- Carl Pope
Carl Pope is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, an American environmental organization founded by conservationist pioneer John Muir in 1892. Pope was appointed to his position as Executive Director in 1992, the club's centennial. Pope has worked with the Sierra Club for nearly 30 years, and has served as a board member for other organizations as well, including the National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, and Public Interest Economics Inc.
- Melanie Sloan
Melanie Sloan (b. 16 December 1965) is the Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Sloan was born in Delaware. She attended the University of Chicago and received her J.D. from University of Chicago Law School. After a career as a Democratic congressional staffer and a U.S. Attorney prosecuting sex crimes, she was approached by Norm Eisen to co-found CREW in 2003, …
- Van Jones
Van Jones (1968-) is a civil rights and human rights advocate in Oakland, CA working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental destruction. He is the co-founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which now employs 24 staff members. Jones founded the Ella Baker Center in 1996. Named for the civil rights and human rights heroine Ella Baker, …
- Nobuo Tanaka
Nobuo Tanaka is the current Director for Science, Technology and Industry at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and elected Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. Nobuo Tanaka has born on 3 March 1950 in Japan. He is graduated from the University of Tokyo in the field of economics in 1972, and has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1979). In 1973 he began his career with the Ministry of Economy, …
- Bob Goodenow
Robert W. "Bob" Goodenow (born October 29, 1952 in Dearborn, Michigan) is an American manager, who became the Executive Director of the National Hockey League Players Association in 1992, succeeding the controversial Alan Eagleson. On July 28, 2005, Goodenow announced his resignation as Executive Director, with Ted Saskin being named his replacement. Goodenow graduated from Harvard University in 1974 and from the University of Detroit Law School in 1979.
- Ted Saskin
Ted Saskin is the former NHL Players Association executive director. He assumed the title after Bob Goodenow resigned on July 28, 2005, but was unanimously fired by the NHLPA on May 10, 2007 a union-commissioned report concluded Saskin had quarterbacked a campaign to hack into player email accounts. Saskin had previously served as NHLPA Senior Director of Business Affairs and Licensing since 1992, …
- Richard Feachem
Sir Richard George Andrew Feachem, KBE, FREng was born in Manchester, UK in 1947. He took up his position as the first Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, in July 2002. Feachem is Professor of International Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, …
- Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered.
- Claude Mandil
Claude Mandil is the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. He has born in 1942 in Lyon, France. He is graduated from the France’s École Polytechnique and École des Mines. From 1967 until 1981, he occupied different positions at the French civil service related to the engineering and territorial planning. In 1981-1982, he served as a technical advisor in the French Prime Minister’s cabinet, responsible for industry, energy and research.
- Ethan Nadelmann
Ethan Nadelmann (b. March 13, 1957 in New York City) is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the war on drugs.
- Larry Pratt
Lawrence D. Pratt was born November 13, 1942 in Camden, New Jersey. Pratt's wife is Priscilla. Larry Pratt is most well know as the executive director of Gun Owners of America, a U.S.-based firearms lobbying group. Pratt was awarded a B.A. in Political Science from American University. Pratt is also a Presbyterian. Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC's Today show, CBS' Good Morning America, CNN's Crossfire and Larry King Live, …
- Wayne Besen
Wayne Besen is a gay rights advocate in the United States. He is a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. Besen, a gay man, was never personally involved in the ex-gay movement, but says he has interviewed hundreds of former and current ex-gays. In 2000, he photographed ex-gay activist John Paulk in a Washington D.C. gay bar. Paulk claimed he was simply there to use the washroom, …
- Philip D. Zelikow
Philip D. Zelikow , Executive Director [R] - Philip Zelikow is the executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the "9/11 Commission." .. After serving in government with the Navy, the State Department, and the National Security Council ...
- Stephen Green
Stephen Green (born 7 November 1948) is Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc. Green was educated at Oxford University and received a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On 28th November 2005 HSBC announced that he would become Group Chairman when Sir John Bond retired on 26th May 2006. Green began his career with the British Government's Ministry of Overseas Development. In 1977 he joined McKinsey & Co Inc., management consultants, …
- Ira Glasser
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- Yaron Brook
Dr. Brook is president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. A former finance professor, he has published in academic as well as popular publications and is frequently interviewed in the media. He has appeared on CNN, Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, CNBC and PBS, among others. He lectures on Objectivism, business ethics and foreign policy at college campuses and for corporations across America and throughout the world.
- Tom McMahon
Tom McMahon is the Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee. McMahon has been prominently involved in several high-profile decisions and controversies involving the DNC in recent years. These includes the conflicts over 2008 Democratic presidential primary debate scheduling and over prominent Democratic complaints about the content of ABC's "Path to 9/11" television program. McMahon was a key player in, and defender of, …
- Clifford Lynch
Clifford A. Lynch is the executive director for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) who lectures extensively in the US offering his perspective on trends concerning digital libraries, information policy, and emerging interoperability standards. Before his work with CNI, Lynch spent 18 years with the University of California. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, …
- Jeroen van der Veer
</gallery>;Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of oil company Royal Dutch Shell. Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn a MSc in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Jennifer Chrisler
Jennifer Chrisler is the Executive Director of Family Pride, an organization that protects the rights of gay families in the United States. Jennifer has become a leading advocate fighting for the rights of families. She received numerous awards for her hard work on behalf of same sex families. Jennifer holds a BA degree from Smith College and resides in Washington, DC with her spouse, Cheryl Jacques. They have two children.
- Phill Wilson
Phill Wilson (born 1956) founded the Black AIDS Institute in 1999 and is a prominent African-American HIV/AIDS activist. Wilson is himself both gay and HIV-positive. His partner, Chris Brownlie, died of HIV-related illness.
- Keith Michael Fiels
Keith Michael Fiels (born 1949) is an American librarian. He was appointed Executive Director of the American Library Association in July 2002. Keith Fiels earned a B.A. and an MLS from the State University of New York, Buffalo and did advanced studies at the University of Denver. Prior to coming to ALA, Fiels served as Director of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Fiels has served as President of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), …
- Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on managing technology and innovation. His new book, Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), articulates a new paradigm for organizing and managing R&D, in which companies must access external as well as internal technologies and take them to market through internal and external paths.
- Stuart Rose
STUART Rose , chief executive at Marks & Spencer, has nearly doubled his year-end bonus to £2.6 million after returning the once struggling retailer to health.
- Walter Bender
Walter Bender , MS is the founder of Sugar Labs , a nonprofit foundation that serves as a support base for the community of educators and software developers who are extending the Sugar user interface. Sugar is designed to enhance the primary educational experience by emphasizing collaboration and expression.
- Barbara Thomas
The Hon. Barbara Thomas (Lady Judge) (born 28 December 1946) is Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and of the Governing Body of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Born Barbara S. Thomas, she was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Arts) and New York University School of Law (Juris Doctor "cum laude", coming second in a class of 324 candidates and winning nineteen prizes).
- Gerard Kennedy
Gerard Kennedy, (born July 24 1960 in The Pas, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. While attending the University of Alberta in Edmonton, he became involved in the local food bank, eventually becoming its first executive director in 1983. In 1986, he moved to Toronto to run the Daily Bread food bank, which he did until entering politics in 1996.
- Steve Novick
Steve Novick is a Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 from the state of Oregon. He is an attorney and former US Department of Justice litigator who led the Love Canal case on behalf of the United States government. He is an advocate of progressive taxation and reforming the Internal Revenue Code to abolish the distinction between ordinary income (earned from labor) and capital gains income (earned from the exploitation of wealth).
- Marvin Kalb
Marvin Kalb (born June 9 1930) is an American journalist. Marvin Kalb is a Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Faculty Chair for the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Washington programs. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy (1987-1999). The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University.
- Ho Ching
Ho Ching is the CEO of Temasek Holdings (over US$50 billion in assets and owned by Singapore's Ministry of Finance) and the wife of the Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong (son of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew). Temasek Holdings purchased Shin Corporation in 2006 from Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who was ousted by coup soon after on allegations of corruption.
- A. G. Lafley
Alan George Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is the CEO and an executive director of Procter & Gamble. He joined P&G upon his graduation, in 1977. He assumed the CEO office in 2000. He is American and was born in Keene, New Hampshire. He graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois and received a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1969 and a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977 (after serving in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War).
- Cindi Love
Reverend Cynthia (Cindi) Love was appointed Executive Director of the Metropolitan Community Church on 18 January 2005. Prior to devoting her energies to answering her call to the Christian ministry, Reverend Love had a distinguished career in business. Immediately prior to joining the staff of the Metropolitan Community Church, she served as the Executive Dean of Brookhaven College in Dallas Texas and before that was Senior Executive of The Toro Company.
- George Warrington
George Warrington is an American transportation official. Since 2002, he has served as Executive Director of New Jersey Transit. From 1998 to 2002, he served as President of Amtrak. He also served as President of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor Business Unit from 1994 to 1998. Prior to joining Amtrak in 1994, he had served as Executive Director and President of the Delaware River Port Authority and Port Authority Transit Corporation since 1992.
- Judith Krug
Judith Fingeret Krug is a United States librarian. She has been the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967. She has held the post of Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation since 1969. She received her B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied political theory. In 1964, she earned her M.A. at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago.
- Nativo Lopez
Lawrence "Nativo" Lopez (born 1951) is a Chicano political leader and immigrant rights activist in Southern California. Lopez is the president of the Mexican American Political Association and the executive director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana (formerly the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional), a community service and advocacy organization for Mexican-American immigrants in California.
- Jason della Rocca
Jason is the executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a professional society committed to advancing the careers and enhancing the lives of game developers. Jason and the IGDA focus on connecting developers with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community -- such as quality of life, creative freedoms, workforce diversity and credit standards.
- Brian Mason
Brian Mason is a Canadian politician and current leader of the Alberta New Democrats. Mason studied political science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and went on to serve as executive director of the Federation of Alberta Students (FAS) from 1977-79. Mason then worked as a bus driver for Edmonton Transit Services.
- Prabhu Guptara
Professor Prabhu Guptara (born 1949 in Delhi, India) is the Executive Director (Organisational Development) of Wolfsberg (a subsidiary of UBS AG).
- Walter Byers
Walter Byers (born March 13, 1922) was the first executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He served from 1951 to 1988. He also helped start the United States Basketball Writers Association in 1956.
- Matthew Szulik
Matthew J. Szulik - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Red Hat, leader of some other technology companies, such as Interleaf and MapInfo for more than 20 years. Szulik is passionate about improving the educational opportunities for students worldwide through open source, and he is a spokesperson to industry, government, and education leaders on open source computing.