ALUMNI - Key Persons

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• Distinguished Leader
• Zoox As the Chief Executive Officer

Aicha Evans joined Zoox as the Chief Executive Officer in February 2019. Zoox was founded in 2014 to develop a complete ecosystem for delivering autonomous mobility, from the core autonomous technology and vehicle design to an operating model and revolutionary product experience. Towards that end, Zoox is building a fleet of fully autonomous, battery electric, zero-emission vehicles that are purpose-built and optimized for ridesharing in cities.

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• President of Southern Engineering Corporation

Albert Harrison Small is president of Southern Engineering Corporation. He has developed millions of square feet of office space, apartment communities, and single-family homes in Washington. He has served on many civic and cultural boards, including those of the National Trust for the Humanities, the National Symphony Orchestra, the National Gallery of Art, the Foundation for the National Archives, and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He holds an honorary degree, doctor of public service, from the George Washington University, awarded in 2016. He was a 2009 recipient of a National Humanities Medal, presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities to individuals and groups whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities.

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• Director
• Member of the Association of Art Museum Directors
• Member of the Forum Club

Nyerges has been a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors since 1989 and serves on the mentoring task force committee. He is a former member of the board of trustees and past program chair for the organization. As a member of the American Alliance of Museums, he has served as an accreditation field reviewer. At the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, Va., Nyerges served on the board of trustees, chair of the audit committee, and former chair of the strategic planning committee from 2009-2019. He is an executive committee member of the French American Museum Exchange (FRAME), a formal collaboration of museums comprising 16 cities in France and 16 museums in North America. In Washington, D.C., Nyerges served on the art committee of the board of management at the Cosmos Club as well as a board member at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. In Richmond, Nyerges is a member of the Forum Club, has served as an advisory board member of the Asian American Society of Central Virginia, the Mayor's Richmond Real Estate Task Roundtable and co-chair of the Mayor's Tourism Commission, the Armory steering committee at the Black History Cultural Museum, and the Chamber of Commerce Capital Regional Collaborative. He is also an affiliate graduate faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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• Senior Vice President / Publishing Director of the Fashion Group
• Senior Vice President, Publishing Director of Hearst Magazine's Harper 's BAZAAR

Carol A. Smith was appointed senior vice President/publishing director of The Fashion Group which includes ELLE, Harper's BAZAAR and Marie Claire in July 2019. Previously, Smith had been vice president, publisher and chief revenue officer of Harper's BAZAAR since 2011. Before BAZAAR, Smith served as senior vice president, then chief brand officer, of the ELLE Group at Hachette Filipacchi Media. As chief brand officer, Smith oversaw both the business and editorial operations of ELLE, ELLE DÉCOR, and the ELLE digital properties while building ELLE into a multi-brand business. Before entering the fashion world, Smith was the founding publisher of Parenting, acquired by Time Inc. three years later. Early in her career, Smith was publisher of American Heritage, and co-founder of American Photographer. Her other publishing positions include stints at The Village Voice, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. Among other honors, Smith was named Executive of the Year by Advertising Age in 2008. In June 2012, Smith was inducted into the MIN Sales Executive Hall of Fame. Smith sat on the advisory board of The New York City Ballet. She is a graduate of the George Washington University and lives in Greenwich Village with her husband, Richard Snow, a writer and longtime editor of American Heritage magazine, and their daughter, Rebecca.

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• News' Political Director
• Television Journalist

Chuck Todd is NBC News' political director and the moderator of the #1 rated Sunday public affairs program, Meet the Press. Todd is a primary anchor for the network's primetime political and election programming and spearheads NBC News' political coverage across all its platforms and flagship news programs. Todd was named moderator of Meet the Press in 2014 and the program has since become the #1 rated Sunday public affairs show for five straight years and won the 2019-2020 broadcast season across the board for the fourth season in a row. Todd is a native of Miami and currently resides in Arlington, Va. with his wife, Kristian, and two children.

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• Noted Artist

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• Adviser at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Colin Powell School for Civic
• Honorary Doctor of Public Service '90
• Secretary of State

Powell is the chair of the board of visitors of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at his alma mater, the City College of New York (CCNY), which was inaugurated in May 2013. He also has nine elementary and middle schools named after him. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of the America's Promise Alliance, dedicated to forging a strong and effective partnership alliance committed to seeing that children have the fundamental resources they need to succeed. Powell is an adviser at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the renowned Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He serves on the board of directors of Bloom Energy, an alternative energy company that provides unique on-site power generation systems utilizing an innovative new fuel cell technology. In March 2014, he joined the Board of Directors of Salesforce.com, the world's largest provider of cloud-based customer relationship management software.

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• Administrator
• President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Vice Chair of the Board of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Daniel Weiss became the fifth president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on July 1, 2015, and was appointed president and chief executive officer in June 2017. Prior to that, he served as president and chief operating officer. With approximately two million objects in its collection representing more than 5,000 years of artistic achievement from around the world, seven million visitors annually, and an operating budget of $320 million, The Met is one of the largest and most diverse art museums in the world. During the previous decade, Weiss served as the 14 th president of Haverford College and before that as the 16 th president of Lafayette College. At Haverford (2013-15), Weiss led the effort to prepare a comprehensive strategic plan and secure the funds to support new interdisciplinary initiatives and major renovations to the library, new facilities for biology, psychology, and music, as well as a new center for visual culture, arts and media. From 2005-13, Weiss served as president of Lafayette, where he worked to increase the size of the permanent faculty by 10%, developed revised curricula, introduced new interdisciplinary programs, and created innovative alliances with the City of Easton. During his tenure, Lafayette became the only college in the nation to receive a collaborative grant from the NEA under its Urban Arts Initiative. A leading voice on liberal arts colleges in a changing higher education landscape, Weiss co-edited Remaking College: Innovation and the Liberal Arts, which was published in 2014. From 2002 to 2005, Weiss was James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, where he had previously served as professor and chair of the history of art department. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Johns Hopkins and joined the faculty there in 1993, rising to full professor in six years. He holds a B.A. from the George Washington University and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management, and was a consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton from 1985 to 1989. Weiss has written or edited six books and numerous articles on the art of the Middle Ages, higher education, the Second World War, and the American experience in Vietnam. His most recent book, In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam, appeared in the fall of 2019. His research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Harvard University, Yale University, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In 1994 he won the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for a first article in Medieval Studies judged to be of outstanding quality. He received three awards for teaching excellence as a member of the Johns Hopkins faculty and was the recipient of the Aaron O. Hoff People's Choice Award at Lafayette College in 2006. The holder of three honorary degrees, Weiss is a member of the Society of Scholars at Johns Hopkins University and in 2013 was the recipient of a "Star Award" from the Posse Foundation for contributions to higher education. In 2018 he received the Leadership in Business and Society Award from the Yale School of Management and the Centennial Medal from the Foreign Policy Association. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Weiss is vice chair of the board of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, a member of the University Council at Yale University and the advisory board of the Yale School of Management, and a trustee of the Wallace Foundation, the Library of America, the American Federation of Arts, and the Posse Foundation. He is married to Sandra Jarva Weiss, a graduate of the George Washington University and its law school. A specialist in health-care law, she is a partner in the firm Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus. The Weisses have two sons, Teddy and Joel.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Health Care Leader

Ellen Zane is a nationally renowned health care leader who retired as President & Chief Executive Officer of Tufts Medical Center and Tufts Children's Hospital (formerly Floating Hospital for Children) in late 2011. She was the first woman to run the hospital in its 226-year history. The hospital employs more 6,000 doctors, nurses, researchers, and other healthcare workers. Ellen holds two faculty appointments at Tufts University School of Medicine and a faculty appointment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Ellen is currently the Distinguished Global Leader in Residence at High Point University in North Carolina and was a Distinguished Guest Lecturer in Healthcare Administration at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University. From 1994 to 2004, Ellen held the position of Network President for Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare System, Inc) in Boston where she was responsible for the development of a provider network featuring the Harvard affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital. Prior to that, Ellen was the Chief Executive Officer at Quincy Hospital in Quincy, Massachusetts. Ellen has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the George Washington University, a Master of Arts degree from the Catholic University of America and holds numerous honorary degrees. Ellen currently serves as Director of Azenta Life Sciences Director of Boston Scientific Corporation a Director of Haemonetics Corporation and Chair of the Board and a Director of Synchrony Financial She is a Director of AgNovos Healthcare, LLC a Director of Savista the Lead Director of the Fiduciary Trust Company a Director of the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter and Chair of the Board of George Washington University-Medical Faculty Associates Board Ellen is also a Trustee of Hebrew Senior Life in Metro Boston. Ellen has served as a director for many companies and organizations including as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at George Washington University.

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• Retired Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wabtec

Emilio Fernandez is retired vice chairman of the Board of Directors of Wabtec, a Fortune 500 company, Managing Director of Pulse Capital LLC, a private investment group, and former CEO and co-founder of Pulse Electronics, Inc. Mr. Fernandez's success as an inventor and entrepreneur stems from his belief in the value and permanency of education. He graduated in 1969 from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and went on to obtain a Master's Degree in Engineering Management from the George Washington University. While in his senior year at UMD he co-founded Pulse Electronics, along with classmate Angel Bezos. The Company went on to produce electronic monitors and control systems for the railroads. Pulse continued to grow after it was acquired by Wabtec, and today the group is the leading World-wide provider of electronic products and digital solutions for the Rail Industry. Since then, Fernandez has established several new ventures covering a broad technological spectrum, and has also devoted significant time to those starting their first company. Mr. Fernandez has been an early-stage investor in many startup companies, and has been awarded 28 patents across various fields. One particular patent defined key elements of e-reading devices such as the Kindle and became the most cited US patent at the time. Mr. Fernandez has served on many corporate, philanthropic and cultural boards, including the Board of the Foundation for a Creative America, the Hispanic Leadership Council, the Board of Trustees of the George Washington University, as Chairman of the George Washington Medical Center, the Hispanic Business College Fund, Inc., the Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, Inc., the Board of the Smithsonian Institution Washington Council, the Board of the National Museum of American History, the Stevens Institute of Technology Board of Trustees, and the Board of Visitors of the A. James Clark School of Engineering. He is also founding chairman of the Clark School's Fearless Ideas: The Campaign for Maryland. Over his years of service he has been recognized with countless awards by the universities and groups that he has influenced. At the University of Maryland he was awarded the Centennial Medal, and was inducted into the A. James Clark School of Engineering Hall of Fame. He was also presented the University's Distinguished Alumnus Award and most recently the Glenn L. Martin Medal. At the George Washington University, Fernandez was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award and was inducted into the School of Engineering and Applied Science Hall of Fame.

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• Director, Producer, Activist

Monumental Achievement: Actor, producer, director, and activist Kerry Washington is a force to be reckoned with on both sides of the camera. She gained wide public recognition for starring as Olivia Pope on the television series, Scandal, breaking barriers by becoming the first Black woman to headline a network TV show since 1974. Washington has been nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for her work as an executive producer. Washington is also an activist who has served on the President's Committee of the Arts and Humanities, as co-chair of Michelle Obama's initiative When We All Vote, and also as co-chair of the Black Voices for Black Justice Fund, an organization dedicated to funding and amplifying the voices of Black leaders who are helping build a more equitable America. Among her many awards are five NAACP Image Awards, including the President's Award which recognizes special achievement in furthering the cause of civil rights and public service. Time magazine included Washington in its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2014.

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• President

Irving Williamson has over 50 years of experience in the international affairs and trade policy fields. From 2007 until his retirement in August of 2019, he was a commissioner on the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC); he served as chairman from 2012 to 2014 and in 2016 and as vice chairman from 2010 to 2012. Prior the USITC, Williamson was president of Williamson International Trade Strategies, Inc., a trade policy consulting firm, where he worked on over 20 AID trade capacity building projects and advised countries on World Trade Organization (WTO) accession, compliance, and participation. Much of his work focused on Africa and the Middle East. In 2005 and 2006, Williamson headed a project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that assisted Ethiopia with the WTO accession process. From 1993 to 1998, Williamson was deputy general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where he worked on NAFTA and WTO implementing legislation and chaired the interagency Section 301 Committee. He helped develop President Clinton's Africa trade initiative and represented USTR in negotiations with Congress on the African Growth and Opportunity Act legislation. Following USTR, Williamson was vice president for trade, investment, and economic development programs at the Africa-America Institute in New York. From 1985 to 1993, he was the manager of trade policy for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and from 1967 to 1985, he was a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State with overseas assignments in Madagascar, Mauritius and Geneva, Switzerland. He was also detailed as an attorney to the Office of Assistant General Counsel for International Affairs at the Treasury Department and to the Office of the General Counsel at USTR. Williamson holds a B.A. in history from Brown University, an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. He received the 2018 World Trade Week NYC International Achievement Award, the Thomas Jefferson School Alumni of Distinction Award and the 2019 American Intellectual Property Law Association Diversity Champion Award. He is married to Cheryl A. Parham and has two children, Patrick and Elizabeth.

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• Honorary Doctor of Public Service '16

Joanna Shields (Baroness Shields OBE) is a tech industry veteran with a successful track record building some of the world's best-known companies. Her career spans over 30 years and has focussed on harnessing the power of technology to drive change that improves connectivity, humanity and society. Shields is currently chief executive officer of BenevolentAI, a world leader in the development and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand the underlying causes of disease, accelerate drug discovery and develop new and more effective medicines. Prior to joining BenevolentAI, Shields served as the UK's first minister for internet safety and security, under-secretary of state, special advisor on the digital economy, and chair & CEO of TechCityUK. Prior to her government service, she held executive roles at Google, Facebook, Bebo/AOL, Decru, RealNetworks, Veon and EFI and served as a non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange Group. Shields founded WePROTECT.org, a multi-stakeholder global alliance working to protect children from online abuse and exploitation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity and the Child Dignity Alliance. She is also a commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG) and sits as the co-chair of the Steering Committee and chair of the Multi-stakeholder Experts Group Plenary on the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), a multi-stakeholder initiative supported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and counting more than 20 member countries all working at the trustworthy development and deployment of AI. Among her many honors, Shields was ranked first on the Wired 100 UK's digital power brokers in 2011 and was named the most influential woman in UK IT by Computer Weekly in 2013. She received the HRH Fatima Bint Mubarak Award for Motherhood and Childhood and the Thank You Award from World Childhood Foundation for her lifetime commitment to protect the rights and safety of children worldwide. In 2014, she was appointed OBE for services to digital industries and voluntary service to young people and made a life peer of the House of Lords.

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• Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Northrop Grumman Corporation

Kathy Warden is chairman, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation. She was elected chairman of the Northrop Grumman Board of Directors in 2019, and has served as CEO and president since January 1, 2019. She was elected to the company's board of directors in 2018. Prior to becoming CEO and president, Warden served as president and chief operating officer, responsible for the operational management of the company's four sectors as well as its enterprise services organization. She also led the integration of Northrop Grumman's Orbital ATK acquisition. Previously, she served as corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman's mission systems and information systems sectors. Warden has extensive experience in operational leadership and business development in government and commercial markets. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in 2008, Warden held leadership roles at General Dynamics and the Veridian Corporation, was a principal in a venture internet firm, and spent nearly a decade with the General Electric Company working in commercial industries. Warden earned a bachelor's degree from James Madison University and a master's degree in business administration from the George Washington University. She currently serves on the board of directors of Merck & Co., Inc. and Catalyst, as the chair of the Aerospace Industries Association, as the vice chair of the Greater Washington Partnership and on the James Madison University board of visitors. She is also a member of the Business Roundtable.

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• Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts '13

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• Honorary Doctor of Public Service '03

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• Vice Chair for Global Public Policy of Bloomberg

Mary L. Schapiro is the vice chair for global public policy of Bloomberg, the global financial technology company that was founded in 1981. She has been at Bloomberg since October 2018, and also serves as a special advisor to the founder and chairman.

Job Titles:

• Administrator

Administrator Regan is a graduate of the North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, making him the first EPA Administrator to have graduated from a Historically Black College and University. He earned a master's degree in Public Administration from The George Washington University.

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• Honorary Doctor of Public Service '17

West served as a Hauser Leader at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership from 2019 - 2020, and serves on the boards of directors for Johnson & Johnson, Nucor Corporation, and Tenet Healthcare Corporation. She is a trustee of the National Recreation Foundation, dedicated to enhancing the role of recreation as a positive force in improving the quality of life of youth. She is also a trustee of Americares - a non-profit that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster so they can reach their full potential. In 2020, she was selected as a trustee of the board of Mount St. Mary's University, and joined the board of the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

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• Founder & Chairman of Rubicon
• Founder of the Morris Foundation
• Member of the Board of Directors of Business Executives for National Security

Nate Morris is the Founder & Chairman of Rubicon (NYSE: RBT), a leading digital waste and recycling marketplace and provider of innovative software-based products to businesses and governments worldwide. Legally formed in 2009 with a $10,000 line of credit and maxed out credit cards, today Rubicon operates in all 50 U.S. states and 20 countries around the world and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Morris is the founder of the Morris Foundation whose mission is to provide access to the American Dream for all Kentuckians. He serves on the Dean's Advisory Council and as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. In 2019, he endowed the Nate Morris Fellowship through the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) at the Gatton College.

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• Honorary Doctor of Laws '05

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• Chief