Robert E. Denham is chair of MacArthur's Board. He is an attorney with the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, specializing in corporate, financial, and strategic issues. He is the former chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Inc.
Mr. Denham is a trustee of the New School University, Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles, and the Financial Accounting Foundation. He is also a member of the board of The New York Times, Oaktree Capital Group LLC, Wesco Financial Corporation, Chevron Corporation, and Fomento Economico Mexicano SA de CV.
As chair of MacArthur's board, Mr. Denham serves ex-officio on all board committees of the Foundation. He is also the chair of the Nominating Committee of the Foundation.
John Seely Brown is the former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and former director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Mr. Brown co-founded the Institute for Research on Learning, which explores the problems of lifelong learning. He is currently a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California and is the independent co-chairman of Deloitte's new Center for Edge Innovation.
Mr. Brown is a member of the board of Social Science Research Council. In addition, he is a member of the board of Amazon, Beck Construction, Corning Incorporated, and Varian Medical Systems. He was a trustee of Brown University until 2006.
Mr. Brown is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee of the Foundation.
Jack Fuller was president of Tribune Publishing (1997-2001) and on its board of directors from 2001 until he retired in 2004. In 1986 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in the Chicago Tribune on constitutional issues. He is the author of News Values: Ideas for an Information Age and six novels.
Mr. Fuller is a trustee at the University of Chicago and a member of the board for Torstar Corporation.
Mr. Fuller is a member of the Audit Committee, the Budget and Compensation Committee, and the Institutional Policy Committee of the Foundation.
Robert Gallucci, MacArthur's fourth President, served as Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for 13 years. Previously, as Ambassador-at-Large and Special Envoy for the U.S. State Department, he dealt with the threats posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. He was chief U.S. negotiator during the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1994. He also worked as Senior Coordinator for nonproliferation and nuclear safety initiatives in the former Soviet Union and as Deputy Executive Chairman of the UN Special Commission overseeing the disarmament of Iraq in 1991. He earned his Bachelor's degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Master's and Doctoral degrees at Brandeis University.
As President of the Foundation, Dr. Gallucci serves ex-officio on all board committees of the Foundation.
Jamie Gorelick is a partner in the Washington office of WilmerHale. She has previously served as a member of the 9/11 Commission, as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and as General Counsel at the Department of Defense, among other positions.
Ms. Gorelick is a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Urban Institute, and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the boards of Schlumberger, Ltd. and United Technologies Corporation.
Ms. Gorelick is the chair of the Audit Committee of the Foundation and is also a member of the Budget and Compensation Committee, and the Nominating Committee of the Foundation.
Mary Graham co-directs the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Her current research focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of transparency systems as means of furthering public priorities. She is the author of Full Disclosure: the Perils and Promise of Transparency (with Archon Fung and David Weil) (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Democracy by Disclosure (Brookings/Governance Institute, 2002) and The Morning After Earth Day (Brookings/Governance Institute, 1999). She has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Financial Times, Issues in Science and Technology, Environment magazine, and other publications.
Ms. Graham is the chair of the Institutional Policy Committee of the Foundation and also is a member of the Budget and Compensation Committee, and the Nominating Committee of the Foundation.
Donald R. Hopkins is vice-president for health programs at The Carter Center, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization based in Atlanta, GA. He is responsible for leading public health efforts such as the Center's worldwide Guinea worm eradication initiative and its efforts to fight river blindness and trachoma in Africa and Latin America. Formerly, he served for 20 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the author of The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History.
Dr. Hopkins, a public health physician by training, is a member of the boards of Health & Development International, the Morehouse College Leadership Center, and the CDC Foundation.
Dr. Hopkins is the chair of the Committee on International Programs of the Foundation and also is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee, and the Nominating Committee.
Daniel Huttenlocher is Dean of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University, where he is the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business. His research interests include computer vision, social and information networks, collaboration tools, geometric algorithms, financial trading systems, and IT strategy. He holds 24 U.S. patents and has published more than 75 technical papers.
Dr. Huttenlocher is a board member and former chief technical officer of Intelligent Markets, a provider of advanced trading systems on Wall Street. A former member of MacArthur’s Science Advisory Committee, he grew up in Chicago.
Dr. Huttenlocher is a member of the Budget and Compensation Committee, and the Investment Committee.
Joi Ito is the Director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously served as CEO of Creative Commons and helped found several Internet ventures in Japan. Mr. Ito was also an early investor in more than 40 companies including Flickr, Kickstarter, and Twitter. He is an advocate of Internet freedom and blogs frequently on the topic.
Mr. Ito is the Board Chairman of Creative Commons and also serves on the boards of the Mozilla Foundation, Knight Foundation, and WITNESS.
Mario J. Molina is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Mr. Molina received the Tyler Ecology & Energy Prize in 1983, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995, and the UNEP-Sasakawa Award in 1999.
Mr. Molina is a member of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Mr. Molina is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee.
Marjorie M. Scardino is Chief Executive Officer of Pearson, an international education and media group headquartered in London, England, whose businesses include The Financial Times Group, Penguin books, Pearson Education, and half of The Economist Group. Before joining Pearson, she was Chief Executive of The Economist Group and, prior to that, she was a lawyer and she and her husband founded a weekly newspaper in Georgia and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for its editorial writing.
Ms. Scardino is a member of the board of directors and vice-chairman of Nokia Corporation, a director of the Carter Center, and a member of the board of trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Ms. Scardino is chair of the Budget and Compensation Committee of the Foundation and also is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee.
Claude M. Steele is Provost of Columbia University. He previously served as the Director of the Center of Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. His research interests include how people cope with threats to their self-image and how group stereotypes, especially as they affect minorities, can influence intellectual performance.
Mr. Steele is on the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council and was president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and of the Western Psychological Society. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
Mr. Steele is a member of the Institutional Policy Committee.
