The USC Center on Public Diplomacy advisory board
Rebecka Belldegrun President and CEO, BellCo Capital, LLC : A graduate of Tel Aviv University Medical School, Dr. Belldegrun completed her residency in Israel and her fellowship in ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital of Harvard Medical School. She serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees at Brentwood School, is a member of the Board of Advisors at RAND Corporation, the Board of Visitors at Columbia University, a member of the University of Pennsylvania Parents Leadership Committee and serves as a member of the Board of the Tel Aviv Foundation.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso,President of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute: Cardoso served two terms as the President of the Federal Republic of Brazil, ending in January 1st, 2003.
Hodding Carter, III: President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and has worked on two successful presidential campaigns - Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign and Jimmy Carter's 1976 bid for the presidency. He served in the Jimmy Carter administration as spokesman for the Department of State and Assistant Secretary of State of Public Affairs. Carter served as host, anchor, panelist, correspondent and reporter for a variety of public affairs television shows on PBS, ABC, CBS, BBC and CNN. He served as a Washington-based opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal for 10 years, and was a syndicated columnist with United Media/NEA in the early 1990s. Carter is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other newspapers and magazines.
Henry Catto, Former Ambassador to the U.K. and El Salvador: He has been director of the United States Information Agency (1991-93), U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1989-91), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Pentagon Spokesman (1981-83), U.S. Representative to the United Nations Offices in Geneva (1976-77), Chief of Protocol, White House and Department of State (1974-76), U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1971-73), and Deputy Representative to the Organization of American States (1969-71).
From 1983 to 1989, he was vice chairman and president of Broadcast Group at H & C Communications, operator of network television stations. Henry E. Catto was elected chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States in January 1999. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, a contributing Editor to the American Journalism Review magazine, Vice-Chairman of the Aspen Institute, and is on the Advisory Board of Direct Relief International.
Kimberly Marteau Emerson, Former Director of the Office of Public Liaison at the USIA
Bruce Gelb, President of the Council of American Ambassadors: He is at present a senior consultant to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Gelb had been appointed Commissioner for the United Nations, Consular Corps and International Business by New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, serving from 1994 to 1997. In this capacity, Commissioner Gelb was responsible for the strategy and implementation of actions to bring international businesses to New York City and the retention of resident foreign companies, the United Nations and its agencies.
Gelb served in the George H.W. Bush administration as the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (1991 – 1993) and as Director of the U.S. Information Agency (1989 – 1991). Prior to his service in government, he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Bristol-Myers Company. Bruce Gelb has served as a member of President Bush’s Arts and Humanities Committee and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is also a former Trustee of Howard University and a past Board member of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
Vartan Gregorian. President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. He was born in Iran, and is the author of Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1880-1946. He is a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellow, and currently serves on the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Human Rights Watch. He served on the boards of theJ. Paul Getty Trust, the Aga Khan University, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Betty King, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
Kevin Klose Advisory Board Member
President and CEO for National Public Radio (NPR)
Gary E. Knell Advisory Board Member
President and CEO, Sesame Workshop
Markos Kounalakis Advisory Board Member
President and Publisher, Washington Monthly magazine
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Advisory Board Member
University Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Ponchitta Pierce Advisory Board Member
Journalist, producer
Keith Reinhard Advisory Board Member
Chairman, DDB Worldwide
Elizabeth Rohatyn Advisory Board Member
Founder and Chairperson, Teaching Matters, Inc.
Charles Z. Wick Advisory Board Member
Former Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA)
