Jim Stone James M. Stone, Board Chair, 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.

 

 

Stephen W. CarrStephen 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 DetheridgeAlan 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, he spent 30 years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group,  retiring in April 2007 as vice president for external affairs. In  addition to MSH, he 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.


 


Rebeca de ViesRebeca de Vives is president of  RDV Consulting and was born  and raised in Santiago, Chile. She studied business in the United States  and started a career as an intern at Saks Fifth Ave, eventually  becoming president of REVILLON, Inc., a French fashion apparel company  with enterprises at Saks and Bloomingdales stores throughout the United  States. She has served on the board of Accion International, a  well-known microlending institution, with offices in the United States,  Latin America, Africa, and India. She currently lectures on corporate  social responsibility in Santiago's University of The Americas’ Business  School and has participated in projects and roundtables on corporate  leadership.



Sue J. GoldieSue J. Goldie is a professor in the Department of Health  Policy and Management, director of the Program in Health Decision  Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, and faculty director of  Harvard Institute for Global 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.



John IsaacsonJohn Isaacson founded Isaacson, Miller in 1982. John was diverted from his natural  career in his twenties by an academic and civic engagement, which took  him to Dartmouth for a BA; to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship  for a BA/MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; and to Harvard Law  School. Following Law School, he chose a career in public service. He  launched his career as an assistant to the Secretary of Human Services  for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He served three governors and  five secretaries of human services over eight years, recruiting cabinet  officers and commissioners. In between recruiting assignments, he served  as an Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Youth Services, as an  Assistant Secretary of the Executive Office of Human Services, and as  the Director of the Office for Children. In his time with Isaacson,  Miller, John has led searches in many areas of the firm's practice. He  has helped the firm develop its cumulative knowledge of the craft of  search and has attended, with increasing interest, to the missionary  purposes of institutions, the disciplines of markets, and the emotional  and intellectual learnings that leaders acquire in a committed working  life.



Peter KaroffPeter Karoff is the founder of The Philanthropic Initiative  (TPI), an operating division of The Boston Foundation that is an ally  and consultant to families, foundations, and corporate donors. TPI, in  its two decades of work has managed philanthropic investments in a wide  range of social issues.  He has been on the board of more than 30  nonprofit organizations and foundations, including Blackside  Productions, producer of the PBS series, "The Eyes on the Prize"; the  GHR Foundation; the Robina Foundation; Big Picture Learning, Thrive, and  the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts  University. Peter is the author of The World We Want—New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change,  (AltaMira Press: 2007). A graduate of Brandeis University and Columbia  University, he received an honorary degree from Lesley University in  2002. He was made a fellow of the McDowell Colony in 1989 and in 2006  became a Purpose Prize Fellow. Peter teaches in the University of  California-Santa Barbara Global and International Studies Program.



Ron 'O Connor

Ronald O’Connor is the founder of MSH. He was  exposed to the health realities of rural Asia by an inspirational  physician/Hiroshima survivor working in rural Nepal as a medical student  in the 1960s. He realized that poor health prospects in the developing  world emerged largely from basic problems that were resolvable with  existing knowledge and local resources—if only well organized and  applied. Despite growing international interest and resources for  development at that time, existing institutions did not focus on the  application of practical public health management knowledge and  experience to the health problems of developing country institutions and  communities. To fill this gap, he created MSH in 1971 in order to  provide a platform for motivated individuals who were committed to  helping countries use existing tools and knowledge to address their  public health challenges.



Una RyanUna Ryan is President and CEO of Diagnostics for All, a non –profit organization  dedicated to delivering low-cost, point-of-care tests to the developing  world. Prior to that she was CEO of Waltham Technologies, Inc. and was  formerly President and CEO of AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc., a publicly  traded biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines.  Dr. Ryan is also  Research Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine  and serves on its Board of Visitors. She serves on the board of AMRI  Global, Altos Vision Ltd., IQuum, the Business Advisory Board of BIO  Ventures for Global Health, the Scientific Advisory Board of Genocea,  Inc., the Advisory Board of Phacilitate Vaccine Forum and the UMASS High  Technology Executive Council. She is a member of the Massachusetts Life  Sciences Collaborative Leadership Council, the Goddard Council and the  Climate Change and Green Energy Council.



Joyce Sackey-Acheampong Joyce Sackey-Acheampong is an associate professor in the  Departments of Medicine and Public Health, and dean for Multicultural  Affairs and Global Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is  also cofounder of the Foundation for African Relief (FAR), a  Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization that fosters collaboration  between US academic medical centers and their counterparts in  sub-Saharan Africa to improve access to education and health care. FAR  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.



Anjali SastryM Anjali Sastry is senior lecturer in system dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of  Technology's Sloan School of Management and lecturer in the Department  of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She  teaches and researches global health delivery and management, focusing  on systems thinking and practical business-based approaches for  increasing medical and prevention services in low-resource settings,  carrying out numerous field studies while developing teaching materials.  Her advisory roles include working with the Lemelson-MIT Program, the  MIT Ideas competition, the NIH-CDC Institute for Systems Science, the  Global Business School Network, and the United Network for Organ  Sharing, among others. Since 2008, she has collaborated closely with the  Global Health Delivery Project.