The Board

María Isabel Plata
Maureen White
Paul S. Zuckerman, PhD

Profiles

Brian A. Brink, MD, Chair
As Senior Vice President: Health at Anglo American plc, the largest listed company in South Africa, Brian Brink, MD advises Group companies on the funding and delivery of health care benefits as well as on occupational health and community health issues. Dr. Brink has been with Anglo American for 20 years, and has been actively involved in HIV/AIDS issues since the mid-1980s. He is responsible for guiding Anglo American's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic—among other achievements, the company currently has the largest employer-sponsored AIDS treatment program in the world, with over 2,000 employees receiving free antiretroviral therapy. Anglo American has also invested in several community-based initiatives to prevent the further spread of HIV, including a partnership with loveLife that focuses on healthy sexuality and reproductive health for young South Africans. Dr. Brink is actively involved in addressing the particular challenge the HIV/AIDS epidemic poses to business in Southern Africa and internationally. He advises the Nelson Mandela Foundation on the strategic response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and currently serves as alternate board member for the Private Sector delegation on the Board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Dr. Brink is also involved in various national initiatives to enhance the role of the private sector in broadening access to sustainable, quality healthcare for all the citizens of South Africa. He is a director of Discovery Health, the largest health insurer in South Africa.

Maja Daruwala has for the past ten years been the executive director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). An international non-governmental organization, it is headquartered in New Delhi with offices in London, UK and Accra, Ghana. CHRI promotes the practical realization of human rights in the Commonwealth's 53 countries and focuses particularly on issues relating to accountability, transparency, and participation. Its present areas of specialization are access to justice and access to information. CHRI promotes police reform, prison reform, and seeks to ensure citizens are guaranteed the right to access government held information. Ms. Daruwala sits on several governing boards and advisory councils, including the Justice Initiative at the New York-based Open Society Institute and the New Delhi-based Voluntary Action Network, an umbrella organization aimed at strengthening civil society in India. From 1992 to 1996 Ms. Daruwala was a program officer for human rights, women's rights, and social justice at the Ford Foundation in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. A barrister by training, Ms. Daruwala has conceptualized and edited reports targeted at the Commonwealth Heads of Government on poverty and the status of the right to information, and most recently police accountability. She continues to produce a body of journalistic work, including a television documentary on prisoners and rights and governance issues in the region. 

Ann Unterberg, Vice Chair
Since she retired from investment banking in the eighties, Ann Unterberg has dedicated herself to various non profit organizations and the family's philanthropy. As a long time advocate of women's reproductive rights, Ann has served for a decade as a Trustee of NARAL ProChoice America. During her tenure, she served as Finance Chair, Vice Chair and most recently Chairperson of the Board of Trustees. She currently serves as a Trustee of Planned Parenthood of NYC and serves on several other New York City and New Jersey boards, including The Wildlife Conservation Society, Grand Street Settlement, Monmouth University, Monmouth Medical Center, and the Two River Theater Company, where she serves as President. She lives with her husband and many dogs, splitting their time between New York City and Rumson, New Jersey.

Diana L. Taylor, MBA, MPH, Secretary/Treasurer
Currently the Managing Director of Wolfensohn & Co. LLC in New York, NY, Diana L. Taylor, MBA, MPH, previously served as the Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York. Ms. Taylor has more than 20 years of experience serving in both the public and private sectors. She held the position of Deputy Secretary for Finance and Housing to Governor Pataki. Prior to that she served as the Chief Financial Officer for the Long Island Power Authority. She also spent two years at KeySpan Energy as Vice President for Governmental and Regulatory Affairs. In her first appointed position for the Governor, she served as Assistant Secretary for Public Authorities and worked with the utilities throughout the State and the Public Service Commission. Before her work in the public sector, Ms. Taylor was a Founding Partner of M.R. Beal and Company, a successful investment banking firm concentrating primarily in municipal bonds. She started her career as an investment banker at Smith Barney Harris Upham, then Lehman Brothers, then Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette. She serves on the Boards of Directors for the Hudson River Park Trust, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The After School Corporation (TASC), the YMCA among others and she is a member of the Board of Overseers for the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She received her AB from Dartmouth College where she majored in economics and her MBA from Columbia Business School where she majored in finance, and her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She resides in Manhattan.

Adrienne Germain, President, IWHC
Click here to read a profile of Adrienne Germain.  

Stuart C. Burden has over 15 years of experience in international grant making, community affairs, and government affairs. Currently a Philanthropy Advisor in San Francisco, CA, he previously served as the Director for the Americas within the Worldwide Community Affairs Department of Levi Strauss & Co. and the Levi Strauss Foundation. In this role, he was responsible for the strategic direction of the philanthropic, employee community involvement, and external relationship-building activities in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and South America. In addition, he coordinated the funding for HIV/AIDS programs worldwide. Prior to Levi Strauss & Co., Stuart worked for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, and for the Ford Foundation, the New York Foundation, and with Citibank in New York.  While at MacArthur, Stuart's work focused on reproductive health and rights, and HIV/AIDS prevention. He also served as chair of the of the Foundation's Africa Task Group—the coordinating body for all grantmaking in Africa. Stuart sits on the Board of ShoreCap Exchange (an affiliate of Shorebank) and the Northern California Committee of Human Rights Watch. From April 2000 to January 2003, Stuart served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Stuart graduated from Stanford University, and lives in San Francisco.

John E. Craig, Jr., MPA is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Commonwealth Fund. Mr. Craig is responsible for the management of the foundation's endowment and administration, and serves also as the Fund's treasurer and corporate secretary. He chairs staff program plan and board proposal review meetings and oversees assessments of the performance of programs and completed grants. In addition to being chairman of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York City, Mr. Craig serves on the boards of the Greenwall Foundation, the International Women's Health Coalition, the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, as well as on the investment committee of the Social Sciences Research Council. Earlier he was chairman of the board of The Investment Fund for Foundations and a member of the board of The Picker Institute. Prior to joining the Fund in 1981, he directed the John A. Hartford Foundation's health care reform program, and earlier was a Foreign Service reserve officer of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Mr. Craig writes regularly on foundation endowment investment and management issues; his most recent publication is High Performing Foundations: The Role of Risk Management. A graduate of Davidson College, he received his M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Angela Diaz, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (AHC). She earned her medical degree in 1981 at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed her post-doctoral training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1985, and holds a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University. Under Dr. Diaz's leadership, the AHC has become the largest adolescent health center in the U.S., providing comprehensive, integrated, interdisciplinary care and health education free to thousands of teens every year. Dr. Diaz has also been very active in both international health projects and health advocacy and policy in the U.S. She has published numerous articles on topics including child and adolescent sexual abuse, adolescents' access to health care, and health services for immigrants. She is president of the Children's Aid Society Board of Trustees, has been a White House Fellow, has been named numerous times as one of the Best Doctors in New York by New York Magazine, and is listed in America's Top Doctors and Guide to America's Top Pediatricians. Her honors include the American Academy of Pediatrics Founders of Adolescent Health Award, the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award for Ethics and Humanism in Medicine from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the Dr. Sidney Grossman Humanitarian Award from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Alumni Association. Dr. Diaz is a member of both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pediatric Advisory Committee and the New York City Board of Health, served with the NIH State of the Science Conference on Preventing Violence and Related Health Risk Social Behaviors in Adolescents, and chaired the National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism.

Debora Diniz is one of the founders of Anis: Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender, one of the key feminist groups dedicated to bioethics in Latin America. An anthropologist by training, she is now a professor of bioethics at the University of Brasilia. As a documentarian, her films received more than 50 prizes and one of the documentaries was the first film to be exhibited at a Supreme Court public hearing on abortion. She has a strong advocacy experience in working with the Brazilian Supreme Court on hard cases, such as gay marriage, abortion and stem cell research. Her research interests are reproductive and sexual rights, human rights, disability and research ethics. She has written many academic books and papers on bioethics, feminism and human rights in several languages. She now lives in Brasília, Brazil.

Joan B. Dunlop served as President of the International Women's Health Coalition from 1984 to 1998. Responsible for revitalizing the organization's mission, she extended its reach and visibility and shaped its influential role in global policy development for 14 years. In 1989, she was recognized by Barnard College as one of 100 Distinguished New York Women, and in 1995, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Hamilton College. Born and educated in England, Ms. Dunlop was introduced to global women's issues in the office of John D. Rockefeller 3rd, while advising him on population issues. She also held positions in the New York City budget office under Mayor John Lindsay, at the New York Public Library, and at several foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Fund for the City of New York, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, where she was a Distinguished Fellow from 1998 to 2001. In 2000, Ms. Dunlop founded "A Women's Lens on Global Issues," a non-profit initiative that organizes grassroots female activists to influence U.S. foreign policy. Ms. Dunlop continues to serve on the boards of the Open Society Institute and CARE, among other organizations.

Catherine A. Gellert is a member of IWHC's President's Council and New Leadership Council, as well as Co-Chair of the 2009 Gala. Kate serves as a Director at United Continental Corporation & Windcrest Partners and is President of the Grand Street Settlement House. She began her career at Cable News Network as an Associate Producer/Guest Booker and Assignment Editor. Kate received her BA in Fine Arts from Harvard University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. Kate is very involved with her alma mater. She serves as Co-Chair of the Harvard College Fund, Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association, Class of 1993 Co-Chair, Co-Chair of the Harvard University Art Museums, and member of the Board of Managers for the Harvard Club of New York City. 

Marlene Hess is an independent philanthropic consultant. She is the former Managing Director of Global Philanthropic Services at JPMorgan Private Bank (J.P. Morgan Chase). She advises clients worldwide, and designs philanthropic strategies to make their giving more effective; she also counsels donors on foundation succession and governance issues. She has helped create innovative programs for non-profit organizations and advises on their operations, governance, and outreach. Also formerly Director of Not-For-Profit Relations for Chase, she enhanced the bank's philanthropic activities and formed extensive partnerships between the corporate and non-profit sectors. She created a range of campaigns to raise public awareness about community issues, including the award-winning "Child Vaccination Program," which Chase spearheaded in partnership with the Children's Defense Fund and the New York City Department of Health.  Marlene Hess serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller University, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City Ballet, and Central Park Conservancy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and also serves on the Advisory Committee of Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. A graduate and former trustee of Mills College, California, she is a former member of the Harvard College Board of Overseers' Committee to Visit the College. She has served on the Capital Commitment Committee Taskforce of the New York City Partnership's Financial Recovery Fund to aid in the rebuilding of lower Manhattan. In addition, she has been a trustee of the Episcopal School, St. Bernard's School, the Trinity School, and Women In Need, a non-profit organization for homeless women and their children, all in New York City.

A former social worker, Virginia Ryan Joffe is a photographer, writer, and longtime advocate for girls and women. Ms. Joffe has been active since 1993 with the New York Women's Foundation, a philanthropic institution that identifies and supports self-determined neighborhood programs that help expand opportunities for women and girls. She has served on its board, and from 1999 to 2003, she was board president. During her tenure the Foundation tripled in size. Ms. Joffe formerly served on the advisory board of Girls Inc. of New York City, which runs educational programs to empower girls who are at risk. She currently serves on the advisory committee of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health. Ms. Joffe's photographs have been shown in galleries in New York and Massachusetts, and reside in many private collections. Her book, In the Most Beautiful Life (Umbrage Editions, 2002), is a collaboration with Romanian poet Carmen Firan to explore through text and image the transition years during which Romanians struggled to define a new identity for themselves after the collapse of the old order.

Josina Z. Machel is a gender activist and a social entrepreneur. Currently she coordinates the Institutional Capacity Building Project (Parliaments and Political parties) of the Governance and AIDS programme of IDASA (Institute for Democracy in South Africa). In 2002, Ms. Machel co-founded the first organization (Pfukani, Lda) specializing in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the Workplace in Mozambique. Pfukani Lda conceptualized, coordinated and managed regular awareness-training and workshops, peer-education programmes, surveillance, evaluation and monitoring interventions, and developed communication tools for the companies. Previously, Ms. Machel worked for Anglo-American Operations, Ltd as Human Resources Officer, HIV/AIDS programme, advising and providing technical support at a strategic corporate level on policy, training, monitoring and evaluation. Before joining Anglo Operations Ltd, Ms. Machel served as an assistant employment equity consultant with SANLAM where she helped design employment equity, HIV/AIDS and other policies and company strategies for a historically, racially divided South African company in its transformation to a non-racially divided business. Ms. Machel holds an MSc degree in Sociology (Gender) from the London School of Economics and Political Science UK, and a Bachelor of Social Science, Sociology and Political Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has presented at a number of national and international conferences on issues of youth, gender and HIV/AIDS. She has published work in the same areas as well as governance and AIDS. She serves on a number of International Boards.

A philanthropist for more than 30 years, Susan Nitze has served in a range of arts, education, and social service organizations. To mention a few, she is a founding member of the Volunteer Council of the New York Philharmonic, co-chair of the IWHC President's Council, and a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome as well as the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. She serves on a Women's Advisory Council for U.S. Foreign Policy and Women for the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a committee member on Network 20/20, which helps educate the next generation of U.S. leaders on policies promoting global public security. A graduate of Wellesley College, Ms. Nitze was the president of the board of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York for eight years and continues to serve as its chair.

Marnie S. Pillsbury has been the Executive Director of The David Rockefeller Fund and Philanthropic Advisor to Mr. Rockefeller since 1990. She is a Trustee of The Rockefeller University and serves on the board of the Women's Campaign Fund, the Edward John Noble Foundation, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Advisory Committee for the David Rockefeller Fellows Program at the New York City Partnership, and the International Council for The Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Pillsbury served for many years as a Trustee of World Learning, formerly The Experiment in International Living, which operates in more than 40 countries around the world. She is also an advisor to a small grants program serving HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa. A graduate of Wellesley College (1965), Ms. Pillsbury received an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business in 1987.

María Isabel Plata is the executive director of PROFAMILIA, the International Planned Parenthood affiliate in Colombia and the country's largest sexual and reproductive health organization. Since joining PROFAMILIA in 1986, Ms. Plata has held various positions, including Director of Legal Services and Deputy Director. During her decade-long executive directorship, Ms. Plata coordinated a significant expansion and restructuring of the organization. Today PROFAMILIA operates 35 centers across Colombia, with more than 1,400 employees. Prior to her tenure at PROFAMILIA, Ms. Plata taught history and law in Bogotá. Ms. Plata has published and presented widely in both English and Spanish on the legal and social issues of women's rights, family planning, and gender, serving for four years on the Gender Advisory Panel of the World Health Organization and the FIGO Ethics Committee. A Fulbright Scholar, she holds a Master's in Comparative Law from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Maureen White served as the National Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2001-2006. Prior to that she served in the Clinton administration as the U.S. Government Representative to UNICEF from 1998 to 2001. An economist by training, during the 1980s she held research positions at firms such as First Boston, Inc. in New York and Cazenove & Co. in London. Ms. White also serves on the boards of several humanitarian organizations, including Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee, and previously chaired the board of the Leadership Council on Children Affected by Armed Conflict. Ms. White is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Mount Holyoke College. She is married to Steven Rattner and is the mother of Rebecca, Daniel, David, and James.    

Paul S. Zuckerman, PhD
An investment banker, Paul S. Zuckerman is currently Chairman of Zuckerman & Associates LLC, an investment banking firm in London that specializes in the emerging markets of Brazil, Mexico, and India. He is also Chairman of an angel group of investors focusing on the technology and life sciences sectors. Prior to chairing Zuckerman & Associates LLC, he was Managing Director in charge of investment banking at Caspian Securities. Prior to that he spent 14 years at SG Warburg as an executive director, a vice chairman of SG Warburg International, and Chairman of SG Warburg Latin America. He also worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and at the Ford Foundation in Nigeria earlier in his career. From 1990 to 1995 he served as Chairman of the Board of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, a British nongovernmental organization dedicated to bringing science and technology to developing countries in order to improve public health, reduce poverty, and foster sustainable development. He currently serves on several boards, and is Chairman of the Trustees of the William Walton Foundation and Member of the Board of the African Medical and Research Foundation. Dr. Zuckerman holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Reading University, and his work has appeared in numerous journals. In 2004 he was named a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

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