Project Pericles is governed by its Board of Directors and executive staff in consultation with the Presidents’ Council and the National Board of Advisors.

Board of Directors

Chair Emeritus and Founder: Eugene M. Lang (1919-2017)
Chair: Richard Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges
Vice-Chair: Michael S. McPherson, President Emeritus,
​Spencer Foundation; Former President, Macalester College
Treasurer: David A. Caputo, Former President, Pace University
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Janet S. Dickerson, Vice President for Student Affairs, The Claremont Colleges Services; Former Vice President, Princeton University
Neil R. Grabois, Former Vice President, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Former President, Colgate University
Richard Guarasci, ​Former President, Wagner College
Helen Lang Suskin, Former Vice President, Pfizer
Jan R. Liss,* Executive Director, Project Pericles
Louis A. Martarano, Managing Director, L. Martarano Enterprises
James H. Mullen Jr., Former President, Allegheny College
Michele D. Perkins*, President, New England College
Vincent M. Ponzo, Startup Business Development Management, Amazon Web Services
Lyle D. Roelofs, President, Berea College
Lourdes M. Rosado, Program Director, New York Civil Liberties Union
Valerie Smith*, President, Swarthmore College; Executive Committee, Project Pericles Presidents’ Council       
Eugene M. Tobin, Former Senior Program Officer, Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

* ex officio

Presidents' Council

Chair: Lyle D. Roelofs,* Berea College
Vice-Chair: Steven G. Poskanzer,* Carleton College​
Hilary L. Link
Allegheny College
Clayton Spencer
Bates College
E. LaBrent Chrite
Bethune-Cookman University
David L. Finegold
Chatham University
Walter M. Kimbrough
Dillard University
MaryAnn Baenninger
Drew University
Connie Ledoux Book
Elon University
George Bridges
The Evergreen State College
Kent Devereaux
Goucher College
Edward C. Wingenbach
Hampshire College
W. Ellis Arnold III
Hendrix College
Brian C. Rosenberg*
Macalester College
David A. Thomas
Morehouse College
Michele D. Perkins
New England College

* Executive Council
David E. Van Zandt*
The New School
Jonathan Veitch
Occidental College
Marvin Krislov
Pace University
Melvin L. Oliver
Pitzer College
Audrey Bilger
Reed College
Shirley Ann Jackson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Marjorie Hass
Rhodes College
Tuajuanda Jordan
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Philip A. Glotzbach
Skidmore College
Valerie Smith*
Swarthmore College
Brock Blomberg
Ursinus College
Joel W. Martin
Wagner College
Kathleen Murray
Whitman College
Julie E. Wollman
Widener University
Sarah Bolton
The College of Wooster

National Board of Advisors

Co-Chairs:
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker and Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke
​​David Baltimore
John Baugh
J. Herman Blake
Alfred H. Bloom
Roger W. Bowen
Harry C. Boyte
Sen. Bill Bradley
Paul Brest
Russell L. Carson
Raymond G. Chambers
Jerome A. Chazen
Nadinne Cruz
​Richard A. Detweiler
Christopher F. Edley, Jr.
Thomas Ehrlich
Jonathan F. Fanton
Nicholas H. Farnham
​​Ellen V. Futter

National Office

Jan R. Liss, Executive Director
Arielle M. del Rosario,
Assistant Director
Curtis B. Gans
Llewellyn P. Haden, Jr.
Samuel L. Hayes III
Antonia Hernandez
Amb. James C. Hormel
Helene L. Kaplan
​Gov. Thomas H. Kean
Arthur E. Levine
​Reuben Mark
Elizabeth McCormack
Mary Patterson McPherson
Nancy B. Peretsman
Robert D. Putnam
Judith A. Ramaley
David M. Scobey
Allen P. Splete
Mark A. Vander Ploeg
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In Memoriam

​Alison R. Bernstein
Gov. Mario M. Cuomo
​Curtis B. Gans
Clark Kerr
Eugene M. Lang
Paul Newman
Sen. Paul Simon
​Sen. Harris L. Wofford