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Board of DirectorsOur Board of Directors — comprised of a wealth of experts on aging and longevity — provides overall governance, elects officers, exercises fiscal responsiblity, and maintains important external relationships. The distinguished leaders who serve on our Honorary Board provide guidance and act in an ambassadorial capacity, linking the ILC-USA with expert institutions around the world. Board MembersLloyd Frank, Chair Edward M. Berube is currently CEO and President of FUTURITY FIRST Insurance Group. FUTURITY FIRST is a new nationwide, independent distribution organization offering life and health insurance and retirement savings products to middle income families and small businesses. Prior executive positions include CEO and President of Bankers Life and Casualty Company; President and COO of American Life Insurance Company (ALICO), an AIG company; and President of CIGNA Financial Advisors. Mr. Berube spent the first 20 years of his insurance career at CIGNA in both field and home office positions. He is a Certified Life Underwriter, a Chartered Financial Consultant, and a Certified Financial Planner. Ed also serves on the national board of the Alzheimer’s Association. Cory A. Booker is the current Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. A former Newark city councilman and partner in the law firm Booker, Rabinowitz, Trenk, Lubetkin, Tully, DiPasquale & Webster, Mr. Booker has dedicated his life to public service. Mayor Booker's political career began in 1998, after serving as Staff Attorney for the Urban Justice Center and as a Program Coordinator of the Newark Youth Project. In addition to being the Founder of Newark Now, Booker is a member of several boards including Integrity Inc's Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee of Yale Law School, Columbia University Teachers' College Board of Trustees, the Black Alliance for Educational Options and North Star Academy. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University, a B.A. in Modern History at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and completed his law degree at Yale University. Robert N. Butler, M.D., President and CEO of the International Longevity Center-USA, is a world leader in gerontology and geriatrics. As the first director of the National Institute on Aging, Dr. Butler helped educate the nation about the dangers of Alzheimer’s disease and worked to make research a priority. At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he founded the nation’s first department of geriatrics where he is Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development. He founded the International Longevity Center in 1990. Dr. Butler introduced the concepts of "Life Review" (1961), "Ageism" (1968) and "Productive Aging" (1983). He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Why Survive? Being Old in America and is co-author with Myrna I. Lewis of Aging and Mental Health as well as The New Love and Sex After 60. His latest book, The Longevity Revolution is scheduled to be released in March, 2008. John J. Creedon, is the former President & Chief Executive Officer of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. He currently serves as director of the Union Carbide Corporation, Melville Corporation, NYNEX, State Street Research & Management Corporation and Albany Life Assurance Company Limited. A native of New York City, he earned B.S., LL.B. degrees from New York University and now serves as a trustee of the university. He is a past recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award given by the League for the Hard of Hearing. He has also served on the National Board of Directors of the Alzheimer's Associations and is a board member and past chairman of the Business Council of New York State. Everette E. Dennis, Ph.D. the ILC's chief operating officer and executive director (ex-officio) was founding president of the American Academy in Berlin and founding executive director of the Media Studies Center at Columbia University as well as senior vice president of the Gannett and Freedom Forum foundations. An educator, author and communications expert, Dr. Dennis is Felix E. Larkin Professor of Media Industries at Fordham University's Graduate School of Business in New York, former dean of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications and a professor at the University of Minnesota. He is author and editor of 38 books on media and policy issues and has had three advanced fellowships at Harvard University. Susan W. Dryfoos is an award-winning independent filmmaker and author. She formerly served as the Director of The New York Times History Productions. Her documentary film, The Line King: the Al Hirschfeld Story, was nominated for a 1997 Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category. Ms. Dryfoos served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Urban League from 1993 to 1997, and is a member of the Board of Trustees at the Rhode Island School of Design and the PEN American Center. Joe Feczko, M.D. is president for worldwide development at Pfizer. He brings together all aspects of clinical development in both Pfizer Global Research and Development and PPG Industries into a single functioning role. In addition to his current position, Dr. Feczko serves on the Technology Strategy Board for the Department of Trade & Industry, UK; Advisory Board of Center for Aging Research, University of Miami; International Trachoma Initiative; American Federation for Aging Research; the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases and the N.Y. Academy of Medicine. Robert W. Fogel is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, and Director of the Center for Population Economics, Graduate School of Business, at the University of Chicago. Fogel is widely recognized for his important contributions to economic science that further the understanding of long-term technological and institutional change. Since the late 1980s, Fogel’s principal research has focused on explaining the secular decline in mortality and the changing pattern of aging over the life cycle in the United States. In 1993, he was the recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics for "having renewed research in economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change." Paul M. Gilbert is co-founder of MedAvante, a pharmaceutical services organization. Prior to MedAvante, Gilbert was VP of Marketing and Strategy for Princeton eCom. Gilbert has over 19 years in general management and marketing experience working with Johnson & Johnson, Arm & Hammer, Booz Allen, and Gillette. Gilbert graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College and received his MBA from Harvard University. Annie Glenn has had a life-long interest in programs for children, the elderly and handicapped. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the National First Ladies' Library. She serves on the National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health. She is also a member of the Advisory Panel of the Central Ohio Speech and Hearing Association. In 1983, she received the first national award of the American Speech and Hearing Association. And in 1987, the National Association for Hearing and Speech Action honored her by asking her to present the first annual "Annie Glenn Award" for achieving distinction despite a communicative disorder. With her husband, Senator John Glenn, Annie Glenn serves on the Board of Trustees of Muskingum College. Senator John Glenn is the first popularly elected Senator from Ohio to win four consecutive terms. Before retiring at the end of the 105th Congress, he was the Ranking Minority Member of both the Governmental Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Airland Forces in the Senate Armed Services Committee. He also served on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Special Committee on Aging. Glenn was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1943 and served in combat in the South Pacific and Korean conflict. After several years as a test pilot, John Glenn was selected to be one of the first seven NASA astronauts in the U.S. Space Program in 1959. Three years later, he made history as the first American to orbit the earth. Thirty-six years later, he again made history when he returned to outer space as a member of the crew of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery. Senator Glenn is currently involved in establishing The John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at The Ohio State University. Lawrence K. Grossman is Founder and Co-Chair of the Digital Promise Project, a public interest initiative focused on the development and use of the advanced information technologies. He is former president of NBC News and PBS, advertising agency owner, holder of the Frank Stanton First Amendment Chair at the Kennedy School of Government, and senior fellow and visiting scholar at Columbia University. He currently serves as a trustee of Connecticut Public Broadcasting and as a Dupont-Columbia Journalism Award juror. Author of The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age, he writes a regular column for the Columbia Journalism Review and has contributed numerous articles on media and politics to newspapers, magazines and journals. Karen K. C. Hsu is a civic leader in education, conservation and natural history. She currently serves as Trustee of The Nature Conservatory New York State Board and is former Co-Chair of the Stanford University Parents Advisory Board. Ms. Hsu received a degree in economics from Barnard College, Columbia University and her Masters of Business Administration from Boston University. With a longstanding interest in Asian culture, Ms. Hsu is a member of the Gallery of China Institute and the Asian Art of Asia Society. She is also a member of the Colony and University Clubs in New York City. Linda P. Lambert, Oklahoma City, is President of LASSO Corp., an investment corporation specializing in oil and gas development and Petree Valley Farms. Ms. Lambert served as Treasurer of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation. She also serves as chair, trustee, or member on numerous local, state and national boards, including Mercy Health Center, Possibilities: Neighbors in Action, Kirkpatrick Foundation, Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Oklahoma Academy, Tulsa Opera, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation, International Women's Forum, Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Metro Oklahoma City. Naomi Levine is senior advisor to NYU president John Sexton and Chair and executive director, NYU George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising . Mrs. Levine formerly served as NYU's senior vice president for external affairs raising more than $2.5 billion in over 20 years service at the University. A graduate of Columbia Law School, she served as National Executive Director of the American Jewish Conference, from 1971 to 1978. Mrs. Levine was the first woman to head a major national Jewish organization. William C. Martin was the co-founder of Raging Bull, a leading online financial community. An active entrepreneur and investor, Mr. Martin is the co-founder and principal of Indie Research, a provider of proprietary investment and research tools for individual and institutional investors. Mr. Martin has invested in and/or advised a number of Internet and institutional financial services companies, including CallStreet (acquired by FactSet), ByteTaxi/FolderShare (acquired by Microsoft), Gerson Lehrman Group, Majestic Research, and Lux Research. David O. Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D is an Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Meltzer's research explores problems in health economics and public policy. His recent work has focused on the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis, including issues such as accounting for future costs due to the extension of life and the empirical validity of quality of life assessment, which he has examined in the context of diabetes and prostate cancer. He is also a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served on a panel that examined the "Future of Medicare" for the National Academy of Social Insurance. Evelyn Stefansson Nef is a writer, authority on the Polar regions, psychotherapist, and philanthropist. She has served on the board of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Symphony, the Washington Opera, the Paget Foundation, and the Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children. She was a long time member of the Society of Woman Geographers and its National President from 1961 to 1971. She is President of the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Foundation and on the Advisory Council of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Regina S. Peruggi, Ed.D., is the president of Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. Prior to her Kingsborough appointment, Dr. Peruggi served as president of the Central Park Conservancy, a private, not-for-profit organization that manages Central Park. From 1990 to 2001, she was president of Marymount Manhattan College. Dr. Peruggi also serves as co-chair of the Board of the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee. Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D., is the 1997 Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine. He received this distinguised honor for his discovery of prions, small infectious protein agents that can cause fatal dementia-type brain diseases in humans and animals. Prusiner currently serves as a professor of biochemistry in the Department of Neurology and director of the Institute for Neurogenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He has received the Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer's Disease Research from the American Academy of Neurology, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience, the MetLife Award and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Joseph E. Smith served in various positions with Warner-Lambert Company from 1989 until his retirement in 1997. He was Corporate Vice President and served as a member of the Office of the Chairman and the firm's Management Committee. His responsibilities included President of Shaving Products (Schick, Wilkinson Sword) and President of Pharmaceuticals (Parke-Davis). Mr. Smith also directed the Corporation's External Relations functions. Previously, he was President of Rorer Pharmaceutical Corporation and was employed by Johnson & Johnson from 1965 to 1985. Jackson T. "Steve" Stephens is chairman and CEO of ExOxEmis, Inc., a biotechnology firm in Little Rock, Arkansas. This firm discovered enzymes with the property to bind preferentially to and kill pathogenic bacteria, viruses, spores and fungi with little damage to host tissue, a discovery which aids in fighting drug resistant infectious agents. He serves as chair of The Arkansas Policy Foundation, a free market study center that analyzes the impact of public policy on Arkansas and makes recommendations. Stephens is also a trustee for Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Catharine R. Stimpson, Ph.D. is Dean of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science and a University Professor. Dean Stimpson was director of the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program from 1994 to 1997. She has also served as University Professor at Rutgers, where, from 1986 she was dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education from 1986 to 1992. She is a former chair of the New York State Humanities Council and the National Council for Research on Women, and president of the Modern Language Association. The author of a novel, Class Notes, she is the editor of seven books and has published over 150 monographs, essays, stories, and reviews. Humphrey Taylor is the Chairman of The Harris Poll, a service of Harris Interactive. Mr. Taylor has had overall responsibility for more than 8,000 surveys in 80 countries, for governments, corporations, and foundations. He has testified to Congressional Committees and Subcommittees on Social Security, health care cost containment, Medicare, aging, policies affecting disabled people, drug exports, the taxation of employee benefits, and privacy. Over his working life, Mr. Taylor has authored over 1,000 columns, papers, op-ed page articles, and book chapters including editorial page articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and (London) Times. He is Chairman of the National Council on Public Polls, a trustee of the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, the National Organization on Disability, the Alliance for Health Care Reform and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. William D. Zabel is a trusts and estate lawyer with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a firm he co-founded in 1969. He serves as the Campaign Chair for Planned Giving at Princeton University. Mr. Zabel serves on the boards of Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, Doctors of the World, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, amfAR, and the Sakharov Archives at Brandeis University. He is a legal advisor to the international Soros network of foundations. He also has lectured widely in the United States and has published numerous articles on estate planning. In 1995 Mr. Zabel published his book The Rich Die Richer--And You Can Too with William Morrow & Co. John F. Zweig is Non-Executive Chairman of Specialist Communications for the WPP Group. Previously, he was president of Ferguson Communications Group and head of The CommonHealth, WPP's global healthcare marketing services network which he helped launch in 1992. Prior to joining Ferguson, Mr. Zweig was with Procter & Gamble as a Brand Manager and Category Director. Mr. Zweig is a Trustee of the Morristown Memorial Hospital, Chairman of the Community Health Partnership and the Institute for Behavioral Health. Honorary Board MembersSenator Bill Bradley Rosalynn Carter Harlan Cleveland Richard DeSchutter Hugh Downs Françoise Forette, M.D. Senator Charles E. Grassley Claude Jasmin, M.D. Walter Kaye C. Everett Koop, M.D. Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D. Paul A. Marks, M.D. Shigeo Morioka Dorothy P. Rice, Sc.D. Lawrence Schmieding Margaret S. Wilson |
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