Board of Directors
AED is governed by a voluntary Board of Directors made up of leaders across sectors.
The number of voluntary members is normally between 12 – 18 members plus the AED President.
The full Board meets three times per year. The Board of Directors currently has four standing committees: Executive Committee; Compensation Committee; Audit Committee; and the Nominating and Governance Committee. These committees meet a minimum of two times per year.
Information about the backgrounds of Board members follows below. More information about AED’s Board may be obtained by writing to the Chairman of the Board or the President of AED.
Edward W. Russell
Chairman of the Board
Former Senior Vice President, Government Affairs,
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Roberta N. Clarke
Vice Chairman of the Board
Associate Professor and former Chair, Department of Marketing, School of Management, Boston University
Stephen F. Moseley
President and Chief Executive Officer
J. Brian Atwood
Dean, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, University of Minnesota;
Former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Dr. Barry Bloom
Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health
Sarah C. Carey
Partner, Squires, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.; Chair, Eurasia foundation
Harriet Mayor Fulbright
Former Executive Director, President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities;
Former Executive Director, Fulbright Association
Frederick S. Humphries
Regent Professor, Florida A&M University;
Former President, Florida A&M University
Fredrick J. Iseman
Chairman and Managing Partner, Caxton-Iseman Capital, Inc.
Sheila Avrin McLean
Strategy Consultant;
Former President and CEO, Boyden World Corporation;
Former President, Association of Executive Search Consultants
James R. Painter
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Modern Woman, Inc.;
Former Member of the Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee, Paxar Corporation
Adel Safty
Founder of the UNESCO Leadership Chair and President of the Global Leadership Forum;
Distinguished Visiting Professor and Special Advisor to the Rector, The Siberian Academy of Public Administration, Russia
Niara Sudarkasa
Scholar in Residence, African-American Research Library and Cultural Center;
Former President, Lincoln University
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