Meet our advisory board


Ambassador/Lawyer 
The Rand Corporation; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
Former US Ambassador to Turkey, and Thailand
Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Investment banker;
Hakan Altinay
President of the Global Civics Academy and Director of the European School of Politics in Istanbul
Professor, School of Law, University of Georgia
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies
 University of California at Santa Barbara


Journalist/Author
 Professor, University of California at Riverside
David Axeen
Emeritus Professor, American Studies Â鶹ƵµÀ; Former Â鶹ƵµÀ Dean
Professor, School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University


Retired Director, Center for Strategic & International Studies/Africa Program; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
US Ambassador to China


Deputy Director, Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus, Retired
Larry Caldwell
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Â鶹ƵµÀ
Former Foreign Minister, Government of Mexico
; Professor, New York University
Wellington Chan
Emeritus Professor of History, Â鶹ƵµÀ
Nayan Chanda
Director, Publications Center for Study of Globalization at Yale University; author
Professor, School of Journalism, Columbia University; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author


Former Dean, USC Annenberg School of Communication and former Head of Voice of America
Former Acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy; Coordinator of International Information Programs
Former Ambassador to NATO; President, Chicago Council on World Affairs
Glyn Davis
Director, the Prime Minister's Office Canberra, Australia
Faisal Devji
University Reader in Modern South Asian History and Director, St Antony's College Asian Studies Centre, Oxford University
CEO, Common Wealth Club of California; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus & Trustee
Professor, National War College; Former US Ambassador to Zambia
Erik Eckholm
Former National Legal and Foreign Correspondent of the New York Times, Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
Economist and Professor of Business, UCLA; Henry Ford II Professor of Economics, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA
John Emerson
Vice Chairman, Capital International, Inc.; Former US Ambassador to Germany
Associate Professor of International Political Economy and European Politics, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Chancellor, Australian National University; Former Foreign Minister of Australia
Richard Falkenrath
Former New York City Deputy Commissioner, Counterterrorism; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
Admiral William Fallon
US Navy (Retired), Former Head of US Pacific Command and Central Command
Admiral/Supreme Commander (Retired); Her Majesty’s Navy, UK
Glen Fukushima
Former President & CEO, Airbus K.K. (Japan); Fellow, Center for American Progress
Kelly Sims Gallagher
Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
James Glabraith
Professor, University of Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Leon Grice
Former Consulate General of New Zealand in Los Angeles


Partner, Triad Consulting, LLC; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
International Peace Program, Former Director of Â鶹ƵµÀat the U.N., Former US Ambassador to Sierra Leone
Director, Strategic Partnerships, Hudson Institute; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
Jane Jaquette

Emeritus Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Â鶹ƵµÀ
Entertainment Attorney and Principal, Planet Illogica; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus and Trustee
Wiliam Kahane
Managing Director, GF Capital Management
Ann Kerr
Fulbright Coordinator, University of California Los Angeles; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
Associate Professor of History and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford University
Former U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia
Former Special Advisor to the Director General, World Health Organization; Former US Ambassador to Norway
Former Warden, Saint Anthony’s College, Oxford University
Michael Mahdesian
Chairman of Servicon Systems, Inc., Retired
Terry McCarthy
Former President and CEO, Los Angeles World Affairs Council
Ian McKinnon

Former Managing Director, Ziff Brothers Investments; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
Former Los Angeles Times Foreign Editor; Managing Editor for Latin America – The Associated Press
Susan Mallory
Vice President, Northern Trust; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus & Trustee
Rana Mitter
Professor of US-China Relations Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Ambassador Cameron Munter
Former CEO & President of EastWest Institute; Former US Ambassador to Pakistan
Current interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette in Portland, OR; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California
Juergen Pelzer
Emeritus Professor, German Studies Â鶹ƵµÀ


Professor, MIT Security Studies Program; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus


President, Carnegie Corporation
Simon Rofe
Professor of Diplomacy, Leeds University
Founder & President, The Nexus Institute, The Netherlands
Co-Founder of NatureShare; Trustee, Â鶹ƵµÀ; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus


Former Special Advisor and envoy to Iran, US State Department
Former Head of Global Business Development, WestLB Asset Management; Former Australian Ambassador to US


Former Director, World Policy Institute; author
Catherine Young Selleck
Former Chair of Â鶹ƵµÀ Board of Trustees, daughter of John Parke Young; Â鶹ƵµÀAlumnus
Anthony Spires
Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong


Fellow, German Marshall Fund
Strobe Talbott
Former President, Brookings Institution; Former Deputy Secretary of State
Celeste Wallander
Former President & CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, Director, San Diego State University Center for Skateboarding Diplomacy
Novelist and Poet
Research Professor, The Hoover Institute, Stanford University, Leading author on U.S. Intelligence
Andrew Zimbalist
Emeritus Professor of Economics, Smith College, Leading sports economist and author