Trustees, Officers, and Staff

Officers
Officers of the Foundation are sometimes available for public speaking engagements. Contact us for more information.

Trustees
  • Calvin H. Cobb, Jr., Esq. (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
  • Hon. Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
  • Hon. Lucius D. Battle, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asian Affairs, and former President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and the Middle East Institute
  • James Cromwell, Esq.
  • Stephen Hartwell
  • Richard S. T. Marsh, Esq.
  • Hon. Richard Murphy
  • Dr. William B. Quandt
  • Jean Newsom, former Executive Director of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and former Editor of the Middle East Journal
  • Landrum R. Bolling, former president of Earlham College, the Council on Foundations, the Lilly Endowment, and president of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem
  • Nicholas A. Veliotes, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Jordan
  • Peter Gubser, President, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
  • Gail Pressberg, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Civil Society.
Staff
  • Evan Colton is the Research Assistant at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.  He holds a degree in History from Rice University.