The School’s advisory council is a group of distinguished and accomplished individuals appointed by the Princeton University Board of Trustees to advise the School on its programs and activities.

Julius E. Coles M.P.A. '66, Co-Chair
President, Africare, Washington, D.C.; former director, Andrew Young Center for International Affairs, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga.; former director, Center for International Affairs, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; former mission director, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.

Lynn Bendheim Thoman '77, Co-Chair
Co-President, Lowenstein Foundation, New York, N.Y.

Hady Amr M.P.A. '94
Director, Brookings Doha Center; Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution

Andrea Bernstein '80

Former Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Oxygen Media.

Tom Byrne, Jr. '76
President, Byrne Asset Management

Margaret Cannella '73
Managing Director, JP Morgan Securities, New York, N.Y.

Katherine A. Courpas '88
Silverpoint Capital, LLC

Tracy Higgins '86
Professor, School of Law, Fordham University

Leon Kalvaria ’79
Managing director, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., New York, N.Y.

Vivien Li M.P.A./U.R.P. '83
Executive director, Boston Harbor Association, Boston, Mass.; former adviser to Governor Dukakis on women’s issues; former executive assistant to the commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Susan Marquis *87 *95
Dean, Pardee RAND Graduate School

The Hon. Thomas M. Nelson *04
Representative, Wisconsin State Assembly

Robert H. Niehaus '77

Chairman and founder of Greenhill Capital Partners LLC

Lynn A. Ohman M.P.A. '75
Consultant, Ohman & Associates, Bethesda, Md.; former director, Collective Bargaining and Member Advocacy, National Education Association, Washington, D.C.

James D. Zirin '61
Senior Partner, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, N.Y.