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Peter Bell (Chair) is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. Previously he was the President of CARE USA, the Atlanta-based organization for international development and relief and the President of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in New York, a private foundation that seeks to improve conditions for people that are poor and disadvantaged.
He holds a B.A. in History at Yale College and a MD from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Mr. Bell is Co-Chairman of the Joint Learning Initiative on children and HIV/AIDS and serves on various other boards. |
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Gideon Frank has been involved with research and development for the government and the business sectors, management and international nuclear policy and non-proliferation issues.
After joining the Israel Atomic Energy Commission he worked at the Research Reactor in Soreq Nuclear Research Center. Since 1990 he served in the Israel Atomic Energy headquarters and later became the Director General of the IAEC. Mr. Frank's international experience includes Scientific Counselor to the Israel Embassy in Washington representing Israel as head of delegation in international conferences. Mr. Frank is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. |
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Rien van Gendt was Executive Director of the Van Leer Group Foundation from 2002 until October 2007. He graduated as an economist from the University of Amsterdam in 1967 and received his doctorate in Economic Studies in 1980. He worked as Head of Program in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and subsequently in the public sector (Deputy Secretary of the Scientific Council for Government Policy and Deputy Director of the State Administration Limburg) and the private sector (Executive Director of Wilma Vastgoed B.V.) before joining the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in 1988 as Executive Director. He serves on the Boards of several foundations, not for-profit organizations and corporations like BoardSource (USA), Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (USA) and the Jewish Humanitarian Fund (the Netherlands). |
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Trude Maas has been a member since 2001. Her career was in non-profit as well as profit organizations. After her graduation as a linguist at Utrecht University, she was Deputy Director in educational measurement at the national agency for educational testing.
She then was Managing Director of different units of BSO/Origin, a software company and became a member of the Board of Origin in the Netherlands. She was President of the Hay Vision Society, in charge of the innovation, until November 2006. She was a member of the Dutch Senate and also served on the Supervisory Boards of ABN AMRO and Philips Electronics. She presently serves on the Board of Schiphol Group and writes articles for the Dutch financial newspaper. |
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Nancy Newcomb has been a member since 2001. She was a Senior Corporate Officer, Risk Management, at Citigroup Inc. until her retirement in 2004. Before she had been in Citibank’s corporate bank as a group executive responsible for major global corporate clients.
She began her career in 1968 as an economist, after earning a BA from Connecticut College and an MA in economics from Boston University. She later attended the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of Moody’s Corporation, Sysco Corporation, and The DirecTV Group, Inc. She also serves on the Boards of The New York Historical Society, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and The Foundation for Landscape Studies. |
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Jacqueline Tammenoms Bakker Is a non-Executive Director of the Land Registry and Ordnance Survey (Netherlands), Tesco Plc (UK) and Videndi (France). She holds a BA in History and French from Oxford University and a MA degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C.
From 1977-1998 she worked for Shell in the Netherlands, the UK and Turkey, McKinsey and Unilever. She was director of GigaPort, an initiative to accelerate the introduction of broadband Internet in the Netherlands and subsequently Director General at the Ministry of Transport in the Netherlands responsible for Civil Aviation and Freight Transport until end 2007. |
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Robert Swaak is CEO and Chairman of the Board of PwC in The Netherlands since October 2008. He studied Business Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 1988 he joined one of the predecessors of PwC and in 1995 he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. In 1998 he became partner of PwC.
In July 2006 he was elected a member of the Board as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operational Officer (COO) and responsible for Human Capital. He is also member of the Council John Adams Institute and member of the Advisory council Young Leaders for Nature. |
