Scholar Rescue Fund Committee of the IIE Board of Trustees

Mark Angelson is Chair of the Institute of International Education, the nonpartisan world leader in international education and scholar rescue, which administers the Fulbright Scholarships for the U.S. Department of State and hundreds of other educational and rescue programs from offices around the globe. He has served three terms as Chair of the Rutgers University Board of Governors, and served as Chair of the search committee that proposed Jonathan Holloway as Rutgers’ President. Angelson also serves in the Executive Office of the President of the United States as a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Angelson has served as…

Mariët Westermann is the NYU Abu Dhabi Vice Chancellor. The Vice Chancellor is the chief executive of the University and its campus. Working closely with faculty, students, staff, and administrators, the Vice Chancellor oversees all academic, administrative, and operational affairs for NYU Abu Dhabi. The Vice Chancellor serves on the Senior Leadership Team of NYU in New York and globally, and is a vibrant, visible presence in the intellectual and cultural life of Abu Dhabi. Mariët Westermann oversees all academic, administrative, and operational affairs at NYU Abu Dhabi. Mariët Westermann, former executive vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,…

Seth R. Bergstein is a Vice Chairman of Investment Banking based in New York. Mr. Bergstein leads and manages relationships with many of Firm’s most important clients, working closely with boards and management teams on strategy, shareholder value creation, M&A and capital raising. Mr. Bergstein joined Morgan Stanley in 1988 as a financial analyst after graduating from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Economics, Psychology and Cognitive Science. From 1990 – 1992, he attended The J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and earned his MBA. He rejoined Morgan Stanley in New York and from 1993 – 2001…

Maria Livanos Cattaui was Secretary General of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) from 1996 through June 2005. Mrs. Cattaui championed the role of world business in the global economy. She placed ICC at the vanguard of international policy making on trade and investment, intellectual property, the information society, as well as other vital issues for business. Mrs. Cattaui was instrumental in establishing an innovative global partnership between ICC and the United Nations. The partnership has led to greater business input into UN economic activities. She has been closely involved in placing business know-how and experience at the disposal of developing…

Ambassador Adam Ereli is a proven leader and innovator in the fields of foreign government relations, international defense and security policy, commercial advocacy, media relations and crisis communications and international educational and cultural policy and programs. Adam is currently CEO of the IberoAmerican Group, a strategic advisory firm that he founded in 2016. IberoAmerican counsels foreign governments, non-governmental entities and private sector clients on policy formulation, communications and business development in the Middle East and South Asia. Adam retired from the U.S. State Department in 2013, after 24 years as a Foreign Service Officer, during which time he developed close…

Dr. Allan E. Goodman is the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of International Education, which marked its Centennial in 2019.  IIE promotes the exchange of scholars and students, rescues scholars, students, and artists from persecution, displacement, and crises, conducts research on international academic mobility, and administers the Fulbright program sponsored by the United States Department of States.  The Institute collaborates with a wide range of corporate, government and foundation partners across the globe.  108 of its directors, grantees, and alumni of programs administered by IIE are recipients of Nobel Prizes. Dr. Goodman is a member of the Council on Foreign…

J. Michael Gower is the Executive Vice President –Chief Financial Officer & University Treasurer at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is responsible for financial management, planning, procurement, human resources, information technology, and strategic administrative systems initiatives. Prior to Rutgers, Gower was Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer at Yeshiva University, Vice President for Finance and Administration and University Treasurer at the University of Vermont, and a higher education management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. He held earlier accounting and financial management roles at Cornell University and Duke University. Gower is a past Chair of the Board…

Molly is the Interim Executive Director of the Vermont Afghan Alliance. She previously served as the 82nd Lieutenant Governor of the State of Vermont. From 2018 to 2020, she served as a Vermont Assistant Attorney General while also teaching international human rights law as an adjunct professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Previously, she worked in Geneva, Switzerland, as the Law and Policy Manager for the International Code of Conduct Association. In that capacity, she launched the ICoCA’s human rights monitoring program and led missions in East Africa, Nigeria, and Iraq. Molly also worked in the Washington, D.C. office…

Thomas S. Johnson was Chairman and CEO of GreenPoint Financial Corp. and GreenPoint Bank from 1993 until he retired in 2004. Prior to his tenure at GreenPoint, Mr. Johnson was President and Director of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company from 1989 to 1991. His career in banking started in 1969 at Chemical Bank and Chemical Banking Corporation where he became President and Director in 1983. After graduating from Harvard in 1964, Mr. Johnson began his career by starting the Master of Business Management Program at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines – the first full-time graduate business school in Asia….

Janice Kaplan is the author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestseller The Gratitude Diaries and her most recent book The Genius of Women. Her books have been translated and published in more than twenty countries. As the Editor-in-Chief of Parade magazine, she was well-known for her cover stories with political figures including President Barack Obama, President George Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Under her leadership, circulation increased to 32 million copies every Sunday, making it the most-read publication in America. Ms. Kaplan spent many…

Dr. Martha Kanter is the CEO of College Promise, a national initiative to increase college access, affordability, quality, and completion in American higher education, starting in America’s community colleges. She is also a Senior Fellow at New York University’s Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy. She specializes in policy efforts to identify and apply innovative, evidence-based education interventions, financing models,and behavioral incentives to raise America’s high school and college graduation rates. From 2009-2013, Dr. Kanter served as the U.S. Under Secretary of Education, overseeing all federal postsecondary statutory, regulatory, and administrative policies and programs, including the $175B annual federal student…

Mark N. Kaplan has been a member of Skadden’s Corporate Finance Group for nearly 35 years. He has represented clients in a wide variety of matters, including negotiated mergers, acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, and public and private securities offerings. His work encompasses a wide range of industries including defense, energy, finance, retail and fashion. He has represented clients such as DRS Technologies, Inc. in its acquisition by Finmeccanica S.p.A.; 390 West End Associates LLC in its sale of the Apthorp apartment building in Manhattan; Energy Answers Corporation in the sale of its subsidiary, EAC Operations, Inc., to Covanta Holding Corporation;…

Edward “Ted” Kaufman is the former United States Senator from Delaware where he served on the Foreign Relations, Armed Services, Judiciary, and Homeland Security Committees. He is the author of the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010. He helped in writing the Edward “Ted” Kaufman and Michael Leavitt Presidential Transitions Improvement Act of 2015. He was co-author of the Victims of Iranian Censorship (VOICE) ACT and co-founder of The Global Internet Freedom Caucus. He writes a column in the Wilmington News Journal. He serves on the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition. He serves on the Volcker Alliance…

Henry Kaufman is President of Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc., a firm established in April 1988, specializing in economic and financial consulting. For the previous 26 years, he was with Salomon Brothers Inc, where he was Managing Director, Member of the Executive Committee, and in charge of the Firm’s four research departments. He was also a Vice Chairman of the parent company, Salomon Inc. Before joining Salomon Brothers, Dr. Kaufman was in commercial banking and served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Kaufman, who was born in 1927, received a B.A. in economics from…

Anthony Lim serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of CapitaLand Limited and DBS Group Holdings in Singapore. Anthony was previously Managing Director and President (Americas) at GIC Pte Ltd. Prior to joining GIC, Mr Lim was a Senior Managing Director at Bankers Trust Company. He had also worked at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MÁS). Anthony has held senior management positions at these organizations in Singapore, London and New York. Anthony is a member on the Selection Committee of the Institute of International Education, Scholar Rescue Fund. He had previously held advisory roles with Teach For All, The…

Martha Loerke has directed international academic opportunities for students and scholars in repressive societies for over 25 years. She started her career in 1988 at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, where she facilitated Senior Fulbright Fellowships for Bulgaria, what was then Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. In 1991, Loerke launched and managed the Institute of International Education’s awards under the Muskie and Freedom Support Act Program for the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Since 1994, Loerke has designed and implemented dozens of programs within the Open Society Foundations network, overseeing thousands of awards to students from countries…

Tony Milbank is a Senior Financial Executive and Portfolio Manager for several non-profit endowments and foundations. In the past as the manager of international departments at both Salomon and Lehman, he served as advisor to central banks on financial risk management. Mr. Milbank has extensive direct experience with fixed income, equities, real estate and alternatives as part of a dynamic asset allocation process to protect endowment assets while preserving the purchasing power of those assets. Mr. Milbank is currently the Chair of the Board of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a healthcare policy foundation. He is Treasurer of the Memton Fund,…

Melissa Nobles is the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Class of 1922 professor of political science. Prior to being appointed chancellor in 2021, Nobles served as the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) and as head of the Department of Political Science. As chancellor, Nobles is responsible for overseeing more than 60 interconnected offices that support undergraduate and graduate students’ academic success, foster community and wellbeing, and cultivate personal and intellectual growth. She works closely with senior leaders to develop and implement the Institute’s strategic priorities. Throughout her distinguished career…

Michael Posner is the Jerome Kohlberg professor of ethics and finance at NYU Stern School of Business and Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights. Posner served in the Obama Administration from September 2009 until March2013, as the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Prior to that Posner was the longtime Executive Director and President of Human Rights First, a U.S.-based human rights advocacy organization. He was also a visiting lecturer at Yale and Columbia law schools. Posner has played a major role in shaping U.S. policy from inside and outside of government on…

Dr. Cherrie Short, CBE, is a Senior Fellow for Global and Community Strategy in the Silver School of Social Work and the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. She is an experienced advocate for social justice and a qualified forensic social worker emphasizing global approaches to social injustices. Her work focuses on human rights, migration and refugees. She also focuses on issues of inequality, diversity, and race relations, with a specialty in issues of incarceration, transitions back into communities, and rehabilitation. Her work has contributed to major social policy changes in local and central governments. In addition,…

After graduating from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, HRH Princess Ghida Talal pursued a career in journalism in London. In 1991, she married HRH Prince Talal Bin Muhammad of Jordan. Soon after, the late King Hussein asked her to establish the International Press Office of the Royal Hashemite Court and to become his Press Secretary. In October 2001, HM King Abdullah II appointed her as the Chairperson of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation. As the wife of a cancer survivor, Princess Ghida devoted herself to the fight against cancer and is a tireless fundraiser and advocate for the King…

Larry Tucker was born in Winston-Salem, NC in 1942. His family lived in Baghdad, Iraq in the mid-1950s where his father was posted to the U.S. Embassy, an experience which has influenced his continuing personal interests and friendships. He has a degree in engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in 1966 and became a partner of that firm in 1979. He served on the steering committee of the firm’s partnership and was responsible for the firm’s corporate advisory and private…