Leadership
Board Committees
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee assists the Board of Trustees with respect to financial reporting, internal control, audits and the foundation’s process for monitoring compliance with laws and regulations and the Trustee Code of Ethics. The Audit Committee appoints and manages the outside auditor. The committee also sets the officers’ compensation.
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Thurgood Marshall Jr. | Chair |
|
Juliet V. García | |
|
Yolanda Kakabadse | |
|
N.R. Narayana Murthy |
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee works with the foundation’s executive officers and acts for the board between board meetings. Trustee committees dedicated to specific topics meet regularly and guide foundation activities throughout the year.
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Irene Hirano Inouye | Chair |
|
Kofi Appenteng | |
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Yolanda Kakabadse | |
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|
Thurgood Marshall Jr. | |
|
Peter A. Nadosy | |
|
Cecile Richards | |
|
Luis A. Ubiñas |
Finance Committee
The Finance committee works to ensure the board is fulfilling its oversight responsibilities. The committee makes recommendations on long-range financial plans, as well as reviews and monitors the foundation’s spending policy and budget, including program and management appropriations and capital spending.
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Cecile Richards | Chair |
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Kofi Appenteng | |
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|
Juliet V. García | |
|
J. Clifford Hudson | |
|
Robert S. Kaplan |
Investment Committee
The Investment Committee is responsible for formulating overall investment policies, subject to approval by the Board of Trustees, and establishing investment guidelines. The committee monitors the management of the portfolio for compliance with the investment policies and guidelines and for meeting performance objectives over time.
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Peter A. Nadosy | Chair |
|
Afsaneh M. Beschloss | |
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|
J. Clifford Hudson | |
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|
Irene Hirano Inouye | |
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Robert S. Kaplan | |
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|
Luis A. Ubiñas |
Management and Governance Committee
The Management and Governance Committee reviews the foundation’s governance policies and procedures; budget and spending policy; staff compensation and benefit policy; general management, legal and personnel policies; and such other matters as directed by the Board of Trustees.
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Kofi Appenteng | Chair |
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Afsaneh M. Beschloss | |
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|
Irene Hirano Inouye | |
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|
Yolanda Kakabadse | |
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|
Thurgood Marshall Jr. | |
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|
Luis A. Ubiñas |
Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee helps identify and recommend candidates for board membership and helps review, develop and enhance trustee orientation programs.
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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|
Irene Hirano Inouye | Chair |
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|
Kofi Appenteng | |
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|
Thurgood Marshall Jr. | |
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|
Peter A. Nadosy |
Proxy Committee
The Proxy Committee determines the foundation’s policy responses to all shareholder and management proposals that come to vote for companies in our internally or externally managed investment portfolios.
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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|
Juliet V. García | Chair |
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|
Irene Hirano Inouye | |
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|
N.R. Narayana Murthy | |
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|
Peter A. Nadosy | |
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|
Cecile Richards |
Program Committees
The Program Committees give the trustees an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of an area of the foundation’s overall program and to contribute to program development and assessment. There are three Program Committees: Democracy, Rights and Justice; Economic Opportunity and Assets; and Education, Creativity and Free Expression.
Democracy, Rights and Justice
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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Yolanda Kakabadse | Chair |
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|
Kofi Appenteng | |
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|
Afsaneh M. Beschloss | |
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|
Juliet V. García |
Economic Opportunity and Assets
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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N.R. Narayana Murthy | Chair |
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|
Robert S. Kaplan | |
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|
Thurgood Marshall Jr. | |
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|
Cecile Richards |
Education, Creativity and Free Expression
| Portrait | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
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|
J. Clifford Hudson | Chair |
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|
Irene Hirano Inouye | |
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|
Peter A. Nadosy |
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