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: James H. Mullen Jr., President Emeritus, Allegheny College; Transitional President, Saint John's University (MN)
Vice-Chair: Michael S. McPherson, President Emeritus,
​Spencer Foundation; Former President, Macalester College
Treasurer: David A. Caputo, President Emeritus, Pace University
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Janet S. Dickerson, Vice President for Student Affairs, The Claremont Colleges Services; Former Vice President, Princeton University
Richard Ekman, President Emeritus and Senior Advisor, Council of Independent Colleges
Neil R. Grabois, Former Vice President, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Former President, Colgate University
Richard Guarasci, ​President Emeritus, Wagner College
Helen Lang Suskin, Former Vice President, Pfizer
Jan R. Liss,* Executive Director, Project Pericles
Louis A. Martarano, Managing Director, L. Martarano Enterprises
Michele D. Perkins*, President, New England College
Vincent M. Ponzo, Startup Business Development Management, Amazon Web Services
Lyle D. Roelofs, President, Berea College; Chair, Project Pericles Presidents' Council
Lourdes M. Rosado, President and General Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
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;
​Former President, Hamilton College
Scott L. Warren, Visiting Fellow, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins; Co-Founder, Generation Citizen

* ex officio

Presidents' Council

Chair: Lyle D. Roelofs, Berea College
Hilary L. Link
Allegheny College
Clayton Spencer
Bates College
Hiram C. Powell
Bethune-Cookman University
Alison R. Byerly
​Carleton College​
David L. Finegold
Chatham University
Walter M. Kimbrough
Dillard University
Thomas J. Schwarz
Drew University
Connie Ledoux Book
Elon University
George S. Bridges
The Evergreen State College
Kent Devereaux
Goucher College
Edward C. Wingenbach
Hampshire College
W. Ellis Arnold III
Hendrix College
Suzanne M. Rivera
Macalester College
David A. Thomas
Morehouse College
Michele D. Perkins
New England College
​Dwight A. McBride
The New School
Harry J. Elam Jr.
Occidental College
Marvin Krislov
Pace University
Melvin L. Oliver
Pitzer College
Audrey Bilger
Reed College
Carroll D. Stevens
​Rhodes College
Marc C. Conner
Skidmore College
Valerie Smith
Swarthmore College
Brock Blomberg
Ursinus College
Joel W. Martin
Wagner College
Kathleen M. 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

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National Office

Jan R. Liss, Executive Director
Arielle M. del Rosario,
Assistant Director
Nicholas H. Farnham
​Ellen V. Futter
​Curtis B. Gans
Llewellyn P. Haden, Jr.
Samuel L. Hayes III
Antonia Hernandez
Helene L. Kaplan
​Gov. Thomas H. Kean
Arthur E. Levine
​Reuben Mark
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
Amb. James C. Hormel
Clark Kerr
Eugene M. Lang
Paul Newman
Sen. Paul Simon
​Sen. Harris L. Wofford
​Elizabeth McCormack