President’s Council on International Activities

The President’s Council on International Activities was formed in 1998 by President Richard C. Levin to provide guidance on Yale’s international agenda. The Council meets on campus once a year, and individual members provide assistance to the University throughout the year. Most importantly, the Council has been a source of ideas for developing the University’s international agenda.

Meetings focus on specific issues and programs such as the University’s activities in China, admission of international students, the Yale World Fellows Program, and initiatives of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. In each of these cases, the advice of the Council has proved invaluable in guiding Yale’s activities.

Members of the Council reside and work in countries around the globe and represent numerous sectors including finance and banking, consumer products, shipping, technology, advertising, media, academia, and government.

Council Members 2023-2024

Daniel Adamson ’98, ’03 JD
Javed Ahmed ’91 BA, P ’25, ’28
Runa Alam P ’23, ’26
Sharyar Aziz ’74 BA, P ’10, ’13, ’14 MBA
Roger Barnett ’86 BA, ’89 JD, P ’25
Thomas Barry ’66 BA, P ’08, ’09, ’12 MD
Hakeem Belo-Osagie P ’16
Elizabeth Berry ’89 MPPM
Paloma Botín O’Shea P ’14, ’17, ’24
Christopher Bradford ’00 BA
Eric Braverman ’97 BA, ’02 JD
Martha Finn Brooks ’81 BA, ’86 MBA, P ’15, ’19
Marcos Bulgheroni ’95 BA
Barbara Bush ’04 BA
Ronnie Chan, Friend
Natarajan Chandrasekaran P ’20
Justin Chang ’89 BA
Ya Ping Chang ’91 BA
Catherine Cheng ’99 BA
Christopher Cheng P ’99
Maureen Chiquet ’85 BA, ’12 MAH, P ’15, ’18
Timothy Collins ’82 MBA, P ’07, ’22
Ethelbert Cooper ’74 BA
Philippe Costeletos ’87 BA, P ’21, ’24
Kevin Czinger ’82 BA, ’87 JD, P ’13, ’17
Richard Deitz ’87 BA
Ashish Dhawan ’92 BS, P ’24
Henry Fan P ’01
Hugo Faria ’86 BA, P ’18, ’21, ’22
Naana Frimpong ’04 JD (Vice Chair)
Donald Gips ’89 MBA
Thomas Glocer ’84 JD
Charles Goodyear ’80 BS, ’11 MAH, P ’16, ’19
Maurice Greenberg P ’95 MD
Abel Halpern ’88 BA, P ’21, P ’23, P ’25
Sejal Hathi ’13 BS
Stephen Hendel ’73 BA, P ’99, ’02, ’07
Carla Hills ’58 LLB, ’08 LLDH, P ’87
Brad Huang ’90 MBA, P ’23, ’24
Carine Ihenacho P ’22
Philip Ihenacho ’87 BA, P ’22
Maryana Iskander ’03 JD
John Jackson ’67 BA, P ’11
Reuben Jeffery ’75 BA, P ’11
Heinrich Jessen ’95 MEM
Neal Keny-Guyer ’82 MPPM, P ’19
Vanessa Kerry ’99 BS
Thomas Ketchum ’72 BA, P ’11, ’13

Shiv Vikram Khemka P ’20
Mi-Hyung Kim, ’05 World Fellow, P ’21, ’23
Stavros Lambrinidis ’88 JD
James Lawrence ’74 BA, P ’16, ’19
Rochelle Lazarus P ’02, ’10
James Leitner ’75 BA, P ’06, ’09, ’13, ’24
Timothy Light ’60 BA, P ’90
Gary Locke ’72 BA, P ’19
James Lu ’77 BA, P ’11, ’19
Alexander Macridis, Esq. ’84 BA, ’87 JD, P ’21, ’24, ’27
Kishore Mahbubani P ’11, ’14
Katherine McLane P ’25
Salvador Medina Chao, Friend
Prakash Melwani P ’16, ’23
Manoj Menda P ’24
Rajan Mittal P ’16
Denis Mizne ’07 World Fellow
Rakesh Mohan ’71 BA, P ’11
Mario Monti ’68 Grd
Robert Morse ‘77 BA, P ’10, ’12, ’13, ’17, ’19 MD (Chair)
James Mwangi P ’19
Thomas Naratil ’83, P ’11, ’21
John Negroponte ’60 BA, P ’22 MBA
Eliot Pence ’08 MA
Clark Randt ’68 BA, P ’09, ’13
David Rivkin ’77 BA, ’80 JD, P ’05, ’06, ’11 JD
Linda Rottenberg ’93 JD, P ’27, P ’27 (Vice Chair)
Henry Schacht ’56 BS, ’88 MAH
Jaime Serra ’77 MA, ’77 MPhil, ’79 PhD, P ’11
Adam Shapiro ’95 BA
Nanpeng Neil Shen ’92 MA, P ’26
Paul Simons ’77 BA
Kate Simpson ’85 BA
Dinakar Singh ’90 BA, P ’22, ’25
Charles Slaughter ’85 BA, ’90 MPPM, P ’25
Vikram Sodhi ’92 BA
Chandrika Tandon P ’10
Thierry Tanoh P ’25
Clyde Tuggle ’88 MDiv, P ’17
Antoine van Agtmael ’70 MA, P’03
Andrés von Buch ’67 BA
Margaret Warner ’71 BA, ’06 MAH
Michael Warren ’90 BA, ’18 MAH, P ’27
Sonia Weymuller ’05 BA
Daniel Yergin ’68 BA, P ’07, ’09
Fareed Zakaria ’86 BA, ’06 MAH, P ’23
Lei Zhang ’02 MBA, ’02 MA, P ’25