Leadership

Eric Adydan 
Chief Executive Officer, Close Up Foundation

Paul S. Bock
Partner, Thorn Run Partners

Peter Cherukuri*
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Leviathan News

Amy Dacey 
Executive Director, American University Sine Institute of Policy & Politics 

Christopher J. Goode
Managing Partner, The Roosevelt Group

Janet Hale
Chairman, Audit Committee

W. Michael House
Oak Grove Strategies, LLC

Joel Jankowsky
Chairman
Partner Emeritus, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Bruce W. Jentleson
William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science, Duke University

Margery Kraus
Founder and Executive Chairman, APCO Worldwide

The Honorable Kendrick B. Meek 
U.S. House of Representatives (Retired)
Senior Advisor, King & Spalding

Eric Rosenfeld
Chairman, Finance Committee
President and Chief Executive Officer, Crescendo Partners LP

The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
U.S. House of Representatives (Retired)
Senior Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Alice Siu
Associate Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford University

Thomas J. Spulak*
Partner, King & Spalding

Ryan Thompson
Senior Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Geoffrey Verhoff 
Senior Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 

Ivan Zapien
Vice Chairman
Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP

*Close Up Alum

The Honorable Ann M. Veneman
Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Retired) 

Charlie McBride
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Consortium Management Group 

The Honorable Frank C. Damrell, Jr.
Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Retired) 

Jason S. Berman
Chairman Emeritus, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Retired) 

Jennifer L. Bendall
Vice President of Government and Public Affairs, Nike, Inc. 

The Honorable John E. Sununu
U.S. Senate (Retired)
Adjunct Senior Policy Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 

Kirk Francis
Chief, Penobscot Indian Nation

The Honorable Leon E. Panetta
Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense (Retired)
Chairman, The Panetta Institute for Public Policy 

The Honorable Michael A. Andrews
U.S. House of Representatives (Retired)

Wilson K. Pipestem
Partner, Pipestem Law 

Nathanael Fast
Neely Center at the University of Southern California

Ravi Iyer
Neely Center at the University of Southern California

Paula McAvoy
North Carolina State University*

Michael Mandel
Akin Gump (Partner Emeritus)

Myra McGovern
National Association of Independent Schools

Paul Bock
Thorn Run Partners

Francine Lamoriello
Personal Care Products Council*

Liz Whisnant
The Principals’ Center at Harvard Graduate School of Education (Close Up Academic Advisory Board)*

*Close Up Alum

Nicole Hood
Upper School Director, Bryn Mawr School

Michael Wirtz
Head of School, St. George’s School

Kathleen Devaney
Head of School, The Hill School

Guybe Slangen
Director of Community Engagement, San Francisco Friends School

Doug Lyons
Former Executive Director, Connecticut Association of Independent Schools

Elizabeth Whisnant
Professional Development Advisor, The Principals Center at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Laura Day
Director of Innovation and Collaboration, Hockaday School