AFoCR’s Directors

Joseph Balaz
Director

Peter Bisek
Editor, Americke listy

Eugene A. Cernan
Astronaut, President, The Cernan Corporation

George Drost
Attorney Drost, Kivlahan, McMahon & O'' Conner, LLC

Phillip M. Kasik, P.E
Past President, AFoCR Partner, MPR Assoc., Engineers

Gail Naughton
President/CEO, National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library, Cedar Rapids, IA

Michael G. Rokos
Past President, AFoCR, President, Bohemian National Cemetery, Baltimore cc

Richard F. Schubert
Former President, American Red Cross, Former President, Points of Light Foundation

Jack Stack
Former CEO, Ceska Sporitelna Bank

Lewis M. ("Jack") White
President, Wilsonian Club

AFoCR’s Advisors

Daniel R. Baldwin
President, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation cc

Adrian A. Basora
Former U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1992-1995)

Jiří Boudník
Architect

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Thomas R. Cech
Nobel Laureaate, Chemistry President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Robert Chartener
Partner Winslow Partners

Marc Ellenbogen
President, The Prague Society Chairman, Global Panel Foundation

Milos Forman
Film Director

Richard W. Graber
Current U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic

Patricia Hampl
Writer

Henry Kissinger
Former U.S. Secretary of State

Petr Kolář
Czech Ambassador to the U.S.

James A. Lovell, Jr.
Astronaut

Wendy W. Luers
President, The Foundation for a Civil Society

Richard G. Lugar
Ranking Minority Leader, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Julian M. Niemczyk
Former U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1986-1989)

Michael Novak
American Enterprise Institute

Martin Palous
Czech Ambassador to the U.N., Former Czech Ambassador to the U.S.

Richard Pivnicka
Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic, San Francisco

Effie Rosene
Houston Czech Cultural Center

Jeffrey Turner
Attorney, Patton, Boggs, LLC

Peter Sis
Author and Artist

Sissy Spacek
Actress

Craig Stapleton
U.S. Ambassador to France, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2000-2003)

Jan Svejnar
Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, University of Michigan

Alexandr Vondra
Deputy Prime Minister, Former Czech Ambassador to the U.S. (1997 - 2001)

AFoCR’s Officers

Fred Malek
Chairman of the Board
Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners
Former Advisor to President Nixon, Reagan and G.H.W. Bush

Thomas A. Dine
President
Radio Free Europe Former Assistant Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (1993-1997)

Peter A. Rafaeli
Vice President and Treasurer
Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic, Philadelphia

William Cabaniss
Executive Vice President
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2003-2006)

Phil Kasik
Vice President and Asst. Treasurer

Robert W. Doubek
Secretary
Past President, AFoCR