Princeton University and a Term Member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. She is a regular financial contributor on ABC's Good Morning America.
Henrietta Holsman Fore	Henrietta Holsman Fore (on leave of absence from the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute, in government service) was designated by President George W. Bush as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and designated by Secretary Condoleezza Rice as Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance on May 7, 2007. On November 14, 2007, Fore was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first female Administrator of USAID and concurrently assumed the position of Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance. She continues to report to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and holds the rank of Deputy Secretary of State. In addition to her direct responsibilities for USAID, in her role at the Department of State Henrietta Fore is charged with directing the transformation of the U.S. government's approach to foreign assistance. As Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance, Fore is responsible for providing strategic direction and guidance to all other foreign assistance programs delivered through the various agencies and entities of the U.S. government, including the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. Prior to her most recent appointment, Fore served as the Under Secretary of State for Management in the U.S. Department of State from August 2005 to November 2007. From 2001-2005, Fore served as the 37th Director of the United States Mint in the Department of Treasury. She also had been a Presidential appointee at USAID from 1989-1993, first as Assistant Administrator for Private Enterprise and then Assistant Administrator for Asia. During this period she founded and served as the first Chairman of the United States Asia Environmental Partnership, a coalition of business, government, and community organizations in the United States and 31 Asian nations. Fore also was a founder of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps.In addition to her foreign policy experience in government service, Henrietta Fore has held leadership positions in numerous international non-profit organizations. She was a Trustee and Executive Committee Member at the Center of Strategic and International Studies. She also served as Chairman of the Audit Committee and Member of the Executive Committee of the Aspen Institute Board of Trustees. In addition she served as a Trustee or Director of the Asia Society, The Asia Foundation, The Institute of the Americas, and the United States Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council.As Director of the United States Mint, Ms. Fore managed the world’s largest manufacturer of coins, medals, and coin products. The United States Mint produced 13 billion coins in 2004 for the nation’s trade as well as gold, silver and platinum bullion coins and commemorative coins and medals for investors and collectors. During Director Fore’s tenure the United States Mint generated a $4 billion profit which was returned to the U.S. Government. In 2004, Director Fore was elected by Mint Directors worldwide as President of the International Mint Directors Conference. In 2005, for her service as Director of the United States Mint, she received the Department of Treasury’s highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award.Earlier in her career Ms. Fore was a successful business woman running her own company and serving on the boards of public corporations. She was Chairman and President of Stockton Wire Products, a manufacturer and distributor of steel products, cement additives and wire building materials for the U.S. and European construction industry. She served on the Corporate Boards of the Dexter Corporation and HSB Group Inc., both listed on the New York Stock Exchange.In 1997 the State of the World Forum recognized Fore with the Women Redefining Leadership Award. She served as Chairman of International Activities for the Committee of 200. In addition she was a Board Member of the National Public Radio Foundation.Henrietta has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Wellesley College and a Master of Science degree in Public Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. She received the 2004 Alumnae Award from the University of Northern Colorado and the 2006 Alumnae Award from the Baldwin School. She has also studied International Politics at Oxford University and studied at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She is a keen sailor and collector of antique Holsman Automobiles.
Walter Isaacson	Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at the Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined Time Magazine in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's 14th managing editor in 1996. He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he was appointed by Governor Kathleen Blanco to be the vice-chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. In December 2007, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to be the chairman of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership, a government and private sector effort to provide economic and educational opportunities for the Palestinian people. He is the Chairman of the Board of Teach for America, and he is on the boards of United Airlines, Tulane University, and Science Service. He is also on the advisory councils of the National Institutes of Health, the National Constitution Center, and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, DC.
Carol Larson	Carol Larson is president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos, California. Ms. Larson joined the foundation in 1989 as director of research and of grants, law and public policy at the foundation's Center for the Future of Children, and she subsequently was named director of programs and vice president. Prior to joining Packard, Ms. Larson was a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of O'Donnell and Gordon. She serves on the board of Northern California Grantmakers and American Leadership Forum-Silicon Valley and previously was a board member of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families. Ms. Larson received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her law degree from Yale Law School.
Gerald M. Levin	Gerald (Jerry) Levin retired from his position as CEO of AOL Time Warner, Inc. in May 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Levin served as Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, Inc. He was elected chairman of the Board in 1993 and was a leading architect of the historic merger of America Online and Time Warner in 2001, as well as the prime mover of the Time, Inc and Warner Communications merger in 1990 and Time Warner’s merger with Turner Broadcasting System in 1996. He originally joined Time Inc. in 1972 as HBO’s Vice President of Programming and helped to create the modern cable industry. From 1963-1967, Mr. Levin was an attorney with Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett in New York, and prior to that was GM and COO of Development and Resources Corporation. He currently serves as a director of the New York Stock Exchange and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a member of the Board of the New York Philharmonic; a member of the Council of International Advisers to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong; the Board of the National Cable Television Center and Museum; the Aspen Institute and The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust; Trustee Emeritus of Hampshire College; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Economic Club of New York. In 1960, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Haverford College and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1963.
James M. Manyika	James M. Manyika is a director at Mckinsey & Company, where he focuses on serving senior executives of the world’s leading high tech companies, primarily on strategy and operational issues. Mr. Manyika is part of the leadership group of the firm’s high tech practice, and he leads the software practice in North America. He is also one of the strategy practice leaders. Mr. Manyika regularly leads the firm’s research in the high tech sector, IT, and the global economy, working with the McKinsey Global Institute. This work has been published, and referenced in the McKinsey Quarterly, Wall Street Journal, the FT, the Economist, and Harvard Business Review. Prior to McKinsey, he was a Research Fellow at Oxford, and member of the Engineering Science faculty, a Visiting Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a Faculty Exchange Fellow at MIT. Mr. Manyika was a Rhodes Scholar, and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, a M.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and an M.A. in Engineering from Oxford, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe, where he was an Anglo-American scholar. He has published a book on decentralized decision theory, and various academic and business articles. Mr. Manyika is a trustee of the Aspen Institute, World Affairs Council of Northern California, and SFJazz. A native of Zimbabwe, he and his wife, Dr. Sarah Manyika, and their son Julian live in San Francisco.
John P. Mascotte	John P. Mascotte served as president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, Inc. from July 1997 to June 2001. Prior to that, he was the Chairman of Johnson & Higgins of Missouri, Inc., a privately held insurance services and employee benefits consulting firm. Mr. Mascotte also served as a consultant to CNA Insurance in 1995. From 1983 until May 1995, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Continental Corporation, an insurance holding company. He began his career as law clerk to Howard A. Dawson, Jr., former Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court, after graduating form the University of Virginia Law Center, and then joined Coopers & Lybrand as a tax specialist before becoming Executive Vice President of People's Trust Bank in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is currently a director of Crown Media Inc.; Hallmark Cards, Inc.; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals; LabOne and Business Men's Assurance Company of America. In June 2002, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Workforce Investment Company Inc., He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute and serves on the Board of the Hall Family Foundation
William E. Mayer	William E. Mayer is a partner with Park Avenue Equity Partners in New York City and former chairman of the Aspen Institute's Board of Trustees. He is the former president and CEO of the First Boston Corporation (CSFB), the former dean of the College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland College Park, and former dean of the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester. Mr. Mayer is a trustee of Tulane University, The University of Maryland, and is a board member of TechnoServe, a volunteer organization providing business expertise to developing nations. He also serves on the Board of Directors of numerous private and public companies.
John W. McCarter, Jr.	John W. McCarter, Jr. is president and chief executive of The Field Museum. McCarter previously was senior vice president of BoozAllen & Hamilton, Inc., president of DeKalb Corporation and was budget director of the State of Illinois under Governor Richard B. Ogilvie. He was a White House Fellow during Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency. Mr. McCarter is a director of W.W. Grainger, Inc., A.M. Castle & Company, Pittway Corporation and a director and trustee for The Harris Insight Funds and for The LaSalle Partners Funds, Inc. He is a board member and former chairman of Chicago's Public Television Station Channel Eleven and a trustee of The University of Chicago. Mr. McCarter is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School and attended the London School of Economics.
Thomas D. McCloskey	Thomas D. McCloskey is founding partner of Cornerstone Ventures. He has served as a general partner in over 50 partnerships and has been involved in a variety of diverse business activities. He is currently a chairman or a director of eight different companies, including Horizon Organic Holding Corporation where he serves as chairman of the board. Mr. McCloskey received his BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1968 and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. After graduating from Wharton, he was employed by McCloskey and Co., Inc. of Philadelphia, PA and Palm Beach, FL and also served as a company director. In 1974 he founded his own real estate development firm, McCloskey-Bills Development Group and, over the next 10 years, developed numerous real estate projects in Palm Beach County. His business experience includes citrus farming, ranching, the franchise oil industry, health club development and management, sports apparel, cell phone development, educational video production, aircraft charters, mobile home park and hotel development and management, organic and commercial dairy products, and small scale financial lending. He serves as a Trustee of the Thatcher School, Ojai, CA., and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mendosa College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
Ann D. McLaughlin Korologos	Ann McLaughlin Korologos is chairman emeritus of the Aspen Institute. She is currently a senior advisor at Benedetto and Gartland & Company and a member of the Board of Directors of the Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Korologos serves on several corporate boards of directors, including those of Nordstrom Inc., Kellogg Co., Host Marriott Corp. and Fannie Mae. She served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from Dec. 1987 to Jan. 1989 . Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, she espoused economic growth to enhance the welfare of American workers and was a strong advocate of increased private-sector initiatives to reconcile the demands of work and family life. Originally from New Jersey , Ms. Korologos received her bachelor of science degree from Marymount College and did graduate work at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Her private-sector employment included Union Carbide Corp. and Myers-Infoplan. She also served as public affairs director at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and as Under Secretary of the Interior.
Clare Muñana	Clare Muñana is an international management consultant and president and CEO of Ancora Associates, Inc. She has performed numerous domestic and international engagements for public (primarily UN agencies) and private sector clients in the U.S., Europe, Africa and Latin America. Her most recent assignments include: an economic development project for an underserved region in the State of Illinois, a strategic plan for a major museum, a feasibility study for an economic development agency for a large U.S. city, and the development of a technology plan for a major U.S. school district. In addition, Ms. Muñana serves as vice president of the Board of Education for the city of Chicago and as a member of: The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Mayor Daley’s Council of Technology Advisors, the Chicago Public Education Fund, the Mexican fine Arts Center Museum, the Committee on Museum Education for the Art Institute of Chicago, the Paris/Chicago Sister Cities Program and several other civic boards and business organizations. She holds a bachelors degree from Boston College, MA in International Economics and Politics, with honors, from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.
Margot Pritzker	Margot L. Pritzker was born in Sale, England. She became a United States citizen in 1994. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband, Thomas J. Pritzker, Chairman of the Hyatt Corporation. They have three sons. Margot holds a BA from Northwestern University and a MLA from the University of Chicago. She is currently working toward a Doctorate in biblical studies at the University of Chicago. Margot currently serves as a trustee of the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, where she was Chairman of the Board and a Board of Trustees member since 1981. She is also a trustee of the Board of the Childrens Hospital of Chicago and The Chicago Council of Foreign Relations. Margot and her husband Tom travel extensively throughout Asia. Their exhaustive study of Asia and its artifacts has developed into one of the most acclaimed Asian art collections in the United States.
Peter A. Reiling	Peter A. Reiling is the Aspen Institute's Executive Vice President for Leadership and Policy Programs. In this role, he oversees the Institute's growing portfolio of leadership initiatives, both in the US and overseas, as well as its 22 policy programs. He is a trustee 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, TechnoServe, and four African business leaders. ALI has since been replicated in Central America as "CALI" and in India as "ILI". The goal of these ventures is to stimulate a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders to play a greater role in the social and political development of their 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. He 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. Peter currently serves on the board of Agora Partnerships and the Energy Access Foundation. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Bretton Woods Committee, and was previously named "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" by the Schwab Foundation in Geneva. A graduate of Georgetown University (BSFS) and the University of California/Berkeley (MBA), Peter is married to Denise Byrne of Fajardo, Puerto Rico, and is the father of two children, Dylan and Eva Luna.
Michel de Rosen	Michel de Rosen is chairman, president and CEO of ViroPharma Incorporated, a pharmaceutical company committed to the development and commercialization of products that address serious diseases. Prior to joining ViroPharma, Mr. de Rosen was chairman and CEO of Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, a global pharmaceutical company with revenues in excess of $5.3 billion. He came to Rhône-Poulenc Rorer from Rhone-Poulenc where he had been CEO of the Fibers and Polymers Sector. Mr. de Rosen began his professional career serving in the French government, first as a senior Treasury official, then as a Financial Attaché at the French Embassy in Washington, DC, and later as a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense. In 1982 he joined Rhône-Poulenc as a special assistant to the President of the Health Sector. Shortly thereafter, he became General Manager of Pharmuka, a pharmaceutical company. From 1986 to 1988 Mr. de Rosen returned to the French Government as Chief of Staff for the Minister of Industry, Postal Services and Telecommunications. He graduated from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (MBA) and completed his post-graduate studies at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He is a member of the board of directors of ABB, Ursinus College, the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, chairman of the advisory board of the Paul Capital Partners Royalty Fund and board member of PA Biotechnology Association. He is also co-author of five books: Armée Nation, le Rendez-Vous Manqué, Nationalisations, Privatisations, Réduire I’Impôt, and Le Retour du Capital.
Carol Saal	Carol D. Saal is a community activist and fundraiser. Ms. Saal was one of three parent founding members of the country's fifth Ronald McDonald House, overseeing the fundraising, building and establishment of the House. She joined her husband, Harry Saal, in founding two high-tech, start-up companies and served as head of the company's marketing communications from its inception until her retirement in 1992. She has served on a number of non-profit boards including the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation, the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, the American Committee for the Weitzmann Institute of Science and currently serves on the Board of Governors of Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). She is a founding board member and active advocate of the Center for Clinical Immunology at the Stanford Medical Center and was a founder of the Committee for Better Schools. She currently serves as a co-chair for the Stanford University Center for the Jewish Life building campaign.
Harry J. Saal	Dr. Harry J. Saal was recently appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Technical Committee to oversee the Microsoft Antitrust case. Prior to that, Dr. Saal was the founder and CEO of Network General Corporation, the first company wholly dedicated to the area of network diagnostics. In October 1978 he founded Nestar Systems, Inc., a pioneer in local area network systems for personal computers. From 1993 through 1995, Dr. Saal served as the founding CEO and President of Smart Valley, Inc., a non-profit organization chartered to create a regional electronic community based on an advanced information infrastructure and the collective ability to use it. He has served as director of several publicly traded high technology firms, most recently Imaging Technologies Corporation and Borland. Ernst & Young named Dr. Saal the Bay Area 1990 Software Entrepreneur of the Year, and he is also the recipient of the ADL Torch of Liberty Award, the Computer Museum 1994 Computer Bowl MVP, and the JNF Tree of Life Award. He is active in philanthropy and community affairs, serving on the Board of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, from whom he received the 1996 Corporate Community Involvement Award. From 1998 through 2003 he served as President of Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley, a non-profit organization which links a network of public and private cultural agencies and organizations to enhance arts and culture in Silicon Valley. He has served as Vice Chair of the American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley Chapter, and in 1995 received their John W. Gardner Leadership Award. As well, he serves on the boards of the American Institute on Mathematics and the Redwood Neurosciences Institute. In 1997, Columbia University awarded Dr. Saal its highest honor, the John Jay Award. Dr. Harry J. Saal is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in High Energy Physics.
Robert J. Saldich	Robert J. Saldich is the retired CEO and president of Raychem Corporation. Mr. Saldich served as the chairman of the American Electronics Association, on the technology advisory board of NIST in Washington, DC, and is a member of the board of directors of Andromedia Corporation. He serves on the local board of the National Conference for Community Justice and on the Silicon Valley American Leadership Forum Board. Mr. Saldich has a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.
Beth Seidenberg	Beth Seidenberg, MD joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in May 2005 to work in the life sciences area. Prior to joining KPCB, Beth was Senior Vice President, Global Development, and Chief Medical Officer at Amgen, Inc., the world’s largest biotechnology company. During her tenure, five innovative products were approved for commercial use. Prior to joining Amgen, Beth was a senior executive in research and development at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Merck & Co., Inc. She began her career in basic and clinical research at the National Institutes of Health specializing in immunology and infectious diseases. Beth received her BS from Barnard College magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; and her medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine, alpha omega alpha. Her post-graduate training was completed at Johns Hopkins, George Washington School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Advisory Board and Barnard College Science Advisory Board.
Peter L. Thigpen	Peter L. Thigpen is president of Executive Reserves, a consulting firm specializing in business ethics and marketing strategy. Prior to starting Executive Reserves, he was senior vice president, U.S. Operations and a member of the Executive Management Committee at Levi Strauss & Company. After spending thirteen years located overseas, the last four years of which he was President of the European Division, Mr. Thigpen returned to the United States in 1982, where he held a variety of posts, including President of Levi Strauss USA, President of The Jeans Company and Member of the Board of Directors until the company went private in 1985. Mr. Thigpen is a Senior Fellow and moderator at the Aspen Institute, on the Board of the San Francisco School Volunteers, a Lecturer on Ethics at the Haas Graduate School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and is a member of the Board of Designs, Inc., and Radica Games, Inc.
Don C. Watters	Don C. Watters retired from his post as a director of McKinsey & Company, Inc. with more than 25 years of top management consulting experience throughout the world. He has served as a consultant in the technology, natural resources, manufacturing and service industries and founded McKinsey's Silicon Valley office in 1988. Mr. Watters is a member of the board of trustees of the American Leadership Forum, the board of directors of Cunningham Communication and the advisory board of Marcus & Millichap. He received his M.B.A. from Stanford University and his B.S. from the University of Michigan.
Carroll R. Wetzel, Jr.	Carroll R. Wetzel, Jr. is a retired international investment banker with over 20 years of experience at Dillon Read; Smith Barney; and Chemical/Chase combined. Much of Mr. Wetzel's work has been international with an emphasis in East Asia. He has a doctorate degree in Political Science and an M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University, and a B.A. from Stanford University in History. He is vice chairman of the board of directors of the National Executive Service Corps and a member of the Executive Council of Boy Scouts of Westchester and Putnam Counties.
Roger M. Widmann	Roger Widmann is a principal of Tanner & Co., Inc., an investment banking firm specializing in providing advice to corporations ranging from Fortune 200 companies to mid-sized firms. From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Widmann was a senior managing director in charge of investment banking at Chemical Banking Corporation (now Chase Manhattan Corporation). Prior to joining Chemical, Mr. Widmann was a founder and managing director of First Reserve Corporation, the largest independent energy investing firm in the U.S. He was a director of First Reserve Corporation from its inception in 1980 until December 1995. He is a senior moderator at the Aspen Institute and is a Chairman of Lydall, Inc. (NYSE), a manufacturer of temperature control and filtration materials. He is president of the March of Dimes of Greater New York and is a board member of the Third Century Fund, a part of the Brown University Endowment Fund.
Harold M. Williams	Harold M. Williams is president emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Trust and of counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager and Flom, LLP. He served as president and CEO of the Trust from May, 1981 until January, 1998. Prior to his position with the Trust, Mr. Williams served four years as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by President Carter, dean and professor of Management of the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, president of Hunt Foods and Industries, Inc. and chairman of the board of Norton Simon, Inc. Mr. Williams received a B.A. from UCLA, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded his J.D. degree from Harvard University Law School. His more recent awards include: a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from The Johns Hopkins University, appointed by President Clinton as a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and designation by the French government as an "Officier dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres".