CGD's Board of Directors is composed of prominent individuals from the public and private sectors with a passionate commitment to development. The Board meets twice a year to review the Center’s activities and finances and to provide advice and counsel to the President. A subset of the Board, the Executive Committee, meets quarterly to provide ongoing oversight. The Board is responsible for the overall control of the Center’s property, funds, and affairs.
Edward Scott
Founder, BEA Systems, Inc.; Co-Founder and Chair, Center for Global Development; Co-Founder, DATA (Debt, Aid and Trade for Africa); Founder and Chairman, Friends of the Global Fight
Timothy D. Adams
Former Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury.
C. Fred Bergsten
Co-Founder, Center for Global Development; Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, 1977-81
Nancy Birdsall
President and Co-Founder, Center for Global Development; former Executive Vice-President, Inter-American Development Bank
Henrietta Holsman Fore
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Holsman International
David Gergen
Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University; Editor-at-Large at U.S. News and World Report; Former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton
Thomas R. Gibian
Chairman and founding partner, Emerging Capital Partners
David F. Gordon
Head of Research and Director of Global Macro Analysis, Eurasia Group
C. Boyden Gray
Former Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy and former Special Envoy for European Union Affairs
James Harmon
Founder of Harmon & Co; former Chairman, Chairman of the Board of the World Resources Institute (WRI); President and CEO of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (until 2001); former Chairman and CEO of Schroder Wertheim & Co.
Brad Horwitz
Founder, President and CEO, Trilogy International Partners
Enrique V. Iglesias
Ibero-American General Secretary, former President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Kassahun Kebede
Founder and Managing Partner of Panton Capital Group; President and Chairman of the Board of the Fistula Foundation; former head of Global Equity Derivatives at Deutsche Bank
Mark Malloch-Brown
Former UK Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Edward E. McNally
Partner, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP; former General Counsel, Homeland Security Council
Robert Mosbacher, Jr.
Former President and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Managing Director of the World Bank; Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Brookings Institution; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Finance and Economy of Nigeria
Lant Pritchett (ex officio)
Chairman, Center for Global Development Advisory Group; Professor of the Practice of International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer, Facebook
S. Jacob Scherr
Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); Director of NRDC's International Program and a Director of the NRDC BioGems Initiative
Smita Singh
Former Special Advisor for Global Affairs and Director, Global Development Program, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Patty Stonesifer
Former Co-chair and CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Belinda Stronach
President and Chief Executive Officer, Stronach Group; former Executive Vice-Chairman, Magna International Inc.
Lawrence H. Summers
Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011 and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, from 1999 to 2001.
Toni G. Verstandig
Senior Policy Advisor, Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation and Senior Policy Advisor, Aspen Institute Middle East Strategy Group
Adam Waldman
President, The Endeavor Group
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