Representatives of Foreign Governments, Religious Groups and International Organizations

• His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam, Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, and Her Highness the Begum Aga Khan
  
• H.E. Professor Jilbril Muhammad Aminu, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United States
  
• Hon. Miguel Angel Cortes, State Secretary for International Cooperation and for Latin America, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain
  
• H.E. Cesar Gaviria, Secretary General, Organization of American States
  
• H.E. Abdelbaki Hermassi, Minister of Culture, Tunisia
  
• H.E. Michael Kergin, Ambassador of Canada to the United States
  
• H.E. Giovanna Melandri, Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy
  
• H.E. Mia Amor Motley, M.P., Minister of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture, Barbados
  
• H.E. Jesus Reyes Heroles, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
  
• H.E. Ferdinando Salleo, Ambassador of Italy to the United States
  
• H.E. Yuri Victorovich Ushakov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States
  
• H.E. Shunji Yanai, Ambassador of Japan
  
• H.E. Li-Shao Xing, Ambassador of China to the United States

Cabinet Members

• Hon. Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State
  
• Hon. Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education

Corporate Leaders

• Ms. Cornelia Higginson, Vice President, Philanthropic Program, American Express Company
  
• Ms. Rena J. Moulopoulos, Worldwide Compliance Director, Senior Vice President, Sotheby's
  
• Mr. Raymond D. Nasher, Chairman, The Raymond D. Nasher Company
  
• Mr. Oleksandr Rodnyansky, General Director, "1+1" TV Broadcasting Company
  
• Ms. Hilary B. Rosen, President and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America
  
• Mr. Sun Jianjun, President, Pegasus Productions
  
• Hon. Jack Valenti, President and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America

Academia

• Ms. Annie Cohen-Solal, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
  
• Mr. Miguel Angel Corzo, President and Chief Executive Officer, University of the Arts and Member, President's Cultural Property Advisory Committee
  
• Dr. Milton C. Cummings, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
  
• Hon. Dr. Richard N. Gardner, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization, Columbia University
  
• Dr. Richard Leventhal, Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
  
• Dr. Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
  
• Dr. Susan K. McIntosh, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University and Member, President's Cultural Property Advisory Committee
  
• Dr. Neal M. Rosendorf, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  
• Dr. Simon Schama, University Professor, Columbia University
  
• Dr. Ezra N. Suleiman, IBM Professor in International Studies, Princeton University
  
• Dr. Shalini Venturelli, Associate Professor of International Communication Policy, American University
  
• Dr. Ben J. Wattenberg, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
  
• Dr. Margaret Jane Wyszomirski, Director, Arts Policy and Administration Program, Ohio State University

United States Ambassadors

• Hon. James F. Collins, U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation
  
• Hon. Thomas J. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica
  
• Hon. Harriett L. Elam-Thomas, U.S. Ambassador to Senegal
  
• Hon. John C. Kornblum, U.S. Ambassador to Germany
  
• Hon. Daniel C. Kurtzer, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
  
• Hon. Howard F. Jeter, U.S. Ambassador-designate to Nigeria
  
• Hon. Cynthia P. Schneider, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands
  
• Hon. Richard N. Swett, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark
  
• Hon. Peter F. Tufo, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary

U.S. Government Representatives

• Hon. Dr. William B. Bader, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
  
• Mr. William Barrett, Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
  
• Hon. Samuel R. Berger, National Security Advisor to the President
  
• Hon. Dr. John Brademas, Chairman, President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities & President Emeritus, New York University
  
• Hon. Bunny Cornell Burson, Executive Director, President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
  
• Mr. Brian E. Carlson, Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
  
• Hon. Bonnie R. Cohen, Undersecretary of State for Management
  
• Dr. Helena K. Finn, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
  
• Dr. Lee Fritschler, Director of Higher Education, U.S. Department of Education
  
• Hon. Leon Fuerth, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
  
• Hon. John D. Holum, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
  
• Hon. William J. Ivey, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
  
• Ms. Kathleen C. Kruse, Office of the Honorable Edward M. Kennedy
  
• Hon. Barbara Mills Larkin, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
  
• Hon. Alan P. Larson, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs
  
• Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)
  
• Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
  
• Hon. Evelyn S. Lieberman, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
  
• Hon. Frank E. Loy, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
  
• Hon. Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, Deputy Assistant to the President and Advisor to the First Lady for the Millennium Program, Office of the Millennium Council
  
• Hon. Thomas R. Pickering, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  
• Hon. John Podesta, Chief of Staff to the President
  
• Hon. Peter F. Romero, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
  
• Mr. Brian Sexton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Professional and Cultural Exchanges, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
  
• Hon. Wendy R. Sherman, Counselor of the Department of State
  
• Hon. Melanne Verveer, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
  
• Hon. Edward S. Walker, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
  
• Mr. Van S. Wunder III, Director, Office of Citizen Exchanges, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Artists/Arts Practitioners

• Mr. Bille August, Film Director, Denmark
  
• Prof. Chinua Achebe, Writer, Bard College
  
• Hon. Jane Alexander, Pumpkin House Productions
  
• Ms. Trisha Brown, Director, Trisha Brown Company
  
• Ms. Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  
• Mr. Chuck Close, Artist
  Ms. Carole Johnson, Guest of Mr. Close
  
• Prof. Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of Poetry, University of Virginia, former Poet Laureate of the United States
  Mr. Fred Viebahn, Guest of Prof. Dove
  
• Ms. Ann Hamilton, Artist
  
• Mr. Artem Harutunyan, Poet, Armenia
  
• Ms. Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Poet, Colombia
  
• Ms. L. Diana Johnson, Landscape Painter
  
• Mr. David Henry Hwang, Playwright, Member, President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
  
• Hon. Prof. Robert Pinsky, Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, former Poet Laureate of the United States
  
• Mr. Salif Keita, Singer, Christian Pegand Productions
  
• Mr. John Lithgow, Actor
  
• Ms. Susan Albert Loewenberg, Producing Director, L.A. Theatre Works
  
• Mr. Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist
  
• Mr. Nabil Nahas, Artist
  
• Mr. I. M. Pei, Architect
  
• Mr. Cleo Parker Robinson, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company and National Council on the Arts
  
• Ms. Tina Ramirez, Artistic Director, Ballet Hispanico of NY
  
• Dr. Sam-Ang Sam, Musician
  
• Ms. Anna Deavere Smith, Actress and Professor, New York University
  
• Prof. Wole Soyinka, Woodruff Professor of the Arts, Emory University
  
• Mr. Louis Spisto, Executive Director, American Ballet Theatre
  
• Ms. Meryl Streep, Actress
  
• Mrs. Rose Styron, Poet
  
• Ms. Slavenka Drakulic Swartz, Novelist, Croatia
  
• Dr. Billy Taylor, Musician, Jazz Consultant, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  
• Ms. Julie Taymor, Theater Director, Producer and Choreographer
  
• Mr. Edward J. Villella, Artistic Director, Miami City Ballet
  
• Mr. Septime Webre, Artistic Director, The Washington Ballet
  
• Mr. Frederick Wiseman, Documentary Filmmaker

Media

• Mr. Lerone Bennett, Jr., Executive Editor, Ebony Magazine
  
• Mr. Robert Hughes, Art Editor, Time Magazine
  
• Mr. Sandile Memela, Editor, "Hola", Sowetan Sunday World, South Africa
  
• Ms. Alexandra L. Peers, Art Editor, The Wall Street Journal
  
• Mr. John Rockwell, Arts and Leisure Editor, New York Times
  
• Mr. Charlie Rose, The Charlie Rose Show

Cultural Institutions and Interested Organizations

• Ms. Alicia B. Adams, Director of Special Programming, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  
• Dr. Alberta Arthurs, MEM Associates
  
• Ms. Gigi Bradford, Executive Director, Center for Arts and Culture
  
• Ms. Laura Brown, President, Oxford University Press-USA
  
• Ms. Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Director, Duke Ellington School for the Arts
  
• Mr. Thomas R. Carter, President, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
  
• Mr. W. Robert Connor, President and Director, The National Humanities Center
  
• Dr. James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums
  
• Mr. James Early, Director of Cultural heritage Policy, The Smithsonian Institution
  
• Mr. Melih Fereli, General Director, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts
  
• Hon. William R. Ferris, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
  
• Hon. Bruce Gelb, Consultant, former Director of the U.S. Information Agency, former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium
  
• Hon. Harriet Mayor Fulbright, Former Executive Director, President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
  
• Ms. Ekaterina Geniyeva, Director General, Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow
  
• Ms. Marian Godfrey, Director, Culture Program, The Pew Charitable Trust
  
• Mr. Goenawan Susatyo Muhamad, Director PT ARSA and Founder Tempo, Indonesia
  
• Dr. Alan Goodman, President and CEO, Institute for International Education
  
• Hon. Lee Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  
• Mr. Ashton Hawkins, Executive Vice President and Counsel to the Trustees, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
• Ms. Judith A. Jedlicka, President, Business Committee for the Arts, Inc.
  
• Hon. Kenton W. Keith, Senior Vice President, Meridian House, and Former Ambassador to Jordan
  
• Dr. Richard Kurin, Director, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  
• Dr. Wayne P. Lawson, Ohio Arts Council
  
• Mr. Fatos Lubonja, Editor, Quarterly Journal Perpjeka, Tirana, Albania
  
• Mr. Kanaan Makiya, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University
  
• Ms. Joan Martin-Brown, Office of the Vice President for Environment and Sustainable Development, The World Bank
  
• Mr. Michael Margitich, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  
• Mrs. Donna Cochran McLarty, Member, Kennedy Center Board of Trustees
  
• Mr. J. Kevin McMahon, Associate Managing Director, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  
• Ms. Judy Mitoma, Director, UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance
  
• Mr. Andries Walter Oliphant, Chairperson, Arts and Cultural Trust, South Africa
  
• Ms. Judith Pisar, President, Arts France-USA
  
• Mr. Dimitrij Rotovnik, Director, Cankarjev Dom, Slovenia
  
• Mr. Ralph Samuelson, Director, Asian Cultural Council
  
• Mr. Ismail Serageldin, Special Advisor, The World Bank
  
• Mr. Ronald Skaggs, American Institute of Architects
  
• Ms. Joan Small, First Deputy Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago
  
• Hon. Judith Ann Stock, Vice President for Institutional Affairs, The John F. Kennedy Center
  
• Mr. Robert Thompson, Chairman, Arts International
  
• Ms. Noreen Tomassi, President and CEO, Arts International, Inc.
  
• Mr. Ivo van Hove, Director, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  
• Mr. George C. White, Founder, Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center
  
• Mr. Joseph T. Wilson, Founder and Executive Director, National Council for the Traditional Arts
  
• Mr. Gerald D. Yoshitomi, Executive Director, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) Los Angeles, California

Foundations and NGOs

• Mr. Charles C. Bergman, Chairman of the Board, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
  
• Ms. Allison Bernstein, Vice President of Education/Media/Arts & Culture Programs, Ford Foundation
  
• Hon. John "J." Carter Brown, Chairman of Ovation, The Arts Network and Commission of Fine Arts
  
• Ms. Bonnie Burnham, Executive Director, World Monument Fund
  
• Mr. John F. Cooke, Executive Vice President for External Affairs, J. Paul Getty Trust
  
• Mr. John Fontaine, Chairman of the Board, Samuel H. Kress Foundation
  
• Ms. Olga M. Garay, Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  
• Hon. Kathryn "Kitty" O'Leary Higgins, Executive Vice President, National Trust for Historic Preservation
  
• Mr. Francis Hodsoll, Hodsoll & Associates, Board Member, Center for Arts and Culture
  
• Dr. Alice Stone Ilchman, Chair, Board of Trustees, Rockefeller Foundation
  
• Dr. Tom Kessinger, Director, Aga Khan Trust for Culture
  
• Mr. Robert L. Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts
  
• Ms. Mary Palko, Vice President, Sister Cities International
  
• Ms. Marilyn Perry, President, Samuel H. Kress Foundation
  
• Mr. James Allen Smith, Senior Advisor to the President, J. Paul Getty Trust
  
• Hon. Dr. Joan E. Spero, President, Doris Duke Foundation
  
• Hon. Jenonne R. Walker, President, Europe World Monuments Fund in Britain
  
• Mr. David Watson, Executive Director, International Society for the Performing Arts Foundation
  
• Ms. Shelby White, Founder and President, Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications

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