Flavio C. Bartmann *82 is the chief executive officer of Pallium Investment Management. From 1988 to 2002, Bartmann served as the managing director of global debt markets for Merrill Lynch and, from 1986 to 1988, was assistant vice president of corporate finance at JP Morgan. He also was an assistant professor of statistics and biostatistics at Columbia University and the State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

John Evans ’91 is the managing director of Tractus Asia Ltd., Bangkok. He has spent more than twelve years of his career in Asia managing foreign investments in China and other Asian countries and is currently responsible for business development and project management at Tractus Asia. He also serves as a board member for several Asian ventures and is a frequent lecturer on doing business in China. Evans received his degree in economics and East Asian Studies from Princeton University.

John N. Irwin III '76 is managing director and lead investment officer of the Brookside Group, Greenwich, Connecticut, which he cofounded in 1977. Mr. Irwin and his partners were pioneers in the field of leveraged buyouts starting in the late 1970s, and Mr. Irwin has extensive international investing experience, including a leadership role in early privatizations in Eastern Europe. He graduated from Princeton University and attended L’Institut d’Etude Politique, Paris. Currently, he serves as president of the Fresh Air Fund and the Achelis and Bodman Foundations, as well as treasurer of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

George McCabe '97 is the chief investment officer of Portolan Capital Management in Boston. McCabe has worked in private equity and as a research analyst at the Lynch Foundation where he helped run its major investments.

Heidi Miller '74 is the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Treasury and Securities Services unit. Over the course of her career in banking and finance, she worked in instrumental positions at Chemical Bank, Travelers Group, and Citigroup, among others.  As an outspoken advocate for women in business, she helped plan the White House Project’s Women’s Leadership Summit in 2001. Ms. Miller serves on the General Mills., Inc., Board of Directors and is a trustee of Princeton University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in history. She holds a doctorate in history from Yale University.

Kathleen Morrison is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and directs its Center for International Studies. Her research focuses on the study of South Asia. She earned her B.A. at the University of  Notre Dame, M.A. at the University of New Mexico, and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Morrison recently received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship and has been honored with numerous other professional awards in the past, such as a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Arka Mukherjee *95 is the founder (in 2001) and CEO of Global IDs, Inc., New York. The company provides information integration solutions for major corporations at a global level. Mr. Mukherjee gained prior management experience from companies such as IBM, Accenture, and KPMG, with expertise in sales, consulting, finance, and technology. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Donald Oberdorfer Jr. '52 currently serves as the chair of the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Foreign Policy Institute’s journalist-in-residence. Prior to his retirement in 1993, he was the diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post for 17 years. During his journalistic career, he also reported for the Charlotte Observer, the Saturday Evening Post, and Knight Newspapers. His geographic areas of expertise are South and North Korea, Russia and the former Soviet Union, East Asia, and Japan. He received a B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton University.

Henry Posner III '77 is the chair of the Railroad Development Corporation, Pittsburgh. Besides this position, he serves as the chair of Iowa Interstate Railroad and of Ferrivias Guatemala and is a director of América Latina Logística-Central & América Latina Logística-Mesopotámico (Argentina), as well as vice president of the Hawthorne Group. A graduate of Princeton University with a B.S. in civil engineering, Posner also holds an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School. He serves on several boards and has been active in welfare programs for the Jewish community in the Former Soviet Union and civic work in Guatemala.

Beth Simmons is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and presently serves as the Center’s director. She earned her B.A. from the University of Redlands,  M.A. in international relations from the University of Chicago and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in government from Harvard. Simmons is currently working on a book on international human rights and is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships.
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Sanjay Swani ’87 has been a general partner at the private equity firm of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, New York, since 2001, and a member of the firm’s management committee since 2007. He focuses on investments in the information and business services industries.  Further, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Red Cross in New York and is also a member of the Rockefeller University Council. Swani earned an A.B. in molecular biology from Princeton University as well as concurrent degrees from the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Law School.