Advisory Board

EDWARD W. SCOTT, JR.

Face the Facts USA Advisory Board Chairman

• Created original concept for Face the Facts USA and provided initial funding for the project
• Chairman and Co-Founder of the Center for Global Development (CGD) in 2001
• Chairman and Founder of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA), founder and chairman
• Chairman Emeritus and Founder of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
• Co-founder and Former President of BEA Systems, which became the world’s 12th largest software company
• Former US Assistant Secretary of Transportation and Deputy Assistant Attorney General

CHRIS ARTERTON, Ph.D.

• Founding dean and professor of political management at The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM)
• Former Yale University political science professor
• Served on faculty study groups for The Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
• Earned Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T., M.A. in international relations from American University, and undergraduate degree from Trinity College

SEN. ROBERT F. BENNETT

• Senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
• U.S. Senator (R-Utah) 1992-2010;  senior member of the Senate Banking Committee and the Joint Economic Committee, and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee
• Franklin Quest, Inc., former CEO and founding shareholder

KATHY BUSHKIN CALVIN

• CEO, United Nations Foundation
• Served as President of the AOL Time Warner Foundation and was the chief architect of the company's corporate social responsibility initiatives
• Joined America Online in 1997 as Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, following a career in politics, journalism and public relations

FARAI CHIDEYA

• Author of several books including The Color of Our Future; multimedia journalist and radio host
• Founder and president of PopandPolitics, one of the first pop culture blogs – for 15 years a training ground for young journalists covering arts and culture
• Political analyst with frequent television appearances

THE HON. WILLIAM DELAHUNT

• Special counsel at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC, advising clients on healthcare, financial services, and energy and environmental issues
• Member, U.S. Congress (D- Massachusetts; 10th) 1997-2011
• Former Norfolk County, Massachusetts District Attorney

GOVERNOR JIM DOUGLAS

• Executive in Residence at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.
• Governor (R-Vermont) for four terms from 2003 through 2011.
• Elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1972; elected secretary of state in 1980; elected state treasurer in 1994.
• Over the course of his political career, Gov. Douglas received more votes than any other candidate in Vermont history.

JESSICA EINHORN, Ph.D.

• Former managing director, vice president and treasurer of the World Bank
• Former Dean and professor of international political economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
• Former director of the Council on Foreign Relations and Center for Global Development
• Board of Directors, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Time Warner

DR. HELENE GAYLE, MD, MPH

• President and CEO of CARE, USA
• Expert on health, global development and humanitarian issues; she worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control, focused on HIV/AIDS issues
• Board of Directors, the Center for Strategic and International Studies; the Rockefeller Foundation; Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative; and the U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Policy board
• Named among FORBES’ “100 Most Powerful Women” and Newsweek’s “Top 10 Women in Leadership”

SECRETARY DAN GLICKMAN

• Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; director of the Congressional Program, Aspen Institute
• US Secretary of Agriculture, 1995-2001
• Member, U.S. Congress (D-Kansas; 4th) 1976-1994
• Motion Picture Association of America, Chairman and CEO, 2004-2010

C. BOYDEN GRAY

• Founding partner of Boyden Gray & Associates
• Former White House Counsel under President George H.W. Bush and legal counsel to Vice President Bush
• Served as special envoy for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy and European Union Affairs and the U.S. representative to the European Union in Brussels

SEN. CHUCK HAGEL

• Distinguished professor at Georgetown University
• U.S. Senator (R-Nebraska) 1996-2008
• Chairman of the Atlantic Council
• Co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board
• Board of Directors, Chevron Corporation, Zurich Holding Company of America, and the Public Broadcasting Service

BOB HERBERT

• Distinguished senior fellow at Demos, a New York research and policy center
• Former New York Times op-ed columnist; commenting on politics, urban affairs and social trends
• Former national correspondent, NBC News, and reporter, editor and columnist at the New York Daily News

ANDREW HEYWARD

• Principal in MarketspaceNext, a boutique digital strategy firm
• Senior advisor to MonitorGroup’s digital practice
• Former president, CBS News

MATTHEW HINDMAN, Ph.D.

• Associate professor, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University
• Focuses on political communications with concentration on Internet politics
• Author, The Myth of Digital Democracy, winner of Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize and the Donald McGannon Award for communication research

JACKIE JUDD

• Kaiser Family Foundation, vice president and executive producer for multimedia
• Former ABC News correspondent appearing on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and Good Morning America
• Former NPR and CBS News radio correspondent
• Recipient of Emmy awards, Edward R. Murrow award, Joan Barone award, and more for excellence in broadcast journalism

PATRICIA MCGINNIS

• Professor, The George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
• Advisor to the White House on the Presidential Appointee Leadership programs
• Former president and CEO of the nonpartisan Council for Excellence in Government, Washington, DC

LIZ SCHRAYER

• U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, executive director
• President, Schrayer & Associates, political consulting firm specializing in grass roots organizing
• Former national political director, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
• Founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus

FRANCES TOWNSEND

• Served as assistant to President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and chaired the Homeland Security Council from 2004 until 2008.
• Previously served as deputy assistant to the President and deputy national security advisor for Combating Terrorism from 2003 to 2004.
• Most recently, Townsend provided consulting services and advice to corporate entities on Global Strategic Engagement and Risk as well as Crisis and Contingency planning.
• Spent 13 years at the U. S. Department of Justice under Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and served in a variety of senior positions including counsel to the Attorney General for Intelligence Policy.

ADAM WALDMAN

• The Endeavor Group, Washington, DC, founder, chairman and president
• Former senior counselor, US Department of Justice
• Former counsel at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
• Board of Directors, The Center for Global Development, Altor Bioscience, Friends of the Global Fight