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Board Officers and Members 

Co-Chairman of the Board
Teresa Beck
Former President, American Stores Co.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Term: January 2006 – October 2015

Co-Chairman of the Board
Steven A. Denning
Chairman, General Atlantic LLC
Greenwich, Connecticut
Term: November 2007 – October 2017

Vice Chair
Roberto Hernández Ramírez

Chairman,
Banco Nacional de Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
Term: September 2004 – October 2013

President and Chief Executive Officer
Mark R. Tercek
The Nature Conservancy
Arlington, Virginia
Term: July 2008 – Present

Secretary
Frank E. Loy
Former Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs
United States Government
Washington, DC
Term: October 2006 – October 2015

Treasurer
Muneer A. Satter
Chairman
Satter Investment Management, LLC
Chicago, Illinois
Term: January 2006 – October 2015

Members  

David Blood
Senior Partner
Generation Investment Management
London, U.K.
Term: August 2010 – October 2019 

Shona L. Brown
Senior Advisor
Google Inc.
Palo Alto, California
Term: February 2011 – October 2020

Gretchen C. Daily
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Term: April 2006 – October 2015

Joseph H. Gleberman
Advisory Director
Goldman Sachs & Co.
New York, New York
Term: December 2012 – October 2022

Jeremy Grantham
Co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. (GMO)
Boston, Massachusetts
Term: February 2012 – October 2021 

Jack Ma
Lead Founder, Chairman and CEO
Alibaba Group
Hangzhou, China
Term: April 2010 – October 2019

Craig O. McCaw
Chairman & CEO, Eagle River Inc.
Santa Barbara, California
Term: October 2010 – October 2019

Thomas J. Meredith
Co-founder and General Partner
Meritage Capital
Austin, Texas
Term: July 2009 – October 2018

Thomas S. Middleton
Senior Managing Director
Blackstone Group
New York, New York
Term: October 2007 – October 2016 

James C. Morgan
Chairman Emeritus
Applied Materials, Inc.
Santa Clara, California
Term: March 2004 – October 2013

Stephen Polasky
Professor of Environmental Economics
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota
Term: January 2009 – October 2018

James E. Rogers
Chairman, President and CEO
Duke Energy
Charlotte, North Carolina
Term: February 2012 – October 2021

Thomas J. Tierney
Chairman and Co-Founder
The Bridgespan Group, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts
Term: October 2007 – October 2017

Moses Tsang
Executive Chairman
AP Asset Management Group
AP Special Situation Group
(Subsidiaries of AP Capital Holdings Inc.)
Hong Kong
Term: January 2010 – October 2019 

Frances A. Ulmer
Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
Anchorage, Alaska
Term: October 2011 – October 2020

P. Roy Vagelos
Retired Chairman & CEO
Merck & Co., Inc.
Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
Term: December 2012 – October 2022

Margaret C. Whitman
President and CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company
Palo Alto, California
Term: March 2011 – October 2020

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