Board of Directors
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Barbara Schatz (Chair)
Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University
Barbara Schatz joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 1985. She served as director of clinical education from 1996 to 2001. She previously served as executive director of the Council of New York Law Associates (now the Lawyers Alliance for New York), where she administered a public-interest [...] Read more »
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Łukasz Bojarski
Co-Founder and member of Managing Board, INPRIS
Łukasz Bojarski is co-founder and member of the management board of INPRIS, a legal think tank. He is also member of the National Council of the Judiciary of Poland, appointed by the president of Poland in September 2010. He was previously affiliated with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights [...] Read more »
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Ronald Freeman
Vice Chairman, Atlantic Council of the United States
Ronald Freeman is a retired chief executive of Salomon Smith Barney and a former head of banking at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He lives in London, has dual U.K. and U.S. citizenship, and is a non-executive director of Russian companies Troika Dialog, SeverStal, and [...] Read more »
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Antonia Grumbach
Of Counsel, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York Office
Antonia Grumbach is of counsel at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, where she practiced law for more than 30 years. She currently focuses her practice in the area of tax-exempt organizations, handling corporate, tax, and other related work for private foundations and [...] Read more »
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Krassimir Kanev
Chairperson and Director, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC)
Dr. Krassimir Kanev has been the chair and director of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC), the largest Bulgarian human rights advocacy NGO, since 1994. He teaches courses in human rights at the Sofia University and for human rights professionals and activists internationally for the Boston- [...] Read more »
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Benjamin Liebman
Professor of Law and Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia University
Benjamin Liebman is professor of law and the director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School and has been a key advisor on PILnet's work in China. His current research focuses on the role of the media in the Chinese legal system, on Chinese tort law, and on the evolution [...] Read more »
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Kimberly Reed (Treasurer)
President, Reed International Law & Consulting, Washington, DC and Moscow
Kimberly Reed has more than 20 years of experience in international law, policy, and development. Her practice centers on complex international corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project finance/ infrastructure transactions, private equity investments in Russia and the [...] Read more »
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Jonathan Small
Senior Consultant, Government Relations, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
Jon Small was president and executive director from 2000-2005 of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, Inc. (NPCC), an umbrella organization with approximately 1,600 nonprofit organizations as its members serving the nonprofit sector in the New York metropolitan area. He is currently [...] Read more »
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Suzanne Turner (Secretary)
Partner, Dechert, Washington, DC Office
Suzanne E. Turner is a partner and chair of Dechert's firm-wide pro bono practice. Her practice involves a wide range of human and civil rights litigation. Turner also has more than 17 years of experience as a litigator, concentrating primarily in employment and labor law. Throughout her career [...] Read more »
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Robert Vanni
Attorney, Vice President and General Counsel Emeritus, The New York Public Library
Robert Vanni is general counsel emeritus and former vice president, general counsel and secretary of The New York Public Library. A former corporate associate with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, Vanni also served as first general counsel of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs [...] Read more »
