James A. Baker, III has served in senior government positions under three United States Presidents. He served as Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan. As Treasury Secretary, he was also Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Council. From 1981 to 1985, he served as White House Chief of Staff to President Reagan. Mr. Baker's record of public service began in 1975 as Under Secretary of Commerce to President Gerald Ford and concluded with his service as White House Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor to President George H.W. Bush.
Mr. Baker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and has been the recipient of many other awards for distinguished public service, including Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, The American Institute for Public Service's Jefferson Award, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Award, The Hans J. Morgenthau Award, The George F. Kennan Award, the Department of the Treasury's Alexander Hamilton Award, the Department of State's Distinguished Service Award, and numerous honorary academic degrees.
Mr. Baker is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts and Senior Counselor to The Carlyle Group. He is Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and serves on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Baker served as the Personal Envoy of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and was appointed Special Presidential Envoy for President George W. Bush on the issue of Iraqi debt.
Eddie Lebaron served as Managing Partner at Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro LLP until retirement in 1997 after a successful career practicing law. He is also a decorated U.S. military veteran, a former professional football player, and a successful sports industry executive.
As a Marine Corps officer in the Korean War, Mr. Lebaron earned a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart. He returned home to take up a career in the National Football League, finishing 12 seasons with the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys and playing in four Pro Bowls.
Mr. Lebaron received his law degree at George Washington University and as a practicing attorney became a partner at Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro in 1988. In addition to practicing law, Mr. Lebaron served as General Manager for the Atlanta Falcons football team and was named NFL Executive of the Year in 1980.
Maurice Greenberg is the former Chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG). Greenberg, who grew up on a farm, fought in World War II, earned a law degree, and then collected a bronze star for service in Korea. He joined the American International organization in 1960 and was named by the company’s founder Cornelius Vander Starr to head the North American practice. Greenberg rose quickly to become president of the American Home Assurance Company subsidiary, then president and CEO of AIG in 1967, and chairman and CEO in 1989.
Mr. Greenberg is a Director Emeritus and Honorary Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. Although never having held public office, Mr. Greenberg’s extensive foreign business experience in the 1980s prompted the Reagan Administration to offer him a job as Deputy Director of the CIA which he declined.
Van McCormick Mr. McCormick is Director of IEA. Before IEA, he was Director of Investment Symposia and Harvard-Kommersant Program lecturer both at Harvard’s Belfer Center. Before that, he was Principal Lecturer for the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). Before Harvard, he was involved in start-up and private equity ventures including Qeyton Systems that sold to Cisco, President of IIHC, an acquisition company backed by First Data (FDC) and Stonington Partners and Managing Director at US Digital. He started at Hubbard Broadcasting’s KOB-TV (NBC) and led new media, ran Cityline Inc., and worked on USSB that merged into DIRECTV. Mr. McCormick served on the Bush/Quayle Presidential Council and the US Department of Commerce committee on high technology in 1992. He received a BA at the University of New Mexico and an AMP from Harvard Business School.
Robert Mosbacher, Sr. Sec. Mosbacher served as Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992. He was President George H. W. Bush's leading advocate for NAFTA. Sec. Mosbacher served as the General Chairman of the Republican National Committee, National Finance Chairman for the George H. W. Bush Presidential Campaign, General Chairman of the George Bush Re-Election Committee, as well as for the President Ford Committee in 1976. He is a recipient of the prestigious Aztec Eagle Award from Mexico President Ernesto Zedillo for foreign persons rendering distinguished service to Mexico.
Sec. Mosbacher’s distinguished political career is matched by his career in the energy industry. He is past Chairman of the National Petroleum Council, past President of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen, among others.
Sec. Mosbacher is committed to a number of civic and charitable causes. He is a two-time Chairman of the Board of Visitors of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Institute. He is a Board Member of the American Hospital in Paris Foundation, a Board Member of the Naval Academy Endowment Trust Board, and Board President of the Odyssey Academy—a school for at-risk children.
Sec. Mosbacher is an avid sailor and recipient of several First Awards in North American and World Sailing championships. He is married and is a father of four and grandfather of six.
Faculty Advisory Board
Rawi Abdelal is Associate Professor of Business, Government, and the International Economy at Harvard Business School. He is also a faculty associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Professor Abdelal's first book, National Purpose in the World Economy, was published in autumn 2001. In it he describes how national identities influence the world economy. In addition he explains patterns of economic disintegration and reintegration among Russia and the other fourteen states that comprised the Soviet Union. National Purpose in the World Economy won the 2002 Shulman Prize as the most outstanding book on the international relations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Professor Abdelal is currently at work on several new research agendas including a project explaining the international politics of Russia's oil and gas exports. He earned a PhD in Government from Cornell University.
Timothy Colton is Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His main interest is Russian and post-Soviet government and politics. He is the author of The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union (1986); Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (1995), which was named best scholarly book in government and political science by the Association of American Publishers; Growing Pains: Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993 (1998); and Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia (2000). Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000.
He is currently writing a book on the statecraft of Boris Yeltsin and coordinating a joint project on the post-Communist state. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a member of the Joint Committee on Soviet Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and vice-chairman of the National Council for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Research. He is currently a member of the advisory committee of the Kennan Institute, a member of the editorial board World Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs, and chairman of the international committee of the American Political Science Committee. Professor Colton received his PhD from Harvard University in 1974 in Russian history and politics.
William Fruhan, Jr. holds the George E. Bates Professorship at Harvard Business School. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University. He served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Development, as Chairman of the Advanced Management Program, and as head of the Finance program for first-year MBA students. Professor Fruhan has authored several books on business and finance, including: Revitalizing Businesses; Financial Strategy; and The Fight for Competitive Advantage. He is also co-editor of Case Problems in Finance (6th through 11th editions). His articles include: "Corporate Raiders: Head ‘Em Off at the Value Gap", "Management, Labor and the Golden Goose", "How Fast Should Your Company Grow?", and "Is Your Stock Worth Its Market Price?" in the Harvard Business Review. He also wrote "Levitz Furniture: A Case History in the Creation and Destruction of Shareholder Value" for the Financial Analysts Journal.
He is currently serving as a director of several industrial and service companies and has served as director for 14 different corporations over the course of his career. Six of these firms were publicly traded. Professor Fruhan was one of the early developers of the concept of value-based management and he is currently undertaking research in developing business-level and corporate strategies aimed at enhancing shareholder value.
Robert Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served previously as a member of the President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1998 to 2000 and held a Senior Fellowship at the Brookings Institution. Professor Lawrence formerly taught at Yale University where he received his PhD in economics.
With a primary research focus of trade policy, Lawrence authored several economic texts, including: Can America Compete?; Crimes and Punishments? An Analysis of Retaliation under the WTO; Regionalism, Multilateralism and Deeper Integration; and Single World, Divided Nations? He is also coauthor of: A Prism on Globalization; Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade; A Vision for the World Economy; and Saving Free Trade: A Pragmatic Approach. Professor Lawrence has served on the advisory boards of the Congressional Budget Office, the Overseas Development Council, and the Presidential Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy.
Mark Rosenzweig is Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for International Development. Prior to joining the Kennedy School he taught in the economics departments at Yale, the University of Minnesota, and most recently, the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Departmental Chair for five years and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Social Sciences.
His most recent work examines the consequences of India’s Green Revolution for schoolastic attainment, household structure, deforestation, and the impact of local democratization on the distribution of public services in India; et al. During 1979-1980, Rosenzweig was Director of Research for the U.S. Select Commission of Immigration and Refugee Policy and he is currently Co-Principal Investigator for the New Immigrant Survey, the first national longitudinal survey of immigrants in the United States. Rosenzweig is Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and a Fellow at the Econometric Society.
Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focuses on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance. Over the years, Professor Salter has taught and helped develop a wide variety of courses and currently teaches courses on Government, Corporate Control, Leadership Values, and Decision-Making in the MBA program.
His current research addresses how corporate governance and control systems affect the performance of firms. Professor Salter is also President of Mars & Co., a strategy consulting firm with offices in several locations worldwide. Professor Salter is a graduate of Harvard University, where he received his AB, MBA, and DBA degrees.
Richard Vietor is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Studies and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School where he teaches courses on the regulation of business and the international political economy. He received a B.A. in economics from Union College (1967), an M.A. in history from Hofstra University (1971), and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh (1975). He was appointed Professor in 1984.
Before coming to the Harvard Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of Missouri. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and Harvard's Newcomen Fellowship. In 1981, he received the Newcomen Award in business history. He serves on the editorial board of the Business History Review, the advisory board of IPADE (a private business school in Mexico), and the Infrastructure Committee of the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council.
Professor Vietor's research on business and government policy has been published in numerous journals and books. He has also been a consultant to the Hudson Institute and the Energy Research and Development Administration, and is currently consultant to several corporations, including: IBM, Honeywell, General Electric, New England Telephone, AT&T, and Southern Bell.
Regional Advisory Board: Russia
James Collins, Ambassador Retired is a senior international advisor in the Public Law and Policy practice group at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP. He also works with Akin Gump Global Solutions, the firm's joint venture with First International Resources, Inc.
Collins served from 1997-2001 as U.S. Ambassador to Russia. He is one of America's leading authorities on US relations with Russia and Eurasia.
Before becoming Ambassador to Russia, Collins enjoyed a broad and distinguished State Department career. As a member of the Senior Foreign Service, he served as a presidential appointee both overseas and in Washington. He was Ambassador-at-large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the Newly Independent States and Deputy Chief-of-Mission and Charge’ d'Affaires with Ambassador Robert S. Strauss at the American Embassy in Moscow during the collapse of the USSR.
German Gref is the Minister for Economic Development and Trade in Russia and Chairman of the Board at the Strategic Development Center Foundation since 2000. Prior to this, he was First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation from 1998-2000.
Mr. Gref was Vice Governor and Chairman of the Government of St. Petersburg Property Management Committee and prior to that, directed the Real Estate Department. Previously, he was also Chairman of the Property Management Committee and Deputy Chief of the Petrodvorets District Government.
Mr. Gref graduated from the Law Department of Omsk State University and undertook postgraduate studies in the Law Department of Leningrad State University.
Andrei Illarionov, Advisor to the President of Russia has served in the Presidential cabinet since 2000. From 1994-2000, he was Director of the Institute of Economic Analysis, and before that he headed the analysis and planning group for the Chairman of Russia’s Council of Ministers. From 1992-1993, he served as the First Deputy Director of the Working Group on Economic Reform in Russia.
Mr. Illarionov is a graduate of Leningrad State University with a Bachelor’s degree in 1983 and Master’s degree in 1987 in Economics.
Donald Kendall is the co-founder of PepsiCo, serving as its Chief Executive Officer for 21 years before retiring in May 1986. Mr. Kendall served as Chairman of the Board’s Executive Committee from 1986 until 1991.
Throughout his career, Mr. Kendall has been very active in a variety of key cultural, economic and political organizations, both domestically and internationally. Major appointments include: National Alliance of Businessmen (Chairman, 1969; director for eight years); US-USSR Trade and Economic Council (first US Co-Chairman, 1973-1977), Emergency Committee for American Trade (Chairman, 1969-1976), the Chamber of Commerce of the United States (Chairman of the Board, 1981-1982), National Center for Resource Recovery, Inc. (Chairman from 1970 to 1976), Grocery Manufacturers of America (Chairman from 1969-1971) and the American Ballet Theatre Foundation (Chairman of the Board, 1977-1983).
Mr. Kendall received his undergraduate education at Western Kentucky State College and has earned a number of honorary doctorates in law and humane letters from schools throughout the country.
Sergei Konoplyov, Director of the Harvard Black Sea Security Program and Harvard Russian-US Security Program, served as Acting Director of the Eurasia Foundation for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in 1994-1996. A former officer of the Soviet Armed Forces, he served in several military missions in Africa and Latin America. A graduate of the Moscow Military Institute, he also holds a degree from Kyrgyz University in Journalism (Cum Laude) and a Masters in Public Administration degree from the Kennedy School of Government. He holds Ph.D. (Political Science) from Kiev Institute for International Relations. Since 1998 he is a member of International Institute for Strategic Studies. For the forth year Sergei continues his International Security Fellowship at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. Sergei was NATO Fellow in 1998-2000. Since 2000 Sergei serves as Advisor to Head of National Security and Defense Committee at Ukrainian Parliament. He is member in advisory boards of Review of International Affairs and Ankara Papers (Turkey).
William Perry, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment to the School of Engineering and the Institute for International Studies. He is co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Stanford and Harvard Universities. His previous academic experience includes serving as professor at Stanford University, where he also co-directed the Center for International Security and Arms Control.
Perry was U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1994-1997, after serving previously as Undersecretary of Defense (1993–94) and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977–81). He currently serves on the board of directors of Anteon International Corporation and several emerging high-tech companies, as well as chairman of his company Global Technology Partners.
Perry received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State all in mathematics. He is currently a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Thomas Pickering, Ambassador Retired is Senior Vice President of International Relations for Boeing. He joined the company and assumed this position in January 2001 upon his retirement as US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, a position he held since May 1997. In this newly created position at Boeing, Pickering oversees the company’s international affairs, including those with foreign governments.
Pickering held the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the US Foreign Service and has served as US ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan. From 1989 to 1993, he served as Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations in New York.
He earned a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and was granted both the Distinguished Presidential Award and the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award.
Paul A. Volcker is currently serving as a director and consultant to a number of corporations and non-profit organizations.
Mr. Volcker was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank from 1979-1987 where he is credited with the leading role in ending a period of high and rising inflation while restoring a base for sustained growth. In the course of his career, Mr. Volcker served in government office under five Presidents, and, immediately before becoming Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, spent more than four years as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Robert J. Wussler is the President and CEO of Ted Turner Documentaries and Ted Turner Pictures. Wussler previously served as president of CBS Sports and, i n 1980, joined Ted Turner as a co-Founder of CNN. For almost 10 years he oversaw the growth of SuperStation TBS as its President and, in 1988, was instrumental in the founding of TNT.
From 1989 to 1992, Wussler was President and CEO of COMSAT Video Enterprises, supervising the expansion of on-demand video in hotels. Wussler also managed the acquisition of the Denver Nuggets and served as the team’s managing general partner. Following several international entrepreneurial ventures, including Metromedia's European television distribution businesses, Wussler became president and CEO of ABC Affiliate Enterprises, the new media and marketing arm of more than 100 ABC television affiliates.
Sergey Yastrzhembsky is Advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Special Representative of the President on European Affairs. He also is the Special Envoy of the President to the European Union.
From 1979-1981, Mr. Yastrezhembsky worked as a junior researcher at the Soviet Academy of Social Sciences and from 1981-1989 as senior researcher, editorial adviser, and deputy executive editor of Global and Socialist Issues magazine. From 1989-1990, he served as senior researcher in the International Department of the Soviet Central Committee. From 1990-1992, Mr. Yastrzhembsky worked as deputy editor-in-chief of Megapolis magazine, editor-in-chief of VIP magazine, and deputy general director of the Social and Political Research Fund.
In 1992, Sergey Yastrzhembsky began his diplomatic career as director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and representative of Russia to Slovakia. From 1996-1997, Mr. Yastrzhembsky served as the Press Attaché for the President of the Russian Federation and, in 1997, became Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office, as well as the Press Attaché for the President. From 1998-2000, Mr. Yastrzhembsky worked as Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow City Government, and since January 2000, assuming the office of Aide to the President.
Mr. Yastrzhembsky earned his Bachelor’s degree and doctorate from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and the Institute of the International Workers’ Movement program at the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1979). He holds a Ph.D. in history.
Minos Zombanakis has served since 1996 as Chairman of the International Advisory Council for Europe, Africa & the Middle East at Chase Manhattan Bank and adviser to JP Morgan. He was educated at Harvard University, where he received his MA in Economics and his MPA in Public Administration, after which he worked with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company of New York as Representative for the Near and Middle East and subsequently served as Senior Representative for Europe. In 1969, he was appointed Senior Vice-President, and established Manufacturers Hanover Limited in London, becoming its first Managing Director. He then joined First Boston Corporation as Director and subsequently became Vice-Chairman and Chairman of First Boston International. From 1978-1985, Mr Zombanakis joined the INA Corporation and served as Chairman of the Blyth Eastman Dillon International Corporation.
In 1982, he was appointed Chairman of CIGNA International Holdings, the international arm of INA’s successor company. From 1985 until the present, he has served as Chairman of the Group for International Study and Evaluation (GISE AG), an independent group of international consultants advising Government agencies and large institutions on questions relating to the world financial system. Mr Zombanakis is also a current member of the Bretton Woods Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
