Board of Directors

Robert E. Denham is chair of MacArthur''s board. He is an attorney with the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, specializing in corporate, financial, and strategic issues. He is the former chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Inc.

Mr. Denham is a trustee of the New School University, Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles, and the Financial Accounting Foundation. He is also a member of the board of The New York Times, Oaktree Capital Group LLC, Wesco Financial Corporation, Chevron Corporation, and Fomento Economico Mexicano SA de CV.

As chair of MacArthur’s board, Mr. Denham serves ex-officio on all board committees of the Foundation. He is also the chair of the Nominating Committee of the Foundation.

  Lloyd Axworthy is the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He served as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996-2000. In 2004, he was appointed as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace deal between the East African countries.

Dr. Axworthy is a member of the board of Human Rights Watch, University of Winnipeg Foundation, Lester B. Pearson College, University of the Arctic, Pacific Counsel on International Policy, the Churchill Gateway Development Corporation and HudBay Minerals, Inc. He also serves as a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.

Dr. Axworthy is the chair of the Committee on Human and Community Development of the Foundation and a member of the Audit Committee and the Institutional Policy Committee of the Foundation.

  John Seely Brown is the former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and former director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Mr. Brown co-founded the Institute for Research on Learning, which explores the problems of lifelong learning. He is currently a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California and is the independent co-chairman of Deloitte’s new Center for Edge Innovation.

Mr. Brown is a member of the board of Social Science Research Council. In addition, he is a member of the board of Amazon, Beck Construction, Corning Incorporated, and Varian Medical Systems. He was a trustee of Brown University until 2006.

Mr. Brown is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee and the Committee on Human and Community Development of the Foundation.

  Jonathan F. Fanton has been president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation since September 1, 1999. Previously, he was president of New School University in New York City and vice president for planning at The University of Chicago, where he taught American history.

Mr. Fanton is a life trustee of Human Rights Watch and is an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He also serves as the chair of the board of Security Council Report at the Foundation’s request.

As President of the Foundation, Mr. Fanton serves ex-officio on all board committees of the Foundation.

  Jack Fuller was president of Tribune Publishing (1997-2001) and on its board of directors from 2001 until he retired in 2004. In 1986 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in the Chicago Tribune on constitutional issues. He is the author of News Values: Ideas for an Information Age and six novels.

Mr. Fuller is a trustee at the University of Chicago and a member of the board for Torstar Corporation.

Mr. Fuller is a member of the Audit Committee, the Budget and Compensation Committee, the Institutional Policy Committee, and the Committee on Human and Community Development of the Foundation.

  Jamie Gorelick is a partner in the Washington office of WilmerHale. She has previously served as a member of the 9/11 Commission, as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and as General Counsel at the Department of Defense, among other positions.

Ms. Gorelick is a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Urban Institute, and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the boards of Schlumberger, Ltd. and United Technologies Corporation.

Ms. Gorelick is the chair of the Audit Committee of the Foundation and is also a member of the Budget and Compensation Committee, the Nominating Committee and the Committee on Global Security and Sustainability of the Foundation.

  Mary Graham co-directs the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her current research focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of transparency systems as means of furthering public priorities. She is the author of Full Disclosure: the Perils and Promise of Transparency (with Archon Fung and David Weil) (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Democracy by Disclosure (Brookings/Governance Institute, 2002) and The Morning After Earth Day (Brookings/Governance Institute, 1999). She has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Financial Times, Issues in Science and Technology, Environment magazine, and other publications.

Ms. Graham is the chair of the Institutional Policy Committee of the Foundation and also is a member of the Budget and Compensation Committee, the Nominating Committee, and the Program on Global Security and Sustainability of the Foundation.

  Donald R. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H., is associate executive director for health programs at The Carter Center, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization based in Atlanta, GA. He is responsible for leading public health efforts such as the Center''s worldwide Guinea worm eradication initiative and its efforts to fight river blindness and trachoma in Africa and Latin America. Formerly, he served for 20 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the author of The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History.

Dr. Hopkins is a member of the boards of Health & Development International, the Morehouse College Leadership Center, and the CDC Foundation.

Dr. Hopkins is the chair of the Committee on Global Security and Sustainability of the Foundation and also is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee, and the Nominating Committee.

  Alan B. Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He has published widely on the economics of education, terrorism, labor demand, income distribution, unemployment, well-being, social insurance, labor market regulation and environmental economics. Since 1987 he has held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation and of the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research. He is a member of the editorial board of Science and was editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives from 1996 to 2002.

Mr. Krueger is a member of the Investment Committee and the Committee on Human and Community Development of the Foundation.

  Will Miller is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Irwin Financial Corporation of Columbus, Indiana, an interrelated group of financial services companies serving consumers and small businesses across the United States and Canada.

Mr. Miller is a member of the board of Yale University, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, Cummins Foundation, and the Irwin-Sweeney Miller Foundation. He is also a member of the board of Cummins Inc. and the Independent Chair of three mutual funds managed by The Capital Group of Los Angeles (New Perspectives Fund, Euro Pacific Growth Fund and New World Fund).

Mr. Miller is the chair of the Investment Committee of the Foundation and is a member of the Audit Committee, the Budget and Compensation Committee, and the Committee on Human and Community Development of the Foundation.
 
 Mario J. Molina is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Mr. Molina received the Tyler Ecology & Energy Prize in 1983, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995, and the UNEP-Sasakawa Award in 1999.

Mr. Molina is a member of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Mr. Molina is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee and the Committee on Global Security and Sustainability of the Foundation.

  Marjorie M. Scardino is Chief Executive Officer of Pearson, an international education and media group headquartered in London, England, whose primary business operations include The Financial Times Group, Penguin books, Pearson Education, and half of The Economist Group. Before joining Pearson, she was Chief Executive Officer of The Economist Group and, prior to that, she and her husband founded a weekly newspaper in Georgia and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for its editorial writing.

Ms. Scardino is a member of the board of directors and vice-chairman of Nokia Corporation, a director of the Carter Center, and a member of the board of trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Ms. Scardino is chair of the Budget and Compensation Committee of the Foundation and also is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee and the Committee on Global Security and Sustainability of the Foundation.

  Claude M. Steele is the Director of the Center of Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. His research interests include how people cope with threats to their self-image and how group stereotypes, especially as they affect minorities, can influence intellectual performance.

Mr. Steele serves on the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council and has served as president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and of the Western Psychological Society. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the National Academy of Sciences.

Mr. Steele is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee and the Committee on Human and Community Development of the Foundation.
 
Foundation Officers
  Robert E. Denham
Chair of the Board

  Jonathan F. Fanton
President

  Elizabeth Kane
Secretary of the Foundation

  Barry Lowenkron
Vice President, Program on Global Security and Sustainability

  Susan Manske
Vice President and Chief Investment Officer

  Joshua J. Mintz
Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary

  Elspeth A. Revere
Vice President, General Program
 
  Andrew Solomon
Vice President, Public Affairs

  Julia Stasch
Vice President, Program on Human and Community Development

  Arthur M. Sussman
Vice President

  Marc P. Yanchura
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer