The Atlantic Institute Governing Board
The Atlantic Institute Governing Board provides primary operational and programmatic oversight of the Atlantic Institute, by this means promoting and supporting the Atlantic Fellows’ community, mission and vision. MR. CHRISTOPHER G. OECHSLI Chair Christopher G. Oechsli served as President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies from 2011 until 2020. Previously, he served in various leadership roles in Atlantic’s international business subsidiaries and program work; as Counsel to US Senator Russell Feingold; and with private law firms in the US and Asia. He is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles and received an MA in Foreign Affairs and JD from the University of Virginia. DR. VERONICA CAMPBELL Board member Veronica Campbell is Bursar and Director of Strategic Innovation at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Governing Board of the Equity in Global Brain Health program. She is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and obtained her PhD in neuropharmacology from the University of London. DR. ELIZABETH KISS Board member Dr. Elizabeth Kiss became Warden of Rhodes House and CEO of the Rhodes Trust in August 2018, the first woman to hold this position. She oversees the world’s oldest graduate scholarship, the Rhodes Scholarship, as well as several partnership programs. Before joining the Rhodes Trust, Dr. Kiss served for 12 years as president of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, and from 1997 to 2006, Dr. Kiss served as the founding director of Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. PROFESSOR JAMES MCCLUSKEY Board member Professor James McCluskey is a board member of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program, and has been Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Melbourne since 2011. Professor McCluskey trained in Perth as a physician and pathologist before spending four years at the National Institutes of Health in
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