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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CHAIR 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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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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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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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).
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Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin. He recently completed service as President of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), the international academic association working to strengthen research on civil society, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. He currently serves on the Council on Foundations Community Foundations National Standards Board, the national accrediting and standard setting body for American community foundations and trusts; as consultant to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) for its MacArthur Foundation-funded project to assist in the development of nonprofit law in China; consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on legal and judicial reform and strengthening civil society in Vietnam; Senior Fellow at The Philanthropic Initiative (Boston); and consultant to JP Morgan Chase on philanthropy in the Asia Pacific region. He is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B. in history, 1979), Yale University (M.A. in history, 1982), and Columbia Law School (J.D., 1985).
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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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SECRETARY 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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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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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
High from inhaling glue fumes, Toni, 15, screams and spreads his arms in the rain in Coelhos, 1999
"Their lives play out on the sidewalks. There’s Josenildo, 16, tall, skinny, on glue and in the streets because his family refuses to tolerate his homosexuality. His buddy Murilo, also 16 but a foot smaller than Josenildo, spends nights in his grandfather’s house and his days with glue-addicted friends. His skin has the telltale ashen look of glue addiction. I have gotten to know Murilo’s younger brother, Tota, 14; Abrahao, 10; Clevsom, 10; Careca, 14; Toni, 15; Disha, 13; and the other street children of Coelhos.” [read newsletter]
—Tyrone Turner
Brazil
ICWA Fellow (1998-2000)