New Trustees Elected to Aspen Institute Board
WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute is pleased to announce the election of six new members to its Board of Trustees. They are: Melva Bucksbaum, Ann B. Friedman, Marc B. Nathanson, Jacqueline Novogratz, Anna Deavere Smith and Shashi Tharoor. Each member will serve a two-year term that begins immediately.
The Institute's board also elected to designate longtime trustees Robert H. Malott, Albert H. Small, and William Joy as Lifetime Trustees. Lifetime Trustees consist of former board members and other prominent individuals who have been elected by a majority of the membership of the Board. Their mission is to create a more involved and informed way to stay in touch with fellow Trustees and with the work of the Aspen Institute. Lifetime Trustees are responsible for providing advice on strategic issues facing the organization. "We are delighted to welcome such a diverse group of accomplished leaders to serve on the Aspen Institute board," said William E. Mayer, chairman of the Institute's Board of Trustees. He added: "The Institute and its board are certain to benefit from their collective vision and impressive breadth of experience."
Newly Elected Aspen Institute Trustees Melva Bucksbaum, a devoted art patron, philanthropist, and collector of contemporary art, serves on the Board of American Friends of the Israel Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Drawing Center, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is also a member of the Visiting Committee to the Museums and the Committee of Collections of Harvard University; Christie's American Advisory Board; the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); and the International Committee of the Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom. Since 1995, Bucksbaum has been actively managing the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation, and is currently a director of the Robert I. Goldman Foundation. In 1996, Bucksbaum and her family endowed the Martin Bucksbaum Professorship in Urban Planning and Design, a chaired position in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Bucksbaum also endowed the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture Series at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. In 2000, she and her children inaugurated the Bucksbaum Award, which is given to an artist of distinction and promise selected from those artists represented in the Whitney Biennial. She is co-chair of the Aspen Institute Art Advisory Committee and chair of the Paepcke Community Advisory Committee. Ann B. Friedman graduated from Stanford University in three years with majors in economics and history, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and earned a Master's degree at the London School of Economics in International Relations. She served as a copy editor for Institutional Investor magazine in New York, and worked in investment banking in Chicago, New York, London, and Beirut. While living in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war with her husband, Thomas L. Friedman, an American journalist, Friedman also worked as a translator from French to English for subscribers of Middle Eastern business information. Additionally, she has tutored reading for illiterate adults and English as a second language. Marc B. Nathanson has been a director of Charter Communications since January 2000 and serves as Vice Chairman of Charter's board of directors, a non-executive position. Nathanson is also the Chairman of Mapleton Investments LLC, an investment vehicle formed in 1999, and he founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Falcon Holding Group, Inc., a cable operator, and its predecessors, from 1975 until 1999. He served as Chairman and CEO of Enstar Communications Corporation, a cable operator, from 1988 until 1999. Prior to 1975, Mr. Nathanson held executive positions with Teleprompter Corporation, Warner Cable, and Cypress Communications Corporation. In 1995, he was appointed by the President of the United States to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and from 1998 through September 2002, served as its Chairman. Mr. Nathanson holds a BA in Mass Communications from the University of Denver and an MA in Political Science from the University of California/Santa Barbara. Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that works to solve the problems of global poverty by delivering affordable, critical goods and services to the poor. Novogratz began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank after attending the University of Virginia. Prior to Acumen Fund, Novogratz founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership program at the Rockefeller Foundation. She also founded Duterimbere, a microfinance institution in Rwanda. She is currently on the advisory boards of Stanford Graduate School of Business and of Innovations Journal published by MIT Press. Novogratz is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow and a Synergos Institute Senior Fellow. She is a frequent speaker at the World Economic Forum, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the TED Conference. Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright and professor. Currently, she teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and formerly taught in the Drama Department at Stanford University. Smith is best known for her "documentary theatre" style in plays such as Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, both of which featured Smith as the sole performer of multiple and diverse characters. Smith is an alumna of Beaver College (now Arcadia University), from which she graduated in 1971, and has received honorary degrees from Arcadia University, Bates College, Bryn Mawr College, Smith College, Skidmore College, Macalester College, Occidental College, Pratt Institute, Holy Cross College, Wesleyan University, School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University, Colgate University, California State University Sacramento, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wheelock College, and the Cooper Union. Smith was the Aspen Institute Artist-in-Residence in Aspen, Colorado in 2006. Shashi Tharoor is Chairman of the Dubai-based Afras Ventures and a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was also the official candidate of India for the succession to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006. His career began in 1978, when he joined the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, and included key responsibilities in peace-keeping after the Cold War and as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General, as served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. Dr. Tharoor is also an award-winning author of nine books, as well as hundreds of articles, op-eds, and book reviews in a wide range of publications. He served for two years as a contributing editor and occasional columnist for Newsweek International. In January 1998, Dr. Tharoor was named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He is the recipient of several awards, including a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was named to India's highest honor for Overseas Indians, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, in 2004. He serves on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the board of trustees of Aspen Institute India, and the Advisory Boards of the World Policy Journal, the Virtue Foundation and the human rights organization, Breakthrough. He is also a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities. Aspen Institute Board of Trustees William E. Mayer Henry E. Catto Lester Crown Active Trustees Madeleine K. Albright Paul F. Anderson Mercedes Bass *Berl Bernhard William D. Budinger Stephen L. Carter *Henry E. Catto *Lester Crown F. Peter Cundill Andrea Cunningham Tarun Das **William L. Davis John Doerr Sylvia A. Earle Michael D. Eisner Leonhard Fischer Alan Fletcher Stephen Friedman Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mircea Geoana David Gergen
*Alma L. Gildenhorn Jamshyd Godrej *Gerald Greenwald *Arjun Gupta *Sidney Harman Hayne Hipp Gerald D. Hosier Ann Frasher Hudson Jer=C3=B4me P. Huret Robert J. Hurst *Walter Isaacson Yotaro Kobayashi David H. Koch Ann McLaughlin Korologos Timothy K. Krauskopf Leonard A. Lauder
Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute Elisabeth Lulin *Frederic V. Malek James M. Manyika *William E. Mayer Bonnie Palmer McCloskey Anne Welsh McNulty Eleanor Merrill Karlheinz Muhr Clare Munana Elinor Bunin Munroe Roberto H. Murray William A. Nitze Her Majesty Queen Noor Olara A. Otunnu Elaine Pagels Michel Pebereau Lord Powell Michael K. Powell *Margot L. Pritzker Peter Reiling
*Lynda Resnick Isaac O. Shongwe *Robert K. Steel Andrew L. Stern Giulio Tremonti Roderick von Lipsey Vin Weber Frederick B. Whittemore * Executive Committee Lifetime Trustees Prince Bandar bin Sultan Keith Berwick John Brademas James C. Calaway Lisle C. Carter, Jr. William T. Coleman, Jr. Al Dietsch William H. Donaldson James L. Ferguson Jacqueline Grapin Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. Nina Rodale Houghton Shirley Hufstedler Jerome Huret Robert S. Ingersoll William N. Joy Henry A. Kissinger Gerald M. Levin Robert H. Malott John P. Mascotte Robert S. McNamara Olivier Mellerio Hisashi Owada John J. Phelan, Jr. Thomas R. Pickering Warren B. Rudman Jay Sandrich Lloyd G. Schermer Carlo Scognamiglio Albert H. Small Kathy D. Smith Phillips Talbot Solomon D. Trujillo Paul A. Volcker Leslie H. Wexner Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. Dolores Wharton The Aspen Institute, founded in 1950, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. Through seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values. The Institute is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, and on the Wye River near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Its international network includes partner Aspen Institutes in Berlin, Rome, Lyon, Tokyo, New Delhi, and Bucharest, and leadership initiatives in Africa, Central America, and India. First Call Analyst:
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