The members of the Advisory Board fill a crucial role in the life of the Institute by becoming informed advocates of FSI both within the Stanford community and in those parts of the world that would benefit from the Institute's work. The Board serves as a bridge between the world of scholarship and the world of policy-making. It plays an important role in the development efforts of the Institute through identifying sources of funding for the Institute's new and existing programs.
Its members are:
Philip W. Halperin, FSI Advisory Board Chair
President
Silver Giving Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Philip Halperin earned his A.B. in Political Science at Stanford University in 1984 and his M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business.
Phil is President of the Silver Giving Foundation. Founded in 1998 by Philip and Maurine Halperin, the Silver Giving Foundation is a charitable entity looking to make a difference. Silver Giving's mission is to better the lives and prospects of at-risk children by affording them increased and more accessible educational opportunities. The foundation primarily works with organizations in the fields of literacy and academic enrichment operating in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Prior to devoting all his time and energy to the non-profit sector in 2004, Phil enjoyed a seventeen year career in finance. Phil formerly was a General Partner at Weston Presidio, a private equity investment firm. At Weston Presidio, Phil focused on information technology, consumer branding, telecommunications and media. Phil also previously worked at Lehman Brothers and Montgomery Securities.
Phil is Chairman of the San Francisco School Alliance Foundation Board, which supports the public schools in San Francisco. Phil also currently serves on the boards of The Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, The National Advisory Board of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University and University High School. Phil lives with his wife and three children in San Francisco.
Tarek AbuZayyad
Partner, Stanhope Capital
London, UK
Mr. AbuZayyad is a partner at Stanhope Capital, an independent wealth management firm based in London and dedicated to families. He has over 15 years experience in M&A, private equity/venture capital and asset management. He was previously a managing director at Berggruen Holdings, a family office/private equity firm and prior to that a director in M&A/Corporate Finance at Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette both in New York and London.
Mr. AbuZayyad is currently a director of Lorne Stewart plc, Mood Media Group SA, Asquith Day Nurseries Ltd, Playfish Ltd and Blossom M&C Ltd.
He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB Economics from Stanford University.
Antoinette Addison
The Olive Oil Source, LLC & Figueroa Farms Olive Mills and Orchards
Santa Ynez, California
Antoinette Nahmias Addison was born in France and earned a M.S. in Agricultural Economics and Sciences from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Agronomie de Montpellier and Institut National Agronomique de Paris-Grignon where she graduated first in her class. She came to Stanford University in 1980 where she received a Ph.D. from the Food Research Institute.
Antoinette and her husband Shawn Addison own and manage The Olive Oil Source, LLC, the main supplier to the United States olive oil industry of everything from bottle spouts to industrial olive mills. They also founded Figueroa Farms Olive Mills and Orchards in 2002, where they grow organic olive trees and make and market a line of extra virgin olive oils as well as offering olive oil milling, orchard management, and consulting services to the California olive oil industry. Prior to moving to Santa Ynez, Antoinette was the Director of University Budget Management and Auxiliaries at Stanford University after having held various finance and budget related positions at Stanford. She was also the President of Pacific Land Acquisitions, a real estate development corporation.
She served as director on the boards of the Stanford Federal Credit Union; of SFIP, a privately held international corporation involved in oil exploration and production, chemical storage, and real estate development in France, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the U.S.; of Petrorep Resources, Ltd, a public corporation involved in oil exploration and production in Canada, traded on the Toronto Exchange; and of A.K. Landscape, Inc., a California landscaping and irrigation business. She also served on the boards of the John Ernest Foundation and was a member of the Stanford Athletic Board.
Jacques Antebi
Senior Vice President
GE Consumer Finance
London, England
Jacques Antebi received his A.B. in psychology from Stanford University in 1987 and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991.
Mr. Antebi has been active in international business since his Stanford days. He was a partner with McKinsey & Company, advising public and private-sector clients across the Americas and Europe. He then led multiple operations within Capital One's credit card division. Currently, Mr. Antebi leads Business Development and Strategy for GE's Consumer Finance division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Mr. Antebi has volunteered for Stanford in several capacities. He served on the executive board of Stanford's Alumni Association. Previously, he was chairman of the Student Telethon and of the Student Development Centennial Challenge. Since 1989 he has been a member of Stanford Associates. His civic activities outside Stanford include participating on the Board of PeaceWorks LLC, a company dedicated to promoting peace in the Middle East. Mr. Antebi also served on the board of the American School Foundation in Mexico City and was a founder of Street Project, an organization providing volunteer opportunities for young professionals to help the disadvantaged in New York City.
Sergio Autrey
Mexico City, Mexico
Sergio M. Autrey received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and his M.B.A. in 1978 from Stanford University.
Mr. Autrey is chairman of the board of Principia, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican satellite telecommunications group that holds the following companies: Satélites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V., a GEO satellite operator; Globalstar de México, S.A. de C.V., fixed and mobile satellite telephony; and Enlaces Integra, S.A. de C.V., a satellite value-added sevices company.
Also, Mr. Autrey is a partner in Editorial Notmusa, S.A. de C.V. and chairman of the board of Editorial Raices, S.A. de C.V., publishers of award-winning magazines such as Arquelogia Mexicana. He directed the Festival de México en el Centro Histórico since 1989.
Kathleen Brown
Goldman Sachs
Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Brown served on the Advisory Board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford from 1999-2004. She is currently the Head of Public Finance, Western Region, for Goldman Sachs & Co. From 1991 to 1995, she served as Treasurer of the State of California. She was the Democratic Party candidate for governor in 1994. In addition, she has served as co-chair of the Presidential Commission on Capital Budgeting and as a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. Ms. Brown was also an attorney with O'Melveny & Myers, LLP and was president of the Private Bank in the Investment Management Group at Bank of America. She currently serves on the board of directors of the California Endowment and Countrywide Women's Foundation.
Greyson L. Bryan
O'Melveny & Myers
Los Angeles, CA
Grey Bryan was born in Los Angeles, California, and received his A.B. in history from Stanford University in 1971 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976.
He currently chairs the International Practice Group of the firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP, having established the firm's Tokyo office in 1987 and co-chaired the firm's Global Practice Group from 1990 to 1994. His current practice emphasizes the representation of American and foreign clients in cross-border disputes, including international trade and regulatory matters before various government agencies, as well as international joint ventures, acquisitions and privatization.
Mr. Bryan has served as an adjunct professor for both the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management and is the author of numerous articles on international business and economic issues. He is a past trustee of the Asia Society and chairman of its California Center as well as a former senior fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Michael H. Choo
Managing Partner
Frontier Ridge Capital LP
New York, NY
Mr. Choo is Managing Partner of Frontier Ridge Capital LP, a privately-held investment firm focusing on global distressed investments and special situations. Prior to founding Frontier Ridge Capital, Mr. Choo was with Atticus Capital, LLC, and previously with W.L. Ross & Co. and Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations investing group in Asia. Mr. Choo was previously a Trustee of Stanford University and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Korean American League for Civic Action, Inc.
Mr. Choo received his B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
Lewis W. Coleman
President, Dreamworks Animation, SKG, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Coleman is the retired founding president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a multi-billion dollar philanthropic foundation, founded in November 2000. A San Francisco native and a Stanford University economics graduate, Mr. Coleman worked in the banking industry for 37 years. In November 2000, he resigned as chairman of the board of Banc of America Securities LLC, a subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation after having served in that position since joining Banc of America Securities LLC in December 1995. Prior to that, he spent ten years at BankAmerica Corporation where he held various positions including Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer, head of World Banking Group and head of Capital Markets. Previous to that he spent thirteen years with Wells Fargo & Co. in a variety of wholesale and retail banking positions. He is also on the boards of directors of Chiron Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation and Regal Entertainment Group.
Kenneth M. deRegt
Chief Risk Officer
Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
Mr. deRegt is Chief Risk Officer at Morgan Stanley. Previously, he was a senior advisor of Aetos Capital, providing oversight in areas of investment strategy, overall operations and risk management.
Prior to joining Aetos Capital in January 2003, Mr. deRegt headed the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities businesses for Morgan Stanley. He was a member of the Firm's Management Committee and had a variety of responsibilities relating to different Fixed Income businesses, including the Firm's Government Securities business and certain international businesses.
Mr. deRegt is a graduate of Stanford University. He currently is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Eagle Hill School. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of PASE - The Partnership for After School Education.
William H. Draper III
Draper Richard
San Francisco, CA
William Draper received his B.A. from Yale University, and his M.B.A from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.
With over thirty years of experience, Mr. Draper is one of America's first venture capitalists. Mr. Draper is currently Managing Director of Draper Richards, a private venture capital company, and Draper International, a limited partnership that makes equity investments in private companies with operations in India. During his twenty years as the founder and senior partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, a leading venture capital firm in the United States, Mr. Draper helped to organize and finance several hundred high technology manufacturing companies.
He served from 1981 to 1986 as President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. In 1986, he became the head of the world's largest source of multilateral development grant assistance, the United Nations Development Program.
Mr. Draper currently serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council, Hoover Institution, and the United Nations Association-USA. He formerly served as the Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Chairman of the Institute of International Education, as a Trustee of Yale University and as Chairman of the Board of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University. Mr. Draper has also served as a director of several software and computer companies.
Gloria C. Duffy
President & CEO
Commonwealth Club
San Francisco, CA
Gloria Duffy is CEO of the Commonwealth Club, the nation's largest and oldest civic forum. The Club organizes some 400 forums each year on public policy issues - in person, on the radio, on television, and through the Internet - and has nearly 17,000 members. It operates in seven Bay Area counties, and offers various series and programs, including the annual California Book Awards, which has been recognizing the Golden State's best literary talent for 70 years. The Club also has monthly study groups on each of 16 topics. The Club's weekly radio program is heard throughout the nation, and has been on the air since 1924.
Gloria is also Chair of the Board of the Civilian Research and Development Foundation, in Arlington, Virginia, part of the US National Science Foundation, which gives grants for joint scientific research between scientists in the former Soviet countries (FSU) and the United States.
Gloria served as US Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. Her mission was to convince the countries of the former Soviet Union to give up their weapons of mass destruction, and to prevent the spread of their nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and material.
In 1985, Gloria was the founder and President of Global Outlook, an interdisciplinary research institute on international policy issues in Palo Alto, California.
Gloria and other community leaders also saw the need for a broader organization, in the rapidly growing Silicon Valley region, to educate the public and organize debate and discussion of international issues. In 1988, they founded the World Forum of Silicon Valley, a world affairs public education group. She served as its Board President for its first five years. In 1997, the Forum became part of the Commonwealth Club.
Peter H. Flaherty
Managing Director
Arcon Partners
New York, NY
Mr. Flaherty is Managing Director of Arcon Partners, a private investment firm focused on early stage investing. He is a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 26 years.
At McKinsey, Mr. Flaherty worked predominantly with financial institutions, as well as professional service and media and information companies. His primary functional focus was on change management, the systematic process for helping institutions facing major transformation. He has worked extensively with both corporations and public institutions in this arena. At McKinsey, he served on and led McKinsey's Investment Advisory Committee, which is responsible for pension and discretionary partner investments, with a particular focus on alternative investments.
He serves on the Boards of Rockefeller University, the Leadership Academy of the New York City Schools, The Foreign Policy Association, The Kenyon Review, TechnoServe, U.S. Trust, and Epoch Investment Partners, and is a member of the Advisory Council for the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Flaherty is a graduate of Stanford University, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Harvard Business School.
Lola Nashashibi Grace
President
Sterling Grace Capital Management
Brookville, NY
Lola Nashashibi Grace received her A.B. in economics in 1979 from Stanford University, and her M.B.A. from Stanford's Graduate School of Business concurrently with her M.A. from the Food Research Institute in 1983.
Ms. Grace is currently the Managing Director of Sterling Grace Capital Management in New York. She provides financial consulting and advisory services to private partnerships and individual accounts. Investments include public and private equity and real estate. Ms. Grace was also a Director of the New Dartmouth Savings Bank and the Peninsula National Bank. Prior to Sterling Grace Capital, she worked for the First Boston Corporation, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, and Morgan Stanley, Inc., in corporate finance.
Ms. Grace's philanthropic interests include education and medical and biological research. She is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and former Treasurer/Secretary of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a genetic research institution. She founded the Gifted Learning Institute, and is an advisor to the Institute of Creative Problem Solving and Mathematics. Ms. Grace has been working recently with several NGOs on a humanitarian project, the Middle East Children in Crisis Initiative. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Nina L. Hachigian
Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress
Los Angeles, CA
Nina Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University in 1989 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1994.
Ms. Hachigian is a senior fellow at a new DC-based thinktank, the Center for American Progress, and a visiting fellow at CISAC. She is working on a book project on US major power strategy. From 2001-2006 she was the director for the Center for Asia Pacific Policy and a Senior Political Scientist at RAND. Her research focused on Asian geopolitics, and she increased the budget of the Center ten-fold during her tenure.
Earlier, Ms. Hachigian was an international affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, based at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. From 1998 to 1999, Ms. Hachigian worked as a special assistant to Jim Steinberg, the deputy national security advisor, and National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger. Prior to her work at the White House, Ms. Hachigian served as an attorney-advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky at the Federal Trade Commission. She was also a clerk at the Ninth Circuit Court and practiced law at O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles.
The co-author of two books and various book chapters, Ms. Hachigian has published articles in Foreign Affairs and the Washington Quarterly as well as op-ed pieces in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times and others.
Dr. David Hamburg
Cornell University
New York, NY
David Hamburg received both his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Indiana University.
Dr. Hamburg came to Stanford in 1961 to serve as professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He became president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, in 1975, and director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University in 1980. From 1984 to 1986 he served as president, then chairman, of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1983 to 1997 and served as a trustee of Stanford University from 1988 to 1993.
Dr. Hamburg was a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1984 to 2001, is a visiting professor at Cornell Medical College, and co-chaired (with the late Cyrus Vance) the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. He received the American Psychiatric Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1991, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in September 1996, and the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal in 1998. His book, No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict, was published in April 2002.
His new book Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development, which he co-authored with Dr. Beatrix A. Hamburg, was published in 2004.
Howard Elliot Harris
Chief Executive Officer of British Vita
London, UK
Howard Harris joined British Vita as CEO in June 2005, assuming full management responsibility of the Company when it officially became part of leading private equity firm Texas Pacific Group's portfolio of companies. British Vita is a leading producer of chemicals.
Previously, Howard was a Partner and Director of McKinsey & Co for 14 years based in London, during which time he led the European Energy Practice and the European Chemical Practice and was an Adviser to several large companies on corporate restructuring. He also led the introduction of McKinsey & Co into the Middle East, serving a number of leading companies and governments in the region.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Howard was a member of the top management of Montedison, SpA, the Italian energy and chemicals multinational. In eight years with Montedison, he held several positions including President of Ausimont NV, a multinational speciality chemical company quoted on the New York Stock Exchange, with manufacturing in the U.S., Italy and Japan. He was also a Member of the Management Board, Montedison SpA with responsibility for Energy, Consumer and Fabricated Products Business Areas and North America Geographical Area. During this period he also served on the Industrial Policy Advisory Board to the OECD in Paris.
In the earlier stages of his career, Howard was with the International Division of Mobil Oil where he held management positions in refining and marketing and in planning in London, Rome and Athens.
Howard Harris has a BA (Hon) degree from Stanford University (1965) where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a Masters (MPA) degree from Princeton University in International Economics. He also completed a year of doctoral studies at the Harvard Business School. A dual UK/US citizen, Howard is fluent in Italian and conversational in Spanish.
Ingrid von Mangoldt Hills
Woodside, CA
Ingrid Hills was born and raised in Cologne, West Germany, and received her degree in English from the University of Cambridge. She continued her education with studies at the Alliance Française in Paris.
Ms. Hills has been active in radio broadcasting for KFRC/Magic 61 and in television reporting for KTVU/Channel 2. She is involved in community affairs as a trustee of the San Francisco Ballet. She is on the Dean's Advisory Council at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, and is a former trustee of the International Visitors Center and of the Child Abuse Prevention Society. She is also a former member of the Exhibition/Special Projects Committee of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
In 1989 Ms. Hills, recognizing the important contributions of Raisa Gorbachev to the development of democratic principles in the Soviet Union, founded Friends of Raisa Gorbachev, a group that funded a visiting fellowship in economics at the Institute for International Studies in 1991 to 1993. She is the founder and former director of The Hills Project from 1992 to 2004, a visual and performing arts program for inner-city youth in grades K through 8.
She is the president of The Edward E. Hills Fund, a charitable family foundation.
Yasunori Kaneko
Managing Director
Skyline Ventures
Palo Alto, CA
Yasunori Kaneko received his undergraduate degree from Keio University in Tokyo, his medical degree from Keio University School of Medicine, and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Kaneko is a managing director of Skyline Ventures in Palo Alto, a venture capital firm which specializes in investing in healthcare companies.
He has been involved in managing and financing U.S. life sciences companies since 1981. He began his career at Genentech, where he spearheaded its business development activities for the first several years. He was then project manager for the launch of Protropin (human growth hormone), the first product marketed by Genentech. In 1987, he became head of corporate finance in the investment banking division of Paribas Capital Markets LTD in Tokyo, where he helped finance Japanese government agencies, municipalities and corporations in the Euro market. He also helped numerous life sciences companies raise capital. He then became senior vice president and CFO of Isis Pharmaceuticals, which went public during his tenure.
In 1992, he was recruited to be the original business executive at Tularik, where at various times he was CFO and vice president of business development until its public offering in 1999. At Tularik, he led a series of financings and negotiations of a number of corporate partnerships. He served on the board of LeukoSite until its merger with Millennium Pharmaceuticals in 1999.
Dr. Kaneko serves on the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and on the Board of Trustees of Lick-Wilmerding High School.
Joan Lamb
Sun Valley, ID
Ms. Lamb is a founder and director of Dominion Nutrition, Inc., a company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of nutritionally enhanced dairy-based products for multinational branded food product companies. She is also Chairman of the Sun Valley (Idaho) Planning and Zoning Commission and serves as a director of the KART Regional Transportation Authority, the Sun Valley Ballet School, and the Sun Valley Figure Skating Club. Since 1990, she has been a private investor and investment advisor and has been a director of various community organizations including The Community School, the Orcas Island Education Foundation, The Annie Wright School, the Pasadena-Foothill YWCA and the UCLA Graduate School of Management Alumni Board. Ms. Lamb was a Managing Director for the Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch from 1984 to 1990, responsible for corporate finance activities including debt and equity private placements, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings. From 1977 to 1983, Ms. Lamb managed loan and equity portfolios at Crocker National Bank and The Prudential Insurance Company. Ms. Lamb attended the Stanford-in-Italy campus for two of her four years and graduated from Stanford in 1973 with a degree in Economics. She received an MBA in Finance and Marketing from UCLA in 1977.
Chien Lee
Hong Kong
Chien Lee received his B.S. in mathematical sciences concurrently with his M.S. in operations research from Stanford University in 1975, and his M.B.A. from Stanford's Graduate School of Business in 1979.
He is a private investor based in Hong Kong. He is a director of his family business interests, which includes the publicly listed Hysan Development Company Limited, and is also a director of Swire Pacific Limited. Mr. Lee is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Outward Bound Trust and Vice Chairman of Outward Bound International. He is also a member of the Council of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Council of St. Paul's Co-educational College, the Asia Society Hong Kong Center and the Hong Kong Leadership Council of The Asia Foundation.
Mr. Lee has been involved in Stanford activities since graduating in 1975. He has been a member of the Stanford Associates since 1976, a member of the University's Board of Trustees and currently serves on the Board of the Stanford Alumni Association, the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business and is a director of the Stanford Club of Hong Kong.
Wendy Luers
Founder and President
Foundation for a Civil Society
New York, NY
Wendy W. Luers received her A.B. in Political Science from Stanford University in 1962.
Mrs. Luers is the founder and president of The Foundation for a Civil Society and co-founder of The Project on Justice in Times of Transition at Harvard University, was a journalist with Time, edited San Francisco Magazine and was a commentator for KQED-TV. She was a presidential appointee to the National Council of the Arts from 1988-1994; Chair of the NY White House Fellows Selection Committee; founder and President of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies; and a member of the Presidential Delegation to observe the 1996 Bosnian national elections.
Mrs. Luers serves on numerous nonprofit boards in Central Europe, including the Independent Journalism Foundation, TV 3, Prague, and the Civic Education Project. She is the founder and President Emeritus of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Board of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California. She serves on the Leadership Council on Children in Armed Conflict of the International Rescue Committee and The World Childhood Foundation. She is an honorary member of a Team of External Advisors to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. Mrs. Luers was the first woman decorated with "Gratias Agit" by the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic and the President of Slovakia for the Foundation's contribution to civil society and representation abroad of their respective countries.
Doyle McManus
Bureau Chief
Los Angeles Times
Washington, DC
Doyle McManus received his A.B. in history in 1974 from Stanford University.
Mr. McManus is the Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, and has reported on presidential politics, national affairs, and foreign policy from Washington under four presidents. As a foreign correspondent, he has written from more than 60 countries around the world. Mr. McManus joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978. He has also written for Foreign Policy, Time, Sports Illustrated, the Washington Post, the London Daily Express, and Washington Journalism Review. Mr. McManus is a frequent panelist on PBS's Washington Week in Review and has appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Meet the Press, Nightline, and Good Morning America.
A three-time winner of the National Press Club's Hood Award, he has also won Georgetown University's Weintal Prize for diplomatic correspondence and New York University's Olive Branch Award. In both 1980 and 1992 he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, along with other Times correspondents. Mr. McManus was a member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees from 1987 to 1992 and chairman of the Stanford Libraries Advisory Council from 1992 to 1994.
The Honorable Richard L. Morningstar
Former U.S. Ambassador to the E.U.
Marion, MA
The Honorable Richard L. Morningstar received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1970.
Ambassador Morningstar served as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, appointed under President Bill Clinton in April 1999. His diplomatic career has included service as Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy (1998), and Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (1995-98).
Presently, he is teaching both at the Kennedy School at Harvard and the Stanford Law School. In addition, Ambassador Morningstar is the senior director at Stonebridge International LLC, a global business strategy firm, and is senior council at the law firm of Nixon Peabody. In 2002-03, Ambassador Morningstar was the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, and a Visiting Scholar and Diplomat in Residence at the Stanford Institute for International Studies.
Ambassador Morningstar has more than 30 years of business, policy and legal experience. He served from 1981 to 1993 as Chairman and CEO of Costar Corporation and from 1970 to 1981, practiced law with the firm of Peabody & Brown (Nixon Peabody) in Boston.
Takeo Obayashi
Vice Chairman
Obayashi Corporation
Tokyo, Japan
Takeo Obayashi was born in Tokyo and graduated with a degree in economics from Keio University. He joined Obayashi Corporation in 1977 and took a leave of absence to attend Stanford University, where he graduated with a master's degree in civil engineering in 1980.
Mr. Obayashi became director of the Obayashi Corporation in 1983; managing director in 1985; senior managing director in 1987; executive vice president in 1989; executive vice chairman in 1997; and chairman and CEO in 2003, the position he currently holds. Obayashi Corporation was founded in 1892 and is one of the leading general contractors in the world. It implements all phases of a construction project - from building to engineering, design, and real estate development. It is a founding member of Stanford's industry-supported Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, and in 1989 supported the endowment of the Obayashi Professorship of Engineering at Stanford.
Mr. Obayashi is also a trustee for the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, an International Council member of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and an International Council member of the Tate Museum in London.
Kenneth E. Olivier
President
Dodge & Cox
San Francisco, CA
Mr. Olivier graduated from Stanford University in 1974. He received a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1977 and his M.B.A. from the Harvard School of Business Administration in 1979. He is a past president of the Security Analysts of San Francisco, a member of the American Bar Association and the California Bar Association. Mr. Olivier joined Dodge & Cox in 1979. He is a Trustee of the Dodge & Cox Funds. Mr. Olivier is a shareholder of the firm, a Chartered Investment Counselor, and holds the CFA designation.
Ken serves on the board of the Hillsborough School Foundation. He and his wife Angela Nomellini established the Olivier/Nomellini Family Scholarship in athletics a few years ago, and most recently pledged a University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, which is held by Chip Blacker.
Ambassador Steven K. Pifer
Former Ambassador to Ukraine
Falls Church, VA
Steven Pifer is a Senior Adviser with the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C. A retired Foreign Service Officer, his more than 25 years with the State Department concentrated on U.S. relations with the former Soviet Union and Europe, as well as arms control and security issues. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, with responsibility for Russia and Ukraine (2001-2004), U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (1998-2000) and Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia on the National Security Council (1996-1997). He also served at the U.S. Embassies in Warsaw, Moscow and London, and as advisor on the U.S. delegation to the negotiations on intermediate-range nuclear forces in Geneva.
Ambassador Pifer is a 1976 graduate of Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics. He holds several Superior and Meritorious Honor awards from the State Department. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Institute for International Studies in 2000-2001.
Susan Elizabeth Rice
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Washington, DC
Expertise
War on terrorism; national security; trade, development issues; weak and failed states; foreign assistance; humanitarian intervention; international peacekeeping and conflict resolution; post-conflict reconstruction; UN affairs and multilateral diplomacy; African affairs.
Current Projects
The national security implications of global poverty and inequality; weak and failed states; transnational security threats and the security implications of globalization; corporate social responsibility investing.
Education
D.Phil. (1990), M.Phil. (1988), Oxford University; B.A., Stanford University, 1986
Background
Current Position: Brookings Institution Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and the Global Economy and Development Center. Previous Positions: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1997-2001); Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, the National Security Council, the White House (1995-1997); Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping, National Security Council (1993-1995); Management Consultant, McKinsey and Company (1991-1993)
Walter H. Shorenstein
The Shorenstein Company
San Francisco, CA
Walter Shorenstein began his real estate career in 1946 when he was discharged as a major from the Air Force in San Francisco. Starting with Milton Meyer & Co. in property sales and management, he became the owner's only partner and purchased the company after Meyer's death in 1960.
He has served as advisor to Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter and in a variety of prominent state and national positions in the Democratic Party. He founded both the Johnson Presidential Library and the Carter Presidential Center.
Mr. Shorenstein has a distinguished history of local and national community service leadership, currently serving on the boards of The Asia Foundation and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and on the Visiting Committee and the Overseers' Committee on University Resources at Harvard University.
The Shorenstein Forum for Asia-Pacific Studies at FSI was created to honor Mr. Shorenstein's contributions to the study of U.S.-Asia relations. In addition to generating research, the Forum convenes senior policy makers, business executives, journalists, and others who shape developments in the Asia-Pacific region. Through a host of public events, the Forum advances understanding through interaction, discussion of significant problems, and formulation of solutions. In 2005 the Institute's Asia Pacific Research Center was named in Mr. Shorenstein's honor, in recognition of his extraordinary generosity.
George E. Sycip
President
Halanna Management Corporation
San Francisco, CA
George E. Sycip was born in the Philippines and received his A.B. in International Relations/Economics in 1978 from Stanford University and his M.B.A. from Harvard University.
He is a Founder and Principal in Galaxaco China Group LLC and advises a variety of companies in their cross-border endeavors between the US/Europe and Asia. He also sits on several corporate boards, including Bank of the Orient in San Francisco; Beneficial-PNB Life Insurance Company in the Philippines; MacroAsia Corporation, which provides catering, ground handling, aircraft maintenance and other services at the Manila and Cebu international airports; Arasor International Group, Ltd., which designs and manufactures photonic signal processing chips and optical systems & components; and Medtecs Corporation, which manufactures and distributes medical garments and consumables. Prior to setting up his own offices, Mr. Sycip had a career in banking, internationally and domestically, including serving as Chief Financial Officer of United Savings Bank, a leading provider of banking services to California's Asian communities and a major originator of home mortgages in the State.
Mr. Sycip currently serves as a director of the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction, Give2Asia, and the California Asia Business Council. He also served as Commissioner for the City of San Francisco's Social Services Department. He was Director and Treasurer for many years of the San Francisco Education Fund and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
Reva Tooley
Pacific Palisades, CA
Reva Tooley was born in Los Angeles and received her AB in Romanic and Germanic languages from Stanford. She made a career in journalism, working as a feature writer for the Los Angeles Times, an editor at the Arizona Republic, and the editor of the editorial and opposite-editorial pages at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
In 1995 she started the Sun Valley Writers' Conference, a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Idaho. Anchored by important literary figures, the conference brings discerning readers and writers together to consider ideas and issues set forth in fiction, nonfiction, journalism, poetry and filmmaking.
Ms. Tooley was appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners by Mayor Tom Bradley and served as both vice president and president of that Board.
J. Fred Weintz, Jr.
New York, NY
J. Fred Weintz was born in New York City and attended Norwich University. After stateside service in the U.S. Army's Air Forces during World War II- as a radio operator and mechanic on B-26 medium bombers-he received his A.B. in economics from Stanford University in 1948 and his M.B.A. from Harvard.
Mr. Weintz spent the majority of his career at Goldman Sachs Group, L.P., in New York City. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1951 and served as a general partner, responsible for marketing investment banking services, from 1965 to 1984.
Currently, Mr. Weintz is a trustee of Norwich University and chair of the investment committee; trustee, Harbor Lights Foundation; fellow, Foreign Policy Association; member, Advisory Council for Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health; trustee, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, New York City; and Trustee, National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, N.Y. An active Stanford volunteer, Mr. Weintz served on the Board of Trustees from 1985 to 1995 and has been on the Stanford in Washington Council since 1990. In 1992 he received the university's prestigious Gold Spike Award for his volunteer fundraising service. In 2001, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Financial Management from Norwich University.
Anne Whitehead
Whitehead Foundation
New York, NY
A 1975 Stanford graduate, Anne is a lawyer and worked for a number of years with the International Rescue Committee. She recently launched a venture fund for women in developing countries. She is a member of the board of the American Red Cross.
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