Advisory Council
The NPCA Advisory Council is made up of national leaders who have made a significant contribution to the Peace Corps and who have forged highly successful careers in the public and private sectors. These individuals meet periodically to provide strategic advice to the President and Board on ways that NPCA can better serve its members and groups, and advance its mission of fostering peace through service, education and advocacy.
Carol Bellamy (Guatemala 63-65, Peace Corps Director 93-95)
Chair, Education For All – Fast Track Initiative
President and CEO, World Learning
President, School for International Training
Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Ron Boring (Guinea 64-66)
Former Executive Vice President
Vodafone Japan
Nicholas Craw (Peace Corps Director 73-74)
President
Automobile Competition Committee for the U.S.
Former President and CEO, U.S. Sailing Association
Sam Farr (Colombia 64-66)
Congressman
U.S. House of Representatives, California
John Garamendi (Ethiopia 66-68)
Congressman
U.S. House of Representatives, California
Mark Gearan (Peace Corps Director 95-99)
President
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Former White House Director of Communications
Tony Hall (Thailand 66-67)
Author
Changing the Face of Hunger (recently excerpted in WorldView)
Former Member of U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio
Former U.S. Ambassador to Food and Agriculture Organization
Sandra Jaffee (Ethiopia 66-68)
Executive Vice President
Citigroup
Wilber E. James (Kenya 69-72)
Chairman
The RockPort Group
Co-Founder, Citizens Energy Corporation
Roland Johnson (Kenya 64-66)
Former Executive Director
The Grundy Foundation
Former Chairman, National Peace Corps Association
John Y. Keffer (Panama ’66-‘69)
Chairman, Atlantic Fund Administration
Virginia Kirkwood (Turkey 64-66, Thailand Country Director 90-93)
Owner/Director
Shawnee Holdings, Inc.
Richard M. Krieg (Brazil 69-71)
President and CEO
The Horizon Foundation
Kenneth Lehman (Guatemala 66-68, Headquarters Staff 68-71)
Chairman
Winning Workplaces
Former co-Chairman, Fel-Pro, Inc.
C. Payne Lucas (Togo and Niger Country Director 61-72, Headquarters Staff)
Senior Advisor
AllAfrica Global Media and the AllAfrica Foundation
Former President, Africare
Dennis Lucey
Vice President
TKC Global
Kevin O’Donnell (Korea Country Director 66-70, Peace Corps Director 71-72)
Managing Director
O’Donnell and Associates
Former CEO, SIFCO Industries
Gordon Radley (Malawi 68-70, Samoa Staff 79)
Former President
Lucasfilms
John E. Riggan (Kenya 65-70, Chad 71-72)
Chairman and CEO
TCC Group (formerly The Conservation Company)
Mark Schneider (El Salvador 66-68, Peace Corps Director 99-01)
Senior Vice President, Special Adviser on Latin America
International Crisis Group
Donna Shalala (Iran 62-64)
President
University of Miami
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(Click here to read ;Donna Shalala recommends Peace Corps for adventure, learningﾔ)
Paul Slawson (Peace Corps staff HQ, Pakistan, Iran, Francophone Africa 61-65)
Former CEO, InterPacific Co., and others multinational corporations
Trustee and former Chairman, American University of Paris
Trustee and Treasurer, The Asia Foundation
Joan Timoney (Senegal 78-80, Peace Corps HQ staff 93-01)
Director for Advocacy and External Relations
Women’s Refugee Commission
F. Chapman Taylor (Samoa 82-85)
Senior Vice President and Research Director
Capital International Research, Inc.
Harris Wofford (Special Peace Corps Representative to Africa: Ethiopia/Eritrea, Sierra Leone 62-64; Associate Peace Corps Director 64-66)
Senior Fellow
The Case Foundation
U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania 1991-1995; Founding Peace Corps Staff Member, 1961
