Board of Directors

Christine W. Letts
Christine W. Letts is the senior associate dean for executive education and the Rita E. Hauser Lecturer in the Practice of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has extensive experience in private, nonprofit, and public management. Letts joined the faculty of the Kennedy School in 1992 and teaches courses in nonprofit leadership and philanthropy to both degree and executive-education students.
Stephen W. Carr


Stephen W. Carr is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School. He is a retired partner of the law firm of Goodwin Procter, where he was an attorney for 35 years and served on the executive and management committees. He currently is a director or trustee of various publicly held and nonprofit organizations.
Board of Directors - Alan Detheridge


Alan Detheridge is associate director of The Partnering Initiative, a global program of the International Business Leaders Forum in association with Cambridge University. Before joining the Initiative, Alan spent 30 years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group, retiring in April 2007 as vice president for external affairs. In addition to MSH, Alan is a member of the boards of the Synergos Institute, Africare, and the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help. He also serves on the advisory board of the Revenue Watch Institute.
Sue J. Goldie
Sue J. Goldie is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and director of the Program in Health Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as a physician, decision scientist, and public health researcher, she is best known for bringing together a wide variety of disciplinary approaches to address critical global health challenges. She is the recipient of a MacArthur award, has published more than 100 original research papers, serves on several international committees that influence health policy, and has received numerous teaching and mentorship awards.
Peter Huff-Rousselle
Peter Huff-Rousselle has been associated with MSH since its inception in 1971. Peter served as MSH’s first field team leader (Korea, 1972) and in many field and home office positions, including CFO-treasurer and COO-president. A Canadian who now resides in France, he was educated at the University of Montreal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard Business School, and has worked as a teacher, computer systems engineer, and journalist. Most recently, he directed Afghanistan operations for the United Nations Population Fund.
Peter Karoff
Peter Karoff is the founder and chair of The Philanthropic Initiative, and overseer of the WGBH Educational Foundation and the Tufts University College of Citizenship and Public Service. Besides MSH, he is currently a board member for several other foundations, business groups, and educational societies. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and Columbia University, with an honorary degree from Lesley University. He has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow (1989) and a Purpose Prize Fellow (2006), and is the author of The World We Want: New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change (AltaMira, 2007).
Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim has 20 years experience in improving health in developing countries. A cofounder of Partners in Health, Dr. Kim served as director of the World Health Organization’s HIV & AIDS department in 2004 and 2005. He currently leads a new Harvard University-based initiative in global health delivery, designed to develop knowledge for effective implementation of health programs in poor communities. Dr. Kim holds degrees from Brown University and Harvard University.
Joyce Sackey-Acheampong
Joyce Sackey-Acheampong is assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She is also cofounder of the Foundation for African Relief, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization, and directs its AIDS Collaborative Project at BIDMC. The program has contributed to the fight against HIV & AIDS in Africa by training African physicians in the forefront of providing care to people living with HIV & AIDS in Ghana, Sudan, and Botswana.
James M. Stone
James M. Stone is chair of the Plymouth Rock Companies. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Harvard University, where he also taught the economics of securities markets. Stone has been Massachusetts commissioner of insurance, chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an advisor to governments in three developing countries, and a director of the Boston Globe. He currently serves as a director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Barbara Stowe
Barbara Stowe is a consultant in the field of international philanthropy. Her clients include universities and organizations based in the United Kingdom, South Asia, and North America. With more than 30 years of fundraising experience in higher education and health care, her expertise includes institutional planning, campaign organization, and fundraising operations. She spent 25 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving for 12 years as vice president for resource development.
Deirde Strachan
Deirde Strachan, DSc, MSH, MSW, has been a foundation executive and reproductive health specialist for 28 years. She has provided technical assistance to reproductive health programs in developing countries and managed programs and projects for Management Sciences for Health, Pathfinder International, and the PROFIT Project in Brazil. She has taught management courses on reproductive and community health at the Harvard School of Public Health and at INCAE in Nicaragua.