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Leadership

Staff


Mark Schultz, Executive Assistant to Chair, 212.379.8174, Email »

Andrew Park, Director of Research, Email »

Elizabeth Leeds, Director of Strategic Planning, 505.977.7378, Email »

Travis Stewart, Director of Operations, 212.681.8199 ext. 16, Email »

Matt Brown, Staff Attorney, 212.681.8199 ext. 17, Email »

Benjamin Miller, Research Associate, 212.681.8199 ext. 26, Email »

Donna Thompson, Director of External Affairs, 203.609.1831, Email »


Philip K. Howard, Founder & Chair

Ron Faucheux, Senior Consultant, Email »

Goodman Media International, Media Relations, 212.576.2700 ext. 232, Email »

Laurie Beckelman, Fundraising Consultant, Email »


Board of Trustees


Philip K. Howard, Chairman of the Board; Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling

Payson Coleman, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Perry Golkin, Advisory Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co

Anthony C. M. Kiser, President, The William & Mary Greve Foundation

James P. O’Shaughnessy, Chairman & CEO, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC

Scott F. Smith, Partner, Covington & Burling

Missie Rennie Taylor, Media Consultant


Common Good Advisory Board


Common Good mourns the passing of George McGovern and John Silber, longtime members of our advisory board.

Hon. Howard H. Baker, Jr., former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to Japan

Hon. Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and National Basketball Association player

Dr. William R. Brody, President, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; former President, Johns Hopkins University

Hon. Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida

Hon. John C. Danforth, Partner, Bryan Cave; former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations

Christopher DeMuth, D.C. Searle Senior Fellow and former President, American Enterprise Institute

Alain C. Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Stanford University

Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Jr., Chairman, The Frist Foundation

Hon. Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Heather R. Higgins, President and Director, The Randolph Foundation

Frank W. Hunger, former Assistant U.S. Attorney General

Prof. Robert A. Kagan, Professor of Political Science and Law, University of California, Berkeley

Harry P. Kamen, former Chairman and CEO, MetLife

Hon. Tom Kean, former President, Drew University; former Governor of New Jersey

Prof. Steven Kelman, Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, Harvard University

Charles Kolb, President, Committee for Economic Development

Shelly Lazarus, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Dan Lufkin, Co-Founder and former Chair, Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette, Inc.; Director, Peter Jay Sharp Foundation

Dr. Paul A. Marks, President Emeritus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Lawrence J. Mone, President, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Dr. Glen D. Nelson, Chairman, GDN Holdings, LLC

Prof. Jeffrey O'Connell, Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Margaret O'Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance

Dr. Herbert Pardes, President and CEO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Dr. William A. Peck, Director, Washington University Center for Health Policy

Hon. Peter G. Peterson, Founder and Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Senior Chairman, The Blackstone Group; former U.S. Secretary of Commerce

Prof. Stephen Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University Law School

Diane Ravitch, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education

George Rupp, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee; former President, Columbia University

Hon. Alan K. Simpson, former U.S. Senator

Shelby Steele, Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Larry Thompson, former Deputy U.S. Attorney General

Hon. Richard Thornburgh, former U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania

Deborah Wadsworth, Senior Advisor and Board Member, Public Agenda

Hon. John C. Whitehead, Founding Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corp; former Deputy U.S. Secretary of State