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 of Macedonia Macedonia
Lais Lopes Government of Brazil Brazil
Feliciano Reyna Ganteaume Acción Solidaria Venezuela
Douglas Rutzen (Ex-Officio) International Center for Not-for-Profit Law USA
Jeff Thindwa World Bank Malawi/USA

Advisory Council

Name Organization Country
Betsy Buchalter Adler Adler & Colvin (retired) USA
Gavin Andersson Seriti Institute South Africa
Joseph Baidoe-Ansah Parliament of Ghana Ghana
John Batten Poverty Eraication Network (PEN) Kenya
Barnett Baron   USA
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   United Kingdom
Daniela Pais Costa ActionAid International South Africa
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
Hannah Forster African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies Gambia
Will Fitzpatrick Omidyar Network USA
Richard Fries London School of Economics United Kingdom
Natasha Gaber-Damjanovska Constitutional Court of Macedonia Macedonia
Robert Hayhoe Miller Thompson, LLP Canada
Barbara Ibrahim John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement Egypt
Muatar Khaydarvoa Tajikistan NGO "Society and Law" Tajikistan
Adam Kolker Columbia Law School USA
Rochelle M. Korman Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler USA
Lais Lopes Government of Brazil Brazil
Feliciano Reyna Ganteaume Acción Solidaria Venezuela
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 Consultant Peru
Geoffrey Prewitt United Nations Development Program USA
Zoran Puljic Mozaik Foundation Bosnia
David Robinson   New Zealand
Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo   Colombia
Bindu Sharma International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children Singapore
Mark Sidel University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School 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