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Sheila Avrin McLean, a graduate of the Yale Law School, has alternated during her career between advising nonprofit organizations and the business sector and managing institutions and programs. She has published two books on international philanthropy and many articles on the nonprofit sector. She has also served on numerous boards of directors.
Sheila became involved in the Ford Foundation’s concerns for human rights and education in South Africa in 1976 when she was the Foundation’s associate general counsel, essentially acting as the program officer in that country.
She left Ford in 1979 to become general counsel of IDCA, the parent organization of USAID, where she continued her involvement with South Africa. She later formed a consulting firm on projects related to developing countries, with clients that included the Rockefeller and Aga Khan foundations.
In 1986 she was recruited by the Institute of International Relations to develop and run a Foundation-supported program that became the largest university-based scholarship program outside South Africa to train South African Blacks for leadership roles in a post-apartheid country. She continues her connections with that country by serving on the board of SALS, a U.S.-based support organization for the Legal Resources Centre, the leading South African public interest law firm and a Foundation grantee.
David Smock is the vice president for Governance, Law and Society of the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and director of its Religion and Peacemaking Center. He has worked on African issues for more than 30 years and lived in Africa for 11 years. As a Foundation staff member from 1964 to 1980, he served in Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria and the New York headquarters.
From 1980 to 1986 Smock served concurrently as director of the South African Education program, a scholarship program that brings Black South African students to United States universities, and as vice president for program development and research for the Institute of International Education.
After serving as executive associate to the president of the United Church of Christ from 1986 to 1989, he became executive director of International Voluntary Services, supervising development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He has a master’s of divinity degree from the New York Theological Seminary and a doctorate in anthropology from Cornell University.
Gerry Salole is chief executive of the European Foundation Centre in Brussels. He has a master’s degree in economics and a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Manchester.
He was the Foundation’s representative in South Africa from 1999 to 2005 and has more than 35 years experience working for foundations and nonprofit governmental organizations, including as a program officer in his native Ethiopia for Oxfam; as regional director and field office director for Save the Children in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Southern Africa; and as a director and program officer for the Bernard van Leer Foundation. He was a founding trustee of the Alliance Publishing Trust and founding chair of TrustAfrica.
Currently he is a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the European Venture Philanthropy Association, a member of the jury for the Prix Roi Baudouin awarded in the field of African development, chair of the board of trustees for the Global Fund for Community Foundations, and member of the General Education Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation.
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