Advisory Committee

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Provide input on potential campaigns and/or issues
  • Assist Ad Council in identifying emerging or shifting societal themes
  • Identify gaps in Ad Council's docket
  • Help Ad Council secure new campaign sponsors
  • Serve as external "ambassadors" for the Ad Council and help bring high-caliber expertise to the Ad Council's work

Co-Chairs:

David Bell
Operational Advisor
Pegasus Capital Advisors LLP
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President & CEO
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Members:

Omar Amanat
Founder and Chairman
Amanat Capital

Kate  Bullinger 
Chief of Staff/Acting Director of Communications 
Atlantic Philanthropies

 Kathy Bushkin Calvin 
Chief Executive Officer 
United Nations Foundation

Steven Culbertson
President & CEO
Youth Service America

John Damonti
President
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation

Kevin Donnellan
Executive Vice President & Chief Communications Officer
AARP

 Wade Horn
Director
Public Sector Consulting
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Cliff  Johnson 
Executive Director, Institute for Youth, Education, and Families 
National League of Cities

Ivan J.  Juzang
Founder & President
MEE Productions, Inc.

Irv Katz
President & CEO
National Human Services Assembly

Donna Klein 
Executive Chair & CEO 
Corporate Voices for Working Families

 Francesca Koe 
Directof of Special Projects 
Natural Resources Defense Council

Karen Lawson
President & CEO
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Education Fund (LCCREF)

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey 
President & CEO 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Michelle Kydd Lee 
Executive Director 
CAA Foundation/Creative Artists Agency

Dr. Rick Martinez
Medical Director, Corporate
Contributions and Community
Relations & Director of Latin American Contributions
Johnson & Johnson

Timothy J. McClimon
President, American Express Foundation
Vice President for Philanthropy,
American Express Company

Timothy McClimon 
President, American Express Foundation, Vice President for Philanthropy 
American Express Company

Dr. Herbert Pardes
President & CEO
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Lisa Quiroz
SVP, Corporate Responsibility
Time Warner, Inc.

Cynthia Round
Executive Vice President, Brand Leadership
United Way of America

Shirley Sagawa 
Co-Founder 
sagawa/jospin consulting

 

Dr.  Stefanie Sanford 
Director, Policy & Advocacy, U.S. Program 
Gates Foundation

Vikki N. Spruill
President and CEO
Ocean Conservancy

C. Charles Stokes
President and CEO
The CDC Foundation
 

James Vella
President
Ford Motor Company Fund and
Community Services

Darren Walker 
Vice President, Education, Creativity and Free Expression 
Ford Foundation

Dr. David R. Williams
Florence & Laura Norman Professor of Public Health
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Society, Human Development and Health

Alicin Williamson
Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility and Public Affairs
MTV Networks

Governor Bob Wise
President
Alliance for Excellent Education

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