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MEDIA CENTER Population Council Management and Board of Trustees: NEW YORK (22 December 2005) — The Population Council announced changes to its executive team following the organization’s recent board of trustees meeting. Trustee Mark A. Walker was elected chairman of the board, Angel Gurria and Elizabeth J. McCormack were named vice chairmen, and Anrudh K. Jain was appointed vice president of the Council’s largest division, the International Programs Division. The Population Council board, consisting of 17 women and men from eight countries, is rich with talent from academia, international development, and the private sector. Walker is a managing partner of the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he concentrates on public- and private-sector international finance and business. He advised the governments of Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, and other countries on debt management and infrastructure finance. Gurria, the Secretary-General Elect of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has had a distinguished career of public service in Mexico's government, including serving as Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Gurria and former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker co-chaired a 2001 blue-ribbon commission, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the role of multilateral development banks in emerging market economies. The former president of Manhattanville College, McCormack headed the Rockefeller family philanthropy office for 12 years and continues to advise members of the Rockefeller family. McCormack has extensive experience in not-for-profit management from many years of service on boards, including heading the board of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Population Council. Jain has had leadership roles at the Population Council for more than 20 years, helping to promote the utilization of research results to improve reproductive health policies and programs and bridge the gap between demographic and reproductive health perspectives in policies and programs. Before joining the Council, he worked with the Ford Foundation in Delhi and the University of Michigan. Jain was a founding member of the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi and served on its board of directors until 2005. A list of the other members of the Council's board of trustees is available on the About page of the Web site (http://www.popcouncil.org/about/officers.html).
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