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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.

David E. Morey
Jeri Thomson
George A. Lehner
Gerald D. Levy
Susan H. Marcille
John J. Greco
Pauline H. Baker
Ralph Bunche, Jr.
MG (ret) Michael W. Davidson
Russell Hemenway
Barbara Dillon Hillas

Patricia S. Huntington 
Amb. Princeton N. Lyman
Jack Stack
Karen E. Watson
Richard N. Winfield, Esq.

 


 


 


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.

 



Gerald D. Levy
VICE-CHAIR

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.

 



Susan H. Marcille
TREASURER

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 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

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.

 



Ralph Bunche, Jr.
TRUSTEE

Mr. Ralph Bunche Jr. is a financial and development consultant for countries in Africa. He worked for many years as an Investment Banker beginning with a position at (then) Citibank in its Africa division.  Since then, he has held senior positions with JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and ABN AMRO Bank.  He is currently chairman of an international committee focused on facilitating adherence to the Kyoto Protocol.  Mr. Bunche received his Masters of Art from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and his Bachelors of Art at Colby College.

 



MG (ret) Michael W. Davidson, USA
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.

 

 

Russell Hemenway
TRUSTEE

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.

 



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.

 

 

Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman
TRUSTEE

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.

 



Jack Stack
TRUSTEE

Jack Stack is the former Chairman and CEO of Ceska Sporitelna, the largest bank in the Czech Republic with over USD 40 bil. in assets and more than 5.5 mil. customers.  Mr. Stack was born and raised in Bronx, New York.  After receiving degrees from Iona College (1968) and the Harvard Business School (1970), he worked for six years in government, first in Mayor John V. Lindsay's Office (Yankee Stadium renovation and the Model Cities Sanitation Program) and then in the NYC/NYS Office of Court Administration during the NYC fiscal crisis.  In 1977 he began a 30 year career in banking, joining Chemical Bank.  He worked at a series of more senior positions at Chemical Bank and its successor bank, Chase Manhattan.  Mr. Stack contributed substantially to the mergers of Chemical Bank with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in 1992 and Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank in 1995, at various times managing the Branch system, the Direct Banking Division, Marketing and Produst Development, et al.  Mr. Stack joined Ceska Sporitelna in 2000.  In 1999 Ceska Sporitelna lost EUR 200 mil., had 45 percent non-performing loans, and a bloated expense base.  During Mr. Stack's tenure at Ceska Sporitelna, profits soared to EUR 400 mil. and Return on Equity to over 23 percent with mortgages growing 50 percent annually and loans to small business increasing 30 percent annually.  Mr. Stack has received numerous awards, including medals from the Presidents of the Czech Republic and Austria recognizing his contributions to economic growth and EU integration.  After eight years living in Prague, Czech Republic, Mr. Stack and his wife Patricia returned to live in New York City in 2007.  Mr. Stack serves on three business Boards -- Erste Bank in Austria, Shorebank International, and Mutual of America and is active in the not-for-profit sector.  Mr. Stack has one adult daughter and loves to play tennis.   

 

 
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.

 
 

Richard N. Winfield, Esq.
TRUSTEE

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.

 

 

 

 

 
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