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Board of Trustees

AFS is a leader in intercultural learning and offers international exchange programs in over 50 countries around the world through independent, not-for-profit AFS organizations, each with a network of volunteers, a professionally staffed office, and headed up by a volunteer board. AFS Intercultural Programs provides worldwide leadership, coordination, support, quality control and development of AFS organizations and programs.

Mission

AFS Vision for the Year 2020

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Floria Arias
Turrialba, Costa Rica
Co-founder of Bufete Chaves & Arias
J. Brian Atwood (Chair)
Minnesota, USA
Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
Nils-Joachim Bauer
Hamburg, Germany
COO & VP,
International Affairs of Datenlotsen GmbH, Inc.
Francisco (“Tachi”) Cazal (ex-officio)
New York, USA
President,
AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc.
Ms. Maureen Erasmus
New York, USA
ex-Global Head of GMI Corporate Strategy, Merrill Lynch
Prof. Carlo Fusaro
Firenze, Italy
Professor & Director of Department of Public Law, University of Florence
Dr. Ricardo Garay
Asuncion, Paraguay
Dean of Graduate Studies,
National University of Asuncion
Francisco dela Fuente Guerra III
Makati City, Philippines
Vice-President, Developing Markets – ASEAN & Korea, S.C. Johnson
Christian A. Kurtén
Helsingfors, Finland
Nokia Networks (retired)
William (“Bill”) Meserve
Massachusetts, USA
Senior Counsel, Ropes and Gray
Don (“Mohan”) Mohanlal
London, United Kingdom and New Delhi, India
President and CEO of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation in India and United Kingdom
Ginny Radford
Auckland, New Zealand
Managing Director, Cobalt Communications Ltd.
Henrique Ramos
Natal-RN, Brazil
Architect and Founder,
Tekton Arquitetura
Ernesto Rey
Bogota, Colombia
President, Links S.A.
Kerry Sin
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lawyer, RAJA ARIFF & SIN
Tsugiko Scullion
Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Special Advisor to the Executive Director,
Japan Committee for UNICEF
Keith Stock
New York, USA
President, MasterCard Advisors
Simpiwe Kenneth Tshabalala
Johannesburg, South Africa
Chief Executive, Retail Banking,
SA Standard Bank of South Africa
R. Müge Yüzüak
New York, USA
Chief of Staff,
Citigroup Global Consumer Group
LIFE TRUSTEES
Ward Chamberlin, Jr.#
New York, USA
Vice President and Managing Director, Channel Thirteen/WNET, New York (retired); President, Chamberlin Associates
Norman C. Eddy#
New York, USA
Clergy, United Church of Christ and Coordinator, East Harlem Interfaith (retired)
Arthur Howe Jr.#
Connecticut, USA
AFS International President (1965-1971)
Dr. Richard M. Hunt#
Massachusetts, USA
The University Marshal, Harvard University (retired)
Sachiye Kuwamoto
California, USA
Regional Director, Japanese-American Citizens League, California
Edwin R. Masback, Jr.#
New York, USA
President, Masback Hardware Company (retired)
# World War II AFS ambulance driver.
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Francisco (“Tachi”) Cazal President and Chief Executive Officer
Dominik Scherrer Chief Information and Consulting Officer
Christine Vogel Chief Development and Branding Officer
Dr. Urs-Rainer von Arx Vice President and Chief Financial Officer