The Foundation
for International Arts & Education is governed by a very active
Board of Directors.
Gregory
Guroff, President
Mr. Guroff was the cultural attaché at the US Embassy in Moscow
from 1982-1985. During 1986-1992, he was the coordinator of the President’s
US-Soviet Exchange Initiative for the United States Information Agency
as well as the Chairman of the Director’s Task Force for Soviet
Affairs for the USIA during 1990-1991. Among other recent activities,
he served as the Acting Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies,
as Chief Academic Consultant to such major Public Television series
as Hedrick Smith’s Inside Gorbachev’s USSR and After Gorbachev’s
USSR, helped facilitate the exhibition Treasures of the Czars which
toured the United States in St. Petersburg, FL and Topeka, KS, and
served on the Board for the American-Russian Youth Orchestra. Mr.
Guroff also taught Russian history for 10 years at Grinnell College
in Iowa.
Ambassador
Arthur Hartman, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Hartman is a Senior Consultant to APCO Associates. He is a former
US Ambassador to both the Soviet Union and France with extensive experience
in foreign affairs and international economic matters. He is the former
President of the Harvard Board of Overseers and serves as the Chairman
of the First NIS Regional Fund, managed by Barings/Vostok Partners.
He is a member of several other corporate and nonprofit boards as
well.
David
Kenney, Secretary / Treasurer of the Board
Mr. Kenney, a career foreign service officer, had a distinguished
24 year diplomatic career serving at the Department of State, plus
inter-agency service with DOD, OMB, AID, and the CIA. After retiring
from the US Government, he held a Senior Fellowship at the International
Center of Washington DC. He is currently a member of the Board of
Trustees of the North Country Treetops school in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Sarah
Carey
Ms. Carey chairs the CIS Trade and Investment Practice at Squire,
Sanders & Dempsey, a prominent international law firm. She has
practiced law for over 30 years, focusing primarily on legal aspects
of trans-border transactions. Ms. Carey is currently serving as chairperson
of the Eurasia Foundation. She has also served on the first board
of the Russian-American Enterprise Fund and the Defense Enterprise
Fund and served as a Director of Yukos Oil Company for four years.
Edward
C. Chow
Mr. Chow, a native of Shanghai, China, is an international business
and oil consultant. He retired in 1998 from Chevron Corporation where
he last held the position of Manager, External Affairs, of its overseas
operations. While at Chevron, he became active in the company’s
interests in the former Soviet Union, in particular Kazakhstan, Russia,
Azerbaijan, and Georgia and served as Chevron’s resident country
manager in Beijing from 1989 to 1991. Mr. Chow is a Senior Associate
at CSIS and an independent consultant.
Thomas
G. Gherardi
Mr. Gherardi is president of a professional corporation engaged in
US and international television and new media production and distribution,
copyright, trademark and licensing law, and the negotiation of complex
commercial transactions. From July 1978 through June 1989, he was
senior partner of Deane, Snowdon & Gherardi. He has also served
as Counsel or General Counsel to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
National Public Radio, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, and
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Michael
Johnson
Mr. Johnson is an independent consultant for FMC Corporation, where
he previously served as Vice-President for International Affairs.
He has been with FMC since 1978. Prior to joining FMC, Mr. Johnson
served as Executive Secretary of the White House Council on International
Economic Policy and later as the first Director of the Department
of State’s Office of Private Cooperation under Henry Kissinger.
He has been an Associate Professional Lecturer at the Graduate School
of Business at George Washington University and is currently a member
of the Dean’s Advisory Council. He has also been active in the
Great Falls Citizens Association, Sister Cities International, and
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Montgomery
Lewis
Mr. Lewis is the President and Chairman of MMLB Associates, Inc.,
a privately held firm involved with various business ventures in the
former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In addition, Mr. Lewis is
active on behalf of the Russian Foundation, a charitable organization
which supplies medical equipment and medications to the various parts
of the Russian Federation.
Nikita
Lobanov-Rostovsky
Mr. Lobanov is a distinguished art collector whose collection of Russian
costume and stage design is world-renowned. Trained as a geologist
and banker, he has combined these specialties into a distinguished
international career. Mr. Lobanov is a fellow of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, a Regent of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture,
and a member of the Board of the St. Cyril and St. Methodi Foundation
of Bulgaria, Deputy Chairman of the International Council of Russian
Compatriots in Moscow, Chairman of the Russian-speaking Community
in the UK, and a member of the jury of the international ballet competion
"Tansolymp" in Berlin.
Elizabeth Malott Pohle
Ms. Malott Pohle is the current Executive Director of the Camalott Charitable
Foundation. Ms. Malott Pohle had previously spent six years working
for USIA in the President’s US-Soviet Exchange Initiative. In
addition to her duties with the Camalott Foundation, she is active with
many charitable and educational organizations, including Junior League
and the Lathon Wider Community Center in Connecticut and a member of
the Board for the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ambassador
Joseph A. Presel
Mr. Presel retired from the US Foreign Service in October 2001 after
serving as American Ambassador to Uzbekistan. During his long career
with the State Department, his assignments mostly involved the Soviet
Union and its successor states. After the demise of the Soviet Union,
he served as Deputy Coordinator for Assistance to the countries of
the former Soviet Union, and then as Deputy Coordinator for Regional
Affairs in the former Soviet Union.
Marilyn
Pfeifer Swezey
Ms. Swezey is an Art Historian with a specialty in Russian Decorative
Arts and Cultural History. She has been the lead curator for numerous
Russian art exhibitions in museums such as the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, the Flagler Museum and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She
is the curatorial advisor for the Fabergé Arts Foundation,
a choir member at St. Nicholas Cathedral, and a member of the boards
for the Holy Archangels Foundation and the Recovery Foundation. In
addition, Ms. Swezey has written and lectured extensively on the Romanov
period of Russian history and serves as a study group leader for the
Smithsonian Institution.
