Board of Directors and Staff
The Foundation is overseen by a Board of Directors.
The Directors are:
Chairman - Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG, PhD, MA, FGS
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is Chairman of Anglo American plc, a global mining and natural resources company. From 1998-2001, Sir Moody-Stuart was Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies and also Chairman of The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company from 1997 to 2001, after having served six years as both managing director of Shell Transport and managing director of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. He remains on the board. He is also a Director of HSBC Holdings plc and Accenture.
Sir Mark is a Governor of Nuffield Hospitals and a Vice President of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He was co-Chair of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy in 2000 and 2001, and is the Chairman of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS. Sir Mark was a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Council for the Global Compact from 2001 to 2004.
Sir Mark holds a doctorate in geology from Cambridge University, is a Fellow of the Geological Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of Petroleum, which also awarded him the Cadman Medal in 2001. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College Cambridge, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Chemical Engineers and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Sir Mark Moody-Stuart became a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St George in June 2000.
Director - James V. Kearney, Esq., B.A, J.D
James V. Kearney is a senior partner in the international law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP. He is the chairman of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. Since 2000, Latham & Watkins has provided over $200 million in pro bono legal services to low income individuals and not-for-profit organizations and to advance access to justice.
Mr. Kearney’s legal practice is focused on commercial litigation and trial advocacy.
He holds a B.A. from Manhattan College and a J.D. from New York University.
Director - Caroline L, Williams, B.A., M.A.
Caroline L. Williams is the Director of Shareholder Activities for the Nathan Cummings Foundation, overseeing shareholder resolutions on issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, political contributions and contractor liability. She also currently serves on three boards: Hearst-Argyle Television, a NYSE-listed company; UN Principles of Responsible Investment, an association of more than 160 asset owners with over $8 trillion of investment assets; and the Carbon Disclosure Project, representing over 210 international institutions with $31 trillion in assets on the business implications of climate change.
Her career has spanned over 20 years in investment banking, as a Managing Director of Donaldson, Lukfin and Jenrette, and with 15 years in the tax-exempt sector both consulting and directing investment policy. Ms. Williams has served on over twenty boards, in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, and participated in the 2003-2004 World Economic Forum’s Global Corporate Citizenship project on Mainstreaming Responsible Investment. She has also lectured in advanced financial management of nonprofit organization at the New School for Social Research.
Ms. Williams is a leader in responsible investment policy, combining public policy and regulatory and consumer pressures into long-term business models. She has published in nonprofit management, investment banking and regional planning.
She holds a masters in Nonprofit Management from Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at The New School for Social Research and a bachelors in Economics from Vassar College.
Director - Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C.
Oliver F. Williams is an associate professor and director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. A winner of Notre Dame’s Reinhold Niebuhr faculty award, he has been listed as one of the outstanding faculty in Business Week’s ratings of MBA programs.
Mr. Williams has served as associate provost of the University of Notre Dame from 1987-94 and is a past chair of the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management.
Mr. Williams specializes in understanding how the ethics of virtue might inform the ethical conduct of managers. He is the editor or author of 13 books as well as numerous articles on business ethics.
He holds a doctorate from Vanderbilt University and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Notre Dame. He is a Catholic priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross.
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