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Board of Directors
Chair
William D. ZabelSchulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Vice-Chairs
Tom A. BernsteinPresident, Chelsea Piers
Management, Inc.
Kenneth R. Feinberg
Feinberg Rozen, LLP
Treasurer
Lynda ClarizioCEO
INVISION, Inc.
Secretary
A. Whitney EllsworthPublishing Consultant
J. Adam Abram
James River Group, Inc.
M. Bernard Aidinoff
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Mark Angelson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
World Color Press
Raymond M. Brown
Greenbaum, Rowe,
Smith & Davis LLP
Craig Cogut
Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P.
Dan Doctoroff
Bloomberg LP
Donald Francis Donovan
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Gail Furman
Psychologist
Leslie Gimbel
Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel
Foundation
R. Scott Greathead
Wiggin & Dana LLP
Myrna K. Greenberg
Founder, City Lights Youth Theatre
Louis Henkin
Columbia University School of Law
John D. Hutson
President and Dean,
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Rear Admiral, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
Lewis B. Kaden
Vice Chairman &
Chief Administrative Officer,
Citigroup, Inc
Kerry Kennedy
RFK Memorial Center for
Human Rights
Jo Backer Laird
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Robert Todd Lang
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Westley Moore
Citigroup Global Markets
Alberto Mora
Mars, Incorporated
Michael K. Rozen
Feinberg Rozen, LLP
Barbara A. Schatz
Columbia University
School of Law
Sigourney Weaver
Actor
Elisa Massimino
Chief Executive Officer and President
Michael Posner
Founding Executive Director 1978-2006, President 2006-2009
Appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, October 2009
Marvin E. Frankel
Chairman Emeritus
(1920 – 2002)