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Trustees

Co-Chairs

• Michael A. Fernandez

  Cargill

• Matthew P. Gonring

  Jackson

President & CEO

• Frank Ovaitt

  Institute for Public Relations

Treasurer

• Kenneth D. Makovsky

  Makovsky & Company

Members

• Matthew Anderson

  News Corporation

• Paul Argenti

  Dartmouth College

• Chris Atkins

  PwC

• Kathryn Beiser

  Discover Financial Services

• Dr. Bruce Berger

  University of Alabama

• Amy Binder

  RF/Binder Partners, Inc.

• Lynn Brown

  Waste Management, Inc.

• Angela Buonocore

  Xylem

• S. Keith Burton

  Insidedge

• Tony Cervone

  VW of North America

• Julie Craven

  Hormel Foods

• Peter D. Debreceny

  Gagen MacDonald

• Tracy Faulkner

  Shell Oil Company

• Rob C. Flaherty

  Ketchum

• Patrick Ford

  Burson-Marsteller

• Gary F. Grates

  Edelman

• Robert W. Grupp

  Grupp Global Partners LLC

• Mark Hass

  Edelman China

• William C. Heyman

  Heyman Associates, Inc.

• Richard Jones

  The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

• Raymond C. Jordan

  Johnson & Johnson

• Margery Kraus

  APCO Worldwide

• Maril MacDonald

  Gagen MacDonald

• Thomas G. Mattia

  Yale University

• Jack Modzelewski

  Fleishman-Hillard Inc.

• Torod Neptune

  Verizon Communications, Inc.

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  Public Affairs Council

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  Weber Shandwick

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  Hill & Knowlton Germany

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  MetLife

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  General Electric

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  Battelle

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  Citadel

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  University of Miami

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  APCO Worldwide

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  USAA

• Oscar Suris

  Wells Fargo & Company

• Richard White

  Wisconsin Energy Corporation

• Dr. Donald K. Wright

  Boston University

President & CEO Emeritus

• John W. Felton

  Institute for Public Relations

Honorary Trustees

• Don Bates

  New York University

• Willard D. Nielsen

  Retired, Johnson & Johnson

• W. Ward White

  Edelman Southwest

• Louis C. Williams, Jr.

  The Lou Williams Companies

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