The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921,it is an independent and nonpartisan nonprofit organization. CFR is based in New York City,with an additional office in Washington,DC. Its membership has included senior politicians,numerous secretaries of state,CIA directors,bankers,lawyers,professors,corporate directors and CEOs,and senior media figures.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Considered one of the most prestigious business schools in the world,the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school,established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton.
Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland,Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College,a private school that had been in operation since 1923. CSU absorbed the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1969. Today it is part of the University System of Ohio,has more than 120,000 alumni,and offers over 200 academic programs. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
Benno Charles Schmidt Jr. is the Chairman of Avenues:The World School,a for-profit,private K-12 school,and served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) until 2016. From 1986 to 1992,he was 20th President of Yale University. Prior,Schmidt was Dean of the Columbia Law School,Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law,and chairman of Edison Schools. A noted scholar of the First Amendment,the history of the United States Supreme Court and the history of race relations in American law,Schmidt clerked for Earl Warren,Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1998,Schmidt was appointed chair of a task force established by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to evaluate systemic issues at City University of New York by executive order. After longterm service to CUNY's board of trustees,Governor Andrew Cuomo replaced Schmidt in June 2016,then-Chair,with a new Chair Bill Thompson,after an interim report issued,in an ongoing state investigation,issued by the Office of the New York State Inspector General identified a number of systemic problems,largely attributable to CUNY's lack of oversight which led to financial waste and abuse within the CUNY system.
Colin S. Diver is an American lawyer and university president who was the president of Reed College in Portland,Oregon. He was also the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1989 to 1999.
Cesar Enrique Aguinaldo Virata is a Filipino former statesman and businessman who was the fourth Prime Minister of the Philippines from 1981 to 1986. He is currently the corporate vice chairman of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation. He is the eponym of the Cesar Virata School of Business,the business school of the University of the Philippines Diliman.
A chancellor is a leader of a college or university,usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.
The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs is a public policy and planning school at the University of Minnesota,a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul,Minnesota. It is named after Hubert H. Humphrey,former Vice President of the United States and presidential candidate. The school is located on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota,which is also home to the University of Minnesota Law School and Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis. The Humphrey School is accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy,Affairs,and Administration (NASPAA).
Daniel Mark Tangherlini is an American government official who currently serves as a Governor of the United States Postal Service. He served as administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration from 2012 to 2015. Unanimously approved to the post by the U.S. Senate on June 27,2013,he had served as Acting Administrator since his appointment by President Barack Obama on April 2,2012. He earlier served as an executive in the U.S. Department of the Treasury,as City Administrator of Washington,D.C.,and as interim General Manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Harlan Cleveland was an American diplomat,educator,and author. He served as Lyndon B. Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969,and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965. He was president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974,president of the World Academy of Art and Science in the 1990s,and Founding dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Cleveland also served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1956 to 1961.
Robert B. "Yank" Heisler Jr. was the retired chairman of KeyBank,the 12th largest bank in the United States by total assets,the retired chief executive officer of McDonald Financial Group,and was the dean of the Kent State University College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management until 2011. The Kent State business school under Heisler's leadership was selected by The Princeton Review for its 2009 list of the top business education programs in the United States. In 2005,he was named to the Inside Business Hall of Fame.
Ronald M. Berkman was the president of Cleveland State University (CSU),a position he assumed July 1,2009. Berkman has been a peripatetic academic,working at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School,the University of California,Berkeley,Brooklyn College,New York University,and the University of Puerto Rico.
Joshua Jordan Harris is an American private equity investor,sports team owner,and philanthropist. He grew up in the Washington metropolitan area and earned a degree in economics from the Wharton School in 1986. He then worked for the former investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert before leaving to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School. Upon graduation in 1990,Harris co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management with former Drexel associates Leon Black and Marc Rowan and led its day-to-day operations until leaving in 2022 to focus on sports management. His net worth was estimated in May 2023 to be between US$6–7.7 billion.
Joshua Ryan Henry Earnest is an American political advisor who served as the 29th White House press secretary under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. He succeeded Jay Carney as Obama's press secretary,in 2014,and was succeeded by President Donald Trump's first presidential press secretary,Sean Spicer. He currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer for United Airlines.
Jason Wingard is an American academic and executive. He served as the twelfth president of Temple University. Before that,he served in executive leadership roles at Columbia University,the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,and Stanford University,as well as corporate workforce development at Goldman Sachs.
Loretta J. Mester is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Ronald Francis Mason Jr. is an American lawyer and university administrator,serving as the ninth president of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). He took office in July 2015. This is Mason's third presidential appointment. He was previously chief executive officer at the Southern University System of Louisiana (2010-2015) and Jackson State University (2000-2010). Before his administration at Jackson State,Mason held several executive appointments over a 17-year tenure at Tulane University,including general counsel,vice president for Finance and Operations and senior vice president and general counsel.
Linda Oubré is the president of Whittier College and a professor of business administration at the college.
Laura J. Bloomberg is an American administrator in higher education and the eighth president of Cleveland State University. Bloomberg served as Cleveland State University’s provost before being appointed president.
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