Boutros Boutros-Ghali is President of the Egyptian National Commission for Human Rights, President of the International Panel on Democracy and Development in UNESCO, President of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, and President of the Institute for Mediterranean Political Studies, Monaco.

Boutros-Ghali holds an LL.B from Cairo University and a Ph.D. in international law from Paris University. He was Professor of International Law and International Relations at Cairo University, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1977-1991), a Member of the Egyptian Parliament (1987-1991), and Deputy Prime Minister before being elected Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1992.

Peter Tarnoff is President of the International Advisory Corporation based in San Francisco. From 1962-1982, he was a career Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State in Nigeria, Vietnam, Germany, France, Luxembourg, and Washington, D.C., where he served as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State, Cyrus Vance and Edmund Muskie. He was President of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1986-1993) and returned to government service as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs (1993-1997).

Rev. Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J. is currently President Emeritus of Fordham University, the Vice President of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was President of Fordham University from 1984 to 2003, the longest tenure in the 164-year history of the University. Prior to coming to Fordham, Father O’Hare had been the Editor-in-Chief of America, the weekly journal of opinion published by Jesuits of the United States and Canada. He has been a trustee of the Asia Society. In the public life of New York City, he served for 15 years, as Chair of the New York City Campaign Finance Board. Father O’Hare has also received numerous degrees and awards.

Abdulrahim Abby Farah, although retired, remains active in assisting his native Somalialand. He served for twenty years as Under-Secretary-General and Senior Political Advisor on African Affairs in the United Nations. He also was Somalia's Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Eoin O'Brien, M.D. is Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin and is President of The Irish Heart Foundation. At the World Health Organization, he is Chairman of the Committee on Blood Pressure Measurement in Low Resource Settings.

Professor O’Brien has published over 500 scientific papers on hypertension research, and is author of Blood Pressure Measurement and ABC of Hypertension. He has written books on the history of medicine, including Conscience and Conflict: A Biography of Sir Dominic Corrigan, and A Portrait of Irish Medicine. He has also written The Beckett Country: Samuel Beckett's Ireland, and published, posthumously, Beckett's first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women.

Lord David Owen is Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and President of the Enabling Partnership.  He was a Member of Parliament for 26 years during which, under Labour Governments, he was Navy Minister, Health Minister, and Foreign Secretary. Lord Owen was a founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 and its leader from 1983-90.  Prior to entering political life, he was a physician and neurologist. Lord Owen  Lord Owen has served on a number of independent commissions including:  Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues; Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues; Carnegie Commission on Preventing Armed Conflict.  He was Chairman of Humanitas from 1990-2001, a charitable organization dedicated to public education on humanitarian issues. 

Jan Eliasson is Chairman of Water, Sweden. He has been President of the United Nations General Assembly, the United Nations Secretary-General Special Representative for Mediation in the Darfur Crisis, Sweden’s Ambassador to the U.S. and to the U.N., Deputy Secretary of State, and Foreign Minister of Sweden. In 1992, Eliasson was appointed the first U.N. Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.

Peter Hansen is Diplomat-In-Residence at the IIHA at Fordham University. He retired from the United Nations after 28 years of service, the last nine as Commissioner-General of UNRWA. Mr. Hansen has been Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator as well as Executive Director of the Commission on Global Governance, Geneva (1992-1994). He has also served in numerous other senior positions within the U.N.

Mr. Hansen studied in Denmark and the United States. He completed his graduate and post-graduate work at Aarhus University in 1966. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Lady Helen Hamlyn is the Chair of the Helen Hamlyn Trust, a UK charity. She supports projects involved with humanitarian concerns, medical research, and international and cultural initiatives, particularly in India at the World Heritage Site of Khajuraho and the heritage site at Nagaur in Rajasthan. The Foundation also strives to improve the lives of older people, principally through the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art in London, where she graduated as a fashion designer. Students are encouraged to design with age in mind.

Lady Hamlyn has received the French Government’s Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and honorary degrees from Fordham University, Imperial College, and the Royal College of Art.

Francis M. Deng is U.N. Under-Secretary General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. He was also U.N. Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons for over 12 years. Dr. Deng was Sudan's Ambassador to Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden (1972-74), to the United States (1974-76), and to Canada (1980-83). He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1976-80).

He was Distinguished Professor of political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and co-founder of the CUNY Graduate Center-Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement.

Dr. Deng has authored, co-authored, and edited almost thirty books, and a great many articles and reports on a variety of topics from anthropological studies to literary works, to law, history, and conflict resolution. Dr. Deng holds a doctorate in law from Yale University.

Major General (Retired) Tim Cross was in the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) from 1971 to 2006. He completed an MSc in Guided Weapons before attending the Army Staff College in 1982.

He led the KFOR response to the Northern Macedonian refugee crisis and also worked with refugees in Southern Albania.

He was appointed CBE in the subsequent operational awards. In 2002 he became involved in the planning for operations in Iraq and subsequently deployed to Washington, Kuwait, and Baghdad as the Deputy in the U.S.-led Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Affairs, later re-titled as the Coalition Provisional Authority. He is a Visiting Professor at 3 Universities and Defence Adviser to a number of UK/International Companies and the House of Commons Defence Committee. Major General Tim Cross is married with three children and two grandsons.

Larry Hollingworth is the Humanitarian Programs Director for the CIHC as well as Visiting Professor of Humanitarian Studies at the IIHA at Fordham University in New York. Over the past few years, he has served as Humanitarian Coordinator on CIHC-supported missions for the United Nations in Iraq, Lebanon, East Timor, Palestine, and Pakistan.

After serving as a British Army officer for thirty years, Larry joined UNHCR and held assignments in Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. He was appointed UNHCR Chief of Operations in Sarajevo, during the siege of the city in the Balkan conflict.

He is a frequent lecturer on relief and refugee topics in universities and is a commentator on humanitarian issues for the BBC.

Anthony Land is a Program Officer at the CIHC. He is a graduate of Brunel University, where he received his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Polymer Science and Technology in 1971 and 1972, respectively. From 1973 to 1985, he worked with a number of NGOs, including the Tear Fund and ACROSS, which is a consortium of NGOs working in Southern Sudan. Mr. Land then worked within various departments at UNHCR from 1985 until his retirement in 2006. While at the UNHCR, he worked in Pakistan, Indonesia, Malawi, Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo, among others. He has been a lecturer and tutor at numerous CIHC courses. Mr. Land is married with two children.

Albert J. Marchetti is the Chief Financial Officer of the CIHC. He is the Vice President of International and Federal Relations of the Hess Corporation; he held positions in finance and accounting within the International Exploration and Production division prior to his current assignment. Mr. Marchetti is a frequent visitor to Africa and was responsible for leading the Hess Corporation’s West Africa business unit from 1998 through 2001, and has been the prime contact with Libya for the past decade.

Mr. Marchetti is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta (BS 1973) and Binghamton University (MS 1975). He is a New York State Certified Public Accountant and started his career with the international accounting firm KPMG where he specialized in multinational client service.

Leo F. McGinity, Jr., Esq. is the Counsel for the CIHC. He is a member of the law firm of McGinity & McGinity, P.C. with offices in Garden City, New York. Mr. McGinity received his undergraduate degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Niagara University and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. He has been admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. McGinity resides with his wife, Cindy, in Point Lookout, New York.