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
Angela Freyre
Secretary
Martin Bratt
Treasurer
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
Dr. Titilola Banjoko
Chair, Board of Directors, IRC-UK
George Biddle
Chairman, World Connect
Kerwin Charles
Indra K. Nooyi Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management, Yale School of Management
Cheryl Cohen Effron
Founder, Conjunction Fund
Laurence D. Fink
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock, Inc.
Victoria Long Foley
Mediator, New York Peace Institute
Kenneth R. French
Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance,Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Timothy F. Geithner
75th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; Chairman, 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
Kathrin Jungehülsing
Co-Founder & CEO TolaData GmbH
Martin M. Kimani
Executive Director, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation
Dr. Christina Kirby
Andrew Klaber
CEO, Bedford Ridge Capital
Steven Klinsky
Founder and CEO, New Mountain Capital
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
Thomas Nides
Vice Chairman, Strategy and Client Relations, Blackstone
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
Pamela Saunders-Albin
Joshua L. Steiner
Private Investor and Senior Adviser, Bloomberg, L.P.
Sally Susman
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer Inc.
Mona K. Sutphen
Senior Advisor, The Vistria Group
Dr. Merryl H. Tisch
Chairman, SUNY Board of Trustees
Abraham Verghese
Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine, School of Medicine at Stanford University
P. Maureen White
Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Leah Joy Zell
Founding Partner, Lizard Investors, LLC
Board of Advisors
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
President and Chief Executive Officer, International Peace Institute
Morton I. Abramowitz
Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation and President Emeritus, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Laurent Alpert
Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton
F. William Barnett
Former Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Alan R. Batkin
Former Co-Chair of IRC Board of Directors and Chair of IRC Airbel
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
Sarah R. Cannon
General Partner and Head of Europe, Coatue
Néstor Carbonell
Former Vice President for International Public Affairs, PepsiCo
Robert M. Cotten
Maha Dahkil
Co-Head of the Motion Picture Department and Motion Picture Agent, CAA
Susan Dentzer
President and Chief Executive Officer, America’s Physician Groups
Laurent Desmangles
Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group
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
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
Deepak Kamra
General Partner of Canaan Partners
M. Farooq Kathwari
Chairman, President and CEO, Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc.
Yong Kwok
David A. Levine
Former Chief Economist, Sanford C. Bernstein
Reynold Levy
Former CEO of the IRC
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador, China
John J. Mack
Chair Emeritus, Morgan Stanley
Vincent A. Mai
Chairman and CEO, Cranemere, Inc.
François-Xavier (FX) de Mallmann
Chairman of the Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs
Robert E. Marks
President and Chairman, Marks Ventures, LLC
Roman Martinez IV
Chairman, USPS Board of Governors
Kati Marton
Author and Human Rights Activist
W. Allen Moore
Distinguished Fellow, The Henry Stimson Center
Sara Moss
Former 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
Distinguished Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
George Rupp
Former President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
Omar Saeed
George Sarlo
Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital
Reshma Saujani
Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code
Dr. Rajiv Shah
President, Rockefeller Foundation
James T. Sherwin
J.D.; Hon LLD; Director, Hunter Douglas N.V.
Gillian Sorensen
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General
James C. Strickler, M.D.
Emeritus Professor Medicine and Community Medicine, Emeritus Dean, Dartmouth Medical School
Tony Tamer
Founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital
E. Eric Tokat
Partner, Centerview Partners
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