The Dickey Center benefits from the counsel of our Board of Visitors. The
Board consists of alumni and area experts whose experience and expertise align
them closely to the mission of the Dickey Center. The Board members are
appointed by the President of the College for terms of four years. A trustee
representative is assigned to the board by the Board of Trustees.
Currently the Dickey Center enjoys the counsel of the following Board:
Anne Bagamery
Anne Bagamery '78 is Senior Editor of the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, based in Paris. Her career in journalism began in the United States, first as a reporter for daily newspapers in Norfolk, Virginia and Syracuse, New York, then on the staff of Forbes Magazine in New York, Houston and San Francisco. Prior to moving to Paris in 1991, she was a management consultant in London and a freelance writer and editor in Brussels. At Dartmouth, she was the first woman editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, an undergraduate editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, and a Public Affairs Center intern at Time Inc. in New York. She is a member and past president of the Board of Trustees of the International School of Paris, and a regular speaker at conferences on journalism, international education, and personal finance.
John Barker
John Barker ’83 is a partner at Arnold and Porter, LLP. His practice focuses on national security matters including export controls, international technology transfers, trade sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the US Department of the Treasury (OFAC), and compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). He helps companies and institutions establish compliance plans, obtain export authorizations, and provides representation in enforcement proceedings. He also represents companies before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in reviews required under the US Exon-Florio statute. Mr. Barker came to the firm from the US Department of State, where he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation Controls and, prior to that, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Controls. He was also recognized nationally in Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business for his work on export controls and trade sanctions. Mr. Barker received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986, where he was Managing Editor of the Journal of Law Reform, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1983.
Charles N. Bralver
Charles N. Bralver '74 is Senior Associate Dean of International Business and Finance and Executive Director of the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Previously, Bralver was a founding partner of Oliver, Wyman & Co., Managing Director for Europe and Vice-Chairman. He is active on corporate and educational advisory groups and boards, including the Board of Directors of Newstar Financial, and the Senior Advisory Board of Oliver Wyman. He has also has served as a Strategic Advisor to the Financial Services Practice at Warburg Pincus LLC, and currently sits on Fletcher's Board of Overseers.
William Breer
William Breer ’57 currently serves as Senior Adviser and former Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He joined CSIS in October 1996 after a 35-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service. Prior to joining CSIS, he was a senior adviser at the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State (1993-1996). Mr. Breer has devoted the major portion of his career to the management of U.S.-Japan relations. He spent 18 years in Japan, serving at the U.S. embassy as political officer, political counselor under Mike Mansfield, and deputy chief of mission with ambassadors Michael Armacost and Walter Mondale. In Washington, Mr. Breer served as country director for Japan, the most senior position dealing exclusively with U.S.-Japan relations, and as director for Northeast Asia in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
Marinn F. Carlson
Marinn F. Carlson ’93 is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, one of the world’s largest law firms with over 1,700 lawyers and 16 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. She focuses her practice in international dispute settlement, with an emphasis on trade policy and investment disputes, including in the WTO and investor-state arbitration. She has also represented clients in U.S. litigation with international ramifications, and as amici curiae in foreign affairs, intellectual property, and Commerce Clause cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and various courts of appeal. Before entering private practice, Ms. Carlson clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She has also worked at the Environmental Defense Fund and the White House Office on Environmental Policy.
Louise Fréchette
Louise
Fréchette
served as the first United Nations Deputy Secretary General from 1998-2006. Before joining the United Nations, Mme. Fréchette was the Deputy minister of National Defense of Canada from 1995-1998. Prior to that she was the Associate Deputy Minister of the Department of Finance. Originally a Foreign Service officer, she served as Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations from 1992-1995.
Lisa Suzanne Ragen Ide
Lisa Suzanne Ragen Ide ’84 MD MPH is currently the Medical Director of Employee Health and Wellness and of Employee Occupational Health Services at Fairview Health Services based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Ide also serves as a staff physician at the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis.Dr. Ide graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984 and from Yale Medical School in 1989. She spent 1984-85 as a Dickey Endowment scholar working on the Thai Cambodian border and the Ethiopian Sudan border. She has completed two residencies, Emergency Medicine and Preventive Medicine, with subspecialty certification in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Jonathan Low
Jonathan Low '73 is a Partner and Co-Founder of Predictiv, LLC where he works with clients in Europe, South America, Asia and the US. His specialty is management performance and organizational effectiveness, focusing on the impact of intangibles such as strategy execution, brand/reputation, sustainability and innovation. Prior to founding Predictiv, Jon was a Senior Fellow at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation. Jon also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Work and Technology Policy in which position he worked closely with the OECD, the World Bank, the European Commission and other global entities on corporate governance and the future of financial reporting. He is the co-author of Invisible Advantage, published by Perseus Press in May 2002 and has contributed to or edited three other books.
Edward C. Luck
Edward C. Luck ’70
is Senior Vice President
and Director of Studies of the International Peace Institute, an independent,
international institution dedicated to promoting the prevention and settlement
of armed conflicts between and within states through policy research and
development.In February 2008, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Professor Luck Special
Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General.He
is currently on public service leave as Professor of Practice in International
and Public Affairs of the School of International and Public Affairs, ColumbiaUniversity,
where he remains Director of the Center on International Organization. Before
coming to Columbia
in 2001, he was Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of
International Organization. From 1995 to 1997, he served as a Senior Consultant
to the Department of Administration and Management of the United Nations, and as
Staff Director of the General Assembly’s Open-ended High-level Working Group on
the Strengthening of the United Nations System. From 1984 to 1994, Dr. Luck
served as President and CEO of the United Nations Association of the USA. He holds a B.A.
from DartmouthCollege
with High Distinction in International Relations and a series of graduate
degrees from ColumbiaUniversity, including an M.I.A. from the School of International Affairs, the Certificate
of the Russian Institute, and M.A., M.Ph., and Ph.D. degrees in Political
Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Sandy McCulloch
Sandy McCulloch ’50, after graduating from Dartmouth, joined Microfibres, Inc., a textile fabrics manufacturer founded by his father in 1926. He has since served as a director of numerous organizations including Fleet National Bank, Narragansett Capital Corporation, Mt. Attitash Lift Corporation (chair) and Edgehill-Newport, Inc., an alcohol rehabilitation center. McCulloch chaired the Rhode Island Foundation, one of the nation's largest community foundations with assets in excess of $500 million. His service to Dartmouth has been extensive: as a member and then President of the Alumni Council, as Chair of the 1973-74 Dartmouth Alumni Fund, and as National Chair of the five-year "Campaign for Dartmouth" from 1977 to 1982. A member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees for 13 years, he served as its Chair from 1986 to 1988. McCulloch was a founding father of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth and has served as Chair of its Board of Visitors since inception in 1982. In 1998, he and his wife Dorothy (Dotty) endowed the James O. Freedman Presidential Professorship at Dartmouth. The McCullochs have also endowed a chair and found the new McCulloch Program for Global Initiatives at Mount Holyoke College. In 1992, they established the McAdams Charitable Foundation in support of public primary and secondary education. In 1983, Sandy McCulloch received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Johnson & Wales University, and in 2000, an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Dartmouth.
Jonathan Moore
Jonathan Moore ’54 is an associate at the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he was previously Director of the Institute of Politics and Lecturer in Public Policy. From 1989-92 he was US Ambassador to the United Nations and Representative to its Economic and Social Council, and from 1986-89 US Coordinator and Ambassador at Large for Refugees and Director of the Refugee Program, US Department of State. During 1969-1973, he served in Washington D.C. as Deputy Secretary of State, Counselor to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, The Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and Associate Attorney General in the Justice Department. Previously he worked for the US Information Agency in India and Africa, in the U. S. Senate, and on state and national electoral campaigns.
José Antonio Ocampo
José Antonio Ocampo is a Professor of
Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the
Program in Economic and Political Development at the School
of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Prior to his appointment,
Professor Ocampo served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the
Government of Colombia, most notably as United Nations Under-Secretary General
for Economic and Social Affairs; Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Minister of Finance and Public
Credit, Chairman of the Board of Banco del República (Central Bank of
Colombia); Director, National Planning Department (Minister of Planning);
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chairman of the Board of Banco
Cafetero (Coffee Bank) and Caja de Crèdito Agraria, Industrial y Minera
(Agrarian Bank) and Executive Director, FEDESARROLLO. Dr. Ocampo received his
B.A. in Economics and Sociology from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D.
in Economics from Yale
University, 1976. He was
a Professor in the Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics at Cambridge University,
a Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, a Professor of Economic
History at the National University of Colombia, as well as a Visiting Fellow at
Yale and Oxford.
His
recent publications include Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics,
Liberalization and Development, with Joseph E. Stiglitz, Shari Spiegel, Ricardo
French-Davis and Deepak Nayyar, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Melville Straus
Melville Straus ’60 entered the investment business as a security analyst in 1967 at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. In 1969, he joined Standard & Poor's InterCapital as Vice President and Director of Research. In 1972, he was elected to its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He joined Weiss, Peck & Greer, L.L.C. in 1973. At WPG, Mr. Straus was a member of the Executive Committee and his primary responsibility was heading up the small cap growth product and managing $1.5 billion of institutional small cap accounts including two mutual funds and over $50 million in individual accounts. In January, 1998, Mr. Straus formed Straus Asset Management, L.LC. where he is Managing Principal and is currently managing approximately $200 million in assets.
