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GSAA Council Members

2012-2013 Harvard Graduate School Alumni Association Council

Reinier Beeuwkes

COL ’62, PhD ’70, medical
sciences, is chairman and president of schemix, Inc., a development-stage pharmaceutical company. He served on the full-time faculty at Harvard Medical School for 11 years after receiving his degree. Since then he has been active in the pharmaceutical and medical products area, including a period as head of cardiovascular and renal pharmacology at Smith Kline and French. As entrepreneur, Beeuwkes cofounded and is a director of several small medical products companies, including Braintree Laboratories. He is active in onservation causes and has served as a trustee of the Maine chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He still holds an academic appointment at Harvard. Beeuwkes and his wife Nancy live at “October Farm” (circa 1740) in Concord, Massachusetts.

Mia A. M. de Kuijper

MPP ‘83, PhD ’83 economics, is the founder and CEO of the advisory firm Cambridge Global Partners and a Fellow of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. In her over 20 year career, de Kuijper has built and run companies as well as academic institutions; she has guided CEOs, Boards and investors to high-return investments and strategies; and has become recognized as a global expert on network economics and modern corporate strategy. Her corporate and management positions were at Royal Dutch Shell, PepsiCo, and AT&T. She has been a Senior Managing Director on Wall Street with careers at CSFirst Boston, Bear Stearns, and Morgan Stanley. de Kuijper has been a consultant at McKinsey and Bain & Co. She is a founding network member of the Global Business Network, a board member of the Diller-Quaile School of Music in New York City, and the founder of Mehr-un-Nissa, a luxury goods company, which aims to further and preserve traditional craftsmanship in Bangladesh. de Kuijper has worked extensively in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the US. She speaks Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and (basic) Mandarin Chinese. de Kuijper authored Profit Power Economics; A New Competitive Strategy for Creating Sustainable Wealth, published by Oxford University Press. She advises and writes extensively about corporate strategy, M&A, investing, strategic use of network economics and social networks, effective management of global organizations, modern business models, scenario planning, and risk management.

Stacy Dick

AB ’78, PhD ’83, business economics, is chief financial officer of Julian Robertson Holdings, a privately-held enterprise whose activities include seeding new investment vehicles (via Tiger Management LLC) and the operation of several international operating Businesses. Previously, Dick led the private equity investing activities of the Rothschild investment banking group and was earlier a general partner of Evercore Partners Inc., an investment banking firm. During the period 1992–1998, he was a senior executive of Tenneco Inc. where he helped develop and execute a restructuring of this global Fortune 30 company. Dick is a board member of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Atlantic Salmon Federation (U.S.) and Systemax Inc. He serves as an adjunct professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Barr Dolan

AM ’74, engineering and applied sciences, (MBA ’76, Stanford University), is a partner of Charter Venture Capital, a medical venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments in biotechnology and medical devices. Dolan is a former chair of the Graduate School Alumni Association Council. He is on the board of directors of several private companies, including Corepair, Ellie Mae (a public company), KFX, and Xlumnina.

Richard Ekman

AB ’66, PhD ’72, history of American civilization, is president of the Council of Independent Colleges. He has previously served as vice president for programs of Atlantic Philanthropies, as secretary and senior program officer of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and as director of the Divisions of Research Programs and Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers Committee to Visit the University Library, the National Advisory Committee of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, and the advisory boards of the Louisiana State University Press, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, University Business Magazine, American Academic Leadership Institute, and the Dictionary of American Regional English.

Yonatan Eyal

PhD ’05, history, is assistant professor of American History at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. politics, particularly Jacksonian America and the coming of the Civil War. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he attended college at Stanford University before entering graduate school at Harvard. He is the author of The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and has written a number of scholarly articles, reviews, and reference entries in publications such as Civil War History, the Journal of Southern History, American Nineteenth Century History, the Journal of the Early Republic, and Reviews in American History. He has held fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard. In 2009 he received a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Toronto Students’ Union.

John C.C. Fan

PhD ’72, applied sciences, is chairman, CEO, and president of Kopin Corporation, a NASDAQ public company since 1992. Kopin, headquartered in Taunton, Massachusetts, is a leading provider of HBT power transistor wafers and small-format active matrix liquid crystal displays for wireless communications and other mobile devices. More than one-third of the world’s wireless handsets, and millions of camcorders and digital still cameras have been using Kopin products. Fan began his career at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he researched semiconductor materials and devices. He was leading the Electronic Materials Group at Lincoln Laboratory when he left MIT in 1985 to found Kopin Corporation. Fan has authored over 200 publications, edited three books, and owns over 50 issued patents. Fan was also the co-founder of several integrated circuit and advanced materials companies. Fan received the Society of Information Displays Special Recognition Award in 1999. Dr. Fan was the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000, and also the National Finalist. He was chosen one of the Top 25 Asian American Entrepreneurs by Asia Week in 1999, and one of the top 100 Asian American Entrepreneurs between 1999–2004 by Asia.net. Fan was also chosen as one of the USA’s top 15 nanotechnology innovators by NASA’s Nanotech Briefs in 2005.

Kenneth Froewiss

AB ’67, PhD ’77, economics, recently retired as clinical professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is a director of the DWS mutual funds and of the US subsidiaries of Mitsui-Sumitomo Insurance Company, and he serves on the finance committee of the Association of Asian Studies. Froewiss was formerly a managing director in the Financial Institutions Group at J.P. Morgan, where he held a variety of research positions before moving to investment banking in 1990. Earlier in his career, he worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and at Goldman Sachs, and he served as a Russian translator in the US Army. Froewiss is a former chair of the Graduate School Alumni Association Council and he currently serves as a co-chair of the Graduate School Fund.

Homer Hagedorn

PhD ’55, history, is retired from his position as senior manager at Arthur D. Little, Inc., where, for over 13 years, he headed Arthur D. Little’s practice in organization development. Hagedorn has been involved with the Graduate School Alumni Association council body since the 1970s and is a former chair. He was a member of the Overseer’s Committee to Visit Harvard College for five years and also served a term as an appointed director of the HAA. He was the chair of the Harvard Graduate School Fund from its inception until 2010. He continues to be a member of the Committee on University Resources (COUR) and of Harvard’s Greater Boston Major Gifts Committee. He has been a leader of the fund-raising effort to benefit graduate students and the GSAS since about 1975. In 1991, Hagedorn received the Harvard Alumni Association Award, which recognizes outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities. In 2009 he was the recipient of the David T. W. McCord ’21 award for distinguished lifetime achievement in fundraising.

R. Stanton Hales

PhD ’70, mathematics, is president emeritus of The College of Wooster (Ohio), having retired in 2007 after 12 years in office. He now serves as senior consultant with Academic Search, Inc. From 1990 to 1995, he was vice president for academic affairs at Wooster and also professor of mathematical sciences. Prior to his appointment at Wooster, Hales was associate dean of the College and professor of mathematics at Pomona College, where he received the Rudolph J. Wig Distinguished Professorship Award. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the California Savings and Loan Commission. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Board of Overseers of the Claremont University Consortium. From 1985–1988, he was president of the United States Badminton Association; and from 1989–1999, he was a council member of the International Badminton Federation.

David Harnett

PhD ’70, history, is the retired director of Foundation and Government Giving at Georgian Court University in New Jersey. Prior to that, he was provost and academic vice president of Sacred Heart University, where he was also a tenured professor of history. Harnett held tenured professorships at Rosemont College and at the University of San Francisco, where he also served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and as the co-founder and faculty coordinator of the Erasmus Project for Living and Learning. He is the former co-chair of the US Admissions Committee for The United World College Schools. For many years, Harnett served as an appointed director of the Harvard Alumni Association. After completing graduate studies, he served for a number of years at Harvard as secretary of FAS and director of Advanced Standing at Harvard College.

LaVaughn Henry

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PhD ‘91, economics, is Vice President and Senior Regional Officer for the Cincinnati Branch Office of the Federal Reserve Bank. As the leader of the branch, Dr. Henry is responsible for building and maintaining a strong presence and reputation for the Federal Reserve throughout the central and southern Ohio, and the eastern Kentucky region. He works closely with key stakeholders, including the board of directors of the Cincinnati Branch, business advisory councils in Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Lexington KY, depository institutions, business and civic leaders, and the public. He has diverse experience in private and public sectors and has served in senior economic advisory roles at Fannie Mae, Ford Motor Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Budget Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is committed to supporting higher education, and in addition to his work with the Graduate School Alumni Association Council, he serves as a member of the Board of Regents for Kentucky State University, the Economic Advisory Panel of Xavier University’s Williams School of Business, and the CEO Leadership Board of the Northern Kentucky Educational Council.

Karen J. Hladik

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PhD ’84, business economics, is a quantitative specialist, focusing on quantitative modeling and portfolio analytics in the financial industry. Until recently, she was the global head of the Risk and Quantitative Services Group in Global Securities Services at Goldman Sachs working primarily with hedge fund clients in the US and abroad. Prior to that, she was the senior expert in charge of McKinsey & Co.’s Microeconomics Practice, with global responsibility for specialized client work and development of McKinsey’s strategic and quantitative frameworks and tools. Hladik is the author of International Joint Ventures: An Economic Analysis of US-Foreign Business Partnerships and contributed to the Goldman Sachs book The Practice of Risk Management.

Daniel Johnson

AM ’82, regional studies— East Asia, GSA ’85, business economics, is founder of American Financial Systems, Inc., as well as Deferral.com, Inc., and several companies in Argentina and Mexico. These companies specialize in software or consulting with respect to the optimal funding or administration of supplemental benefit plans. He currently serves as CEO of American Financial Systems. Fluent in Japanese, he has lived in Asia and Latin America and has published research in fields from cellular immunology to finance and is a frequent speaker at industry events. Johnson has helped promote the internationalization of the Graduate School Alumni Association Council, and currently serves as an appointed director of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Gopal Kadagathur

PhD ’69, applied sciences, is the president and founder of Advanced Engineering Associates International, Inc. (AEAI), which he established in 1986. AEAI provides consulting services to more than 40 countries in the fi elds of energy and the environment. AEAI has provided signifi cant contributions to post conflict countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Its clients include the World Bank, International Energy Agency, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, USAID, USTDA, and General Services Administration, US Navy, and several private sector establishments.

Alan Kantrow

AB ’69, PhD ’79, history of American civilization, is visiting professor of Management at the Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo, and a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management. Previously, he was a senior partner and chief knowledge officer at Monitor, as well as dean of faculty of Monitor University. Before joining Monitor, he was a partner at McKinsey and editor of the McKinsey Quarterly and, before that, senior editor of Harvard Business Review.

Gyuri Karady

PhD ’80, applied sciences, is the managing director of Courtfield Associates, an advisory boutique focused on financing and fundraising for European and Central European corporations. Prior to Courtfield, he headed up the investments outside France of Astorg Partners, a Paris based, France-focused € 800 million buy-out fund. Before Astorg, Karady was one of the founders of Baring Corilius Private Equity, the investment adviser of the Baring Central European Fund. Karady has been working in the Central European region since 1991, when he joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at its foundation. Prior to the EBRD, he worked as a business strategy consultant with several firms in the US and France, including Mercer, Price Waterhouse, and Cresap- Telesis. Karady is a member of the Board of Directors of Allami Nyomda, a security printer listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange and Granit Bank, which focuses on financing small and mid-sized businesses.

Robert E. Knight

PhD ’68, economics, is president of Robert Knight & Associates, which he founded in 1994. Based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the firm specializes in private trust management, investments, and economic and financial analysis. Knight is also chairman and CEO of the Eldred Foundation, which funds energy research and sponsors activities of benefit to Western Nebraska. Prior to that, Knight served as chairman and president of Alliance National Bank and Trust Company, and he held a variety of positions with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and with academic institutions and banking schools. He shows and breeds longhair, standard dachshunds and is principal in a firm that owns a dog park near his winter home in Arizona.

Imad Kordab

PhD’09, applied mathematics, is a quantitative analyst, focusing on risk analytics in the financial industry. He is currently in the credit risk analytics group at State Street, working primarily on economic capital modeling of a broad range of financial instruments. Prior to that, he worked as a management consultant in financial services in New York. During his graduate work and before joining the financial industry, Kordab wrote his doctoral thesis on the use of bi-level optimization in evaluating intermodal freight transportation networks. He was also active in student life at GSAS and the College, where he served as the lead teaching fellow for the school of Engineering and held multiple student advisory roles across FAS.

Felipe Larraín

PhD ’85, economics, is Chile’s Minister of Finance since March 2010 and a professor of economics at Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago (on leave). From 1997–1999, he was the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard. He has consulted on macroeconomic issues with the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Inter-American Development Bank. Since 1985, Larraín has served as economic advisor to the governments of several Latin American countries. He is the author and/ or editor of 11 books, including Macroeconomics in the Global Economy (co-authored with Jeffrey Sachs), and has published over 120 papers in books and scholarly journals in Latin America, the US, and Europe. Before becoming Chile’s finance minister he was the board member of several companies and non-profit institutions.

Jill L. Levenson

PhD ’67, English and American literature and language, is emeritus professor of English at Trinity College at the University of Toronto, where she worked since receiving her doctoral degree. In 1994, Levenson received the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Outstanding Teacher Award, and in 2004, she received an Undergraduate Teaching Award. Her main area of interest is early modern drama, especially Shakespeare. In the spring of 2000, her Oxford edition of Romeo and Juliet was published, and for more than a decade, she edited Modern Drama. Her current project is a volume for Oxford University Press about the influence of Shakespeare on modern drama. As chair of the International Shakespeare Association, she served as convener of the Eighth International Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, Australia in July 2006, and the Ninth International Shakespeare Congress in Prague, Czech Republic in July 2011. She is a now an honorary vice president of the International Shakespeare Association, and she is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

See-Yan Lin

MPA ’70, PhD ’77, economics, is professor of Economics at Universiti Utara Malaysia and professor of Business and International Finance at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. He is also a British Chartered Scientist and Chartered Statistician, London. He was chairman and CEO of the Malaysian Pacifi c Bank Group, 1994–1997, and prior to that, he was deputy governor of the Central Bank for 14 years. He advises the current Najib Administration on economic policy, innovation, and education. He is a director of Monash University Malaysia campus, governor of the Asian Institute of Management (Manila); and chairman of Cabot Malaysia. In addition, he sits on the boards of a number of publicly listed and private enterprises in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Lin currently serves as president of the Harvard Club in Malaysia. He is a former chair of the Graduate School Alumni Association Council.

Abe Lowenthal

AB ‘61, MPA ‘64, and PhD ‘71, government, is a professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, president emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution. He is the founder and first chief executive of three institutions: The Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center (1977–1983), the Inter-American Dialogue (1982–1992) and the Pacific Council (1995–2005). He has published 15 books, including three single-authored volumes, more than 100 journal articles, including seven in Foreign Affairs, and more than 200 newspaper pieces published in the US and abroad. His research has focused on Latin America, US-Latin American relations, democratic governance, and California’s global role. He is currently writing a book on Rethinking US-Latin American Relations, and will turn, thereafter, to a book titled The Craft of Think Tank Institution Building.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh

PhD ’81, fine arts, is the Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator Prints and Drawings and acting chair of the Department of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago. Her specialty is in French and Italian Renaissance and Baroque prints and drawings. She has authored numerous articles and exhibition catalogues, including Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago (1979), a scholarly collection catalogue of over 700 drawings. Active as a director of the Harvard Club of Chicago, she also serves on several boards, including the College of the Atlantic, Northeast Harbor Library, Arts Club of Chicago and Northwestern Memorial Hospital Woman’s Board.

John J. Moon

AB ’89, magna cum laude, PhD ’94, business economics, is a managing director of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners based in New York. Moon served as a senior member of the Morgan Stanley Capital Partners team from 1998–2004 and then rejoined Morgan Stanley in 2008. Prior to his return to Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, Moon was a Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings LLC where he served on the Investment Committees of the Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy & Power Funds III and IV. Prior to Riverstone, Moon was a founding partner and Managing Director of Metalmark Capital LLC. He is a former member of the Investment Committees of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners III and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners IV and Metalmark Capital Partners I. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1998, Moon worked in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in New York. Moon is an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia University Business School.

Sandra Moose

PhD ’68, economics, is a senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and a former senior vice president of BCG, where she headed the New York office from 1988–1998 and chaired the East Coast region from 1994–1998. She is chairman of the board of Natixis Advisor and Loomis Sayles Funds, AES Corporation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is the presiding director of Verizon Communications. She is also a director or trustee of several charitable organizations, including the Boston Museum of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Huntington Theater. Prior to joining BCG, Moose worked at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and was a member of the faculty of Harvard University. Moose is former chair of the Graduate School Alumni Association Council. Moose currently serves as the president of the Board at the Museum of Fine Arts.

F. Robert Naka

SD ’51, applied sciences, AMP ’67, retired from GTE Government Systems Corporation in 1988 as vice president of engineering and planning. He is currently president of CERA, Inc., a small business specializing in electromagnetics. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Explorers Club, and a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and the Druids (Omicron Delta Kappa). He has received the Air Force Exceptional Service Award multiple times, the University of Missouri Honor Award in Engineering and Faculty Alumni Award, and the University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2008, he was awarded the degree Doctor of Science honoris causa by the University of Missouri. In August 2009 he was inducted as a Space Pioneer into the Space and Missile Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, CO. In May 2010, he was invited to deliver an acceptance speech at the University of California to honorary degree recipients acknowledging their forced leave from the University due to the evacuation of persons of Japanese lineage at the outbreak of WWII.

Betsy M. Ohlsson-Wilhelm

AB ’63, PhD ’69, medical sciences, is CEO of SciGro, Inc., which offers technology assessment and scientific management services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and diagnostic industries. She has been an associate professor on the medical school faculties of the University of Rochester and Pennsylvania State University, and she was senior vice president of research and development for Zynaxis, Inc., a small research and development company.

Maury Peiperl

MBA ’86, PhD ’94, organizational behavior, is professor of Leadership and Strategic Change at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, he was a professor at London Business School, where he taught and directed programs in the areas of human resources, careers, strategy, leadership, and change. He chairs IMD’s Business Advisory Council, a group of global firms committed to the long-term development of executives and organizations, and serves on the boards of several companies. His research interests include global careers, leadership dilemmas, human resources, and managing growth and change. Peiperl’s publications include the market leading text Managing Change: Cases and Concepts, and the central reference volume The Handbook of Career Studies, among many others.

M. Lee Pelton

PhD ’84, English and American literature and language, is president of Emerson College. From 1998–2011, he was president of Willamette University. He was dean of the college at Dartmouth College as well as an adjunct professor of English (1991– 1998). Prior to that, Pelton was dean of the college at Colgate University. At Harvard he served as a lecturer on English and American literature and as senior tutor of John Winthrop House. In June of 2000, Pelton was elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, where he served as vice-chair of the executive committee. He is a member and former chair of the Committee to Visit Harvard College (2001–2010) and a member of the Athletics and University Library Visiting Committees.

Nancy H. Ramage

PhD ’69, classical archaeology, is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Humanities and Arts Emerita at Ithaca College, where she was a professor of Art History. She won the Excellence in Teaching Award, and in London was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Society of Antiquaries. She was recently a visiting fellow at Cambridge University, where she returns to work every year. Ramage has written several books on ancient art, including Sculpture from Sardis (with George M.A. Hanfmann), and Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine (with her husband, Andrew Ramage, PhD ’70, classical archaeology), a book that has been translated into six languages and is in its fifth edition. Her most recent book is The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt. She continues to lecture widely; to work at the Harvard-Cornell archaeological expedition in Sardis, Turkey; and to write journal articles on antiquity and its afterlife in the 18th century.

John E. Rielly

PhD ’61, political science, is an adjunct professor of political science at Northwestern University and a visiting professor in the Graduate School of International Studies and Pacific Affairs at the University of California at San Diego. In August 2001, he retired as president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, a position he held for three decades. Rielly served in the US Department of State in the Kennedy administration and later as the foreign policy assistant to Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He serves on the editorial board of Foreign Policy Quarterly and has published articles in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Europa Archiv, The Chicago Tribune, and other journals. He served from 2005–2011 as an appointed director of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Allen Sanginés-Krause

PhD ’87, economics, is Managing Director of Montpascal Advisory Services. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of AB Investment Kinnevik, a Swedish public company, and chairman of the board of Millicom, a Luxembourg based mobile telecommunications company, and RLD, a real estate investment company. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM), and has been a guest lecturer at the Said Business School, Oxford University. In addition to interests in economics and finance, Sanginés-Krause studies European history. He is a member of the Campaign Board of the Historic Royal Palaces in the United Kingdom and life member of the Irish Georgian Society and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Sanginés-Krause is a past chair of the Graduate School Alumni Association Council.

David Staines

PhD ’73, English and American literature and language, is professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Formerly dean of the Faculty of Arts for eight years, he is internationally respected as a scholar of medieval literature as well as of Canadian literature and culture. The author or editor of more than 15 books in these fields, he is also translator of The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes. In 1998, he received the Lorne Pierce Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding contributions to Canadian criticism. In 2006, he published The Letters of Stephen Leacock, which was listed as one of the 100 best books of the year by the Globe and Mail. Staines is an appointed director of the Harvard Alumni Association. In 2011, he was invested into the Order of Ontario and into the Order of Canada.

Marianne Steiner

SM and MEN ’78, applied mathematics and information science, is the founder and principal of Larkspur Marketing, which she established in 1993. Larkspur Marketing specializes in developing new growth strategies and comprehensive marketing programs for clients ranging from large publicly held corporations to early stage companies and nonprofit organizations. Previously, Steiner held a variety of executive positions with MCI and GE, spearheading the successful launch of new lines of business and marketing programs. She is co-chair of the Associates Committee of the Harvard Graduate School Fund, and a trustee of Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School in Washington, DC.

Donald R. van Deventer

PhD ’77, business economics, is chairman and CEO of the Kamakura Corporation, an international risk management software and information company. Clients of the firm include the European Central Bank, Fidelity, Prudential, MetLife, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, China Construction Bank, and four OECD governments. Prior to founding Kamakura, he was senior vice president in the Tokyo investment banking department of Shearson Lehman Hutton, treasurer for First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles, and a vice president in the risk management department of Security Pacifi c National Bank. van Deventer has published four books on risk management, including Advanced Financial Risk Management (with Kenji Imai and Mark Mesler).  He is the current chair of the Graduate School Alumni Association.

Lee Zhang

AM ’01, medical sciences, is chairman and CEO of China iKang Healthcare, Inc. Founded by Zhang in 2003, iKang is the largest private preventive healthcare service company in China. Prior to that, he was co-founder and CEO of eLong.com, purchased and now controlled by Expedia.com, the second largest Internet travel service company in China. From 1998–1999, Zhang worked as the head of product development at Sohu.com, where he helped establish that company as one of the leading Internet portals in China. While at Harvard, Zhang was a founder of Harvard China Review.

Gus Zimmerman

PhD ’80, physics, is a technical director at Alcatel-Lucent, working on the deployment of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, the Next Generation of wireless communications systems. He is engaged in planning, and deploying this new 4G technology in the networks of key telecommunication providers around the world. Zimmerman holds seven patents and has published a number of papers in the fields of telecommunications and medical electronics. He lives in Naperville, Illinois, with his two children.