The International Rescue Committee is governed by a volunteer, unpaid Board of Directors. In addition, the IRC Board of Advisors provides advice on policy, advocacy, fundraising and public relations.
Timothy F. Geithner
Co-Chair, Board of Directors
Sally Susman
Co-Chair, Board of Directors
Eduardo G. Mestre
Chair, IRC Board of Advisors
Liv Ullmann
Honorary Vice-Chair, International
Oscar Raposo
Treasurer, Secretary
President and Chief Executive Officer
Alan Batkin
Katherine Farley
Winston Lord
Sarah O’Hagan
Thomas Schick
James Strickler
Jonathan Wiesner
Tracy R. Wolstencroft
Chairs, Emeriti
Board of Directors
Masood Ahmed
President, Center for Global Development
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
Former UN Human Rights Chief
Clifford S. Asness
Managing and Founding Principal, AQR Capital Management
Dr. Titilola Banjoko
Chair, Board of Directors, IRC-UK
George Biddle
Chairman, World Connect
Susan Dentzer
Visiting Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Cheryl Cohen Effron
Founder, Conjunction Fund
Laurence D. Fink
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock, Inc.
Timothy F. Geithner
75th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; President, Warburg Pincus
Udi Grofman
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Becca Heller
Executive Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Maria Hummer-Tuttle
Uzodinma Iweala, M.D.
CEO, The Africa Center
Matthew M. Johnson
Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP
Andrew Klaber
CEO, Bedford Ridge Capital
Steven Klinsky
Founder and CEO, New Mountain Capital
David A. Levine
Former Chief Economist, Sanford C. Bernstein
François-Xavier (FX) de Mallmann
Chairman of the Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs
Prakash Melwani
Senior Managing Director, Blackstone
Eduardo G. Mestre
Chairman of Global Advisory, Evercore Partners
David Miliband
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
Jillian Muller
Janet Napolitano
Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Michael J. O’Neill
Former Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, American Express Company
Dr. Kathleen Pike, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center
Omar Saeed
Pamela Saunders-Albin
Gillian Sorensen
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General
Joshua L. Steiner
Chairman of the Board of Castleton Commodities, and Senior Adviser, Bloomberg, L.P.
Sally Susman
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer Inc.
Mona K. Sutphen
Senior Advisor, The Vistria Group
Tony Tamer
Founder and Co-CEO, H.I.G. Capital
Dr. Merryl H. Tisch
Chairman, SUNY Board of Trustees
E. Eric Tokat
Partner, Centerview Partners
P. Maureen White
Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Kathrin Wieland
Co-Founder & CEO TolaData GmbH
Leah Joy Zell
Founding Partner, Lizard Investors, LLC
Board of Advisors
Morton I. Abramowitz
Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation and President Emeritus, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Madeleine K. Albright
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group
Laurent Alpert
Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton
F. William Barnett
Former Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Alan R. Batkin
Chairman and CEO, Converse Associates, Inc
Christoph Becker
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Officer, cbc
Georgette F. Bennett
President, Tanenbaum Center for Inter-religious Understanding and Founder, Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees
Vera Blinken
Chair, Primavera Mobil Mammography Program; Vice Chair, Foundation of Art Preservation in Embassies; Co-Chair, Blinken European Institute/Columbia University
Betsy Blumenthal
Senior Managing Director, Kroll Associates
W. Michael Blumenthal
Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and Founding Director of Jewish Museum Berlin
Mary Boies
Counsel, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Andrew H. Brimmer
Partner, Joele Frank, Wilkinson, Brimmer, Katcher
Jennifer Brokaw, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Tom Brokaw
Special Correspondent, NBC News
Glenda Burkhart
Frederick Burkle, M.D.
Senior International Public Policy; Scholar at Woodrow Wilson; International Center for Scholars
Néstor Carbonell
Former Vice President for International Public Affairs, PepsiCo
Robert M. Cotten
Trinh D. Doan
Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Jodie Eastman
Member; Leadership Council, New York Stem Cell Foundation
Andra Ehrenkranz
Laura Entwistle
Co-Founder and CEO, EmancipAction
Katherine Farley
Former Senior Managing Director Brazil, China & Global Corporate Marketing, Tishman Speyer
H.R.H. Princess Firyal of Jordan
Vicki Foley
Kenneth R. French
Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt, Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
Jeffrey E. Garten
Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Management
Corydon J. Gilchrist
President/Owner, KCG Holdings I, LLC
Robin Gosnell
Evan G. Greenberg
Chairman and CEO, Chubb
Maurice R. Greenberg
Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co
Sarah K. Griffin
Ziad Haider
Head of Geopolitical Risk, McKinsey & Company
Philip Hammarskjold
CEO & Managing Director, Hellman & Friedman LLC
Leila Heckman
Managing Director, Lebenthal Asset Management
Karen Hein, M.D.
Former President of the William T. Grant Foundation
Lucile P. Herbert
Volunteer, International Rescue Committee
John Holmes
Chair Emeritus, Board of Directors, IRC-UK
Bob Horne
President, ZS Fund LP
Badr Jafar
CEO, Crescent Enterprises
Aly S. Jeddy
Director, McKinsey & Company
Marvin Josephson
Founding Chairman, ICM Holdings, Inc.
M. Farooq Kathwari
Chairman, President and CEO, Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc.
Caroline Kennedy
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Dr. Christina Kirby
Henry A. Kissinger
Former U.S. Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates
Yong Kwok
Reynold Levy
Former President, Lincoln Center
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador, China
John J. Mack
Chair Emeritus, Morgan Stanley
Vincent A. Mai
Chairman and CEO, Cranemere, Inc.
Robert E. Marks
President and Chairman, Marks Ventures, LLC
Roman Martinez IV
Former Managing Director, Lehman Brothers, Private Investor
Kati Marton
Author and Journalist
David Miliband
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
W. Allen Moore
Distinguished Fellow, The Henry Stimson Center
Sara Moss
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, The Estée Lauder Companies
Indra Nooyi
Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
Sarah O’Hagan
Former Co-Chair, International Rescue Committee Board; Consultant
Anjali Pant M.D., M.P.H
Scott Pelley
Anchor and Managing Editor, CBS Evening News and Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Dylan Pereira
PwC Financial Services Advisory
David L. Phillips
Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan
Milbrey Rennie
Consultant
Condoleezza Rice
Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Gideon Rose
Editor, Foreign Affairs
George Rupp
Former President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
George Sarlo
Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital
Reshma Saujani
Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code
Tom Schick
Former Co-Chair, International Rescue Committee Board
Dr. Rajiv Shah
President, Rockefeller Foundation
James T. Sherwin
J.D.; Hon LLD; Director, Hunter Douglas N.V.
Jennifer Sime
Chief Operating Officer, Physicians for Human Rights
James C. Strickler, M.D.
Emeritus Professor Medicine and Community Medicine, Emeritus Dean, Dartmouth Medical School
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.
Liv Ullmann
Josh Weston
Honorary Chairman of the Board and former CEO, ADP
Jonathan L. Wiesner
CEO, Phenix Strategic Partners
William T. Winters
CEO, Standard Chartered
Tracy R. Wolstencroft
Former President & CEO, National Geographic
Heidrick & Struggles