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Academy of Achievement: Academy's Award Council
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS


CHAIRMAN & CEO
WAYNE R. REYNOLDS


VICE CHAIRMAN
CATHERINE B. REYNOLDS
Chairman of the Board & CEO
Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation
Washington, D.C.


FOUNDER
BRIAN REYNOLDS


GOLDEN PLATE AWARDS COUNCIL

HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH II & HER MAJESTY QUEEN RANIA AL-ABDULLAH
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

BERTIE AHERN
Prime Minister of Ireland

EMILIO AZCÁRRAGA
International Multimedia Empire

SIR ROGER BANNISTER
Track and Field Legend

EHUD BARAK
Former Prime Minister of Israel

A. SCOTT BERG
Pulitzer Prize for Biography

MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG
Mayor of New York City

SIR JOHN R.H. BOND
Retired Chairman, HSBC Holdings

SERGEY BRIN
& LARRY PAGE
Founders
Google, Inc.

BENJAMIN S. CARSON, M.D.
Pediatric Neurosurgery

JIMMY CARTER
39th President of the United States

WILLIAM J. CLINTON
42nd President of the United States

FRANCIS S. COLLINS, M.D.
Director
National Human Genome Research Institute

RICHARD M. DALEY
Mayor of Chicago

SENATOR TOM DASCHLE
Public Service

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
Oscars for "Best Actress"

JAMIE DIMON
CEO
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

DR. SYLVIA EARLE
Undersea Exploration

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN
Prime Minister of Turkey

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

CARLOS FUENTES
Author, Scholar and Diplomat

WILLIAM H. GATES III
Chairman of the Board
Microsoft Corporation

DONALD E. GRAHAM
Chairman, Washington Post Co.

DR. SUSAN HOCKFIELD
President, MIT

JEREMY IRONS
Academy Award for Best Actor

DR. DONALD C. JOHANSON
Institute of Human Origins

JAMES EARL JONES
National Medal of Arts

QUINCY JONES
Music Impresario

NAOMI JUDD
Country Music

HAMID KARZAI
President of Afghanistan

ANTHONY M. KENNEDY
Supreme Court of the United States

HENRY R. KRAVIS
Founding Partner
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

MIKE KRZYZEWSKI
Head Basketball Coach
Duke University

DR. ERIC S. LANDER
Genetics Research

GEORGE LUCAS
Motion Picture Production

WYNTON MARSALIS
Pulitzer Prize for Music

DR. WALTER E. MASSEY
President
Morehouse College

FRANK McCOURT
Pulitzer Prize for Biography

DAVID McCULLOUGH
Pulitzer Prize for Biography

DR. CRAIG MELLO
Nobel Prize in Medicine

DR. MARVIN MINSKY
Artificial Intelligence

N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

TREVOR NUNN
Theatrical Direction

SIR PAUL NURSE
Nobel Prize in Medicine

SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
Supreme Court of the United States

NANCY PELOSI
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

SHIMON PERES
Nobel Prize for Peace

HAROLD PRINCE
Broadway Producer and Director

GENERAL JOSEPH W. RALSTON, USAF
Military and Public Service

LEE R. RAYMOND
Retired Chairman of the Board
Exxon Mobil Corporation

SIR MARTIN REES
Astronomer Royal

DR. SALLY RIDE
First American Woman in Space

STEVEN ROSENBERG, M.D.
Cancer Research

LORD ROTHSCHILD
Financier and Philanthropist

HIS HIGHNESS SHAIKH SALMAN
Crown Prince of Bahrain

DR. JOHN SEXTON
President, NYU

NEIL SHEEHAN
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

CARLOS SLIM HELÚ
Chairman
Telefonos de Mexico

SOLOMON H. SNYDER, M.D.
Neuroscience and Pharmacology

STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Composer and Lyricist

STEVEN SPIELBERG
Motion Picture Production

TED STEVENS
United States Senate

ROBERT S. STRAUSS
Law and Public Service

DR. CHARLES H. TOWNES
Nobel Prize in Physics

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU
Nobel Prize for Peace

VAIRA VIKE-FREIBERGA
President of Latvia

LECH WALESA
Nobel Prize for Peace

MIKE WALLACE
CBS News Correspondent

DR. JAMES D. WATSON
Nobel Prize in Medicine

DR. KENT R. WEEKS
Egyptologist

ANDREW WEIL, M.D.
Integrative Medicine

ELIE WIESEL
Nobel Prize for Peace

OPRAH WINFREY
Entertainment Executive

TOM WOLFE
Novelist

ELIAS ZERHOUNI, M.D.
Director, National Institutes of Health

*partial list. Each member is a past recipient of the Golden Plate Award.