Our Board of Directors
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As a not-for-profit organization, we are managed by a Board of Directors. This group of approximately 20 Board members are highly regarded as leaders in the fields of study abroad and higher education, as well as leaders in the business community in Chicago, nationally, and internationally. Our Board meets multiple times a year to make strategic planning decisions for IES Abroad.
Board of Directors
Mr. Robert Browne
IES Abroad Nantes 1985
Retired Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
Northern Trust
Ms. Mary Cahillane
Former Vice President, Finance and Investments
The Spencer Foundation
Dr. Mun Y. Choi
President of the University of Missouri System
and Chancellor of the
University of Missouri-Columbia
Dr. Cecilia A. Conrad
CEO, Lever for Change
Managing Director, MacArthur Fellows and 100&Change
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Mr. James E. Crawford, III (Vice Chair)
Managing Director
TRIAD Capital Management
Dr. Ronald Crutcher
President Emeritus and University Professor
University of Richmond
Ms. Debora de Hoyos
Partner
Mayer Brown LLP
Ms. Marie Fioramonti
Managing Director & Head of Pricoa Capital Group
& Managing Director & Partner, Prudential Capital Partners
Ms. Pamela Brooks Gann (Board Chair)
President Emerita and Trustee Professor of Legal Studies Emerita
Claremont McKenna College
Ms. Phyllis Haberman
IES Abroad Vienna 1968-69
Managing Director, Golden Seeds
Former Partner, Charterhouse Equity Partners
Dr. J. Kline Harrison
Associate Vice President
Associate Provost for Global Affairs
Kemper Professor of Business
Wake Forest University
Dr. Gregory D. Hess
President and CEO
IES Abroad
Ms. Rhonda Jordan (Vice Chair)
Retired Operating Division President
Kraft Foods
Mr. Brian Kelly
Managing Partner
Asian Century Quest
Ms. Mary O'Brien Pearlman
Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing
Kellogg School of Management
Dr. Marla E. Salmon
Professor of Nursing and Global Health
Adjunct Professor of Policy and Governance
University of Washington
Dr. Nayef Samhat
President
Wofford College
Mr. Alan Schwartz
Chairman
Midtown Athletic Clubs
Ms. Sheila A. Stamps
Financial Services Executive and Independent Corporate Board Director
Mr. Peter E. Sundman
IES Abroad Vienna 1979
Trustee
College of Wooster, Diamond Hill Funds, and Frost Valley YMCA
Ms. Monica Vachher
Founder
Higher Education Advisors LLC
Signore Ezio Vergani
Chairman and CEO
Asco Pompe S.r.l.
Emeritus Board of Directors
Dr. Danielle Allen
Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
James Bryant Conant University Professor
Harvard University
Dr. Loren J. Anderson
Former President
Pacific Lutheran University
Mr. John Coblentz
COO/Executive Vice President
EDC Technology
Mr. Kenneth W. Cunningham
VP and General Manager
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Dr. George A. Drake
President Emeritus and Professor
Grinnell College
Mr. John J. Gearen
Partner
Mayer Brown LLP
Dr. Homer J. Holland
President
Holland Partners, Inc.
Dr. Stanley N. Katz
Professor in Public and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Director
Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Mr. Thomas J. McDonald
Managing Partner
Jaguar Growth Partners
Mr. Robert McNeill
Executive Vice President
Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management
Mr. Philip A. Odeen
Sr. D. Antonio de Oyarzabál
President
MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid
