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Voting Members
Sanjiv Ahuja
Chairman and CEO
Tillman Global Holdings LLC
Sayid Khalid Bin Hamad Al-Busaidi
Chairman
Sabco Group L.L.C.
Ellen R. Alemany
Chairwoman and CEO
CIT Group
Wayne W. Allen
Retired Chairman and CEO
Phillips Petroleum Company
Mukesh D. Ambani
Chairman and Managing Director
Reliance Industries Ltd.
Daniel P. Amos
Chairman and CEO
AFLAC Incorporated
Johan H. Andresen, Jr.
Owner and Chairman
Ferd Holding AS
C. Michael Armstrong
Retired Chairman and Director Emeritus
Comcast Corporation
Vicky Bailey
Principal
Anderson Stratton Enterprises LLC
Douglas M. Baker, Jr.
Chairman and CEO
Ecolab Inc.
Peter Bakker
President
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Ajay Banga
President and CEO
MasterCard Worldwide
George S. Barrett
Former Executive Chairman
Cardinal Health, Inc.
Barbara Barrett
President and CEO
Triple Creek Ranch
Alain J. P. Belda
Special Limited Partner
Warburg Pincus LLC
Vance Bell
Chief Executive Officer
Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
Stephanie Birrell Luedke
Head of Private Wealth Management
Neuberg Berman Investment Advisers LLC
Andrew C. W. Brandler
Former Chief Executive Officer
CLP Holdings Ltd
Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak
Former Global Vice Chair, Public Policy
EY
Lord Browne of Madingley
Executive Chairman
L1 Energy
Peter C. Browning
Chairman
Nucor Corporation
Kenneth Burdick
Former Chief Executive Officer
WellCare Health Plans, Inc.
Robert L. Burrus, Jr.
Chairman Emeritus
McGuire Woods LLP
Carl Camden
Retired President and CEO
Kelly Services, Inc.
Richard Cavanagh
Director and Senior Advisor
Fremont Group
Emmanuel Chirico
Chairman and CEO
PVH
David Chun
CEO and Founder
Equilar, Inc.
R. Kerry Clark
Director
Textron
Douglas R. Conant
Chairman
Conant Leadership
Ian M. Cook
Former Chairman, President and CEO
Colgate-Palmolive Company
François M.G. Cornélis
Chairman
Bpost
Yannis S. Costopoulos
Honorary Chairman
Alpha Bank
Roger Crandall
Chairman, President and CEO
MassMutual
Bruce Culpepper
Retired U.S. Country Chair and President
Shell Oil Company
Etienne François Davignon
Minister of State, Belgium, Former Vice President
European Commission
Ian E. L. Davis
Chairman
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc
Former Chairman and Worldwide Managing Director
McKinsey & Company
Bert De Graeve
Former Chairman
Bekaert
Roberto F. de Ocampo
Director and Founding Partner
Centennial Group Centennial Asia Advisors
Scott DeRue
Dean, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Suppiah Dhanabalan
Former Chairman
Temasek Holdings (Pvt) Ltd.
Samuel Di Piazza, Jr.
Retired Chairman
Mayo Clinic
Bülent Eczacibasi
Chairman
Eczacibasi Holding A.S.
Harald Einsmann
Senior Advisor
Trilantic Capital Partners
Michael P. Esposito, Jr.
Former Chairman
Syncora Holdings Ltd.
Isidro Fainé Casas
Chairman
LaCaixa
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
President and CEO
TIAA
Fred Festa
Former Chairman and CEO
W.R. Grace & Co.
Niall FitzGerald
Chairman
Hakluyt & Company
Vincent A. Forlenza
Executive Chairman
BD
John D. Forsyth
Chairman and CEO
Wellmark, Inc.
Kenneth Frazier
Chairman and CEO
Merck & Co., Inc.
Jacob Frenkel
Former Chairman
JP Morgan Chase International
Daniel Fulton
Retired Chief Executive Officer
Weyerhaeuser
Victor K. Fung
Honorary Chairman
Li & Fung Limited
E. Gordon Gee
President
West Virginia University
Sefi Ghasemi
Chairman, President and CEO
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Gary J. Goldberg
Former President and CEO
Newmont Mining Corporation
Pablo González Guajardo
Chief Executive Officer
Kimberly-Clark de Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V.
Tomás González Sada
Chairman of the Board
Cydsa, S.A. de C.V.
James H. Goodnight
Chief Executive Officer
SAS Institute
Ilene S. Gordon
Retired Chairman, President and CEO
Ingredion Incorporated
Alex Gorsky
Chief Executive Officer
Johnson & Johnson
Alan Greenspan
Former Chairman of
the Board of Governors
The Federal Reserve System
John Haley
CEO
Willis Towers Watson
Kathy Hopinkah Hannan
Retired National Managing Partner, Global Lead Partner and Former Vice Chair
KPMG
Richard J. Harshman
Former Chairman, President and CEO
Allegheny Technologies Inc.
Robert Henkel
Former President and CEO
Ascension Health
Zsolt Hernádi
Chairman and CEO
MOL Group
Frances Hesselbein
Chairman and Founding President
Frances Hesselbein Institute
Liz Hilton Segel
Managing Partner
McKinsey & Company
Jack Hockema
Chairman and CEO
Kaiser Aluminium
Ray R. Irani
Chairman and CEO
Ray Investments, LLC
Pablo Isla Alvarez de Tejera
Chairman and CEO
Inditex SA
Larry Jensen
President and CEO
Cushman & Wakefield, Commercial Advisors, LLC
Ole Johansson
Vice-Chairman
Konescrane plc
D. Bryan Jordan
Chairman, President and CEO
First Horizon National Corporation
Harry P. Kamen
Retired Chairman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Gerard J. Kleisterlee
Chairman
Vodafone PLC
William I. Koch
President and CEO
Oxbow Carbon LLC
Richard M. Kovacevich
Retired Chairman and CEO
Wells Fargo & Company
Harry M. J. Kraemer, Jr.
Executive Partner
Madison Dearborn
Richard J. Kramer
Chairman, President and CEO
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Robert J. Kueppers
Partner
Sage Partners
Mikalel Lilius
Former Chairman
Wärtsilä Corporation and Huhtamäki Oyj
Oscar M. Lopez
Chairman Emeritus
Lopez Holdings
John A. Luke, Jr.
Chairman and CEO
MeadWestvaco Corporation
Antonio Madero
Executive Chairman and CEO
SANLUISRassini, S.A.B. de C.V.
Vikram Malhotra
Chairman of the Americas
McKinsey & Company
Robert E. Mercer
Retired Chairman and CEO
Goodyear Tire Rubber Company
Bhupendra Kumar Modi
Chairman
Smart Global
Beth E. Mooney
Former Chairman and CEO
KeyCorp
Robert Moritz
Chairman
PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd
Stanley A. Motta
Chairman
COPA HOLDINGS, S.A.
Deanna M. Mulligan
President and CEO
Guardian Life Insurance Co.
N.R. Narayana Murthy
Chairman Emeritus
Infosys Limited
Joel Myers
Founder, President and Chairman
Accuweather
Thomas C. Nelson
Chairman, President and CEO
National Gypsum Company
Sir Bryan Nicholson
Retired Chairman
Financial Reporting Council
Lars G. Nordström
Chairman of the Board
Vattenfall AB
Steve Odland
President and CEO
The Conference Board, Inc.
Ronald P. O’Hanley
President & CEO
State Street Global Advisors
Hutham S. Olayan
Retired President and CEO
Olayan America Corporation
Gavin Patterson
Former Chief Executive Officer
BT Group plc
John B. Prescott, A.C.
Former Chairman
Aurizon Holdings Limited
Jason Providakes
President and CEO
MITRE Corporation
John B. Reid AO
Executive in Residence
QUT Business School
Patricia Russo
Chairwoman
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Edward B. Rust, Jr.
Chairman Emeritus
State Farm Insurance Companies
Güler Sabanci
Chair and Managing Director
Haci Omer Sabanci Holding AS
Maria Sastre
Retired President and COO
Signature Flight Support Corporation
Henry B. Schacht
Special Limited Partner
Warburg Pincus
Susan C. Schwab
Ambassador
Former United States Trade Representative
Sideh Sedgh Bina
Founding Partner
Insigniam
Scott Serota
President and CEO
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Frederick W. Smith
Chairman and CEO
FedEx Corporation
Venu Srinivasan
Chairman
TVS Group
Jane Stevenson
Vice Chair, Board and CEO Services
Korn Ferry
Gabrielle Sulzberger
Co-Founder and General Partner
Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners L.P.
Teong Hean Tan
Chairman
Southern Capital Group Pte Ltd
Inge Thulin
Chairman, President and CEO
3M Company
Anton van Rossum
Former Director
Crédit Suisse Group
Karel Vinck
Honorary Chairman
Umicore
Marcus Wallenberg
Chairman
SEB
Miles D. White
Executive Chairman
Abbott Laboratories
Maggie Wilderotter
Retired Executive Chairman
Frontier Communications Corporation
Keith E. Williams
Former President and CEO
UL
Ronald A. Williams
Chairman and CEO
RW2 Enterprises, LLC
Alexander R. Wynaendts
Chief Executive Officer
AEGON,N.V.
Marjorie Yang
Chairman
Esquel Group
Jaime Augusto Zobel del Ayala, II
Chairman and CEO
Ayla Corporation