Who We Are 2023-2024

FDR Cabinet Members

Brett Bruen, President, Global Situation Room, Former Director of Global Engagement under President Obama.

David Grossman ’99 and Kate Tomford ’99

The Honorable David Huebner, Former United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa; Partner at Arnold and Porter, LLP

Donald B. Smith III, President, Institute for Research in Stability & Conflict (IRSC)

Anne Terman Wedner, Commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Board Member at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs


Roosevelt Scholars Program

Michael Weishan ’86, Executive Director


FDR Global Engagement Initiative

Jed Willard ’96, Executive Director


Director of History Programming and Historian in Residence to the Foundation

Dr. Cynthia Koch, Former Director, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum


Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation, Inc.

2023-24 Corporate Board Members

President & Founding Executive Director: Michael Weishan, ’86 PBS Host, author, historian.
Treasurer/Clerk: Matthew H. H. Young ’12, HMS’19, HL ’18
Director: Santiago Pardo Sanchez, Adams ’16, Managing Editor, Adams Gold Coaster, MIT Sloan
Director: Jed Willard ’96 Director of Global Engagement


Alumni Advisory Council to the Foundation

2023-24  Alumni Directors:

Douglas Carver, Adams 59, International businessman; HAA Director Emeritus
Albert Cho, Adams ’02, President and General Manager for Advanced Infrastructure Analytics, Xylem, Inc
Claire Mays, Adams ’81, Independent researcher and consultant, Institut Symlog
James Alexander Bedford ’20,  HBS ’26
Charles Hua,
’22, climate and energy policy analyst
Brian Hyun Seo ’23 FGLI Advocate and Social Worker