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Dr. Paul Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School
of Public Service and one of the nation's leading experts on federal
government human resource issues. Prior to assuming his position at
NYU, Light was affiliated with The Brookings Institution, Washington,
D.C., where he was the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow, founding director
of the think tank's Center for Public Service, and vice president and
director of its Governmental Studies Program. Professor Light is the
author of 18 books, including "A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of
the Federal Service and How to Reverse It," published in 2008 by
Harvard University Press. Light has a BA from Macalester College and
a MA and PhD from the University of Michigan.
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Dr. John Palmer is a University Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, one of the top-ranked schools of public affairs in the United States. He recently completed two terms (2000-2008) as a presidentially appointed public trustee for the Medicare and Social Security programs. Prior to becoming Maxwell School Dean in 1988, Professor Palmer worked in Washington, D.C., including service as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and co-directed the joint NAPA/National Academy of Science project on The Fiscal Future of the U.S. Professor Palmer also has been a member of the visiting committee of The Brookings Institution and currently serves on the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development. Palmer received his BA from Williams College and his PhD from Stanford University.
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Charles S. ("Chuck") Robb - currently a distinguished Professor of Law
at George Mason University and Vice Chairman of Mitre Corporation - is a former two-term
U.S. Senator and Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. During his time in the
Senate, Robb was the first member ever to serve simultaneously on all three national
security committees: Intelligence, Armed Services, and Foreign Relations. He is currently
a member of the FBI Director's Advisory Board, the Critical Incident Analysis Group, the
Center for Infrastructure Protection Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign Relations
Independent Task Force on Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the Homeland Security Policy
Institute. Since leaving the Senate in 2001, Robb also has served as Chairman of the
Board of Visitors at the United States Naval Academy, as Co-Chairman of the President's
Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass
Destruction (WMD), and as a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board,
the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board (chairman, WMD-Terrorism Task Force),
the Iraq Study Group, and the Afghanistan Study Group. During the 1960s, Robb served on active
duty with the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1991. He began as the
Class Honor Graduate from Marine Officers Basic School in 1961 and ended up as head of the principal
recruiting program for Marine officers in 1970. He graduated with a BA from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and a JD from the University of Virginia.
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General Brent Scowcroft is President of The Scowcroft Group and one of
the nation's leading experts on foreign policy. Before starting The Scowcroft Group, General Scowcroft served as National Security Advisor to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and as a Military Assistant to President Nixon. He also held the position of Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush and assisted President Barack Obama in choosing his national security team. After a distinguished 29-year career in the U.S. Air Force, General Scowcroft continued serving his country in a public policy capacity by holding positions on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces, and the President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Commission. He graduated from West Point and received an MA and PhD from Columbia University.
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| Katherine Ernst is President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Robertson Foundation for Government. She also serves on the boards of the Santa Catalina School, where she focuses on the school's financial aid programs, the Banbury Fund, another Robertson family charitable foundation, and the Roberson Research Fund at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She previously served on the board of the Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation, which provided tuition assistance to low income families with children in grades K-8 to offset the cost of tuition at a private school of their choice. She is a graduate of Pomona College, one of the five undergraduate institutions making up The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, Calif. |
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| Robert Halligan retired in 1995 from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, where he oversaw the association's International Programs Division. Prior to joining the association, Halligan - a Career Minister in the Senior Foreign Service - had a distinguished 27 year career with the U.S. Agency for International Development, serving as Assistant to the Administrator for Personnel and Financial Management, Director of Personnel, Director of Procurement, and Director of the AID Mission to Thailand, among other positions. Halligan, now on the Board of Directors of the Robertson Foundation for Government, has served on the Board of Directors of Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance, the Cooperative Housing Foundation and the Philippine-American Foundation, on the Board of Trustees of Public Administration Services and as an alternate member of the Board of Directors of CARE. He is a graduate of C.W. Post College of Long Island University and was a Princeton Fellow in Public Affairs at the university's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. |
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| John H. Linnartz is Treasurer and the founder of Linnartz & Associates, LLC and is a recognized philanthropic wealth advisor to individuals, families, and foundations. He helps clients structure meaningful and measurable family giving plans. Previously, he worked with several Fortune 500 companies including Becton Dickinson & Co., Lockheed Martin and GE Capital. In these various positions, Mr. Linnartz used a collaborative approach to build consensus for the development of new strategic alliances and partnerships and monitored their performance with quantitative and qualitative measurement tools. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the Robertson Foundation for Government, he also serves on the Boards of The Hartford Family Foundation and Rotary Foundation of Greenwich and as Vice Chairman of Career Resources, Inc., a well established non-profit workforce development organization that has achieved national recognition for preparing youth and adults in Connecticut to gain employment and progress in their careers. |
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| Geoffrey Robertson is General Manager of Robertson Realty LLC, a family-owned real estate investment company, President of Robertson Associates, a sustainable business and renewable energy consulting business, and Town Planning Project Manager for the Stowe Climate and Energy Action Network, Stowe, Vt. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the Robertson Foundation for Government, he serves as a board member of the Banbury Fund, another Robertson family charitable foundation, the Owl Research Institute and the Hartford Family Foundation. |
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William S. Robertson is Chairman of the Robertson Foundation for Government and President of the Banbury Fund, another Robertson family charitable foundation, which funds medical education and research, oceanographic research, and other charitable activities focused on education, the environment and other concerns. Mr. Robertson also serves on the Board of Trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, and as a trustee of the Robertson Research Fund at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Before turning his full-time attention to his family and personal philanthropic endeavors, Mr. Robertson served on a number of boards of emerging companies in the food, technology, and energy industries. For 15 years, Mr. Robertson owned and operated Loriva Supreme Foods, a specialty foods manufacturer. He graduated with a BA from Princeton University. |
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Timothy "Bo" Kemper joined the Robertson Foundation for Government as Executive Director in January 2010, where he oversees the day-to-day operations and programs of the family foundation. With 15 years of executive-level experience in the private sector, higher education and nonprofit arenas, Kemper most recently served as Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Marian University in Wisconsin. Prior to that, he held positions with CKB Capital Management, the Chester Foundation, the Children's Scholarship Fund, and Loyola University Chicago. Kemper received his BS in Psychology from Arizona State University and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. |
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