Honorary Council
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2005: The Year of Languages

National Honorary Council

The Honorable Thad Cochran,
Co-chair
United States Senate
Mississippi

The Honorable Christopher Dodd, Co-chair
United States Senate
Connecticut

Dr. Maya Angelou
Poet, Educator, Author
Winston Salem, North Carolina

M. Rafiq Bengali
Chief Executive Officer
National Bank of Pakistan

Rex Brown
Director of Denver University High School
Denver, Colorado

Jeanette Betancourt
Assistant Vice President for Education and Research
Sesame Workshop
New York City

Elizabeth Burmaster
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wisconsin

His Excellency Giovanni Castellaneta
Ambassador from Italy
Washington, D.C.

His Excellency Pedro Catarino
Ambassador of Portugal

John Couch
Vice President, Education
Apple Computer
Cupertino, California

Matilda Cuomo
Language Advocate
New York City

Juana Rosa Daniell
International Human Resources Manager
Alcon Laboratories
Fort Worth, Texas

Governor Jim Doyle
Governor of Wisconsin

Dr. William Durden
President, Dickinson College
Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Dr. Gonzalo Gomez Dacal
Professor
University of Salamanca
Salamanca, Spain

The Honorable Russ Feingold
United States Senate
Wisconsin

Dr. Michael Geisler
Dean, Language Schools
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT

The Honorable Oscar Goodman
Mayor
Las Vegas, Nevada

His Excellency Wolfgang Ischinger
Ambassador from Germany
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Thomas James
Dean, School of Education
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

His Excellency Ryozo Kato
Ambassador of Japan
Washington, DC

Dr. Richard M. Krasno
President, William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dean Michael Lemmon
Dean, School of Language Study
Foreign Service Institute
Washington, D.C.

M. Jean David Levitte
Ambassador from France
Washington, D.C.

His Excellency Sir David Manning
Ambassador of Great Britain
Washington, DC

Gail McGinn
Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Plans
Liaison from the Department of Defense
Washington, D.C.

His Excellency Frank McKenna
Ambassador of Canada
Washington, DC

Renee Meyer
Senior Language Authority
Liaison from the National Security Agency
Fort Meade, Maryland

John Millar
Vice President
SCOLA
McClelland, Iowa

The Honorable Mike Moncrief
Mayor
Fort Worth, Texas

Dr. Peter Negroni
The College Board
New York City

Rodney Nichols
Chairman, American Forum on Global Education
New York City

Jared Polis
Chairman, Colorado State Board of Education
Boulder, Colorado

Vivien Stewart
Vice President, Education
The Asia Society
New York City

Dr. Humphrey Tonkin
President Emeritus
University of Hartford
Hartford, Connecticut

His Excellency Yury Ushakov
Ambassador from Russia
Washington, D.C.

The Honorable Mark Warner
Governor of Virginia
Richmond, Virginia

Reginald Weaver
President
National Education Association
Washington, D.C.

Robert Wehling
Empower Media Marketing
Cincinnati, Ohio

His Excellency Zhou Wenzhong
Embassy of the People's Republic of China

His Excellency Carlos Westendorp y Cabeza
Ambassador of Spain
Washington, DC

Frank G. Wisner
Vice Chairman
American International Group, Inc

Madam Lin Xu
Director General
National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Beijing, China

 

 

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