Advisory Board

The Advisory Board to the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment consists of a select group of distinguished personalities who are not only familiar with FDI issues as such, but also can put the problematique into a broader context. It provides advice on the overall direction of the Center, its activities and its priorities.

The Chair of the Advisory Board is Roger Agnelli, President and CEO, Vale. The Advisory Board members are:

Stanimir A. Alexandrov, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

Mark Appel, Q.C., Chappell, Bushell & Stewart

Maria Livanos Cattaui, Vice-Chairperson, International Crisis Group, former Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce

John H. Dunning, Emeritus Professor, Reading and Rutgers Universities

John Evans, General Secretary, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD

Carl Hahn, Professor for Industrial Corporate Strategy, University of Saxony, Zwickau; former CEO, Volkswagen AG

DeAnne Julius, Chairperson, Chatham House

Abraham Katz, President, International Organization of Employers

Theodore Moran, Marcus Wallenberg Professor, International Business and Finance, Georgetown University

W. Michael Reisman, Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Rubens Ricupero, Dean, Faculty of Economics, Fundaçao Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), formerly Secretary-General of UNCTAD and Minister of Finance, Brazil

Esta Stecher, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Co-Head of the Legal Department, Goldman Sachs Co.

John Stopford, Professor Emeritus, London Business School

Detlev Vagts, Bemis Professor of International Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School

Thomas W. Wälde, Professor & Jean-Monnet Chair Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy University of Dundee & Essex Court Chambers  (London)