Board of Directors

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is chair of the Foundation's Board. A sociologist, she is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University. She studies the organization, structure, and cultural contexts of schools. She is the author of eight books, including The Good High School, Respect: An Exploration, and The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other.

Lloyd Axworthy is President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada. In February 2004, he was appointed UN Special Envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace deal between the East African countries.

John Seely Brown is the former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and former director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Brown co-founded the Institute for Research on Learning, which explores the problems of lifelong learning.

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 Foerter 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).

Robert E. Denham 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.

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.

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.

Jamie Gorelick is a partner in the Washington office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. 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.

Mary Graham is co-director of the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. She is the author of Democracy by Disclosure: The Rise of Technopopulism and The Morning After Earth Day: Practical Environmental Politics.

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, 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.

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.

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 US National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Molina received the Tyler Ecology & Energy Prize in 1983, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995, and the UNEP-Sasakawa Award in 1999.

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 Pearson Education, and half interest in The Economist Group. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 while publisher, with her husband, of a weekly newspaper in Georgia. Formerly, she was chief executive officer of The Economist Group.

Thomas C. Theobald is an investor and partner in Chicago Growth Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm. Earlier he was chair and chief executive officer of Continental Bank Corporation and vice chair of Citibank/Citicorp.