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| | 181 | Name: | Dr. Earl A. Powell | | | Institution: | National Gallery of Art | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Earl A. Powell III of Washington, D.C. was director of the National Gallery of Art from 1992-2019 and is an expert in 19th- and 20th-century European and American art. He was an assistant professor of art history at the University of Texas from 1974-76. Between 1976 and 1980 he held curatorial posts at the National Gallery of Art. From 1980-92 Mr. Powell was director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which he transformed, according to Art in America magazine, "from a local institution to a museum of international stature." Mr. Powell serves as a trustee of the American Federation of the Arts, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the White House Historical Association, among others. He is a member of numerous arts organizations, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery Commission, and the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. Mr. Powell's awards include Norway's King Olav Medal and the Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France. Mr. Powell graduated with honors from Williams College and received his masters and doctorate degrees from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees in Fine Arts from Otis Parsons Art Institute and Williams College. In addition to writing many journal articles and exhibition catalogue essays, Mr. Powell has authored a monograph on the 19th-century American artist Thomas Cole. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1966-69 and was in the Naval Reserve from 1969-80. | |
| 182 | Name: | Mr. Eugene B. Power | | | Institution: | University Microfilms & Xerox Corporation | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 12/6/93 | | | | |
| 183 | Name: | Mr. Hugh B. Price | | | Institution: | National Urban League | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Hugh Price, a leading spokesman for African Americans, was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League from 1994-2002. He was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and during his childhood he witnessed and became a part of many changes in that city as schools and neighborhoods became integrated. After graduating from Amherst College and Yale Law School, Mr. Price moved on to public broadcasting as Senior Vice President of WNET in New York, and in 1988 he entered the world of philanthropy as Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1994 he assumed the leadership of the National Urban League, the nation's premier social service and civil rights organization serving African Americans and others who are striving to enter the economic mainstream. Mr. Price has been described by The New York Times as one of the "true leaders... who will make things better for future generations." He is the author of the books Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible and Destination: the American Dream. He is currently senior advisor and co-chair of the Nonprofit and Philanthropy Practice Group for the law firm of Piper Rudnick. | |
| 184 | Name: | Dr. Itamar Rabinovich | | | Institution: | Tel Aviv University; New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1942 | | | | | | |
Itamar Rabinovich is the incumbent of the Ettinger Chair of Contemporary Middle Eastern History of Tel Aviv University. He recently completed an eight year term as the university president. Professor Rabinovich has been a member of the Tel Aviv University faculty since 1971 and served as chairman of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, director of the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, dean of humanities and rector. He progressed through the academic ranks and was promoted to full professor of Middle Eastern history and was also made incumbent of the Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair of Contemporary Middle Eastern History. Between 1992 and 1996 Professor Rabinovich was on leave from Tel Aviv University and in government service. During these years he served as Israel's Ambassador to the United States and as chief negotiator with Syria. Professor Rabinovich is the author of numerous books and other academic works. He is the author of five books on the modern history and politics of the Middle East and the co-author and co-editor of several other volumes. His most recent books are The Brink of Peace , Waging Peace and The View from Damascus . Over the years, Professor Rabinovich held numerous public positions in Israel and in other countries. He is currently chairman of the board of the Dan David Foundation, chairman of the advisory board of the Wexner-Israel Program, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Brookings Institution in Washington and a member of the board of Bank Leumi, USA, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the American Interest. He recently joined the International Advisory Council of APCO Worldwide. Professor Rabinovich has held visiting appointments in several academic institutions, including the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Toronto. He was for several years the Andrew White Professor at Large at Cornell University, and has recently been appointed as Charles and Andrea Bronfman Distinguished Fellow at the Saban Center, Brookings Institution, Distinguished Global Professor at New York University and Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Rabinovich has been awarded the Honorary Grand Golden Cross of the Austrian Republic and was made a Commandeur l'ordre des Palmes Academiques by the Government of the French Republic. In 2014 he was honored with the Scholar-Statesman Award of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Itamar Rabinovich was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. | |
| 185 | Name: | Dr. Don Michael Randel | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Don Michael Randel received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1967. He joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1968 and served as chair of the department of music (1971-76), vice-provost (1978-79), associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1989-91), the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1991-2000) Given Foundation Professor of Music (1990-2000) and provost (1995-2000). He became the president of the University of Chicago in 2000, serving until 2006. In July 2006 he became president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and he retired in May 2013. A musical scholar of major stature, Dr. Randel has a record of original contributions on matters as diverse as Mozarabic plainchant, Arabic music theory, the polyphony of early modern Europe, and the popular music of contemporary Central America in its encounter with the African- and Anglo-American musical scenes. At home in ethnomusicology, traditional musicology, modern literary theory, and medieval liturgy, Dr. Randel has long been a preeminent figure among musicologists and a favored mentor at Cornell. He has earned further esteem for his gentle, genial effectiveness as a high-level university administrator, bringing his powerful commitment to scholarship, to liberal education, and to realizing the ideals of an academic community to the service of the University of Chicago and now to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Randel is the author of The Responsorial Psalm Tones for the Mozarabic Office (1969); An Index to the Chant of the Mozarabic Rite (1973); Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music (1978); and The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (1986). He is a member of the American Musicological Society, where he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and served as its vice president (1977-78). In 2007 he was named a member of the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Randel was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 186 | Name: | Mr. R. Stewart Rauch | | | Institution: | PSFS | | | Year Elected: | 1957 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | November 16, 2001 | | | | |
| 187 | Name: | Mr. John S. Reed | | | Institution: | Citigroup | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | | | | |
In April 2000, John S. Reed retired after a thirty-five year career with Citibank, Citicorp and Citigroup. He was elected Chairman and CEO of Citicorp and Citibank in September 1984. Citicorp merged with the Travelers Company in October 1998, subsequently he served as Chairman and Co-CEO of the new company: Citigroup. He served as Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from September 2003 until April 2005, and was elected to Chair the M.I.T. Corporation in July of 2010 and served until 2014. Mr. Reed was born in Chicago in 1939. He was raised in Argentina and Brazil, where his father was an executive with Armour and Co. Mr. Reed studied at Washington & Jefferson College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a joint degree program, earning both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 1961. He returned to M.I.T. to earn a Master of Science from the Sloan School in 1965, after a year as a trainee with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio, and two years as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Reed is on the Board of Altria, a trustee of MDRC and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1998. | |
| 188 | Name: | Dr. James B. Reston | | | Institution: | New York Times | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 12/6/95 | | | | |
| 189 | Name: | Dr. Frank H. T. Rhodes | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society & Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | February 3, 2020 | | | | | | |
Frank H. T. Rhodes was president of the American Philosophical Society and Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences and President Emeritus of Cornell University, where he served for eighteen years. Before assuming the presidency at Cornell in 1977, Dr. Rhodes was Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan. He was previously professor and head of the geology department and dean of the faculty of science at the University of Wales and a faculty member at the University of Illinois and the University of Durham. Dr. Rhodes was a graduate of the University of Birmingham, England, from which he held four degrees. A Fulbright scholar and Fulbright distinguished fellow, a National Science Foundation senior visiting fellow, and a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Oxford, he was also a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and an honorary fellow of both Robinson College, Cambridge and the University of Wales, Swansea. Dr. Rhodes was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was the recipient of the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society, the Justin Morrill Award of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Higher Education Leadership Award of the Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Clark Kerr Medal of the University of California, Berkeley Faculty Senate, and the Ian Campbell Medal of the American Geological Institute. He was the 1999 Jefferson Lecturer at Berkeley.
Dr. Rhodes was appointed by President Reagan as a member of the National Science Board, which he chaired for a time, and was appointed by President Bush as a member of the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He served as chair of the governing boards of the American Council on Education, the American Association of Universities, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2008 he was named to the board of trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Rhodes has published widely in the fields of geology, paleontology, evolution, the history of science, and education. His books included Language of the Earth, The Evolution of Life, The Creation of the Future, and Earth: A Tenant's Manual. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991. Frank H. T. Rhodes died on February 3, 2020, at the age of 93. | |
| 190 | Name: | Dr. Alison Fettes Richard | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Professor Alison Richard, who was installed as the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on October 1, 2003, was the first woman to hold the position full time. She stepped down as Vice-Chancellor in 2010. An anthropologist with a first degree from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate from the University of London, Professor Richard joined the faculty of Yale University in 1972. She was appointed full professor in 1986, chairing the Department of Anthropology from 1986 to 1990 and later serving as Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. She was appointed Provost of Yale in April 1994 and oversaw major strengthening of Yale's financial position and significant growth in academic programs. At Cambridge, Professor Richard launched an ambitious fundraising campaign for one billion pounds to underpin and augment core expenditure, introduced new measures for the stewardship of the University's investments, and developed a bursary fund to ensure that undergraduate students and applicants are not disadvantaged by the national introduction of higher university tuition fees. She also sponsored internal policy initiatives, including a review of Cambridge's international relationships and its international student policy. Professor Richard holds honorary degrees from Peking University, China (2004), the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar (2005), York University, Canada (2006), the University of Edinburgh, UK (2006), Queens University Belfast (2008) and Anglia Ruskin University (2008). In 2005 she was appointed Officier de l'ordre National (Madagascar) and in 2008 she received the prestigious Addison Emery Verrill Medal from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours. | |
| 191 | Name: | President Dame Louise Richardson | | | Institution: | Corporation of New York | | | Year Elected: | 2017 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1958 | | | | | | |
Dame Louise Richardson DBE is president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the philanthropic foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. Previously, she served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford and of the University of St. Andrews, and as executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
A native of Ireland, she studied history in Trinity College Dublin before gaining her PhD at Harvard University, where she spent 20 years on the faculty of the Department of Government, teaching courses on international security and foreign policy. She currently sits on numerous advisory boards, while serving as a trustee of, among others, the Booker Prize Foundation and the Sutton Trust. Richardson is also a member of the selection committee of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. In 2023, the Irish government asked Richardson to serve as the independent chair of its Consultative Forum on International Security Policy.
A political scientist by training, Richardson is recognized internationally as an expert on terrorism and counterterrorism. Today considered a seminal work in the field, her groundbreaking study, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006), was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as an “overdue and essential primer on terrorism and how to tackle it … the book many have been waiting for.” Other publications include Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past (2007), The Roots of Terrorism (2006), and When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations during the Suez and Falklands Crises (1996). She has written numerous articles on international terrorism, British foreign and defense policy, security institutions, and international relations; lectured to public, professional, media, and education groups; and served on editorial boards for several journals and presses.
Richardson’s many awards have recognized the excellence of her teaching and scholarship, including the Centennial Medal bestowed on her in 2013 by Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for “having the vision to assess emerging threats, for transformative leadership, and for moving seamlessly between the roles of scholar and teacher.” She has been awarded nine honorary doctorates, including from the universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews in Scotland; Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast in Ireland; the University of Notre Dame in the U.S.; the University of the West Indies; Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel; and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in Russia. Richardson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, as well as an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In June 2022, Richardson was appointed a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in recognition of her services to higher education. | |
| 192 | Name: | Ms. Rebecca W. Rimel | | | Institution: | The Pew Charitable Trusts | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1951 | | | | | | |
Rebecca W. Rimel is president and chief executive officer of The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit organization driven by the power of knowledge to solve some of today’s most challenging problems. Rebecca Rimel joined The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1983 as health program manager. She became executive director in 1988 and accepted her current position in 1994. As president, she has helped make Pew one of the nation’s most innovative and influential nonprofits. During her 20 years at the helm, Pew has become known for its entrepreneurial, results-based approach. Additionally, Rebecca Rimel serves on the board of directors for the Deutsche Bank Scudder Funds and ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism, as well as the PNC Bank advisory board. She is also a trustee emeritus of Monticello (the Thomas Jefferson Foundation); a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and a member of the American Philosophical Society and its prestigious Wistar Association. Prior to joining Pew, Rebecca Rimel built an exemplary career in health care, specifically in nursing. From 1981 through 1983, she was assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, making her the first nurse to hold a faculty position in the university’s medical school. Along with additional teaching and practitioner positions at the University of Virginia Hospital, she served as head nurse of the medical center’s emergency department. During her tenure, Rebecca Rimel authored and co-authored many scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters pertaining to head injury. Rebecca Rimel earned a bachelor of science degree, with distinction, from the University of Virginia School of Nursing in 1973 and a master of business administration from James Madison University in 1983. In 1982, she was awarded a Kellogg National Fellowship, a four-year professional enrichment opportunity for emerging leaders. In 1988, she received the Distinguished Nursing Alumni Award from the University of Virginia and, in 1999, the University of Virginia Women’s Center Distinguished Alumni Award. | |
| 193 | Name: | Dr. S. Dillon Ripley | | | Institution: | Smithsonian Institution | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | March 12, 2001 | | | | |
| 194 | Name: | Professor Dorothy E. Roberts | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Dorothy E. Roberts is 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, Professor of Africana Studies, Center for Africana Studies, Research Associate, Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980.
Dorothy Roberts is the founding director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Program on Race, Science, and Society. She works at the intersection of law, social justice, science, and health, focusing on social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics. She has written extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues. Noteworthy among her studies are those of community-level effects of concentrated child welfare involvement in African American neighborhoods and race consciousness in biomedicine, law, and social policy. Her book Killing the Black Body received the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Book Award and the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal. Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare received the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Outstanding Achievement of Cultural Competency in Child Maltreatment, Prevention, and Intervention Award.
She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty, 1997; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, 2001; Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, 2011; and Torn Apart: How The Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, 2022. She is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (board, 2015- ); National Academy of Medicine, 2017; and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2022. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2023. | |
| 195 | Name: | The Honorable Mary Robinson | | | Institution: | Ethical Globalization Initiative; United Nations; Ireland | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
A brilliant academic who studied in Dublin and at Harvard, Mary Robinson, at age 25, became Reid Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law (1969-75) at Trinity College, Dublin, and lecturer in European Community Law (1975-90). In 1988, with her husband Nicholas, she was co-founder and director of the Irish Centre for European Law, which promotes, among other things, the study of European human rights law in Ireland. From 1969-89 she was a member of Seanad Eireann, the Upper House of Parliament. She also served on the Dublin City Council, 1979-83, and the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, 1987-90. In 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman president of Ireland, at age 46, and redefined this primarily ceremonial role, representing her country internationally and developing a new sense of Ireland's economic, political and cultural links with other countries and cultures, with special emphasis on the needs of developing countries. In 1997, she was appointed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, serving until 2002. An outspoken crusader, she both criticizes governments with poor human rights records and at the same time coaxes them into making improvements. She has personally visited more than 80 countries, including dangerous areas such as Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Kosovo and East Timor. She was the recipient of the Society's 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service. The citation for the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service reads, "Distinguished legal scholar; Professor of Law at Trinity College, Dublin. Exemplary barrister; devoted to human rights. Admired legislator, member of Seanad Eireann. Beloved President of the Republic of Ireland. Dedicated international public servant; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Tireless champion for the homeless, the dispossessed and the oppressed. The American Philosophical Society salutes this daughter of Ireland and citizen of the world, commends her unswerving devotion to human dignity and freedom, and awards her its Franklin Medal for outstanding public service." Mary Robinson is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and was elected a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. In 2002 she moved to New York City and presided over Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. She is Honorary President of OxFam International and Vice President of the Club of Madrid. She chairs the Council of Women World Leaders, the GAVI Fund Board and the Fund for Global Human Rights. She is a Chancellor of Dublin University. In 2007 she was invited to become a founding member of the Elders, a group brought together by Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel that is dedicated to working for the common good. The alliance also includes former President Jimmy Carter, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the retired Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu. In 2008 she was named to the board of trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and in 2009 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As Realizing Rights reached its planned end in December 2010, Mary Robinson returned to Dublin and set up the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice within the Innovation Academy established by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. The Foundation will work to foster Irish and international leadership on issues of climate change and sustainable development and promote climate justice and equity - ensuring human rights are at the center of the climate change agenda. She is the author of Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice (2013) and of Climate Justice (2017). | |
| 196 | Name: | Dr. Judith Rodin | | | Institution: | The Rockefeller Foundation; University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
In 1994, Dr. Judith Rodin became the first woman to be named to the presidency of an Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania, after 22 years on the faculty of Yale University, where she served as Provost from 1992-94. During a decade of service Dr. Rodin guided the University of Pennsylvania through a period of unprecedented growth and development that transformed Penn's academic core and dramatically enhanced the quality of life on campus and in the surrounding community. She held faculty appointments as a professor of psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences and as a professor of medicine and psychiatry in the School of Medicine. Judith Rodin serves on the boards of the Brookings Institution and Catalyst, and on the boards of Aetna, Inc., AMR Corporation, Citigroup and Comcast Corporation. She became president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world's oldest and largest private philanthropies, in March 2005 and served as president until 2017. In 2015 she won the Edmund Bacon Prize of the Philadelphia Center for Architecture. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1995. | |
| 197 | Name: | Dr. Martine A. Rothblatt | | | Institution: | United Therapeutics | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Martine Rothblatt founded United Therapeutics in 1996 and has served as chairman and chief executive officer since the inception of the company. Prior to creating United Therapeutics, Dr. Rothblatt founded and served as chairman and chief executive officer of Sirius Satellite Radio and was principally responsible for several other unique applications of satellite communications technology. She also represented the radio astronomy interests of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Radio Frequencies before the Federal Communications Commission. On behalf of the International Bar Association, she led efforts to present the United Nations with a draft Human Genome Treaty. She moved to biotechnology from satellite technology and started United Therapeutics in 1996 to find a cure or better treatment for primary pulmonary hypertension that affects one of her daughters, a disease that was deadly at the time. It sells five FDA-approved drugs to help people with the disease. Now publicly traded, the company is experimenting with pig cloning and genetic modification to create lung transplants the human body doesn’t reject.
Dr. Rothblatt received a combined Law and Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. in medical ethics from the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary College, University of London. Her book, "Your Life or Mine: How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation," was published by Ashgate in 2004. Dr. Rothblatt is a member of the International Institute of Space Law and the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Bar Association. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. She received the Meritorious Service to Aviation Award of the NBAA in 2021. | |
| 198 | Name: | Mr. David M. Rubenstein | | | Institution: | The Carlyle Group | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | | |
David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $276 billion from 27 offices around the world.
Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of Washington; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other board seats.
Mr. Rubenstein is a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mr. Rubenstein has also provided to the U.S. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S. (Abel Buell map), and the first book printed in the U.S. (Bay Psalm Book).
Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge; the host of The David Rubenstein Show and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein; and the author of The American Story and How to Lead. David Rubenstein was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 199 | Name: | Dr. Neil Leon Rudenstine | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
An educator, administrator and literary scholar, Neil L. Rudenstine is president emeritus of Harvard University and chair of ARTstor, an initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition to his fine work as a teacher and scholar of English literature, he has proved himself to be a clear-sighted academic administrator who is deeply imbued with and committed to intellectual inquiry and the life of the mind. Dr. Rudenstine studied the humanities at Princeton University (B.A., 1956) and later attended New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard University. Most of Dr. Rudenstine's subsequent career has been dedicated to educational administration. Between 1968-88, he was a faculty member and senior administrator at Princeton University, serving as dean of students (1968-72), dean of the college (1972-77) and provost (1977-88). Previously, he served at Harvard from 1964-68 as an instructor and then as an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Literature and Language. After his time as provost of Princeton University, he served as executive vice-president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1988-91, becoming president of Harvard University in 1991 and serving until 2001. In addition to being an honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Dr. Rudenstine is Provost Emeritus of Princeton University as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2011, he replaced Catherine Marron as the Chair of the Board of the New York Public Library, on which he has served as a trustee since 2001. In 2012 he published The House of Barnes: The Man, the Collection, the Controversy, for which he won the John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Society. | |
| 200 | Name: | Dr. George Rupp | | | Institution: | International Rescue Committee | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1942 | | | | | | |
George Rupp was president of the International Rescue Committee from 2002 to 2013. As the IRC's chief executive officer, Dr. Rupp oversaw the agency's relief and development operations in over 40 countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout the United States. In addition, he led the IRC's advocacy efforts in Washington, Geneva, Brussels and other capitals on behalf of the world's most vulnerable people. He regularly visited IRC program sites worldwide.
Before joining the IRC, Dr. Rupp was president of Columbia University. During his nine-year tenure, he focused on enhancing undergraduate education, on strengthening the relationship of the campus to surrounding communities and New York City as a whole, and on increasing the university's international orientation. At the same time, he completed both a financial restructuring of the university and a $2.84 billion fundraising campaign that achieved eight successive records in dollars raised.
Prior to his time at Columbia, Dr. Rupp served as president of Rice University, where in the course of his eight years applications for admission almost tripled, federal research support more than doubled, and the value of the Rice endowment increased by more than $500 million to $1.25 billion.
Before going to Rice, Dr. Rupp was the John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity and dean of the Harvard Divinity School. Under his leadership, the curriculum of the school was revised to address more directly the pluralistic character of contemporary religious life. Further developments included new programs in women's studies and religion, Jewish-Christian relations, and religion and medicine.
Born in New Jersey of immigrant parents, Dr. Rupp has studied and conducted research for extended periods in both Europe and Asia. He was awarded an A.B. from Princeton University in 1964, a B.D. from Yale Divinity School in 1967, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972. He is the author of numerous articles and five books, including Globalization Challenged: Commitment, Conflict, and Community (2006).
He has served as chair of the Association of American Universities, is currently the co-president of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and serves on the boards of the Committee for Economic Development, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Institute for International Education, and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
George Rupp and his wife Nancy have two adult daughters, both anthropologists, and six grandchildren. | |
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