International Advisory Board
International Advisory Board Members at 2010 Meeting
The distinguished leaders and activists who comprise the Advisory Board are charged with shaping the Center’s work. Representing politics, law, scholarship, activism, the arts, and other fields, the board members' extraordinary diversity of experience provides the Center a unique opportunity to develop ideas that cross usual professional and disciplinary boundaries. The inaugural meeting was March 7, 2000. The Board meets formally on an annual basis.
| Chair |
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| Richard J. Goldstone | Justice of the Constitutional Court (retired) | South Africa |
| Founding Chair | ||
| Theodore C. Sorensen (1928-2010) | Distinguished Lawyer, Author, John F. Kennedy Advisor and Speechwriter | New York |
| Members |
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| Diego Arria |
Former Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations |
Venezuela |
| Thomas Buergenthal |
Former Judge of the International Court of Justice | Washington D.C. |
| James Carroll |
Author |
Massachusetts |
| Hans Corell |
Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel of the United Nations |
Sweden |
| Nancy Kassebaum Baker |
Former U.S. Senator |
Kansas |
| Kishore Mahbubani |
Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy |
National University of Singapore |
| Jamie F. Metzl |
Executive Vice President, Asia Society |
New York |
| Sari Nusseibeh |
President, Al-Quds University |
Palestine |
| Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah |
Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General for Somalia |
Mauritania |
| Michael Ratner '66 |
President, Center for Constitutional Rights |
New York |
| Shiranee Tilakawardane |
Supreme Court Justice, Sri Lanka |
Sri Lanka |
| Norbert Weissberg |
Chairman, Package Research Laboratory LLC and Stapling Machines Company LLC |
New York |