The Board of Trustees

Mr. Winfield is chair of the Fund for Peace and teaches media law at the law schools of Columbia University and Fordham University. He serves of counsel in the international law firm of Clifford Chance, where he engaged in a communications and commercial litigation practice, with emphasis on First Amendment litigation, and served for three decades as general counsel of the Associated Press. Mr. Winfield served as Assistant Counsel to the Governor of New York, Special Counsel to the New York State Public Employment Relations Board and Co-Counsel to the Governor's Committee on Public Employee Relations. He served as a U.S. naval officer for four years, and taught European history and U.S. diplomatic history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He leads the media reform programs sponsored by the American Bar Association/Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative in a number of former Soviet bloc nations. Mr. Winfield is a cofounder and treasurer of the International Senior Lawyers Project. Mr. Winfield is a graduate of Villanova University and Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Compton has spent much of his life as an advocate for a number of worthwhile causes, making a significant contribution not only to his local community, but to the national and international communities as well. Born and raised on the East Coast, Mr. Compton received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Princeton University and his master's degree from The University of Chicago. He is a former trustee and president of Montalvo Association, a center for the arts, arboretum, and artist residency program. At the international level, Mr. Compton has been involved during the past 12 years with World Learning, Inc. In addition to serving on other boards and commissions, Mr. Compton is president of The Compton Foundation, established in 1946 by his family. Mr. Compton has been a Trustee of The Fund for Peace since 1982 and is Chairman of the Board.

Lieutenant General Nicholas B. Kehoe, USAF (ret.) is currently the President of the Medal of Honor Foundation after 34 years of active service. He is a rated pilot who commanded a flying wing and a numbered air force. He has held senior staff and operational positions in training and fighter commands. He has extensive experience in top international security policy positions within the Air Force and NATO. In 1966 he graduated from the US Air Force Academy and completed professional military education courses and executive management programs at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and Harvard University. He resides in Falls Church, Virginia and has been a Trustee of The Fund for Peace since December 7, 2000.

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.

Gerald Levy directed the National Executive Service Corps (NESC) educational programs serving public and private institutions in the Greater New York area. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Levy directed programs in health care and in social services, the arts, and religion as well as serving as NESC's Chief Operating Officer. He had spent over 25 years at R. H. Macy and Co., the last ten of which were as merchandise vice president, Vice President of Roosevelt Hospital and then Associate Executive Director of the Visiting Nurse Service. His other activities include serving as Vice Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Committee of UNICEF, Vice President of the Board of the New York Heart Association and the American Shakespeare Theater. He also served on the Boards of the American Heart Association and the Inter-racial Council for Business Opportunity. Mr. Levy is past Chairman of the Board of World Education and has been a Trustee of The Fund for Peace since 1989.

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.

Susan Marcille is a Partner and the Mid Atlantic Area Practice Leader for Ernst & Young LLP's Human Capital Performance and Reward Practice. Ms. Marcille specializes in advising on the financial and tax aspects of executive compensation and has 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of total compensation programs. She has extensive experience with compensation issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other strategic business transactions. In addition to assisting companies with strategic compensation and organizational issues, she is a frequent speaker and leads seminars and workshops for professional organizations and employer-sponsored programs. She has appeared on radio and television programs, has contributed to various magazines and has been a member of the editorial board for the annual bestseller, The Ernst & Young Tax Guide. She is also a contributing author for The Ernst & Young LLP Guide to the IPO Value Journey. Ms. Marcille received her BBA from Georgia State University. She has been a past active member of the American Institute of CPAs, the Georgia Society of CPAs, the Georgia Society of the Institute of Certified Financial Planners, the Atlanta Estate Planning Council and the Georgia and National Planned Giving Councils.

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 became the President of The Fund for Peace in 1996. 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. An Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Graduate School of Foreign Service, she earned her doctorate "with distinction" from UCLA in 1970 and did her undergraduate work at Douglass College, Rutgers University.

Former ambassador to Nepal and the first Asian American to hold this rank, Dr. Bloch currently is Ambassador-in-Residence at the University of Maryland's Institute of Global Chinese Affairs. She also spends a lot of time in China as Visiting Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the American Studies Center at Peking University in Beijing, and as Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Julia has a rich international background, having served in the Peace Corps, USAID, Congress, USIA, and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Barbara Finberg is vice president of MEM Associates, a not-for-profit organization whose principals are engaged in program planning, development, and institutional management in philanthropy and nonprofit organizations; in education about the nonprofit sector; and in children's health, education, and development. Previously, she served as a program officer, vice president for programs, and executive vice president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making foundation. In 1965, she initiated the foundation's grant making in early childhood education, which included the plan for and launching of Sesame Street. From 1996 through 1998, Mrs. Finberg was chair of Independent Sector, the national organization of more than 740 philanthropic and nonprofit organizations in the United States. She is currently a member of several governing boards, including High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, the Parent-Child Home Program, Educational Equity Concepts, The University of Cape Town (South Africa) Fund, the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Fund, and Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest. She is also a member of four advisory committees at Stanford University, her alma mater, including the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and two at Human Rights Watch.

General Foote has a number of graduate degrees and high military awards to her name, including the Distinguished Service Medal. She has held a variety of command and staff positions, including her assignment as Commanding General of Fort Belvoir, Virginia. She served in Vietnam, was a Plans and Programs Officer with the Women's Army Corps during the transition to the all-volunteer army, and contributed to the greater utilization of women within the Army. After retirement, she was called back to active duty in 1996 to serve as Vice Chair of the Secretary of the Army's Senior Review Panel on Sexual Harassment.

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.

Mr. Hemenway is national director of the National Committee for an Effective Congress, a nonprofit organization. He was educated at Dartmouth College and L'Institute d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He has been president of the Lexington Democratic Club, Director of the New York State Department of Commerce, and Executive Director of the New York Committee of Democratic Voters. He is also Chairman of the Board of The Fund for Constitutional Government, and of The Citizens Vote, Inc. Mr. Hemenway has been a Trustee of The Fund for Peace since 1978.

Ambassador Lyman is a retired Foreign Service officer who currently is the Ralph Bunch Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies with the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to this he served as Director of the Global Interdependence Project at The Aspen Institute. He was Ambassador to South Africa during the transition to democracy, Ambassador to Nigeria, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs and Director of the Refugee Programs Bureau, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University and resides in Washington, DC. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of The Fund for Peace since February 2000.

Mark L. Mawrence is an independent consultant, writer, producer and fund raiser and has lectured and worked extensively throughout Europe, Japan and the United States on topics ranging from the future of business and politics, sales and marketing strategies, to the communications revolution, new technologies and Socially Responsible Corporate Structures. His company, "CHANGE INC." has advised corporations and governments on the development of socially responsible portfolios. He is a Senior Partner in the David Morey Group, widely considered to be one of the most successful branding and strategic consultancies in the United States. He has served on various boards. He received his BA, Magna Cum Laude, Degree of Distinction, Political Science, and Economics in 1974 from the University of Massachusetts. He was also on the Ph.D. Program, Political Science, and Economics at Amherst, Massachusetts; University of Stockholm, Ph.D. studies, International Graduate School, Stockholm, Sweden from 1976-1977. He has received numerous awards and is widely published. He has been a Trustee of The Fund since December 2000.

Frank Nairne served as the CFO and simultaneous head of several administrative functions (e.g., Administrative IT Systems, Purchasing and Physical Security) for the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) and its telecommunications and outsourcing subsidiary, SECTOR, before retiring in 2002. SIAC is the IT facilities manager for the New York and American Stock Exchanges as well as for the National Clearance Corporations (NSCC, GSCC and ISCC). With 40 years of for-profit business experience Mr. Nairne now is directing that experience to assisting not-for-profits.

Prior to joining SIAC in 1989 Mr. Nairne held various managerial positions of increasing responsibilities in the brokerage industry (Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, and PaineWebber) and the airline industry (Pan American World Airways and Eastern Air Lines). He began his business career with Procter & Gamble. He holds an MBA (Marketing) and MA (Mathematics of Finance) from Columbia University and a BS (Mathematics) from the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Nairne joined The Fund for Peace Board of Trustees as Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee in December 2002.

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.