Trustees
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Julie Barlow is a professional writer and co-author of two bestselling works on France and the French language: Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong, and The Story of French. Based in Montreal, Canada, Ms. Barlow is a regular contributor to Quebec’s principal French-language public affairs magazine, L’actualité. Her work has also appeared in magazines and newspapers across Canada, the U.S. and Europe including the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and the Courier international. She is a four-time National Magazine Award Finalist, won Quebec’s 2007 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and has won three Professional Writing Grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. She speaks widely on France and the French language at universities and for associations in North America and Europe.
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Joseph Battat a consultant, retired from the World Bank Group, continues to advise on economic development, particularly private sector development in developing countries. He was an Institute of Current World Affairs Fellow in China from 1977 to 1979, first studying political philosophy at Beijing University and later working for the First Ministry of Machine Building in Beijing and Shanghai to establish China’s first post-Mao modern management training program, which he designed and taught for a year. He became a co-Dean of the MBA Program in Shanghai throughout the 1980s, sponsored by the Ministry, the first MBA program in the history of the People’s Republic of China. He developed its curricula and recruited its expatriate faculty. He taught at Indiana University’s graduate business school in the 1980s.While at IU, he worked with George Soros to design and establish the first school of Western-style management in Soviet-Bloc East Europe in Budapest. His responsibilities of twenty years at the World Bank were global in nature, while continuing to work on the development of China’s less advantaged regions. He led the Foreign Investment Advisory Service, a unit of the Bank, which advises governments around the world on how to improve the business environment in their country. He holds a M.Sc. in Electronic Physics [Université de Grenoble], a PhD in International Business and International Economics [MIT] and a Certificate in Political Philosophy [Beijing University].
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Steve Butler is executive director of the Institute of Current World Affairs. He has worked for the Financial Times, US News & World Report, and Knight Ridder, where he was foreign editor in the Washington bureau. He was an assistant professor of of Government, specializing in China, at Cornell University before his ICWA fellowship in Seoul, Korea, 1983-1986. |
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TREASURER Virginia R. Foote is the CFO and COO of C Change Investments, an alternative assets manager investing in clean energy, and natural resources. Gina is also on the Board of Directors of the Charles River Conservancy, a non-profit which improves and advocates for the Charles River Parklands in Boston. Gina chairs the Finance Committee and sits on the ICWA Board as well. Earlier in her career she was the Controller/CFO of an international education company in Cambridge, MA, a finance lecturer at Boston University School of Management, and an investment banker at Bear Stearns and a boutique firm in Mexico. She taught English in China, has a BA in History from Yale, an MSC in Economic History from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard. She is the spouse of former ICWA Fellow Willy Foote and went with him on his fellowship to Mexico. |
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Patrice Fusillo has run cultural exchange programs with the Asia Society, New York, served as the administrator for the Institute of Foreign Bankers, Tokyo, co-authored two guidebooks to Japan, and most recently edited a magazine and website for expatriates in London.
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VICE CHAIR Gary Hartshorn is president and chief executive officer of the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon. Past president and chief executive officer of the Organization for Tropical Studies at Duke University, he is an adjunct professor at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment and holds a courtesy professorship in Oregon State University’s College of Forestry. Gary has served as chief scientist and vice president of the World Wildlife Fund and was an ICWA Forest and Man fellow, 1978-1982. |
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Cheng Li is Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. He is the author/editor of Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform (1997), China’s Leaders: The New Generation (2001), Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange 1978-2003 (2005), and China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy (2008). He is the principal editor of the Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series published by the Brookings Institution Press. Dr. Li currently serves as a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a member of the Academic Advisory Team of the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group, a trustee of the Institute of Current World Affairs, and a member and director of the Committee of 100. Dr. Li has frequently been called upon to share his unique perspective and insights as an expert on China. He recently appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, BBC, Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, NPR Diane Rehm Show, and the PBS Charlie Rose Show. He is also a columnist for the Stanford University Journal, China Leadership Monitor. He received an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University. He was an ICWA Fellow in Shanghai, 1993-1995.
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Krishen Mehta has been partner with PricewaterhousCoopers for almost 20 years, and completed a 30-year career with them in 2008 before retiring from the firm. During this period, he was based in New York, London, and Tokyo, and was partner-in-charge of the US Tax practice in Japan, Korea, China, India, Singapore, Malaysis, and Indonesia. In 2009, Krishen joined the board of Global Financial Integrity (www:gfip.org), a Washington based think tank devoted to stemming capital outflows from developing countries. This organization is part of the Center for International Policy. In 2010, he became Co-Chairman of the Board of Advisers. Krishen also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program. He is also closely affiliated with Human Rights Watch (HRW), and assisted with the launch of their offices in Japan in 2009 and India in 2010. He is a member HRW's Asia Advisory Council.
In 1997, while still in Japan, Krishen and his wife launched Asia Initiatives (www:asiainitiatives.org), an NGO devoted to education and microfinance in South Asia. This organized still continuing, and now has US 501(c)(3) status.
Krishen is an engineer by training, has an MBA, and is a US qualified CPA. His wife, Geeta Mehta, is an Architect and teaches at Columbia University in New York. Krishen and Geeta have two sons, one managing his own company in Hong Kong, and the second graduated from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in May 2011.
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Catherine Rielly has for 25 years worked for global poverty alleviation and gender justice through field research, teaching, policy and practice. Professor at SNHU’s School of Community Economic Development (CED) for nine years, she taught graduate-level classes in international development; policy analysis; economic and social policy; and gender analysis. A Political Economist, she has conducted research, training, and technical assistance on women’s empowerment, public policy, economics, democratization and governance, for the following organizations: the Harvard Institute for International Development, UNIFEM, UNFPA, UNDP, the Asian Development Bank, USAID, the Governments of Mali, Zambia, and Uganda, and Harvard University.
Throughout her career, she has kindled women’s groups and networks aimed at economic empowerment and social change from women refugees in Manchester, to female embroiderers in Afghanistan, to a network of African First Ladies battling the spread of HIV/AIDS to children. She is Executive Director of Rubia, a non-profit organization serving women and girls in Afghanistan through education, training, and sale of their embroidered textiles. She received her Ph.D. and Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and her B.A. in History from Stanford University. Dr. Rielly has conducted comparative research and written journal articles on policy processes in over twenty countries.
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Anne G.K. Solomon is a Senior Advisor on Science and Technology Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC). Her professional work of over three decades has focused on research, innovation and related national and international policy issues. Ms. Solomon's current work is concerned with the foreign policy, economic and security implications of science and technology globalization. Prior to joining CSPC, she was senior advisor for science and technology policy and director of the biotechnology program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Solomon holds a M.P.A. degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and studied Mandarin Chinese at the Yale-in-China Center in Hong Kong, SAR. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
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Edmund Sutton is retired from JP Morgan & Co. From 1985 to 1999 he was president of JP Morgan Overseas Capital Corp.
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Andrew J. Tabler, journalist and researcher, is a Next Generation fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the cofounder and former editor-in-chief of Syria Today, Syria's first private-sector English-language magazine, and has been a media consultant for Syrian nongovernmental organizations (2003-2004) under the patronage of Syrian first lady Asma al-Asad. Mr. Tabler served as a consultant on U.S.-Syria relations for the International Crisis Group (2008) and was a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs (2005-2007), writing on Syrian, Lebanese, and Middle Eastern affairs.
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CHAIR Nancy Talbot, Reverend, is the former Associate Director of Spirituality Programs at Bellevue Hospital Center. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Prior to her work at Bellevue, she was the Director of Planning and Program Development Corporation for National and Community Service Washington, D.C. |
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Doris Voorbraak is a Senior Specialist in Public Sector Governance at the World Bank’s PREM Public Sector Group. On secondment from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has broad experience in development work in South Asia and Africa. At the Bank, her work has focused on governance in sectors, political economy, and accountability mechanisms focused on demand-side actors, including civil society, and on parliaments.
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Honorary Trustees
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David Hapgood, a writer and editor, moderates a lecture series on global affairs at New York University. His books include Charles R. Crane: The Man Who Bet on People. He was a managing editor at the South-North News Service; editor, Focus Magazine, American Geographical Society; writer-editor, The New York Times News of the Week; special assistant to the health services administrator in New York City; senior editor and acting managing editor, The Washington Monthly; and senior fellow and evaluator of Peace Corps programs in West Africa, India, and Costa Rica. David was an ICWA fellow in West Africa, 1961-1963.
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Peter Bird Martin is Executive Director of the John Hazard Institute, a 501(c)(3) public charity that provides international comparative law fellowships to study the law, law language, and law culture of countries crucial to U.S understanding of international affairs. Peter Martin was an ICWA fellow in sub-Saharan Africa (1953 to 1955). He then spent 23 years as a writer, senior editor and magazine inventor at Time Incorporated. He was the Executive Director of the Institute of Current World Affairs from 1978-2006.
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From the Archive
Inside the UN compound, Dili, East Timor, 2001
“Bottled drinking water for staff cost the UN $4 million last year, and it was all imported (mostly from Indonesia). It has been estimated that if the local bottled-water company would have been given the UN contract, 1,000 jobs would have been created and recycling the containers would have been much smoother. It has been further estimated that the entire water system of the capital could be rehabilitated for around $4 million, giving running water to over 100,000 people, including UN personnel.” [read newsletter]
—Curt Gabrielson
East Timor
ICWA Fellow (2000-2002)