
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 17 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
Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
Northern Trust
Ms. Mary Cahillane
Former Vice President, Finance and Investments
The Spencer Foundation
Ms. Susan Carty
Director of Administration & Program Management, Office of Overseas Study
Indiana University
Mr. James E. Crawford, III (Vice Chair)
Managing Director
TRIAD Capital Management
Ms. Debora de Hoyos (Vice Chair)
Partner
Mayer Brown LLP
Dr. Mary M. Dwyer
President and CEO
IES Abroad
Dr. Pamela Brooks Gann
President Emerita and Trustee Professor of Legal Studies
Senior Fellow, Kravis Leadership Institute
Claremont McKenna College
Ms. Rhonda Jordan
Retired Operating Division President
Kraft Foods
Ms. Mary O'Brien Pearlman
Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing
Kellogg School of Management
Dr. Marla E. Salmon
Senior Visiting Fellow, Evans School of Public Affairs
Professor of Nursing and Public Health, School of Nursing
University of Washington
Mr. Alan Schwartz
Chairman
Tennis Corporation of America
Ms. Clayton Spencer
President
Bates College
Ms. Sheila A. Stamps
Financial Services Executive and Independent Corporate Board Director
Dreambuilder Investments, LLC
Mr. Peter E. Sundman
IES Abroad Vienna 1979
Trustee
College of Wooster, Diamond Hill Mutual Fund, and Frost Valley YMCA
Dr. Lara Tiedens
President
Scripps College
Ms. Monica Vachher
Founder
Higher Education Advisors LLC
Signore Ezio Vergani (Board Chair)
Chairman and CEO
Asco Pompe S.r.l.
Emeritus Board of Directors
Dr. Danielle Allen
UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
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. Hubert Locke
Professor and Dean Emeritus of Public Affairs
Evans School of Public Affairs
University of Washington
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
Dr. Hugo Sonnenschein
President Emeritus
University of Chicago