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Board of Directors

Honorary

Honorary Chairman:
Nelson R. Mandela

Honorary Vice Chair:
Maria Walker

 

Officers

Chairman
W. Frank Fountain
Chairman, Walter P. Chrysler Museum Foundation
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Vice Chair
Larry D. Bailey
President, LDB Consulting

Treasurer
Barbara A. McKinzie
27th International President, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Secretary
Joseph C. Kennedy, Ph.D.*
Co-Founder and Former Senior Vice-President, Africare

 

Other Directors

Lauretta J. Bruno
President and Founding Partner, Gramercy Partners LLC

Stephen D. Cashin
Chief Executive Officer, Pan African Capital Group, LLC

William Egbe
President, South Africa Business Unit, Coca-Cola Company

Amb. Howard F. Jeter
Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria

William O. Kirker, M.D.*
Co-Founder and Former President, Africare

C. Payne Lucas, Sr.*
President Emeritus, Africare

Callisto E. Madavo
President, Visiting Professor, African Studies Department, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Suzanne McCarron
President, ExxonMobil Foundation
General Manager, Public and Governmental Affairs, ExxonMobil Corporation

Amb. June Carter Perry
Board of Directors, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Foreign Service Institute
Former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone and Lesotho

Curtis Ransom
President/Owner, CERP Foods, Inc.

Rodney E. Slater
Partner, Patton Boggs LLP
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine
Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

F. Euclid Walker
Managing Director and Founder, Renascent Capital Group, LLC

Ann Walker-Marchant
Founder and CEO, Walker Marchant Group

Gregory White
Managing Director, Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P.

Amb. Curtin Winsor Jr., Ph.D.
Former Ambassador to Costa Rica
Chairman, American Chemical Services Company

Zouera Youssoufou
Head, IFC Women in Business Program, International Finance Corporation

 

 

Ex-officio

Darius Mans
President, Africare

 

Emeriti

George A. Dalley, Esq.
Former Chairman, Africare
Counsel, Congressman Charles B. Rangel

Donald F. McHenry
Former Chairman, Africare
President, IRC Group
Former U.S. Representative to the U.N.

 

*Life members of the Africare Board

 

(Updated April 2011)