Board and Advisory Council

ICNL is governed by an international Board of Directors. Our Advisory Council, which assists the Board in setting ICNL's policies and designing our programs, includes representatives from thirty-one countries. Learn more about our Board and Advisory Council members by clicking on their names.

Board of Directors

Name Organization Country
Filiz Bikmen (Chair) Independent Consultant Turkey
Betsy Buchalter Adler (Vice Chair) Adler & Colvin (retired) USA
Adam Kolker (Secretary and Treasurer) Columbia Law School USA
Oonagh Breen University College Dublin Ireland
Noshir Dadrawala Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy India
Natasha Gaber-Damjanovska Constitutional Court Macedonia
Stephan Klingelhofer (Ex-Officio) International Center for Not-for-Profit Law USA
Lais Lopes Figueiredo Lopes, Golfieri, Reicher e Storto Advogados Brazil
Feliciano Reyna Acción Solidaria Venezuela
Douglas Rutzen (Ex-Officio) International Center for Not-for-Profit Law USA
Jeff Thindwa World Bank USA

Advisory Council

Name Organization Country
Betsy Buchalter Adler Adler & Colvin (retired) USA
Gavin Andersson Keystone Africa South Africa
Joseph Baidoe-Ansah Parliament of Ghana Ghana
Hestern E.J. Banda Salephera Consulting Malawi
Filiz Bikmen Independent Consultant Turkey
Oonagh Breen University College Dublin Ireland
Donnalie Edwards Cabey Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands Antigua
Consuelo Castro El Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía Mexico
John Clark World Bank United Kingdom
Carlos Ayala Corao Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law Venezuela
Noshir Dadrawala Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy India
Harvey Dale New York University School of Law USA
Arthur Drache Drache Aptowitzwer LLP Canada
Lindsay Driscoll Bates Wells & Braithwaite United Kingdom
W. Cole Durham, Jr Brigham Young University USA
Philippe-Henri Dutheil Ernst & Young France
Aroma Dutta PRIP Trust Bangladesh
Yuri Dzhibladze Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights Russia
Will Fitzpatrick Omidyar Network USA
Richard Fries London School of Economics United Kingdom
Natasha Gaber-Damjanovska Constitutional Court Macedonia
Robert Hayhoe Miller Thompson, LLP Canada
Judy Henderson Australia
Scott Horton Human Rights First USA
Adam Kolker Georgetown University Law Center USA
Rochelle M. Korman Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler USA
Lais Lopes Figueiredo Lopes, Golfieri, Reicher e Storto Advogados Brazil
Miklos Marschall Transparency International Hungary
Myles McGregor-Lowndes Queensland University of Technology Australia
Harriet Namisi Onyanga DENIVA Uganda
Paul Nathanson University of New Mexico USA
Beatriz Parodi   Peru
Geoffrey Prewitt United Nations Development Program USA
Zoran Puljic Mozaik Foundation Bosnia
Feliciano Reyna Ganteaume   Venezuela
David Robinson   New Zealand
Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo   Colombia
Howard Schoenfeld Pricewaterhouse Coopers USA
Bindu Sharma International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children Singapore
Hassan Shire Sheikh East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network Somalia
Mark Sidel University of Wisconsin-Madison USA
Dan Songco PinoyME Foundation Philippines
Eduardo Szazi Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises Brazil
Jeff Thindwa World Bank USA
Victor Thuronyi International Monetary Fund USA
Jean L. Tom Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP USA
Undarya Tumursukh Mongolian Network of Womens' NGOs Mongolia
W. Aubrey Webson Perkins School for the Blind Antigua