Board of Advisors
The School of Foreign Service (SFS) benefits from the advice and guidance of a board of advisors.
The Board of Advisors is a group of engaged individuals united by the desire to assist SFS in maintaining its excellence into the future. The board consists of approximately 35 members drawn from a community of business and civic leaders–many of whom are alumni or parents of students and all of whom share in and support SFS’ mission.
Board leadership
- Sarah von Thun-Hohenstein, (SFS’82, P’15)
Chair, Board of Advisors - Olga Maria Campano Beeck, (SFS’81, P’15, ‘17, ’18)
Vice Chair, Board of Advisors
President, Alberto & Olga Maria Beeck Family Foundation
Board members
- Lindsey Argalas, (MSFS’98)
Chief Executive Officer, TaxBit - Colleen Bell, (P’22)
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, 2014-2017 - Shéhérazade Semsar-de Boisséson, (SFS’90, MSFS’90, P’20, ’23)
Chief Executive Officer, McCourt Global - Steven P. Buffone, (SFS’80, P’11, ’14, ’15, ’20)
Founder & Managing Director of Kenilworth Advisors, LLC - Stephen D. Cashin, (SFS’79, P’10, ’13)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pan African Capital. LLC - Danny Chiu, (SFS’89)
Chairman and CEO, Morrison Express Corp. - Michael Cling, (SFS’98)
Partner, Tremblant Capital - Anthony R. Coscia, (SFS’81, P’10, ’12, ’16)
Partner, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP - Brionne Dawson, (SFS’02)
Emerging Markets Lead, Google - Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, (SFS’77)
Vice Chair, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security - Patricia M. Duff, (SFS’76)
CEO, The Common Good - Amanda Eilian, (SFS’99)
Co-Founder and Partner, _able - Jonathan Farber, (SFS’90, P’24, ’26, ’27)
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Lime Rock - Alex Farman-Farmaian, (P’23, ’25)
Partner, Vice Chairman, and Portfolio Manager, Edgewood Management - Brittany Fried, (SFS’19, MPP’23)
Presidential Management Fellow, Federal Aviation Administration - Lulu Garcia-Navarro, (SFS’94)
New York Times Opinion - Maysoune Ghobash, (SFS’89, P’22)
Managing Partner, Gulf Target Holdings - Amy Rauenhorst Goldman, (SFS’86)
CEO and Chair, GHR Foundation - Alan Gould, (SFS’83, P’24)
Founder and Co-CEO of MutualMarkets - Antonio Gracias, (SFS’92, MSFS’93, P’27)
Founder and CEO, Valor Equity Partners - Andrew Gundlach, (SFS’93, MSFS’94, P’26, ’28)
President/CEO, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Holdings/First Eagle Funds - Caroline Heinz-Youness, (SFS’84, P’14, ’18)
- Joan Hill, (P’16)
- Cecilie Rohwedder Horvath, (SFS’90, P’26)
Reporter, Wall Street Journal - Tim Hughes, (SFS’94)
Senior Vice President, Global Business and Government Affairs, SpaceX - Mehmet Kirdar, (SFS’97, P’28)
President, Shepherd Futures - Dan Klebes, (SFS’85)
Representative Director and President, GreenOak Investment Management, Japan - Jody LaNasa, (SFS’91)
Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer, Serengeti Asset Management - Jennifer Tod Lee, (SFS’92, P’25)
- Matthew J. Lustig, (SFS’82, P’20, ’23)
Chairman, North America Investment Banking; Head of Real Estate & Lodging; Managing Director, Lazard - Preston Marquis, (SFS’16, SSP’17)
Student at Harvard Law School - Virginia L. Mortara, (P’04, ’09)
President, The Michael and Virginia Mortara Foundation - Brian Newman, (SFS’90, P’21, ’25)
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, CVS Health - Adam Norwitt, (SFS’91, P’26)
CEO and President, Amphenol - Katrina O’Connell, (SFS’90)
Chief Financial Officer at The Gap Inc. - HRH Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, (SFS’93, MSFS’95, P’21)
Co-Founder, Ortelius Capital Partners LLC - Paul F. Pelosi, (SFS’62, P’88, ’89, ’91, ’95)
Chair Emeritus, Board of Advisors
President, Financial Leasing Services, Inc. - Mitchell Rutter, (P’12, ’14, ’20)
CEO and Founding Partner, Essex Capital Partners, Ltd. - Faisal Sukhtian, (SFS’06)
Executive Director, GMS Holdings - Susan Swanezy, (SFS’81)
Partner, Hodes Weill & Associates - Nick Talwar, (SFS’95, P’28)
Senior Partner, K50 Ventures - Stephanie von Friedeburg, (SFS’87, P’17, ’20)
Managing Director, Banking & Capital Markets Advisory, Citibank - Zaid Zaid, (SFS’97)
Director, Head of U.S. Public Policy, Cloudflare