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Mark Malloch-Brown, by Spencer Heyfron/Redux for the Open Society Foundations

Mark Malloch-Brown, president of Open Society Foundations (OSF), is a British diplomat, communications consultant, and journalist. He has served on the OSF global board since 2007. A former member of Gordon Brown’s Labour Government, Malloch- Brown was minister of state for Africa, Asia, and the United Nations from 2007 to 2009. He studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and University of Michigan; was political correspondent for The Economist from 1977 to 1979; and worked for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1979 to 1983. After acting as lead international partner at American public relations firm Sawyer-Miller, he was development specialist at the World Bank from 1994 to 1999, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 1999 to 2005, and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General from April to December 2006. Malloch-Brown cochairs the board of trustees of Crisis Group, an international nongovernmental organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict, which he helped found in 1995. He is a distinguished practitioner at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, an adjunct fellow at Chatham House’s Queen Elizabeth Program, and has been a visiting distinguished fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Malloch-Brown was elevated to the British House of Lords as a life peer; he is currently on leave.

Alexander Soros, by Spencer Heyfron/Redux for the Open Society Foundations

Alexander Soros is deputy chair of Open Society Foundations. Soros’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, New York Daily News, Reuters, Politico, Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Place, Forward, and Sur– International Journal on Human Rights, among other publications. He graduated from New York University in 2009 with a BA in history and received his PhD in 2018 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, an honorary fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is on the boards of Bend the Arc Jewish Action and Central European University.

Juliet Morrison '03

Juliet Morrison ’03, assistant professor in the microbiology and plant pathology department at University of California, Riverside, specializes in combining computational analysis with immunological and virological methods to address questions at the host-pathogen interface. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Morrison discovered that a viral protease facilitated poliovirus and rhinovirus interferon resistance. In her postdoctoral training at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, she discovered two novel and disparate mechanisms whereby the NS5 proteins of dengue virus and yellow fever virus inhibit interferon signaling to enhance viral replication and pathogenesis. She received the John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science from Bard College in 2020, Calderone Junior Faculty Award in 2017 from Columbia University, and Women in STEM Award from Bronx Community College in 2017.

Juliet Morrison ’03 was awarded the John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science from Bard College in 2020.

Leonard Benardo, by Spencer Heyfron/Redux for the Open Society Foundations

Leonard Benardo, vice president of Open Society Foundations, began his work with OSF at the Soros Foundation Moscow before going on to oversee grant-making activities in Russia, the Baltics, Poland, and Hungary. He was founding director of the Open Society Fellowship program, which expanded in 2016 to include four initiatives focused on individuals’ potential to advance open society. Benardo sits on the boards of Central European University, Hungary; American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan; and European Humanities University, Lithuania. He holds a BA in history from the University of Michigan and a graduate degree in political science from Columbia University. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, International Herald Tribune, and Bookforum. He is coauthor of Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names and Citizen-in- Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents.