Board of Directors

Provided here are the membership lists of our Board of Directors and Board Committees:

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DIRECTORS*

Harvey P. Dale, Founding President
University Professor of Philanthropy and the Law, New York University School of Law
Director, National Center on Philanthropy and the Law

Christine V. Downton
Former Partner, Pareto Partners

Charles F. Feeney, Founding Chair

William Hall
Chair of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin

Gara LaMarche, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Atlantic Philanthropies

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Deputy Chair
Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Elizabeth J. McCormack
Advisor, Rockefeller Family & Associates

Thomas N. Mitchell, Deputy Chair
Director, Trinity Foundation
Former Provost, Trinity College Dublin

Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Chair
Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York
Senior Counsel, The Brennan Center for Justice
Chair, New York City Campaign Finance Board

Peter Smitham
Chairman of Actis
Partner in Permira

Michael I. Sovern
President Emeritus and Chancellor Kent Professor of Law, Columbia University, New York

Cummings V. Zuill
Senior Vice President, Bank of Bermuda, Retired
Bermuda Charity Commissioner

* Directors of The Atlantic Foundation, which is the largest charitable fund within The Atlantic Philanthropies.

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BOARD COMMITTEES

Audit Committee*
Cummings V. Zuill - Chair
Thomas N. Mitchell
Michael I. Sovern
Peter Smitham

Governance Committee*
Peter Smitham - Chair
Christine V. Downton
Charles F. Feeney
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Elizabeth J. McCormack
Thomas N. Mitchell

Compensation Committee*
Michael I. Sovern – Chair
Elizabeth J. McCormack
Peter Smitham

Investment Committee**
Christine Downton - Chair
Peter Smitham
Harvey P. Dale
B. Grady Durham, President, Monticello Associates, Inc.
David Erskine
David A. Salem, President, The Investment Fund for Foundations

* Frederick A.O. Schwarz attends Committee meetings on an ex-officio basis in his capacity as Board Chair.

** Messrs. Durham, Erskine and Salem sit on the Investment Committee but not on the Board.

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