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Trustees

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.

Bryn Barnard is an illustrator and writer. He is the author of three books: Dangerous Planet, Outbreak, and The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World (forthcoming in 2011). His public artworks include lobby murals for Children's Hospital, Seattle, the Beaverton, Oregon City Library, and the King County Courthouse in Seattle. He has had solo exhibitions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC. Mr. Barnard was an Institute of Current World Affairs Fellow (1982-1984) in Southeast Asia studying visual communication.

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].

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.

Sharon F. Doorasamy is managing editor for Morgan Reynolds, a publisher of nonfiction books for juvenile and young adult readers. She was an ICWA fellow in South Africa, 1994-1996.

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.

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.

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.

Pramila Jayapal is founder and executive director of OneAmerica, an immigrant and civil rights organization based in Seattle. An activist and writer, Pramila has worked on social justice issues in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and with immigrant and refugee communities in Washington state. She was director of the Fund for Technology Transfer at PATH Seattle, overseeing a loan fund for health projects in developing countries. Pramila has served as a consultant on immigrant and refugee issues and speaks frequently on gender, globalization, development, and community. She was an ICWA fellow in India, 1995-1997.

Robert A. Levinson is chairman of the board of Levcor International and a member of the Center for U.S.-China Arts Exchange at Columbia University, the New York-Beijing Sister City Advisory Committee, the Advisory Board of the World Policy Institute at the New School, and the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. He’s former chairman of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Museum, the Advisory Board of the National Dance Institute, the Harlem School of the Arts, and member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

Carol Rose is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. A lawyer and journalist, Carol has spent her career working for and writing about human rights and civil liberties, both in the United States and abroad including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan, Sri Lanka, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam. Prior to assuming her position at the Massachusetts ACLU in January 2003, she was an attorney at the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow, where she specialized in First Amendment and media law, intellectual property, civil rights, and international human rights law. While in private practice, Carol had the honor of serving as co-chair of Women in Communications Law of the ABA Forum on Communications Law, as a Vice Chair of the Human Rights committee of the ABA Individual Rights and Responsibilities section, and on the editorial board of the ABA’s Human Rights magazine. She was an Institute of Current World Affairs Fellow in Pakistan (1990-93).

Susan Sterner is currently the Faculty Coordinator for the Photojournalism BFA program at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. Susan served as a White House Photographer from 2001-2004. She was an ICWA Fellow in Brazil (1998-2000). Prior to her fellowship, Susan worked as a staff photographer with the Associated Press in California and Mississippi. She holds an MA in Latin America Studies from Vanderbilt University and a BA in Anthropology and International Studies from Emory University. Susan lives in Arlington, Va., with her husband, Tyrone Turner and their children.

Edmund Sutton is retired from JP Morgan & Co. From 1985 to 1999 he was president of JP Morgan Overseas Capital Corp.

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.

James Workman , an award-winning journalist, foreign correspondent and writer, advises businesses, aid agencies, civic associations, environmentalists and government departments on water scarcity and climate change adaptation. He is the author of Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought. Mr. Workman is a 1990s honors graduate from Yale and Oxford and a former communications aide to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. He was a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Southern Africa (2000-2002) writing about the causes and consequences of water scarcity.

Honorary Trustees

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.

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.

Phillips Talbot served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs and as the U.S. ambassador to Greece. He is a former president and trustee of the Asia Society. Phil, who was an ICWA fellow in India, 1938-1941, covered the achievement of independence by India and Pakistan as South Asian correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. From 1951 to 1961 he directed the American Universities Field Staff and was its staff specialist on South Asia. He was a trustee of the US-Japan Foundation, the China Institute, East Asian History of Science, Inc., the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Universities Field Staff International, and the Aspen Institute (emeritus).