In addition to our staff and project teams, Columbia World Projects receives crucial support from two groups of volunteer leaders: The Advisory Committee and the President’s Council. Columbia World Projects is also supported financially by a cohort of generous donors.
Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee, a group of Columbia faculty and practitioners from outside the university, provides hands-on, strategic direction to Columbia World Projects. This includes recommending which project ideas discussed at a Forum merit further development and identifying key issues and potential challenges that could arise during project development and implementation. The current members of the Advisory Committee are:
Wally Adeyemo
President, Obama Foundation
Salman Ahmed (on leave of absence)
Senior Fellow, Geoeconomics & Strategy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Armen Avanessians
CIO, Quantitative Investment Strategies, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Jared Cohen
CEO, Jigsaw; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Nabila El-Bassel
Professor, Willma and Albert Musher Professor of Social Work, Columbia University
Mary-Ann Etiebet
Lead & Executive Director, Merck for Mothers
Farah Griffin
Ransford Professor of English & Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, Columbia University
Malo Hutson
Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director, PhD in Urban Planning Program in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Olatunde Johnson
Jerome B. Sherman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Shamus Khan
Professor and Chair of Sociology, Columbia University
Boyana Konforti
Director of Scientific Strategy & Development, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rob Malley
President and CEO, International Crisis Group
Alondra Nelson
President of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study
Jack Snyder
Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
Nicholas Tatonetti
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Sheena Wright
President & CEO, United Way of New York City
Ex Officio, Columbia University:
Wafaa El-Sadr
Professor; Dr. Mathilde Krim-amfAR Professor of Global Health; Director, ICAP
Alex Halliday
Director, The Earth Institute
Amy Hungerford
Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Shannon Marquez
Dean of Undergraduate Global Engagement
Safwan Masri
Executive Vice President, Global Centers
Michael Purdy
Executive Vice President for Research
Jeannette Wing
Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute
Former Members:
Members of our Advisory Committee serve three-year terms. Former members of the committee are:
Rob Berschinski
Sarah Cleveland
Michael Doyle
Christopher Fomunyoh
Jacob Hacker
Jeremy Konyndyk
Jack Lew
Tara McGuinness
Maria Victoria Murillo
Kate Orff
Anthony Shorris
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
President’s Council
The President’s Council is a group of senior advisors to Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Columbia World Projects. President’s Council members consider Columbia World Projects’ overall direction, recommend focus areas for Forum meetings and contribute to project funding. The current members of the President's Council are:
Jonathan S. Lavine, Chair
Abdulrahman R. Al-Rashed
Armen Avanessians
Vuslat Dogan-Sabancı
Abigail Black Elbaum
Mark Gallogly
Keith Goggin
George Jiang
Ann F. Kaplan
Mark E. Kingdon
James Leitner
Andrónico Luksic
Azmi Mikati
Adam N. Pritzker
Neil Shen
Esta Stecher
Tim Steinert
Lise Strickler
Richard Witten
Donors
Columbia World Projects thanks the following donors who have made commitments of $1,000 or more to support our work:
Mr. Abdulrahman R. Al-Rashed
Mr. Armen A. Avanessians
Dr. Xue Fang & Dr. Yan Huo
Estate of Leon W. Gibson
Mr. George Jiang
Mr. Mark E. Kingdon
Kresge Foundation
Mr. Jonathan S. Lavine & Mrs. Jeannie B. Lavine
Mr. Azmi Taha Mikati
Mr. Robert Chee-Siong Ng
Mr. Adam N. Pritzker
Dr. David E. Shaw
Ms. Lu Sun
Dr. Bruno Z. Wu