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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Nili Cohen | | | Institution: | Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Tel Aviv University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Nili Cohen was born in 1947 in Kfar Saba and graduated from the Ironi Dalet High School in Tel Aviv. She started her academic path in the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and completed her LL.B magna cum laude. In 1971 she started her LL.M degree and gained it summa cum laude in 1975.
In 1978, Nili Cohen was awarded her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University for her thesis “The Protection of Obligation against Interference by Third Parties”, which was supervised by Israel Prize Laureate and former Minister of Justice, Prof. Daniel Friedmann. She became a full professor at Tel Aviv University in 1989.
Her research deal with contract law, tort law, the law of unjust enrichment, and law and literature, a field she has developed in recent years. Her main work in the field of contract, co-authored with Prof. Daniel Friedmann, is reflected in the four-volume series Contracts, which is frequently cited in Israel’s courts.
Over the years, Nili Cohen has been involved in Comparative Law enterprises around the world. She is a member of the American Law Institute in which she took part in the advisory committee to Restitution3rd. She co-authored two chapters in the International Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law, and she took part in the project of the Common Core of European Private Law.
Nili Cohen has won a number of awards for her academic activities, including: The Sussman Prize for her book Interference with Contractual Relations, the Zeltner Prize for her book Inducing Breach of Contract. She was again awarded the Sussman Prize for Contracts (with Prof. Daniel Friedmann), and in 2002, she was awarded the Minkoff Prize for Excellence in Law. In the academic years 2003/4, 2004/5, and 2014/15 she won the Rector’s Prize at Tel Aviv University for Excellence in Teaching.
In 1994 Nili Cohen was elected for the position of Vice Rector at Tel Aviv University and between 1997 and 2001 she served as the University’s Rector. A member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2004, she served as its President in 2015-2021. In this capacity, she promoted academic research in Israel, encouraged the role of women in science, advanced young researchers, promoted international academic ties, contributed to the development and shaping of legal and academic research in Israeli society and to opening the Academy’s gates to the general public.
Since 2004 she organizes the open series on Law and Literature at Tel-Aviv University, within which the most prominent Israeli authors, Amos Oz, A"B Yehoshua, David Grossman, Meir Shalev, Haim Beer, Zeruya Shalev take part.
Nili Cohen is an Israel Prize Laureate in the field of legal research for 2017, a member of Academia Europaea, a member of the American Philosophical Society and holds an honorary professorship from the University of Buenos Aires, as well as honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Haifa and from the University of Ben-Gurion.
Her late husband Amiram was a lawyer. They have three children and eight grandchildren. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. France Córdova | | | Institution: | Science Philanthropy Alliance; National Science Foundation; Purdue University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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: | 1947 | | | | | | |
France Anne Córdova is a leader in science, engineering and education with more than three decades experience at universities and national labs. She is currently president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance. She has served in five presidential administrations, both Democratic and Republican. She is an internationally recognized astrophysicist for her contributions in space research and instrumentation. She has served on both corporate and nonprofit boards.
Córdova was the 14th Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), an $8.5 billion independent federal agency. It is the only government agency charged with advancing all fields of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and STEM education and workforce development.
She is the only woman to have served as president of Purdue University, where she led the university to record levels of research funding, reputational rankings, and student retention and graduation rates.
Córdova is also chancellor emerita of the University of California, Riverside, where she was a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy. She laid the foundation for a medical school, California's first public medical school in over 40 years.
Previously, Córdova served as NASA's chief scientist, representing NASA to the larger scientific community. She was the youngest person and first woman to serve as NASA's chief scientist and was awarded the agency's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal.
Córdova has published more than 150 scientific papers. She has been awarded a dozen honorary doctorates. She was awarded the Kennedy-Lemass Medal from Ireland, and (soon) the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins from Chile, its highest civilian award. She is a Kilby Laureate for "significant contributions to society through science, technology, innovation, invention and education." She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and the Stanford University Multicultural Hall of Fame. She has been elected to the National Academy of Science, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Córdova received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Stanford University and her PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology. | |
| 3 | Name: | Ms. Suzan Shown Harjo | | | Institution: | The Morning Star Institute | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Suzan Shown Harjo is the President of The Morning Star Institute. Her work as a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, activist, and policy advocate is extensive, and includes serving as the Congressional Liaison for American Indian Affairs (1978-1984) and, later, as Director of the National Congress of American Indians (1984-1989).
Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) has been the most consistent and effective advocate for Native American rights over the last five decades. She has helped develop critical legislation, including the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the American Indian Self Determination and Education Act, and the Passamaquoddy Penobscot Settlement Act. A founding trustee of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, her work has affected the lives of Native people across a tremendous spectrum, from museum representation, repatriation of human remains, free practice of religion and access to sacred sites, land and treaty rights, and the return of over one million acres of Indigenous lands. Harjo has sustained a distinctly Native cultural voice throughout her long career and continues to produce incisive political commentary and mentor multiple generations of Native American intellectuals.
Harjo co-authored My Father's Bones with M.K. Nagle in 2013 and edited Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations in 2014. Exhibitions she has curated include: Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; Visions from Native American Art, U.S. Senate Rotunda; American Icons Through Indigenous Eyes, District of Columbia Arts Center. In 2014, Hargo received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2020 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 4 | Name: | Mr. Alberto Ibargüen | | | Institution: | John S. and James L. Knight Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
Alberto Ibargüen is President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He earned his J.D. University of Pennsylvania in 1974. Between college and law school, he served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela and Colombia. After law school, he practiced law as a legal aid attorney and privately before joining The Hartford Courant. He then worked for Newsday in New York prior to moving to Miami where he was publisher of both The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism. For his work to protect journalists in Latin America, he received a Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University. As president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ibargüen has shifted the foundation’s focus to digital journalism and innovative social investment, supporting the creative arts in unique ways to build a sense of community.
He is a member of the boards of the Paley Center for Media and the National Museum of the American Latino, and formerly of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Wesleyan University, Smith College, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and ProPublica, as well as the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board and the Citizen Advisory Committee of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. He is a former board chair of PBS, the Newseum and the World Wide Web Foundation, founded by web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to promote a free and universal web. He has supported expanding minority representation on numerous boards.
Ibargüen has published several articles, including: “How our Half a Billion Investment in Minority-Owned Firms Paid Off: Knight Foundation CEO,” CNBC Philanthropy, 2017; “Our Gutenberg Moment: It’s Time to Grapple with the Internet’s Effect on Democracy,” Huffington Post, 2017; “Build Trust in Democracy by Supporting the Arts,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2018; “Support local news—It’s Crucial to Our Lives and Our Democracy,” Miami Herald, 2018. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2015 and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 5 | Name: | Mr. Nicholas Lemann | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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 | | | | | | |
Nicholas Lemann is the Joseph Pulitzer II & Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of Columbia University's Journalism School. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1976, where he concentrated in American history and literature and was president of the Harvard Crimson. He previously served as Associate and Managing Editor of Washington Monthly, Associate and Executive Editor of Texas Monthly, a staff member at The Washington Post, a National Correspondent at The Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker's Washington correspondent.
During Lemann's time as dean, the Journalism School launched and completed its first capital fundraising campaign, added 20 members to its full-time faculty, built a student center, started its first new professional degree program since the 1930s, and launched significant new initiatives in investigative reporting, digital journalism, executive leadership for news organizations, and other areas. He continues to contribute to The New Yorker as a staff writer and has written widely for such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and Slate. He has also worked in documentary television with Blackside, Inc., Frontline, the Discovery Channel, and the BBC. Lemann currently serves on the boards of the Authors Guild, the Knight First Amendment Institute, the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Lemann's publications include: The Promised Land, 1991; "The Bell Curve Flattened," Slate, 1997; The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, 1999, which led to critical reappraisal of the SAT; Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, 2006; Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, 2019. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1991) and the Sidney Hillman Prize (1991). He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2010, a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science since 2019. Lemann was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. | |
| 6 | Name: | Ms. Leslie Anne Miller | | | Institution: | Philadelphia Museum of Art | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Leslie Anne Miller is an attorney who has been a leader in her profession and community for over thirty years. During her twenty-five years as a civil litigator, she compiled a list of "firsts": the first woman partner in her law firm, the first woman elected as President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the first woman to serve as General Counsel of the Commonwealth under Governor Rendell.
Her broad and deep record of civic engagement is notable for the number of leadership positions she has held. She is the current Chair of the Board of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was Chair of the Board of Mount Holyoke College, her alma mater. She also served as interim President of the Kimmel Center for the performing arts and Chair of the Philadelphia Flower Show. In addition, she has been an active member of the Boards of numerous academic and not for profit institutions, including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Temple Law School and the Mayor's Cultural Advisory Board.
Equally important has been her work as a mentor and role model for countless women in both the legal profession and broader community. She was the first Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Commission on Women and the Profession and is currently a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Women, along with the Pennsylvania Women's Forum and the Forum of Executive Women. In that same spirit, she has also worked tirelessly to help elect women (and a few good men) to local, state and federal offices.
Her contributions have been recognized with a variety of honors and awards. Among them: selection as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania; the Philadelphia Bar Association's Sandra Day O'Connor Award; the Alumnae Medal of Honor from Mount Holyoke College and the Globy Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has also received honorary degrees from the Drexel University School of Law, Thomas Jefferson University's College of Health Professionals and Wilson College.
A cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College (1973), Miller received a MA from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University (1974), a JD from the Dickinson School of Law (1977) and an LLM with honors from Temple University Law School of law (1994). | |
| 7 | Name: | Ms. Tracy P. Palandjian | | | Institution: | Social Finance | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | 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: | 1971 | | | | | | |
Tracy Palandjian is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance, a national impact finance and advisory nonprofit that builds innovative partnerships and investments to measurably improve lives. Since 2011, the organization has pioneered the use of innovative public-private partnerships and impact investment strategies, including the Social Impact Bond and the Career Impact Bond, to mobilize capital at scale and deliver sustainable impact in communities across the United States. Prior to Social Finance, Tracy was a Managing Director at The Parthenon Group from 1999 to 2010, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice and worked with foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions in the U.S. and globally. Tracy also worked at Wellington Management Company and McKinsey & Company. A frequent speaker and writer on ESG, impact investing, and policy innovation, Tracy is Vice Chair of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance. A native of Hong Kong, Tracy is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. Tracy previously served as Chair of the Board at Facing History and Ourselves and currently serves on the boards of The Surdna Foundation, The Boston Foundation, and Mass General Brigham. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected to the Harvard Corporation in 2022. | |
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