External Advisory Committee
The McDonnell Academy has a committee of external advisors to advise the chancellor and
the Academy director on programming inititatives and on developing partnerships with
research universities in other countries.
Serving as committee chair is the Honorable John Danforth, former U.S. senator from the
state of Missouri and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Advisory Committee Members
(as of September 1, 2008)
John C. Danforth, Chair
- Partner, Bryan Cave LLP
- Former U.S. Senator from Missouri
- Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Stephen F. Brauer
Chairman
Hunter Engineering Company
Former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium
- Gary Calabrese
Vice President, Science & Technology
Corning, Inc.
- Steve Degnan
Vice President for Human Resources
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company
- Jon Epstein
President
Fila USA
- Johanshir Golchin
Director
Energy & Environment Research Group (EERG)
- David Greenley
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President
Rohm and Haas
- Randolph J. Guschl
Director, Center for Collaborative Research and Education
DuPont Company
- Shepard W. Hill
President
Boeing International
- Ganesh M. Kishore
Managing Director
Burrill & Company
- Douglas Koch
Senior Vice President
Brown Shoe Company
- John F. McDonnell
Retired Chairman of the Board
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
- Paul E. McKnight
Vice President, Organization and Planning
Emerson
- David L. Morse
Vice President and Director of Corporate Research
Corning Incorporated
- Thomas R. Pickering
Former Ambassador to the United Nations
- Mark Showers
Community Representative
- Kerry J. Preete
Vice President
Monsanto, International Commercial
- Strobe Talbott
President
The Brookings Institution
Former Deputy Secretary of State
- Ann L. Wagner
Former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
- Timothy R. Wright
President
Pharmaceuticals and Imaging Solutions Businesses of Covidien
- Xinsheng Zhang
Executive Vice President and China Regional Managing Director
Cabot Corporation
McDonnell International Scholars Academy Steering Committee
The McDonnell Academy has a Steering Committee of Washington University academic leaders to oversee the Academy's programs and to act as an admissions committee.
The director of the Academy serves as committee chair, and the committee includes a representative from each of the University's graduate and professional divisions.
Committee Members
(As of Sept. 1, 2008)
- James V. Wertsch, Committee Chair, Director of the McDonnell International
&Sciences
- Pratim Biswas, Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering
Science, School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Linda B. Cottler, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine
- Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Director of the Center for
the Humanities, Arts & Sciences
- Fatemah Keshavarz-Karamustafa, Professor of Persian Languages & Comparative Literature
- Lingchei Letty Chen, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language & Literature
- Bruce Lindsay, Dean, College of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
- James T. Little, Donald Danforth, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Olin Business School
- Stephen H. Legomsky, John S. Lehmann University Professor, School of Law
- Robert Thach, Professor of Biology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biophysics
- Gautam N. Yadama, Associate Professor of Social Work, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
