Board of Directors & Staff

Board of Directors

Board of Directors 2009

Margaret Boles Fitzgerald, Chair
Wellesley, MA

Margaret Boles Fitzgerald (1987) was elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Luce Foundation in June 2002. A graduate of Bucknell University, she is executive vice president and director of community relations at the Boston-based marketing and communications corporation, Hill, Holliday. She serves on the state advisory board for the Salvation Army and the advisory board of Perkins School for the Blind. She is a director of Boston HealthCare for the Homeless and chair of Boston’s Corporate Givers’ Group. She is a past trustee of the Dana Hall School, Boston Ballet, and Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay, and chair emerita of Associated GrantMakers. Recently Dana Hall honored her with the Distinguished Alumna Award.

Terrence B. Adamson
Washington, DC

Terrence B. Adamson (2007) has served since 1998 as the Executive Vice President of the National Geographic Society. He is a member of the board of National Geographic Ventures and the National Geographic Education Foundation. He has been a Trustee of The Asia Foundation since 1985, and served as the Chairman of its Board of Trustees. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Carter Center and represents the Carter family on the U.S. Archives' Advisory Commission of Presidential Libraries. By appointments of Presidents G.H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton and U.S. Senate confirmations, he serves on the board of the State Justice Institute. After completing the B.A. and J.D. at Emory University, he was a Henry Luce Scholar in Japan in 1975-1976.

Mary Brown Bullock
Atlanta, GA

Mary Brown Bullock (2006) is president emerita of Agnes Scott College and is the Visiting Distinguished Professor of China Studies at Emory University. Prior to her eleven years as college president, Dr. Bullock was director of the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China. She is chair of the China Medical Board of New York, Inc., and is a director of the Asia Foundation, the National Committee on US-China Relations, and Genuine Parts Company. An alumna of Agnes Scott, she received the M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

John C. Evans
Essex, CT

John C. Evans (1977) was associated with Morgan Stanley from 1967 until his retirement, and served as general partner and managing director. He was CEO of Morgan et Cie International in Paris. Mr. Evans, a Yale graduate, has chaired the boards of Connecticut College, High Hopes Therapeutic Riding, and the National Theater of the Deaf. He has also been a trustee of the Dia Art Foundation; a director of the LTV Corporation, and the Fishers Island Electric and Telephone Companies; a Commissioner of the Fishers Island Ferry District; and a member of the organizing committee of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Claire L. Gaudiani
New York, NY

Claire L. Gaudiani (2000) is currently a professor at The George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at New York University. As Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, she completed the book, The Greater Good: How Philanthropy Drives the American Economy and Can Save Capitalism. For thirteen years she served as president of Connecticut College, her undergraduate alma mater. After receiving the M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University, she taught at Purdue University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For five years she was the volunteer president of the New London Development Corporation and remains on the Board of the corporation. She is also a Director of MBIA, Inc.

Michael Gilligan
Brooklyn, NY

Michael Gilligan (2002) was elected president of the Henry Luce Foundation in December 2002, having been Program Director for Theology since 1998. He previously served at the Association of Theological Schools (ATS); as Academic Dean of the Pontifical College Josephinum; and as teacher and administrator in the Catholic Diocese of Columbus. He received the B.A. from Duke University and the M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. He is a trustee of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, General Theological Seminary and the Council of Independent Colleges.

Kenneth T. Jackson
New York, NY

Kenneth T. Jackson (2002) is the director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University. His many books include Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, which won both the Bancroft and Francis Parkman Prizes; The Encyclopedia of New York City; and The Ku Klux Klan in the City. He has served as president of the Urban History Association, the Society of American Historians, the Organization of American Historians, and the New-York Historical Society, and he founded in 1990 the National Council for History Education. A graduate of the University of Memphis (B.A.) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.), he is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

James T. Laney
Atlanta, GA

James T. Laney (1990) is President Emeritus of Emory University, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. Ordained in the United Methodist Church, Dr. Laney holds B.A., M.Div., Ph.D, and D.H.L. (hon.) degrees from Yale. In the late 1940s, he served in military counter-intelligence in Korea, returning in the late 1950s as a Methodist missionary educator. He was dean of Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and taught at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School and Harvard. Dr. Laney is a trustee of the Carter Center, a former Chairman of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, and co-chairs the Council on Foreign Relations Taskforce on Korea. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the University Council of Yale.

H. Christopher Luce
New York, NY

H. Christopher Luce (1992) directed the foundation’s Program in Public Policy and the Environment until its conclusion in 2007. A graduate of Yale University, he studied also in the Department of Far East Asian Studies of Harvard University. He is an award-winning photojournalist and underwater photographer, and worked for Time magazine, and the Nashville Tennessean. He has curated exhibitions in Chinese and Japanese art and American photography. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he collects Asian painting and calligraphy, and lectures widely on the subject. He serves on boards of the Yale University Art Gallery, the College of Wooster, the Freer/Sackler Galleries of Art at the Smithsonian, and the Yale Environmental Leadership Council; and formerly chaired the board of China Institute in America.

Thomas L. Pulling
Oyster Bay, NY

Thomas L. Pulling (1988) retired as a managing director of Citigroup in 2006. He had been with Citigroup and its predecessor companies for more than 30 years, and was formerly an officer of J.P. Morgan and Co. Mr. Pulling, a graduate of Princeton University, served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He is senior vice chair of the board of Long Island University and a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the Boards of The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, The Woodlawn Cemetery, Old Westbury Gardens and The Norman Rockwell Museum.

David V. Ragone
Wellesley, MA

David V. Ragone (1982) is President Emeritus of Case Western Reserve University, having served as president from 1980-87. He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University; served as dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, and the College of Engineering at University of Michigan; and was a partner at Ampersand Venture Management Company from 1988-2003. His three degrees, S.B., S.M., and Sc.D., are from MIT. For five years he served as director of materials research at the General Atomic Division of General Dynamics. He was a member of the National Science Board, and of the Department of Commerce Technical Advisory Board.

George Rupp
New York, NY

George Rupp (2009) is president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He previously served as president of Columbia University, as president of Rice University, and at Harvard University as the John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity and dean of the Divinity School. He is a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute of International Education. Dr. Rupp has studied and conducted research for extended periods in both Europe and Asia, and holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), Yale Divinity School (B.D.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.). He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community.

Robert E. Armstrong (Director Emeritus)
Rancho Mirage, CA

Robert E. Armstrong (1983) retired as president of the Henry Luce Foundation in 1992 after more than twenty-two years of service. An alumnus of the University of Illinois and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, he was a U.S. Foreign Service officer in Nepal and the Soviet Union and was on the staff of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund before joining the Luce Foundation. He is a member of the boards of the Palm Springs Art Museum, the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, and the Palm Springs Friends of the Philharmonic.

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