Board of Directors

As of May 1, 2008

1. 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.

2. Lloyd Axworthy is the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He served as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996-2000. In 2004, he was appointed as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace deal between the East African countries.

3. John Seely Brown is the former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and former director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. 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.

4. Drew Saunders Days, III, is Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at the Yale Law School and of Counsel to the law firm of Morrison and Foerster LLP, specializing in Supreme Court and appellate practice. He is a former Solicitor General of the U.S. (1993-1996) and former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (1977-1980).

5. Jonathan F. Fanton has been president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation since September 1, 1999. Previously, he was president of New School University in New York City and vice president for planning at The University of Chicago, where he taught American history.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Mary Graham is co-director of 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), Democracy by Disclosure and The Morning After Earth Day. She has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Financial Times, Issues in Science and Technology, Environment magazine, and other publications.

9. Donald R. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H., is associate executive director for health programs at The Carter Center, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization based in Atlanta. 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.

10. Will Miller is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Irwin Financial Corporation of Columbus, Indiana, an interrelated group of financial services companies serving consumers and small businesses across the United States and Canada.

11. 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.

12. Marjorie M. Scardino is Chief Executive Officer of Pearson, an international education and media group headquartered in London, England, whose primary business operations include The Financial Times Group, Penguin books, Pearson Education, and half of The Economist Group. Before joining Pearson, she was Chief Executive Officer of The Economist Group and, prior to that, she and her husband founded a weekly newspaper in Georgia and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for its editorial writing.