Washington, DC
Nicole Anand, Manager, Projects
Abhinav Bahl, Director
Christina Crawley, Manager, OpenGov Hub
Hazel Feigenblatt, Managing Director
Jennifer Heller, Associate
Nathaniel Heller, Executive Director
Monika Shepard, Manager, Technology and Community
Julio C. Urdaneta, Editorial Director
New York
Kate Horn, Director, Business Development (Foglamp)
Cape Town
Marianne Camerer, Director, International
Melissa Cawthra, Manager, Projects
Dadisai Taderera, Manager, Projects
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
Staff
Title: Manager, Projects
Role: Manages and supports Global Integrity efforts to innovate for increased transparency and enhanced accountability; performs analyses of field data for reporting; designs and leads outreach and networking activities; researches and designs new fieldwork methodologies and indicators.
Joined Global Integrity: October 2011
Education: MSc in Development Management, London School of Economics; BS & BA in Business Administration & Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Languages: English, Spanish, Hindi
Works from: Washington, DC
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Passport: USA
Prior to joining Global Integrity, Nicole worked at OneWorld Foundation in New Delhi, India as their Knowledge and Research Manager. At OneWorld, she coordinated a team of researchers in analyzing and documenting good practices in public service delivery for the Governance Knowledge Centre (GKC) web portal; ICT-facilitated access to public information innovations in South Asia (a World Bank Institute project), and e-governance reforms in the State of Bihar, India. Nicole has also worked for Google as a Financial Analyst where she helped to operationalize and maintain their first global internal travel policy.
Expertise: Information and communications technologies (ICT) for social accountability; Political economy of South/Southeast Asia; local innovation for enhanced public service delivery;
Recommended reading:
- Michel Foucault. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
- Amartya Sen. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
- F Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby.
Title: Director
Role: Plays a key role in managing and supporting all of Global Integrity's fieldwork; helps to research and design new fieldwork methodologies and indicators; performs analysis and quality control over data and reporting; designs and leads outreach and dissemination activities, including public workshops and capacity building programs.
Joined Global Integrity: March 2011
Education: Master of International Affairs (Policy concentration: Economic and Political Development), Columbia University
Languages: English, Hindi
Works from: Washington, DC
Hometown: Mumbai, India
Passport: India
Prior to joining Global Integrity, Abhinav worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat's Governance and Institutional Development Division on capacity development programmes across its 54 member states. He was also an analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit having conducted bespoke policy research and indexing/ benchmarking assignments for intergovernmental and private sector clients. He brings extensive consulting experience in managing strategic and operational risk consulting projects for leading consulting organizations.
Expertise: International relations and development, governance and anti-corruption, economic growth and value chain development, capacity building, transitional and developing economies, ICTs for development, South Asian politics, indexing/ benchmarking research, strategic and operational risk analysis.
Recommended reading:
- James Ferguson. Anti-politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho.
- John Kenneth Galbraith. The Great Crash 1929.
- V.S. Naipaul. A House for Mr. Biswas.
Marianne Camerer
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Title: Director, International
Role: Represents Global Integrity in the international community, interacting with leaders across government, the private sector and civil society; fundraising; research, writing and analysis. Co-founder, with Nathaniel Heller and Charles Lewis.
Joined Global Integrity: 2001
Education: Ph.D. in Political Studies, University of Witwatersrand; M.Phil in Comparative Social Research, Oxford University; Masters in Political Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch
Languages: Afrikaans, English, German
Works from: Durban, South Africa
Hometown: Cape Town, South Africa
Passport: South Africa
Prior to the founding of Global Integrity, Marianne Camerer headed anti-corruption research at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), a leading South African think tank. In 2000 she was a founding director of the Open Democracy Advice Center (ODAC), a Cape Town-based NGO, whose board she currently chairs. In 2003, Camerer led Global Integrity's 25 country pilot, working from the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Camerer was a 2005 Yale World Fellow and 2006 Bucerius Fellow and has consulted extensively on governance issues, including work for the World Bank and United Nations. She is also a fellow of the Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Stellenbosch.
Expertise: anti-corruption, whistle-blowing, democratic governance, leadership, survey design, research methodology, civil society and advocacy, southern Africa, South Africa.
Recommended reading:
- Michael Ignatieff. Isaiah Berlin, a Life.
- Michael Kaufman. Soros: the Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire.
- Christopher Buckley. Boomsday
Title: Manager, Projects
Role: Helps to research and design new fieldwork methodologies and indicators; recruits and manages field teams of journalists and researchers to execute current and future fieldwork projects, particularly in Africa; performs analysis and quality control over the resultant data and reporting; designs and leads outreach and dissemination activities, including public workshops and capacity building activities.
Joined Global Integrity: May 2013
Education: Master’s in International Affairs (specializing in International Security), Sciences-Po Paris; B.A. Honours (French Literature and Translation), University of KwaZulu-Natal; B.A in French and Culture, Communication and Media Studies (double major), University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Languages: English, French, Afrikaans
Works from: Cape Town, South Africa
Hometown: Durban, South African
Passport: South Africa
Expertise: International security, geopolitics, transnational organized crime, criminal justice, West Africa, Sahel, Southern Africa, research and analysis, advocacy, translation and editing.
Prior to joining Global Integrity, Melissa managed her own business as a research consultant, translator, interpreter, editor and proofreader. Her client portfolio included the Alliance Française (Durban and Pretoria branches), ECOWAS, CEFIC Turkey, CENOR group, Friends of the Earth Europe, Global Integrity and the Harvard Business School AMP 179 Alumni Community. She has held teaching positions at L’Ecole Nationale de Commerce in Paris and the Alliance Française de Durban, been employed as an in-house translator for several private sector companies in South Africa and interpreted at COP 17. Melissa has also worked at the Honorary Belgian Consulate in Durban and performed internships at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for Southern Africa in Pretoria and L’Institut Thomas More, a think tank with offices in Paris and Brussels. At UNODC she was assigned to Advocacy and Communications and Transnational Organised Crime, Illicit Trafficking and Law Enforcement. Her work at ITM focused primarily on African geopolitics but included extensive political monitoring and analysis of the French presidential elections.
Recommended reading:
- Philip Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Jonathan Franzen. Freedom
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Title: Manager, OpenGov Hub
Role: Plays a key role in managing and supporting the OpenGov Hub; builds and maintains internal and external relationships for the Hub; serves as a liaison between Hub organizations and the building managers; helps to conceptualize, organize, and execute all Hub-related public activities including launch and release events, networking events, and lectures/salons; maintains the Hub’s online presence; serves as the OpenGov Hub steering committee secretary.
Joined Global Integrity: September 2012
Education: MA in French Literature, University of Waterloo; BA in French and English (Double Honors), The University of Western Ontario
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Works from: Washington, D.C.
Hometown: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Passport: Canada
Prior to joining Global Integrity, Christina worked for European Schoolnet (EUN) and the European University Association (EUA) in Belgium in the field of international collaborative learning and ICT. Following her studies in Canada, Christina launched in the European education arena in 2003 as a Young Professional International (YPI) on behalf of the Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada (AUCC) within Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Christina is also the co-founder of EasySundays, a small non-profit that supports lesser-known charitable causes.
Expertise: Communications, networking, collaborative learning, ICT4E, professional development, training, design, multilingual project development, international relations, non-profit organizations.
Recommended reading:
- Margaret Atwood. The Blind Assassin.
- Ken Robinson. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative.
- Barbara Kingsolver. The Lacuna.
Hazel Feigenblatt
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Twitter: @hazelfeigenblat
Personal site: www.quienpagamanda.com
Title: Managing Director
Role: Provides leadership to the organization, leads methodology development and fieldwork and recruitment of experts, and oversees most projects. Previously, she coordinated the annual Global Integrity Report and local integrity projects in Latin America, and was the editor of the Global Integrity’s journalistic reporting on corruption and governance issues globally.
Joined Global Integrity: 2009
Education: M.Sc. in Political Science (University of Costa Rica); M.A. in Public Affairs Reporting (University of Maryland); B.A. in Communication (University of Costa Rica)
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Works from: Washington DC
Hometown: San José, Costa Rica
Passport: Costa Rica
Hazel is an award-winning investigative journalist and former Washington correspondent. Her investigations on government procurement, the approval in Capitol Hill of international trade agreement CAFTA, and inappropriate online banking practices have been recognized on three occasions with the top journalism award in Costa Rica, where she worked for the leading daily newspaper La Nacion. She has also occasionally written for various international media organizations, was a 2002-2003 Fulbright's Humphrey Fellow, and her political science research focused on political influence on procurement processes. Her website www.quienpagamanda.com has become a place where consumers and private companies join to discuss ways of improving services.
Interests: Investigative journalism, technology for transparency and accountability, freedom of the press, Latin America, efforts against animal cruelty.
(Most recent) recommended reading:
- Andrew Roos Sorkin. Too Big to Fail.
- Mitch Joel. Six Pixels of Separation.
- Bertrand Russell. The History of Western Philosophy.
Title: Associate
Role: Responsible for processing contracts and wire transfers to Global Integrity’s contributors and partners around the world; accounts payable processing; events planning.
Joined Global Integrity: 2004
Education: Bachelor of Science (consumer economics)
Languages: English
Works from: Ashburn, Virginia & Washington, DC
Hometown: Wilmington, Delaware
Passport: United States
Jennifer splits her time between being a stay-at-home mother and her responsibilities at Global Integrity. She provides oversight to the Global Integrity Executive Director on a daily basis.
Nathaniel Heller
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Twitter: @integrilicious
Personal site: http://integrilicio.us
Title: Executive Director
Role: Provides leadership and strategic guidance to the organization; oversees methodology development, fundraising, recruitment of experts, and all fieldwork. Co-founder, with Marianne Camerer and Charles Lewis.
Joined Global Integrity: 1999
Education: Masters of Science in Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Bachelors of International Relations and Spanish Literature, University of Delaware
Languages: English, Spanish
Works from: Washington, D.C.
Hometown: Burke, Virginia, United States
Passport: United States
Heller has split time between social entrepreneurship, investigative reporting and traditional public service since 1999, when he joined the Center for Public Integrity and began to develop the Integrity Indicators and conceptual model for what would become Global Integrity. At the Center, Heller reported on public service and government accountability; his work was covered by the Associated Press, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Moscow Times, The Guardian (London), and Newsweek. He and his colleagues' reporting on the human rights impact of post-9/11 U.S. military training abroad won awards from both Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society for Professional Journalists. In 2002 he joined the State Department, focusing on European security and transatlantic relations. He later served as a foreign policy fellow to the late-Senator Edward Kennedy in 2004. In 2005, Heller returned to stand up Global Integrity as an independent international organization and has led the group since. You can learn more about Nathaniel by visiting http://integrilicio.us.
Expertise: governance, corruption, media freedom, social entrepreneurship, international security, European security, transatlantic relations, U.S. foreign policy.
Recommended reading:
- Christiane Arndt and Charles Oman. Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators.
- Aidan Hartley. The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands.
- Barbara W. Tuchman. Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945.
Kate Horn
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Title: Director, Business Development (Foglamp)
Role: Manages all sales and marketing activity for Foglamp
Joined Global Integrity: May 2010
Education: Masters of Business Administration, Fordham University; Bachelor of Arts, Hamilton College
Languages: English
Works from: Metro New York Area
Hometown: Bedford, NY, United States
Passport: United States
Kate is a senior institutional sales and marketing leader with an extensive background in research, information sales and relationship building. Before joining Global Integrity and Foglamp, Kate was part of the management team for S&P's Vista Research (now Guidepoint Global) as head of new sales. She has spent most of her career helping clients develop information solutions to enhance their ability to make better investment decisions.
Expertise: institutional sales, marketing, research, and expert network services
Recommended reading:
- Spencer Johnson. Who Moved My Cheese?
- Antoine van Agtmael. The Emerging Markets Century.
- John Perkins. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
Title: Manager, Technology and Community
Role: Helps manage the Indaba fieldwork platform and its community of users around the world; coordinates social media and communications efforts for Global Integrity.
Joined Global Integrity: 2011
Education: Bachelors of Science, Drexel University
Languages: English
Works from: Washington, DC
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Passport: United States
As an advocate for sustainability issues, Monika has worked at the intersection of environment, governance, business and design for the last decade. Prior to joining Global Integrity, Monika spent nearly five years working on environmental governance and climate adaptation issues at the World Resources Institute (WRI). While at WRI she helped coordinate The Access Initiative (TAI), an international network of partners dedicated to ensuring that citizens have the right and ability to influence decisions about the natural resources that sustain their communities. Additionally, Monika helped "green" the first bakery in New York City, the Little Cupcake Bakeshop, worked at the first green building store in the USA's Mid-Atlantic Region, Amicus Green Building and served as the Secretary for the US Green Building Council Emerging Green Builders – North Capital Chapter. Currently, Monika serves on the Board of Directors for SustainUS and is an Innovation Fellow with ConvergeUS.
Expertise: International development, environmental governance, social entrepreneurship, marketing, communications, capacity building, design and sustainability.
Recommended reading:
- Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.
- C. Van Amerongen. The Way Things Work.
- Daniel Quinn. Ishmael.
Title: Manager, Projects
Role: Helps to research and design new fieldwork methodologies and indicators; recruits and manages field teams of journalists and researchers to execute current and future fieldwork projects, particularly in Africa; performs analysis and quality control over the resultant data and reporting; designs and leads outreach and dissemination activities, including public workshops and capacity building activities.
Joined Global Integrity: September 2011
Education: Bachelor of Social Science (Honours), University of Cape Town
Languages: English, Shona
Works from: Cape Town, South Africa
Hometown: Harare, Zimbabwe
Passport: Zimbabwe
Prior to joining Global Integrity, Dadisai worked for the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office where she did research and advocacy on issues of good governance and migration in South Africa. She was also a researcher with the Democracy in Africa Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, providing research and project coordination support on the Afrobarometer, the Open Society Monitoring Index, and the African Legislatures Project.
Expertise: Politics, good governance, advocacy, capacity building, gender studies, quantitative and qualitative research and Southern Africa.
Recommended reading:
- The Arbinger Institute. The Anatomy of Peace.
- Martin Meredith. Diamonds, Gold and War.
- Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart
- Marcelino Bisbal and José María Aguirre. Ideology as message and massage.
- Pablo Neruda. I confess that I have lived.
- Antonio Skármeta. Burning Patience
Global Integrity's Board of Directors
David Cohen is Co-Founder of the Advocacy Institute. David pioneered the Institute's work in its international capacity building programs where he facilitates workshop and strategy sessions. His expertise is used to counsel social justice movement groups in the U.S. and abroad to gain support for their public agenda. His work extends to countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, The Middle East, Central Europe and Eastern Europe.
Advocacy practitioners around the world have translated his writings on advocacy, civil society and lobbying into many different languages. His writings have appeared as essays in college text books and in major U.S. publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers. His most recent publication is a chapter in the Non-Profit Lobbying Guide (by Bob Smucker) entitled: Being A Public Interest Lobbyist Is Something To Write Home About. David is also one of three co-authors of Advocacy for Social Justice: A Global Action and Reflection Guide.
David has been an advocate and strategist on many of the major social justice and political reform issues in the United States since the early 1960s. These issues include civil rights, anti-poverty and reforming U.S. political processes by eliminating abuses of power and the corrupting influence of money on American politics. He played a leading role in the fight for Congress to end its support for the Vietnam War. From 1984-92 David led the Professionals' Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control - physicians, scientists, lawyers, and social workers - to stop the United States nuclear arms build-up by supporting arms control agreements and reducing the military budget. He served as president of Common Cause from 1975-81, the largest voluntary membership organization in the United States working on government accountability issues. He is also a Senior Fellow at Experience Corp/Civic Ventures.
Mark Davies previously served as Executive Director of the New York State Temporary State Commission on Local Government Ethics and as a Deputy Counsel to the New York State Commission on Government Integrity and prior to that as a full-time law professor and in private practice, specializing in municipal law and litigation. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, he is the chair of the Government Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee of the New York State Bar Association's Municipal Law Section. He has also served on the steering committee of the international Council on Governmental Ethics Laws. He has lectured extensively on ethics and has authored numerous publications, including contributions to Ethics, Lawyers and the Public Sector (ABA 1999), Ethics and Law Enforcement: Toward Global Guidelines (Praeger 2000), and Ethics in Government - The Public Trust: A Two-Way Street (NYSBA 2002).
Stacy Donohue is a Director, Investments at Omidyar Network (ON). Stacy brings broad technology, strategy, and financial expertise to ON’s Media, Markets & Transparency initiative, leading the Government Transparency investment area. In this role, Stacy works to encourage accountability and effectiveness in government by increasing people’s access to credible information about government activities and money in politics. Stacy also makes investments across all investment areas within Media, Markets & Transparency.
Prior to joining ON, Stacy spent nine years at Hewlett-Packard in senior roles spanning strategy, corporate development, and merger and acquisition transactions. Previously, Stacy was a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, where she provided analysis and consulting for clients across multiple industries from health care to financial services. Stacy began her career as an Associate in Corporate Finance at JPMorgan Chase & Co. She received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School, an MA in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Yale University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Eric is the president and co-founder of Development Seed, where he helps run project strategy and works closely with the team coordinating product development.
Eric is a recognized expert on open data and open source software and has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Nightline, NPR, Federal Computer Week, and others. He is frequently invited to speak on topics including open data, web-based mapping tools, knowledge management, and open source business models and has presented at conferences such as SXSW, Web 2.0, Where 2.0, GOSCON, and DrupalCon. Eric was also a winner of the Federal 100 award for his contributions to government technology in 2009 and last year chaired a roundtable discussion at the United Nations Private Sector Forum on technology’s role in improving education.
Eric earned his master’s degree in international development from American University in Washington, DC, and has dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and international relations. He co-founded Development Seed while researching technology access and microfinance in Peru. Before starting Development Seed, Eric was a journalist in Washington, DC writing on the environment and national security.
Dale Murphy specializes in international relations, international political economy, business-government relations, "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), democratization and international security. As a member of the International Business Diplomacy core faculty (at Georgetown University) he studies global issues at the juncture of the public and private sectors. His current research focuses on large firms' use of regulations as a source of competitive advantage, and the impact of international trade and investment on domestic regulations. His first book The Structure of Regulatory Competition: corporations and public policies in a global economy (Oxford University Press, March 2004) draws on transaction cost economics and theories of political economy to differentiate large firms' preferences and their influences on public policy, and highlights the implications for CSR. His second book project, Public Interests, Private Leaders, and Mass Media (in progress), analyzes various conceptions of the 'public interest' and explores how media technologies have changed the ability of individuals to identify, define, and shape these conceptions.
Before joining Georgetown University, Dr. Murphy worked as an assistant vice president at Citicorp, focusing on bank-government relations, Baker-15 debt, negotiation strategy and International Monetary Fund capitalization; he worked on long-term US-Soviet relations and Middle East politics for Secretary of State Shultz in the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State (where he drafted articles which appeared under the Secretary's name); and on foreign policy issues for Democratic Congressional and Presidential candidates. He was a Teaching Fellow in five courses at Harvard University (for Samuel P. Huntington and Joseph Nye) and three at MIT. He has conducted academic research in New York, Geneva, Basle, Brussels, Paris, London, and Tokyo, as well as in emerging markets around the world (including Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, China; Mali, Senegal, Guinée, Ethiopia, Kenya; Morocco, Egypt; Brazil, and Mexico). He has consulted for World Bank and U.S. Agency for International Development missions in Africa and Southeast Asia, and appeared on CNN and other news shows.
Melissa Thomas is the Associate Professor of International Development at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at The Johns Hopkins University. She teaches classes on development, foreign aid, corruption, and law and development. In 2008, she received the Fisher Excellence in Teaching award.
Before coming to SAIS, Melissa worked as a consultant on governance, corruption, rule of law and aid effectiveness. Melissa has worked with the World Bank, USAID, DFID, the U.S. Department of Defense, and counterpart governments providing policy and technical advice, conducting negotiations, monitoring the implementation of conditions, designing and managing technical assistance projects, and conducting qualitative and quantitative studies. She has worked in Senegal, Benin, Mali, Chad, Cameroon, Uganda, Madagascar, Peru and Georgia. Her published work has appeared in journals such as Foreign Affairs, International Affairs and the Journal of Modern African Studies.
She holds a B.A. in Computer and Information Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz; a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
Jeremy Weinstein
Global Integrity's Advisory Board
Professor Alan K. Henrikson is Director of The Fletcher Roundtable on a New World Order, an international discussion and research initiative of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he teaches American diplomatic history, contemporary U.S.-European relations, political geography, and diplomacy. In November 2005 he was Visiting Professor at the European Commission in Brussels where he taught a course on American Foreign Policy Making. During the Spring of 2003 he was Fulbright/Diplomatic Academy Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Diplomatische Akademie in Vienna. He has been an Associate and a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where he also has served as Counselor on Canadian Affairs. During 1986-1987 he was Lloyd I. Miller Visiting Professor of Diplomatic History and Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs in the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State in Washington. He also has been a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Defence Studies in Tokyo and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Visiting Professor of Diplomatic History at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing.
He has written widely on the history and current problems of U.S. foreign policy, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, U.S.-European Union relations, the Nordic/Arctic area, Canadian-U.S.-Mexican continental integration, the diplomacy of Caribbean island and also other smaller countries, the geostrategic "mental maps" of American foreign policy makers, and the emergence of "consensus" from multilateral diplomacy and international organization -- the subject of his Negotiating World Order: The Artisanship and Architecture of Global Diplomacy.
Alan Henrikson received A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees in History from Harvard University where he was a Harvard National Scholar and a Danforth Graduate Fellow. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Oxford, where he read Philosophy-Politics-and-Economics (P.-P.-E.) at Balliol College as a Rhodes Scholar. He studied as well at the International Summer School of the University of Oslo in Norway.
He is past President of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) and currently is a member of the National Council of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA). He also has served as a Vice President of the World Affairs Council of Boston. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Paromita Goswami
Paromita Goswami seeks to empower some of India's poorest and most marginalized citizens — the residents of the Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts of the state of Maharashtra. To protect their rights and help them access justice, Goswami has created three non-profit organizations in four years. The first organization, Elgar Pratishthan, concentrates on the economic and educational development of the rural community. Goswami subsequently founded Shramik Elgar (The Marching Army of Working People), a 6000-member union of rural workers. Trained as a lawyer, Goswami has brought legal challenges on behalf of these members to India's Supreme Court. Lastly, she founded the Elgar Women's Credit Co-operative Society, a credit union catering to families and individuals in need of economic assistance. She is regarded as one of the top union organizers in the region.
Vincent Mai joined AEA Investors in 1989 as chief executive officer and in 1998 became chairman. Before joining AEA, Vincent was a partner at Lehman Brothers for 14 years. He was head of their international investment banking activities and co-head of all of their investment banking activities for three years. Before assuming management responsibilities at Lehman, Vincent worked with a broad range of European and U.S. businesses on their strategic and capital-raising needs. He began his career at S.G. Warburg & Co. in London, where he became an executive director. Vincent is involved in several not-for-profit activities. He is chairman of the board of Sesame Workshop, producers of Sesame Street. He also serves on boards of the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Juilliard School. Vincent was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, of which he remains a member, and of the Carnegie Corporation. He served on the board of Fannie Mae for more than 10 years. Vincent grew up in South Africa and was educated at the University of Cape Town, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
Eugene Rotberg has been an independent advisor to international development and financial institutions since 1990. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Rotberg was Executive Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. From 1969 to 1987, Mr. Rotberg was Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank.
