David E. Morey
Jeri Thomson
George A. Lehner
John J. Greco
Pauline H. Baker
MG (ret) Michael W. Davidson
Karen Diener
Barbara Dillon Hillas
Patricia S. Huntington
Michael J. Moniz
Karen E. Watson

David E. Morey
CO-CHAIR

Mr. Morey is the founder, president and CEO of DMG, Inc., and Partner in the Core Strategy Group. He is currently Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, specializing in media and politics. Previously he was Director of International Affairs and a Special Advisor to the Chairman of J.E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. He helped direct the political campaigns of various domestic and foreign leaders, among them Senator John Glenn, Corazon Aquino in the Philippines, Virgilio Barco in Colombia, and the Democratic Party in South Korea. He worked with and represented the Dalai Lama, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Panamanian President Ernesto Perez Balladares in the US. Mr. Morey was educated at the Wharton School and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and was a Paul P. Harris scholar at the London School of Economics. He has published and edited several books on international politics and media. He serves on a number of corporate and public sectors boards, and has been a Trustee of The Fund for Peace since 1989.

Jeri Thomson
CO-CHAIR

Ms. Thomson was sworn in as the 30th Secretary of the United States Senate on July 12, 2001, which is the Senate's chief legislative, financial, and administrative officer. Prior to assuming the position of Secretary of the Senate, Ms. Thomson was a senior member of the United States Senate's professional staff with more than 25 years experience working on legislative and national politics, serving as the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 1995. Prior to serving as Assistant Secretary, Ms. Thomson was a senior staff member to Senator John V. Tunney (D-CA), Special Assistant to the Sergeant at Arms and Deputy Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Ms. Thomson received a B.A. from the University of Washington. She was a Kodak Fellow at Harvard University's program for Senior Managers in Government. In 1993, Ms Thomson was selected as one of the 100 top data processors in government, industry and academia for her work in automating legislative processes and procedures in the United States Senate.

George A. Lehner
VICE-CHAIR

George Lehner is currently a partner with Pepper Hamilton, where he previously worked in private practice as a litigator. Before returning to Pepper Hamilton, Mr. Lehner was Attorney Adviser International in the US Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser. From 1977-1980, Mr. Lehner also served at the State Department, focusing on international economic and development issues. A Wesleyan University graduate, he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan. Mr. Lehner has authored several journals on international arbitration and business matters and is co-author of Europe Without Frontiers: A Lawyer's Guide. He was appointed Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University School of Law, where he has taught both introductory and advanced courses on European Community Law. Mr. Lehner has served as General Counsel to the Women's International Media Foundation, The Washington Press Club Foundation, and The Women's Foreign Policy Group. Prior to joining the Board of Trustees of The Fund for Peace in December 2002, he served as its pro bono attorney for many years.

John J. Greco
SECRETARY

John Greco is currently a supervising producer with Discovery Channel International. Before that he spent six years at the Washington bureau of NBC, where his last assignment was as a producer on the news division's Investigative Unit. He covered terrorism and the government's campaigns against al-Qaeda and Iraq. As a producer for the newsmagazine "Dateline NBC," Mr. Greco covered breaking news since the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, through the 9/11 and anthrax attacks, to the Washington-area sniper spree. He has also produced segments for "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," the "Today Show," and MSNBC. Winner of the Emmy and other national journalism awards, Mr. Greco has specialized in investigative, hidden-camera, and automotive safety stories. Before joining NBC, Mr. Greco worked for several documentary companies that produce for PBS, including Hedrick Smith Productions. There, he served as research director for a series on international economic competitiveness. Earlier in his career he worked in print journalism. Mr. Greco earned a Master's at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He started working as a volunteer for the Fund's Strategic Communications Committee in 1998, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees since March, 2000.

Pauline H. Baker
PRESIDENT EMERITUS

Pauline H. Baker served as President of The Fund for Peace for fifteen years from 1996 to 2010. Dr. Baker is currently a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and formerly taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. An internationally recognized political scientist and specialist on Africa and ethnic conflict, Dr. Baker lived and worked in Nigeria from 1964 to 1975. Upon her return to the United States, she served as Staff Director for the Africa Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and subsequently as a research scientist at the Human Affairs Research Center at the Battelle Memorial Institute, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. For several years, she wrote and lectured on South and Southern Africa. She originated and led a South Africa Speakers Forum for eight years. She also served as Deputy Director of the Congressional Program at the Aspen Institute, an educational program in which over 100 Members of Congress participated in colloquia on developments in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, post-Cold War issues, and the UN. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women's Foreign Policy Group, and various other professional organizations, Dr. Baker appears frequently on the media, lectures widely and is well-published. Her latest publications are "An Analytical Model of Internal Conflict and State Collapse: Manual for Practitioners" and "Conflict Resolution Versus Democratic Governance: Divergent Paths to Peace?" in Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict. She earned her doctorate "with distinction" from UCLA in 1970 and did her undergraduate work at Douglass College, Rutgers University.

MG (ret) Michael W. Davidson
TRUSTEE

Major General (ret) Michael W. Davidson, USA, is a co-founder of CRA, Inc, a Washington based homeland security and defense company. General Davidson also advises clients doing business with the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. He has been under contract to provide strategic advice to the White House and to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. General Davidson’s military career concluded with six years of service on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon where he was the Assistant Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, for National Guard matters. Prior to that time, his assignments as a general officer were as the Deputy Commander in Chief for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, U.S. Special Operations Command; Deputy Commanding General (National Guard), U. S. Army Special Operations Command; and the Adjutant General of Kentucky. He is a Vietnam veteran and served with the Airborne Ranger Infantry Company of the First Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam.

General Davidson is an attorney admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He holds a Doctorate of Philosophy degree from the University of Louisville and has published in the area of national security policymaking. He frequently provides military commentary for National Public Radio. His recently published book on defense strategy is entitled Victory at Risk: Renewing America’s Military Power. His next book, Echoes of War: Soldiers, Generals and Lessons for America, will be finished in 2010. General Davidson is married and has three children.

Karen Diener
TRUSTEE

Ms Diener is the Vice President of Business Development for DigitalGlobe in the US Defense and Intelligence Business Unit that is responsible for ~$300M in annual revenues. She has over 26 years intelligence, defense and commercial industry experience focused on imagery and geospatial intelligence, ground stations, and commercial product integration. Prior to working for DigitalGlobe, Ms. Diener held various Vice President and Director Positions responsible for strategic initiatives, business development and program management for several defense contractors which include BAE Systems, Scitor Corporation, and Logicon. Additionally, she grew and managed two small start-up commercial businesses focused on introducing imagery into driving simulation market, and web-based imagery ground station software during the .com era that were successfully acquired by larger companies.

Developing and shaping new markets, “out-of-box” strategic planning, identifying and integrating new technologies to solve customer’s problems, and connecting the right companies and people together to accomplish these goals is what Ms Diener is passionate about. Her varied experience on both the operations and technical sides of business supports her unique ability to find new business models for high-growth, fast changing market segments focused on getting geospatial products and services to customers and end users in the most efficient and timely manner possible.

Ms. Diener was educated at the University of Minnesota and the University of Phoenix and holds a BS in Business Information Systems. She also attended the Northeastern University Executive Development Institute to study “Strategic Thinking and Global Business Perspectives”. Her other interests include mountain trekking, sailing, golf and traveling the world, particularly to Southern California where her two sons and two grandsons live.

Barbara Dillon Hillas
TRUSTEE

Barbara Dillon Hillas specializes in the rule of law developing, managing and implementing international legal and judicial reform projects. She has worked with international aid donors, U.S. and foreign embassies, international organizations and NGOs to provide legal and technical assistance to governments, the judiciary, the bar, and law faculties. She has directed training programs on judicial independence, including the initial post-2003 training for Iraqi judges. She has built justice sector management capacity and promoted commercial law development in Central Europe and Eurasia. In the 1990s she managed for USAID a multi-million bilateral agreement designed to transform the justice system in South Africa. She also co-authored banking legislation adopted by the post-communist Albanian government. During the perestroika era of the USSR, Ms. Hillas was the first resident practicing American lawyer in Moscow, where she counseled businesses on trade and investment opportunities there, and later helped establish Steptoe & Johnson’s Moscow office.

Ms. Hillas is Washington Director of the CEELI Institute, and serves as a member of its International Advisory Board. She earned her law degree at The Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, and a Masters in European Union Studies at the Istituto degli Studi Europei “Alcide de Gasperi”, in Rome, Italy. She received her B.A. from Marymount College, New York.

Ms. Hillas has lived, worked and studied in Argentina, Japan, the United States, Mexico, the USSR, Italy, South Africa, the Czech Republic and Poland, and speaks several languages.

Patricia S. Huntington
TRUSTEE

Patricia Huntington is Founding President of Network 20/20, an independent, nonprofit organization that helps prepare next generation leaders in the U.S. to participate meaningfully in the promotion of entrepreneurial diplomacy and global security. It does this by means of lectures and study groups here at home and field trips overseas to countries of global security importance. Its published field research is circulated to U.S. policy makers. Prior to founding Network 20/20, Dr. Huntington directed a Rockefeller Foundation field research project in 11 countries on four continents. Dr. Huntington reported the results in a position paper, "Landmines and U.S. Leadership: A View from the Field." She also created an educational CD-ROM on global humanitarian mine clearance entitled "Landmines: Clearing the Way," which has been disseminated widely throughout the world. Dr. Huntington is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women's Foreign Policy Group, Women in International Security, and the Foreign Policy Association's Off-the-Record Lecture Series. She earned a Summa Cum Laude for her Smith College undergraduate work on British imperialism in Southern Africa, an M.A. in African History from UCLA, and an Ed.D. from Rutgers University.

Michael J. Moniz
TRUSTEE

A veteran of the private equity, investment banking and technology industries, Michael Moniz brings a unique perspective to developing companies in an executive, management and advisory capacity. He is the co-founder, President, and CEO of Circadence Corporation, a leader in the network optimization and cyber-defense markets. His commitment to financial viability, strategic acquisitions, and the development of innovative intellectual property has driven Circadence’s strong, continued growth in the WAN solutions market. Notably, in 2008, he led the company to a first place ranking in the Deloitte Fast 50. Under his direction, the company has secured 20 patents, many focusing on high-growth market segments such as cloud and mobile computing.

In addition to his work with Circadence, Mr. Moniz is a founding Managing Director with Paladin Capital Group, a leading multi-stage private equity firm providing capital for growing companies whose principal business centers on products and services that address homeland security issues and needs with over $950 million dollars of committed capital across multiple funds and 36 portfolio companies.

Mr. Moniz has been a two-time finalist for Ernst and Young’s prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and he is featured in the New York Times best-selling book How to Act Like a CEO by Debra Benton. Mr. Moniz shares his business expertise and contributes guidance as a board member on several corporate and non-profit organizations including the Atlas Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was educated at the University of Colorado and Harvard University. He attended the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School.

Always pursuing ever-greater challenges, Mr. Moniz, an avid alpinist, co-holds the world speed record for his ascent of the 50 highest mountains in the U.S. in 43 days and has summited four of the Seven Summits. In 2010, National Geographic named Mr. Moniz one of their Ultimate Adventurers.

Karen E. Watson
TRUSTEE

Karen Watson is Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Government and Public Sector Sales for the Nielsen Company. She is responsible for representing the interests of Government and the Public Sector within the Nielsen Company and matching their needs to Nielsen’s information and services. Karen has more than 25 years of experience in public affairs, government relations, media, and marketing. Before coming to Nielsen she was Vice President, Government Relations, for EchoStar Satellite Corporation from 1996-2005. In that role, she opened EchoStar’s Washington, DC office and was responsible for the development and implementation of legislative and regulatory strategy. Karen also represented EchoStar in the Congress, the Executive Branch, and regulatory agencies. She directed the company’s grassroots campaigns and media and public relations activities. Before EchoStar, Karen was the Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1994-1996. She also served as Deputy Project Director at WGBH from 1992-1994 for the production of the primetime PBS series Africans in America. Prior to that, she was Press Secretary for the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control of the U.S. House of Representatives and also held various roles in news and public affairs for Pubic Broadcasting Service, National Pubic Radio, and The MacNeil/Lehrer Report. Karen holds a B.A. in American Studies from Bard College in New York and is the mother of two college-age children.