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ABOUT THE POPULATION COUNCIL

Senior Management and Board of Trustees

Senior Management

Peter J. Donaldson, Ph.D.   
President    

Ayorinde Ajayi, M.D.
Regional Director
Sub-Saharan Africa

Ragui Assaad, Ph.D.
Regional Director
West Asia and North Africa

Wendy Baldwin, Ph.D.  
Director
Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program

John Bongaarts, Ph.D.
Vice President
Distinguished Scholar

Anrudh K. Jain, Ph.D.  
Vice President
International Programs

Scott Newman
Chief Financial Officer

Saroj Pachauri, M.D., Ph.D.
Regional Director
South and East Asia

Naomi Rutenberg, Ph.D.
Director
HIV and AIDS Program

James E. Sailer
Director
Corporate Affairs Division

John W. Townsend, Ph.D. 
Director
Reproductive Health Program

Patricia C. Vaughan, J.D.
General Counsel and Secretary

News

Scott Newman was recently named the Population Council's chief financial officer. (more)

Council trustee Jotham Musinguzi recently was featured in a Financial Times article on population in Uganda. (offsite full text)

"Three public health experts join board," Momentum, December 2007 (full text) (PDF)

In Memoriam: The Population Council mourns the death of William T. Golden, Council trustee from 1979 to 1989. (offsite obituary)

Council trustee Torsten N. Wiesel has been awarded the National Medal of Science. The medal was created by the US Congress for "outstanding contributions" to science. Wiesel, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has been on the Council's board since 1999.

Former Council trustee Mechai Viravaidya was awarded the 2007 Gates Award for Global Health. Viravaidya is founder and chairman of the Population and Community Development Association of Thailand, which was recognized for pioneering work in family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention.

   

Board of Trustees
 

Mark A. Walker
Chairman
Managing Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
New York, New York

Alaka M. Basu
Professor, Department of
  Development Sociology
Director, South Asia Program
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Darcy Bradbury
Senior Vice President
The D. E. Shaw Group
New York, New York

Marc A. Bygdeman
Professor Emeritus, 
  Obstetrics and Gynecology
Karolinska Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Peter J. Donaldson
President
Population Council
New York, New York 

Wafaa El-Sadr
Professor of Clinical Medicine
  and Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, New York

Lynn A. Foster
New York, New York

Anna Glasier
Director, Family Planning
  and Well Woman Services
NHS Lothian
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Angel Gurria
Vice Chairman
Secretary-General
Organisation for Economic
  Co-operation and Development
Paris, France

Werner Holzer
Bad Homburg, Germany

Henry L. King
Senior Counsel
Davis Polk & Wardwell
New York, New York

Charles D. Klein
Managing Director
American Securities Capital
  Partners, LLC
New York, New York

Elizabeth J. McCormack
Vice Chairman
Associate 
Rockefeller Family & Associates
New York, New York

Robert B. Millard
Managing Director
Lehman Brothers Inc.
New York, New York

Jotham Musinguzi
Director, Population Secretariat
Ministry of Finance
  and Economic Planning
Kampala, Uganda

Anne R. Pebley
Professor
Department of Community Health
  Sciences
School of Public Health
University of California,
  Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Amartya Sen
Lamont University Professor and
  Professor of Economics
  and Philosophy
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Torsten N. Wiesel
President Emeritus
The Rockefeller University
New York, New York
 



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3 April 2008