Trustees
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Carole Beaulieu is editor in chief of the Canadian current affairs magazine L'actualité. Carole, a recipient of Canadian National Magazine Awards, is a past fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and of the Journalists in Europe Foundation. She was an ICWA Fellow in Indochina, 1992-1994.
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Mary Lynne Bird has been executive director of the American Geographical
Society since 1983. She has served on the research staffs of the Center for Research in Personality at Harvard University, the Center for International Studies at Princeton University, the School of International Affairs at Columbia University, the Twentieth Century Fund, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also worked as a program officer for the Executive Council on Foreign Diplomats.
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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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Sharon F. Doorasamy is editor in chief for Morgan Reynolds, a publisher of nonfiction books for juvenile and young adult readers. She was an ICWA fellow in South Africa, 1994-1996.
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Virginia R. Foote is currently at home with her three children. Gina is also on the Board of Directors of the Charles River Conservancy, a non-profit which advocates for, improves and helps to maintain the Charles River Parklands in Boston. Most recently she was the Controller/CFO of an international education company in Cambridge, MA. She also taught introductory finance at Boston University School of Management, worked in Corporate Finance at Bear Stearns and with a small firm in Mexico, and taught English in China. She 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 a former ICWA Fellow who was sent 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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Peter Geithner is a consultant to and board member of foundations and other nonprofit organizations, with a focus on Asia. He is former director, Asia programs, of the Ford Foundation.
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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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Pramila Jayapal is founder and executive director of Hate Free Zone Washington, 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.
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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.
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Cheng Li is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center in Washington, DC, and the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College in New York.
Li is a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, an advisor to the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group, and a member of Committee of 100. He was an ICWA fellow in Shanghai, 1993-1995.
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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.
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Treasurer 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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Boris Weintraub is a Washington, D.C.-based free-lance writer on topics ranging from bluegrass music to Jewish history. He was a writer and editor for the Chicago Tribune from 1960 to 1964 and the Washington Star from1964 to 1981, then became a writer for the National Geographic News Service and a senior writer for National Geographic Magazine before retiring in 2003. He has bachelors and masters degrees in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University.
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James Workman, a 1990 honors graduate from Yale and Oxford, spent five years as an award-winning political and business reporter in Washington, DC. He then worked as a communications aide to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, focusing policy papers and speeches on: wildland fire, endangered species, climate change and dam removal. Moving to Africa in 2000, Workman helped a small team forge the landmark Report of the World Commission on Dams, then began international consulting on natural resources in Indonesia, West Africa, and South Asia. With a two year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs, he lived out of a used Land Rover throughout southern Africa, writing about the causes and consequences of water scarcity. He spent years tracking the ongoing desert siege between the government of Botswana and the last free Bushmen of the Kalahari, and next year Bloomsbury/Walker Press will publish his forthcoming book: “Heart of Dryness: A true story about the end of water”. Jamie lives with his wife Vanessa and their daughter Camille in San Francisco.
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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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Edwin S. Munger is professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. In 1949 he became the first Fulbright fellow to Africa and was an ICWA fellow there from 1950 to 1954. A founder-trustee of the African Studies Association, Ned also served as an evaluator for the Peace Corps in Uganda and Botswana and chairman of the U.S. State Department Evaluation Team in South Africa. He is the author of 15 books. As president (1970-1984) of the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation he launched the Baldwin Fellowships, which help Africans obtain advanced degrees in archaeology. In 1993 Ned received the Alumni Citation Award for public service from the University of Chicago, and in 2002 the Gandhi-Martin Luther King-Ikeda award from Morehouse College for his dedication to improving race relations.
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Albert Ravenholt has worked as a foreign correspondent in China, India, Burma, Indochina and the Philippines. He was an ICWA fellow in South East Asia,1947-1951. Albert lectured at major U.S. universities as part of American Universities Field Staff. He has written for Foreign Affairs, The Reporter, the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service and other publications. He is the author of The Philippines: A Young Republic on the Move.
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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).
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