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Officers of the Board

Ivo H. Daalder

President
Chicago Council on Global Affairs

John R. Ettelson

Chair
President and Chief Executive Officer, William Blair

Lester Crown

Chair Emeritus
Chairman, Henry Crown and Company

Sam Scott III

Chair Emeritus
Retired Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Corn Products International, Inc.

Brett J. Hart

Vice Chair
President, United Airlines

Michael H. Moskow

Vice Chair
Distinguished Fellow, Global Economy, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

David K. Reyes

Vice Chair
Chief Executive Officer, Reyes Holdings LLC

Jennifer F. Scanlon

Vice Chair
President and Chief Executive Officer, UL LLC

Steve Koch

Treasurer
Managing Partner, Bowline Group

Douglas A. Doetsch

Secretary
Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

Board member Chris Keogh, Vice President Joe Biden, and Council President Ivo Daalder

Council board member Chris Keogh, Vice President Joe Biden, and Council President Ivo Daalder.

Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis with Council board member Louis B. Susman

Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis with Council board member Louis B. Susman

Board member Samuel Scott III

Board member Samuel Scott III, retired chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Corn Products International, Inc.

Council board member Fay Hartog Levin meeting Former United States Secretary of State Madeline Albright

Council board member Fay Hartog Levin meeting Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Directors

 

Eduardo M. Alvarez
Chief Operating Officer, Amyris

Michael Amiridis
President, University of South Carolina

Katherine Baicker
Provost of the University of Chicago

Justin Bandy
Investor, Self-Employed

Sam Barnett
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, SBB Research Group LLC

Bruce Braun
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

Carlos E. Calderon
Chief Financial Officer, Ariel Investments

Donald A. Cooke
Vice President, Alford Group

Stephen A. Cruise
Managing Director & Global Co-Head of Industrial Corporate Advisory, Greenhill & Co.

William M. Daley
Vice Chairman, Public Affairs, Wells Fargo

Francesca DeBiase
Former Executive Vice President, Chief Global Supply Chain Officer, McDonald's

John DeBlasio
Chairman, DT Global
Founder and Executive Director, Global Peace and Development (GPD) Charitable Trust

Marilyn R. Diamond
Honorary Consul General of Morocco to Chicago

Evelyn J. Diaz
President, Heartland Alliance

Mary M. Dwyer
Interim President and CEO, Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

Zach Egan
Investment Fund Manager, Anthropocene Capital Management, LLC

Charles L. Evans
Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Raj K. Fernando
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Workstorm

Paul J. Finnegan
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC

Michael M. Froy
Partner, Dentons US LLP

Karen Gray-Krehbiel
Philanthropist

Josh Hale
President and CEO, Big Shoulders Fund

Caryn Harris
Philanthropist, Harris Family Foundation

Fay Hartog-Levin
Former US Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Brad J. Henderson
Chief Executive Officer, P33

Barbara Higgins
Independent Director, EMPLOYERS

David Jacobson
Vice Chairman, BMO Financial Group

Christopher M. Keogh
Co-Head of Midwest, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Kimberly J. Keywell
Philanthropist, The Keywell Foundation

Becky Knight
President, Knight Family Foundation

Ashish K. Lal
Partner, BDT & Company, LLC

John W. Madigan
Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tribune Company

Angelo Manioudakis
Chief Investment Officer, Northern Trust Asset Management

Craig Martin
Partner & Chairman, Midwest, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP.

Dorri McWhorter
Chief Executive Officer, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Charles J. Moore
President, The Banc Funds Company, LLC

Greg Morris
Senior Vice President and President, Archer Daniels Midland Company

Susan E. Morrison
Founding Board Director, Women Moving Millions

Clare Muñana
President, Ancora Associates, Inc.

Jeffrey C. Neal
Founding Partner, Horizon Capital Advisors, LLC

Pin Ni
President, Wanxiang America Corporation

Funmi Olopade
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine
Professor of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago

Douglas A. Pertz
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Brink's Company

Richard W. Porter
Corporate Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Jose Luis Prado
Executive Chairman, Palmex Alimentos

Quintin E. Primo III
Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Capri Investment Group

Margot Pritzker
Co-Founder, Community Food Navigator

Raghuram Rajan
Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Heather Russell
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, TransUnion

E. Scott Santi
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Paul E. Schickler
Owner, III Ag, LLC

JoAnn Seagren
Managing Director & Wealth Advisor, JAG Capital Management

Alejandro Silva
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Evans Food Group Ltd.

Adele Simmons
President, Global Philanthropy Partnership

James H. M. Sprayregen
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Louis B. Susman
Former US Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, Perella Weinberg Partners

Kay P. Torshen
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Torshen Capital Management, LLC

David J. Vitale
Chairman, Urban Partnership Bank

Frederick H. Waddell
Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Northern Trust Corporation

Wanji Walcott
Chief Legal Officer, Pinterest

Decker Walker
Managing Director and Partner, The Boston Consulting Group

Alex Washington
Managing Director, Wind Point Partners

Michael E. Werner
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Home Experience LLC

Eric E. Whitaker
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, TWG Partners, LLC

Mark Williams
Chief Executive Officer & Member of Board of Directors, Magna Legal Services

Tom Wyler
Executive, Hakluyt & Company

Darren Zeidel
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Aon

Endy Zemenides
Executive Director, Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC)

Honorary Life Directors

 

Henry S. Bienen
President Emeritus, Northwestern University

Jim Edgar
Distinguished Fellow, University of Illinois

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr.
Chairman, Old Harbour Partners

J. Douglas Gray
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Marshall Street Capital

Verne G. Istock
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, First Chicago NBD Corporation

Arthur L. Kelly
Managing Partner, KEL Enterprises L.P.

Mike Koldyke
Founder, Frontenac Company

Leo Melamed
Chairman Emeritus, CME Group, Inc.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Melamed & Associates, Inc.

John E. Rielly
President Emeritus, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Shirley Welsh Ryan
Chairman, Pathways.Org

Richard L. Thomas
Retired Chairman, First Chicago NBD Corporation

Robert E. Wieczorowski

Linda S. Wolf
Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Leo Burnett Worldwide