Steering Committee

The Consortium was founded in collaboration with other New School faculty, including:

• T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Professor and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
• Ahmed Bawa, Chief Executive Officer, Universities South Africa
• Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies and Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

Advisory Group Members

• Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University
• Ahmed Bawa, CEO, University of South Africa
• Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
• Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University
• Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University; Director, US-Asia Law Institute
• Jonathan Fanton, President emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• Masha Gessen, staff writer, The New Yorker
• Hadi Ghaemi, Executive Director, Center for Human Rights in Iran
• Allan Goodman, President and CEO, Institute of International Education
• Irena Grudzińska Gross, Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Science
• Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation
• Michael Ignatieff, Rector and President, Central European University
• Henry G. Jarecki, Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Falconwood Corporation
• Ann Werner Johnson, Trustee emeritus, Connecticut College
• Alison von Klemperer, Communications Consultant
• Robert Mundheim, Of Counsel, Shearman & Sterling
• Aryeh Neier, President emeritus, Open Society Foundations
• Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Ex Officio Advisory Members

• Joseph E. Aoun, President of Northeastern University

• Andrew Armacost, President, University of North Dakota

• Linda Bell, Provost, Barnard College

• Joanne Berger-Sweeney, President, Trinity College

• Julia von Blumenthal, President, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• Rachel Croson, Provost, University of Minnesota

• Ann E. Cudd, Provost, University of Pittsburgh

• Linda Doyle, Provost & President, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
• Philippe Gervais-Lambony, President, Université Paris Nanterre

• Michael Hoch, Rector, University of Bonn

• Paula Johnson, President, Wellesley College

• Radenka Maric, President, University of Connecticut

• Thandwa Mthembu, Vice-Chancellor, Durban University of Technology

• Walter Rosenthal, President, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

• Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University

• Peter Salovey, President, Yale University

• Ursula M. Staudinger, Rector, Technische Universität Dresden

• Gunter M. Ziegler, President, Freie Universität Berlin