Board Leadership:
Magdalene Johnson Obaji, Chair
President and Chief Executive Officer, NIS Solutions Corp.
Teresa Hillary Clarke, Vice Chair and Chair-Elect
Chairman and Executive Editor, Africa.com, LLC
Members:
John C. Newton Professor of Art, the History of Art, and Black Studies, Amherst College
Dr. Myma Belo-Osagie
Partner Emerita, Udi, Udoma & Belo-Osagie
Jake Brody
Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Anne L. Howard-Tristani
President, Howard-Tristani International Consulting
Gay McDougall
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center on International Law, Fordham Law School
Gbenga Oyebode
Co-Founder and Counsel, Aluko & Oyebode
The Honorable J. Peter Pham, Ph.D.
Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council
Amelia Quist-Ogunlesi, D.O.
Founder, Chairman, and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners, and Doctor of Optometry
Tarneem Saeed
Chief Executive Officer of alsoug.com and Head of Strategy, Saeed Industrial & Commercial Group
Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran, Ph.D.
President Emerita, Kalamazoo College
Ashraf Zaki
Founder and Managing Partner, Lorax Capital Partners
Ex Officio Members:
Lonnie G. Bunch III,
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Kevin Gover
Under Secretary for Museums and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
John K. Lapiana
Acting Director, National Museum of African Art
Emeriti Members:
Asif M. Shaikh, chair emeritus
Stu Bohart, chair emeritus
R. Lucia Riddle, vice chair emerita
Timothy Bork
Marcella A. Jones
The Honorable Anne Imelda Radice
The Honorable Robin Sanders, D.Sc
James H. Small, Ph.D.
