Governance

Board of Directors

  • Chair: Edgar N. James, Esq. (Partner, James & Hoffman; pro bono litigator on behalf of the Archive)
  • Vice Chair: Nancy E. Soderberg (Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Northern Florida; former Vice President, International Crisis Group; former U.S. Alternate Representative to the United Nations; former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; former Staff Director, National Security Council; appointed Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board in January 2012)
  • Secretary: Cliff Sloan (Professor of Practice, Georgetown University Law Center; Retired Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, United States Department of State, 2013-2014; General Counsel of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, 2000-2008)
  • Treasurer: Nancy Kranich (Special Projects Librarian, Rutgers University; Former Associate Dean of Libraries, New York University; Former President, American Library Association)
  • Michael Abramowitz (Director, VOA News; former president, Freedom House; former director, National Institute for Holocaust Education of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; former White House Correspondent and National Editor of The Washington Post)
  • Sheila S. Coronel (Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism; Director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, and former Dean of Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University; former Director, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism)
  • Sajit Gandhi (Senior Professional Staff Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives; former Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State)
  • Danielle R. Holley (President of Mount Holyoke College; former Professor of Law and Dean of Howard University School of Law; former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Distinguished Professor of Law, University of South Carolina)
  • Vivian Schiller (Executive Director, Aspen Digital; former CEO, The Civil Foundation; former head of News Partnerships, Twitter; former Chief Digital Officer, NBC News; former President and CEO, National Public Radio; former Senior Vice President, The New York Times Company; former Senior Vice President, The Discovery Times Channel) 
  • President: Thomas S. Blanton (Director, National Security Archive)

 

In Memoriam

  • Russell Hemenway, Board of Directors Chair, 1999-2014
  • Dr. John Steinbruner, Board of Advisors, 1985-2015
  • Gen. William Y. Smith, Board of Directors, 1999-2016
  • Dr. Richard Steckel, Board of Advisors, 1994-2015

 

Advisory Board

  • Dr. Philip Brenner, Ph.D. (Professor of International Relations and former Chair, School of International Service, American University; Lead plaintiff in Archive lawsuit for Cuban Missile Crisis documents) 
  • Susan Brynteson (Former Vice Provost and University Librarian, University of Delaware; Former Chair, American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee) 
  • Dr. Anne Cahn, Ph.D. (Member of the Board of Directors, United States Institute of Peace; Author of Killing Détente; former Director, Committee on National Security; former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Department of Defense staffer)
  • Rosemary Chalk (Board Director, Institute of Medicine, National Academies) 
  • John Dinges (Former professor, Columbia University School of Journalism; former Managing Editor, National Public Radio; Archive Fellow and Author of Our Man in Panama) 
  • Herbert N. Foerstel (Retired University Librarian, University of Maryland; Author of Secret Science and Surveillance in the Stacks; Member, American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee)
  • Dr. Joan Hoff, Ph.D. (Research Professor of History, Montana State University; former Executive Secretary, Organization of American Historians)
  • Dr. Akira Iriye, Ph.D. (Professor of History, Harvard University; Past President, American Historical Association) 
  • Dr. David Alan Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Professor of Maritime Strategy, National War College; Former MacArthur Fellow) 
  • Tina Rosenberg, (Co-writer, New York Times "Fixes" column, co-founder Solutions Journalism Network, former New York Times Editorial Board; Former MacArthur Fellow; Former Archive Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner for her book The Haunted Land) 
  • Jack Siggins (Former University Librarian, The George Washington University) 
  • Thomas Susman, Esq. (Director, American Bar Association Washington Office; former partner, Ropes & Gray; Former counsel, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; Co-author of the 1974 Freedom of Information Act amendments)