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Washington University in St. Louis

Advisory & Steering Committees

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