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 David L. Morse, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Corning Incorporated.
Advisory Committee Members
(as of August 1, 2012)
- David L. Morse - Chairman
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Corning Incorporated
- Stephen F. Brauer
Chairman
Hunter Engineering Company
Former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium
- Gary Calabrese
Senior Vice President, Science & Technology
Corning Incorporated
- Daniel Cole
Ameren Services President & Chief Executive Officer
Ameren Corporation
- Shirley Cunningham
CIO
Monsanto
- Steve Degnan
Vice President for Human Resources
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company
- Jon Epstein
President
Fila U.S.A., Incorporated
- Johanshir Golchin
Director
Energy & Environment Research Group
- Randolph J. Guschl
Director, Center for Collaborative Research and Education
DuPont Company
- Shephard W. Hill
President
Boeing International
- Ganesh M. Kishore
Managing Director
Burrill & Company
- Douglas Koch
Senior Vice President & Chief Talent Officer
Brown Shoe Company
- Milind Kulkarni
CTO, Solar Materials Group
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.
- Yakov Kutsovsky
CTO, Vice President of R&D
Cabot Corporation
- Randall Ledford
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Emerson
- Stephen Littlejohn
Vice President, Communications and Imaging Solutions
Mallinckrodt
- John F. McDonnell
Retired Chairman of the Board
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
- Karen J. Miller
Senior Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development
Sigma-Aldrich
- Thomas R. Pickering
Former Ambassador to the United Nations
- Hari Sankaran
Vice Chairman & Managing Director
IL&FS Ltd
- Mark Showers
Community Representative
- Deck S. Slone
Senior Vice President, Government, Investor & Public Affairs
Arch Coal, Inc.
- L. Cartan Sumner, Jr.
Vice President for Asian Government Relations
Peabody Energy
- Strobe Talbott
President
The Brookings Institution
- Yang Xuegang
Chairman
Risun Coal Chemicals Group Limited
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 August 1, 2012)
- James V. Wertsch, Committee Chair, Associate Vice Chancellor of International Affairs, Director, McDonnell International Scholars Academy
- Jean Allman, Chair and Professor, Department of History, J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities, School of Arts & Sciences
- Pratim Biswas, Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor and Chair, Department of Ernergy, Evironmental & Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Lingchei Letty Chen, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language & Literature
- Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Director of the Center for
the Humanities, Arts & Sciences
- Terrie E. Inder, Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
- Peter A. Joy, Vice Dean and Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law, School of Law
- Bruce M. Lindsey, Dean, College of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
- James T. Little, Donald Danforth, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Olin Business School
- Gautam N. Yadama, Associate Professor of Social Work, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
