Meet our advisory board
Ambassador David Aaron
Ambassador/Lawyer
The Rand Corporation; Oxy Alumnus
Ambassador Mort Abramowitz
Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation; Former US Ambassador to Turkey, and Thailand
Liaquat Ahamed
Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Investment banker; Trustee, Brookings Institution
Hakan Altinay
President of the Global Civics Academy and Director of the European School of Politics in Istanbul
Diane Marie Amann
Professor, School of Law, University of Georgia
Richard Appelbaum
Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies
University of California at Santa Barbara
Reza Aslan
Journalist/Author
Professor, University of California at Riverside
David Axeen
Emeritus Professor, American Studies Occidental College; Former Occidental College Dean
Hussein Banai
Assistant Professor, School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University
William Bellamy
Retired Director, Center for Strategic & International Studies/Africa Program; Oxy Alumnus
Ambassador Nicholas Burns
Professor, Kennedy School of Government; Former US Ambassador to Greece
Coit D.Blacker
Deputy Director, Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; Oxy Alumnus
Larry Caldwell
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Occidental College
Jorge Castenada
Former Foreign Minister, Government of Mexico
; Visiting Professor, New York University
Wellington Chan
Emeritus Professor of History, Occidental College
Nayan Chanda
Director, Publications Center for Study of Globalization at Yale University; author
Steve Coll
Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University; Oxy Alumnus
Geoff Cowan
Former Dean, USC Annenberg School of Communication and former Head of Voice of America
Jeremy Curtin
Former Acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy; Coordinator of International Information Programs
Ambassador Ivo Daalder
Former Ambassador to NATO; President, Chicago Council on World Affairs
Glyn Davis
Chief Executive Officer, Paul Ramsay Foundation
Faisal Devji
University Reader in Modern South Asian History and Director, St Antony's College Asian Studies Centre, Oxford University
Gloria Duffy
CEO, Common Wealth Club of California; Oxy Alumnus & Trustee
Ambassador David Dunn
Professor, National War College; Former US Ambassador to Zambia
Erik Eckholm
Former National Legal and Foreign Correspondent of the New York Times, Oxy Alumnus
Sebastian Edwards
Economist and Professor of Business, UCLA; Henry Ford II Professor of Economics, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA
John Emerson
Vice Chairman, Capital International, Inc.; Former US Ambassador to Germany
Rachel Epstein
Associate Professor of International Political Economy and European Politics, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Honorable Gareth Evans
Chancellor, Australian National University; Former Foreign Minister of Australia
Richard Falkenrath
Former New York City Deputy Commissioner, Counterterrorism; Oxy Alumnus
Admiral William Fallon
US Navy (Retired), Former Head of US Pacific Command
Admiral Ian Forbes
Admiral/Supreme Commander (Retired); Her Majesty’s Navy, UK
Glen Fukushima
Former President & CEO, Airbus K.K. (Japan); Fellow, Center for American Progress
Kelly Sims Gallagher
Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Oxy Alumnus
James Glabraith
Professor, University of Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Leon Grice
Chair, New Zealand United States Council
Sheila Heen
Partner, Triad Consulting, LLC; Oxy Alumnus
Ambassador John Hirsch
International Peace Program, Former Director of Oxy at the U.N., Former US Ambassador to Sierra Leone
Matthew Hunter
Director, Strategic Partnerships, Hudson Institute; Oxy Alumnus
Jane Jaquette
Emeritus Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Occidental College
Bob Johnson
Entertainment Attorney and Principal, Planet Illogica; Oxy Alumnus
Wiliam Kahane
Managing Director, GF Capital Management
Ann Kerr
Fulbright Coordinator, University of California Los Angeles; Oxy Alumnus
Yasmin Khan
Associate Professor of History and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford University
Ambassador Christopher LaFleur
Former U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia
Ambassador Tom Loftus
Former Special Advisor to the Director General, World Health Organization; Former US Ambassador to Norway
Margaret MacMillan
Warden, Saint Anthony’s College, Oxford University
Michael Mahdesian
Chairman of Servicon Systems, Inc.
Terry McCarthy
President and CEO, Los Angeles World Affairs Council
Ian McKinnon
Managing Director, Ziff Brothers Investments; Oxy Alumnus
Marjorie Miller
Former Los Angeles Times Foreign Editor; Managing Editor for Latin America – The Associated Press
Susan Mallory
Vice President, Northern Trust; Oxy Alumnus & Trustee
Rana Mitter
Deutsche Bank Director of the University China Centre and Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, Oxford University
Mike Mochizuki
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Ambassador Cameron Munter
Former CEO & President of EastWest Institute; Former US Ambassador to Pakistan
Sarah Newhall
Current interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette in Portland, OR; Oxy Alumnus
Manuel Pastor
Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California
Juergen Pelzer
Emeritus Professor, German Studies Occidental College
Barry R. Posen
MIT Security Studies Program; Oxy Alumnus
Louise Richardson
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Simon Rofe
Reader in Diplomatic and International Studies, SOAS University of London
Rob Riemen
Founder & President, The Nexus Institute, The Netherlands
David Roberts
Co-Founder of NatureShare; Trustee, Occidental College; Oxy Alumnus
Ambassador Dennis Ross
Former Special Advisor and envoy to Iran, US State Department
Ambassador Don Russell
Former Head of Global Business Development, WestLB Asset Management; Former Australian Ambassador to US
Stephen Schlesinger
Former Director, World Policy Institute; author
Catherine Young Selleck
Former Chair of Occidental College Board of Trustees, daughter of John Parke Young; Oxy Alumnus
Anthony Spires
Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bruce Stokes
Director of Research on Global Attitudes, Pew Charitable Trust
Strobe Talbott
President, Brookings Institution; Former Deputy Secretary of State
Celeste Wallander
President & CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Neftalie Williams
Lecturer/Researcher, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC
Qiu Xiaolong
Novelist and Poet
Amy Zegart
Research Professor, The Hoover Institute, Stanford University
Andrew Zimbalist
Chair, Department of Economics, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College