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MEDIA CENTER Two Members Elected to the Population Council's Board of Trustees NEW YORK (1 July 2003)—Prominent attorney Mark A. Walker and finance expert Robert B. Millard recently were elected to the Population Council's board of trustees. Millard previously was a trustee from 1993 to 2002. The board now includes 17 men and women who are originally from nine countries—Ethiopia, Germany, India, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States. "It is an honor to have Mark Walker on our board and to welcome Robert Millard as a returning member," said Council president Linda G. Martin. "Mark and Bob are the embodiment of the Population Council's commitment to excellence and objectivity in doing research to help developing countries solve critical problems." A partner in the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton since 1975, Walker's practice focuses on public and private sector international finance and business. He advises the governments of Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, and other countries on debt management and infrastructure finance, and has assisted in the formulation, negotiation, and documentation of arrangements with international organizations, commercial banks, and creditor governments that have become models for the management of international debt crises. Walker also has advised private sector debtors and creditors in negotiating complex international restructurings. He holds an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School. Managing director of the investment banking firm Lehman Brothers, Inc. since 1983, Millard has expertise in world financial markets. He heads Lehman Brothers' Trading & Investments Group and the Merchant Banking Group and has served on several not-for-profit boards, including those of the New School University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Millard holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
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