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Ramin Arani A'92
Ramin Arani is a portfolio manager for Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm. He manages Fidelity Trend Fund and the equity portion of Fidelity Advisor Asset Allocation. Mr. Arani began managing Fidelity Trend Fund in June 2000 and the equity portion of Fidelity Advisor Asset Allocation in August 2005.

Abbas Bayat
Abbas Bayat is the Chief Executive Officer for Sunnyland Distribution in Belgium. Mr. Bayat is also the chairman of Belgian football club, Charleroi, and was nominated for Businessman of the year in 2001 in Belgium. The son of a former minister of the Shah of Iran, Abbas Bayat left his country of origin during the Islamic Revolution and settled in the United States in 1979.

Robert Bendetson A'73
Robert Bendetson is the Chairman and President of the Cabot House family of retail furniture stores.

Fred Berger E'69
Fred Berger has been actively involved with international development since 1972 and his developmental assignments, primarily in the transport sector, have spanned all four LDC continents and include technical contributions to, or active supervision of, projects in some 60 countries. Mr. Berger's current responsibilities at the Louis Berger Group include Africa, Japan, Afghanistan and special projects. He also oversees various elements of the corporate quality verification program.

Andrew M. Cable
Andrew Cable is President of Liberty Properties in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gerald Chan
Gerald L. Chan, Co-founder of the Morningside group, has extensive experience in private equity and venture capital investments both in the US and in China. He is Chairman of Media Partners International Holdings Inc., a publicly listed outdoor media company with operations throughout China. Since 1986, Mr. Chan has been a director of Hang Lung Group Limited, a property company with holdings in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Previously, Mr. Chan was a research fellow in pathology at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Mr. Chan serves on the advisory council of several universities including Harvard School of Public Health, University of Southern California, John Hopkins University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Elyse Cherry
Elyse Cherry is CEO of Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution whose mission is to build healthy communities where low-income people live and work through socially responsible lending and investing. She is an attorney and a former partner of the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, where her practice focused on large commercial real estate transactions, the development of affordable housing and the preservation of open space. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Community Capital Association, on the Advisory Board of Wall Street Without Walls, and is a former director of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. She is a member of Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Cultural Council; an advisor to Northeastern University's urban-focused School of Education; a member of the Executive Council of the YWCA of Boston; and President of the Board of Directors for The Center for New Words.

Frederick H. Chicos
Frederick H. Chicos is widely recognized as an innovative businessman and an effective leader in the higher education community. Mr. Chicos was the President and CEO of The Chickering Group, prior to the company becoming an independent subsidiary of Aetna, Inc. in December 2003. Mr. Chicos founded The Chickering Group to provide student health insurance solutions to businesses, colleges, and universities throughout New England.

David Cuttino
David D. Cuttino served as Dean of Admissions, Enrollment and External Affairs at Tufts University. He was responsible for undergraduate admissions, financial aid policy, and the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership. He initiated the Tufts Institute for Leadership and International Perspective and a number of scholar programs. He also was Interim Dean of the College of Special Studies. Prior to coming to Tufts, he was Associate Dean of Admissions at Georgetown University where he chaired the committees directing admission to the School of Foreign Service and the School of Business Administration.

Edward L. DeMore
Edward L. DeMore is the CEO and a founder of the Boston Digital Bridge Foundation. In collaboration with Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the City of Boston, the Foundation conceived and manages the nationally renowned Technology Goes Home program, a technology education initiative that provides computer training and computers to low-income families in order to help them bridge the digital divide.

Juan Enriquez
Juan Enriquez, best selling author, businessman, and academic, is currently Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC, a life sciences research and investment firm. He is the Founding Director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project, and author of the global bestseller As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth . He is currently finishing his next book, The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future , which explores why some countries are successful while others disappear.

Obiageli Ezekwesili
Obiageli Ezekwesili was named Nigeria's Minister of Solid Materials during the summer of 2005. Prior to that, she was Special Assistant for Budget to the President of Nigeria. She serves on the boards of several national and international organizations committed to development, democracy, and accountability issues both in her country Nigeria and globally. She is on the Board of Directors of the New Nigeria Foundation; the founder and co-director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Nigeria; and is the former Finance Director of Transparency International in Nigeria. She is presently leading the Nigeria Project for the Center for International Development of Harvard University.

Hunter Farnham
Hunter Farnham began working on the problems of economic and social development in Africa in the 1960s, primarily for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Among his positions were Uganda desk officer, Assistant Director for the Sahel and Francophone West Africa, Officer-in-Charge of Zimbabwe programs, heading the USAID Missions in Uganda and Guinea-Bissau and various special assistantships and directorships of inter-Agency taskforces on African emergencies such as locust plagues, famines and problems of refugees and displaced persons. He has also consulted extensively for a number of American NGOs. He currently advises a number of clubs at Phillips Exeter Academy, including the Current Events & International Relations Club, which participates in the EPIIC Inquiry program.

Howard M. Finkelstein
Howard M. Finkelstein is a Management Consultant in Greenwich, CT advising a number of telecommunications and data companies and President of Finkelstein & Co. From 2000-2002, he served as Special Advisor to General Atlantic Partners, a Greenwich, CT based private equity firm. Mr. Finkelstein, in his nineteen-year association with Metromedia Company and its partners John W. Kluge and Stuart Subotnick, served as President and/or Chief Operating Officer of four Metromedia owned or affiliated businesses, three of which were in telecommunications. Throughout his career, Finkelstein has served on a number of telecommunications industry and corporate boards.

Neva Goodwin
Neva Goodwin is the Co-Director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. As Co-Director, she supervised the six-volume project, Frontier Issues in Economic Thought , and is editing a Michigan Press series, Evolving Values for a Capitalist World . She is active in a variety of attempts to synthesize and institutionalize an economic theory - "contextual economics" - that will have more relevance to real world concerns than does the dominant economic paradigm. Dr. Goodwin is lead author of the introductory college-level textbook, Microeconomics in Context .

Fred Harburg
Fred Harburg is Senior Vice President of Leadership and Learning at Fidelity Investments. He and his teams are responsible for developing the leadership and organizational capability to ensure Fidelity's continuing success. Under his guidance, Fidelity is taking a leadership position in providing a fully integrated approach to organizational and leadership development aimed as driving superior business performance. Throughout his career he has served as a leader, consultant, communicator, and executive coach for several important large scale change efforts such as his work with the President of Saturn Corporation in its start-up years.

Uwe Kitzinger, CBE
Mr. Kitzinger was the founding president of Templeton College Oxford, 1984-91; was a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard in 1969-70 and at the University of Paris 1970-73; has been a fellow at Nuffield College at Oxford since 1956; a visiting scholar at Harvard University since 1993; a senior research fellow at the United Kingdom Atlantic Council since 1993; the co-founder of Lentils for Dubrovnik in 1991; and was the founding chairman of the International Association of Macro-Engineering Societies. He is the author of numerous books including most recently Macro Engineering and the Earth in 1998. In 1980, Mr. Kitzinger was made commander in the Order of the British Empire.

Jeffrey Kunkes A'73
Dr. Jeffrey Kunkes is a practicing surgeon and the founder of Ear, Nose and Throat of Georgia. Dr. Kunkes was a Republican State Delegate in Georgia from 2002-05. He served on the medical advisory board for Senator Coverdale from 1996-99 and Senator Price from 2004-05. He was the president of the Georgia State Society of Otolaryngology from 1989-90 and was a Governor's appointee to the state board of speech pathology and audiology from 1989-92.

Abner Kurtin A'89
Mr. Abner Kurtin serves as Portfolio Manager of K Capital. Mr. Kurtin co-founded K Capital Partners, LLC in April 1999. K Capital is an investment partnership focusing on European restructuring, and arbitrage opportunities. Before launching K Capital, Mr. Kurtin had most recently served as Managing Director at The Baupost Group after tenures at AEA Investors and Lehman Brothers Inc. Mr. Kurtin graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. from Tufts University and also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Kurtin lives on Beacon Hill with his wife and three children. He currently serves as a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital President's Council and on the Executive Advisory Committee of MassGeneral Hospital for Children.

Kent Lucken
Kent Lucken is a Director of The Citigroup Private Bank in Boston, where he provides global wealth management services to international entrepreneurs, private equity firms and several of the largest privately-held corporations in the U.S. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Lucken worked at Robertson Stephens Investment Bank and he served fourteen years with the U.S. Department of State, completing diplomatic assignments at the U.S. Embassies in Italy, Russia, Georgia, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia. Mr. Lucken is a board member for the U.S. Asia Institute, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Alumni Leadership Council and a Gubernatorial appointee to the Massachusetts Area Planning Council.

Javier Macaya A'91
Javier Macaya is the founder, owner and CEO of Athelera LLC, a New York based investment banking boutique focused on providing mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory services to a select group of European, Latin American and North American Companies and family groups. He is also a Director of Corporacion Geo, MiCash Inc. and Fun & Basics S.A.

Bruce Male A'63
Bruce Male is President and Co-Founder of American International Bakeries, Srl (AIB) based in Parma, Italy. AIB is Italy's first producer of bagels and is a premier supplier of American style muffins. He is the former Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of TravCorps Corporation of Malden, Massachusetts, the innovator of traveling nurses and allied health personnel in the U.S. He also a member of the Tufts Board of Trustees, is the Chairman of the Tufts International Board of Overseers and an Arts and Science Overseer. Mr. Male Is also on the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Theodore Mayer
Theodore Mayer is a partner in the New York-based law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, where he heads the product liability practice group, and has a practice focused on national and international litigation involving pharmaceuticals.

William Meserve A'62
William Meserve is senior counsel in the Litigation Department at the law firm of Ropes & Gray. He has been with the firm since 1970 and was a partner since 1976. He is a former member of Tufts' Board of Trustees and, among other activities, is currently the Board Chair of Earthwatch Institute, a Director of AFS-USA (an international student exchange organization), the Boston Fulbright Committee, United South End Settlements (a large social service agency in Boston) and the Conservation, Education and Research Trust in Oxford, England. He is also a long time member of the Board of Overseers at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Ambassador Jonathan Moore
Jonathan Moore was an ambassador to the United Nations under President George H.W. Bush. He is now an adviser to the U.N. Development Program on post-conflict reconstruction and is an associate at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University.

Mark Munger
Mark Munger is currently a Senior Associate at Valeocon, an international management consulting firm. He has been consulting for leaders on executive leadership, innovation, and change for more than twenty-five years. He works with those in leadership positions who seek to integrate strategy and organization and management. In particular, his consultation deals with issues of cultural fluency and competence for leaders who wish to both conform to and exceed rising expectations of corporate accountability and performance.

Moisés Naím
Editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine, Moisés Naím heads one of the world's leading publications on international politics and economics and winner of the 2003 National Magazine Award for general excellence. He has written extensively on international political economy, economic development, world politics, and globalization's unintended consequences. His regular opinion columns appear in the Financial Times, El Pais, Newsweek, Corriere della Serra, and many other internationally-recognized newspapers and magazines. He is the author or editor of eight books including Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy , which is currently being published in 14 languages and will be available this fall. Dr. Naím is one of six members of Time magazine's board of international economists and he is also the Chairman of the Group of Fifty, an organization of the CEO's of Latin America's largest corporations.

Timothy Phillips
Timothy Phillips is a founding co-chair of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition of Harvard University. He is also a co-founder of Energia Global, Ltd., a US company which develops and owns electricity generation and distribution companies in Central and South America. He has served as a consultant to non-governmental and governmental organizations in the United States and abroad, including the US State Department and the Council of Europe, on democratization, conflict resolution and human rights initiatives. Mr. Phillips is a member of the Board of Directors and Advisors of the Foundation for a Civil Society, the University of the Middle East and the Coexistence Initiative.

David Puth A'79
David Puth is the founder of the Eriska Group, a board member and senior advisor at JHWhitney Investment Management. a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation and the Former Managing Director and Head of Global Currency and Commodities at JP Morgan Chase.

Andrew Safran A'76, F'77
Andrew Safran is the Global Head of Citigroups' Global Energy Power and Chemical Group within the Investment Banking Division and a member of the Operating Committee. He is responsible for managing the activities of Citigroup's investment banking business with all energy, utility and chemical clients globally. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Safran was Co-Head of North American Energy with primary focus upon the midstream segment. Mr. Safran sits on the Fletcher Board of Overseers.

Scott Schuster A'79
Scott Schuster has been involved in the health care and real estate industries for over 20 years. He is the Founder and President of Senior Residential Care, a regional provider of skilled nursing and supportive care to seniors in residential settings throughout New England. Prior to founding Senior Residential Care, Mr. Schuster was the Founder and President of Epoch Senior Living, a Boston-based developer and operator of senior continuums, including skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. Mr. Schuster also served for 14 years as a Director of Continental Wingate Company and as President of Wingate Development Corporation, presiding over a national multifamily development portfolio.

Ambassador John Shattuck
Ambassador John Shattuck is the Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Among his many awards, in 1998, Ambassador Shattuck received an International Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of Boston for human rights achievements while serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. In 1998, Mr. Shattuck was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Mr. Shattuck is the author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and the Roots of Terrorism.

Jane J. Sheng
Jane Sheng combines a unique understanding of technology-based business with more than 15 years' experience in business strategy, finance and operating management. Ms. Sheng is a co-founder and CEO of PJ Systems/HIQ Computers Boston, one of the largest full service IT solution providers in the metro Boston area with service and sales revenue of over $25M annually.

Philippe Villers
Philippe Villers is the co-founder of Families USA. He has served as its President and as a member of the Board of Directors since the inception of Families USA. Mr. Villers currently also serves on the ACLU President's Committee, Amnesty International USA's Executive Directors Council, and on the Boards of Cambridge Innovations, Mercy Corps., QuitNet, and Voxiva. He is President of Grainpro Inc. involved in food security for the developing world.

Richard Wayne
Richard Wayne is Co-Chief, Executive Officer, President and Director of Capital Crossing Bank in Massachusetts.

Kevin Zhang