American Councils for International Education is pleased to invite you to join us in NYC

INCREASING DIVERSITY, EXPANDING GEOGRAPHIES IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION:
Public-Private Partnerships for the Global Era

Event Keynote Speaker

Leo Hindery, Jr. is Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, a New York-based private equity fund. In 1997 he was elected President and CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) and Liberty Media, at the time the world’s largest combined cable television system operator and programming entity, and subsequently became President and CEO of AT&T Broadband.  

In 1999, Mr. Hindery was elected Chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter Inc., a major Internet services company. From 2001 until 2004, he was the founding Chairman and CEO of The YES Network, the regional television home of the New York Yankees. 

Mr. Hindery is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Co-Chair of the Task Force on Job Creation and Trade.  In 2008, he was an economic and trade advisor to presidential candidate Barack Obama, after earlier serving as Senior Economic Policy Advisor for presidential candidate John Edwards, and in 2012 he again served as an economic policy surrogate for President Obama. 

Mr. Hindery, a former chairman of Teach for America, is a Trustee of Emerson College and a Director of Common Cause New York, the New York City Local Workforce Investment Board, and the New York City Jobs for New Yorkers Task Force among others.

In 2003, he co-founded, along with then Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergey Mironov, Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA), and later he received from the Asia Society and TPAA their Founders Award for his efforts in the international fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Mr. Hindery is the author of It Takes a CEO: It’s Time to Lead With Integrity and The Biggest Game of All.  

Special Guest

Senator William W. Bradley is a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC.  From 2001-2004, he acted as chief outside advisor to McKinsey & Company’s nonprofit practice.  He was a Senior Advisor and Vice Chairman of the International Council of JP Morgan & Co., Inc. from 1997-1999.  During that time, he also worked as an essayist for CBS evening news and was a visiting professor at Stanford University, University of Notre Dame and the University of Maryland. 

Senator Bradley served in the U.S. Senate (1979 – 1997) representing the state of New Jersey.  In 2000, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.  Prior to serving in the Senate, he was an Olympic gold medalist (1964) and a professional basketball player with the New York Knicks (1967 – 1977).  In 1982, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. 

Senator Bradley holds a BA degree in American History from Princeton University and an MA degree from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  He has authored seven books on American politics, culture and economy, including his latest book We Can All Do Better.  Currently, Senator Bradley hosts American Voices, a weekly show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio that highlights the remarkable accomplishments of Americans both famous and unknown.

Host Committee Co-Chairs

• Dr. David Chang, Professor-Emeritus and formerly Chancellor, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
• Anne Derse, Former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan and Lithuania
• John Menzies, Former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Richard L. Morningstar, Former U.S. Ambasador and Special Envoy for Energy and Security; Founding Director, Atlantic Councils’ Global Energy Sector
• John M. Ordway, Former U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Armenia
• Dr. Alan Platt, Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins school of Advanced International Studies

Host Committee

• Ms. Kirsten Brecht, CEO, Global Professional Search
• Ms. Lisa Choate, Executive Vice President, American Councils
• Ms. Zita Dabars, Center of Russian Language and Culture (retired), Friends School, Baltimore
• Ms. Edith Falk, Principal, Falk Consulting
• Mr. Ed Hammel, Managing Partner, The Hartsdale Group LLC
• Dr. Alla Smyslova, Slavic Department, Columbia University
• Mr. Bill Sandve, Friend of American Councils
• Ms. Lauren Wichterman, Alumni Representative
• Dr. Natal'ya Ushakova, Staten Island Technical High School