Joyce Lasky Reed, President and Co-Founder— From 1983 to 1989, she was Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. Prior to her assignment at the State Department, she was director of European Affairs at the American Enterprise Institute. She has also served on the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committee staffs (1975-1981). From 1962 to 1975, she lived and worked in Russia, Germany, Yugoslavia, and France as a free-lance writer. She has edited several books on European security issues and is also a novelist.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Robert L. Barry, Chairman of the Board — Veteran of 33 years with U.S. Foreign Service: served in Yugoslavia, the USSR, and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Senior positions in Washington included Deputy Director of Soviet Affairs, Director of UN Political Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary for UN Affairs and later European Affairs. Appointed Ambassador to Bulgaria in 1981, and to Indonesia in 1992. Ambassador and head of the U.S. delegation to the Stockholm Conference on Disarmament in Europe, 1985. Served twice at the Voice of America, first as Director of the USSR Division, later as Deputy Director. Recipient of the Distinguished Honor Awards of both the Department of State and the U.S. Information Agency, as well as the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Germany, for his work coordinating U.S. assistance to Central and Eastern Europe following the collapse of communist governments in the region. Retired from the Foreign Service in 1995 and became a principal in Phoenix International and a director of Union Texas Petroleum. Served as head of mission in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Since 2001, has headed or participated in long-term OSCE election observation missions to Serbia, Armenia, Albania, Azerbaijan, the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan. In 2004 observed the Indonesian presidential elections for the Carter Center.
Gregory H. Barnhill, Treasurer – Partner, Brown Advisory Group, Baltimore; Board Member, Greater Baltimore Medical Center Foundation; Trustee, Maryland Historical Society; and President of Volvo Ocean Race Chesapeake, Inc.
Scott M. Blacklin – Director, Strategic Engagements, Cisco Systems Global Emerging Markets Group. Has devoted virtually all of his professional life to furthering commercial ties between the United States and emerging markets, particularly Russia and Eastern Europe. Led Moscow offices of several U.S. companies, including WJS Incorporated, Westinghouse Electric, and Motorola’s International Cellular Infrastructure Group. Former President, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia; Director, International Division of the State of Maryland; and President, Potomac Group International in Washington, D.C.
Avis T. Bohlen - Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University; Member, International Commission on the Balkans; Member of the boards of IREX, Atlantic Council of the United States, American Academy of Diplomacy, American College of Sofia, Henry L. Stimson Center, Arms Control Asociation; retired from the U.S. State Department in 2002, after 25 years of service in positions including Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Ambassador to Bulgaria.
Marcia Wachs Dam - Vice President, EastWest Institute, and Director of its Washington, D.C., office. Former Senior Vice President, USA for UNHCR. Previously served as Chicago advisor to the Council on Foreign Relations (New York). Former Director of Public Affairs, Institute for EastWest Studies in New York. Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Council of the Brookings Institution, the American Council on Germany, the Chicago Committee of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and Executive Committee of the Global Chicago Center. Board Member, Great Books Foundation, U.S. Association for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago. Member, Visiting Committee of the School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan. Counselor, Meridian International Center. Docent, Chicago Architectural Foundation.
Lawrence S. Eagleburger – Chairman of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC); former U.S. Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush; former Ambassador to Yugoslavia; served 27 years as a Foreign Service officer.
Pie Friendly — Commission Liaison, External Affairs Office of the National Portrait Gallery; broad background in museum operations, research, and board development for organizations including the United Nations Foundation, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art.
Donna Hartman — Patron of the arts; Member of the Board of Wheaton College; former Member of the Board of ISAR, the Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia; wife of the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and to France.
Richard Muller, Vice President — Executive, Ward Television Corporation; Vice President, Chairman of Pier International; former Finnish Ambassador to the United States and to the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Blair A. Ruble — Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. A specialist in Russian architectural history, his most recent books include Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City, Russian Housing in the Modern Age (co-edited with William Craft Brumfield), and Money Sings: The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl.
McKinney H. Russell - President, Public Diplomacy Foundation; Senior Consultant on scholarly and professional training programs for the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). In his last Foreign Service assignment he held the senior position of Counselor of the U.S. Information Agency, overseeing the field operations of over 200 posts worldwide and negotiating the establishment of new American cultural centers in Russia and elsewhere in the countries of Eurasia. Earlier he headed USIA programs in the Soviet Union, Germany, Brazil, Spain, and China; directed Voice of America broadcasts to the USSR; and ran that agency’s film and television service. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister.
Raisa Scriabine - Specialist in communications, advocacy, and social marketing in the area of international development; creator of foundation to support music scholarship programs at the Scriabin Museum in Moscow and to support infants and children with HIV/AIDS in St. Petersburg; member of the boards of Internews, Synetic/Classika Theater, Russian Children’s Welfare Society, and the Earth Policy Institute; former positions include Deputy Assistant Administrator of External Affairs at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Director of Public Affairs of the World Conservation Union, Senior Project Officer with the Academy for Educational Developments, and consultant in international public health communication for UNICEF.
Jane D. Sloat - Chairman of the FAF Russian Easter Gala, May 2005; Member of the Board of Trustees, Ford’s Theatre; Head of the Washington Opera Women’s Committee; Member of the Board of Trustees, Meridian International Center; Chairman of the Activities Committee, Sulgrave Club; former Member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (1982-2001).
Paul R. Smith — Former Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow; former U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg; recently retired career foreign service officer with broad experience throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.On temporary leave.
Matilda Stream — President of the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation, founded in 1969 in honor of her aunt, Mrs. Gray, a prominent collector of Fabergé objects; Member, Advisory Council of the School of American Ballet; Member, Advisory Council of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Joyce Lasky Reed, President and Co-Founder- From 1983 to 1989, she was Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. Prior to her assignment at the State Department, she was director of European Affairs at the American Enterprise Institute. She has also served on the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committee staffs (1975-1981). From 1962 to 1975, she lived and worked in Russia, Germany, Yugoslavia, and France as a free-lance writer. She has edited several books on European security issues and is also a novelist.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
USA:
Arthur (Randy) Bregman - Partner, Salans (New York City office); former Director of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP's Moscow affiliate. He has worked in the area of U.S.-Soviet/Russian legal, commercial, cultural, and academic exchanges for over 25 years.
Rodion Cantacuzéne - Vice President of the National Museum of Racing; Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.); former Member of the Boards of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Institute of American Indian Art, the Historic House Association, and the Marjorie Merriweather Post Foundation.
Elizabeth Conquest - Lecturer on Fabergé; former instructor in English Literature and Rhetoric at the University of Texas; frequent traveler to Russia.
Robert Conquest - Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator of the Russian and East European Collection at the Hoover Institution (Stanford); author of two classics on Soviet history, The Great Terror and The Harvest of Sorrow.
Richard E. Ford - Chairman, Charley Creek Foundation; patron of several arts and cultural preservation societies, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Metropolitan Opera, and American Friends of the State Hermitage Museum.
Toby Gati - Senior International Advisor at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and the Eurasian States at the National Security Council; former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.
Abbott (Tom) Gleason - Professor of History and Director of University Relations and Special Projects at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; author and editor of numerous publications on Russian culture and history.
Roger K. Lewis, FAIA - Professor of Architecture at the University of Maryland; columnist on architecture and urban design for the Washington Post; Member of the Board of the National Children's Museum; Member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.
Mark Schaffer - Secretary and Treasurer of A La Vieille Russie, Inc.; doctorate in molecular plant biology; specialist in Russian, European, and American antique jewelry and objets d'art.
Janet W. Solinger - Vice President, Corcoran Gallery of Art; Director of the Resident Associate Program at the Smithsonian Institution from 1972 to 1992; recipient of numerous awards and prizes.
Angela Stent - Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Professor of Government. She is a highly regarded author and specialist in Russian and German relations.
England:
Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky – Writer and lecturer on Russian porcelain and Russian theatrical art; former Research Editor at Reader’s Digest.
Finland:
Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm – Former Managing Director of jewelry company “A. Tillander” of Helsinki; currently Member of the Board of Directors; Fabergé specialist and historian.
France:
Van Kirk Reeves – Partner, Porter & Reeves, Paris-based law firm specializing in art legal issues; Member of the Board of the Centre du Droit de l’Art in Geneva, and of the Mona Bismark Foundation.
Russia:
Alexander S. Gorinya – General Director of jewelry company “Gringo.”
Daniil A. Granin – Chairman of the St. Petersburg charitable fund “Miloserdiya”; Member of the Union of Writers; Member of the Board of Cultural Initiative of the Soros Foundation.
Oleg A. Kharchenko – Chief Architect, City of St. Petersburg; Chairman of the Committee for Urban Planning.
Nikita I. Maslennikov – Special Advisor, JTInternational; former head of the Department of Investment Projects, Committee of Economics and Industrial Policy, Administration of St. Petersburg.
Mikhail B. Piotrovsky – Director of the State Hermitage Museum; Chairman of the Russian Committee of International Council of Museums (ICOM), a division of UNESCO.
Vladimir V. Popov – President of the St. Petersburg Division of the Union of Architects; Member of the Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences of Russia.
Leonid D. Reiman – Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation.
Leonid P. Romankov – Chairman of the St. Petersburg Commission on Culture, Education, and Science; Member of the City Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.
Vladimir P. Yakovlev – Chairman of the Department of Museum Studies, St. Petersburg State Academy of Culture.
St. Petersburg Representative:
Lyudmila N. Bakayutova – Founder and Director of St. Petersburg branch of FAF; Director of the A.S. Popov Museum of the History of Post and Communication of the Russian Federation; former Marketing Manager of Skanska in St. Petersburg; Partner of International Management Centres (London); a founder and former business development manager of the Finnish-Russian Engineering Contracting Joint Venture FILCO.
Sweden:
Christian Bolin - Managing Director of W A Bolin, jewelry house (Swedish court jewelers and purveyors to the Russian court from the end of the eighteenth century on); goldsmith, jeweler, three-time judge at FAF’s International Young Jewelers Competition.
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