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Attorney with the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP; chair of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Board;  former chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Inc. President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He served as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996-2000. In 2004, he was appointed as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace deal between the East African countries; board member, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Human Rights Watch V isiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California, independent co-chairman of Deloitte’s new Center for Edge Innovation.the former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and former director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); board member, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Mr. Brown co-founded the Institute for Research on Learning, which explores the problems of lifelong learning. 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. ; board member, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation President of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; served as Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University ;Ambassador-at-Large and Special Envoy for the U.S. State Department, he dealt with the threats posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. He was chief U.S. negotiator during the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1994. He also worked as Senior Coordinator for nonproliferation and nuclear safety initiatives in the former Soviet Union and as Deputy Executive Chairman of the UN Special Commission overseeing the disarmament of Iraq in 1991. He earned his Bachelor’s degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees at Brandeis University. is a partner in the Washington office of WilmerHale. 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. Director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Urban Institute, and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the boards of Schlumberger, Ltd. and United Technologies Corporation. co-directs the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her current research focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of transparency systems as means of furthering public priorities. She is the author of Full Disclosure: the Perils and Promise of Transparency (with Archon Fung and David Weil) (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Democracy by Disclosure (Brookings/Governance Institute, 2002) and The Morning After Earth Day (Brookings/Governance Institute, 1999). John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is vice-president 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. Dr. Hopkins, a public health physician by training, is a member of the boards of Health & Development International, the Morehouse College Leadership Center, and the CDC Foundation. is Dean of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University, where he is the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business. His research interests include computer vision, social and information networks, collaboration tools, geometric algorithms, financial trading systems, and IT strategy. He holds 24 U.S. patents and has published more than 75 technical papers. He is a board member and former chief technical officer of Intelligent Markets, a provider of advanced trading systems on Wall Street. A former member of MacArthur’s Science Advisory Committee, he grew up in Chicago. Chairman of Irwin Management Company; Member of the board of Yale University, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Cummins Foundation Professor, University of California at 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 U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Mr. Molina received the Tyler Ecology & Energy Prize in 1983, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995, and the UNEP-Sasakawa Award in 1999. is Chief Executive Officer of Pearson Group Provost of Columbia University; board, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Social Science Research Council; former Director of the Center of Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University