Advisory Board
Hon. Carol Bellamy (Guatemala 1963-65)
Former Director, The Peace Corps
Former Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Former President & CEO, World Learning and School for International Training
Amb. Julia Chang-Bloch (Malaysia 1964)
President, U.S.-China Education Fund
Former U.S. Ambassador to Kingdom of Nepal
Former Deputy Director, USAID
Former Group Executive Vice President, Bank of America
Former President and CEO, United States-Japan Fund
Hon. Richard Celeste
Former Director, The Peace Corps
Former Governor of Ohio
Former U.S. Ambassador to India
Hon. Nicholas W. Craw
Former Director, The Peace Corps
Former President and CEO, Automobile Competition Committee of the US
Former President and CEO, FIA Senate
Hon. James E. Doyle (Tunisia 1967-1969)
Former Governor, Wisconsin, 2003-2011
Former Attorney General, Wisconsin, 1991-2003
Attorney 'of counsel' Foley & Lardner Law Firm
Hon. Steven Dreihaus (Senegal 1988-1990, CD Morocco, Swaziland)
Former U.S. Representative, Ohio (2009-2011)
Former State Rep. and Minority Whip, Ohio
Resident Senior Director, Iraq, NDI
Marieme Foote (Benin 2019-2020)
Foreign Service Officer, USAID, Environment
Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship
National Peace Corps Association
Hon. Mark D. Gearan
Former Director, The Peace Corps
President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Former Deputy Chief of Staff, The White House
Hon. Tony P. Hall (Thailand 1966-1967)
Former U.S. Representative, Ohio (1979 – 2002)
Former United States Ambassador, United Nations Agencies
for Food and Agriculture
Executive Director Emeritus Alliance to End Hunger
John Hoffman (Colombia 1963-65; DC Staff 1965-67)
Founder and President, Urban Coeur Properties
Founder, Arts Alive
Dean Witter/Morgan Stanley
Hon. Barbara Lawton
Co-Founder, Issue One
Former President and CEO, Americans for Campaign Reform
Former Lieutenant Governor, State of Wisconsin
Diana MacArthur
Former Senior Staff Member, The Peace Corps
Co-founder and CEO, Dynamac Corp.
Member, President’s Council on Youth Opportunity and
President’s Committee on Science and Technology
M. Peter McPherson (Peru 1964-65)
President Emeritus, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Former President Michigan State University
Former Administrator USAID
Former Deputy Secretary U.S. Treasury
Hon. Josephine Olsen, PhD (Tunisia 1966-68)
Former Director, The Peace Corps
Founder & Director, Women of Peace Corps Legacy
Former Director, Fulbright Senior Scholar Program
Maureen Orth (Colombia 1964-66)
Journalist, author
Founder, Marina Orth Foundation
Hon. Thomas Petri (Somalia 1966-1967)
Former U.S. Representative, Wisconsin (1979-2015)
Founder Ripon Society
Honorary Officer in Order of the British Empire
Hon. Mark L. Schneider (El Salvador, 1964-66)
Former Director, The Peace Corps
Former Asst. Administrator USAID
Former Chief, Office of Analysis and Strategic Planning,
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization
Hon. Donna E. Shalala, PhD (Iran 1962-64)
Former U.S. Representative, South Florida
Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Hon. Christopher Shays (Fiji 1968-70)
Former U.S. Representative, Conn. (1987-2009)
Co-Chair Commission on Wartime Contracting
Distinguished Fellow in Public Service, University of New Haven
Maria Shriver
Founder, Women's Alzheimer's Movement
Former First Lady of California
Hon. Robert (Bob) Taft (Tanzania 1963-65)
Former Governor of Ohio
Former Ohio Secretary of State
Distinguished Research Associate., University of Dayton
Hon. Gaddi H. Vasquez
Former Director, The Peace Corps
Former United States Ambassador, United Nations Agencies for
Food and Agriculture
Former Senior Vice President, Edison International
Hon. James Walsh (Nepal, 1970-1972)
Former U.S. Representative, New York, 1991- 2009
Government affairs counselor for K&L Gates
Member Syracuse City Council for 20 years
Active in Northern Ireland peace process, Walsh Visa named after him
Hon. Mike Ward (The Gambia 1978-1979)
Former U.S. Representative, Kentucky (1995-1997)
Former Member Kentucky House of Representatives
Peace Corps Senior staff
Hon. Thomas Wolf (India 1968-70)
Former Governor, State of Pennsylvania
Former Chair & CEO, The Wolf Organization