The Project on Justice in Times of Transition draws on the talents and advice of many distinguished individuals to help shape and develop its programming. One group of individuals that significantly guides our efforts are the members of the Project’s Board of Directors, International Advisory Board, and Program Committee.
Board of Directors
Rona Kiley, Founder, Teach First
Wendy Luers, Co-Chair and Co-Founder, Project on Justice in Times of Transition
Eric S. Nonacs, Vice President, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Tim Phillips, Co-Chair and Co-Founder, Project on Justice in Times of Transition
Jessica Stern, Author; Former member of President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff
International Advisory Board
José Maria Argueta, Secretary of Strategic Intelligence, Guatemala
Oscar Arias, Former President of Costa Rica
Paul Arthur, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, Jerusalem
George Biddle, International Rescue Committee, United States
Kurt Biedenkopf, Former Minister President of Saxony, Germany
Thomas S. Blanton, National Security Archive, United States
Alex Boraine, Founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice, South Africa
Martin Butora, Institute for Public Affairs, Slovakia
Naomi Chazan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Roger Errera, Central European University, Budapest
Jose Maria Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica
Richard Goldstone, Former Chief Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
Mikhail Gorbachev, The Gorbachev Foundation, Russia
Maurice Hayes, Former Senator, Republic of Ireland
Stephen Heintz, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, United States
Branka Kaselj, Director of Community Foundation Slagalica, Croatia
James LeMoyne, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland
Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa
Roelf Meyer, Former Chief Negotiator for DeKlerk, South Africa
Adam Michnik, Gazeta Wyborzca, Poland
Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel
Tanja Petovar, Oxford Leadership Academy, Serbia
Dimitrina Petrová, Equal Rights Trust, Hungary
John Podesta, Center for American Progress
Alan Riding, New York Times
Jon Snow, Channel 4, Great Britain
Dick Spring, Former Member of Parliament, Republic of Ireland
Rose Styron, Poet, United States
Jan Urban, New York University, Prague
Lawrence Weschler, New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, United States
José Zalaquett, Law School of University of Chile
Executive Program Committee
M. Bernard Aidinoff, Sullivan & Cromwell
William Alford, Harvard Law School
Bernard Aronson, ACON Investments
Brian Atwood, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Harry Barnes, Asia Society
John Biehl, OAS
Aldo Civico, Director of International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University
Antonia Chayes, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
John Coatsworth, School for International Public Affairs, Columbia University
Jorge Dominguez, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (ex officio)
Nik Gowing, Journalist, BBC News
Deborah Harding, President, Liberian Education Trust
Bryan Hehir, Harvard University
Bruce Hitchner, Professor of Classics and International Relations at Tufts University; Chairman of the Dayton Peace Accords Project
James Hoge, Chairman of the Board, Human Rights Watch
Ellen Hume, Center on Media and Society, University of Massachusettes
Margaret Jay Oversees Development Institute
Herbert Kelman, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Frank Loy, Former Under Secretary for Global Affairs
Ram Manikkalingam, Founder of the Dialogue Advisory Group
Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
Joseph Nye, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (ex officio)
Samantha Power, Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council
Araceli Ruano, Center for American Progress
Nancy Rubin, Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Commission for Human Rights
Steve Reifenberg, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame University