Our Members

Public Diplomacy Council 

Membership

The Council's members are men and women of distinction and achievement who have demonstrated commitment to the principles and practices of public diplomacy through scholarship, teaching, and research, or through positions of responsibility in government and the private sector.

The Council reflects diversity in skills and professional accomplishments in government and non-government organizations; foreign service and civil service appointments; diplomatic assignments; academic, media, Congressional, and military experience; and specialization in cultural exchanges, international broadcasting, cross-cultural communication, information technology, and opinion research.

Public Diplomacy Council - Honorary Members
United States Information Agency

Henry Catto
USIA Director, 1991-1993

Leonard Marks
USIA Director, 1965-1968

Joseph Duffey
USIA Director, 1993-1999

John Reinhardt
USIA Director, 1977-1981

Bruce Gelb
USIA Director, 1989-1991

Charles Z. Wick
USIA Director, 1981-1989

James Keogh
USIA Director, 1973-1976

United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy

Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.
Chairman, 1982-1991

Olin Robison
Chairman, 1978-1981

Harold Pachios
Chairman, 1999-2003

Leonard Silverstein
Chairman, 1981-1982


 

Public Diplomacy Council Board of Directors

From April 2006

McKinney Russell
President

Anthony C.E. Quainton
Vice President

Charles Ablard
Counsel, Ex Officio

Gene Nojek
President, USIA Alumni Association, Ex Officio

William P. Kiehl
Executive Director, Ex Officio

Steven Livingston
Chair, Public Diplomacy Institute, Ex officio

 

Emeritus Members

Barry Zorthian

 

Members

Charles Ablard

Richard T. Arndt

Leonard Baldyga

Robert Bemis

Jeffrey Biggs

Mary Bitterman

Paul Blackburn

Harry Blaney

 

John Brown

Michael Canning

Stephen Chaplin

Fred A. Coffey, Jr.

Scott Cohen

Robert T. Coonrod

James Collins

Geoff Cowen

Sally Grooms Cowal

Wilson Dizard, Jr.

Charles Dolan, Jr.

Joshua Fouts

Ellen L. Frost

Barry Fulton

Mary Eleanor Gawronski

 

Robert Gosende

Bruce Gregory

Alan L. Heil, Jr.

Frank Hodsoll

Myron Hoffmann

John Hughes

 

Joe B. Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Jeff Jones

Marvin Kalb

Jerrold Keilson

Kenton Keith

William P. Kiehl

Daniel Kuehl

Eugene P. Kopp

Robert J. Lieber

Stephen Livingston

Ellen McCullough Lovell

Edward McBride

Michael McCarry

Mike McCurry

David Morey

Sherry L. Mueller

Dorothy Robins-Mowry

David Newton

Eugene Nojek

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Donna Marie Oglesby

Victor B. Olason

Dell Pendergrast

Patti McGill Peterson

Michael Pistor

Adam Clayton Powell, III

Anthony C. E. Quainton

Walter R. Roberts

William Rugh

McKinney Russell

Juliet Antunes Sablosky

Michael Schneider

Jill Schuker

Marylou Sheils

Stanley Silverman

Maria Elena Torano

Myrna R. Whitworth

John Trattner

Margaret J. Wyszomirski

Hans N. Tuch

Barry Zorthian

Richard Virden