International Rescue Committee

IRC Board of Directors and Overseers

The International Rescue Committee is governed by a volunteer, unpaid board of directors. In addition, the IRC Overseers provide advice on policy, advocacy, fundraising and public relations.

Alan R. Batkin
Jonathan L. Wiesner

Co-Chairs, Board of Directors
 
Liv Ullmann
Vice Chair, International 
Jean Kennedy Smith
Secretary  

George Rupp
President and Chief Executive Officer
 
Winston Lord
James Strickler
John Whitehead

Chairs, Emeriti

Board of Directors

   

Morton I. Abramowitz
Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation and President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Simin Nazem Allison

Cliff S. Asness
Managing and Founding Partner, AQR Capital Management

Alan R. Batkin
Vice Chairman, Eton Park Capital Management, LP

Christoph Becker
Global Chief Creative Officer, Gyro HSR

Betsy Blumenthal
Senior Managing Director, Kroll Associates

Glenda Burkhart

Florence A. Davis
President, The Starr Foundation

Susan Dentzer
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs and On-Air Analyst on Health Policy, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS

Trinh D. Doan
Senior Vice President, Bank of America

Kenneth R. French
Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

Christopher Gardner
Chief Executive Officer, Gardner Rich & Co

Michael J. Gerson
Senior Research Fellow - Center on Faith & International Affairs, Institute for Global Engagement

George F. Hritz
Partner, Hogan & Hartson, LLP

Frederick J. Iseman
Chairman and CEO, CI Capital Partners

Aly S. Jeddy
Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.

M. Farooq Kathwari
Chairman, President and CEO, Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc

 

William Lucy
Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME

Robert E. Marks
President, Marks Ventures, LLC

Kathleen O’Donovan
Co-Chair of IRC UK Board

Scott Pelley
Correspondent, CBS News/60 Minutes

Gideon Rose
Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs

George Rupp
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee

George S. Sarlo
Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital

Scott Scheirman
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, The Western Union Company

Thomas Schick
Executive Vice President, American Express Company

Jean Kennedy Smith
Former Ambassador, Ireland

Michael VanRooyen, M.D.
Co-Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University

Leah Zell Wanger
Principal, Lizard Investors, LLC

Jonathan L. Wiesner
CEO and Owner, Midwest Apparel Group, Inc.

William T. Winters
Co-CEO, JP Morgan Investment Banking

Tracy R. Wolstencroft
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.


Overseers    

Madeleine K. Albright
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group

Laurent Alpert
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton

Kofi A. Annan
President, Kofi Annan Foundation, Global Humanitarian Forum; United Nations Secretary-General

Lila Azam Zanganeh
Writer and literary critic (Le Monde, The Paris Review) 

F. William Barnett
Former Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Alan R. Batkin
Vice Chairman, Eton Park Capital Management, LP

Georgette F. Bennett
President, Tanenbaum Center for Inter-religious Understanding

Vera Blinken
Chair, Primavera Mobil Mammography Program; Vice Chair, Foundation of Art Preservation in Embassies; Board Member, Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra

Michael Blumenthal
Former Secretary of the US Treasury and Director of Jewish Museum Berlin

Andrew Brimmer
Partner, Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

Jennifer Brokaw, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Tom Brokaw
Special Correspondent, NBC News

Frederick Burkle, M.D.
Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Visiting Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars; Professor, Department of Community Health, Monash University Medical School; Senior Associate Faculty, Department of International Health, Center for Refugee & Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins University; Adjunct Professor, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences

Nestor Carbonell
Former Vice President for International Public Affairs, PepsiCo

Jeremy Carver
Consultant, Head of International Law, Clifford Chance

Geoffrey Colvin
Partner, CEW Partners

Karen Cook
Chief Investment Officer, Steinhart Management

Robert M. Cotten
Los Angeles, CA

Robert P. DeVecchi
Former President, International Rescue Committee

Dina Dublon
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, JP Morgan Chase & Co

Robin Chandler Duke
Council on Foreign Relations and the Guttmacher Institute

Jodie Eastman
Member; Leadership Council, New York Stem Cell Foundation

Katherine Farley
Senior Managing Director Brazil, China and Global Corporate Marketing, Tishman Speyer

H.R.H. Princess Firyal of Jordan

Harold Ford, Jr.
Vice Chairman and Senior Policy Advisor, Merrill Lynch

Theodore J. Forstmann
Founding Partner, Forstmann Little & Co

Jeffrey E. Garten
Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business Yale School of Management, Yale University

Evan G. Greenberg
Chairman and CEO, Ace Limited

Maurice R. Greenberg
Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co

Andrew S. Grove
Senior Advisor to Executive Management, former Chairman of the Board, Founder, Intel

Morton I. Hamburg
Professional Photographer

Karen Hein, M.D.
Former President of the William T. Grant Foundation

Lucile P. Herbert
Volunteer, International Rescue Committee

Howard Jonas
Founder, IDT Corporation

Marvin Josephson
Founding Chairman, ICM Holdings, Inc.

Alton Kastner
Former Deputy Director, International Rescue Committee

Henry A. Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates

Yong Kwok
Member, IRC Development Committee and Children's Committee

Reynold Levy
President, Lincoln Center

Winston Lord
Former Ambassador, China

 

Dan Lufkin
Allen Co.

Vincent A. Mai
Chairman, AEA Investors

John Makinson
Chairman and CEO of Penguin Group and Executive Director of Pearson PLC.

Lucretia Martin
Special Assistant to the President, Dartmouth College

Roberto Martinez
Partner, Colson, Hicks, Eidson, Matthews, Martinez, Mendoza

Roman Martinez IV
Former Managing Director, Lehman Brothers, Private Investor

Kati Marton
Author and Journalist

Jay Mazur
President Emeritus, UNITE!

W. Allen Moore
Distinguished Fellow, The Henry Stimpson Center

Kathleen Newland
Co-Founder and Director, Migration Policy Institute

Indra Nooyi
Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo

Robert B. Oakley
Retired Ambassador, Zaire, Somalia, Pakistan, Faculty Member, National Defense University

Sadako Ogata
President, Japan International Cooperation Agency

Sarah O’Hagan

Catherine O’Neill

Susan Patricof

Alexandra L. Peters

David L. Phillips

David N. Pincus

General Colin L. Powell, USA (Retired)
Former US Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Donald H. Putnam
Founder and Managing Partner, Grail Partners, LLC

Bruce C. Ratner
CEO, Forest City Ratner

Milbrey Rennie
Consultant

John Richardson
Council for a Community of Democracies, Washington, DC, CCD.org

Felix G. Rohatyn
President, FGR Associates, LLC

George Rupp
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee

Jessica T. Seinfeld
Founder and President, Baby Buggy

Barbara Shailor
Director, International Affairs Department, AFL-CIO

James T. Sherwin
J.D.; Hon LLD; Director, Hunter Douglas N.V.

Nancy Starr

H. Peter Stern
Chairman and president, Storm King Art Center

James C. Strickler, M.D.
Emeritus Professor Medicine and Community Medicine, Emeritus Dean, Dartmouth Medical School

Lee Thaw

Georgia Travers
Managing Member, Mink Island Enterprises, LLC

Liv Ullmann

William J. Vanden Heuvel
Chairman, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

Ronald J. Waldman, M.D.
Columbia University

Rhonda Weingarten
President, United Federation of Teachers

Edwin J. Wesely
Senior Counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Josh Weston
Honorary Chairman, ADP
Anne Whitehead
Trustee, Whitehead Foundation; Former General Counsel for the IRC

John C. Whitehead

Elie Wiesel
Professor Boston University, Nobel Laureate, Writer, Artist

Jonathan L. Wiesner

James D. Wolfensohn
Chairman of Wolfensohn Co., LLC, Chairman of Citi International Advisory and Former President of the World Bank

Guy Wyser Pratte
Wyser Pratte & Co.


IRC-UK Board of Directors