Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Amy Rao
Co-Chair; Executive Vice President, Schmidt Family Foundation
Neil Rimer
Co-Chair; Co-Founder & General Partner, Index Ventures
Akwasi Aidoo
Vice Chair; Senior Fellow, Humanity United
Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Vice Chair; Principal, KME Consulting
Bruce Simpson
Vice Chair; Partner Emeritus, Partner AgeTech Capital
Joseph Skrzynski AO
Vice Chair; Co-Founder, CPE Capital
Bruce Rabb
Secretary; Legal Adviser to Nonprofit Organizations
Lishan Aklog
Chairman & CEO, PAVmed Inc.
Mark S. Bonham
Ghislaine Brenninkmeijer
George Coelho
Founding Partner, Astanor Ventures
Loubna Freih
Human Rights Activist & Performance Coach
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
Writer, Lawyer, Human Rights Advocate
Paul Gray
Managing Director, Richard Gray Gallery
Caitlin Heising
Vice Chair, Heising-Simons Foundation
Morten Hummelmose
Founder & CEO, Frececo
David Lakhdhir
Partner; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Louisa Lee-Reizes
Luxury Brand Consultant
Gina Maya
Human Rights Activist
Alicia Miñana
Lawyer, Law Offices of Alicia Miñana
Simone Otus Coxe
Gloria Principe
Human Rights Supporter, Non-Profit Board Member
Donna Slaight, C.M.
Human Rights Activist
Isabelle de Wismes
Non-Executive Director
Masa Yanagisawa
Head of Prime Services Japan, Goldman Sachs
Andrew Zolli
Vice President Global Impact Initiatives, Planet

Former Board Chairs

Robert Kissane
Former Board Chair, 2016-2019; Chairman, CCS
Hassan Elmasry
Former Board Chair, 2013-2019; Partner & Lead Portfolio Manager, Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
Joel Motley
Former Board Chair, 2013-2016; Managing Director, Public Capital Advisors, LLC
James F. Hoge Jr. (In Memoriam 1935-2023)
Former Board Chair, 2010-2013
Jane Olson
Former Board Chair, 2004-2010; Chair, Landmine Survivors Network 1998-2010; Board Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
Jonathan F. Fanton
Former Board Chair, 1998-2003; Former President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Franklin D. Roosevelt Visiting Fellow, Hunter College, CUNY
Robert L. Bernstein (In Memoriam 1923—2019)
Founding Chair, 1978-1998; Former Chairman & President, 1966-1990, Random House

Board Members Emeriti

Lisa Anderson
Former President, American University in Cairo
David Brown
Principal, Penobscot Management, LLC.
William D. Carmichael
Human Rights Activist; Retired, Ford Foundation
Alice H. Henkin
Director, Emerita Justice and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Betsy Karel
Vice Chair; Photographer; Chair, Trellis Fund
Stephen L. Kass
Partner & Co-Director, Environmental Practice Group Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Adjunct Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Marina Pinto Kaufman
Human Rights Activist
Wendy Keys
Filmmaker, Former Executive Producer of Programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center
Bruce J. Klatsky
Former Board Chair & Chief Executive Officer, Phillips-Van Heusen
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Author; Vice President, International PEN
Joshua Mailman
Joshua Mailman Foundation
Susan Manilow
Human Rights Activist
Oki Matsumoto
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Monex Group, Inc.
Samuel K. Murumba
Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Kathleen Peratis
Senior Partner, Outten and Golden
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing Trust
Victoria Riskin
Human Rights Activist; Writer-Producer; Former President of the Writers Guild of America
Shelley F. Rubin
Co-Founder, The Rubin Museum of Art
Kevin P. Ryan
Chairman and Founder, MongoDB, Zola, Workframe and Nomad Health
Orville Schell
Director, Center on US-China Relations; Asia Society; Former Dean of Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Gary Sick
Senior Research Scholar & Adjunct Professor of Middle East Politics, Columbia University
Siri Stolt-Nielsen
Activist, Artist
John J. Studzinski
Vice Chairman, PIMCO
Darian W. Swig
Human Rights Advocate; Founder & President, Article 3 Advisors
Amy Towers
Founder, Nduna Foundation
Catherine Zennström
Chair & Co-Founder, Zennström Philanthropies