Advisory Councils

Advisory Councils

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National Council for Arts and Sciences

(In list below, "P" denotes parent; the year that follows denotes graduation year of child.)

Mahmoud Abdallah P '04, P '10  - Director, MisR Insurance, HSBC Bank Egypt 
Marc Albert, Esq. BA '70, JD '73 - Partner - Stinson Morrison & Hecker, LLP
Jerry R. Bloom,
BA '74, MA '76 - Partner - Winston & Strawn
Greg A. Blue, BA '90, JD '95
Yawen Chiang
, Ph.D. '83 - Director, Strategic Planning and Scientific Collaboration - Genetech Process Research & Development
Gilbert R. Cisneros, Jr., BA '94
John Day, BA '73, MA '75, '79 - CEO (retired) - Southcoast Health System
Clark Dumont
, P '07. - Vice President, Corporate Communications - MGM Resorts International
Eileen Farbman BA '83 - Board of Directors & Counselor - My Sister's Place
Michael Feinsod
BA '93- Chairman & CEO - Ameritrans Capital Corporation
Axel Freudmann
BA '68 - Retired Senior VP Human Resources - AIG
Lauren Freudmann, BA '69
Mary Anne Frey BA '70, PhD '75- Professor Emeritus - Wright State University Department of Community Health
John T. Gaffney Esq., BA '82, P '10, '13, '14 - Partner - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Ed Herbst BA '67, P '98 - Managing Director - Shields & Co.
Madeleine R. Jacobs BS '68  - Executive Director & CEO - American Chemical Society
Richard Alan Johnston P '04, '06, '12- Senior Partner - WilmerHale
Candace Kaplan CFP, BA '70- CEO & President - Kaplan Financial Group
Benjamin Klubes
, Esq. BA '87 - Partner - Buckley Sandler LLP
Bennett Lavenstein, MD, BS '66, P '03- Physician - Neurologist - Children's National Medical Center
Pamela Lawrence BA '76- Chair, NCAS, Senior Vice President - North Shore Medical Center
Melissa Maxman
, Esq. BA '84, JD '88, P '10 - Member, Commercial Litigation Group - Cozen O'Connor
John McGurl, M.D.,
BA '84 - Internal Medicine - Virginia Hospital
Sheldon J. Rapoport
, BA '70 - Retired Foreign Service Officer
Allan Reed BA '72, MD '75, P'07- Associate Attending - Mt. Sinai Hospital
Louann Reed BA '72, MA '73, P '07 - Reed Cohen Papers & Events, LLC
Susan S. Smirnoff
BA '74, P '09 - Executive Vice President - Ruder-Finn, Inc.
Michael Thacher BA '70 - Retired General Manager, Public Relations & Communications - Unocal Corporation
John W. Thorne, III BA '55- Founder & CEO - Alliance Healthcare Information, Inc.
William Warren BA '67- Retired Foreign Service Officer
Kevin A. Werner BA '82 - President & Managing Director of Corporate Development & Strategy - Abalone Capital Advisors, LLC
John S. Whetzell BA '68- Chairman & CEO - Northland Communications Corporation
Jerome L. Wolf, Esq. BA '70, P '02- Partner - Duane Morris LLP
Ellen Zane BA '73 - Retired President & CEO - Tufts Medical Center

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National Council for Media and Public Affairs

John Barth - Managing Director - PRX.org
Char Beales BA '73- Chair, NCMPA, President & CEO - Cable & Telecommunications Associate for Marketing
Berl Brechner BA '68- Vice President - Brechner Management Company
Rick Davis P '13- Executive Vice President of News Standards and Practices - CNN
Mark Dollins BA '83
Andy Dumaine - President & Founder - Shrinkingfootprint Sustainability Marketing & Experience Development
Steve Farbman BA '82- CEO - TPG Sports, Inc.
Loren Ghiglione PhD '76 - Richard A. Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics - Northwestern University
Kathryn Green BA '77, P'15 - Literary Agent - The Kathryn Green Literary Agency
Brenda Lilly P '11
Joe Lockhart - Vice President of Communications - Facebook
Andrew Nibley - Former Chairman - Marsteller Advertising
Laureen Ong - President - The Travel Channel
Neil Portnow BA '71 - President - The Recording Academy
Cathryn Fineman Steel BA '88 - CEO - Cathy Steel Associates
Scott Widmeyer - Chairman & CEO - Widmeyer Communications
Paul Wilson - Founder - Wilson Grand Communications

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Emeriti Members of the National Council for Arts and Sciences

David R. Berz, Esq., BA '70, JD '73, P '10  - Partner - Weil Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Philip A. Brown, Esq. BA '71 - Partner - Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, LLP
Mortimer M. Caplin, Esq. - Senior Partner - Caplin & Drysdale
Michael P. Checca BA '71 - Principal - Edgewood Insurance Partners Center
Nancy Daunton, PhD, BA '64, MA '66 - Retired NASA AMES Research Scientist
Bert Deixler, Esq. BA '73- Partner - Kendall Brill Kleiger
John Grosso, Jr. BA '69, P '01- Chairman, CEO & President - Portrait Innovations
Eugene I. Lambert
, Esq. BA '57 - Current Chairman GW's Heritage Society; Senior Counsel - Covington & Burling LLP
Elizabeth St. J. Loker BA '69 - Retired Vice President - The Washington Post Co.
Richard Marmaro, Esq. BA '73, P '08 - Partner - Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
Alan S. Nadel, Esq. BA '71, JD '76 - Partner - Panitch Schwarze Belisaio & Nadel LLP
Laurel Schliftman BA '72, P '00, P '05
Ronald Schliftman
MD, BA '69, MD '73, P '00, P '05 - Physician - New York Westchester Square Medical Center
Julianne H. Thomas, MD, BA '67 - Physician - Pediatric Center
Peter K. Yeskel BA' 71, P '04 - Owner - Peter K. Yeskel & Associates

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One of the many moments that made Commencement weekend so special was my time with alumnus John Gaffney, BA ‘82, who is Chairman my National Council Advisory Board.  It was such a pleasure to meet John’s mother, and the rest of the Gaffney family who had gathered to celebrate the graduation of Sean, the next generation of Gaffneys at GW. The Gaffney legacy continues this fall when Sean’s sister, Caroline, enters Columbian College as a freshman, and brother, Conor, transfers from Franklin and Marshall College for his third year.

Top Ranking for Columbian College Graduate Programs

US News and World Report released 2011 graduate school rankings, revealing the top programs in the nation in sciences, social sciences and humanities, and other areas. Ranked in the top 15 are three programs in Columbian College's Trachtenburg School of Public Policy and Public Administration: Public Affairs, Public Management Administration, and Public Finance and Budgeting. In addition, Public Policy Analysis, Political Science, Speech and Hearing Pathology, and Statistics ranked in the top 50. Among the programs in the top 100 were Biological Sciences, Computer Science, English, History,  Math, Physics, and Psychology.

Albert H. Small, a 2009 recipient of the Presidential Humanities Medal, has donated his unparalleled collection on the history of Washington, D.C., to GW. Read more.

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