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Philip K. Howard, Founder & Chair
Philip K. Howard is a well-known leader of government and legal reform in America, whose writings, advocacy initiatives, speeches, and reform proposals have figured prominently in national discussion.
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Andrew Park, Director of Research, Contact »
Mark Schultz, Executive Assistant to Chair, Contact »
Travis Stewart, Director of Operations, Contact »
Donna Thompson, Director of External Affairs, Contact »
Elizabeth Marshall, Director of Strategic Planning, Contact »
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Board of Trustees
Philip K. Howard, Chairman of the Board; Vice Chairman, Covington & Burling
Perry Golkin, Advisory Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co
Anthony C. M. Kiser, President, The William & Mary Greve Foundation
J. Michael Shepherd, Chairman and CEO, BancWest Corporation
Scott F. Smith, Partner, Covington & Burling
Missie Rennie Taylor, Media Consultant
Common Good Advisory Board
Hon. Howard H. Baker, Jr., former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to Japan
Hon. Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and National Basketball Association player
Dr. William R. Brody, President, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; former President, Johns Hopkins University
Hon. Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida
Hon. John C. Danforth, Partner, Bryan Cave; former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations
Christopher DeMuth, D.C. Searle Senior Fellow and former President, American Enterprise Institute
Alain C. Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Stanford University
Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Jr., Chairman, The Frist Foundation
Hon. Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Heather R. Higgins, President and Director, The Randolph Foundation
Frank W. Hunger, former Assistant U.S. Attorney General
Prof. Robert A. Kagan, Professor of Political Science and Law, University of California, Berkeley
Harry P. Kamen, former Chairman and CEO, MetLife
Hon. Tom Kean, former President, Drew University; former Governor of New Jersey
Prof. Steven Kelman, Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, Harvard University
Charles Kolb, President, Committee for Economic Development
Shelly Lazarus, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
Dr. Paul A. Marks, President Emeritus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Hon. George McGovern, former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Lawrence J. Mone, President, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Dr. Glen D. Nelson, Chairman, GDN Holdings, LLC
Prof. Jeffrey O'Connell, Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Margaret O'Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance
Dr. Herbert Pardes, President and CEO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Dr. William A. Peck, Director, Washington University Center for Health Policy
Hon. Peter G. Peterson, Founder and Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Senior Chairman, The Blackstone Group; former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Prof. Stephen Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University Law School
Diane Ravitch, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education
George Rupp, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee; former President, Columbia University
John Silber, President Emeritus, Boston University
Hon. Alan K. Simpson, former U.S. Senator
Shelby Steele, Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Larry Thompson, former Deputy U.S. Attorney General
Hon. Richard Thornburgh, former U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania
Deborah Wadsworth, Senior Advisor and Board Member, Public Agenda
Hon. John C. Whitehead, Founding Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corp; former Deputy U.S. Secretary of State